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Epic Mistery Comics (aka EMC) Presents a comic creation 6 months in the making. High School Freshman and Sophomores worked on examining the current state of Tijuana and it’s connection to Chula Vista by writing two short graphic stories involving different comments on the violence that is occurring. Using research students created two worlds that paint a very real picture of how teenagers deal with fear and violence that is occurring right outside their windows.

Quater Passed: Collected Works from Twenty Somethings Around the World

The art piece, located on page 193 is titled “Off to Work”

The funny thing about this piece is that I did it several years ago when I was maybe a Sophomore in college. I had done several of these black and white doodle art pieces and this was the very first one I had done inside a contained shape.

I walked home the day before yesterday and found the book in my mailbox. I had been contacted by the editor previous to this about my piece being chosen, but I was skeptical.

No longer!

This project just feels right. I love the fact that I am able to work with all of my teams with minimal direction now. It bothers me that we don’t do ACGs any more. But they work SO much in my class that we never have time. Sometimes I really miss circle greetings from the first several weeks. I know that they just need to work.

I really want to work on giving more individual feedback as this project progresses. I also need to role with having to teach to different job roles while maintaining all job roles within the classroom. I am curious to see if it is easier to work with smaller groups of students while having a whole class present. We will see.

The kids seem to really get the project. Today there was some confusion about how to generate topics for dissection. I hadn’t really thought it all the way through just what I wanted for topics. Like what is the anatomy of a good topic?

Anatomy of a Good Topic

• Each member of your group is interested in this topic enough to get through a month and a half long project dealing just with that topic.
• The topic is juicy (something others might be interested in)
• The topic is something worth looking at (why is anything worth looking at)
• The topic meets the project objective

That was relatively painless.

I also need to take out the part of the proposal that talks about “how” to show the piece. Maybe remember to have the artists generate their proposal AFTER the audio starts being compiled.

I have to remember to run a demo for puppet generation for next week. That means I get to build a puppet! I should probably do the whole project this weekend I will ask Marisol if she would like to be interviewed.

“Teachers and Cliques” hmmmm…..

~Mister Y

PS – I TOTALLY forgot to write about how cool it was to see the groups being chosen for the last two days. The Project Managers really worked to make teams be good teams and everyone in the class worked so awesomely to ban together and work with the PM’s for interviews. It was an amazing process to give that power to the kids and I know I will definitely repeat this in the future.

Objective

Groups will be able to create and market a 30 second long animated movie using hand drawing techniques of their choice, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe After Effects CS3 that examines a topic regarding the social /clique culture and how it works, at HTHCV. *

*All animations will be compiled into one movie for all three classes.

After long deliberation I have decided to free myself from the clutches of the (anti)social networks that I have been on for almost 6 years. The reasoning is simple. They are not productive. They are networking with people, yes, but at what cost? It is rare that I connect with someone on either network that just would like to work with me to produce a project. Maybe that is my fault. Maybe I deleted my accounts to simply see what would happen.

We will see.

For now I am going to keep blogging on this open-source, user friendly, beast.

Contact me. Email. Ask what’s up.

I am always on skype: headcomic

Werd homies

First time playing with After Effects:

Intro to the project:

Outlets for charging, free mobile bus wifi… can you say amazing busline? I know I can. Amazing busline. Best 18 bucks spent to get to south station from easter dinner ever spent. Except for that night in reno. I have never actually been to reno but I wonder why everyone says “except for that night in reno”? its kind of a weird thing to say. Unless Reno just rocks that much.

C&J Trailways!

All hail the new Skype Iphone app! I have been waiting months for thee!

And here are pictures from festival del sol (more to come)

And apparently this is what I listen to on Itunes: