Monday, October 13, 2008

Lucia, 7th Grade, RYSS


I really like this picture. It shows a lonely, mysterious angle. I took this picture by accident when I was trying to take a picture of the building on the other side of the fence. It also shows small parts of branches that have started to grow on the fence. The picture makes me feel like I'm in a mystery movie. It shows the sad mood of someone passing by. I really like this picture because it shows the mood that I had when I took the picture ... sad.



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

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October 14, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Anonymous said...

I think it is very interesting because you can get a perfect view of what is on the other side of the fence. I also like it because you can see the leaves hanging on the fence.I think that you did a very good job of taking the picture.

October 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM
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October 15, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Anonymous said...

I REALLY LOVE YOUR PICTURE , ITS REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT ! SO YOU KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK1

October 15, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Anonymous said...

I think this picture looks very mysterious because it looks as if it was in a lonely place. And you can see that the fence has branches of a tree on it. And you can also see a house through the fence.

October 15, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Anonymous said...

How did you feel when you took the picture?

October 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Anonymous said...

I like what you wrote about the fence and how it shows its loneliness. Good job.

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

Lucia, I like this picture a lot because I think it looks original. I think it is my foavorite picture I have ever seen.

October 15, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Anonymous said...

I REALLY LIKE YOUR PICTURE BECAUSE YOU EXPRESS YOURSELF. ALSO, I REALLY LIKE IT BECAUSE I LIKE THE SADNESS. VERY COOL PIC, LOVING IT. GOOD JOB, KEEP IT UP.

October 15, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Anonymous said...

I really like this picture. It's great! I know some people would say that this is a boring picture, but you should really pay attention to the art of this picture.

October 15, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Anonymous said...

I love this picture because its such a easy picture to take and yet it looks like it was taken as if it were complicated. I also love how it was taken from a different point of view then all of the other pictures that you saw. I also loved when you saw first see the metal fence, and then you see beyond that point; in the background you see all of the houses and scenery. To me I personally thinks its means like trying to get over the fence. I think this is by far the best picture from the rest, and its really inspirational, I think.

January 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Anonymous said...

This picture looked action packed because it makes the perfect scene for a James Bond movie. Or the bad guys hideout

January 13, 2009 at 2:33 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.