Reflective statement

My stop motion project was little boring although it took me 5 seconds to decide what to do. I was focused on what I wanted to do, my idea didnt changed at all, I always wanted to create a top becoming a granade. The most challenging part that I faced was to erase and to draw again and again for 7 days straight. I dont mind this because after all, I did enjoyed it, it was pretty cool seeing how it worked. If I needed to change something about it, it would be the camera moving. Although I love animation I woulndt choose it as a career because I prefer doing other stuff.

My Thoughts about how aspv teaches us about technology

Aspv does a good job on teaching students about technology. I cant really see if the way they do it is good or bad, I just really dont care. I think it is okay how Mr. Picketts shows us how to use some applications in the computer. He is a really good teacher. Without him, I wouldnt know how to even use blogger, or powerschool.

Another good thing that our teacher do is to explain us how to prevent cyberbullies. Thi is good to know, because if you give them your attention you will end up being sad. Anyways, this is something that is really sad and true. As I was saying, the teachers do very good.

In conclusion, ASPV give us good knowledge about technology. The only thing that sucks that they make us do is typing test. I think is kind of wierd, because we do blog posts, and that improves our writing skills. So, I don see the point of doing the typing test, its just a waste of time.

Julian's Medium

Im going to use pencil for my stop motion. I was going to bring plasticine, but then I realized I was going to take too long. Anyways, Im going to convert a top into a hand grenade by drawing and erasing everytime I take a picture. I chose this medium because I dindt had anything else in mind. I was considering doing a cherry turning to a grenade but I found it really hard. I think copying the drawings with a slightly difference each time, is going to be my biggest challenge.

Stop motion

I loved all stop motion videos. If someone asks me what stop motion means, I think I would answer that they're videos that are made of cointinous pictures , and then put in together to form a video. These films that I saw give a certain feeling, depending on the video. In my opinion, the paper day video, was kind of sad. I think people like to create videos in stop motion, because its more admirable because takes more time. Also, because its the only way to make something move without using your hand, if you are not a professional.
Paper Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV5Dnvud0kU
T-Shirt War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKWdSCt4jGE

William Kentridge by: Julian

William is an excellent artist that expresses things by drawing stuff. I got really amazed how he uses charcoal to make his films. Some of his work makes me feel a little sad, since he draws kind of sad faces. In his artwork, the mine, his drawings are very unhappy, or at least thats the feeling that I had. One of his films that really caught my attention was Five Themes. That paint, has a meaning although is hard to know what it is. Anyways, I think that was my favourite of all three .

I really dont know how could I explain his art work to someone that was blind. All I can say, is that he uses charcoal, sometimes pastel and colored pencils to draw his stop motions. They are random, and kind of scary, but it explains somehow, how real life is. It also tells the feelings he has. I think his arts are almost like poetry.

Mash-ups

A Mashup is a song or composition that use two or more songs that already existed to create a new one. They are different tyoes of mashups. A good mashup is made with tempo and edited good so that the voice of the singers can be heard clearly. Anyways, a bad mashup normally will not have good combination of songs or it would just be a mess. I think people who make mashups are really musicians. It isn't easy to create these somgs. It needs lots of practice and good taste of music. Mashup are really cool whe they are created correctly

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP8Xx-Iu45Q&feature=fvst

artifact of the future

To make my stoned cat look real, I went to a lot of processes. First of all, I searched for cat's body parts, that had reddish fur. Then I cut them and paste them in my stoned cat monument. I changed their size and sometimes their color too. I also change their layer to multiply and paste some cracks from the internet. Anyways, what I liked about doing this project is making the cat look like if it were coming out of the stone. What I didn't like was going through all processes.

http://jprandomstuff.blogspot.com/
I really like this project since I find it funny and a little bit foolish. I really like the way he came up with the idea. To me, the wave controler board looks kind of real. The thing that I admire about his project is the way he pasted someones head in a lego's body.

I really think this artifact is going to be in the future. If I had money I would buy it since I surf. This would a really good business. The people who buy it woul use either for skying or for surfing. I definitely would buy it, specially for the lego man.

Artifact From the Future: Stoned Cat

stoned reality julian

Ichose the "stoned reality one because its really original. Since im obsessed with animals, I found this picture really cool. I think doing this will make me improve my photoshop working. Anyways, I chose this one because I think in the future monuments wont be the same as now, they will be made differently and with more originality. So, basically, style will have a twist. I will use another animal for this project.

family tree

A memorable day is chrismas. My family and I gather together in my house to celebrate it. I love this day because we all have fun and trade presents. My cousins even come from different states just to see us. At the end of the day we all end up eating a turkey for dinner. In conclusion this is one of my favourite days of all.

frame

I chose this frame for me because it makes me look unique and different from my other family members. I also liked it because, since its different it looks independent, just how I am. I think it describes really well.

I chose this wooden frame for my brother and my cousins generation because they all look the same. This frame represents how i love each one of them equally. Also, since its really well carved, it showa how special they are for me.

tree

I chose this picture for following reasons. First of all this tree reminds me whe i was 6. My family and I used to go to store and by some paintings. This painting looks almost exactly as the one we used to have. They use to broke or scratch somehow, but not the pink-tree one. Anyways, every day that we see it, it would bring us good luck for the rest of the day. The bad thing is that one day it suddenly dissapeared.

Spring Map Testing

Last tuesday every kid in the school took the map test. This is our second time doing it in this year because the last one was in October. Anyways, the teachers told us that if we reach higher scores than the ones that we had, they would let us bring normal close to school. Since they said that, everyone decided to put effort to it. Although we stressed out a lot, we liked it because we passed classes. My grades went very good this time. Normally I get very low scores, but this time I reached all of my scores. As you can see, im in a good mood now, and im ready for other map testings.

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My group's presentations

Today I saw lots of cool presentation in computers class. At first, I thought they would be kind of cliche but then I realized how awesome they were. From all the presentations the one that i loved the most was Santiago's. Although i wasn't the one who needed to grade him, I decided to give him a good advice. Anyways, I think my presentation it's ok, although i could add more text to it. Since Erika and Cassy were not here i could just see 2 of the presentations. In conclusion, I really love doing this project.

Power Point Presentation

When i was in sixth grade, my class and I used to do booktalks in power point presentations. The thing is that one of my friends took for like 10 minutes long. It wasnt that bad but all you see in the presentations was billions of pictures that made no sense. Another anbnoying thing was her writing. All of her words were written badly. She also used to use backgrounds really disturbing. Even the teacher used to get a bad mood. Anyways, thats why I dont really like using Powerpoint.

Earth DAy Peer Evaluation

Yesterday I evaluated the earth day videos. I really enjoy both og the videos. However, they had mistakes. In Eric's video sometimes audio was louder than narration. Anyways, one thing that i really enjoy in that video was the pictures. In Xime's video the narration was to low. However it had great background music. What I would change of my video is the credits. They are to short.

Coolaid Biography

Maybe my life is not that awesome but it stills being interesting. I was born inside a coconut. Unfourtnately Ive never had parents nor brothers. However i had lots of chicks by my side. For example: jumex, gatorade and powerade. Anyways, my daily attractions are playing the guitar and dancing in clubs. During the weekend im used to get into fights a lot. My only best friend is Molasio and when im not at rumbles, im in his small house. Another good quality of my life is that im very ritch sice many paople buy my products. This the way I live, hope you like it, if not, too bad.

animated 8th graders

I really liked this video. I think it's very creative and funny. All of them are very awesome, however i enjoyed sebastian's the most. Its obvious that it tooked a lot of time to do this so i admire each one of the 8 graders. One of my favorite fact of the video was the colors. It was pretty cool how they changed colors while doing theyre movements. I hope we get to do that project when we become 8th graders.

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I consider electrcity a valuable resource. Without it, my life wouldnt have a purpose. The only thing that im good in is use and waste elctricity by using diffrent tools. Maybe it causes global warming but if I dont use electricity and that means no technology, Ill die. Anyways, my parents tell me all the time to use this resource in small amounts of time. Ofcourse, i dont care what they say. However i dont waste it much.
One of the things that i waste elctricity most in is my electric guitar. I use it almost 3 hours a day. It wastes ai lot of enegy but it worths it. Another item i use, is the computer. I like to log to facebook daily. I also play 1 hour of xbox 360 after finishing my homework. Another way in which i waste energy is in the shower. I spend a lo tof time taking a shower. Anyways, I also use electricity by watching telvision. There are another lots of ways in which i use energy like: washing my teeth, turning the lights on, turning the air conditioner on, charging my cellphone, turning the fan on, charging batteries, cooking, and watering my plants.
Doing all this, makes me sick. I dont like doing this but then how am i suppose to live? I do care about the environment. I try to use it in slow amounts of time. Everyday im trying to use less tools that need energy. In conclusion, i will try to conservate elcetricity.

sixthsense

The very first thing that i thought when i saw this video is "WOW." I thought that technology like that didnt exist. After seeing this long video i was in shock(in a good way). I would really like to have one of those mechanisms. Maybe i earn money by selling old stuff, i could get one. First of all, i would use it to take lots of pictures of my friends. I would also use it to draw things wherever i want. I cant wait to buy this thing.

Like I said before, i got impressed by the things that it does. One of the things that i liked the most about this new technology was the way of taking pictures. It was amazing how just a wierd pose of your hands could take a photo. However, even though this is prototype is cool, it haves its disadvantages. For example, who wants to wear a helmet with a camera on top of it each day?
I think it looks retarded to use that in the street. Anyways, i hope this thing gets simplier.

Open source means to share the technology information. Ithink its pretty cool to share that new dvice information. However, it s a bad idea at the same time. I think the idea can be stolen very easily. Somebody could hear how to do it, and then stole the information and say is his invention. So, thats what i think about open source.

Christmas Break

In this christmas break i did sort of cool things. At first, I was very occupied sleeping for a whole week. In that week I went to sleep until 3 in the morning and i would wake up till 3 p.m. I didnt hang out a lot with my friends the first days, I just wanted to chill a little. After the first week of christmas break i went to Sebastians house to play in his trampoline and go water ski the next morning with Mateo. It was a lot of fun because we also did wakeboarding. At 8 p.m. we all went to my house to use sebastians new video game for Wii. We spent the rest of the night playing that game and seeing a movie.

In the day after christmas i was very busy preparing the stuff for the party. Every christmas all my family (all means: cousins grandparents parents brothers and much more) comes to my house to celebrate it. Its not that i hate doing that, is just that is kind of irritating wasting your day just to make a cool party for your family. Anyways, the party was pretty cool and every one got at least two present from somebody else. I had really awesome gifts too, but my favorite one was a electric shecter guitar from the band "Avenged Sevenfold." This gift was from my dad and it cost a lot of money. I was expecting to receive it until January 6 cause you only find this guitar in Korea or in U.S.

In New Years Eve i went to sebastians house. Hes mom invited at least 70 people to his house. Most of these people i didnt know but some of them I did. After a couple of hours we had some dinner. We decided to sit on a armchair just the three of us, Sebastian, Mateo and I. We ate lasagna and drinked Pepsi until 12 p.m. When the countdown started, everyone had their grapes except for me. I couldnt find them and when i did their were already run out.

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