Summer Wk9: Cuisine, Couture or Coiffure!

Hi guys! Great work with Street Photography last week. We’ll look at a few of your pix in a minute, but first this week, we’re on to Cuisine, Couture, or Coiffure!

triptych of a food cube, Mackelmore in a fur coat, and Katy Perry with blue hair — Cuisine, Couture, or Coiffure!

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Activity #9

Cuisine, Couture, or Coiffure

Guy Tang & Kat Von D

To go with our Cuisine, Couture, or Coiffure activity this week, our Artists OTW are Hair Artist Guy Tang, and Tattoo Artist Kat Von D. Context and discussion ideas are in the video:

Representation & Abstraction

For our Art Talk last week we looked at the 20th century. This week we’ll take a detour from our Art History Chronology to think about Abstraction & Representation:

Street Photography

Lots of interesting ideas for you to explore, discuss & try this week!

Meanwhile, here’s a few samples from Art110’s 1st dive into Street Photography:

woman walking on a sidewalk — Little Tokyo by Ariza Padua

black-and-white photo of a couple kissing — Las Vegas by Deanna Soward

kids with a zillion rose petals on the grass — Santa Monica Wedding by Kevin Alipour

a woman walking a dog... or maybe the dog is walking the woman — Justine & Aspen by Kevin Armentrout

3 guys crossing the street — Long Beach by Krishan Bhakta

people walking on the Huntington Beach pier — Huntington Beach by Lisa Bernhauser

people on a tram watching a giraffe — San Diego Zoo by Lisa Mann

photo cropped mid-body so we don't see heads or legs, of a person with pamphlets handing one to another person with a camera — Prague by Niko Kroha

a woman with a lot of tattoos and dressed in black walking through a mall — South Coast Plaza by Rannah Jahedi

motorcycles riding down the street at night as shot out a car window — San Francisco by Sho Nioka

Meanwhile in Santa Cruz…

Layla continues to practice her graffiti writing and exploring legal places to paint. After Venice Beach and Sunken City in San Pedro, she’s now headed off to Santa Cruz. About 20 miles out of Santa Cruz, in Davenport, she found Davenport Ditch, a great place to practice, meet peeps, and learn stuff:

wide shot of a huge basin covered in graffiti writing — Davenport Ditch

Large "LAYLA" letters painted with spray paint — “Layla” at Davenport Ditch

Glenn Zucman

BA, Psychology, University of Hawaii, MFA, Intermedia Art, Long Beach State. Host of American Public Media's "Border Patrol." Host of KBeach Radio's "Strange Angels." Interested in Identity Art that explores our Oracle-at-Delphi-like straddling of corporeal and virtual realms in our new media century. Civil rights in online space. 10 years of radio conversations with art & culture creators.