Thursday, October 16, 2008

Raul, 8th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture is very mysterious because of all the trees, branches and leaves. When you seriously look at the picture, all of nature looks like a forest. The reason why it is mysterious for me is because I can imagine people hidden looking at me, but I can't see them. What I like in the picture is the angle because I took it by some branches covering the view so it would look like a warning sign to keep out.

Raul, 8th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Melitza, 7th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

You can see my shadow. The picture makes me feel happy, but it also shows sadness. It shows rocks on the side that make me feel like I am at the beach. And it shows emotion. I think it shows the mood that I had when I took the picture. I think it's very interesting to take a picture of a shadow of a person because it shows emotion ... sadness. I really like this picture. I like the way that my whole body came out and that the shadow looks very good. The colors are much like shadow colors like black and gray. Also, the red line is cutting through my shadow, and I think this is very interesting.

Melitza, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Kimberly, 8th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture is amazing, and it represents Mexican Culture. It is filled with different colors. It's bright. It represents Mexican art. I took this picture in my school, and it was the first thing that caught my attention because of the bright colors. It makes me feel happy. The colors just go so well with one another. It's very artistic. The picture represents a symbol that has meaning. Part of it is darker than the other part, which gives it a cool effect.

Kimberly, 8th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Joen, 7th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture shows that the world can be sad and cruel. I can also feel a lot of hate and love. The car shows how people are easily attracted by the gravity in the world. One of the reasons the painting of the world is on the wall is to show how much energy it has. The picture is called THE EMOTIONAL WORLD. It has wonderful lighting. The perimeter of the picture is a clean white. The picture has a lot of bright colors like light blue, royal blue, orange, yellow and light purple. The car shows the twenty-first century, and its color is plain.

Joen, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Jocelyne, 7th Grade, RYSS [Digital Art]


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

The sun is hitting the ball in a cool way. On one side of the ball, the sun is shining strongly and on the other side, the ball looks darker or in the shade. This represents the darkness and the light in the world. When it is day on one side of the world, it's night on the other side. The ball looks tiled like the world. The grass looks very shiny and pretty. I like this picture because I like basketball. This picture is cool because you usually see a basketball on a court, not on the grass.

Jocelyne, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Jennifer G., 7th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture shows trees and the sun. I like this picture because if you look close, you can see that the sun's rays have a little bit of a rainbow color. And you can see all of the tree branches. When I look at this picture, I think that in between all the dark trees,
there's a burst of light.

Jennifer G., 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Jennifer F., 7th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture shows sadness because it is something growing in the middle of nowhere. And it's something new that is growing on the planet. I think nature is wonderful. I like to see something small that later is going to grow bigger. This picture has a little plant that is surrounded by leaves and rocks. The green color makes it more interesting because the plant is on a gray background. This picture does not show shadows. This picture was taken in early October, but it looks like it is winter time. It looks like the plant is the only thing to survive from the cold. It also looks like it needs more water and sunlight to survive. I think this is a wonderful picture about nature.

Jennifer F., 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Fidel, 7th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture is of the American flag, and it's moving one way which means that the wind is blowing the opposite way from me. In the background, there are wires, a transformer and brown power poles.

Fidel, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Daniel, 7th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This picture shows no smoking. This smoking sign is for the school, and there can be no smoking inside. It is for the junior academy. Smoking can cause a lot of problems like yellow teeth, bad odor and lung problems. Smoking is deadly. That is why it has a red line across a picture of a cigarette. The red line means stop, don't do it. It is not allowed. The smoking sign is in a square shape. It is on top of a door and on a brown, brick wall. The lighting is even since it was cloudy. This picture is really cool. I feel great about it.

Daniel, 7th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Christian, 8th Grade, RYSS


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Student photographer's analysis of the photo:

This Picture is when we went out to take some pictures. We were going back inside the school. I like this picture. It's awesome because it shows you that kids go to school and get an education instead of doing drugs. And as you can see at the top, the roof was blown off by Hurricane Ike.

Christian, 8th Grade, Junior Academy, Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [RYSS], Houston, Texas

Instructors


Harold Olejarz is Art and Technology teacher at Eisenhower Middle School, Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.A. He began his career as a sculptor and exhibited in Soho, NYC, in the early 1980s. His work evolved into Performance Art and his living sculptures installed themselves in museums and public spaces in the US and Europe from 1985 to the early 1990s. He has been exploring digital media as both an artist and an educator since 1997. “Capturing the Moving Present,” an essay by Harold Olejarz, is included in Video Art for the Classroom, a National Art Education Association publication. Olejarz has made presentations on the use of digital media at state and national educational conferences.

Tom Chambers is Technology Applications teacher at Raul Yzaguirre School For Success [Junior School], Houston, Texas, U.S.A. He was Visiting Lecturer in Digital/New Media Art for the Fine Arts Department at Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China, 2005-2007. He was Executive Committee Member and Juror (2003 - 2005) for the International Digital Art Awards (IDAA), and was instrumental in expanding the content of the IDAA to include New Media Art, and served as on-line New Media Director (2004 - 2005). Chambers has been a documentary photographer and visual artist for over thirty years, and he is currently working with the pixel as Minimal Art (Pixelscapes) which begins to approach a true, abstract, visual language in Digital Art.