Action Plan
Posted: Wednesday, 9 October 2013 by Joseph Vancell in
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The Information-Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education
Posted: Monday, 3 June 2013 by Joseph Vancell inSugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Posted: Saturday, 23 March 2013 by Joseph Vancell in
Dr. Sugata Mitra has been awarded a $1 Million Dollar prize from TED! The annual award provides an "exceptional individual" the opportunity to "conceive and launch a high-impact project."
Famous for his "hole in the wall" project, Sugata spoke at the TED awards conference to reveal his new project: "My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together."
"Help me build the 'School in the Cloud,' a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online."
Mitra's toolkit, "How to Bring Self-Organized Learning Environments to Your Community," can be found at http://www.ted.com/pages/814.
Pablo Picasso
Posted: Sunday, 24 February 2013 by Joseph Vancell inBorn October 25, 1881, Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.
Read more at http://www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-944002.
Van Gogh's self-portraits
Posted: Wednesday, 13 February 2013 by Joseph Vancell in
Van Gogh from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.
The Hyper-Real sculptures of Sam Jinks
Posted: Tuesday, 12 February 2013 by Joseph Vancell in
Sam Jinks' sculptural work sustains the briefest and often most
private moments in time. Emotional vulnerability is both the subject and
result of his work and moves audiences in a way not expected from
contemporary art. For Jinks, his works are not literal representations,
but are based on the combination of different stages of life.
Jinks uses these themes of old and new to suggest unrealized
potential: the figures are frozen in time, simultaneously at the
beginning and end of life. This can be interpreted either as a
melancholy reflection of loss, or as the experience of generations
standing together with the awareness of life cycles and different stages
of development. His hyper-real sculptures have been described as
'poignantly beautiful' as his works create a dialogue on both a
technical and emotional level through a strong sensitivity to detail.
Created from silicone, fiberglass, resin, calcium carbonate and human
hair these works contain a profound sense of the vulnerability and are
remarkable in their striking portrayal of the human condition.
From http://www.samjinks.com/
Sam Jinks / Sculptor from Bandit Films on Vimeo.
The Starry Night by Van Gogh
Posted: by Joseph Vancell in"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before
sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big," Van
Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, from France. Rooted in imagination and
memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression
of Van Gogh's response to nature. In thick, sweeping brushstrokes, a
flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below.
The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's
native land, the Netherlands.
What is art?
Posted: Friday, 8 February 2013 by Joseph Vancell in
Leo Tolstoy, in his essay “What Is Art?”:
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man’s emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.
Frank Lloyd Wright, writing in 1957, as cited in Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Nature, and the Human Spirit: A Collection of Quotations:
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Steven Pressfield in The War of Art, one of 5 essential books on fear and the creative process:
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism:
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Thomas Merton in No Man Is An Island:
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Francis Ford Coppola in a recent interview:
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before? I always like to say that cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. You have to take a risk.
André Gide in Poétique:
Art begins with resistance — at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Friedrich Nietzsche, made famous all over again by Ray Bradbury in Zen in the Art of Writing:
We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.
Pablo Picasso
Posted: Thursday, 7 February 2013 by Joseph Vancell in