Banner for Art110 Fall 2015 triptych of SnapChat screen caps

1. Draw

Our mission this week is to try some Drawing & Sharing with Snapchat. Anytime during our Gallery Day on Thursday, please do 2 “Snapchat Drawings”. By Snapchat Drawing all I really mean is to take a snap of anything: A Street Scene, A Selfie, The SOA Galleries, whatever you like, and then use the Snapchat drawing and text tools to “illustrate” it. You might color things that are in the photo, or you might draw in whole new elements that aren’t there. Have fun!

2. Connect

Please leave your Snapchat username in a comment on this post. As always, you can use your “real” Snapchat, or you can make a special one just for Art110, whatever you prefer. Then follow a bunch of peeps from the comments here. You don’t necessarily have to follow everyone, but try to follow a bunch.

3. Share

On Thursday, post your 2 drawings and any other snaps to your Story and to any peeps you choose. Take screen shots of your 2 drawings and of drawings from 2 other peeps. Snap and share as much as you can today!

4. Blog

In your write-up post your 4 pix: 2 by you and 2 from classmates. Then analyze the Snapchat experience.

Throughout history artists have had “dialogs” with each other. Matisse and Picasso “spoke” through a series of paintings; the book I Send You this Cadmium Red chronicles an exchange of letters between John Berger and John Christie. Do you think your Snapchat “dialog” with an Art110 classmate shares any of the qualities of these famous conversations?

Compare & Contrast
Compare & Contrast your Instagram, Periscope & Snapchat activities. How are they similar? How are they different? Do you like one more? Why? Do you like one less? Why?

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Evan Spiegel, Adam Cahan & Marissa Meyer on stage at Tech Crunch Crunchie Awards, 10 February 2014

Evan Spiegel, co-founder & CEO of Snapchat receiving Tech Crunch Best Mobile App of 2013 award as Adam Cahan, Senior VP of Mobile and Emerging Products for Yahoo, and Marissa Meyer, Yahoo CEO, look on.

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Glenn Zucman

Oh Stephanie! Old Usernames, uggh! What are we going to do with these things?

With email you can always make a new one that’s less high-school-embarrassing… and you can “feed” one into the other so you still receive messages from peeps with the old address, but you reply from the new one and give the new one out.

Twitter’s great about letting you change your name and keep your connections. It just works!

Periscope is terrible!

I thought I did change my Snapchat name a while back… ? Maybe I just made a whole new account?

It’s a problem!

Sometimes the old name’s not so bad and you should just leave it alone. But if it bugs you… it might keep bugging you forever… so kind of like just ripping the band-aid off, or jumping in the pool already, it might be best to make new accounts and go from there.

If possible — hahaha — a name that’s both easy and unique would be awesome. Easy so peeps can actually use it, and Unique so you can have the same name on all platforms that you want to use.

Good luck with that, Stephanie!

LMK how it goes! 😀

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