All 18 have made it on to their flight, Aubrey made it to Atlanta and Alec and I are in Dulles waiting to board our flight to Frankfurt. Hopefully we will all meet up safely in Milan tomorrow morning! Aubrey just made it to Atlanta safely! Off we go- more tomorrow from Italia!

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S. Gant

Blue Skies..........

Off we go on our grand adventure! The main group has made it to DC safely after a very early morning! Alec and Aubrey and I had lunch at RDU and Alec watched Paraguay beat Japan in PK's. Waiting to board this plane to Dulles, then on to Frankfurt. Aubrey is flying to ATL then directly to Milan. She had my favorite saying of the day so far- we were plugging in our iPods and phones to recharge. She looked around at the charging stations and said "I love the future!".

Camera Obscura

I'm in Raleigh working on a video editing online course for next year. I have just found some of my favorite clips from David Hockney's Secret Knowledge book promotion. I bought the book when it came out- it makes some very convincing arguments that the Renaissance artists used a camera obscura when they worked, to obtain the truly realistic and breathtaking work that they did.


Click here! David Hockney

Getting Ready!

I leave for Italy, France and England in less than two weeks so I am
updating and consolidating my blog. I bought a new Canon the other
day, and think I willbreak down and get an ipad this weekend. I will
be teaching two classes when I am gone, so I need to be able to keep
up with e-mail and grading. I also want to be able to post photos,
thoughts, and artful (hopefully!) observations!

I read a great post today by an old friend that I went to school with
in Belgium. I think his comments about the hunger and need to create
are spot on. Thanks Brian!

Http://lomimonk.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/the-drive-toward-creativity