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April 21, 2006 |
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What is It?
FOUND by Alanna Spence
in San Francisco, California
I found this note outside a school near San Francisco's Civic Center. It's a double-sided sheet of 8.5x11 paper written in no.2 pencil and it smells like elementary school. "What is it?" makes me believe this child has a fascination with the dichotomy of space paraphernalia and the mundane. I am fascinated at how the child has lovingly framed each illustration and has decided to place the label underneath each illustration instead of beside it. Clearly an out-of-the-box thinker and destined for greatness.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Magical.
Looks like a review/synopsis of a kid's book called "Not A Box". However, it's just been released, so perhaps this is a first draft? Art is not easy.
I love the word "noot" on the fourth line. Classic.
wow, this is a beautiful thing. This might be my favorite. Beautiful I tell you. Most definitely. I am babbling.
This is how the some of the papers are set up in my brother's special education class. They have the words the kids don't know illistrated and boxed in, and then the word is written below. Perhaps this came from a Special Ed class.
i teach special ed and alot of the students like to copy worksheets onto paper for writing practice and perhaps this student copied the pictures too!
Space helmet for the win.
I'm having a really bad week but this made it better.
Looks like classwork to me. Teaching children to argue with themselves - seems kind of cruel. This is my (comment). No it's not it's a (post).
I just wanted to comment to see if I knew the spam protection question-yay I did!!
I like that you smelled the note. :)
it's so sad. stifled imagination.
I think the teacher might have just asked them to think of what something could be.
An excersize to get the children to use their imaginations.
Very sweet.
i used to date a guy who thought that erasers sometimes "smelled chocolately". some people just like to smell stuff, daveycakes.
This is a box. No, it is not, it is Boxman!
http://foundmagazine.com/find/1586
At first I thought it said "this is a jug, no it's not a space helmet" but then I realized that the person seems to be disagreeing with someone. Like an adult that found a kid playing with a bunch of stuff "why are you putting that jug on your head? this is a jug." "no it's not, it's a space helmet."
But I agree that probably a teacher gave the class a list of items and had them imagine what cool different things they could be. And this child happens to love space..
This is a book that schools use to teach kindergarden students how to read, my daughter recently brought this book home. The word is under the picture for word association purposes....sorry,
by Rene Magritte, age 6.
WTF does elementary school smell like?
I agree. Space helmet FTW!
so innocent. refreshing.
i was a theatre major in college, and this is like a stupid theatre game they make you play your first year. you all stand in a circle and one object is introduced:
person 1: this is a ball
person 2: a what?
person 1: a ball
person 2: a what?
Person 1: a ball
person 2: oh, a ball!
etc.
but whatever you call the object changes from person to person as it passes around the room, and it can't be what the object actually IS.
i know it's not quite the same, i just had to reminisce about how glad i am to be done with college. hah.
School *does* have a *smell.* Can't describe it any more than I can describe the fact that Scotch tape (the shiny kind) smells like Christmas.
This is the text from a book in Open Court Reading. A program that a lot of schools use for Kindergarten.