Welcome Everyone!

Welcome everyone to the 2014-2015 school year! Our first day back was fantastic! Everyone seemed genuinely excited about being in room 234.

A couple of things to start out the year:

1. Artsonia permission slips are due back by this Friday!

2. If you Instagram then feel free to follow my professional art educator account @iamyourartteacher to see anything all things art plus due dates and reminders. Remember, this is my professional account NOT personal.

3. Our first project is a graffiti project where students create their front and back covers of their own sketchbook! We will then use a Japanese Side Stitch to put together our sketchbooks next week. So fun!

2013-2014 Stop Motion Animation: 1st Semester

     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 400+ photographs to tell their story. Unfortunately with our snow days it put us behind this semester and the students had to take as many photographs as possible with the shortened about of time that we had. 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.

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????

OVERALL BEST VIDEO WINNER!!!

RMT

1st Period: The Flying Kikas *Voted as Best Video Winner*

1st Period: Hey! Soul Surfer

1st Period: N & I Productions

1st Period: Scoot Scoot

1st Period: Team Snow

1st Period: The Candy Dream Team

1st Period: S &  P Productions

1st Period: The Power of 2

1st Period: The Ninjas

1st Period: Come at Me Bro Studios

2nd Period: Torn ACL *Voted as Best Video Winner*

2nd Period: Dino Attack!

2nd Period: Frozen

2nd Period: K'Breezy

2nd Period: Magical Unicorns

2nd Period: NHK

2nd Period: The Fancy Purple Pandas

2nd Period: The Melting

4th Period: The Oyster Crackers *Voted as Best Video Winner*

4th Period: A Day at the Farm

4th Period: McFlurries

4th Period: JJE Inc.

4th Period: Alexis and Maggie

4th Period: PKM

4th Period: HHCL

4th Period: Jordan and Jay

4th Period: The Flying Birds

5th Period The Anonymous *Voted as Best Video Winner*

5th Period: IDC

5th Period: Dem Ballerzzzz

5th Period: Simpson-izer

5th Period: Intergalactic Sea Horses

5th Period: PBJ

5th Period: The Purple Pancakes

5th Period: The Purple Pandas

5th Period: The Snowmen

5th Period: Austin

6th Period: The Cookie Monster Killers *Voted as Best Video Winner*

6th Period: The Purple Butterflies

6th Period: Dillon

6th Period: Much Group

6th Period: Grace

6th Period: Jaxon

6th Period: Robbie

6th Period: Addie

6th Period: Ashley

WELCOME!!!!

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Please remember that technology permission forms are due on WEDNESDAY, August 28th!

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!