Stop-Motion Reflection

Finally! Im almost done with my stop-motion project. Many people ask me how I came up with my idea (Shampoo Dragon) Well it wasn't easy, it took me a couple of hours to decide if to do it or not. I choose this becuase the shampoo bottle looked like a dragon, so it was easy to figure it out. The first skecth I drew was very simple, but as the project went by I made it more elaborate. It madde the video much more interesting, so it all turned out to be perfect. There were many challenges making the video. Fiesrt of all was making the dragon, that took a lot of time. The making the fire stick forward, in some parts of the video you can se a bit of my hand, but barely. But all in all, it was fun making the video, especially seeing as it turned out. The transformation was great! If I had to change anything I would change how the camera moves. During the video it shakes a lot, so thats what I would change. I would definetely choose animation as a carrer, its awesome!

My Medium

To begin my stop motion project I will buy tons of plasticine. Since Im going to be making a shamppo bottle into a dragon, it will require a lot of time and patience. The reason im doing it in plasticine is becuase I think its easier than drawing it. I considered charchaol drwing before plasticine, I hope my choice is the best. The most challenging will be molding the playdoo into a dragon. It has to be near perfection in order to look good.

Stop Motion

Stop Motion is when you take a series of photos and put all together in a sequence. It gives a viewer perspetive of something new and creative. I dont know how else to explain it. This type of art making is incredible, I really like it. I think people like to make these animations because they are fun and great to make. And if you make it right, you get a really awsome. Especially if you dont put the citures in order, you will really mess up. You have to follow the right steps in order to have a great video. Im beginning to make one myself. Included in this blog, I will include two of my favorite stop motion videos.




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William Kentridge

Kentridge's work makes me feel light headed. He will draw and animate anyhting. He will just draw random stuff. He has a poetic look to his drawings. Anyway, if I had to describe his drawings to a blind person, I would say beautiful. His drawings may be random, but they have their beauty to them. He makes beautiful anitmations. This is what he does.

His process of working is very hard. He has to draw something then erase it. Then he has to draw another picture and erase it t make a new one. Its hard but its worth it becuase he does beautiful animations with stop motion. He is a really god artist.

Mash-Up?

A mash-up is a combination of 2 or more songs to make a new one. A friend recently recommended this is one, its by Jay Z and Linkin Park. I heard it and it is pretty good. Also, I heard this other one by DJ Earworm. Its also very ggod. I personally think mash-ups are cool. They take a lot of skill since you have to combine 2 songs. I good mash-up is made by making the 2 or more songs sound right. They have to go together, even if they are very different from each other. A bad one is made when the songs don't combine at all. They will sound awful. I think that people that make mash ups are true musicians. Even if they dont make the music, they still make a song. Thats what I think. Ive only listened to DJ Earworm. So.........these are my thoughts.

Laser Contacts

Creating the Laser-Contacts was a really time-taking and frustrating job. First of all, because finding the right picture was really hard. I had to find a picture of someone holding a box of them and shooting out of their eyes at the same time. But then I found the picture of a commercial, that photo was really helpful. Also, I had to erase any other thing that contradicted what I was creating. It also took alot of time and I wanted it to look at least a bit realistic. Anyway, I managed to pull through and finish. Even if it looks a little bit fake, Id like to see you try. Photoshop is hard stuff!!!

Here is a LINK to Juan Pablo's job on Photoshop. I personally think its pretty good. But I know he hardly did any work on it. The thing that took him the most was the robo-surfers. But all in all its pretty well done. Well done JP!

I would buy both products stated here. Ive always wanted to shoot lasers out my eyes! I hope the laser contacts will be made when im older. Also, I wish the Wave Master was also for sale. It would be awesome to be able to control the waves. I could surf the biggest wave ever! I hope both of these artifacts will be invented while im alive.

Artifact Of The Future Picture

Artifact From The Future

Contact lenses that fire laser. Everybodys dream is to be able to shoot laser out of your eyes. I will make a person grabing a box of contact lenses and he willl be firing through his eyes. It is acually quite simple but effective.

Family Reunion

The most challenging thing I had to do for this family tree project was getting the picture in the frame. It took me a long time just to get the pictures. Then I had to make them bond with the frames. After that I had to blur the pictures out just so I could write this blog. Sometimes I think Photoshop is harder than I thought.

Anyways, al of this remind me of the time this summer when I went to Barcelona. I got together will ALL of my dads family. I did not know I had that much family. We had lunch together then we all just sat in the yard and took pictures. After that we ate marshmellows in the yard with a small contolled fire. However I then met my mother family. I have alot of cousins. They enjoyed the same things I did. It all pretty much went well.

Family Tree

I choose an apple tree because my family in Mexico City has one in their backyard. I also like because the apples are delicious. My whole family during Christmas bakes apple pies from the trees.m I also choose it because the tree is simply beautiful. It shows my love for my family. This is why I choose an Apple tree for my family tree.

JOY

I went to my friends house to spend the night and played a bb gun war. At first it was hard because my brother and his friend were always hiding. Until they started to shoot back was when it got intense. My friend shot his brother in the head(he was wearing a mask) and he also shot my brother in the stomach twice. Then we played a second round which was harder because we were in the bottom floor. It turned out easier than I thought because I shoot my friends brother in the finger. He was out and after that I shot my brother in the head. We had won the first and second round that easy!

For myself Id like to get a kite. The kite would be awesome because I live in front of the beach and there is always wind. Firstly because they are very expensive and want to learn how to kite surf. Secondly beacuse a lot of my friends are doing it and convince me to do it. Also, since I was little Id watch them go by while I was wishing to learn and practice it. However, I have to work for the money and the lessons if I want to finally kite surf. Thats the only thing I would get for myself.

The special part of me that makes very special is that I am fun! I try to be funny and goof off to make people think im a fun person. Also, Im a very fun person to be around. I do silly things and encorage people to have fun, it usually works because like people having me around. Hoewever, I am not that funny, sometimes I pull off a very good prank and make everyone laugh. I like to create a fun enviroment for people around me. It usually makes people more comfortable. This is a special part of me.

MAP Testings.......Over and Over Again

Well last week I finished my MAP testings prettty well. Even thoughj these test are a pain in the butt, we miss alot of class time. Anyhow, My math score was pretty high, I got a 252. Which is very high for someone muy age. My language score was 223, its pretty low because Im not very good with words.....Also my Reading score was 231, it was very high. I over passed my last score in October. Speaking of October, here is my description of these tests. Theyre a living hell. These tests will bore the living out of you. No joke. This man in the picture was probaly me during those tests.

Sitting:

Presentations

Today I saw many presentaions. My favorite, of course was mine. But I graded Jualians and I liked it. I would change mine a little bit. I would put some text in it so people can read it and understand. Also, maybe I will try to make it a little bit more informative so I can really help out these new seventh graders youll soon be hearing about. These students will write on this webpage too. So in the end my presentation was choosen to be presented. Wish me luck!

PowerPoint

Every Word: This means that some people using PowerPoint read everything on their presentation instead of memorizing it.

Spelling: Some people don't use ther spell check. And when you are looking at it you just llok at that person and call him a retard

Bullets: These are meant to write down important key words. Not

• Bullet
• Pointing
• Every
• Word

Color Schemes: Use opposite colors to do your

Earth Day Peer Evaluation

I know realize that my video was kind of messed up now that I saw the rubric. I relly like to change my credits. My partner and I made a huge mistake about the credits. We werent supposed to write our last names. My friend wrote his at the end. It is a huge mistake and it will take of so many points of. Also the fact tht we did not give credit to the REAL makers of the song or the pictures we put. So I gues ill have to re-do a bit of my video. If youd like to see it here is a link.
See ya!

Prompt 94

Right now im going to talk about hard-to-break habits. Some people try as hard thet can, I for instance, my bad habit is to bite my finger nails. Its super hard for me to quit. Once I see that I have a long nail I play with it. But, in the end, I always end up bitting it off. I can only last a week with a pair of long nails. Its very hard for me. =(

On the other hand, I havent been tryng hard enough. I used to put this weird nail polish that made my nails taste like crap. That polish sometimes lasted for weeks and my nails grew ALOT. But anyways, everyone that has this same bad habit should buy this polish, its called "Bite It"

Now Im going to write about a bad experience that happened to thanks to this habit. Well, I had this very long thumbnail. During summer time I started chewing on it. In the end I got home and bit my whole nail off! I had no nail for 2 months, it started bleeding and it hurt like hell. Finally when I got back to school my nail had grown completely back. But now the nail itself is very weak.

SixthSense Project

This is a way of making your life simple. As I am watching this video I realize how much we are evolvong. Its amazing how this thing helps you in so many ways, you cant realize.I want one of these things it is very cool and its light. This project will help alot of people, by making their bagage much for lighter for carriyng their computers, iphones, ipod etc. The person that invented this is a genius. This project is much more simple and sufisticated way of life. I want one of these beacuse I can carry anything and just use it whenever I want, its light and easy to carry. This a great invention.

This new tecnology, has no limitations. This tecnology can practically do anything. From playing movie or use for a computer. This is amazing thing and greatest thing ever invented. This adjust our way of life with no bounds. This little machine is the way to a new life.

In the end this object is quite cheap. The creater made it an open source, meaning that the product is in promotion and the other models of it are all over this source. This also means that there is a variety of enhance models of this product.

Winter Break

On Winter Break I always seem to end up here in my Puerto Vallarta, my home. I've never left Vallarta for Christmas, so I spent most of my time at the beach. My aunt and uncle al ways come for Christmas Day and New Year's day too. They came the 18th of December, two days after I had finished school. When they came we spent alot of time at my grandma's house up at the beach. Some days were just perfect to go to the beach, some we just stayed at home and whent out to eat.

On Christmas Eve my grandamas best friend invited the whole family out to their place to have some turkey and enjoy some fireworks out in their front lawn. In the end my brother fell asleep on the ground, that was the sign that it was time to go home. The next morning my brother woke up all the family members at 7 a.m. just to open all the presents, I was so tired that I completely ignored him until he shot me with an airsoft gun. (BB gun) We went over to my grandamas house and had ham instead of turkey. We all enjoyed that Christmas day more than ever.

On New Years Eve we had gone to buy tiny fireworks for the whole night. My mom was trying to prepare the turkey for the next day, and every ona was getting dressed and ready for that long night. When the time finally came I readied my fireworks for the count down, everything was going fine until the last one landed in the water. That was a shame, they were so cool but I still had more to throw and burn. One of the fireworks almost exploded while I was still holding it in my hand, I could have lost my hand! In the end I had a very good night.

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