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When talking about music and instrument, I have the biggest heart for piano. Since piano is one of the instrument that I’ve learned to play I have always want to get better at it. My wish was being able to create my own piano that I can bring along with me and play songs. I did some research and found an interesting instrument call a Thumb piano that can be easily build right at home. The instrument included a box that can be build in many different sizes along with different sized metal pieces that are being held down by a stick. The instrument will produce sound when pressing down on the metal pieces then releasing it. Since the metal is being pressed down in able to produce sound, the metal piece is causing a sharp sound. Also the box is to is to so the metal please can bounce back and make the sound travel. The sound can be tune by how long our short the metal piece might be and how hard a piece of wood is pressing against it.

THUMBWARS by KAE

The title speaks for itself. Basically, it's me (Ashley) and Evett having a thumbwar. The music makes it more dramatic and I like to think it's a little funnier that way. As the viewer, you can guess who wins the thumbwar. So is it me or Evett? Watch the video and find out, enjoy! 

P.S If you watch SNL notice how we stole the intro to our skit from "SNL's digital shorts." I couldn't help it, I a huge fan! 

Emyftaraj Musical instrument blog #2

I said in the last blog that I was making a guitar however I decided to change my instrument since. Instead I will be making a xylophone. Reading up and researching the xylophone I found that like other instruments you have to be careful building for it is simple mistakes that can ruin the melody. I found that in building a xylophone all of the keys are different sizes and each one plays a different note, this is somethingI thought to be very helpful for someone that doesn't play an instrument. I also found that it can be built from various materials, including wood, plastic bottles with different amounts of water and metal, this also made it easier to get the supplies. I also found that this instrument can play majority of the major notes needed to perform our song. 



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German Resistance to the Nazi Regime during WWII

My center of study for my "Everything has a History" project was three anti-Nazi resistance groups that were actually created and operated by German civilians and military personnel. I decided to present this information through the medium of an iWeb, which you can download via the link below. 

Hope you enjoy!

Knocked Out

I am glad I'm not the ONLY one still writing stories after the last day of classes. But I had to come back and do my last one. This one is an excuse for not doing yesterday. Simply I was tired. I completed Mr. Best's benchmark and helped Eddie out with his capstone by performing in the talent show. So when I came home around 7:30 I simply sat on my couch and fell asleep until 11:30 and then I got up and moved to my bed. Anywho, this daily story task has been fun. I gotta say I've been doing a lot better job of it this quarter. 

P.S - Probably not my last post. I kinda like doing this. 

Photo's

These are the pictures that I chose to show you. None of them are edited, because I felt comfortable and I thought they were already pretty good without having to be edited. The one of the hat, is probably my favorite, because it was an accident. I was at a concert in the middle of a mosh pit and my arm got hit mid shot and that's what I ended up capturing. So I thought that was pretty cool. Three of the  pictures, are from when I was in New York City. Its my favorite place, so I thought I'd share the pictures that I could get off my camera. I'll probably end up doing some before and after pictures, maybe play with the lighting some...but for now I just wanted to put some of them up.
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Drawing By A Famous Artist:

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This is the drawing that I did, I tried to re-do a drawing by Alex Pardee. This is the heart off The Used album In Love And Death. It's one of my favorite albums by them, and I absolutely love the album cover. The problem that I have, is I don't give myself enough space when I draw. I'll draw to close to the edge of the paper, or I'll just draw to big to where I'll have to cut parts out of my drawings. This sadly happened when I was trying to do the album cover.
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As you can see by looking at their album cover, the heart is ha nging by a old tree, I wasn't able to include that in my drawing because I didn't give myself enough room to work. I was going to start over , but I thought that this turned out really well...for not being exactly what I wanted. Alex Pardee is one of my favorite artist. I love his style so much, and I only wish that one day I can be as good as him. So I've been practicing a lot lately draw ing in his style.

Bike Drawings:
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This is my line drawing of the bike that you gave us to draw in the art room. It's not finished, and  left out some details like the little light that was on the front wheel and what i think might of been a bike lock on the body of the bike. I found this both easy and challenging at the same time. I'm not very good with drawing lines, because they never come out looking straight...but the actual bike wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.

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This was my attempt at a negative space bike. I'm not sure if I even did it right, because I never did one before. If I did, then I think it's kind of similar to line drawings. just you're drawing the spaces around the bike.

Evett's Corner by KAE

This is just one of the four skits/parodies that my group and I (Kimme, Evett, & Ashley) made for our end of the year project (the others will be posted soon), a compilation of different skits/parodies. This particular skit, is actually the pilot episode in a mini series called "Evett's Corner." Basically, Evett talks about her life and the interesting things that happen during it, but on this episode, her special guest, Kimme, gets lost and she has to find her. Is Kimmie lost or is she just playing games with Evett? you decide!

P.S KAE stands for Kimme, Ashley, and Evett just in case you were wondering, enjoy!

History of Tobacco - Biello/Clarke

Below you will see two interactive timelines. 

One comes in the form of an actual timeline, that you can scroll through. The other comes 
in the form of a flip-book, which allows you to travel through time more fluidly. 



ON THE TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER OF EACH TIMELINE/FLIPBOOK 
CLICK VIEW IN DIPITY






ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES / IMAGE CITATIONS AVAILABLE HERE