This slide show represents a web search and presentation project inspired by poet Rives 4 o’clock in the morning work. This is the teacher’s attempt to share an example for students and also to provide entertainment for herself and demonstrate how ideas expand, permutate, juxtapose, and move outside the box. https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m?language=en

Here are the internet findings by Rives I came across that inspired this project: https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/rives_a_museum_of_4_o_clock _in_the_morning?language=en http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=237 813527 http://kottke.org/13/10/the-museum-of-four-in-the- morning

Starry Nights Shiny Eyes Starry eyes…shiny nights…oh my…

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. Neil deGrasse Tyson   d; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

http://www.dailycal.org/2013/06/14/ted-talk-of-the-week-benjamin-zander-on-shining-eyes/ http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion

Starry, starry night Paint your palate blue and gray Look out on a summer’s day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Don McClean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx59zmfJFbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPKhJiR53c

http://media.giphy.com/media/NIQ4ThCgBAC9a/giphy.gif Jack Nicholson

English text Your shining eyes and golden hair, Your lily-rosed lips most fair: Your other beauties that excel, Men cannot choose but like them well. But when for them they say they'll die, Believe them not, they do but lie. Description: No. 6 from The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Thomas Bateson)

Emoticons… shiny eyes

and starry night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghwPrHKaws

‘The Starry Night’ by Anne Sexton That does not keep me from having a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars. –Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die. It moves. They are all alive. Even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a god, from its eye. The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die: into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon, to split from my life with no flag, no belly, no cry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY7eKFgieY8

“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”  ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Starry Night A creative heart, obsessed with satisfying  this dormant and uncaring society  you have given them the stars at night  and u have given them  Bountiful Bouquets of Sunflowers  but 4 u there is only contempt  and though u pour yourself into that fame  and present it so proudly this world  could not accept your masterpieces  from the heart. So on that starry night u gave 2 us  and u took away from us  the one thing we never acknowledged  your life. © by owner. Added by volu - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/poem/8574627-Starry-Night-by-Tupac-Shakur#sthash.BcOmVN52.dpuf

Starry Eyes children’s book and plant

Bella Notte From "Lady and the Tramp" Composed by Sonny Burke and Peggy Lee Oh, this is the night, it's a beautiful night  And we call it bella notte  Look at the skies, they have stars in their eyes  On this lovely bella notte.  Side by side with your loved one  You'll find enchantment here  The night will weave its magic spell When the one you love is near For this is the night And the heavens are right On this lovely bella notte This is the night It's a beautiful night And we call it bella notte Look at the skies They have stars in their eyes On this lovely belle notte Side by side with your loved one You'll find enchantment here The night will weave its magic spell When the one you love is near For this is the night And the heavens are right On this lovely bella notte                                                  

As the universe expands, so does my 4 am model project…shiny eyes that grew from a TED talk I love; then starry night popped up, and stars in eyes joined in near the end. I’ve looked for a range of voices and art, but seeing connections develop and come together is the joy of this project. I hope it will be for you too.

It’s New Year’s Day and you can guess what’s on TV at our house…and perhaps yours. This song just came on, and guess what I thought of in relation to starry night…once it starts it never ends…in fact, when I showed it to you, my 2015 8th graders, back at school you (i. e. Destiny—Twinkle, twinkle and O Holy Night)) thought of some additions, fixed a spelling error, and inspired my mind to race to Shakespeare, Hair, the Bible…so I’m going to shinny up the tree of creativity and visit my project more this week.

Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back. Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night, Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours…” Hamlet, William Shakespeare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fstxNFdQWZQ

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Genesis 22:17