Tuesday, April 26, 2011

ARCITECTS PREVIEW

LA PEDRERA

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)?-Antoni Gaudi
2. When was it built?-1911
3. Where is it located?-Barcelona, Spain
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it?- you can visit or live
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build?- no info on this
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?-said to have been inspired by the mountain of Montserrat, curves around the street corner, while the cave-like balconies seem to flow into one another.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)- i picked this building because i have always wanted to visit Spain. i have always enjoyed the culture and the way the streets and neighborhoods are like.  so when i saw that this building was in Spain i new i just had to check it out.

EDEN PROJECT

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)?-Tim Smit, Nicholas Grimshaw
2. When was it built?-2001
3. Where is it located?- united kingdom
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it?- you can visit
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build?-no info
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?- it was basically just to show people plants and the outdoors and have fun at the same time
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)-i thought it was interesting that there was just  a random bio dome in the UK.


Cubic Houses, Netherlands

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)?- Piet Blom
2. When was it built?-1984
3. Where is it located?-Netherlands
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it?-its private unless u buy to live in
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build?-no info
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?-it was just built as an idea
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)-i picked because i have never seen pictures of the Netherlands. i wanted to see what it was like. and a house on its side just seemed pretty interesting to me.


National Centre for the Performing Arts, China


1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)?- Paul Andreu
2. When was it built?-2001-2007
3. Where is it located?-china
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it?-yes
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build?-not sure bout 300me
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?-so it can be a place for people to preform
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)-i picked this because i am a preformer. i tought it might be cool to see what performing is like in other countries. and because the building looked cool.




Turning Torso, Sweden

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)?- Santiago calatrava
2. When was it built?-2001-2006
3. Where is it located?-Sweden
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it?- yes
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build?-living
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?-no
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)-i picked it because of the name really jumped jout at me. who names a building twisting torso.its kinda crazy and people live in it.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Writing a news lead (lede)

Rosenburg story

who- orphans of the cold war
what- pearents were executed
when-1953
why- for delivering atomic bomb secrets to the soviet union
how- they were executed

THE LEAD SENTENCE- "They were the most famous orphans of the cold war, only 6 and 10 years old in 1953 when their parents were executed at Sing Sing for delivering atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union."

MY LEAD SENTENCE- " as there were many orphans in the cold war this pair was especially interesting because when they were only 6 and 10 the parents were executed for leaking some secrets about the atomic bomb to the soviet union.  


Superman story


who- superman fans and comic book collectors and fisher (seller)
what- superman comics
when-friday0
where-comicconnetct.com
why- to see how much money people will bid
how- internet


THE LEAD SENTENCE- " (CNN) -- After being hidden away for years, a copy of the original "Action Comics No. 1" comic book, featuring Superman and friends, will make a comeback -- to the tune of about $400,000, a comic expert told CNN Thursday."

MY LEAD SENTENCE-  After only making a hundred copies and being put away for years fishler has decide to see how much its worth going on the market as of Friday the bidding has all ready gone up to 400,000 dollars.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

SPORTS/ ACTION AND MORE DETAILS

Name of photographer - alyssa shuckar 2006
General focus of portfolio (photo j, sports, stories, etc.)- story of a girl with an eating disorder
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - the photogrpher didnt really capture the emotional aspect of her disorder, and they said each picture is a little similar distance wise.not enough strong snaps
List two things the judges like-they liked the picture of the Haiti man sweeping, and the girl who fell
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
The story failed to go along and it would sometimes be random and the photos weren't that good.
Name of photographer - Travis Haughton
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- it was a story about a young boy with some kind of disorder and he would show how he was just like the other kids
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - elements like that are sticking out of certain subjects looking akward, also missing things that would make the picture better
List two things the judges like- They liked the sports pictures of the coach and of the baseball player
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?


Name of photographer -Jordan Murph_
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)-His main focus is sports, although, he puts a few random pictures in the portfolio. Plus, he has a photo story, but most of the photos are weak.
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -They didn't like the random picture of the wave. well, they liked it, but it just didn't go with the subject he was  presenting.
They also didn't like how he had a picture of a man with his eyes closed. They were worried, because he started off doing so well, and he just started slacking off.They didn't like the end photos. There is one where he too a picture of a signed CD that they didn't like.
List two things the judges like- They liked the beginning photos. They really like the first one with the volleyball player.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like? I personally liked some of the photos but other ones were pretty bad.

Name of photographer - Dustin Snipes
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)-His main focus was sports
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - They said that the photo of the baseball player's face that is framed by something was maybe a little too much Photoshop.The photo of the swimmers (the first one), they said it was fine, but the top swimmer that was blurred made the photo weaker.The second photo of the swimmers, they said it was chaos, but they liked it.
List two things the judges like-They liked the photo of the man smiling with the bow tie.
They also like the photo of the baseball player catching the ball.
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What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it?
they liked all of his pictures they especially liked how the photographer was right there in the mix of everything
What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses?  The composition of the photos and the way he used to the rules. 

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner.
The composition and stories behind the photos, making sure it was a good photo overall and interesting.

PART 2
1. Describe one photo that you agree with the judges on. Explain why you and the judges do or do not like it.
i did like the last one but it was wierd but i think thats why i liked it i think the judges were right

2. Describe one photo that you do NOT agree with the judges on. Explain why you think the judges are wrong.

basic news writing

1st news story
Who?= austin isd
Who is involved?= pearens, teachers, superintendent
Who does/did the situation affect? teachers, students
Who said so? austin school district budget fourm



What?= budget fourm
What is happening?= talking about cuts in pay and layoffs
What did happen?= a disccusion that talked about cutting 1,153 jobs
What are the consequences?= teachers will lose their jobs
What is different about this?= they are kinda listening to teachers
What are the choices?= pay cut or job



Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen?= to listen to what the people have to say


How?
How did it or will it happen?= school district in debt over 90 million dollars
How much does it cost?= over 90 million
How many people does this affect? =all the students and teachers
How do you feel about this?= like we need alot of help


2nd news story
 Who?
Who is involved?= randy velarde and greg anderson
Who does/did the situation affect?= barry bonds
Who said so?= randy velarde

What?
What is happening?= randy velarde testified that he met with barry bonds manager for steroids
What did happen?= he did meet with the trainor
What are the consequences?= one step closer to finding barry bonds guilty to four counts lying and one count obstruction
What is different about this?= they are finding many player to testifiying aginst barry bonds
What are the choices?= wethar randy will testify aginst bonds or not


When?
When did or will this happen?=2011
When was this discovered?=2011


Where?
Where did or will this happen?= sanfrancisco


Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen?= it was to show that bonds new that his trainor was giving him steroids


How?
How did it or will it happen?= randy testified in court
How much does it cost?= randys rep
How many people does this affect?= any athelet that had to do with barrys trainor
How do you feel about this?= disgusted


3rd news story

Who?
Who is involved?= the japaniese
Who does/did the situation affect?= the japaniese
Who said so?=japans nuclear safty commision

What?
What is happening?= thousands of people were evacuated from fukushima daiichi and may not come home for months
What did happen?= tsunami and an earthquake hit the power plant
What are the consequences?= peoples homes destroyed
What is different about this?= didnt believe the nuclear levels would be high
What are the choices?=no choices

When?
When did or will this happen?=people found out they could still not return on march 31
When was this discovered?=march 31


Where?
Where did or will this happen?=japan


Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen?=mother nature


How?
How did it or will it happen?= tsunami and eathquake hit power plant
How much does it cost?= tons of money
How many people does this affect?= all of japan
How do you feel about this?=terrible and i wish the people of japan well.








When?= march 30, 2011
When did or will this happen?= the fourm meeting
When was this discovered?=2011 school year

Where?
Where did or will this happen?= fourm meeting bowie high school

Friday, April 15, 2011

caption writing warm up

at the austin rodeo jason flufferman chases down a young goat named butter for his final run of the day to win the chapionship. jason has won many chapionships in the past and has ended up in the hospital for getting trapled by a goat but he is a great herder.

rules of photography
1.leading lines
2.framing
3.balance
4.depth

Thursday, April 14, 2011

INTERVIEWING SKILL P2

1. Please come up with 20 questions you could ask them and post them on your blog in a separate post called Student of the Month Interview.
 1. what made you want to strive for student of the month
A, because i will be someone to look up to
 2. what are your strongest subjects
A. math,science
 3. did you go to tutoring on a daily basis
A. no
 4. what did your parents or guardian say about this
A. i was the best child in the world
5. how do you feel knowing youve accomplished this goal
A. im a good student.
 6. when did you decide that you wanted to be student of the month
A. when i thought i had nothing to do
 7. were your friends supportive
A. YES
 8. did your friends know
A. YES
 9. is it going to make youwant to keep working hard in school
A. no
 10. how did this award benefit you
A. teachers let me do whatever i want
 11. do you think you are above every body because of this
A. yes
 12. do you think this will get you a good job
A. yes
 13. would you ever want to be a teacher
A. yes
 14. do you want to go to collage
A. yes
 15. what kind of job would you want to have
to be a nurse
 16. will you graduate early now
A. no
 17. do people come to you for help now
A. yes
18. are people shocked that you got this award
A. yes
19. did you have to have recommendations for this
A, yes
 20. how do your teachers feel
A, they are suprised that i got this award

INTERVIEWING SKILLS p1

1. List three different sources you could interview for this topic.
A. principle, superintendent, pearents.

2. Create 20 questions you could ask each source and post them on your blog. It will be the same 20 questions for each.
A. 1 what is the perpose for a uniform
    2. do you expect kids to were the same cloths every day
    3. do you think kids will break the dress code.
    4. how would you feel if the kids broke the ruleses   
    5. would kids have to purchues these uniforms
    6. what would the uniform require
    7.  would the dress code also include shoes
    8. how would enforcing a dress code make problems at school better.
    9. how is school uniforms a good thing
   10. why do you think students have to wear school uniforms.
   11. would you give the students a break on fridays
    12. why or why not
    13. will you have students take a vote
    14. do you think pearents will support the uniforms
  15. who makes the final descion about the uniforms
  16. what ideas would you have about what the uniforms should be
   17. what will you do if famlies cant aford uniforms
  18. what would the punishment be for a student if he didnt follow the code
  19. will the dress code become a rule in all of aisd
  20. what if the principle is aginst the uniforms

Warm-up and assignment for today-p1

this also showed me what a hard time it must have been for the elderly to get out fast when this was happening. this photographer uses alot of  balance and leading lines and some mergers
this picture made me think about how not just humans but animals were also affected in this tragedy and that they lost their homes to. this photographer used some mergers and balance in this photo
this makes me think about how devastating and power full this was and how nature can just destroy whatever it wants. i think this photographer used alot of leading lines and nice framing.

ELEMENTS OF NEWS

proximity link.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/12/news/economy/gas_prices/index.htm

prominence link
 http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/13/news/economy/obama_debt_plan/index.htm?iid=RNM

timeliness link
http://www.mercurynews.com/barrybonds/ci_17849170?source=rss&nclick_check=1

Oddity link
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/14/independent.fundraisers/index.html

consequence link
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/31/animation.success.go/index.html

conlict link
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/13/somali.pirate.leader.indicted/index.html

human interest link
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/04/14/gabor.baby/index.html

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

CAPTION WRITING PRACTICE

1st sentance- includes major informatinon about the photo (who what when where why how)
also should be written in present tense
2nd sentance- should be past tense and should include background info. info in caption should not be obvious.

caption of courtney
  Courtney Jackson at the akins high school varsity football game watching and hanging out with friends at the burger center. Courtney was a member of the akins step team and captain.

caption of brandon
Brandon Watson a promising player on the akins basket ball team. in the picture he was shooting the final basket of the game.


RULES OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR BRANDON PIC
rule of thirds, background, balance
and good focus, simplicity, mergers, framing, viewpoint

caption of gabe
Gabe Maldonado intensely working on a major project for his art class. he always wanted to be an artist and hope fully sell his art in Paris

RULES OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR GABES PIC
rule of thirds, leading lines, repetition, view point, mergers

caption of owl
in shop class students work hard on completing there abstract sculptures witch were do today.
senior demmaris jackson nervesly holds the owl waiting for to find out his final grade.

Rules of Photography for owl
rule of thirds, mergers, focus

Monday, April 11, 2011

Africa

1. On your blog post your reactions to the power point
A. i think these pictures are very powerful but shows the gental side of the animals
2. What was your favorite photo? Describe it and tell me why its your favorite
A. one of the rhino and you can see his reflection in the puddle of water. this photo is my fav. because its like just vacant empty land and then this big massive creature out of no where standing next to a puddle.
3. Look up the photographer –
a.     What kind of camera did he use?
b.     What is his reason for taking the photos?
c.     What is his hope by taking these types of photos?
d.     Find something he has to say about Africa and post the quote on your blog
A a. pentax 6711 with two fixed lenses 
b.he wasnt really sure he could capture his true emotions for his love of animals on camera like no one has done before.
 c. he thinks that if you get as close as you can to the animal that you can capture its true emotion.
d. "you wouldnt photograph a person from a hundred feet away with a telephoto lens and expect to capture there personality. i feel the same way about photographing animals."

4.