Linear perspective videos

GREAT videos to illustrate one-point-linear perspective:

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/how-one-point-linear-perspective-works.html
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Brunelleschi.html
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/applications-of-linear-perspective-in-the-renaissance.html

Test this week

Good evening, guys! 

I have an offer for those of you who have a lot of tests on Friday.  If this is you and you don't want to have our test on Friday as well, you are welcome to take the test Thursday after school.  If you choose this option, you need to make sure your Q-cards and readings/videos are finished by Thursday in class.  You do NOT want to be seeing material for the first time during class and then be testing on it that afternoon. 

I have one confirmed student for Thursday afternoon so far.  If you'd like to take me up on this offer, please let me know by Wednesday during class so that we an arrange a time for Thursday.

Have a good night and happy studying!

Verrocchio's David

Here's a great website from our very own High Museum of Art!  This is a fabulous resource to help you with your Q-card on Verrocchio's David.  Have fun!

http://www.high.org/david/index.html

Field Trip possibility

I'm thinking we may have to continue our movie-going experiences as a class with this one next semester!  Thanks, Jordan, for the head's up!

Check out the trailer below and at around 15-16 seconds, see if you recognize the work they show.  Note the size compared to the actors!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/

ABET Groupings

The ABET Group selections have been posted on the TypePad blog.  Be sure to check who is in your group, and exchange contact information including e-mail and/or phone.  Also, each group will need to decide on a chairman, who will act as the main liaison for communication with me.  This will need to be decided by Wednesday of this week.  Have a think, and let me know soon.

Details will be coming this week regarding the project, but in the meantime you can be looking through your chapter!

Only two more weeks to go before Thanksgiving break...keep up the good work!

Giotto Arena Chapel Videos - due Tuesday!

Here are the links to the Arena Chapel videos on Smart History.  You can watch all four of them if you'd like (I recommend most of the videos on this site) but pay close attention to 1-3, as we will be discussing in class tomorrow.

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html

ABET Groups -- be ready!

Tomorrow you will be signing up for your ABET group in class.  No time tomorrow for thinking about which group you want to sign up for.  Come ready to sign up, as all groups have limited space and slots will be filled first-come, first-served!

Group choices are as follows:

• India & Southeast Asia
• China & Korea
• Japan
• Africa
• The Americas
• Oceania

Signups begin as early as 8:15am in D139.

Sketchbook #3

When exactly is the sketchbook due? I wasn't in class the day it was assigned. Thanks in advance!
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Gothic reading

For the reading for the Gothic Period, should we be finished with the chapter or are all of the due dates back a day since we did not start Gothic until today?