SKILLSHARE

Skillshare is a website where you can learn skills for design among other things from real and talented teachers. How skillshare works is you find a class that you want to take and then sign up for it. Most all of the classes you have to pay to take but the prices are not super expensive and if you get a membership for about $10 a month you can have access to hundreds of videos. After you sign up you then watch the video lessons. once you have completed the videos you then get to create your own project by following the step by step project guide. After you have finished your own project you can post it to the project page where you are able to get feedback from peers. This is a great website to pick up new skills and work on becoming a better designer. They also have classes on business, fashion, film, photography and writing among other subjects.

Here are some of the projects that people have created after taking the classes:

Saber: Grafitti Artist

 

"Shattered"

Los Angeles River Piece

Saber is most famous for the large piece he did on the concrete bank of the Los Angeles River in 1997. The full color piece took 97 gallons of paint and 35 nights over the course of a year. The final work, measuring 250 x 55 feet has been called "the largest graffiti painting ever." The work was viewable from satellite. Highly visible from the East LA Interchange near downtown Los Angeles, it was seen by millions of drivers. Saber can be seen sitting in the letter B, and above the concrete bank trains show the relative length. In 2007, the piece was included in the KCET project Departures: LA River. Remarkable not only for sheer size, Saber's LA River piece remained for 12 years. On September 1, 2009, a sub-contractor of the Army Corps of Engineers , BJD Resourcing, removed the work by painting over it.

American Flag Controversial Piece

Recently in 2010 Saber filmed a video of him painting the American flag and painting on it. People said that he was desecrating the American flag. Saber had many discussions with news networks such as Fox News and MSNBC. As he was quoted on his website: "It was never my intention to insult or disrespect anyone. The decision to paint the flag was to show it as a living, breathing, changing organism, that represents me as an American trying to manage this lifelong disease (Epilepsy) without health care."