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Mural Dilemma, Volume 6: One Dot at a Time

So close, and yet so far. The finished mural will have close to 400 squares and triangles. There are about 30 students in the class. That is a lot of squares per student. Not every student is in...

Feb 25, 2013 Like

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Mural Dilemma, Volume 5: Qualities of Color

My suggestion of, "Your paint is too bright, try adding some white," met with confused looks too many times in a row, and I realized that the difference between "light vs. dark" and "bright vs....

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Mural Dilemma, Volume 4: Mixing Colors

The hardest part of this project is mixing paint colors accurately. One of the largest obstacles is that not everyone can see the same range of color. Some people are color blind in the classically...

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Mural Dilemma, Volume 3: Gridding the Gorge

The "real" mural will be done with paint in the pointillist style rather than tissue paper, and will be installed permanently in the school library. We decided to make the grid angled 45° in homage...

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Mural Dilemma, Volume 2: The Tissue Issue

As practice for our final mural, we embarked on a little tissue paper pointillist adventure. I found this picture of a rafter that seemed perfect for this attempt. Unfortunately, I can't find the...

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Mural Dilemma, Volume 1: What's the Point?

Well, pointillism, that's what. One of this year's projects focuses on the complexity and detail of a biome (yup, back to biomes and 6th graders again) through studying the...

Feb 25, 2013 Like

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Shadows, Volume 5: The Finished Boxes

I left for several weeks, and then came back just as the finished boxes were due. They were amazing! A two-dimensional photograph can never do justice to these masterpieces. Most of the finished...

Feb 25, 2013 Like

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Shadows, Volume 4: Supplies!

Since I was going to be unavailable for the actual creation of the boxes, I had to set up a complete resource for finishing the project without me. The Project wall contained instructions and...

Feb 25, 2013 Like

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Shadows, Volume 3: The Process

Time to start creating the shadow boxes! And by "time to start" I of course mean that I'm just now posting this, 11 months later, so the shadow boxes have long been completed and those students...

Feb 24, 2013 Like

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New Game Volume II

Playing once again with Google's reverse image search and the visually similar image results. My photographs are on the left, images by others on the right. Click any image for its source. I think...

Jan 19, 2013 Like

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Playing a New Game

Google has a reverse image search, where you can drag a photo from your computer into the search box, and it will find that image on the web. This is great if you're wondering if anyone has stolen...

Dec 31, 2012 Like

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Stalking Christmas

A couple of years ago, a friend commissioned me to make some Christmas stockings for her family. She wanted them all to be different, but similar, with vertical vintage-y stripes. I think I did...

Dec 16, 2012 Like

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Ornamental

One of my favorite parts of the holidays is decorating the tree. Each ornament I unpack and hang carries with it a memory of an event, a location, or a person dear to me. Some are just beautiful;...

Nov 28, 2012 Like

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Merry Bookmas

In this house, we are readers. There are types of books we like, but in general, we just like books. We regularly lament the fact that there is no possible way to live long enough to read all the...

Nov 28, 2012 Like

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Number 36

That's not an ice rink. I think it's the top of my car. Tops of cars make for good makeshift tripods in a pinch. This is the last of my series of 36 Views of South Waterfront. Maybe I'll start...

Nov 26, 2012 Like

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Grab a Copy

Greg Scheiderer wrote a lovely review of my book in Arches Magazine's Summer 2012 issue: Stargazing for Beginners: How to Find Your Way Around the Night SkyIt can be tough for beginners to learn...

Aug 7, 2012 Like

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Olympic Design

Dear London 2012 Olympics,Let's talk about your logo. In the bidding process for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Kino Design created a lovely image of a ribbon of the Olympic colors weaving through...

Jul 29, 2012 Like

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I heart the Olympics

The following is a rerun of a blog post I wrote during the 2006 Olympics in Turin.:060216: My captors want me to choose a favorite event. I can't do it. I love them all. It doesn't matter which...

Jul 28, 2012 Like

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Shadows, Volume 2: The Hunger Games

Leading up to this years conflict project, the students studied conflict through reading Suzanne Collinss book, The Hunger Games. No doubt youve heard of it by now. Students from all three class...

Mar 31, 2012 Like

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More is Less

I have read a bunch of bad books lately. Or just mediocre ones. Im not too excited about any of the four Im currently reading, either. I checked my recent reviews, and of the last 17 books Ive...

Mar 13, 2012 Like

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Drop Drizzle Drip

This winter has been absolutely beautiful. According to the Fox 12 Weather Blog from late January, the long-range weather forecast for Portland is decidedly un-Portland-like: • Little to no...

Mar 13, 2012 Like

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Shadows, Volume 1: Converging on Power

Leading up to this years conflict project, the students were shown a variety of images, and asked to generate "non-Google-able" questions about the pictures. For example, for the picture of the...

Mar 11, 2012 Like

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Just a Little Shakey

Early Monday morning, two strong earthquakes awakened the Bay Area. At 5:33 am, a magnitude 3.5 quake, followed immediately by a magnitude 4.0 quake shook approximately 5.5 miles below the surface...

Mar 8, 2012 Like

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Goes All Sagan On Us

Plugging his new book, Space Chronicles, Neil DeGrasse Tyson appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and nearly made Jon want to become an astrophysicist himself (watch the clip, youll want to...

Mar 6, 2012 Like

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State of Design

You know when you learn a new word, and then suddenly, you see the word everywhere? Thats kind of what happened to me this week with Frank Chimero, only it wasnt the first time I had heard of him....

Feb 29, 2012 Like

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Going Back in Time

I just started re-watching 21 Jump Street. You know how when you remember the 80s, it seems like the whole decade is a caricature of itself? Turns out, the 80s really were that ridiculous, and the...

Feb 28, 2012 Like

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No Human Being Is Illegal

This photograph was taken by Desto of Ser Verdadero. Both the photograph and the murals message deserve to be shared as often as possible. Muralist Salvador Jimenez created the work with a group of...

Feb 26, 2012 Like

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The glass is...

...twice as big as it needs to be.I spent a bit of time this week sitting in on a few middle school classes with which I soon will be working. As I listened to them discuss complex topics of...

Feb 24, 2012 Like

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Apparently Im an Expert

So there I was, minding my own business (as usual) when I came across an eHow instructional article. The article itself was rather strange and specific: How to Draw Zodiac Constellations. _And...

Feb 22, 2012 Like

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Ive Been Collected

Collection: The Owls Are Not What They Seem by Quiet PawsAll over the web, seekers of beauty and whimsy aggregate their favorite whatevers into collections that inspire. I found some of my own...

Feb 21, 2012 Like

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Mural Dilemma, Volume 6: One Dot at a Time

Mural Dilemma, Volume 5: Qualities of Color

Mural Dilemma, Volume 4: Mixing Colors

Mural Dilemma, Volume 3: Gridding the Gorge

Mural Dilemma, Volume 2: The Tissue Issue

Mural Dilemma, Volume 1: What's the Point?

Shadows, Volume 5: The Finished Boxes

Shadows, Volume 4: Supplies!

Shadows, Volume 3: The Process

New Game Volume II

Playing a New Game

Stalking Christmas

Ornamental

Merry Bookmas

Number 36

Grab a Copy

Olympic Design

I heart the Olympics

Shadows, Volume 2: The Hunger Games

More is Less

Drop Drizzle Drip

Shadows, Volume 1: Converging on Power

Just a Little Shakey

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Goes All Sagan On Us

State of Design

Going Back in Time

No Human Being Is Illegal

The glass is...

Apparently Im an Expert

Ive Been Collected

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