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For the Best Of! Page
Hey everyone, so I think for the Best Of! Page, everyone needs to submit their own personal favorite during the course. So hopefully over the weekend everyone can submit their own personal favorites onto the blog with a brief description of why you liked them. Then me, Lucius, and Adrian will take your responses and do something with them to display the overall results of the Best Of! Page. Just follow Adrian’s example on the blog.
“Best of…” – various options
This actually emerged during some earlier discussion in class regarding options for the website. I don’t remember who – Manjekar? Sharouk?Justin?… – but someone suggested for everyone to complete the sentence “The best of the Arts in New York for me was/is…”
Everyone could just choose a specific moment which they really enjoyed, or something new they discovered – in the city or about the arts, or their favorite outing as a class, or which performance they remember the most, or what they liked about poems or about having working artists visiting the class, or… Some would write something serious, some not-so-serious, anything goes. All responses should short. We might get quite an interesting mixture of “best impressions.”
Once you have the responses you need to organize them – put them together as a string of responses? A long list? A kind of collage? Perhaps accompanied by a slide show? Add music? Add your comments? Add beautiful aroma? O.K., I am kidding … (We have lots of goodies on the blog – e. g. all the students’ photos for the “Public Art” assignment. Perhaps you could use some of these riches.)
Right now three people volunteered to organize & coordinate this part: Adrian, Lucius & Kevin. Good. That’s already serious manpower. Of course you can still add a couple more colleagues to help you conceptualize it or to perform specific tasks. You might want to consult Chris too.
As far as I am concerned, anything you decide is fine with me. Just do something nice.
Best of!
I would like to manage the Best of! page on the new website. Anyone who wants to help me is encouraged to work with me on the task.
Co-ordinating on the Website
Hey guys!
Joshua and I were talking and we thought it would be easier to co-ordinate our work on our final website through a Google Hangout, rather than through email or discussion on blog posts. What do you guys think? As we all have Macaulay emails (powered by Gmail), it is certainly possible.
Worst of the Arts
Erica Loo and I (Daniel) will volunteer to do the “Worst of!” page in the new website. Are you guys okay with that?
Class Portrait
Hey everyone!
So I’ve come up with an idea for the class portrait!
We would shoot two group photos:
The first – everyone will do an artsy pose that comes to mind when they think of art (be as creative as you possibly can)
And the second – everyone will be holding a piece of construction paper listing one word that describes art, one word that describes the city, and one word that describes them – just to cover the whole arts, nyc, and me title of the class
Either Manjekar or I will provide the construction paper & Sharpies (unless someone already has some at home they’d be willing to bring)
Hopefully, we were thinking that we could get the portraits done on Friday around 1pm down at Riverside Park. Could everyone just comment and let me know if that would be a good day and time. If anyone has any other suggestions for the portraits, write that in the comments as well. But remember, we really have a short amount of time to get this done.
Hope you’ll all be excited to do it though!
FINAL PROJECT UPDATE
Hello all.
I have emailed Chris about permission to edit the projects page.
We will hopefully be able to edit the page soon.
EDIT: Read the most recent email from Chris. Join the page soon!
The categories for this project are as follows:
- Home Page
- Class Portrait (a photograph and/or word portrait of the class)
- Best of “Arts in New York City”
- Worst of “Arts in New York City”
- Our Exhibitions
- Our Performances
- Our Individual Responses
Let’s get this done!
Art is …
SO, I read through some of the comments left on the other post about the final project and as I can tell everyone is interested in combining poetry and art. I have an idea that might perhaps interest some of you.
A few years ago (I don’t remember the story behind this) many walls around the world emerged with the words “Before I die….” Everyone would sign these walls with the things that they desire to do before death, this activity brought communities together.
This is how the wall looked.
I was thinking that perhaps we can do something like this but instead write “Art in NYC is…” and everyone would sign what they believe it is. This could be in poster or collage form. It would turn into our own, personal poem in a way. If some of us did not know what to write, we could also add pictures. Basically, we could put all of our creativity into this by making it colorful and unique.
What do you guys think? It doesn’t seem like too much work, yet it’s very representative of what we did all semester.
-Angelika
Art: NYC and Me
Hey guys! So the semester is approaching a close and we have to come up with and actually create a final project. I believe that it should be something that encompasses the three main themes expressed in the title of this course: “The Arts, The City, and Me.” Thus, I think we should create something that artistically depicts us and the city. It should be something that portrays both the physical and human beauty that makes NYC a city like no other.
To be more specific we should make a collage. I think that if we create a collage of pictures that form the shape of the island of Manhattan, we can satisfy all the criteria. These pictures should be, however, a picture of you in your favorite place in the city (and by city I do mean Manhattan). Including these pictures will perfectly combine that human and physical aspects that define NYC culture. Along with these, we can also include any necessary pictures form the Media section from this website. We can also include any newspaper articles and magazines pictures that are fitting (e.g. a New York Times headline, a New York magazine with flashy words such as “Broadway” or “Central Park”). We can even include cutouts from the dreaded subway map! Anything that has some aesthetic appeal can definitely be incorporated.
Finally, this has the potential to be a time consuming task, but I do think as Macaulay students we can avoid that. All we need to do is pick a day, where everybody comes prepared with their pictures and cutouts, to actually create the collage. Since it appears that last of our class days are busy, we may need to do this on our personal time.
Thanks for your consideration. I do hope we can accomplish this!
