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It's about damn time.
I love my life. <3​

​Ryan Francis
Donna Survillo
Martha Robles
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Directed by Donna & Ryan Francis
Edited by Ryan Francis
Acting by Martha Robles & Ryan Francis

I emailed you it

I made a prezi on the history of BMW. Below is the link to my prezi.

http://prezi.com/kjprew0f3mv_/edit/#1_18032606

It's been a wild 4 years here at SLA, but I'm glad to have spent it with everyone here. SInce I came through the doors here at SLA 4 years ago, I thought that I would have it easy.. However, after that first day of freshman year, I was wrong. It was nothing but a hectic ride because I struggled with some of my classes as I am sure some of you have. I also am proud again that I had the opportunity to have been part of the 2011 SLA Rockets Baseball team, even if we loss in the first round of playoffs. Anyway, I wish everyone the best of luck in college and have fun, and I would also like to thank all of the teachers; Past and Present for helping me make it this far in my High-School education. 

Blase Biello
Tariq Smith
Shebly Harcher
Anwar Abdul-Qawi 
Jason Davis 

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Here is a link to my website.

• What did you find most challenging about this project?

The most challenging part was definitely finding picture that I could use. Once I fully grasped the purpose of the benchmark it was easier to identify things, but it's still a hassle to travel around the city and find the things. I also had a problem with the camera aspect-- namely, I didn't have one. I was forced to use my old camera phone, from which I had to text the pictures to a friend in order to gain access to them on the computer. It was also sort of tough to embellish on the globalization for each topic.

• How did you go about collecting the images or selecting the images?

I used recommendations from peers, teachers, and my own ideas to assemble a group of appropriate topics as I understand the subject.

• Which image is your favorite? Why? Elaborate.

I like the picture of the Italian Market sign because I feel it is a perfect example of the topic and I have grown up in that area for my entire life, so it feels really special.

• How prevalent is the evidence of globalization in Philadelphia? Do you think it is more or less so (evident) than in other large cities in the US? Why Why not?

It is evident in many ways that we don't normally consider, definitely. Any time we use technology or eat food, we are touched by globalization in some way. This project has definitely gotten me thinking about the whole process of product from beginning to end.

​Here it is!

For my forth quarter benchmark I decided to create a project based around the history of prom.


​http://promandbeyond.blogspot.com/p/prom-time.html

I hate trivia i hate with all the vile in the world. TRVIA IS EVIL!!! IT MAKES ME ANGRY  it's the type of contest where I start getting pissy when i'm not winning. I really don't like to play.

Here is the link to my Q4 Globalization Benchmark

For my Q4 Benchmark, I researched the history of technology in music and examined the goods and evils of advancement of this kind. My project will be an oral presentation with visual aids, but below is an abstract of my project, on which the presentation is based.

http://bit.ly/kTrGsn​

Today my only story is my emotions and they are all over the place, honestly they make a terrible story. They are love, fear, sadness, happiness and excitement. I'm sure there are a few that I missed. And they all exist in one place, my heart. So, bring on the last day of classes.

The most challenging part of this project was organizing the photos and information because I felt like I was all over the place. I also had so much trouble focusing my camera on smaller pictures which for some reason ended up coming out better through a camera phone. My favorite part was still taking the pictures and choosing what I wanted them to be of. I wanted to be unique but I felt like I was running out of ideas. Every time I saw something that reminded me of globalization, I quickly snapped a picture of it. If I was to do it again, I would go way more in depth with my information that backs up each of the pictures. 

During the fourth quarter in senior art class, Ms. Hull gave us one assignment to to do every week. The art assignments that we had to complete this quarter were challenging in their own ways. They included building a sculpture or craft of some sort, take 200 photos and edit 5 of them, copy a piece of artwork by a famous artist, draw a bike three times, and draw an observation from outside. Below are pictures of descriptions of each of the assignments. 
Build a Sculpture:
For this assignment, i didn't necessarily sculpture something. Instead, I built a guitar. I decided to build a guitar because I've always wanted to make one. There was some extra wood in my back yard from some work that my step father had done on our house. The week that the specific assignment was assigned is when I worked on this guitar. I had my bother help me make the guitar, and I let my younger twin brothers color it. Making this guitar was fun. I put a lot of work into making it. It sounded great when it was finished as well. 

Take Photos/Edit Photos:
For this specific assignment, I took 200 hundred pictures of the most random things. After taking those pictures, I just randomly picked five of them. I used photoshop to edit the pictures in a variety of ways. The photos that I edited were of things in the school like the clock on the wall on the second floor, the big painting of the animals, the masks that Ms. Manuel's spanish class made, and a pair of classes that were on one of the tables. The last picture that I edited was a photo of myself. There was no specific reason why I choose these pictures, but I thought what I did to edit them was pretty cool.

Famous Artwork
I decided to copy a painting done by Paul Kleen. The painting is of some type of star. I choose to do this because it looked cool and it was easy to do. Paul Kleen is one of the few painters that I actually know of, and I like his work. As I looked for something to copy, this stood out to me because of the design in the painting and what it means. This painting probably doesn't strike anyone as exciting but it's meaning makes it have more than how it appears.

Draw An Observation From Outside
This drawing is my worst of the quarter. I actually forgot to do this drawing during the quarter, so I drew this just s I could have something to turn in. I attempted to draw the my observation of the store from across the street. There is no type of detail in this drawing, I was focusing on getting this drawing done more than actually turning in a piece of quality artwork. 

Draw A Bike
I only have one picture for the bike assignment. Sade helped me draw this bike. It wasn't hard and it was ultimately a fun assignment. 

Here is my benchmark.

Benchmark Reflection:

• What did you find most challenging about this project?

I found most challenging the process of getting the pictures or paragraphs done first. Sometimes ideas that were written down for me for the different topics actually gave me a better idea and analysis then going off of the picture that I originally took first.

• How did you go about collecting the images or selecting the images?

I took mass amount of pictures through different cameras in school and my phone camera. I uploaded all to my email and somehow having alot of trouble presenting them on the google doc.
  

• Which image is your favorite? Why? Elaborate.

 I dont have a favorite image, I would say though the picture of Jefferson in the lights from far shows the distant feeling of a hospital. How close it is to a person and how far away it actually is. Its a different view then the other pictures and shows a different aspect to a somewhat simple picture that couldve been taken.

• How prevalent is the evidence of globalization in Philadelphia? Do you think it is more or less so (evident) than in other large cities in the US? Why Why not?

I think their is some globalization in Philadelphia but I dont think it is unique in any way. I believe every city has everything that Philadelphia has globally connected and otherwise more then what Philadelphia has. Larger cities such as New York as a prime example shows that it is much more evident through trading and resources because of the different buildings, size, and popularity that New York is able to carry over Philadelphia.

"I don't feel like reflecting much more or talking about things that I cannot even describe."

I love that sentence, Megan.  I don't know why, but it's very poetic and it basically explains how I am feeling most of the time.

& I agree. I kind of feel numb right now.  It hasn't set in just yet that I am actually graduating.

I don't know how to snap out of my "stress-over-schoolwork" mode.  My brain keeps drifting back to moodle every few minutes just to remember that I literally have NOTHING left to work on.

Holy shit.

It's really over.

As I prepare to attend my last of day of classes tomorrow, I cannot help but remark upon how appropriate my farewell shall be. I will be running about, like the oft mentioned headless chicken, attempting to complete work that should have been completed days ago... as I always am.
I hope dear Science Leadership Academy you appreciate my consistency for it is the only thing I can offer. Oh... I suppose I can also offer needlessly long-winded selfishness and an appreciation for frozen treats and ill-timed dancing, but that is about it.
Anywho,
It has been a please.
An utter and complete pleasure.
Thank you.

​For this last Quarter of senior art we were given another series of tasks. We had to make sculptures, take photos, copy a piece of artwork by a famous artist, and draw a bike (the only one I didn't do)

Below are my descriptions and images of each. 

Sculpture

For my sculpture piece I made buttons. I made a lot of buttons for myself and I also made buttons for a few of my friends. I chose to make buttons because I like to collect buttons and making my own is fun and I get to have my own personal buttons that no one will be able to duplicate. 

Marvel Comics Button


Baby Taz from the Looney Tunes


Spider Man 


I love Desi Button


Harry Potter


Paramore


Winky Face


I love Alaya Button


I'm With Ugly (Rashaun)


Tuskegee University 

Photos

I took photos of my friends and some of the things I saw while walking to the park during gym class. I took photos of Rashaun Williams and Antony Torrance while they were dressed up for their competition. I took photos of Alaya White being silly. And I also took photos with Teila Almond when we were both wearing stripes. I chose too put these pictures on my blog because these are a few of the people who I spend the most time with and have a lot of fun with so I wanted to express that by putting them on my blog.

Rashaun and Anthony


Alaya White


Me and Teila

Little Birdie


Flowers

Copy a piece of art work by a famous artist.

I chose to do art by Marvel Comics. My inspiration was Stan Lee and although he didn't draw these characters he invented them. I chose to draw Spider-man because he is my favorite superhero of all time. I also drew the Avengers (Ironman, Thor, Hulk, and Captain America). I wanted to draw them because, I love marvel and they also have a lot of movies coming out this summer that I am extremely excited for. So I wanted to express that excitement in my artwork. 

The Avengers (Ironman, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America)



Ironman


The Hulk


Spiderman


Carnage


Thor the God of Thunder

here it is

​Here is my benchmark. 

Benchmark Reflection

What did you find most challenging about this project?
I found that the most challenging part of this project was to find a correlation between the topics we looked in globalization and what we see around us here in Philly. 

How did you go about collecting the images or selecting the images?
Most of the images I collected with Jen when we were allowed to go out for images. There was some stuff i knew that I wanted to take pictures of because I already knew it would connect to one of themes. I also took pictures of stuff that I wasn't sure how it exactly connected but knew they could be interesting to talk about. 

Which image is your favorite? Why? Elaborate.
My favorite image is of the massive amount of bikes we have in the stair well. it's my favorite because I think it shows that we leaders in more ways than one. A good amount of teachers bike to and from school and some students do too. 

How prevalent is the evidence of globalization in Philadelphia? Do you think it is more or less so (evident) than in other large cities in the US? Why Why not? I think there is a tremendous amount of evidence of globalization in Philadelphia but I also think other larger cities have more. For example gay marriage is a much bigger issue in San Francisco rather than here in Philadelphia. Overall, though I think a lot of themes are prevalent. This is a very historic city.