Art in 3-d for elementary classes

I am enjoying browsing Google Reader. Now I see where my son gets many of the great articles he sends me. I have subscribed to Make Magazine on my reader, and the posts on it are right up my alley. I am also loving Blue Skunk Blog. New York Times Arts not so much. I really prefer to see what other people actually do to reading what critics think about what is done, and the self publication in Make is clean and zappy and unfiltered by years of academic aesthetic thought.

http://students2oh.org/2008/06/24/never-stop-doing/Here is a link to an article that appealed to me, and I thought I would write about it and say that I agree very much–continuing to explore and work and learn and do things rather than “doing nothing” seemed to be an idea that could not really be questioned. Was I mistaken! Before I got around to writing that, several people had commented on the blog post with completely different points of view expressed in very condescending terms. So I guess the lesson for me is that there are many sides to even the most innocuous comment, and don’t take it personally.

A Make article I starred gives several sites that have to do with humor. It’s kind of a relief after the seriousness of whether to “do” or “not do” . It calls to mind a couple of old sayings: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine” from someplace in the Bible, and from Cajun humorist Justin Wilson, “The main thing in life is for peoples to laugh.”