• through the eyes of a sculpture http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=RUXEGP
• glass and ceramics http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=Q7KFZA
• Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
  1.For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
  Through the eyes of the sculpture following Emanuel was very interesting.  Every stone has a different smell.  A process is completed for each individual stone.  Weird to think that a stone is heavier when wet. The stone is 50% of the art already and the sculptor decide the other 50%.   A stone carver is generally never asked to do an entire monument they are asked to do individual pieces of the monument the hand, the foot etc., very rarely are they asked to do an entire figure. Feelings are used to carve life into the shape.  Feelings into stone?  What a concept amazing in my opinion.  Kind of like a cook and his or her food.   Each stone that is choses is checked to make sure it is good and no cracks are inside of the stone.  This is done with a hammer and sound differs when cracks are located.   
  Moving sculptures can be difficult in order not to damage bridges are left to hold pieces say between fingers or even a possible base. . Once the sculpture is in place they take out the bridges (pieces) from the sculpture. Visualizing in head is when it becomes real.  Has to be drawn.  Not a lot of detail so that when sculpting brings out the enhancement of the piece.   Stone and a figure make life.  Making a mold after finishing a sculpture of clay next step is to cast in plaster then taken apart fills with plaster and this is the clay and marble.  Pieces of mountain are taken for the stone.  For special size the sculpture goes to pick it out.  No stone is wasted it is actually put into our essentials we use every day!  OMG our toothpaste, food, paper product, paints and pharmaceuticals.  Marble is 99.9% calcium carbonate. 
  The stone is 50% of the art already and the sculptor decide the other 50%
   
  In the film glass and ceramics glass is made from sand.  It’s a liquid not a solid but becomes stiff when it cools after heated.  Heating the glass allows the sand to break apart.  It can be shaped at will.  With stained glass pictures separate pieces of colored glass are pieced together with cementation.  Room lite has a determination it is put into the stained glass.  A small drawing is completed first and then it is numbered to be cut out to cut the glass.    Each piece of glass is fitted together and then sodered and covered in putty so that water doesn’t leak through. 
  2.How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
  In chapter 11 with casting it stated that sometimes the sculpture never touches the final piece of sculpture at all.  Same with in the video where the sculptures may be assigned to different parts of a sculpture.  As we use the mountains and lands to get the stone to sculpt a figure, people have worked to sculpt our landscape.  Its not always about a figure but yet about where we live and a determination of beauty.  Sculpting figures out of trees and bushes or creating a figure with different colored flowers to represent a figure.    In chapter 12 techniques are used making sculptures out of glass, metal, wood and clay.  Since glass can be shaped at will this is different from having to sculpt the actual stone with precision.  Ceramics also come into shape with fire. They are made most often with a rock with a clay base.  Glass was a luxary product in the ancient world.  The reading also tells how the stained glass is a technique used for windows, lampshades and other structures that light passes through.  Metal is also heated into a liquid in order for it to be worked on. 
   
   
  3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture, Installation, and Craft?
   This is all made with feeling.  Love for working with hands and love for detail of a figure to express one self.  The stone is shipped from all over the world and the process isn’t just sculpting from one person but yet many sculptures had a part to help.     We use our land for many products we take for granted.  Our glasses we drink out of or even our dishes and pans we use on a regular basis.  I will never look at anything the same after this class.  Pictures, sculptures, glasses its all made with essentials form mother nature earth.  Installation rather than sculptures focus more on arrangement of use that the use of space that surrounds our environment.  sculptures usually focus on the main interpretation of the views while actually looking at the sculpture itself..  with installation the arrangements of different sculptures put together represents what the artist is trying to portray. 

The main difference between installation and sculpture is that installations focuses more on the arrangement use, use of space and surrounding environment within the artwork, artwork is seen as a whole together with the site the work is set in. While sculptures usually focuses on the main subject and interpretation of the vieweres while looking at the sculpture itself. Sculptures thus is not site specific, usually are not seen with surrounding environment as a whole.