500 Days of Summer

I cannot wait until July 24th! I watched this trailer -- times. It looks wonderful - good music, creative interpretation, relatively clean, clever, and enjoyable acting.

Tap Project

How many times have you gone to a restaurant and gotten water? It's great. Water is more healthy and it's free! What if they started charging you a dollar for water? Outrage! But...what if that dollar went to providing water for those who don't?

Please watch:

A revolutionary idea! Your one dollar can provide fresh, clean water for someone for 40 days! 

Here is another Tap Project promotional video produced by BYU students:

I know that you are so excited to go get some water...right? Find a restaurant near you that participates!

Find more info on UNICEF's Tap Project.

New iPod Shuffle!

Just when you thought that iPods where as small as they were ever gong to get, Apple proves us wrong. May I introduce the new iPod Shuffle. It is 4 GB. I still have a measly 'ol 2 GB 2nd Gen. Nano.  

Here are the stats:

Size and Weight

Height:

1.8 inches (45.2 mm)

Width:

0.7 inch (17.5 mm)

Depth:

0.3 inch (7.8 mm)

Weight:

0.38 ounce (10.7 grams)⁵

Simply Amazing!

Hernan Bas

I came across this contemporary artist, Hernan Bas. He is from Florida and graduated from the New World School of the Arts in 1996. His paintings are influenced by romanticism, imaginative worlds that personify romance and pleasure.  These scenes are places of fantasy one dreams of escaping to leaving the world in which we live behind. 

The Day Things Changed Between Us, 2004

The Blue Line, 2006

The Burden (I Shall Leave No Memoirs), 2006

The Merger, 2005

Mephistophleles at 17 (In His Weed Garden), 2007

Dress Like an Artwork!

For my Art Education class we had the opportunity to dress up as an Artist or an Art Work.  I decided to go with one of my favorite artists Piet Mondrian.  The specific piece I modeled after is Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow made in 1930.  The object was to find new and fun ways to teach art history.