Well I came to Earth to learn about art!

There is so much I don't know where to start!

so come on everyone!

we're gonna  get out what we have in our hearts!

so hold on tight cause we're ready to start CONTRAST once we get this projector hooked up  you'll be able to see rock and roll  oh i can't wait to finally  see the music being made   i've been wanting to see this since  i first heard music back on my planet now i know why i like rock and roll but why do  you love it so much oh well there's no art on   my planet so when i heard rock and roll it was  the first music i ever heard the first art i   ever experienced no arts and then you heard  rock music how oh well you humans sent out   a spacecraft called voyager 1 which was filled  with earth things like a map of how to find you   but the best thing in voyager 1 was a record  filled with earth music which was all great but   rock and roll was awesome it made me feel things  like never felt before so i built a rocket ship   and came here to hear more what a great feat of  alien engineering now i'm really glad i get to   show you this film oh but jack um what's film well  a great feat of human engineering film is the art   of the moving picture oh neat moving pictures as  soon as people invented cameras everyone started   filming world events as they happen and creating  experiences that couldn't exist in the real world   well but those things are very different  what really happened and what couldn't happen   yeah contrast contrast is one of film's best  friends it is sure contrast are the differences   that help us see more clearly movies are usually  shown in the dark because the brightness of the   film contrasts with the dark areas around the  movie screen no contrast no film here's ziggy look   at this photo of the band see how nick's bright  boa stands out against his dark jacket that bright   contrasted against the dark makes this bowl a pop  so our eyes see it clearly contrast puts things   together so it's easy to see how they aren't  alike i'm telling you ziggy differences make all   the difference well all right indoor creatures  i'm off to meet the muralist who's coming by   what's a muralist it's an artist who paints big  art on ceilings or walls usually outside but   because they paint so big it's hard for them to  find places to put their artwork it's against the   law to paint on most buildings but by contrast  here at the junkyard we're happy to have chris   king come put art on our walls so with that  pat's out to bring big new art to the junkyard oh sorry zig looks like you got  tangled up in blue let me come help you   man i'm really glad you stopped by there's lots of  places in the junkyard for you to paint your mural   awesome you got to be sure we find  someplace where i have permission   because i don't want to get into trouble with the  law i get it man you know ever since the pleasant   valley neighborhood moved in next door it's  been a real contrast to how quiet it used to be   now artists come in all the time hoping the  junkyard has what they need it's a great way   to meet new people but it's a shame the city  didn't plan an art space for the neighborhood   that's how you build a real community who's  ready to force some big art upon this world   oh hi you must be chris king i'm pat nice  to meet you hey it's nice to meet you too   well i grew up in new york and i loved seeing  all the murals everywhere and i cannot wait   to bring some of that big city energy to my  funky little junkyard you got any idea what   you want to paint oh yeah i think i'm going to  paint what's going on around here you know art   is a great way to express your feelings talk  about your life and your community man i dig it   that's exactly how music makes me feel well  let's get this tour started walk this way power to the projector oh no there's no sound it's so energetic so expressive  it's like i can see the music   yeah film really gets things moving in ya i  wonder if that's why they call them movies anyway no one moved like Chuck.

No one?

Nope.

See in the 1950s rock and roll was   still new many people had never heard or danced  to music like it before it was very shocking for   some folks it was a contrast exactly each artist  creates their own art all of them every single one   art from the people looks like you got my message i'm rayla muller i'm 10 years old and i'm in  fifth grade um my favorite thing about art is   having all these ideas while you're doing it so  it's basically like improv while you're drawing   like at the moment so it's really fun i heard  an art class one day that katz was doing this   art contest and i was really excited and i drew a  picture that has hands holding a pile of dirt with   a sprout in it and it said help louisiana grow  and then i won and one day at school it showed   the bus with my picture on it it was really  exciting now my picture is a moving mural so do you see any flat walls around here that you  can use for your mural this one over here is flat   and smooth but it might be a little bit small in  contrast this one over here is larger but it might   be too rough got a lot of important decisions to  make standing at the crossroads okay let's bounce so who invented rock and roll i personally  think sister was at a tharp invented it   but really it was a bunch of different  people and she was definitely one of them   there were a bunch of different musicians on earth  ah there's millions and dancers and muralists and   sculptors and they're all different sure each of  us is a one-of-a-kind creature seeing the world   out of our own set of eyeballs no one else  but you gets that point of view i know i see   things very differently from anyone else here  on earth welcome to the club it sounds like you   found your own point of view to express express my  point of view i'm gonna go think about that jack wow great viewpoint from up here from this  point of view i can see the whole junkyard hey zig our alien friend hey man have a seat this  is chris king oh nice to meet you i've never met a   muralist before i've never met an alien before  we've been trying to find the right spot for   chris to paint his mural he needs a big flat  smooth area right mr king that's right oh well   uh i have a question as a muralist do you have a  point of view i'd say my point of view has changed   over the years when i lived in l.a my point of  view was more influenced by my punk rock friends   running on the streets then i moved to louisiana  and now i'm more focused on teaching kids how   to use their voice and their point of view to  make art where are you from ziggy oh i'm from but i don't think humans can pronounce it no  no i don't think we can zig i think that's   something definitely only you can do i used to  think i was the only one who was different but   now we think each of us isn't like anybody  else yeah everyone brings their own unique   flavor i bring a memphis flavor um mr king i've  been thinking you should put your mural on the   front gate it's big and flat and smooth and  it's right on the street as everyone comes in   oh the front gate let me think about that  great mindstick so i paint on the gate and my   art moves ziggy's right everyone who  comes in and goes past the junkyard is   gonna see it i choose the gate how about using  glow-in-the-dark paint this time art in the dark no doubt ziggy the front gate's gonna be perfect  thanks for the idea this is gonna make the front   gate look so cool man if that brand of yours is  gonna keep growing great thoughts it needs to get   some sleep time to get ready for bed ziggy oh okay  um good night everyone nice to meet you mr king   oh it's nice to meet you too ziggy i'll be  back tomorrow to get on that mural for you and if you really want to know punk you just  have to listen thanks for the bedtime story pat   now i really want to listen  to some punk rock music soon   good good night ziggy oh i'mma send a  video back home to my parents no problem hi mom hi dad i've been learning so much there's  so many art forms and ways to express yourself   here that they have things in common like space  and rhythm but they're all so different too today   i saw my first film it shows things moving like in  real life and i learned about murals which are big   paintings outside oh but they don't move like film  does oh oh that's contrast that's how things are   different and art is how different people express  their different points of view and and i learned i   have my own point of view there you go ziggs now  you sounded like a real artist express yourself express myself i could make art   support provided by louisiana healthcare  connections your health our purpose