Worth the Effort?

What’s so great about…

  1. Why do you think people say this is so great?
  2. List what makes it “outstanding?”
  3. What would you do differently?

guardian:

Source: YouTube/FlippyCat

The Canadian YouTube user FlippyCat spends eight days building 60 large squares, each containing 990 dominoes, only to send them crashing down in a blaze of colour and noise. Over the 65 hours it takes to build he changes his T-shirt to match the blocks. It only takes 12 seconds to knock all of them down

Okay then…

(Reblogged from guardian)
Interpret This! What is the subject of this artwork? What are the artistic devices (images, sounds, etc.) used and what feelings do you get from them? Explore details from the work. What do you find most effective artistically? Interpretation: Sum up your understanding of the artist’s intent in one statement. Be able to justify your opinion with specific insights or observations from the work. m0dernart: Forever Bicycles Ai Weiwei 2003 View high resolution

Interpret This!

  1. What is the subject of this artwork?
  2. What are the artistic devices (images, sounds, etc.) used and what feelings do you get from them?
  3. Explore details from the work. What do you find most effective artistically?

Interpretation: Sum up your understanding of the artist’s intent in one statement. Be able to justify your opinion with specific insights or observations from the work.

m0dernart:

Forever Bicycles

Ai Weiwei

2003

(Reblogged from npr)
“School: An institution that prepares young people for a life of freedom and democracy without letting them partake in either.” Pro - Con - Neutral Why would people be in favour of this? Why would people be against it? What would be a neutral position?

“School: An institution that prepares young people for a life of freedom and democracy without letting them partake in either.”

Pro - Con - Neutral

  1. Why would people be in favour of this?
  2. Why would people be against it?
  3. What would be a neutral position?

(Source: occupyedu)

(Reblogged from visualturn)