Student Art Guide and Photography

If you are taking a high school photography class then this site will give you over 100 ideas to play with.  Pick up your DSLR and go to town.  To see the website click here.

Forced Perspective Photography

If you are teaching a media arts class with a photography component you might want to have your students try something like these photos.

Some more examples of forced perspective can be found by clicking here or here or here.

Everyday items used as art

How many ways can you use strawberries or bananas as objects for art?  How about balloons?  Ask Vanessa McKeown.

In your art or photography class pick an object and see how many ways you can use it in a project.

To see Vanessa's work, go to her web page by clicking here.

Miniature Art

Ever wonder how everyday items would look like from your cats perspective?

Now I just posted pictures of Tatsuya Tanaka's miniature art that appealed to my track and field sense, but there are many other interesting pics that can be seen on the website by clicking here.
This could make a cool project for students in an art or photography class.

TIME Timelapse powered by Google

On Thursday May 9th, Time, Google, NASA and USGS released Timelapse powered by Google.  You can watch the last 30 years of satellite photography of anywhere on earth.  According to Louis Perrochon,     "We sifted through 2,068,467 images—a total of 909 terabytes of data—to find the highest-quality pixels (e.g., those without clouds), for every year since 1984 and for every spot on Earth. We then compiled these into enormous planetary images, 1.78 terapixels each, one for each year."

They have selected a few very stunning timelapses for you to view by clicking here.  You can move around the world and zoom in anywhere.  This might be an interesting tool in the classroom to look at erosion or climate change.  I have zoomed in on the east side of Windsor, east of the WFCU center.  You will notice a large rectangular green area gets built up over the last 30 years around the Banwell Hill - St. Josephs area as highlighted in the red box below.

If you would like to watch the development of this area click here.  You can zoom out or move anywhere else in the world you would like.  When you are done, if you would like to share the new view, click on the icon that looks like this