College Humor posted this incredibly hilarious video about cliché Instagram pictures. I’m definitely guilty of some of these. Are you?
Note: NSFW because of language.
My Instagram cliché pics (as evidenced in the video):
Most elaborate latte ever!
TCBY mmm!
Chipotle. I just got hungry as I was posting this.
Previous Instagram Fridays Posts:
I wrote a whole thesis on the potential of Web 2.0, social media, and blogging in Art Education. At the time, Instagram was not around and I never imagined its possibility in education.
Earlier this week, I received my first fan mail ever from a reader (Thanks Ferina!) who linked me to this article titled “20 Out of the Box Ideas to Use Instagram in Your Classroom.”
Readers know I love Instagram because of its ability to reach, impact, and inform others through photograph. It’s also a way to create a community by making a portfolio of work through hashtags. Since I’m an Art Educator, here’s what they suggest for using Instagram in the Art Classroom:
17. Art
Offer a fun and creative scavenger hunt. Send students out to take photos of different shapes (like finding isosceles triangles in architecture). Then post a collage and invite followers to identify the common denominator in every building.
Here are some of my ideas:
1. Photograph student art work and make hashtags based on class, class period, project, style, media, elements and principles of art and design.
2. Lucky enough to have an iPad in the classroom as well as an iPhone or iPod touch like Fuglefun and Tiedemania? You can instantly upload student work created on the iPad to Instagram!
3. With budget cuts cutting art, music, and physical education, you can document the daily life of your art classroom through Instagram. For example, if you photograph students working on a mural, write a caption about the arts encourage collaboration and community building. Since many people use Instagram, its mass appeal can do wonders for any art program.
Also, I noticed that Instagram introduced a new feature where you can easily view your profile online. This can make it easier to spread the good news about your art program especially to those who may not own a smart phone.
You can check out my Instagram profile at http://instagram.com/abbyesc#.
I’ve also used Statigram to keep track of my followers, likes and comments. This information can be valuable in increasing your viewership.
I would love to hear other people’s ideas about using Instagram in the classroom. Even though I didn’t mention it above because I hope that as teachers we use common sense, your students’ safety is of utmost importance! Make sure you get permission from their parents!
What shows up when I type up #doodles on statigram:
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From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) has created a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over the past decade, Saraceno has established a practice of constructing habitable networks based upon complex geometries and interconnectivity that merge art, architecture, and science. The interdisciplinary project “Cloud Cities/Air Port City” is rooted in the artist’s investigation of expanding the ways in which we inhabit and experience our environment.
From my Instagram Feed:
Lately, I’ve been getting into the art of Zentangle. Basically what Zentangle is the art of meditative doodling. Since I was a kid, I’ve always been drawing designs on the margins of my notebook, so when I learned that there is a whole art movement similar to my doodles, I was excited.
I’ve been posting some of my Zentangles on Instagram because I realized that it was a great place to share my artwork with the community. I feel a sense of pride whenever someone who doesn’t follow me likes my work. 😀
Note: This piece was done on Ampersand Scratchbord. It’s also for sale! Contact me at abbyescart@gmail.com if you’re interested.
Read the Zentangle blog here
Check out my Instagram here
Have a happy weekend!
I recently started to follow Doodlers Anonymous on Facebook. As a doodle artist, I find the work featured in the site to be engaging and inspiring. On August 20, 2012 DA featured an artist named Sophie Roach whose designs are bright and intricate. Sophie documents her process on her Instagram account as well.
In fact, Sophie has inspired me to document my artwork on my Instagram.
Happy Creativity Time everyone!
Yesterday, I enjoyed a wonderful evening with my friend Amy who I won’t see for a couple months because of my camp job. While I was waiting for her, I took these pictures:
I wish someone would start a flash mob…
Later we walked the High Line and found some pretty cool street art:
*Note: My blog postings will be pretty infrequent because I’m starting my summer job at sleep away camp :). I’ll keep everyone posted! – Abby
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Beautiful photograph of Westminster Skyline. Note, it’s also the Diamond Jubilee! 🙂
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