MATTHEW MARSHALL NEGATIVE SPACE

​A negative space drawing is when you color in everything except the background. You outline the drawing but then instead of coloring in the object, you color the outside.

In my cutout I found negative space by looking at the darker spots. In my drawing however I outlined the object then shaded around it.

It helps an artist to see negative space because it makes it clear what they should draw.

Seeing in negative space helps to give an art work a background. It helps make the drawing more 3-D.
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Negative space drawling

A.the space that is not show when drawling.
B.1.i cut it out then i changed it for the one side as the other.
2.in the stool drawling i drew the stools and then shaded the out side of it.
c.then you can set the background better.
d.yes it dose because if you can see were your suppose to shade then you can see were it leaks into the background.
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Campaign of Love

I'm thinking about starting my own Campaign of Love. Yesterday was the DAY of Free Love, where everyone who cared drew a heart on their wrist for the people that are/ were depressed, attempted suicide, or have committed suicide. To me, this people need to recognize love and care for longer than a day, so I;m considering drawing a heart on my wrist, or somewhere else on my body everyday for a month or more. I'm excited about it.    

E4 TAREA 26/04/11 (A), 27/04/11 (D)

1) ¿Qué opinas de Hugo Chávez? ¿Qué críticas tienes de él? ¿Estás de acuerdo (in agreement) con unas de sus acciones?

 

2) Si fueras Venezolan@, ¿votarías por él? Explica tu respuesta.

First Day Back (4/25)

Ah I think I had butterflies in my stomach this morning for some strange reason. Ive been having this problem after having a longer break from my learning environment ever since like elementary school. I mean for gods sake, Im going back to the same environment that I have left not too long ago. I think my Polak body is just auto sensitive to nervousness in even the slightest of ways. Its a shame because it makes my morning miserable. Then I get to school, and well everything gets much better! :]

Assignments for 4.26.2011

​JQ: How safe is safe enough? - POST ALL WORK ON MOODLE
Do you feel as though the United States has done enough to secure its citizenry after 9.11? Defend your answer with actual examples, please.

Gitmo
- POST ALL WORK ON MOODLE
1. Read this NYTimes Article and analyze this graphic
2. Represent the main ideas of the article in a paragraph.
3. Choose a side... Should Guantanamo be left opened or closed? Did it serve a valuable security purpose or was it a waste of tax payer money?
4. Does your region have any citizens being detained in Guantanamo... if yes, who?

Weather

​"Isn't it nice to be able to say its hot?!"
"No not really..."
"Why not?"
"Sorry but I like the cold cause if I want to be warm I can hide with in my blankets. I also like in between heat"
"But its nice to be hot have the windows open, the balcony door and hav fans on..."
"Eh I guess"
"OH GO MOVE TO ALASKA!" 
"Didn't say I wanna be that cold geez..."

Negative Space

1) Negative space is the background of the picture shaded in instead of drawing the picture you draw the background. 

2) I found the negative space in the cut-out by seeing which one had more of the background shaded in. In my stool drawing I started by drawing the background shapes then i shaded it in.

3) It helps because they can focus on the outer shape of the object or person more than just the details. I think seeing in negative space enhances the photo because the artist had to work harder to make sure it was perfect. The observers will learn to focus more on the whole picture as one instead of one piece of it.

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El Maltrato Infantil - Ashley & Elisa

Para eso proyecto, nosotros hicimos un PSA sobre el maltrato infantil. En nuestro PSA, hay un video del maltrato infantil y hay hechos sobre el tema y otras fotos. Despues, hay información sobre como buscarlos los indicios y lugares que personas pueden ir para ayuda.

New Poem

I've gotten into the habit of posting new poems up here. My latest poem is in the perspective of a middle aged resident who has stop caring about the progression of their neighborhood or the people within it (particularly young people). This is a performance piece so I am talking to an audience of young people and then it broadens. Hope you enjoy. :)

You right there in the second row show me why I should care

Show me why I should fight for you

Show me what I lose every time

I decide to give up

Decide to stop fighting

For you

Show me what I have already lost

What I have already given up

Because maybe then I’ll stop giving ya’ll up so easily

 

The makeshift memorial under their bedroom windows

Isn’t enough for me to feel guilty

The 3 minute segment on the news

Doesn’t pull my heart strings hard enough

 

Make me feel guilt

Make me feel guilty

That I’ve let drug dealers become our block captains

And crack houses become our community head quarters

Make me feel guilty

That I’ve stopped caring about this community

And the people within it

 

I complain about teens going rampant

Yet have stopped advocating for recreational places

I shake my head at the trash that riddles the street

But have yet to pick up a broom and sweep in front of my own front door

I’ve turned this into a hopeless place

Because I have given up my own dreams for it

 

So show me her

Show me him

Show me his homerun that won the game

His MVP trophy overtop the fireplace

Show me her favorite princess dress

And her prancing around in it

Show me the father who never got to see his daughter get married

And the mother who never got to see her kids graduate

Because I know I’ve turned this to a dreamless place

Where kids have no allies

And everybody has stopped caring

Where kids think all they can do is deal and steal

Because hope is passed on from generation to generation

And I have passed on none

 

So show me the innocent little girl

Who still thinks life is as sweet as can be

Make me realize that she is worth saving

Make me believe she can stopped this hopeless cycle

Help me to accept that she will show us

What happens if we work hard

That you may not reach your dreams

But that you’ll go pretty far

 

Because her bright light is infectious

I believe anything is possible

When I look into her honey brown eyes

But eventually this “everything is possible” phase

Goes Away

And that is when you have to nourish it

Because once you nurture a living thing

You believe you can do anything

And that it’s worth doing anything

 

It’s worth creating a blank slate with are streets

Because every piece of trash was just a hope that people thought would never come true

It’s worth painting a visual picture of hope in our community

With green grass and various colored flowers

Because hope is recognized by how we carry ourselves also

It’s worth telling our young ones to strive for the best

Because we’ve realized ourselves they could possibly succeed

 

Because eventually I want to stop feeling guilty

Not because I’ve stopped caring

But because I realized I have done everything I could

I want to stop flipping on the news and seeing a misguided teen I knew

But never said a word to

And instead see a kid that I know who did something great or didn’t

Because I know I did everything to help that kid

So hopefully there will be no need for me to feel guilty

 

 

 

Proyecto :) -------Diamante ("El Bola")

07 de abril 2011
Estimado jefe de Ramsey,
Mi nombre es senorita logan. Enseno el arte a la escuela Greenfield. Yo tiene una chaval en mi clase que tenido la mala comportamiento. Un chaval no escucho a mi y una chaval está enojado siempre. Ella llamada Emily. Emily tiene nueve anos. Durante la clase de educación fisica, otra chaval en la clase dijo me que Emily tiene los moratones en la espalda. Cual sería el próximo cosa para este situación.

08 de abril 2011
Estimada Senorita Logan,
Soy jefe de Ramsey. Yo trabajo con unidad de victimas especiales. Antes de nosotros puedemos tomar la situcaion graves, puede  decir las características físicas y  comportamiento.?

09 de abril 2011
Estimado jefe de Ramsey,
Hoy en la clase Emily no hablo mucho. Ella sentó en la parte posterior de la clase. Despues de clase hablo con Emily. Pregunte sobre su vida a la casa con su padre. Emily madre no esta aquí  Su madre murió el ano pasado. No puedo ver los moratones en su cuerpi porque lleva una camisa larga y pantalones largos.  Manana, voy a escribir mas sobre Emily.

08 de abril 2011
Estimado jefe de Ramsey,
Lo siento para otra email pero durante mi clase, Emily estaba muy triste. En la clase los ninos hiceiron los fotos sobre sus familias y Emily dibuja una foto con palabras como “soy fea y soy estúpido.” Despues de clase hablo con Emily y dijo que su padre dice ella que. Pienso que su padre está maltrato verbal ella. Emily dijo que su padre grita siempre. Es una ley sobre el abuso emocional a un nino. Estoy muy nerviosa sobre Emily y la crueldad en su casa con su padre.

11 de abril 2011
Estimada Senorita Logan,
Estaba muy ocupado con mucho trabajo. Despues de leer email, puede decir que Emily es no bien. el abuso emocional es en la casa de Emily. Algunos de los signos es problemas de comportamiento,  la crueldad en la casa de chaval, y aislamiento (isolation).  Emily tiene sintomas como que. Yo denunciaría su padre antes de tu tienes la prueba sufiente y enfrentarse con su padre. Tambien, reconoce los indicios sobre abuso de física en cuerpo de Emily. Los moratónes, las cicatrices, y las heridas es algunos ejemplos para abuso de física. Espero éste informacíon ayuda con Emily.

11 de abril 2011
Estimado Jefe de Ramsey
Hoy, durante la clase yo hablando con Emily padre. Cuando estaba con su padre, el estaba muy enajodo sobre el tema. Pregunte sobre la moratónes en la cuerpo de Emily. El dijo que Emily dano a si misma. No creo la padre de Emily. Antes de hablo con su padre, caminé con Emily a la bano. Ví las heridas que el chaval estaba hablar sobre. Que ví estaba muy preocupante. Emily padre es abuso ella mucha. yo sento mal porque  no reconocí los indicios antes. La sociedad necesitan educar las personas sobre abuso.

12 de abril 2011
Estimado Senorita Logan,
Estoy de acuerdo mucho con tu, senorita logan. Abuso es un tema que personas no hable sobre mucho. Algunas personas ocultan sus abuso. En estados unidos, hay una ley sobre abuso nino que dice abuso nino es una crimen que implica fisica, emocional, o sexual maltrato o herida a un nino por sus padres. Esta es una ley estado.

13 de abril 2011
Estimado jefe de Ramsey,
Gracias por ayuda, jefe de Ramsey.

13 de abril 2011
Estimada senorita Logan,
No problema senorita

13 de abril 2011
Estimado jefe de Ramsey
Puedes venir mañana, así que puede denunciar este abuso sobre emily, porque quiero prevenir abuso más para emily.

13 de abril 2011
Estimada senorita Logan,
Si, gracias por hablar y no hacer la vista gorda

13 de abril 2011
Estimado jefe de Ramsey
Hasta Luego

13 de abril 2011
Estimada senorita Logan,
Hasta Luego​

Los Recursos:
http://helpguide.org/mental/child_abuse_physical_emotional_sexual_neglect.htm

http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/state/can/

http://www.medicinenet.com/child_abuse/article.htm

http://www.childabuse.com/
TypesOfChildAbuse
TypesOfChildAbuse

Sigh

Im dying!!!! this work load is tremendously stupid for senior year. I need to get on trackk...i have to post this benchmark for mr chase that i didnt know where to upload...and as it turned out, i posted it in the place, just under the wrong way. i had posted my story but not as my character so now its on tumblr and its in the right place. if you wanna see it, its here......anyway heres my story for tonight

One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.

The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion...

Progressive Day

Today I took care of college payments and financial aid stuff. It was relatively easy; which makes me think I did something wrong. I will make phone calls and take care of everything tomorrow, but for now I have a stomach ache and need to rest. It was a big day for me. I woke up at 3 am, went for a hike at 7:30 am, then went to a doctors appointment all the way out in New Jersey, came home for 5 minutes and went all the way out to birdsboro for rock climbing. I was very pleased with my performance in rock climbing. I haven't climbed since the summer and thought I wasn't going to be able to get up at 5.7 or this 5.8 climb, which were always struggles climbs for me. To my surprise I got up them quite well and was using foot techniques to take away the pressure I was putting on my arms. Overall, this day was quite splendid. I got a good amount of physical activity and got my educational shit done (somewhat). HOORAY FOR TODAY!

Alterations

I love my tailer.  Today, as she stuck pins into the bottom of my dress to mark where she would cut, she told me how ugly and slutty the other girls' prom dresses were.  There's nothing like a stranger's opinion to make you feel completely confident!