Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012


1. Who is the architect? Tom Wright
2. When was it built? 1994
3. Where is it located? Dubai, United Arab Emirates
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? It is a hotel you can stay at.
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? no
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? To have a building iconic and symbolic to Dubai.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)
I chose to do this building because it was in Dubai and I know they have interesting and futuristic style buildings and I wanted to gain more knowledge about them. Also it was interesting because it's a hotel on it's own artificial island and the building itself looks so amazing. I'd like to visit this place someday. Where is it located?
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it?
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build?

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Nicholas Grimshaw
2. When was it built? took 2 1/2 years to construct and opened May 17, 2001
3. Where is it located? Cornwall, United Kingdom
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? open to the public, largest green house in the world, and live performances held there.
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? no
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? It was made to be an attraction.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)
I chose this building because it had an interesting name and I wanted to see what the architecture looked like. I also chose it because it was in the UK and I know how they have a lot of beautiful open grassland and the name Eden reminded me of the biblical garden in Adam and Eve. When I saw it, it looked so interesting and I wanted to see what it was used for.




1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Santiago Calatrava
2. When was it built? Built August 27, 2005
3. Where is it located? Oresund, Sweden
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? It is a private residential building but open at the top to public a few times in the summer.
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? no 
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? To attract and create living space for residents.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)
The name "Twisting Torso" sounded so appealing and I imagined a twisted building. I wanted to see how amazing that architecture would be. When I saw it looked really and so amazing that people actually live in it. It also stands out the most of the whole city in sweden and it also reminded me of a building in Dubai that also twists.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Charles Deaton
2. When was it built? Also known as the Sleeper House built in 1963
3. Where is it located? Genesse Mountain in Denver, Colorado
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? It is private and on the market.
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? No but it is now worth 10 million
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? At first it was a sculpture then used an a scifi tv series called Sleeper.
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)
  I chose this building because I thought it looked really interesting and futuristic to have been built in the 60's. I also wanted to know where in the United States it was located in and if it was an actual house or a museum. Also I love where it's located, almost in the middle of no where, and how private it looks. It just seems like a place where I'd like to go and visit and wished I lived in.
1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Antoni Gaudi
2. When was it built? 1912
3. Where is it located? Barcelona, Spain
4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? They were apartment buildings and now it's a well known museum.
5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? No
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? It was built for a wealthy couple, Roser Segimon and Pere Mila 
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) 
I chose this building because it was a very interesting looking building seemingly to be made out of rocks. I also wanted to know more of the Spanish buildings and the area they were built in. I was also curious on who built it and if it was still some sort of hotel or condos for the wealthy. It really looked unique and makes you want to go visit it.


Thursday, April 19, 2012

News Story #1 Pilot sets airplane into a dive when he mistakes an ongoing airplane by the planet Venus

Who? The pilot
Who was involved? The pilot and the passengers of flight 878 on Air Canada
Who did the situation affect? Mainly the passengers
Who said so? CNN

What? The pilot mistook the ongoing plane for Venus
What is happening? The ordeal that the pilot didn't know what was going on when he woke up
What did happen? The pilot over napped and woke up after 75 min.
What are the consequences? The passengers getting injured
What is different about this? That it is sort of a funny mistake
What are the choices? Pilot shouldn't have taken a nap

When? At night
When did or will this happen? This happened January 14, 2011
When was this discovered? As soon as the landed in Switzerland injured passengers and all were treated.

Where? In the air, the plane coming from Toronto, Canada
Where did or will this happen? 35,000 feet from the air

Why? Pilot took a nap
Why did this happen or will it happen? Pilot was only suppose to take a 40 min nap but it turned to like a 75 min nap.


How? When the pilot thought he saw Venus he completely descended the plane quickly
How did it or will it happen? He acted quickly
How much does it cost? nothing, just people's injuries
How many people does this affect? The passengers and attendants that got hurt.
How do you feel about this? Pilots should be more careful in what they do as all these lives depend on them. 

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Student Of the Month Interview answers

1. Rebecca Barerra
2. 11th grade
3. I feel good and I deserved this.
4. Have perfect attendance and have good grades.
5. I make A's and B's.
6. I stay after school and come during lunch.
7. Yes, for the majority of the time.
8. Yes, but sometimes I have tardies.
9. They would have to be my math and English teachers.
10. My favorite subject would have to be math.
11. I think it was my English teacher.
12. That they should always do good and be a good student.
13. Don't slack off.
14. I do my work and keep to myself.
15. Three hours a day.
16. I do like the academy I'm in with all it's interesting classes.
17. Occasionally I do stay after school.
18. At times I do help out.
19. On working and getting homework done.
20. To graduate and go to college.

Student of the month Interview

1.   What is your name?
2.   What grade are you in?
3. How do you feel about accomplishing this?
4. What are the things you had to do to become student of the month?
5. What kind of grades do you make?
6. What do you do to make good grades?
7. Do you enjoy coming to school?
8. Do you have good attendance?
9. What teachers do you like the most?
10. What's your favorite subject?
11. What teacher do you think nominated you?
12. What advice can you give a student to be student of the month?
13. What advice can you give to get good grades?
14. What is your daily routine during school?
15. How much do you study out of school?
16. Do you like the academy you're in?
17. Do you stay after school for tutoring?
18. Do you help out certain teachers?
19. What things do you focus on out of school?
20. What are your parent's expectations?

Interviews

Assignment #1: School Uniforms

I would interview the principal of the school, the Super indendant of AISD, and a teacher from our school to get more information on this topic.

Questions:
1. Why all of a sudden is there a need for uniforms?
2. Who came up with this idea?
3. Do you think students are okay with this idea?
4. How are the students going to react to this?
5. Do you think getting uniforms will prevent problems?
6. Will students follow this sudden policy?
7. What will these uniforms look like?
8. Will these uniforms be likeable or somewhat appealing?
9. What are the staff and teachers opinion towards this change?
10. Is this new policy dabateable?
11. Do the students have a say in this?
12. Will all AISD schools have to wear uniforms?
13. Will teachers need a uniform as well?
14. Will this make going to school a little more boring?
15. Can this positively influence students to focus more on school?
16. Will this cause less PDA within our hallways?
17. Will more students be on time?
18. Can this change influence student behavior?
19. Is there going to be uniforms to choose from?
20. Are they all going to be the same colors throughout the district?

Friday, April 13, 2012

Action Photo shoot

Daniel is running towards me as the main subject from the the top of the field. He was about to attack me until i fell back at his charge.

Lauren is running across the field to Daniel as he he waits on the other side. This is her boyfriend that she has not seen in over a year.

This is the panning shot of Daniel running as fast as he can across the field. He is running to go beat up the guy that tried talking to Lauren.

In this blurry picture both subjects are completely blurred and Daniel is about to hit Lauren with a ball. He is mad at her for talking to the boy back.

Yearbook Layout- Charlie boy!

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Creating depth

The rule used in this photo is depth because you can see the horses and the grass on the ground to the hills and mountains, all the way to the high sky with clouds.

Saudi Arabians take matters into their own hands

A Saudi Arabian man along with his army go on a strike yesterday afternoon at the town square and try to set towns on fire with home-made bombs. They are upset with the U.S soldiers taking over their towns.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Japanese Earthquake!!

Shows how tough it was for everyone to go through this tragedy just as this woman can't help but cry. The photographer took this picture in simplicity as the subject that is in important here is the woman crying. He blurred the background a little so we could fully emphasize of the woman's emotions.
This shows how much everything was buried into the ground and how disastrous the tsunami was. The photographer shot this with the composition of viewpoint from the ground so it emphasizes the mess and the soldiers in the background.

This is a good photograph that captured how the water took over the city. It's shot in depth so that you're able to see everything being hit. From the mountains in the background to the water hitting the streets. It's crazy to see how exactly the water striking started to hit the city.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Front Pages of the World

My favorite newspaper front page of the world is "The Examiner" of Washington D.C because it's got a lot of stories and information even though it may look to crowded up together, that's how I would enjoy reading a newspaper. My favorite headline is "Looking to kill" because it interests me on a possible murder story in which stories like those appeal to almost everyone. There is only one full story. All newspaper front pages have in common that they all have headlines or have small paragraphs of all the stories within the newspaper. Things that very are the amount of headlines and stories there are and how many pictures there are.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Crawford Educational Complex Yearbook

Crawford Educational Complex is in 4191 Colts Way San Diego, California 92115.
This yearbook has 192 pages and there is 7 sections which are STUDENT LIFE, SENIORS, CLUBS, ATHLETICS,UNDERCLASS, FACULTY, CLOSING. Some of the sports played here are tennis, football, cheer-leading, volleyball,track, soccer,basketball,wrestling, baseball and softball, badminton, and golf. Some of the clubs students can join here are yearbook, CHAMPs, JROTC, peer helping, video, mecha (heritage club), and cheer. The school colors are white, blue, and crimson. The theme of this yearbook is Crimson, white and blue always. In each section the titles are three words like"crimson white blue" and each page has the same ribbon on it and the colors are throughout every page. This book has been published for five years now. The editors in chief are Crysany Smith and Sara Tall. The advisor is Kelcie Butcher. My favorite spread was the cheerleader spread because I liked how the pictures were put on there and how there was chants written out at the bottom of the spread. I liked how the yearbook theme was expressed throughout the whole book but if I had to change it I would have added a more appealing theme. Yes I would like to go to that school because they seem very school spirited and it seems like they have a lot of activities to choose from.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Cover Types

In magazines, the have four different types of covers for it. There's the early magazine covers, the poster cover, pictures married to type, and the forest of words cover. 

In the earliest magazine covers starting in the 1700s they didn't really have covers but dedicated the first page with the title and just the table of contents. They usually looked like book-like layouts and just a small illustration. They usually had pictures that revealed nothing about the content inside of it. So generally most magazines didn't have covers and if they did it was mainly to put the table of contents on.

In the poster cover magazines became the type of magazine cover that became the most popular for a period of time. It was mostly artwork and the covers on the over sized magazines looked as if you could post them up as a poster, hence the name. It was good way to show off art work as well. In the 20th century, instead of art displayed it was photographs and sometimes used for magazine covers to portray a special issue and directed to more upscale readers. The main reason to use poster covers is the competition of the audience attention over all the covers because with just one thing on it, the main focus, will call more attention over the interesting issue, whatever it may be.

The difference between the the poster covers and married to type is that married to type's purpose were the big headlines to help draw more attention. Having words around the focus helps sometimes at depth and contrast of colors. This poster cover did not beat the attention to the poster cover but then during the 70's it was better, a magazine that had no cover lines. It was used mostly in fashion magazines that accentuated the nature of what fashion is. Then most of married to type covers changed and there was more words and now sometimes in front of some of the picture and became an advertiser type.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Best yearbook Spread and Newspaper

Favorite yearbook spread


http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/newspaperid/730/Default.aspx

Newspaper ^

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Photoshop Fun!



My Holiday Break

During the entire break I flew down by myself to LA to visit all my family that I hadn't seen for a year. Every single day I was over there I did something fun but my highlight was getting a tattoo in Hollywood and going to the Laker game. It was amazing sitting there at a real game and cheering on my team.

This year I have many resolutions for myself. I plan to lose weight and get back to shape with my gym membership. I won't be to school late anymore and will go to sleep early every night. I need to find a new job so that when I'm in college I have a steady job. This year I looked forward to growing up more, starting college and beginning a new life style.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Biggest Sport Entertainer of 2011-Kobe Bryant





I think the biggest sport entertainment of every year until he retires will be Kobe Bryant because I am a dye hard Laker fan and he's a great MVP!! Every time basketball season comes around and the Lakers make it to the championship (: Kobe always excels. Watching him play gets you all hyped up and anxious because you expect him to make every shot he goes for and to me he never dissapoints.

Most Important Person of 2011-Hilary Clinton


I thought Hilary Clinton was the most important person because I think she's an extraordinary smart woman that should of deserved a position of being our president and change America's perception of women forever. Even though she didn't make it to be president I'm glad she made it into office as our secretary of state.

Most Important News Story of 2011-Prince Williams marries Catherine Middleton


I chose this as the most important news story because everyone wanted to see who the next queen of England was going to be!! It was exciting to see who Prince William chose to be his wife and queen and I thought Catherine or "Kate" was a good pick. It was interesting to see how massive and elegant the wedding was and how beautiful everything looked.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Favorite movie of 2011- Breaking Dawn

Even though I'm not a Twilight die hard fan I really liked this movie and the whole plot as well as the ending. It got me to want to be more into the Twilight saga and I can't wait for part two to come out. It was really romantic yet funny and at times it left me with anticipation because I thought Bella was going to die. This was a good movie that highlights 2012 because the day it came out it had everyone waiting in line to see it and now I get why.

Best Song of 2012- You Da One by Rihanna

I personally love all of Rihanna's songs for they are all catching and have good beats but I thought this one was one of her greatest. I liked what the lyrics were and the way she sang it. It was good for 2011 because it is a very popular song of her new album and had an appealing music video along with it. She had many hit songs this year as her own character developed even more and as her look kept changing.

Three Favorites of 2011

This was one of my favorites because I thought it was the most important for the tenth year of 911 never comes again and it's great way to commemorate it.


This one I liked also because it was great news to our country and especially our heroes and it was a great relief for everyone.

This was also a great picture and a reminder of a huge devastation happening to Japan this year, one of our allies.