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    • Compass Rose Project [Art-Math]
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Lesson plan for Wedensday 18 January

by Dustin Keller

Good morning! Today you have in the AM: 2 blocks of G8’s continuing on a ‘creative creatures’ project.Room301.  In the pm: 2 blocks of 9-12 media arts working on two sound projects. Art 8 Something from nothing. Media arts Audacity…

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How to Upload audio to your site for WordPress REVISED!!!

by Dustin Keller

WordPress Suport! Audio   If your file is small enough you can simply upload it as an audio file. If it is too big you have some options: Simply use the Vocaroo website to upload your file and then post…

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Ginseng powered ‘Ruby’ op amp

by Dustin Keller

Ok, this was my second build and my first op amp.  It took a couple days to problem solve…  I have to say that ai learnt SO much by doing this project.  From ground loops to the proper place to put…

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Practice Code Oscillator (first build)

by Dustin Keller

For those that have been noticing the piles of old electronic pieces and parts on my desk.  Or how the schools laminator that had been broken for years and now has found its way to my room and recived a…

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aesthetic adventure, Artists, for my students, Paintings

16-Year-Old Artist Makes Her Dreams Come Alive In Her Paintings

by Dustin Keller

While it’s really hard to measure one’s resolve for art, Dimitra Milan is hitting a steady 0,75 Van Gogh mark. This 16-year-old daughter of two artists even chose to be homeschooled so she could study art more. Milan was been…

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Art & Science, Artists, for my students, Paintings

A Brief History of Color in Art… and poisons!

by Dustin Keller

A Brief History of Color in Art THE ART GENOME PROJECT BY SARAH GOTTESMAN MAY 20TH, 2016 9:19 PM Artists invented the first pigments—a combination of soil, animal fat, burnt charcoal, and chalk—as early as 40,000 years ago, creating a…

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Art & Science, Artists, Electronics, for my students, Media, Musings

The Theremin. Carolina Eyck playing ‘Elephant in Green’ (2015)

by Dustin Keller

The Theremin is an electronic instrument, originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone[2] or termenvox/thereminvox) is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon…

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Lesson plan for Friday Dec 2

by Dustin Keller

First two blocks Art 8 room 301 Activity: Continue with Body Proportion and life drawing. Have a student stand on the metal table in the back and have the rest of the class draw them.   Start off with 3 minutes…

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Lesson plan for Thursday December 1

by Dustin Keller

Welcome EOC! Three blocks then a prep.  With a homeroom at 2:50- please get my report cards from the office in the afternoon to be able to hand them out. All classes are working on a drawing project based on…

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