Underwater mystery. A love story.

READING activity

You will discover many things about the "real artist" and the purpose of the mystery circle.

QR code to Spoon and Tamago (Japanese art, design and culture) article

Vocabulary and questions about the reading (thanks to Rebeka and Savannah, our LAs):

Mystery Circle Questions by RFA2009

Underwater mystery. Circles.

Looking for inspiration:

Created with Padlet

Let's create our circles!

Photograph by Yoji Ookata and NHK. This will be your original model to interpretate.

Technical drawing:

1. Create an hexagon. 
2. Let's divide each side in halves (perpendicular bisector) and you will get a dodecagon (12 sides)
3. Repeat again the same process. We will get 24 sides! (Icosakaitetrágono son los polígonos de 24 lados, in Spanish)
4. Some concentrical circles and... your design.

Artwork for 3rd ESO C:
We will use tissue paper to create shapes (2D and 3D).

Artwork for 3rd ESO A and B:
We will use wool and a piece of wood to creat an star polygon.

Ready to design your mystery circle on a paper or on wood?

Underwater mystery. Artist discovered!

Mystery solved! Surprised? 
Was  PUFFER FISH your voted artist underwater?

Underwater mystery. Presenting the mystery

PRESENTING THE MYSTERY. Brainstorming!

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration less than five percent of the world's oceans have been explored, meaning that 95% of what lies deep underwater on Earth has yet to be seen by human eyes.

Yoji Ookata, a freelance underwater photographer, while diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima (Japan), roughly 80 ft below sea level, discovered something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either.

Scan this QR code to see the localization on your mobile dispositive.

This is what Yoji saw:

Photograph by Yoji Ookata and NHK

On the seabed a geometric, circular structure measuring roughly 6.5 ft in diameter had been precisely carved from sand. It consisted of multiple ridges, symmetrically jutting out from the center.

The mystery circle appeared to be the work of an underwater artist, carefully working with tools.
A drafting compass? Ruler? Set squares?

What do you think?

Digital Typography

First of all... a game for all the group:

Alphabets - Typography on PhotoPeach

And now, some interactive activities:

Activities for the computer room

• Look, you will be able to build your name using letters from Flickr. Look at my name:

 

If you want to build yours, this is the link: http://metaatem.net/words/. You only have to write the name in the white box, click on "spell" and you will get your letters. If you want to change the type, just click on each letter and a new one will apperar.  Click right mouse button on each letter to save it as a jpg image. You can use them in your school homeworks, posters, in headlines, titles, headings... or just to write a letter or a greeting card to a friend. This is more original than using Word or PowerPoint WordArt. Isn´t it?.

• Periodic table writer. Try! 
  
• Try another one. Using the software CoolText, we transform a text into amazing icons. I have used it and this is what I got:

• The following one is in French, but I'm sure you will do with it: Coloriage Prenom.

Scary fonts to download, for Halloween.

• Graffiti Creator. Create your own graffiti.

• Graffiti.

More:

Letters can be used to create whatever you like. Have a look:

• The Scarecrow
• Animals

Do you want to try?

• Robotype composer

And more:

• Cool typography and words of wisdom in Pinterest.

Typography

TYPOGRAPHY


Type the sky
Type the sky is an original project by Lisa Rienermann, a student of Duisburg-Essen University. Each letter is an empty space in the sky of Barcelona surrounded by buildings. She says: "Todo comenzó por la Q. Estaba en una pequeña calle de Barcelona y al mirar hacia arriba vi las casas, el cielo y las nubes. El área oscurecida por las casas dejaba entrever una forma en el cielo que parecía una Q. Esa fue la idea de la técnica. Pensé que si una Q me había encontrado a mi, no sería difícil que yo encontrara al resto del alfabeto. De modo que pasé semanas mirando al cielo, buscando el resto de las letras entre las casas."

Eatphabet

Eating from A to Z! By Luiza P. (Flicker user). She says: “This project was conceived as a way to document my eating habits and routine, through the creation of an alphabet.“

Types
A pop-up book.


Human alphabets
Human Alphabets 3

View more presentations from Sotirios R.

Human alphabets 2
Human alphabets 1

Art students 2013/2014

Hello everybody! Lovely self-portraits!

Coming soon!

The rules of the Art classroom

Beeing a good student in the Art class:

• Ready
• Listening
• Respect
• Help

Welcome students!

Starting a new highschool year ! New for you, and new for me!

1st C and D and 3rd A and C: this year I am going to be your Visual Arts teacher. Besides, I will be the hometeacher of some of you, so...

Hope we have a great time learning content and language together!

The coundown is going to start:

Do you dare?