Author: Zack Ramey
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Show, Don’t Tell: Using Biomimicry to Instill a Growth Mindset
“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” – Ernest Hemingway “In my view, nothing’s ever given away. I believe to advance that you must pay.” – Young Fathers Translating literally to “expedient” and roughly to “skill in means,” the Buddhist concept of upaya offers a space to think through the dilemmas of engagement in education. …
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More Drawing in Zack’s Sketchbook (Time-Lapse)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ap_v0Jrqs&w=560&h=315]
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Drawing Parted Clouds with Watercolor Pencils in my Sketchbook
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwAAVIW2HoI&w=560&h=315]
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Drawing an Earthly Growth in Watercolor Pencils + a Guitar Tune
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxVp2E-qQrk&w=560&h=315] Here’s a two minute time lapse of a 2.75 hour drawing paired with a two minute guitar tune. The tune comes from a loop I recorded, then did three takes for the lead part and ended up leaving all three takes. Added some swells and percussive elements in post.
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*New Track for Upcoming Album*
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/362829743″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] This is an experiment in sampling with what I could find in my immediate surroundings. Sound hunting has long been a favorite activity. Last year we were married, and a friend gifted us a bamboo encased chime with metal tongs inside which are struck by a glass bead. …
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Some Things Only Come Together In The End
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZAbvOkkF4E&w=560&h=315]
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Turbulence Study at Salmon Run
It’s the time of year for the salmon to return to their birth sites. It was the first time I ever witnessed this–hundreds of salmon waiting to climb upstream to lay eggs, I am told, at the very same place they were born. Their long return from the ocean is a daunting thought. Then they…