iPad art (yes, that old chestnut again).
Categories: artwork, and-another-thing
Tags: iPad art, exhibition, LMUG, London
Date: 08 March 2012 09:30:36
I shall Momento this post up so as to start with the exhibition!
Which leads me to the next two weeks:
Next Weds is this: an iPad art exhibition in amongst other excellent things. Guildford if you can make it and would love to see some lovely people there...
The venue is the very lovely Bar Des Arts, opp Yvonne Arnaud. It's a great place for an exhibition and better still that it's a collaborative work between different artists. True to form my stuff gets hung at the last minute (well, Tues and Weds am) but the stuff that's ready now is glorious and the whole thing, metal machinery by a teenage engineering genius, soft toys by an undiscovered creative mastermind, Fine Art by lovely and amazing artists and so on, not to mention iPad art by the very modest Moi, mean that it's going to be a fab evening. I hope. You can never tell, can you? But I love the contents of the room and the artwork going into frames very soon indeed...
And then... Well, the small matter of the world's first tablet only life drawing session (April 1st, honest) and from then... Easter break I think and OH BOY do I need it.
Fade to black, we open at the beginning...
It's been a week. Yesterday and the day before especially so.
Tuesday was teaching, new students interviews and then dash up to London to go to the US Embassy (note: iPads will be taken off you at the door. Small objects, suspiciously shaped like hand grenades, will not be). Still didn't get my itin number sorted out so now have to phone the US.
Hurrah.
Then off to meet Lumilyon, who you should all know I am a fan of and she was in London. Happy happenstance and she's a heck of an iPhoneographer. Was excellent to see her working.
Which led to the Hi5 innovation in teaching awards. I was nominated but failed to make the final cut. Least said the better really, although I was a little surprised and disconsolate by the end of the evening. Learning without frontiers seemed a little more future facing and implementing Youtube into a class structure or making a VLE wouldn't have been my picks of obvious innovations, excellent though I'm sure they were. Hey ho. Will not talk of it again, although may post pics in the future and the food was very nice.
Then yesterday was, of course, iP3d night so I spent it with the LMUG's and British Tech Network, drawing and laughing and chatting about liveblogs. All good fun. Prior to that I'd had an easy day of teaching 50+ year 5 and 6 girls how to do iPad art, despite the best efforts of both Arriva busses and South West trains to get in the way rather than get me there. Then another final meet up with Lumi and then to LMUG. Got home at midnight for the second night in a row, a smidge tired.
(also I'm being lesson observed :( so that's this week completely frazzled then).