Monday, October 13, 2008

Americo, 7th Grade, RYSS


This picture looks like one you might delete, but I like it, and I dont want to delete it because it's not ordinary. It is a picture that has a lot of potential because the people are one way and the shadows are another way. It really looks like a picture that has no way of making it to the big time, but maybe it could. The lighting in the picture is great. It shows human nature in things we normally dont think of doing. It shows how we walk and how we want to touch or see something we want to try. It also shows us the natural and unnatural things that are man-made or God-made. It shows how we don't mean to do things, but can actually get something good out of them. It dosen't mean that all of the non-thinking things are bad. And the picture also doesn't show who took the picture if I'm the guy with the bracelets. So, I did take the picture, and I took it on purpose, but it looks like an accident. When you have a picture that you took by accident, look at it and it may be amazing or a good picture.

Americo, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

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October 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM
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October 14, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Anonymous said...

THIS PICTURE IS A GOOD PICTURE BECAUSE IT IS VERY UNIQUE

October 15, 2008 at 9:46 AM
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October 15, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Anonymous said...

Hey Angel nice picture of yours because I know how you like to
be unique. NICE!

October 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Anonymous said...

I really like the angle of your picture. It's very interesting how you describe it, and you used a lot of emotion when you wrote about it.It's very interesting and unique.

October 15, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Angel, I like this picture because it looks upside down. Another thing I like about your picture is that you and Geneva look so clear.

October 15, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Anonymous said...

I like your picture. Its awesome!Good job!

October 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM

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Instructors and LTP

Instructors:

Harold Olejarz is Art and Technology teacher at Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. He began his career as a sculptor and exhibited in Soho, NYC, in the early 1980s. His work evolved into Performance Art and his living sculptures installed themselves in museums and public spaces in the US and Europe from 1985 to the early 1990s. He has been exploring digital media as both an artist and an educator since 1997. “Capturing the Moving Present,” an essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association publication. Olejarz has made presentations on the use of digital media at state and national educational conferences.

Tom Chambers is Technology Applications teacher at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [Junior Academy], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005-2007. He was Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA), and was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). Chambers has been a documentary photographer and visual artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art.

Tanya Heard is Art/Photo teacher at T. H. Rogers School, Houston, Texas.

2007 - 2008 school year participant:

Dorian Gillespie is Art teacher at Southmore Intermediate School in Pasadena Texas. Prior to coming to Southmore, he taught at Bailey Elementary. He decided to teach and mentor students in the arts in order to give them an opportunity to learn and advise them of the many career choices an artist has. Although he did not teach art at Bailey, he was able to incorporate many art lessons into the curriculum. He has taught after school art classes for the University of Houston Clear Lake as well. Rather than become a professional artist, he decided to mentor as a teacher.

This blog was a part of the FotoFest LTP process:

2007 - 2008
2008 - 2009
2009 - 2010

Literacy Through Photography (LTP), the educational component of FotoFest International (Houston, Texas), is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve better communication skills through the use of digital or film-based photography.

FotoFest has combined with the instructors and schools to pursue a pilot program ... blog approach ... for LTP.

Students increase visual and verbal literacy while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their own photographs, their own lives, with confidence.

This blog, founded by Harold Olejarz and Tom R. Chambers continues to be a significant tool to help students with their written expression.