Monday, May 14, 2012

Friday, May 4, 2012

5 W's

Who; Stephen Fishler

What; Owner of a Comic Connect , was biding on a comic classic.He had hiding it for years and he remember about it and took it out, he knew it would be worth alot of money.

When; Friday
Where; He had hiding the comic in his moms basement.

Why;Theirs alot of people who would do anything to buy a comic specially one that has superman.

How;The book is in high demand because there was no such thing as a superhero before superman.

5 W's

Who ; The sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
What ; They confessed that their parents were spy's to Morton Sobell.
When ; It began in July 1950
Where ; At the city College.
Why ; It was a milestone in America's culture wars at the time .The FBI arrested Julius, they cast the Rosenbergs as martyrs.The brothers proclaimed that their parents were framed to feed the cold war hysteria and compestate for America's counterespionage lapses.
How ;Because whatever information their father passed to the the Russians about the atomic bomb was for the best.They believed they were innocent and they tried to prove to them that they were.

Architecture

Do you see some of the styles you have seen so far in this presentation? Yes i see Light, patterns and angels and shapes in the akins images that were token.

DETAILS; This image is detailed because it is zoomed in to be able to the see the drawings and designs it has on it. You only see one corner of the building it is more focused in details.


LIGHT; The lightning on the building is great it has a nice look on it and makes the building standout more. The light gets reflected buy all the sideways windows.



PATTERNS; This building has repeated patterns on it. It has diamond shaped windows and they are all repeated.





ANGELS AND SHAPES; This building is not normal it is in layers.It has a different kind of shape and its angels are too like the ones in he last building it is unique.




SURROUNDINGS; This goes in the surroundings because the building fits in very good with the things surrounding it and the weather too.The buildings in the side blend in very well.

Monday, April 30, 2012

CUBIC HOUSES
 The architect is Piet Blom
The test version were first constructed in 1974 and in 1977 18 houses were constructed.
It is located in Helond and Helmond in The Netherlands.
Residents get disturbed by curious passengers, one owner decided to open a "show cube" which is furnished as a normal house. Its open for public to visit.
Doesn't say how much it cost to build.
It was based on the concept of "living as an urban roof"
I chosed this building because it is unique and not simple like the rest of the houses and buildings.Also, because i had never heard of a cubic house or building and i wanted to take a lookm at it .It looks complicated but beautiful and the inside looks very nice and different from other places.Its really nice to see something new.People get bored of the same'oh things.




Krzywy Domek (The Crooked House]
The architects were Szotynscy & Zaleski.
 It was built in 2004.
 It is located in Sopot, Poland.
You can go visit can be entered from eaither Monte Cassino or Morska Streets.
No prices were found.
It was inspired by the fairytale illustratuions and drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg.
I chosed this building because i never seen this kind of building an d it unbelivable that their is actually a crooked building in the world.I wanted to learn more and take a look at this unique building.No one would bealive of such thing that could exsist in the world.It looks pretty cool and crazy how they were able to build that.In Austin we seen so many buildings but nothing like this one.



The Ufo House [Sanzhi UFO)
The Taiwanese were the architects of this unique buildings.
The UFO houses were constructed begining in 1978.
In Sanzhi District,New Taipei CIty, Taiwan they were located
The pod-like buildings became a minor tourist attraction.
No information in how much it cost to build it.
The buildings remembeled Futuro houses.They were intented as a vacation resort.
This building i picked it because i wanted to know more about it sence it is called UFO Houses.It's pretty cool how people actually build UFO buildings when other people get all freaked out when they see a UFO thinking its an allien or something.I wonder if when people pass by their they get freaked out or something. I would like to go visit one of the UFO Buildings.Its pretty cool i wonder if it took long to build them sence they are round and not squared like normal houses and buildings.
La Pedrera
The architects were Josep Maria Jujol, the brothers Badia as iron forgers, the founder Manyach, the builder Josep Bayo and the plaster Joan Beltran.
Built during the years 1905-1910.
Located in 92 , Passeig de Gracia in the Eixamlpe district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Casa MilĂ  was a predecessor of some buildings with a similar biomorphic appearance:
No information in how much it cost.Must of cost alot sence it was build for a married couple and the husband the wealthy wido of Josep Guardiola.
It was build for the married couple , Roser Segimon and Pere Mila.
i chose this building because it looks fancy and it has alot of pattern and light.The building looks like a castle for a princess.It looks very expensive and one of a kind since it was made for a married couple.Even dough it was made for a married couple it looks like it was constructed near other buildings and theirs alot of people their.
 Sculptured House
Architect Charles Deaton was the architector of it.
  It was built in 1963.
3. 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?
6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself?
7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question)

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

School Uniform questions

Mr. Baccom [principle)
Steven Ramirez [Student)
Maria Reyes [Parent)

What's your name?

Are you part of the school?

How do you think about school uniform ?

Would it make a difference if students used uniform ?

Should only the students have uniform or teachers as well ?

Do you think uniform would be a problem to students ?

Are you with school uniform ?

Would school uniform be cheaper?

Do you bealive ill make us look more formal?

Should each academy have their own dress code ?

Would you think it be nice to try school uniform?

Have you ever have to use school uniform in your life?

Does it feel different when you have school uniform?

why do you think uniforms are important?

Why do you think most high schools dont have school uniform?

Do you beleave Akins should start with school uniform?

Do ou think both girls and guys should wear the same uniform or no?

Would you try school uniform ?

If their was to be school uniform at akisn would it ne the school colors?

Why doesn't Akins have school uniform?

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Elements of news

-The concepts that make news news.
-There are facts that are newsworthy, and there are facts that are not newsworthy.
-There are facts which might be newsworthy in one town or at one school, but not in another town or another school.
-There are facts which might be newsworthy today, but not tomorrow.
-What makes a fact newsworthy is how it affects the people in your locality, the people who would read your publication.
-If the fact is not interesting to them or does not affect them in any way, it is not newsworthy

Proximity: http://blogs.kxan.com/2012/04/17/the-accidental-storm-chase/
Prominence:
Timeliness: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/austin/man-set-on-fire-taken-to-burn-center
Oddity:
Consequence: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/austin/teacher-arrested-for-having-marijuana
Conflict & Human interest: http://www.kxan.com/dpps/entertainment/celebrity_news/fake-bieber-accused-of-abusing-nj-girl-online-et12-jgr_4142163
 An officer on Air Canada flight 878 was tired and took a nap when he was driving on the 878 flight .He was only suppose to take a 40mn nap.
 The captain and the C-17 were suppose to meet up.The officer thought he had seen the C-17 but he confused it with the planet venus.When he woked up from his nap he felt really unwell that's why he confused the planet for C-17.The captain noticed that he was wrong and immediatly pulled back on the control.
The 103 passengers that were on went everywhere , mostly the people who didn't have their seatbealt on , laptops went flying windows were missing.Some passengers and workesr were injured.It was all because the officer confused the planet to the C-17 so the captain had to pullback the control because it was going wrong and the passengers didn't know so they ended up hurt, mostly the ones without a seatbelt.



A 6 year old girl was aassaulting the principle and was damaging school property.
Who is involved?The police arrested the 6 year old that day at Creekside Elementary because she was not being cooaperative with them.She was charged as a juvenile with simple battery of a schoolteacher and criminal damage to property. An officer sai the girl was not charged because of her age.The mother was angry because their was no need for the police to get involve if she is a 6 year old not even a form juvenile yet.They had no need to put a 6 year old in cuffs.They turned her in to her mother because she was being bad and she was under age.


 Austin Fisher was goin to was going to walk with his classmates at graduation.The principles were not going to let him walk at his graduation or go to prom because of his abcenses.The reason for his abcense were because of his mother that had IV cancer and he had to be their and his aunt had no time to write letters because she would have to take his mother places and the doctor.The school district superintendent on monday afternoon decided he would be able to walk with his classmates at graduation.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Student of the month

Whats your name ?
Ben Livingston

What grade are you in ?
Junior [11th)

How old are you ?
16

What academy are you in ?
AHA

What do you do in your spear time?
He is a musician who plays drums. He is currently in 2 bands.

Do you play for the school?
Well one band is at Mccallen and yes he does play here for Akins with his friends.

What does it mean to be student of the month?
That you've worked hard and you've committedyourself to do good in school.

What motivated you to go for student of the month?Were you randomly chosen ?
He was randomly choosen but he was doing great on his grades just to be able to go to college.

Does it mean alot to you to be student of the month?
Yeah it means alot to him its like a boost for him in doing better and for his confidence.

How does it feel to be student of the month ?
Kind of odd because you get recognize for your hard work it's a nice feeling dough.

Would you like to get student of the month again?
No he would like other students to be able to get a chance to have the feeling of being the student of the month.

How do your parents feel about it?
Parents are suprised because in the past he hasn't really gotten any awared or done really good.

Do you belieave the teachers or the students chose you?
Probably a teacher because students know how bad he can be.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Fire is in the air
 
On May 26 , in Arkansa , Jose Jaimes was part of the crazy distructive fight that was happening with the army soldiers that were being hurt by the throwing  of fire papers and bottles by the people.They were angery because they were being so unfair with the people.
 
BALANCING ELEMENTS

This image shows Balance because theirs a big boat that gets our attention. Behind it theirs a smaller one in the back that is out of our attention that doesnt really matter to us.In balancing you always have the main object an another one place their that doesnt really matter.We can also say this image has simplicity since theirs not really much in the background.
 
 
VIEW POINT

This imgae shows view point because instead of looking at it like a normal imgae it was taken from the bootom view so we are looking at the lights that are up hanging in the sealing.We are able to see the bottom and side of the lights not just the bottom or just the side .We can also say theirs cropping because some people were cut off.
 
 
CREATE DEPHT

We can see depth in this image because we see the horses the mountains and tthe sky.It was taken from a different point of viwe like from the top of something .Theirs different thype of views we see .Theirs forground middle ground and the top which is the farder pat of the image.
 

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?
This project seems really interesting to me being able to touch other people but kind of akward because we dont know them and we might feel a little uncomftorable.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger?
If someone approached me with a camera and asked me to participate in a photo shoot and then aske me to touch a stranger i would kind of feel weird but depending who that person is i would probably do it.


3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot.
Hugging strangers making it seem like you really know them well and care about them.

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, did the photographer think about the rules of photography that you know about? What types of photos did he take?  I think the photographer did a good job he actually used many of the rules and focused in the people bbeing shoot. He took simplicity , patter in the background , lines .
1. Describe one photo that you agree with the judges on. Explain why you and the judges do or do not like it.
I agree with the picture of where the girl gets slap by a goose its like a thing that doesnt really happen and by just looking at the image it show alot of feeling. It seems like it really hurted. Like BAMB !

2. Describe one photo that you do NOT agree with the judges on. Explain why you think the judges are wrong.
With a picture i disagree on with the judges is the one of the soccer players were on of them is putting their finger in the other ones face close to his eye. i really dont like it because it should mainly focuse on the guy getting fingers put in his face they should like focuse it more on him and then ill be a better picture for me.
What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it?

What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses?
That it looks organized like theirs a pattern and that in the image everone is actually doing somethings , like they have a different emotion or feelin toward things.Creativity and able to focuse in one main subject evenwhen having alot of things or people in it.

A weakness is being able to tell you used alot of photoshop in your image.

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner.

They will disiliminate the one that had alot of bad pictres and that made no sence.
1. Watch any four of the Runner-up videos, and answer the following on your blog:
Name of photographer - Alyssa Schukar .
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- She focuses in stories and peoples face expressions.
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - In some pictures you didnt really know what was going on, in one their was a cut off that didnt make sence ,same distance and not alot of focused on te feelins .
List two thingsthe judges like- The background it had in one of the pictures it really went with the picture , their was a story. Theirs some good cut off that actually goes good with the picture.

What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?

I think she could of done better in focusing more in the expressions . I think by using distance a little bit better it would of help tell the emotion of the images and what is going on in it.But i really like that in one of the pictures she used a great backround for the picture and for what was going on in it. She used dark colors that went really good with it.

Monday, March 19, 2012

warm-up

This is one of the pictures of the disastr thatreally captured my attention becuase it has little kids in it. For me when it involves kids its really sad because their really young and how can they be going through that so young. It hurts seeing these poor little kids like this.They had to check these lkids to see they didnt have nothing.They had just gotten saved from the disaster.
This image really toughed me because i hate seeing people cry or sad it hurts my feelings and makes me feel bad and wonder if theirs anything i could do to help them. This lady was crying after finding out her mother was safely safe and tooken.She was okhay so these tears were of joy  because her mom was saved from this horrible disaster.

This lady was being rescuded from the terrible disaster and its trmendous disaster it created. She seemed to been really hurt , she probably couldnt walk because the firefighters were having to carry her .She was probably really injured.

Newspaper spread

Monday, February 27, 2012

NEWSPAPER NOTES

They are 2 sizes of newspaper.
1 - broadsheet
2 - tabloyed
Flag/massted ; has the name of the paper in it.
Teaser; motivation , makes u wanna read more.
Folio ; W. Charles Akins High School [ name ),  Title  of newspaper, Date , day , page number , name of the section , Slogen [Motto).
Headlines ; draw our attention, discription of what's going on , .
Picture
Subheadline.at least one subheadline per page. ; gives more details.
Caption ; 3 parts - Caption head ; like a headline . , photographer . , backgroudn information in second sentence , first sentence , who what when where and why and how.Give attrubution to the photograoher.
Bi line ; photographers name & their position.
story ; at the end has a jump and the page number to go to .
Infographics ; information in graphic form. Addtional information that you aret gonna get in the text.
Something that every newpaper should have is ; table of contents , Vol.11 No.2
(IMPORTANT ]Staff box ; Staff & their positions , Editorial policy , organizations people belong too.

FRONT PAGES OF THE WORLD

My favorite front page newspaper is "The Grand Island Independent " , published in Grand Island, Nebraska USA.I really like this front page because i like how they use the same pattern in the words using like blocks or something it looks nice.

My favorite headline from the newspaper is "Spelling the way to . . . VICTORY" It interestes me because of the way it is spelled and the way its structured it make me wanna read more about it.

Something i notice that all newspaper front pages have is that they all include the weather and also have the sections where you can read more about that topic. Also, the main picture always is bigger and is the most interesting one.

On the front page of the newspaper most of them are structured different.The topics are set in different places.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I would be interested in taking yearbook & commercial photography. I really enjoyed taking pictures and i think it would be really cool and interesting in taking pictures for our high school yearbook.If i take commercial photography it would help me more in the clase and in learning more about a camera.I would be more advance and sence i really enjoyed taking this class im do my best to stay in this course.

This is one article that i really found interesting.
I really enjoy sports stuff even dough i dont play for high school i use to back in middle school.
http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/2044/articleid/488568/newspaperid/2030/Homecoming_king_and_queen_sweethearts_welcome_alumni.aspx

Thursday, January 5, 2012

2011:]

Something really special to me that happened was having my mom with me in christmas and in new years. It meant alot to me to have spent those days with my mom because last year she was in the hospital and we werent able to celebrate it . I was afraid i was going to lose my mother , she was getting brain surgery;o
I thank god for letting my mom to be here with me and being able to spend christmas and new years with one i love so much the one that brought me into this world.

Now that this new year has began im do my work turn it in on time and not skip.Im stay away from bad influences.Whats important right now is graduating and getting all my credits.It dont really matter if i lose friends because the real ones will be their when i need them and to see me graduate with them.

For 2012 im planning on doing better and coming to school every day .I dont want to get behind again i dont want to have to worry about missing credits or failling classes. I want to do better in 2012 so i can graduate sooner.2012 is a year for me to do better dicisions now that im becoming a bigger girl.
        The best song of 2011 was Party Rock Anthem.It was like the song everyone began to listen to and dance too. Alot of people began to learn how to shuffle and do the dance moves that they did in the video.This song i would here it everywhere even at parties and clubs. They spanish people made moves for it in spanish .They loved that song .Alot of people also began to dress like them.This song made alot of people change and make them want to look like them and do what they do.


      The best movie of 2011 was Incedous.It was a great scary movie. I really enjoed it .I was really scared when i watched it but i was really interesting.Alot of people like horro movies so that's why i belive this was one of the best movies of 2011. The women that haunted the guy in the movies, she was really ugly and scary.Also it's a good movie because the ending leaves you wondering what's going to happen next.Caint wait for them to make the next movie.
A really important news story of the year was the
"Casey Anthony trial" alot of people were all into it because of the little girl who they belive her mom had killed her.Alot of people wanted justice because she had killed her poor little daughter.She didn't report she was missing after a while that's what made her even more suspicious.Everyone just wanted her to stay in jail for what she had done to poot Casey Anthony.Her mother got away with it and they let her go.Alot of people were angry and thought that was  not fair but what could they do.
               Bruno Mars was is a really importan musician. He is unique he can sign play guitar and do many things.He doesnt need alot of things for his music and singing to come out good he just has it in him.He signs alot about life and love life.It gets alot of teens attention because they understand his lyrics because that's what many teens are going through.Bruno is a reall one of a kind singer.He has a big loving heart and he is not afraid of letting out his feelings he expresses them through out his songs.


This one of the images that i liked because it brings out alot of emotions.
It makes you sad to see a baby along .You can defenatly see that he has not eatten in days, he is very thin.


This image shows alof ot terror and danger in it. I really like it because it has dark and creepy colors it makes you wonder what can happen if your their. It just has pretty colors that brightened certain parts.


I really like this image because it shows alot of love.The little girl in the left seems annoyed but everyone in the family at least has one annoying person in it. The king was getting married with his wife and his kids were their with him.