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More head shots

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My 8th graders really liked the Mona Lisa in the classroom. Well, actually they didn’t like it at first. They thought it was creepy. But eventually they came around and said that I should do the same thing in other classrooms. They got into it while I was cutting out heads during math class and started finding other heads for me to do.

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I think I got 4 classrooms done in the first round, but then it occurred to me that the hardest part for me (the cutting) would be the easiest part for Lauren. After all, she actually teaches cutting. I think we did 7 or 8 more classrooms a couple of days later, and now we’re ready to do 8 more.  I think that leaves just a couple.

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I was trying to be all sneaky about it (but without having to come in really early or stay really late). I’ve been found out by 2 teachers. They’ve been sworn to secrecy.

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I really wasn’t expecting Wally to be all into it.

A little bit of Mona

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Our previous previous art teacher at Lincoln Lutheran, Donna Willet, always had a little cut out of the Mona Lisa peeking over one of the bulletin boards in the art room. Donna’s retired from teaching about four years ago and the cut out came down. I got tired of not seeing it and finally got around to doing something about it.

There are lots of famous paintings and lots of classrooms at school. I’m thinking about art bombing the place. Anyone have suggestions?

Now in 3D

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I saw this at the church where the Lutheran Choir of Lincoln practices (note that this is not its name; it is actually called the Lincoln Lutheran Choir, but people get that confused with the Lincoln Lutheran High School Choir, which is not the name of the high school choir; it is actually the Lincoln Lutheran Chorale).

It's construction should be exceedingly simple.

Anyway, I wanted to show it to Lauren, but she is in a meeting tonight, so I’ll just put it here so that she can see it in the morning. It looks like it would be (a) something that she could do in 30 minutes if she wanted to and (b) something that would take me 4 hours and then it would look like total vine puke.

She won't need to see this detail, but if I want to do it, I will.

Denver Airport: floor

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I don’t remember when this was, but It one point, I had to spend a lot of time in the Denver airport. A little later, Lauren and I were there together. I drug her miles through the airport to find this section of the floor.

I wish I would have taken pictures from floor level. Then you could have all of the frustration that I had when I first walked across it and wondered what in the world was going on.

I even wish that you could have had the few minutes of frustration that Lauren had before I took her up to the second floor to look down on the tiles:

Maybe I could have used photoshop to make them look all ground-levely

You’ll have to take my word for it and feel frustrated on your own.

Imagine you're one of those ladies.

Field Trip

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Donna Willet, our art teacher at Lincoln Lutheran was taking an art class on a field trip and she needed someone else to drive. Since they don’t really let me teach many classes anymore, I drove for her.

She class was doing photography, and I’ve seen some of the pictures that they’ve taken in years past, so I know she does a good job of teaching them. They had also been talking about sculpture, so she combined the two into one field trip.

We went to UNL, which has a really lovely campus, and walked around from one sculpture to another. Donna would talk about the sculptures and they would take pictures. Donna would take them to them to the next sculpture and they would take pictures along the way. Donna would wander around looking a little lost (art teacher, remember) and they would take pictures.

We saw big sculptures:

This one was by Tony Stark.

With little, ancillary sculptures:

The kids really liked this.

This was the final sculpture we saw:

It says something, but I don't know what.

I liked it, but I thought the wall behind it was cool too:

Now that's a wall.