What happens when millions of people stop what they’re doing, and all focus on the same beautiful thing, at the same beautiful time?
Last Monday millions of people across the nation put on their funny glasses, stuck their heads in cardboard boxes, and stood looking up to the sky. For one beautiful unified moment, we all just looked at something (without actually looking at it, hopefully). Millions and millions of personal experiences, spanning across the nation, weirdly and beautifully happening.
We asked Leaguers to send in their profound, their boring, their geeky, their disappointing, their magical, and their funny eclipse experiences. Oh, they sent us it all. Winning entry earned a free class for themselves, or to give to a friend. [heading]LEAGUER’S VIEWS OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE[/heading]
” load_in_animation=”none[heading]OUR FAVORITES [/heading]https://youtu.be/VJjvije3Bw8 “Eclipse Fluidity” by Nancy Coleman (If the preview above doesn’t load, follow this link to watch this gorgeous 22 second video) [image_with_animation image_url=”6168″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Alex Walker’s Bear Astronomy [image_with_animation image_url=”6198″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Kari Boeskov [image_with_animation image_url=”6174″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Cassandra Conner (& mom) [heading]THE BEAUTIFUL WINNING ENTRY[/heading][image_with_animation image_url=”6170″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Congratulations, and thank you for this beautiful entry Caren Goldenberg!
Thanks to all of you for sending in your artful experiences, and one more special mention of Nancy Coleman’s video. Did you catch that link? Don’t miss it. It’s gorgeous.
Day 27 of our 30 day January Creative Challenge was inadvertently a cruel one. Komorebi is a Japanese word for sunlight filtering through the trees. In Seattle, January 27th supplied artists with neither leaves nor sun. Somehow, these innovative artists found their ways.
Bridget Riley’s Op Art When Bridget Riley first exhibited her dizzying black and white abstracts in the 1960s, people were amazed at how the lines and shapes appeared to move and vibrate right off the canvas. It was like she was painting with electricity itself! In 1967, she introduced Seurat-inspired color applications, and her paintings …
There are drips on some drawings, and the drips are round, not running vertically down the paper, which suggests the paper is flat. Some of the drips start right before a line and follow the same direction, which suggests the artist loaded his brush with ink, and the brush dripped down on a horizontal surface …
Total Eclipse
What happens when millions of people stop what they’re doing, and all focus on the same beautiful thing, at the same beautiful time?
Last Monday millions of people across the nation put on their funny glasses, stuck their heads in cardboard boxes, and stood looking up to the sky. For one beautiful unified moment, we all just looked at something (without actually looking at it, hopefully). Millions and millions of personal experiences, spanning across the nation, weirdly and beautifully happening.
We asked Leaguers to send in their profound, their boring, their geeky, their disappointing, their magical, and their funny eclipse experiences. Oh, they sent us it all. Winning entry earned a free class for themselves, or to give to a friend. [heading]LEAGUER’S VIEWS OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE[/heading]
Thanks to all of you for sending in your artful experiences, and one more special mention of Nancy Coleman’s video. Did you catch that link? Don’t miss it. It’s gorgeous.
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