oh ellen & lewis (hah!)

trees spiraling making music?!?!

"This is an excerpt from the record Years, created by Bartholomäus Traubeck, which features seven recordings from different Austrian trees including Oak, Maple, Walnut, and Beech. What you are hearing is an Ash tree’s year ring data. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth.

Keep in mind that the tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves." (more here)

not like gary

this goes over in the "is it ok?" column where this clip below has been living:

Tupac hologram live at Coachella 2012 from Ampm Films on Vimeo.

2:35 and 4:40 are the key problems if you want to save yourself time and skip some language.  it is tupac, guys.

my lesson wasn't working out, because iphoto doesn't have the option to edit photo hue.  so i asked my kids about computer programs and Adam taught me how to download free apps on my computer.  then he watched youtube tutorials until he found one that explained how to do what we wanted.  then he taught me how to do what i wanted to teach them to do.

what an amazing day of constructivist education ;)

(not quite what I had in mind for Oz 'green self portraits'...but it'll do!  Warhol, pop art, digital photo editing and programs, etc.)