Film Club 12/10/09

Because of finals and the choir concert this week, we will not be having our film club. Good luck to all of you on all of your tests. Try not to stress out too much...

KC First Friday Art Walk- Road Trip

This last Friday (Nov. 6) about 16 of us from COAST, including our Profs- Ward, Sned, and Goehner road-tripped it up to KC, MO for a great day full of art, fun, and inspiration. Every First Friday of the month the downtown Crossroads area of KC opens its galleries, studios, and restaurants for the throngs of people that come through to experience the creativity, sights, sounds, flavors, and company of other new people.

For a few years now COAST has made this treck in December, just in time for the Christmas lights, but this year we chose November, and it was amazing. For one, God blessed us with a perfectly gorgeous Fall day, and even into the night it never got cold...perfect street strolling. We even had a few street performers out, including fire-twirlers, dancers, and a walking art exhibit that came to you!

There was a ton of great art, too, of course. We saw some fun robots with personality, by these guys, some interesting (and incredibly expensive) ceramic sculpture, beautiful paintings, and photography, and then some great print work by students and also by the pros at Hammerpress.
Apart from the local art scene we also got to visit some real art museums earlier in the day which I particularly enjoyed. The Nelson-Atkins (a free museum) had amazing an amazing historical art collection including Egyptian, Native American, Chinese, and lots of art that several of us had just finished studying in our text books in Mr. Peer's Art History class. So that was particularly exciting to see whole rooms dedicated to chapters we just went through in our book, and be able to recognize painter's and sculptor's names and styles before even reading the placards!

Oh, and I almost forgot- there was even a little bit of shopping and dining in the beautiful Country Club Plaza. For those of us that miss the better options of big cities, we visited the Apple store and Urban Outfitters, among other favorites.

We had a great time and are definitely looking forward to it again next year. If you went with us, feel free to send me some of your photos to add, and if you didn't...we hope you'll join us at next year's Art Walk. Remember stuff like this is Free for COAST members (along with those cool t-shirts), so ask Emily Olson or any of us about joining any time!

-K :)

(photos courtesy Emily Caneday)

This week (11/19/09) is Chariots of Fire. If you have some extra time this Thursday at 9:15, feel free to come over to room 112 of the art building.

Synopsis: The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics.

Don't forget, we provide free popcorn and drinks.

film club 11/12/09

This week we will continue our British theme. We're going to watch the original Ladykillers.

As usual, room 112 of the art building at 9:15. Free popcorn and soft drinks. We hope to see you there.

Synopsis: Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Show & Tell '09 - Creative Inspirations

(I would have posted a picture or 2 here, but I don't blog, and couldn't get it to work for me right now)

So one of our first all COAST meetings this semester was our Show&Tell meeting, where we talked about stuff happening this year, and shared things that inspire our creativity. Here are the things that were shared (sorry it took so long to post)...

Todd Goehner:
AIGA
Us (the students)! Check out the Food Bank charity thing (yellow boxes around campus) inspired by art from one of his Graphic Design classes.

Andrew Armstrong III:
3 free video magazines-
Digital Video
Digital Cinematography
Videography

Ian Barker (I think, sorry if I got the wrong last name):
showed us Jonathan Hardesty at conceptart.org

Hannah Hudson:
Edward Gorey (his books and art)
Griffin and Sabine (a book)

Jake & Jamie (Bartlett & Raymer, respectively):
New Masters of Poster Design- Poster Design for the Next Century [a book]
(also available for free in our campus library)
Shirt.Woot.com
Check out another shirt design by Jake @ threadless.com
Kuler.adobe.com
videocopilot.net

Jesse Daniel:
motionographer.com
vimeo.com

Daniel Herron:
Rockport design book series
abduzeedo.com
notcot.org

Keegan Sparks:
strobist.blogspot.com

Krystal Wight Armstrong [me]:
BrandNew @ UnderConsideration.com/BrandNew

For more inspiration, take part in our Tutorial Tuesdays, which Anna Andrus sends out through our COAST Members Blackboard site. We learn a cool new thing to do every week, and share what we came up with at the COAST Facebook group-page. Let us know if you have other stuff to inspire... send it to one of us, comment below, or post in the FB group discussion board.

-KWA :)