Art Class Showreel (shortened)

I shortened this art class showreel I made with my art students down to 2 minutes for a sneak peak...The longer version includes interviews with the kids and fun little title sequences. Full version here.

Art Showreel, short version. from Paula Henihan on Vimeo.

How the mind works.

Getting ready to say goodbye to the children in my school. I know a few of them for nearly four years. A conversation I will always re-tell is an interview with one particular child who at the time was six years old. She had some amazing insights into how the brain works...

"You know your mind moves your body... Maybe a little factory in my mind makes like strings and then the strings go to my, like my arms and my legs...and it makes you talk too...but actually, your mind makes the pictures that you see in your eyes. When you look at something actually, maybe the world is not really like that maybe ...and maybe my pictures are different to yours."

Tschüß!

Today we de-registered from Switzerland in the grandiose Zurich City Hall. After proving that our tax and bill records are squeaky clean we got the go ahead to leave in peace. Thanks Switzerland, what an amazing three and a half years we have had.

Adventures in Morocco

 

Yes, I'm going...

Need to find myself some flowers for my hair. Hoping to meet some of those gentle people there.

Do-do list

Very important preparatory task before we leave Zurich...party! Like our personalised craft beer label made for the part?...thanks Emmet for the pencil drawings. Now we just gotta find some fine brews to stick these labels onto. 

Art class showreel...

Here's a movie the children and I created in Zurich International School during art class. Together we celebrated and reflected on what happens in the art room during my classes. We had so much fun working on movie-making, stop motion animation, story boarding and editing in imovie.

Why do we learn about Art? from Beakr on Vimeo.

Run like a Robot

Running again. It's so hard to start and then each time afterwards I wonder why I dreaded it so much. My brain for some reason must not record the feel good factor that occurs after a run and so does not over-ride the feelings of procrastination that I have before each run.

Using a Running app this time to motivate myself and remain consistant.

Emmets drawing of us.

Wild in the city

Amazing, explosive wild summer flowers at ever tree stump and street light in Zurich city.