Video reblogged from The Near-Sighted Monkey
Special to students in my What It Is class:
You can get really deep solid color with your crayons, but it can’t be done fast.
You have to be patient and willing to spend a long time going over the same spot, and that’s why listening to music or watching a video or talking on the phone or listen to your roommates jabber while you’re coloring is a good thing to do. It will help you work the wax into the paper in a way you may have never tried before. Especially if you’ve always colored in a way that was supposed to make the crayons last longer. In this class we need to use our crayons up.
While you are coloring, it is good time to half sort of think about a problem that has been stumping you recently. Does coloring something by hand change the way you think about the problem? Does it change the way ideas and possible solutions come to you? How?
It can be good to peel back the paper on your crayon about an inch and a half. It can be good to have the goal of getting as much of that crayon onto the page you are coloring. Fill in the entire background of at least one picture. Make the color so solid no paper shows through.
Try to wear your crayons down to stubs. Please save the stubs for our upcoming Crayon Stub Beauty Contest.
On Tuesday one of the pictures you turn in must be worked into solid color, including the background. Pictures will be graded on sincerity and evidence of time spent using up your crayons.
Though kids use crayons, and though we have been coloring images from children’s coloring books, there is nothing childish about what is going on with your hand, eye, and brain/mind when you dedicate some time to coloring pictures.
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Last night at our book club, we discussed Notes from Underground. Andrew shared the fact that when he was a kid, he read a book which warned kids that some people put things like pencils in their penises, and that’s dangerous. We talked about how you could then write with that pencil, and turn around to erase, because the eraser would come out of your butt. It seems like a good way to write. You could be writing with your hands at the same time, and basically get a whole lot of work done.
I said some stuff about how guys don’t masto overhand too much, and Andrew and Jon tried to make me feel like a fool. They said there’s no way I can know how many dudes masto overhand. Total contrarians, no reason for it.
So, good book.
Quote reblogged from Racialicious
At Last has become arguably the most popular song in the U.S. for weddings, Valentine’s Day, or other kinds of bourgeois events calling for cheap sentimentality—despite the fact that James’s powerhouse vocals and phrasing actively work against the sentimentality of the song’s arrangement, as it does in most of her work covering jazz standards during that period.
But her vocals weren’t the only place James was working decidedly against a safe “jazz singer” image. She worked in her personal life and her styling to embody the kind of black urban street culture in which she was immersing herself:
“I [was] serious about turning little churchgoing Jamesetta into a tough bitch called Etta James…. I wanted to look like a great big high-yellow ho’. I wanted to be nasty.”
James ascribes the blonde-yellow hair and black eyebrows that she adopted early in her career to being closely associated with street-based sex workers and drag queens at the time. That’s who she was emulating.
Video reblogged from Afro.Art.Chick
That pic in the turtleneck! That is basically how I come across.
Happy 53rd Birthday to singer-songwriter Helen Folasade Adu OBE, better known as Sade
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And right here is where you start payin!
“But out of limitations comes creativity.”
Happy 62nd Birthday to actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer; Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen (b. January 16, 1950)
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