When starting this project I didn’t have a set idea on what I wanted to do. I never had a solid idea on how I wanted to make a project out of recycled material. At first I thought, wow a project made of recycled material this is a good idea. But I didn’t want to add none recycled material to it, I wanted to be made out of all recycled material. After thinking about a few ideas and sketching some ideas out I started coming up with some projects. I didn’t want the projects of projects just to do. I wanted them to be connected to me or relate to me somehow. What I had decided to do was paint over used cardboard boxes and cut and past letters and words from recycled magazines. After cutting out the letters and words I planned on making a poem about our environment and how recycling is a good idea. At first I didn’t have a poem on how to write it so I found a recycling poem that a 4th grader had made, cited it and used it as part of my project. The world’s greatest artwork wasn’t finished in a day, and neither was mine. But I plan to finish the poem idea and place it on the school wall so that every one can see it.
Another idea I had was similar to the artist we saw at the exhibit. Her name was Aurora Robson. She took her nightmares and made them into her own creations. She took plastic caps, bottles, and string. She cut them and made them look like jellyfish and flowers hanging from the ceiling. My idea was to make the bottle caps and bottles into a collected of flowers. In my head I thought of paining them a light color so the glossy effect from the bottle still showed. I just started this project a few weeks ago and it’s taking me some time to do this project. I hope to also complete this project for the second quarter benchmark as well.
These projects that we are doing is tying into a quote that we are all probably know. Someone else’s trash is another person treasure. The students of advanced art took this quote into consideration without even realizing it. We’re helping our community and giving the thrash/ recycled material a voice. A voice that hopefully will be heard.
The
idea behind this piece of art is the idea of life coming from the strangest of
places; this specific example being technology. It is meant to symbolize that I’ve noticed that even though
some people think that technology can bring about the demise & downfall of
society, it can also bring us life in various ways.
I
collected materials that I felt could represent technology: an extension cord,
dvds & cds, a mother board, a cd stand, glue, & wire. I glued each cd & dvd, stacking
them onto the cd stand. Then I cut
the extension cord, glued it to the cd stand, & wrapped it with the wire
tightly to make it stand up straight. I then glued the motherboard to the top,
to make the sculpture look like a flower in a pot.
The project was of importance to me, and using the recycled pieces of technology really made the project good for the environment. It also made sure I showed that life really can come out of the weirdest part of the world. This project showed me that simple things and simple people can make a difference in the world.
Name of Bill: Respect of Marriage Act
This is an interview between a man named Tom and a Bill. (:
The bill was introduced on September 15, 2009.
The process was stopped on October 19, 2009.
Bibliography
http://www.hrc.org/issues/13530.htm
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.03567:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3567
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3567/text
Sophia Henninger
Nick Manton
Tenzin Ngawang
The purpose of this project was to teach Noah some Spanish basics so he could survive on his travels in Spanish speaking countries. We had to incorporate some things we had learned like past and present tense verbs.
Though we did not break up the video in sections such as, "Past Tense Verbs", "Present Tense", "Greetings", etc. If you follow along it is easy to understand the conversation.
We used a interview format because this might actually be a situation he enters in another country. Interviews are also places where you are judged on the way you speak. We found that using a plausible example could improve the quality of the video
After watching our tutorial, you will be able to...Desireé Mack
Senior Art
This first quarter my senior art class we talked about recycling objects to make artwork. Looking at discarded things and seeing the beauty in them. I am inspired by nature and the changes that it goes through so I decided to create a piece with that in mind. Walking through the streets of Philadelphia trudging through the leaves I got my idea. The leaves sprout and are beautiful and through the year so many changes happen to them and then they fall from trees and die. At this point in my life I am going through so many changes, not all of them bring me happiness. With this piece of work I wanted to show that there is beauty in change even though you may not see it at first.
For this piece I gathered leaves from outside and sewed them together and with a needle and thread. At first I was going to create a blanket, then a bag but the leaves started to form a shape of their own so listened to what they wanted to be shaped into and made it so. The most important part of creating this piece was remembering to be delicate with the materials because they could crumble at any moment, just like the decisions we make in life.
A lot of artists say the best work is of a tortured artist. To me that means when you go through things in life that are not exactly the highlight of your life use it as inspiration to create something beautiful that allows you to release some of the stress and emotion you are feeling. That is what my work will start show in the future.
Title: Basic Knowledge of the Spanish Language
The purpose of this project is to teach those who are new to Spanish, some basic questions and how to conjugate verbs. To properly complete the original goals of our project, we first created our script to get an idea of the exact things that we were going to say. Then we revised and corrected all of our grammatical errors and perfect the script. From there we rehearsed and preformed the lines from our script. In our final product, we realized that we were most proud of our dedication and good use of class time, also the way that we stayed on task and completed all of our goals that we had set for ourselves.
Questions for Noah:
How has your Spanish progressed since you moved there?
Were our videos of any help to you?
What do you most understand or what was the easiest thing you have learned thus far?
