Monday, August 27, 2007

Giant Living Paintings Made of People

Big Horn Sky, Bishop, CA 2005 - 950 Kids and Teachers.
This rock art version of the endangered Sierra Big Horn sheep was photographed
from a hot air balloon.

750 students and teachers form a 160ft loon floating in "Lake Goodwill" made from
900 square feet of blue jeans from local thrift shops.See story by 8th graders.
"I've been at John.T.Tuck School for 17 years and have never seen anything capture the
hearts of the school like this!" - Helen Beare, 5th Grade Teacher

"Art for the Sky encourages the un-seen through subtle clues like sky sight and having us
imagine seeing through an animal's eyes. This definitely encouraged me to think outside
the box and will do so for a long time." Alex F. Sixth Grade

S K Y B O N E S - Dry Hollow Elementary, The Dalles, OR. 2004 (450 kids and teachers).

In April, 2007, the Community Independent School in Pittsboro, North Carolina formed this nearly extinct bird in a pasture near their school with 100 participants and lots of clothes. Hear a beautiful song about the Ivory Billed called The Great God Bird, by singer songwriter, Sufjan Stevens. Read about the remarkable tale of this bird's recent emergence from the realms of extinction.
Cuddling in white to form the Ivory Billed Woodpecker above . . .



Human Eruption!


Tree of Life, Ashland, Oregon - April, 2003
On the school basketball court, 250 kids and teachers form "the tree of life" modeled after a 100 year old cypress in front of Briscoe Elementary School planted when the school was built. As with each sky art project, participants bodily experience their interconnection with one another as many leaves on a single tree, each one equally important to the whole.


700 students and staff from Liberty Middel School in Camas, WA took the shape
of the head of the very endangered White Lion. The title, Lion Eyes, is at the heart of the
teachings of Art For the Sky . . . we need to evolve into beings who know how to see through the eyes of all beings. As we are learning these days, since everything on Earth is interconnected, the best way to care for ourselves, is to take care of the needs of lions, salmon, whales, etc.. February, 2007.


450 children and teachers gather during the Telluride Mt. Film Festival
in 2005 and take the form of a 150 ft. golden eagle.


850 students and teachers pay tribute to the world's largest freshwater fish.
Gresham, Orgeon.


"Art for the Sky' has enlightened our students to a magnificent kind of art that can only
be achieved by the coming together of many individuals to make one. We have been truly
inspired by your vision!" -Sue Carter, Principal, Gardner School, Vancouver, WA.


January 2007. 450 students and teachers help form the design of the
endangered California condor in a celebration of it's hopeful return to the skys of Oregon. Children learned about the power of awakening their "SkySight" . . . using
our imaginations to see not only from above, but through the eyes of all beings.

If only it were this easy to awaken our sky sight!


Manatee Elementary School, Port St. Lucie, Florida 2007
1400 students and teachers form a 250 ft tall Manatee
with it's head above the water.


Manatee Elementary School, Port St. Lucie, Florida 2007
1400 students and teachers form a 250 ft tall Manatee
with it's head above the water.





500 kids formed a fire breathing dragon. On cue . . . the yellow tail
students ran through the neck and out the mouth breathing fire!



900 students and teachers form a cougar running across Des Moines, Iowa in
February 2006.The weather for the event was 20 degrees with 20 mph winds!



A sun was added to this Columbia Gorge petroglyph of a deer (140 students
and teachers) to celebrate the fact that Mosier School is 20% solar powered.
Below, kids have fun with their thrift shop clothing finds used to make the antlers.


A sun was added to this Columbia Gorge petroglyph of a deer (140 students
and teachers) to celebrate the fact that Mosier School is 20% solar powered.
Below, kids have fun with their thrift shop clothing finds used to make the antlers.



The clouds parted just in time for the sun to shine on 400 students,
teachers and parents in the shape of a dove bearing cherries during
McKinley School's celebration of International Peace Week.


650 kids and teachers form the Sky Salmon at the Knight
Elementary School in Oregon in November, 2000.


When participants leave an image, one is reminded of extinction . . .
in this case, what happens to salmon runs when we don't take care of rivers,
mountains and forests.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Dangers of Lead in Lipstick

Even lipstick isn't safe anymore...what's next? Brands don't mean everything. Recently a brand called "Red Earth" decreased their prices from $67 to $9.90. It contained lead. Lead is a chemical which cause cancer.

The Brands which contain lead are:

I. CHRISTIAN DIOR
2. LANCOME
3. CLINIQUE
4. Y.S.L (Yves St. Laurent)
5. ESTEE LAUDER
6. SHISEIDO
7. RED EARTH (Lip Gloss)
8. CHANEL (Lip Conditioner)
9. MARKET AMERICA-MOTNES LIPSTICK.

The higher the lead content, the greater the chance of causing cancer.

After doing a test on lipstick! s, it was found that the Yves St. Laurent (YSL) lipstick contained the most amount of lead. Watch out for those lipsticks which are supposed to stay longer. If your lipstick stays longer, it is because of the higher content of lead.

Here is the test you can do yourself:

1. Put some lipstick on your hand.
2. Use a Gold ring to scratch on the lipstick.
3. If the lipstick color changes to black then you know the lipstick contains lead. Please send this information to all your girlfriends, wives and female family members

This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dioxin Carcinogens causes cancer. Especially breast cancer.