Monday, October 20, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
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Handwashing Steps: By the way, do you know the six steps to handwashing? Well, actually, I've always felt there were 7 steps. We can review these steps with the children in our classrooms anytime throughout the school year. (Oh, for step 5, I like to demonstrate how we can use the fingertips of one hand as little "brushes" to clean under the nails of the other hand.)
1. Remove all jewelry
2. Roll up long sleeves if wearing them, then wet both hands with warm water
3. Work up sudsy lather on both hands and forearms
4. Rub and scrub for 20 seconds making sure to include palms, back of hands, between fingers, and forearms
5. Use fingernail brush to clean under fingernails
6. Rinse hands and forearms, again in warm water, keeping fingertips pointed down
7. Dry hands and turn off faucet with the paper towel to prevent re-contamination
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Nanook of the north
Robert Flaherty’s film, Nanook of the north, there are many beautiful scenes, which capture the essence of Eskimo life. One of my favorite scenes, in the entire film is when we see Nanook constructing an igloo, the snow dwelling of an eskimo.
It essentially starts with Nanook, licking his walrus ivory knife, (Which allows him to cut through snow more easily). Which then goes to a shot of the children playing. They are using themselves as sleds.
After the shot of the children, we see Nanooks wife Nyla, And their youngest child Cunayou, who is nestled in Nyla’s coat. Nyla is chinking the igloo, we then learn, babies find igloo building a bore.
A few shots later, we discover that Nanook was able to construct this sturdy, and
Handsome igloo, within only one hour. Which insinuates, Nanook has undoubtedly done this hundreds of times before. This shot ends with a charming scene of Nanook cutting a small door through the igloo, poking his head out, and smiling, ever so pleasantly towards the camera.
The next shot, begins with Nanook prodding a block of ice in the ground. It takes him just a few moments until he picks up the piece of ice. Which has been carved into a perfect square, He then walks back over to his igloo, and we discover, he is using the block of ice as a window. He does this by cutting out a piece of the igloo, and replacing it with the ice window. Nanook then places the old piece of the igloo wall upright, next to the window. Nanook does this very precisely in order to reflect the sun light through the window.
The last shot, in the scene, we watch as Nanook helps his family, as well as, their belongings, into the igloo. “ a few robes of bear and deer skin, a stone pot, and stone lamps”.
Hunter, emergant timeline paintings
When I started to create art again, I had this set idea of doing work in a linear order (whatever I did was ok, because I would gradually just get better, right?) . But I have realized that the way I and many other artists work, is in a emergant timeline.Which is coincidentally similar to the timeline, of practically every indigenous tribe, I ritually return to where I started with my art, childhood. It is the season, which I count on, to bring me new discovery. In essence, the only thing pure in my life, is that timeline, I think there is a huge connection between indigenous tribes, and artists, And the work I am doing now, connects the two.
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