"GESTALT": Shape, Form, Forma... What else?

Dear pupils:

Is this some kind of difficult stuff?: not that much!... If you consider that you have been "working" with it your whole life so far, you will perhaps realise that it cannot be that complex. Actually, "gestalt" is the stuff that your entire visual world is made of. 
As David Hogue told us in this video a few hours ago: "Gestalt Principles and Laws describe how we perceive the world around us as meaningful and complete objects, with a clear distinction between foreground (figures) and background. We perceive whole objects, not a series of independent parts". Quite a summary!... 
We must admit, though, that we have neither time, nor much capacity (not yet) to either grasp -which, by the way, is a synonym for "perceive" or "understand"- or develop the vast amount of information and knowledge that this issue implies.
Anyway, I propose to you to watch some more videos, dealing all of them with this very topic: the way that we perceive and organise our visual "inputs" (things that we see, if you rather want to put it simple); the kind of laws that rule this obvious, immediate, deceptively simple, but utterly complex process: the human visual perception.

- ´Gestalt Psychology and Why It's Essential for Good Design´
- ´Gestalt Laws of Perception´
- ´Gestalt principles | Processing the Environment´
- ´Perceiving is Believing´
- ´Seeing the world as it isn't | Daniel Simons´
- ´Julian Beever (We don´t always perceive what it REALLY IS)´
- ´Julian Beever ´Live´

Some other day, you will have a proper written summary of all this. I hope you will enjoy it.

1st Year of E.S.O., I.E.S. "Ría del Carmen": That video on colours

Welcome all!... This is the first time I deliver a specific post for you. And, as I promised, here it is the link for you to watch that video about colours that we´ve already watched in the classroom.
I hope this will help you to understand much better this topic.
By the way: apparently, this video is the full-length version of it (not seen by us).
I remind you that tou can find some other posts on this right here. 

Colours, again (3rd Year of E.S.O.)

In order to prepare the impending exam, I suggest to you to have a look at a few links on the issue or topic the test will be dealing with. I hope it will help you to grasp the gist of it all.

Newton 
Mezclas 
A blog on Colour Theory (bastante amplio, claro y adecuado, pero con un círculo cromático de "primarios" Rojo/Azul/Amarillo, tipically American, que debemos descartar)

Descargas (en mi "descarga")

¡Enhorabuena los que hayáis captado la sutil broma! (los que me lo certifiquéis el martes podréis reclamar un punto más en la nota final de la Evaluación... ¡Esto también es broma!).
En fin... He estado indagando en "el extraño caso de los archivos indescargables", y os puedo decir que, por el momento, no he llegado a conclusiones definitivas sobre el particular. 
Por tanto, sólo me queda lamentarlo y pediros disculpas por los inconvenientes. 
Ya veré de qué manera se puede resolver todo esto. Bear with me!...

A HOTCHPOTCH (BOTH 1st YEAR´S GROUPS GREAT PIECES) / Una selección de ambos grupos

Spanning more than a few weeks (sorry about this!), here there is a sample of your pieces of work. I hope you like it:

Abarcando algo más que unas pocas semanas (¡pido disculpas por el retraso!), he aquí una pequeña muestra de vuestro trabajo. Espero que os guste:

Varios, 1º E.S.O. Bilingüe

Claudia

Jana

Becky

Jana

Claudia

Becky

Lucía

Lucía

Alba

Carla

Archivo comprimido: on GEOMETRY, Bilingual Group, 1º E.S.O. ("El Alisal, 2017)

Right here... Not at all!... It is compressed or zipped, by the way (To compress: to apply a compression program to electronic data, so that it takes up less space).

A Selection of Snapshots

HERE you can download it. Just until next Monday, February the Sixth.

1º E.S.O. Bilingual, "El Alisal": A 3D Crocodile´s (or whatever) Template

As promised... HERE.

How Does This Beholder´s Eye Works? The Camera Obscura & Other Mysteries of Perception (3º E.S.O. Bilingüe, "El Alisal")

Apart from this post in this very site, I want you to have a look at a series of insteresting videos that deals with such issues. I hope you will learn a couple of things or two. 

• First Video (The Way it Works)
• Second Video (The Camera Obscura in Old Classical Paintings)
• Third Video (Making a Pinhole Camera)
• Fourth Video (Developing a Snapshot)
• Fifth Video (Digital Single Lens Reflex -DSLR- Pinhole Camera) 

Besides, in a few days (bear with me, please) or even hours, it will be available for you all a link, RIGHT HERE, to download a zipped folder with the documents we´re going to need and study (the link will be removed on the thirteenth of January). 

Algunos de los mejores (1º de E.S.O., "El Alisal")

David

Laura

Lucía

Alba

Carla