day 16 - Oscars Preview

Oscars on Sunday.

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On Netflix:
Winter on Fire - Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
What Happened, Miss Simone?
World of Tomorrow
And The Oscar Goes To...

On YouTube:
Oscars Commercial - We All Dream In Gold
Oscars 2015 Opening Song
Oscars - Advice for Screenwriters
Oscars - What's your favorite line from a movie?
Jim Carrey 1999 Presenter
ET Best Oscar Moments
Graham Moore's 2015 speech
Golden Globes - Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt
Her - from Sol's Blog
Roberto Benigni
Jim Carrey - 2016 Golden Globes

day 15 - project time

WP#17: Carter (Peas & Carrots)

We talked about Instagram and Live Blogging the Oscars.

We worked on our PROJECT #2, due 3/3.

Next time:
Movie Day (bring popcorn and chairs and bean bags and blankets and drinks because we need to cram for the Oscars, which are Sunday).
Class Journal:
Oscar Predictions

My process for @erniecline's Armada book cover: doodle on back of receipt -> sketch -> underpainting -> finished art pic.twitter.com/OUN7xSBAdK

— Sam Spratt (@SamSpratt) February 10, 2016

MT @mattthomas [new Kanye album] has been a fascinating "show your work" case study. Cf. Beyoncé, who just drops finished, polished product.

— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) February 12, 2016

The album is being mastered and will be out today… added on a couple of tracks… pic.twitter.com/6lBxcd83N2

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

Final track list for The Life Of Pablo pic.twitter.com/PMH94MAAeJ

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 11, 2016

#Waves pic.twitter.com/Azig7aNYOu

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016

#waves pic.twitter.com/fyER7NH8DC

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 27, 2016

So happy to be finished with the best album of all time pic.twitter.com/JBWa8OWvqw

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 25, 2016

Since leaving Columbus, it's been easy for me to retreat into less collaborative ideas. I'm glad for the people who reel me in.

— Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) February 23, 2016

day 14 - mashup monday

We had the first ever Mashup Monday Slam

Next time:
WP#17: Carter & Megan
Class Journal: Megan D.
 

If you have any pictures from class, upload them here.

Mash up from Izzy Scherer on Vimeo.

day 13 - mashups

WP#16: Rylie (Doors)
Watch Oscar trailers
Finish Paris Wall
Pictures from Journals
New Books
Work on Mashups

Mashup examples
Blank Space / Style
Adele Hello / British Guy
Bruno Mars / Michael Jackson / Classical
Taylor Swift / 80's Exercise Video
Inception / Toy Story

day 12 - Love Graphs

We watched Demetri Martin's stand-up and wrote Love Graphs (page 10) and turned in journals (#1-15).

We asked each other questions and watched some clips from the Grammys and talked about the Oscars (Sunday, 2/28).

• Hamilton Opening
• Hamilton Acceptance Speech
• Kendrick Lamar's Performance
• David Bowie Talks About Hip-hop and Creativity

We watched this mash-up as inspiration for our next assignment. (You will be assigned to write/combine/perform a mash-up with another student next time, unless you tell me who you want to work with.)

Next time:
WP#16: Rylie
Class Journal: Brenden (grrrrrrrrr)

day 11 - Journal Jam

Prompt #9 (Emily): Uncomfortable. Write what disturbs you. Particularly if it doesn't bother anyone else. 

We worked on our journals (due next time: #1-15).

We started talking about The Oscars, which we will be predicting and live blogging (2/28).

We had a journal jam.

"She was a middle school fist fight."

                        -Brooklyn 

We talked about bucket lists.

We began our Paris Wall project.

Next:
Prompt #10 ?
Class Journal - Brenden

Huish

I finally updated your names

day 10 - Sofar Sounds

We watched Sofar Sounds videos and worked on our journals.

WP#7: To Whom It May Concern:
WP#8: I Don't Want To Write/Talk/Be About...

Jess (one of our founding mothers) performed some poems.

Next time:
Prompt #9 (Emily)
Class Journal (Callen)

day 9 - project #1

films and canvases and writers pages and poetry and candles and photoshop and tutorial videos and nails and postcards and t-shirt ideas and horses and paris things and maps and flowers and paris boxes and letters and paintings and paper cranes and art and holy crap that was awesome. 

No writing prompt today. We'll do #7 (Lexi) and #8 (Nelson) next time and the journals will be due 2/15. Don't forget your extra 5 (#11-15). 

Lindsey did the class journal, Morgan will do it for next time. 

Homework:

Watch Sofar Sounds YouTube Channel and embed one of their videos on your blog. 

Click the link to get credit. 

day 8 - Mini-slam

WP#6: Lemons

-thanks Samantha

We worked on our projects, due next time. 

We had a mini-slam with re-introductions.

Next time:
Project #1 Show and Tell
Class Journal: Lindsey
Prompt (maybe): Lexi

My daughter's project

My daughter's project

@WritersParis Can we please make this a prompt? pic.twitter.com/2iBaQuDqsw

— Solstice Everston (@Sol_Everston) February 3, 2016

day 7 - Roast

WP#5: Roast
-Thanks Britton

We shared Project #1 ideas (due Friday). Post your ideas, questions in the comments.

We roasted Utah, our mothers, Nelson, Paris girls, and more.

Next time:
WP#6: Samantha
Class Journal: Luke
Time to work on Project #1
Mini-Slam