I think the main thing that I will remembet about Evelyn's preformance was the fact that she was deft, but she still was an amazing musician. kind of like Beethoven, and whats even cooler is that she used the vibrations, that went through her body to figure out the notes and keys she was playing. thats just so epic!
For the most part when she was playing on some of her instruments she had up there, i felt very sleepy.
Especially when she was playing the Marimba, i also might have felt tired since i had woken up really early that morning, hehe.
During the film when she was holding the "sticks" just above the Merimba, i realized she was right, I did find myself imagining music being played, or finding myself straining my ears to hear the sound that was being played. If any.
Well i think a big "reason" why people don't listen to the same music is, (this sounds very cheese), everbody is different. one person might not listen to metal, because maybe of their religion, or someone might only like country, cause, thats all they think is good music. Or someone may listen to all types of music, because they might think that any music with a good beat or rhythm, is good music.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Sustainability Visit
I was unable to put my video of the interview on my blog, so i had to put it on youtube.
Here is a direct link to the video.
Here is a direct link to the video.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The Garden
Today in Humanities my class went to the senior garden. my group interveiwed Leland, one of the seniors working on the garden, some questions I asked him were:
1. what is the purpose of the garden?
answer: "well it's one way to live a healthier sustainable life style"
2. what kinds of plants are you growing here?
answer: "snapdragon, zuquini, squash, lavender, basil, eggplants, roses, strawberries, carrots, watermelon
flowers, artichokes, onions, bananas, shard, pumkins, and some other that i forgot the names of.
3. how long has this garden been "around"
answer: "since last year i think, but we recently started tending to it at the begining of this year"
4. what will happen to this garden when summer break comes around?
answer: "well, some people will come back and tend to it, but not everyone, I mean I know I will"
Questions in class
1. what struck you as interesting about the garden?
what struck me the most interesting about this garden was the way they "make" their fertilizer.
they got a pile of w/e debris they found around the place and let it sit int the sun for a while.
2. what was the garden you expected?
i think i expected, well something a little bigger maybe. but then again, they said that the soil was pretty crappy... so i guess it might have not been much bigger. and other than that i didnt expect much else. I mean they had a various number of different plants and such.
3. do you think the garden is sestainable?
for the most part i think this garden is sestainable, i mean if people come back to work on it like Leland said it will turn out pretty well in the future.
4. what would you change about the garden?
i would change nothing, the garden right now is perfect, its simple, not to much, not to little. And what they are growing there, i might change that... well i'd put some more plants of some sort in it maybe some lettece, or some orange trees.
1. what is the purpose of the garden?
answer: "well it's one way to live a healthier sustainable life style"
2. what kinds of plants are you growing here?
answer: "snapdragon, zuquini, squash, lavender, basil, eggplants, roses, strawberries, carrots, watermelon
flowers, artichokes, onions, bananas, shard, pumkins, and some other that i forgot the names of.
3. how long has this garden been "around"
answer: "since last year i think, but we recently started tending to it at the begining of this year"
4. what will happen to this garden when summer break comes around?
answer: "well, some people will come back and tend to it, but not everyone, I mean I know I will"
Questions in class
1. what struck you as interesting about the garden?
what struck me the most interesting about this garden was the way they "make" their fertilizer.
they got a pile of w/e debris they found around the place and let it sit int the sun for a while.
2. what was the garden you expected?
i think i expected, well something a little bigger maybe. but then again, they said that the soil was pretty crappy... so i guess it might have not been much bigger. and other than that i didnt expect much else. I mean they had a various number of different plants and such.
3. do you think the garden is sestainable?
for the most part i think this garden is sestainable, i mean if people come back to work on it like Leland said it will turn out pretty well in the future.
4. what would you change about the garden?
i would change nothing, the garden right now is perfect, its simple, not to much, not to little. And what they are growing there, i might change that... well i'd put some more plants of some sort in it maybe some lettece, or some orange trees.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Food inc.
What struck me the most was how little say we have in how are foods are produced, i mean the USDA basically has no power, and the food companies have to many protections and to much money to do anything against them. (this also made me think of idiocracy, you know when brawndo just bought every major company).
A concept i agree completely with, that was in food inc, is that some families eat unhealthy and when they want to buy healthier food it's to expensive. Unlike fast food which is very cheap.
Well the only "solution" that comes to mind is basically just raise money or cut bills on the house, like the electricity bill, the water bill and other bills.
Question: What do your parents or family members think?
Reactions to food inc.
Dad reaction (in his words): i was disgusted and frightened. The fact that our food supply is controlled by a handful of companies shows me that we are in a precarious position. reliance on a few crops, soy beans and corn mostly, put us at risk of famine, should something attack those crops. The Irish potato famine comes to mind.
that however was not the worst of it. The fact that Monsanto owns the genetics of one of the largest crops in this country, and that they can prevent a farmer from saving his seeds, is an example of evil in our modern world.
The fact that our Government has put the job of regulating, and protecting us from these companies in the hands of men and women who have worked, or are still working, for the very companies that they are supposed to regulate left me with a sense of despair and betrayal.
There were a few rays of hope. the women trying to get "Kevin's Law" passed, and the farmer dedicated to farming the proper way, (as nature intends and support his efforts), were a bit of light in a dark subject.
I hope we can bring these companies to heel before the problems caused by agribusiness become irreversible.
Mom's reaction (in her own words): I have known about some of this within the food industry, for years. I'm very sad about the treatment of farm animals and the conditions they live in.
So many people can't afford to buy organic because it is really expensive. I know that the only way things will really change is if we as a nation stop buying GMO product and just buy "natural" and organic and that can't happen unless the prices go down on those foods.
I personally try hard to buy foods with high quality ingredients, and fresh vegetables in season. I might add tho, that our grocery bill is the biggest expenditure for our family.
As depressing as the KPBS program was, I see hope in the food industry because there are Farmers Markets, Peoples, Whole Foods and Henry's providing better quality produce, meats and dry goods.
The public needs to be educated and this special was an eye opener and will rejuvenate me to look even closer at what I buy.
A concept i agree completely with, that was in food inc, is that some families eat unhealthy and when they want to buy healthier food it's to expensive. Unlike fast food which is very cheap.
Well the only "solution" that comes to mind is basically just raise money or cut bills on the house, like the electricity bill, the water bill and other bills.
Question: What do your parents or family members think?
Reactions to food inc.
Dad reaction (in his words): i was disgusted and frightened. The fact that our food supply is controlled by a handful of companies shows me that we are in a precarious position. reliance on a few crops, soy beans and corn mostly, put us at risk of famine, should something attack those crops. The Irish potato famine comes to mind.
that however was not the worst of it. The fact that Monsanto owns the genetics of one of the largest crops in this country, and that they can prevent a farmer from saving his seeds, is an example of evil in our modern world.
The fact that our Government has put the job of regulating, and protecting us from these companies in the hands of men and women who have worked, or are still working, for the very companies that they are supposed to regulate left me with a sense of despair and betrayal.
There were a few rays of hope. the women trying to get "Kevin's Law" passed, and the farmer dedicated to farming the proper way, (as nature intends and support his efforts), were a bit of light in a dark subject.
I hope we can bring these companies to heel before the problems caused by agribusiness become irreversible.
Mom's reaction (in her own words): I have known about some of this within the food industry, for years. I'm very sad about the treatment of farm animals and the conditions they live in.
So many people can't afford to buy organic because it is really expensive. I know that the only way things will really change is if we as a nation stop buying GMO product and just buy "natural" and organic and that can't happen unless the prices go down on those foods.
I personally try hard to buy foods with high quality ingredients, and fresh vegetables in season. I might add tho, that our grocery bill is the biggest expenditure for our family.
As depressing as the KPBS program was, I see hope in the food industry because there are Farmers Markets, Peoples, Whole Foods and Henry's providing better quality produce, meats and dry goods.
The public needs to be educated and this special was an eye opener and will rejuvenate me to look even closer at what I buy.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Dialectic Journal
Quote:
"If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said
all day,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you. If you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't
understood a single word you've said all week,' Ms. Smith is going to hate you five times as much. And
if you raise your hand and say, 'Gee, Ms. Smith, I haven't understood a single word you've said all year,'
Ms. Smith is going to pull out a gun and shoot you."
What this quote makes me think of is, (shudder), my 8th grade social studies "experience" so to speak.
Mainly it was my teacher... she was the meanest, shrewdest, nastiest short lady I ever layed eyes on!
Except her name wasn't Ms. Smith, her name was... well i can't say, me and my freinds swore to never say her name, ever, thats how evil she was! lol. Well i'm not going to go into detail about why she was, but i can tell you a few things of why everyone and i do mean everyone (even the principal) hated, well not really, lets say everyone "disliked" her: For one thing, if you wanted to go to the bathroom at any time during class, shed make you stay after school for 25 minutes, or after class, whichever she thought you "needed" as she called it. And if she did make you stay after class, shed let you go after the 25 minutes were up and then she wouldn't give you a late pass to explain why you were late to you other class, ugg that made me so mad!
Another reason is that she gave everyone detention, even for the stupidest things, like getting up to sharpen your pencil, even after she said you could, im serious on this. she had this weird religion... pretty sure it was called GiveDetentionOutToEveryoneIcan-ism! lol or G.D.O.T.E.I-ism for short :)
Ya and i'm pretty sure she would shoot you also if you said that you hadn't followed anything she said all year, and then she'd dig up you body after the funeral and put a big fat "F" on your dead forehead.
Na im kidding..
or am I?
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mitch's tragedy
After Burn
A cold icy forbearing gripped my heart as I listened to the horrible screams and moaning of towns’ folk being incinerated in the scorching heat of mid morning day sunrays. What a horrible sound, I thought to myself. What would death feel like when it came? Sure everyone thought that death would be sanctity from this burning rock we call a planet, but in my mind all I could think about was our family’s most precious secret. Rather than sharing this new found treasure so we might start plant life growing again, we have felt it within ourselves to keep it secret from everyone! And I can’t take this guilt anymore. Its time I do something about it! Its time I bring balance back to our world!
As sweat dripped down my face as I crept around my house careful not to wake any of my family up. As soon as my things were packed I quickly headed out into the morning dusk. And without another look I walk, with my back turned, away from my home. As every hour passes I can sense the mid morning coming nearer and nearer. Increasing my pace I look around wildly for an escape hole, so I might avoid the sun’s rays. A breath of relief spread through my body as I find one running as fast as I can I dive into the hole and slammed the hatch shut, blocking out most if not all of the harmful rays of the “burning star.” And there I lay until evening when the world turns to the moon when the sun will have no effect on my journey. Tired and out of breath, with most of my bodies strength nearly gone, I decide to rest and recuperate for a while, and with that I drift off into sleep.
“Sir! Sir! We found another one,” said an excited solider.
“Well done Captain Edward, said Overseer Roderick, I think another promotion is in order, congratulations new Assistant Overseer Edward”
“Uhh…” Jason mumbled
“Oh look he’s waking up, quick assistant overseer fetch the medic,” exclaimed the overseer.
“Yes sir” Edward said with a salute to his forehead.
“Uhh… where am I?” asked Jason.
“Why you’re at base camp”
I clap silently inside my head with glee that I had made it to base camp, and with that I drift into slumber once again.
As my eyes blink open I hear the overseer yelling something about a plant called Nectross Fermentis, but that’s all I heard before my vision blurred and I fell asleep again.
I woke up again to the sound of someone tapping on a wooden desk very violently, but as I raised my head the tapping ceased and in a calm voice the overseer addressed me, “oh good you’re awake, now have you ever seen a plant like this?”
He held up a blue-ish colored plant with green buds and pedals that seemed to resemble the welcoming arms of an angel from heaven, but in opposite of the plants beauty it carried a grotesque smell that seemed to reek out of the scar in it’s stem.
“Yes” I replied
“Do you know what it can do?”
“Yes” I answered
“Where did you get it?”
“From my family’s greenhouse sir. We have kept it alive for about hundreds of years and I have come to rid myself of my family’s guilt by coming here. You see I was planning to plant it during mid morning so it would spread thirty five times as fast as normal. This way it can release toxins to cure the dreaded disease and make the burning sun rays bearable, and I had hoped you could help” answered Jason
“Well, I’m afraid that I cant let you do that, for you see if you did it would bring the plants back.”
“I know. That’s why I want to release the Fermentis into the earth.”
“Unfortunately we have to kill you for we have rules here and those rules include, that if anyone knows how to bring back the plants must die, and their family to!”
“No! You can’t!” yelled Jason
“I can” the Overseer answered calmly
“NO!” without thinking I lunged at him, but he was too fast, he was behind me and had thrown me against the wall before I could even turn my head.
“Guards! He screamed, take this useless pile of trash to the holding rod outside and let him watch while the sun bakes him alive”
“Yes sir!” they said together, and with that I was being hauled off towards my doom.
Minutes later we were outside, and I could see clearly the shape of the holding rod. It was about ten feet tall and I guessed about one and a half feet in diameter. We were nearly to the holding rod when it hit me, why was I letting these buffoons drag we to my death? I could easily overcome both of them, and so I did. Once we were at the rod and they had taken out the rope, I twisted my wrists so that their hands let go of mine and then I kicked both of them in the chest knocking them onto the ground. The dazed astonishment was all the time I need to get a hold on them and then beat them with my fists until they where out cold. Working fast I picked them up one at a time and tied them against the rod as tight as could. I made sure the knot was unbreakable before racing to the backside of base camp were a small hut was still standing. After checking if it was safe I walked inside and sat down to catch some rest.
“Thwack!” a vigorous slap to the face woke me from my slumber. It was the overseer.
“Why hello there” said the overseer in a mocking tone “I would like inform you that your little act of heroism forced my hand to send someone to kill everyone in your family He is my most skilled assassin and he should be arriving momentarily” the overseer turned his head to the sound of footsteps coming down the hall “ah ha, there he is.”
“I have returned master, the deed is done” said the assassin
“Ah good, good, now to complete your task there is one more concertos family member you need to kill, this one right here, now then Jason its been fun but I’m afraid it is time for you to die, Assassin, kill him”
“With pleasure”
Fast as a cheetah he lunged for my chest with his dagger, but I countered it with a quick spin to the right and then planted my foot on the assassin’s back and shoved him forwards. I looked down at the floor where this man lay, and I felt satisfied, but my satisfaction quickly faded as I saw him turn around and then summersault over me coming at me with his daggers. He charged but I ducked and grabbed his wrists, twisting them in my hand I yanked the daggers free of his hand and threw him through the wall and out onto the dirt outside. Stepping outside as well, I stared at this man and admired how easy it was to defeat him. Just then I noticed him saying something, “Jason, oh Jason what are you going to do know? All of your family has been murdered, doesn’t that fill you with rage, and make you want to bring justice upon the one who killed them, but you probably don’t even care do you! They might as well be worthless piles of sand in your eyes!” mocked the Assassin.
“No shut up you’re wrong!!” Jason yelled
“No I’m right, and you know I am, it’s true and you can not deny it!” said the Assassin
“NOOOOOOO!!! YOUR WRONG!!!” Jason screamed
Letting forth a furious battle cry I charged at him, but as soon as I did I realized he had intended this, and before I could react he had picked up a nearby piece of metal and thrust it through my chest directly through my heart paralyzed I lay there in a pile still overcoming shock of my heart being stabbed out.
“It is done assassin, now hurry leave him, mid morning is approaching let the sun finish him off” said the Overseer
Waiting until they had left, I gathered all of my remaining resources and raised my arm crying from the pain in my chest I thrust the seeds of the nectross fermentis into the air just as the sun peeked over the horizon, and with my last breath I felt satisfied knowing I had fulfilled my purpose on this earth.
“Wait what’s that smell,” questioned the Overseer
“I don’t know sir,” replied the assassin
“Oh no” said the Overseer in a concerned voice
“What is it?” asked the Assassin
“Jason has released the toxins into the air” said the Overseer
“How is that bad?” said the Assassin
“Well remember, Assassin, when I told that if any of those toxins got released that life as we know it would end?” questioned the Overseer.
“Yes sir” answered the Assassin
“Well this is why, many years I discovered, in some ancient textbooks, that our ancestors knew of the plant that Jason carried around, and they said that the toxins wouldn’t bring back life, it would eradicate it.
Link to Zine
Link to Zine
Thursday, January 7, 2010
TT reflection
project decription
the assignment was each of the groups mele and charlotte assigned us, were given a certain civilization and, we had to choose either a boat, a trebuchet, or a water transportation system. that would benefiit our civilization in some way.
process
well the first step we took to the assembly part of our TT project was think of and design a frame for our boat, eventually we decided to make the frame out of PVC piping. the second step we took was, well put together our boat. and then when it came to exibition night we set our boat up in the exact spot we made it in, and showed it off for everyone and explained the process of how our boat came to be.
reflection
i think the main thing i learned was how to work on a project this big with others and not become overly stressed. the biggest challenge i encountered was actually getting all of what we needed to be able to actually build our boat. if i could have changed anything i think i wouldnt have because its was good to work with others u dont normally work with. the main way this will help we in the future, is that i have had more experiance working with others and build a major project with others and experiancing the way thay work well with other.
artifact
this is a pic. of us talking to people about our boat
the assignment was each of the groups mele and charlotte assigned us, were given a certain civilization and, we had to choose either a boat, a trebuchet, or a water transportation system. that would benefiit our civilization in some way.
process
well the first step we took to the assembly part of our TT project was think of and design a frame for our boat, eventually we decided to make the frame out of PVC piping. the second step we took was, well put together our boat. and then when it came to exibition night we set our boat up in the exact spot we made it in, and showed it off for everyone and explained the process of how our boat came to be.
reflection
i think the main thing i learned was how to work on a project this big with others and not become overly stressed. the biggest challenge i encountered was actually getting all of what we needed to be able to actually build our boat. if i could have changed anything i think i wouldnt have because its was good to work with others u dont normally work with. the main way this will help we in the future, is that i have had more experiance working with others and build a major project with others and experiancing the way thay work well with other.
artifact
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