I guess I'm here because I'm looking for movie scores y'all turn on when you're trying to get in the zone and get some work done, though I'm ultimately open to anything.
I just typically have a hard time reading/writing with lyrics, so I opt for a lot of film scores. My favorites are the Warren Ellis/Nick Cage score to The Assassination of Jesse James, but I also love all of David Holmes stuff.
Y'all have any recs?
Second time APGAP teacher here. Last year, I went on parental leave right after the test, so I gave a Civic Connection Project that my kids did with a sub.
This year though, I ran a VERY involved Mock Congress in Unit 2. It was awesome, but also definitely covers my Civic Connection requirement, so now I'm not sure what to do. As far as I'm concerned, the course is over, so I don't want to do anything super heavy, but I also don't just want my kids taking a free hour for the next month.
Any suggestions are super appreciated!
I was reading a Tank Girl and really loved Jamie Hewlett's art. He uses a lot of Ben-Day dots and it got me wondering "how did he do that?". It's got to be crazy easy on a computer, but he obviously wasn't using Photoshop in like 1998, and the pattern is just so flawless, there's no way he was meticulously drawing thousands and thousands of tiny dots by hand.
I saw a video where someone has a clear adhesive transparency that they would cut to shape and apply like a sticker, and I was like "oh that's got to be it! I should buy some of that; it's gotta be super cheap and it would be so fun to work with" but I literally cannot find that type of product anywhere.
In my search, I saw some stencils you can buy. That makes total sense as well (reusable, efficient, no need for extra mediums), but I can't figure out how you would use that stencil to get clean, perfect dots? Is it ink with a roller? Doesn't it need some nap on it to reach all the way down to the paper? Doesn't that add unwanted texture to the ink? Is it foam maybe?
The "I feel like I'm going insane" part, is that this seems like a common enough technique in a popular enough style, that a quick Google should give me a million responses, but literally all I can find is "how to do it in photoshop" and "how to do it in a middle school art class with crayola washable markers" (spoiler for that one, the trick is "draw a bunch of dots with the markers")
Can anybody point me in the right direction?