Massive List of Questionably Useful Links

[Jade Harley]

http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/...great-hall

Art of the Ancient World (scroll down to the bottom, select a civilization/region, and start a tour!)

Austin Wintory's Youtube channel. (composer for Journey, Flow, Abzû, etc.) Some of our more musically-inclined peeps might like this.

[Jams Bolero]

https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/fil...Drafts.pdf

[Jade Harley]

Mick's List of Questionably Entertaining Things

[Jade Harley]

““Like waves,” says the common metaphor.

“From dust to dust,” says a simplified version of a complicated philosophy.

“Mmmmmmmm, zmmmmmmm,” says the big bang, still echoing quietly through everything it created.”"

-          Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 53 – The September Monologues

 
Artsy Folks

Mosaic art - Beautiful handmade mosaic tiles – Youtube
'Tim's Vermeer' Trailer (2014): Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette – Youtube
Abelardo Morell and his work with the Camera Obscura
Vermeer and the Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura and the Paintings of Old Masters
Create your own Camera Obscura

Different artists to consider in terms of non-representational pieces:

Jackson Pollock
Franz Kline
Mark Rothko
Wassily Kandinsky

Drawing the Human Form

Pose Maniacs
Anatomy Zone

Writing!!! (!!!!!!)

Writer’s Digest – Writing Dialogue
The Basics of Punctuation
Psychology For Writers
Read To Write Stories (Excellent source of writing tips.)
Writing Scary Monsters
 Lonely Planet Article (Reading Lonely Planet articles is a great way to learn about how to capture the details of the perfect setting!)
Internet Sacred Text Archive (SERIOUSLY A GREAT RESOURCE)
Bartleby.com – Grants access to a lot of fiction and verse examples.
Litcharts.com – An English student’s best friend!

Suggested Reading/Viewing:

Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata - Online Text (Kind of bawdy humor, beware children.)
The Scarlet Ibis – Short Story
Three Skeleton Key – Short Story (example of suspense)
Tour of our Solar System
Teaching Writing (.pdf file)

[Jade Harley]

Let's talk about poetry!

Writing Poetry:
Philosophy of Composition - Edgar Allan Poe
Villanelle: Poetic Form
WikiHow's How to Write a Poem
Improving Your Writing with Poetry
How Writing Poetry Can Help You Be a Better Writer


Poems to read and go "ooo" at:
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Villanelle Examples
A Feast of Lanterns
The Poems of Sappho
The Canterbury Tales and Other Works of Chaucer (Middle English)
A Hundred Verses from Old Japan
The Homeric Cycle

[Jade Harley]

The first resource is super cool when considering animation, but the Muddy Colors articles are very helpful in a general study of art.

Living Lines Library – Collection of Animated Lines
Blog With Numerous Character Sheets and Concepts to Look at!
Go Make Something!
About Curves and Lines – Muddy Colors article
Authenticity and Fairytales – Muddy Colors article
Designing Characters – Muddy Colors article
Simple vs. Complex (Pt 1, Comics) – Muddy Colors article
10 Things About Planning Pictures – Muddy Colors article
History of the Harlem Renaissance
Symmetry/Pattern/Motif
Iconic Images – Virtual Gallery
Mythology – Virtual Gallery
Portraits – Virtual Gallery
 
Artists to look at:
-          Arthur Rackham
-          Palmer Hayden
-          Picasso
-          Loïs Mailou Jones
-          Romare Bearden
-          Eugène Delacroix
-          Kazimir Malevich
-          Archibald Motley
-          Aleksandr Deyneka
-          Sergey Malyutin
-          Aaron Douglas
-          Ilya Repin

[Violet]

would this image be able to fit anywhere? 

[Jade Harley]

https://opensource.com/business/15/10/wh...ch-writers

[Jade Harley]

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish_by...od_lessons

^ This is a SUPER great resource for people looking to learn Spanish. Clicking on different lesson titles brings you to all these great conversations and vocab lists!

[Jade Harley]

https://www.thunderbirdstrike.com/

This is a good thing.

[Jade Harley]

- Interactive IPA Chart
- An Introduction to Articulatory Phonetics (Youtube)
- Phonetics For Various Languages (but mainly English)
- Resource for Typing Phonetic Symbols instead of searching for them for 10 years in Microsoft Word

- Institute for Public Relations
- Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations
- Public Relations News Online!
- PR Week (US)
- Ragan's PR Daily
- Advertising Age

- Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane University Commencement, 2009 (Youtube)

[Jade Harley]

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments