Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Stop Motion Animation!

It's the time of year again! Time for the BEST PROJECT EVERRRRRRRR! Stop motion animation is a form of animation where an inanimate object appears to be moving by using a series of photographs which is similar to a flip book. The students had to develop a story line, construct a set with characters, and then proceed with the tedious process of taking 300+ photographs to tell their story. When finished we put our photographs together by using Windows Movie Maker in the computer lab. We put 0.250 seconds in between each photograph so when the pictures are being shown at that speed it appears that the object is moving on it's own.
To celebrate the accomplishment by all students we have an semi-annual movie premier called the Krieger Video Awards. This is a time where students can watch all the videos from all classes and vote for Best Video in their class. Among the Best Video winner in each class there is also an Overall Best Video winner and adding to the winners list we have introduced the Tyler Sensenbrenner award. This prestigious award is decided by Tyler's family and is judged on what movie the family feels Tyler would have enjoyed the most. 
Overall, this is an extremely time consuming and tedious project but the students always create successful movies and have something to be proud of at the end of the year. Great job by all!

Now the toughest question....which movie is your favorite????

Group Name: 1up Productions
Group Name: The Monsters
Group Name: Assassins
Group Name: AT


Group Name: Super Cool
Group Name: BAM
Group Name: AB Monster
Group Name: Bananas
Group Name: Bill's First Adventure
Group Name: The Nerds
Group Name:DJB
Group Name: GATO
Group Name: Fantastic 4 - 6th period
Group Name: Purple Unicorns
Group Name: I Love Chicken
Group Name: In Owl City
Group Name: Monkey Business
Group Name: JJAM
Group Name: KAE
Group Name: Lorenzo and Pepperjack
Group Name: LRM
Group Name: Magical Llama Corns
Group Name: Magical Tacos
Group Name: Elephants
Group Name: Mixed Nations
Group Name: Mrie
Group Name: Team Rocket
Group Name: Battle of Jim and Bob
Group Name: PAHJ
Group Name: Llamas
Group Name: Team YOLO SWAG
Group Name:Ingenuity 
Group Name:Papercranes
Group Name: Chopsticks
Group Name: RNS
Group Name: Fantastic 4: 1st period
Group Name: Seth and the Sunshine Band
Group Name: Unknown
Group Name:Beach Bums
Group Name: The Animators
Group Name: Squid
Group Name: Three Dino's
Group Name: The Donuts
Group Name: ADF
Group Name:The Lollipop Guild
Group Name:To Be Heard
Group Name: Whales




2013 Art Show!

The art show this year was May 11th at the Miamisburg High School. All art work was displayed from grades K-12. It is always and interesting time to see how students evolve from elementary artists to advanced artists in high school. There was a great turn out from all grade levels!

Even our tape casts made quite the impact on the unknowing bystanders : )






Can you spot the figure?

Knit Picking!

Miamisburg Middle School officially got knit picked! Knit picking is a form of temporary graffiti that was born from the international sensation of yarn bombing. This year all grade levels participated by learning how to finger knit in their art classes. We asked for donated yarn, knitted sweaters, and knitted blankets and thanks to our volunteers we had a great turn out! 
For those that stayed after school to help knit pick we appropriately named them, Knit Wits. The whole purpose behind knit picking is to be anonymous since it is a form of graffiti so the Knit Wits had to create their own Knit Wit name and dress up as their alter ego. Some of the names included; BeYARNce, RhiYARNa, Captain Knitters, Sir Knits A Lot and many more!
Next year we are hoping for an even larger turn out and much more yarn! This was a fantastic way to help keep our school all warm and fuzzy : )

















Tape Casting!

This semester's students were able to engage in a new sculpture project! First students were introduced to the street artist, Mark Jenkins, and learned about his sculptures and how they are meant to trick the viewer into thinking they are real. 
Then the students were placed into groups and they had to figure out a way to trick the viewer with their human sculptures in the school some way. 
Then started the casting part of the project! Each group decided on a model and then the other group members would wrap the model in packaging tape by wrapping one layer sticky side up and then two layers sticky side down. After carefully cutting the casted body part off the model the group had to simply tape the parts back together and voila! They had a tape casted human being.
The final step of this project included the students dressing up their tape sculptures and displaying them within the school building while we critiqued them. They sure did scare some teachers!









Thursday, March 28, 2013

Speaking with Hands

Students continued their exploration of hands by viewing Henry Buhl's exhibition, 'Speaking with Hands'. This photograph collection consists of different hands of artists, politicians, dancers, celebrities etc. The purpose of the exhibition is to show that our hands communicate in different ways. Students worked in groups and took photographs of their hands with the purpose of communicating















a message to the viewer.

Hand Drawing

Students observed different parts of the hands including: folds in the palm, knuckles, finger nails etc. They brought in an object that represents them in some way and then they had to find an interesting way to hold their hand with the object to encourage an interesting composition. After that students then learned about shadows and highlights of the hand and added those values to make their hands look more realistic. Students had four choices for their finals: white paper and pencil, white paper and pen (using stippling or cross hatching), gray paper and chalk/charcoal, or black paper with white colored pencil.