Dear Readers,

Hooray! It is February Vacation. There is no school for a week. The only downside to this is that there is also no Art Stars either. Therefore there is not much news. However, readers, do not fret. I will most certainly write some news. This is just a “little” old. February is a very interesting month. February is named for Februa, a Roman holiday that was on February 15. It was the holiday of purification.

It was one of last months to be added to the calendar. They were added by Numa Pompilous in 700 B.C.E. It was until 450 B.C.E., the last month of the year.

February’s signs are Capricorn and Aquarius.

Fun Fact: February is one of the most misspelled and mispronounced words in the English language.

Trivia: When was the Eiffel tower made?

Pun: What did the nervous guitar do? Fret.

Aaron

Answer: 1885

Readers,

I take a break from my usual documentation of Art Stars, to make instead a blog entry on blogs :). This is some facts on blogs.

Firstly, the word “blog” actually comes from the words “web-log” (Not my first post, This is Our Web-log). Secondly, blogs can be used for many different purposes.

Um…, Er…, there isn’t as much to tell you as I thought.

Here are the links to some great fake blogs. They were both made for the superb show, “The Office” (The real, AMERICAN version, not the stupid British Office)

1. http://blog.nbc.com/CreedThoughts/

2. http://blog.nbc.com/DwightsBlog/

Check em’ out. Now for my features. Trivia: In the 1870’s what was ketchup served as? Pun: What do you call a movie about feelings? An emotion picture.

Aaron

P.S. answer - Medicine.

   Yeah I just titled this wowee zowee. . . Today was amazing! AMAZING! I am now realizing that this project is going to be hard to keep up with.  Today was our computer lab day in class and everyone spent the time writing new posts, reading old ones, helping each other out, and making oh so many comments in reference to something or the other.  I am not going to write much now, but I wanted to get a few words down. This week in the computer lab was really different. Everyone was a lot more comfortable with writing and interfacing with the computer. Things I liked: I  liked the diverse range of comments, from sparse and direct, to full and detailed; I liked the ways everyone helped each other- from logging on to suggesting topics for new posts and encouraging each others ideas..

Where to go to next?

we made potato stamps last week and it was really fun! i got paint all over myself.:}or maybe it was the week before last…… ? :}

This is my perspective:
I think that the fort came out really good. The only thing bad  was that there was basicly no room inside. The outside was magnificent, a giant pyramid with two trianglular windows at the top. It reminds me of something I made at my house, which was a strange shape indeed. It looked like a car covered with a blanket sitting in the middle of the living room. Inside it was pitch black, and really cool. Some of the things you could do were play PS2 and watch movies. The only picture I have of it is in its current state ruin all the blankets are gone and the front chair has tilted forward. (So sad…)

Exquisite CorpseOriginally uploaded by Cooperative Not Collective

Up on our flickr{Cooperative Not Collective} page is a group of new Photos, well actually they are scans of a bunch of “Exquisite Corpse” drawings. What is “Exquisite Corpse?” Here is Aaron to explain:

Exquisite Corpse is a game where you divide the paper into three parts. The first person takes the top, and draws something. He or she leaves a few lines for the next person on the middle part. The next person draws from those lines in the middle part, without looking at the top. Then he leaves a few lines for the third peson who finishes it.

So here are some results!

Readers,

Today is still unfolding, and literally, I am typing this at class. Although we haven’t finished our day today, I will describe the day. Today is one of the rainiest days
I’ve seen in a very long time. I am pleased to say, that while it is rainy outside, inside our wonderful library, it is luke-warm and quite the opposite of rainy.

 Inside we started off with a display of shinnaniginary . Sam brought in a surgical glove, and tried to give me an “Air-blast”, and I hid for 5 minutes in a doorway.

Although this is humorous, it is irrelevant, and frankly an attempt to use up space. In important news, we began the real class through a time of free-draw. Flannery has created a piece of art which she titles, “A thingy, thingy”. This features intertwining stars, drawn in pencil. I drew a picture of the “Solar system” In which all of the planets are in separate orbits, but together. Thus symbolizing the supreme importance of independence, and individualism. Also, though, they are together in dancing around the sun, symbolizing that they are together in life, and they should treat each other with love and respect.

We obviously worked on the blog, as you are reading this today.

Unfortunately,  I have no more to say. Therefore, I move onto my features.

Trivia: what is a sack-but?

Pun: Why was the man angry at the clown? It made an obscene jester.

Aaron

Post Script: Answer: an ancient trombone.

This is really fun!!! *** I like posting stuff!

who here likes to make 3D models?

i will be posting more pictures of stuff that i have done with 3dModeling

-Shmo

PS if anyone is interested in free modeling programs look at:
anim8or or Google Sketchup

HERE ARE SUM WACKY NAMES 4 UNKNOWN PLANETS:

• PLANET X
• PINKIE
• LIMEADE
• GIANT PEACH
• ORANGE SORBET
• LEMON~XYZ
• OCEANIA
• BLUEBERRY
• PLANET OF THE DEAD

BASED ON AARON’S PIC. OF A SOLAR SYSTEM