Things that Make Me Dad

I have many internet heroes. The lady who write Seriously, so Blessed, the AMAZING people at Holiday Insights, my mom, Brian Tiemann (the guy who made the website that, through The Lion King, got me back into loving art...even if I don't go there anymore), many many webcomic artists including Tracy Butler, the people who work at Cake Wrecks, and now this guy.

Monday, I discovered Lunch Bag Art, which is a field that is actually quite large and I had no idea existed. Okay, that's a slight lie...obviously lunch bag art exists, because lunch bags are awesome to draw on. But I didn't know it could be this ~awesome~.

Everyday, he makes lunchbags for his children, Dana and Dylan. Sometimes they suit their requests or what they like. Other times, he makes lunchbags to suit the requests of the people who live on the internet.

He's very much a dad, and his info is short, sweet, to the point, and with the limit of elloquation only a guy can pull off. It says "A new bag each day for my kids. I'm the dad. I make these during my lunch break." and his post descriptions are even shorter. He'd do very well on twitter.

He works as a video game artist, which suits him perfectly, I think.

They're updated daily, even now during summer, which makes me curious. But these bags are DEFINATELY for his kids and go with them to school, (one had Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes ranting about his hate towards school and was returned home with a note that said, "Drawings are very cool! But not the comments. :("

Also, you can tell he really loves not only what he does, but who he does it for.

Basically...awesome.

And that link again is http://lunchbagart.tumblr.com/.

"Things" can be found by Barenaked Ladies

Famous

Well.....
Googleable.
But that's not a song, now is it?

http://www.ipsd.org:80/newsevents/news_item_detail.asp?id=19716

It's not even a real newspaper...just a little blurb on the district website...but still. I think it's pretty cool. C:

The journalist who wrote that article is Mr. Gehl's friend and asked him to help her write the article. I'm not sure how much exactly he wrote, but I gave him some help thinking up things to write about on the class and that quote.

It's a horrible quote, by the way. Usually, I'm pretty good at coming up with cohesive, smart-sounding and occasionally enlightening phrases. But when you're standing there telling your art teacher that his paragraph is accurate (it's actually not completely anymore...the stuff s/he added after about it being chornological is only slightly true.) and then he whips around and says "Now I'll need a quote, please", thinking on your toes gets pretty hard.

I'm sure I could write a beautiful blog or even just rant about that class. It's very good. It really brings the art of the past to life, making everything seem simple, necessary, and influencial on our world. I see similarities bridge from civilizations thousands of years ago into our everyday lives, see how religion, lifestyles, geography, and ruling classes changes art, and see how art changes art. It's a fascinating course and taught brilliantly by two teachers who care very much. Miss Rose is CRAZY and so enthusiastic about this class. Mrs. Thrush is a bit more...mature..? but equally thrilled to teach.

And although it's AP, they honestly do the best they can to make sure we're not failing, to make sure we understand what's going on, and are constantly asking for class suggestions. They didn't see the F's on our second quiz and say "kids, study harder- this is AP. Also, that's normal." They saw the F's and said "What went wrong? Let's talk about this...do you need more specific homework? Should we warn you of the quizes farther in advance? What parts were hard and should we fix?" Of course, a big part of that is that this is the first year it's being taught so they literally need to know how to improve for next year, but seriously. This is not a merciless AP class...it's a merciful one. And a daggum fascinating one at that!

It's probably my favorite class.
And saying "the class does a good job of bringing the history of art to life and making it fascinating and understanding to our generation” doesn't do it justice at all.
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