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 * Culminating Celebration - Get your sky sight on! **

Now, accept the challenge to KEEP your sky sight on and make 350 a reality! See OUR video here: ** [] []
 * Added June 6, 2010: You did it! Amazing results!
 * //"Daniel Dancer,//** Oregon conceptual artist, became fascinated with sky art while traveling in South America in the 80's and encountering the famous Nazca Lines of Peru. When he returned home, he began working with Kansas field artist, Stan Herd, who creates giant images on the Earth (like the one below) by using a tractor as a paint brush and crops for color. One day, Daniel decided to bring an entire elementary school out to perform as beads on the headband of a 25 acre Indian head. The result was stunning. A decade later, while visiting in Kansas, the parents of one of the "bead kids" told him that the experience was the most memorable thing their son did in school, that it taught him that things aren't always as they seem . . . that a //Big Picture View// of the world is really important!"

This is a 15 minute narrated story of Daniel Dancer's Art For The Sky program. This overview covers the ancient history of this art form, why it is so important for our time and shares many examples from across the country. media type="custom" key="5692395"
 * Some Recent Work: **

The Community Independent School in North Carolina had Art For the Sky back for the second time to celebrate Earth Day 2010 with the sky-art creation of the highly endangered Blue Poison Dart Frog. Watch it to the end to see a big lesson about extinction. media type="custom" key="6040417" = = =IDEAS FOR THE YOUTH SUMMIT RECEIVED FROM DANIEL: (WATCH THE CONCEPT DEVELOP)=

As a Culminating Celebration, all participants in the Youth Summit will create an Art For The Sky design. It will show how we, and all the choices we make, are part of the "big picture".

Daniel Dancer [mailto:dancer@artforthesky.com] //How about a polar bear on a melting ice cap. . . the ice cap could melt (fun performance art with sheets) and then the polar bear could fall into the "water" and disappear. I think it would be great for a green school conference near DC to address the number one issue of our time!! I've always wanted to do this image actually. Everyone would wear white except for a few hundred who would be the black outline of the bear. The ice berg could be made of sheets which are easy to come by. . . most motels save their old ones and have them on hand to lend. The movement inherent in this project would be great fun, get great press and have people talking for a long time to come!!!// //Put this out to the group and see if excitement arises. . . .// //Daniel//
 * Sent:** Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:23 PM
 * To:** Green School Coord
 * Subject:** Re: rock art

Hi Ryan (and all the rest of you thinking about our potential design): I was thinking further this morning on my polar bear/climate change idea. . . about what an amazing very short video it could make, one that could perhaps go viral because it's message would be so right on and fascinating to watch. Read below and **IMAGINE from above:** 1. a giant polar bear made of people all wearing white, outlined in black. 2. the number "350" suddenly appearing BIG in the middle of the bear made simply by a hundred people in the shape of the number putting on black or red shirts. 3. Now imagine, the ice berg made of sheets that the bear is standing on, quickly melting. . . (one or two assigned people would just go in and grab all the sheets and run off camera with them). 4. Now the whole bear made of people shouts out something important like: "Get Your Skysight On!" or "350 Now" or ??? 5. Finally, everyone simply moves downward and dissassembles into "the sea" and then out of the picture. I'm sorry but the rock art idea is really awfully static and the image being unrecognizable to almost everyone, except Maryland rock art afficianados, would carry very little lasting meaning. It's up to you guys but I have seen what gets people excited and what is really FUN with this art form and this would be really off the scale! And I think the video would travel around and maybe even have an impact, which is the whole idea, right? Thanks for listening, Daniel
 * From:** Daniel Dancer [mailto:dancer@artforthesky.com]
 * Sent:** Friday, April 30, 2010 11:20 AM
 * To:** Green School Coord
 * Subject:** your sky art message

** TO DO LIST: **
Daniel Dancer [mailto:dancer@artforthesky.com] Great Ryan! To make the film of this we need to be in a crane, with a bucket that can be fixed. Not a balloon, as fun as that would be, unless we can make it hold really **still**, which may be possible. My camera will be clamped to the frame of the bucket, as I always do, and the whole thing will be filmed in a very STABLE way so it can be fast forwarded some in the video for maximum effect. Okay. . . here's what you need to collect: - about 150 sheets to make the ice berg. Like I said, hotels and motels have old ones in storage almost always and are cool with lending them out. we may not need that many but just to be sure. . ..
 * Sent:** Monday, May 03, 2010 1:13 PM
 * To:** Green School Coord
 * Subject:** polar bear


 * 3 yards of BLACK composted soil . . . really has to be black or it fades in to the grass color. Dyed shredded bark really works good. Home Depot has a donation program. You could probably get it all donated. We may not need that much, so you could return what we didn't use. If you got it in their bags it is very easy to work with. The stuff is easily raked up and can be used elsewhere in landscaping. It's about the only thing that really STAYS black. A lot of times we have to water down the composted soil or mulch as it fades too much when dry. That works, but it is a hassle and not always doable.


 * Everyone wears white, except for maybe 150 that would be the black outline of the bear.


 * I think the 350 number would just be a designated group that would remain as the rest of the bear "falls" into the "ocean". That would just be embedded in the white bear, wearing white of course. They would stay as the number of a minute and then dissolve as well into the "ocean".

Gonna be a GREAT ONE! Daniel

ps. you should contact 350.org about this. They may want to send a speaker

What's so special about the number 350? So now, let's review carbon dioxide.....
 * From: www.350.org **
 * "350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. ** Accelerating arctic warming and other early climate impacts have led scientists to conclude that we are already above the safe zone at our current 390ppm, and that unless we are able to rapidly return to below 350ppm this century, we risk reaching tipping points and irreversible impacts such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and major methane releases from increased permafrost melt."

=CARBON LESSON in 5 Steps​= Below is a 5-part cartoon from NPR which will explain the role of carbon and help you draw conclusions about the need to set limits. media type="youtube" key="ypbb9Zi5Tao" height="250" width="278"

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=Daniel's previous works:=

=350.org Resources= From last September in Holland with 5000 Dutch student singing the national song for Uden Holland.

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=International Day of Climate Action 10-24-2009= Celebrating the international day of climate action around the world - see @http://www.350.org/ for more info and how to "GET TO WORK" on 10/10/10



=350 work party on 10/10/10 -= There are people all over the world meeting up after earthday to plan for work parties next fall - Find out how to get involved in your part of the world on this google map @http://www.350.org/meetup-map

This link works better for slower connections @http://www.350.org/meetup/action-search