http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNqb17aR3Nc

What Is Art???

To me art is something that is creative, something that shows emotion, a very beautiful thing that you want to look at, something different from everyday life, and does not seem very simple. To me the music video Soon We'll be found by the Australian Singer Sia is a very free, fun spirited, creative time into bringing sign language, color, paint, shadow puppets, and black light all into one different vision of life for the problems people face everyday. She talks about how she for once does not want to fight, to finally get some sleep, and that eventually they will find themselves together in the end in a better relationship. So in the video it is just one whole active piece of art. It is a magically colorful world which is explaining that maybe a weird journey will take them to another place to open their eyes that life itself is magical. 

Artist Statement for The Great Debate Collages

             Shiva Rashedi

  As of 2011 Students in 8^thgrade will be assessed and take Algebra 1        

  With my first image was con for Algebra 1 for 8^th graders in 2011. I wanted to express the expensive cost of the law of Algebra 1 for the 8^th graders. It is going to cost too much and I wanted to get people to think of how exactly they were going to pay for this big proposal, while trying to deal with dept already. I wanted to make a metaphorical collage, as like money does not grow on trees, then surely it does not fall from the sky. I first had to get the money tree image and had to use the quick selection tool to then make it a layer on the money falling form the sky picture, my attempt was to make it collide together then I had to give a sentence to get people to think exactly what and how is this supposed to be accomplished. I chose my images to reflect the metaphor that money does not come that easy.

            My second image for pro education is trying to give the metaphor that children need a background of math for life. I had to layer mask the math background and then I had to quick select the extra background of the classroom to make the math problems the background, so I had the students added as a layer. When I think of math I think of math problems so I needed to find a math problem picture to show the meaning of math in the picture, then I thought about who needs to learn it, students! So I searched for classroom pictures. I wanted to say that students would need a good background in math because in life math takes a huge roll in many things, like bills, loans, buildings, time, excreta. Many people need to know math for the many possible things that cold happen, it can also bring a strong mind in any field, and can give many advantages to new inventions, or life in general.

            My third image, which is also pro for education I wanted to give people the metaphor that they need to think exactly what is best for the students, and that money will be needed and that it will go to a worthy cause, with a better math education you can later have more of a benefit from the smart math community that were taught well. Money on the mind can be taken care of with a good sense in math to know how to divide, subtract, and multiply your money. I had to layer mask the teacher teaching math, then I had to quick select a bit of the skull to make it more of a collage, I had to quick select a stack of money from a bigger picture, then I had to fill in color into the picture to give a more steady background. After I was done quick selecting I had to make new layers on the layer mask of the background of the teacher picture to make it all come together. So first I tried to look for an image thinking of money, a teacher teaching math, and a stack of money. I wanted to give a forward idea to people to think where their money should go, so money, money on the mind, teacher teaching math, going back to money, I wanted to make it a circle of rotation. So math is a costly subject to teach but it will give people a better piece of mind that money is going to a good cause for the future and beyond.