March 26, 2012
This photo shows a girl at a masquerade ball and she is looking around and she sees someone she thinks she knows. After watching for a little while she decides to take off the mask and get a closer look.
The picture is the captured moment of when she is taking off her mask.
What can be next?
September 13, 2011
I lost my marbles from my head, I lost my marbles yes I did. 🙂
On my vacation this summer I went to a marble factory. And there I bought a marble. We got to watch a demonstration on how they used to hand make the marbles instead of the machines that make them now. The guy who did the demonstration showed us how to make different things and ended up using a lot of different blow torches. It was really cool. The factory I went to was called Moon Marble, and here is their website,
(me with the marble artist)
So after reading this post I only have one request of you. Take a vacation to Kansas, and go to Moon Marble.
(my Aunt Gloria and me with some of the hand-made marbles.)
(But try not to lose your marbles while your there :D)
May 5, 2011
i saw a DIY video for a fringe skirt and decided i wanted to make a fringe shirt.
April 5, 2011
Step one, fold and cut.
When you cut the design you want, you unfold it.
Until you have unfolded the whole thing.
And there ya go!
This is a Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Sign. Do you notice the similarities?
You can find more of these signs, and read about them at this website,
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aferm/pennsylvania/hex.htm
March 25, 2011
March 8, 2011
This is the cake I made for my little brothers birthday. Unfortunately my little brother
is the only one in the family who got to eat some. It was for his class, and it was a lot of work.
February 11, 2011
February 7, 2011
It was a usual day.
Children playing in the streets, and adults manning their stands.
When a man came up to the middle of the street and started playing a pipe.
The sound that came out was as if it was a magical spell.
The children stopped dead in their tracks, and started running toward him to listen, and the adults froze and turned to watch him.
The song the piper was playing was indeed a magical spell, but not a good one.
Once the children were settled, and the adults were comfortable, the magic began.
Every one was now frozen in time. Well the piper wouldn’t have have gone and done this for no reason would he?
Well he didn’t. Its all for a much bigger plan, and that is another story.
The piper walked away with a smug smile on his face never to return again.
And the poor people of this town will never move again.
Or will they……….?
January 18, 2011
Mom says:
I know you’ve been sick…slouching around
But I really wanted to show you something
I found.
Click here and then post what you think.
Is this something ???
January 4, 2011
December 24, 2010
Think about it.
Many many years ago,
Kids my age sat on this carousel seat,
at the age of one hundred and twenty -three
they would now be.
December 7, 2010
Ginger Bread Man
Tall in spirit
Short in height
Ginger Bread Man
I cant wait to take a bite
Ginger Bread House
With candy Christmas lights
You’re very pretty
And I’m sure you taste nice
my poetry award from Jingle
May 20, 2010
RHYTHM, LIGHT & ENERGY: PRODUCT Another common-law relationship artist ‘team’ has been successful this year, that of Barbara Yawit and Andrew Daoust, whose multi-part installation for Wendler Middle School, Rhythm, Light & Energy, can be seen in the photos below. Crafted of powder coated, waterjet cut aluminum panels with colored acrylic and light-emitting diodes (LEDs), these lanterns in the interior hallway are matched by a set of three larger ones mounted a slab on the west lawn of the school, visible to motorists on Lake Otis Parkway.
Yawit and Daoust have also recently completed commissions including the $24,000 Flame of Life at the Southport Fire Station #15 and another at the DEC Seafoods facility, to add to their previous ones including the twisted ladder at the Downtown Fire Station. The Wendler commission was acquisitioned by the Municipality for $150,000.
The two story open hallway is a common feature of modern public school design and it can be seen that the architects intend to grant the space some visual interest through clerestory windows, exposed structural elements, or lighting arrangements already in place. According to Wendler’s Principal Joel Roylance, who also served on the commissioning panel, Yawit and Daoust’s concept as originally approved suspended the lanterns in the space between the horizontal light bars. Engineers insisted that they be more firmly attached, regimenting the geometry and changing the Energy from kinetic to potential. The LED lumens barely compete visually with the much brighter flourescent fixtures, although the photo does show faint glowing effects.
In the entryway, the notion of suspending shards of colored acrylic like broken pottery above the lobby offended no safety concerns and the results can be seen reflecting various interior features surrounded by daylighting and flourescent. In the photo at left Here again the artwork seems to be occupying space already meant to have been made interesting by the architecture. These uneasy fits and unseemly compromises are the result of not including artists in the design stages which are properly part of any construction budget and which are the most fruitful times for felicitous commissions. This is something in the Statute that should be amended, and architects should support this change. A revealing quip from the latest prospective claims that “The 1% for Art Program and the project architects … are working together to plan and implement integrated artwork.”. The bureaucrats and the technocrats seem to see the artists as ancillary.
via ArtSceneAK #701 January 15, 2008.
May 14, 2010
Pictures of Wendler Middle School’s 1% Art.
These sculptures represent the Northern Lights.
These sculptures change many colors, just like the real Northern Lights.
I Might Have Some Information On The Creator Later.
May 4, 2010
The Moon
The Moon, My Moon.
This is a Moon, bright and tall
This is a Moon, it shows it self to one and all
This is a Moon I love to look at
This is a Moon I see every night
This is a Moon I love as my light
G’night Moon
April 30, 2010
Here is a song I really like called
“Gypsy” By Shakira.
Mom says: OK, this if better. When we talked in the car you weren’t sure what a gypsy was. I’m still not sure what she means in the song.
Can you tell me?
It has words in it, but you said I could post it for fun.
Mom says:
Sorry girl-girl. I did like the song, but I felt like the video was too sexually suggestive so I took it off. Can you find a video with the song, but not those pictures? Post the words to the song for me and let’s see what story it tells. I think that’s called narrative writing.
April 30, 2010
Actually, I don’t like any songs that dont have nay words in it.
But, this is a song called “Replay” by IYAZ, it’s a remix on the piano, and it doesn’t have word in this version.
This is my favorite! 😀
April 14, 2010
Mom says:
anti-boy to me. But it’s fine.
I don’t think the Yuck was fair and if you’re going to yuck at me, then I don’t think I want to play.
But this was one of my favorites !!!
April 4, 2010
From this…
To this…
March 10, 2010
Glogster.com – Poster yourself – Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
March 4, 2010
Mom says: I thought you would like this.
March 2, 2010
Here is Lake Otis’s 1% art.
This is a video I took of the words that are under the 1% art. The words are,
Late us take the Ribbons, Black ones from Africa, Yellow ones from Asia, White ribbons of Europe, Brown ones of the Middle East, and Red Ribbons of the Americas. With then we will weave a beautiful and sacred tapestry that cannot be soiled by our prejudices.
Here is the actual sculpture,
Here I’m standing next to the sculpture.
Here is the sculpture from the end.
Here it is from the front.
From the middle,
The whole sculpture again.
My thoughts on this sculpture is, they did well showing that all races, could, and can go together. I like how all of the ribbons are intertwined, and all the colors seem to go together. Some of them are longer than others, but they still go together. When I think about it, I have never gone to a school where there weren’t different types of races. My mom said when she went to school, all of the students were white, and everybody was moving away to get away from the integration.
There are other sculptures through out the school. They are of the Alphabet, and the photos will be uploaded, either later today or later this week.
February 9, 2010
Mom says:
So, where did this come from?
How do you know?
Is this dancing from Africa
Or fun in the Irish snow?
Look Here: https://www.tapdance.org/index.php?pid=168
And post us the show!
Kim says:
Well, tap dancing originated from a dance called Juba. Its what african slaves danced to keep their bodys strong. Later the dance blended with irish dancing. Wich later on became tap dancing.
Juba Dancing
Irish Dancing
In the end it all ended in Tap Dancing!
More Information Later!!
February 8, 2010
Yesterday I went with my family to go see Tap Kids. This started eight years ago. They are a group of kids that tap dance. The show I went to, They danced on cookie sheets, and did the whole show like it was a high school, senior year. They had scenes on the basketball court, classrooms, detention, and the school dance.
I don’t have any pictures of the kids that I saw last night, but here are others.
For more info on Tap Kids you can go to
It’s full of videos, how you can sign up, and about the kids.
Tap Kids has preformed in more than 30 states and internationally in Mexico and Holland.
. Tap Kids began as a workshop in Tarrytown N.Y., in 2000.
. Lisa Hopkins, and her partner, Phil Stern, held auditions for a new show called “Tap Kids”, in 2001. Out of 150 kids, only 9 were chosen.
. In 2003, Tap Kids started touring, but only on the weekends, because they had to go to school.
. In 2004 the more Tap Kids became popular, the more they toured. They even danced for the queen of Holland.
. In 2006 Tap Kids preformed in 5 states in the Midwest, and thirteen venues. Also in NY, NJ, AZ, OR, TX, ID, SC, IN, AR, CA, PA, and MO. They also toured the Netherlands.
January 14, 2010
In this photo is an eagle and a catipiliar. You can see
a little bit of the crank that moves the sculpture. When
you turn the crank for the eagle, it make its body and
wings move up and down, making it look like its flying.
When you turn the crank for the catilipiliar, it makes it
look like its moving on a flat surface.
Here is a photo of a cricket. Instead of having a
crank to make it move, it has wheels. When you move the right
wheel for the chricket, it make the crickets sides and legs move.
In this photo, there is a big fish, and a bunch of little fish.
This sculpture also has to be moved my turning the right
wheel. When you turn it, the sculpture moves, making the
big fishes jaws move up and and down, and the little fishes
tails move to make it look like their swimming away.
Mom says:
Hey, my bow
We spent some time
Looking and playing
Not, doing a rhyme.
Look back at the pictures
We took many more
See what you are missing
And work with this more.
This
is the Crank Whimsy Plauqe in full picture. You can see the handle
on the bottom of the plauqe, when you turn it, it makes the plauqe
spin.
In this photo, i turned the handle, and made the plauqe
spin.
In this photo is what my mom thinks is a bug. In the next photo you
In this picture is what my mom thinks is a bug. In the next photo you will
see the wheels you have to turn in order to make this sculpture move. When
you turn the wheels it make the eyes and the tongue move. The eyes roll
and the tongue move in and out.
Here are all of the wheels that moves the sculptures. The wheels
on right side make the bug move. On top of the right wheels is a
smaller sculpture that spins around when you turn the wheels. On
the left side of wheels, when you spin those, it makes the shark and
the smaller fish move. It also has a smaller sculpture on the top that
spins around. Now the middle wheels move the cricket when you turn
them. Just like the right side and left, it has a smaller sculpture on the
top that spins whenever you turn the wheels.
IN THIS PART OF CRANK WHIMSY, ARE PICTURES OF WHIMSY IN MY HOUSE
This a picture of an exit sign that my
mom has right in the entrance to downstairs.
In this picture my mom took an empty plastic jar
and filled it with left over christmas lights, and put
it on our kitchen counter.
In this photo, my mom did the same as before, she
filled an empty container and filled it with left over
christmas lights. Only this one is the light fixture in
between my bedroom and my brothers. In this picture
you can see the lights clearly when they are on.
This is another picture of the lights in between
my room and my brothers. But in this picture
you can’t see the lights clearly.
This is a picture of an apron that my friend
made for my mom. But this one is different,
its made of colorful ducktape.
Here is a full picture of the ducktape apron.
Here is one last good picture od the light fixture.
crank whimsy is a set of sculptures for the 1% art for Rodgers Park Elementary made by Arthur Higgins. This is the plauge on one of the moving sculptures, it say who made it, and what year it was made in. Scroll down and you will see pictures of the other moving sculptures at Rodgers Park.
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