Month: January 2016

In class for a long time we did a Star Wars unit, it was awesome just because instead of learning something boring and getting zoned out during class I actually have something that’s fun and I’m wanting to learn and not counting down the minuets till class ended. This was all leading up to the last day of school before winter break where we were going to see “Star Wars the Force Awakens”. Everybody was super excited, but before that we had to do a “Mini Blue Sky Project” that had to be based on Star Wars. Again it made learning so much easier with the subject on something that I already love. My teachers gave us a sheet to fill out that stated what our project was going to be on and you had to fill out everything and if there was something that you couldn’t awenser you would have to make your question more complex.(I had to do that, it wasn’t fun.) I chose how did they create the blaster sound and can I re-create Han Solos Blaster sound.

 

I finished it and everything was good but now I had to start it. My project was one where I might not be able to fully answer the question because all my project is just experimenting. At first when I started I just got the information of all the other sounds and it was all pretty interesting. Ben Burtt (Sound Creator for Star Wars) is pretty creative when it comes to making the sounds and some of the ways he created the sounds were by accident. I made the page that I was working on interesting with pictures just to spice it up a bit.

 

A lot of pages right. Although I still had to see if I could re-create Han Solos blaster sound. One weekend I decided to go out with my dad to try and make the sound and hit things with a hammer, but I never found the right sound. I searched for it all over Deep Cove, just couldn’t quite find the right sound, but I got excellent video of me hitting things around Deep Cove.

 

When we got close to the end my teacher put us into groups with similar projects for the exhibition on the second to last day. To make it feel more like Star Wars our group was assigned a planet, ours was Hoth. We had to make it look like Hoth, have some food/drink, ours was “Hoth chocolate” with storm trooper marshmallows. We also had to have some entertainment like a game so I came up with pin the arm on th wampa. I didn’t know what the whole place looked like because I had on a plane early in the morning to go to Puerto Rico. I didn’t see the movie until the Sunday before school started (It was awesome I highly recommend it.) That was our awesome Star Wars unit that I got to do and I hope that there are more units that are close to being as good as that just because i don’t think it can get much better then that.

If you Read my last blog post you’d know that we had to make a civilization with a hero then put it on a quilt. First of all I have never been good at drawing, but I can trace although I think everybody can trace. Anyways drawing on a screen with your finger made it ten times worse. My quilt square was supposed to be a picture of Posiedon tricking Cordelia (the hero) into getting on plane (telepathically) that she thought was going to Canada but it was really going to the Bermuda Triangle.

At first my drawing was horrible it was one of the worst things I’ve ever drawn in my opinion (I’m sorry I don’t have a picture of it also you would just laugh at it and not read my post.). It sort of got better during my second attempt but not really. I finally figured out would be a better Idea to take a picture of a brain on the Internet and put in the background instead of trying to draw one and fail. Then I found this brain that looked really awesome and really captured what I was looking for.

 

The next thing I had to do is to go into more detail with Posoiedon and Cordelia, which took a long time because I’m not amazing at drawing as you already know.  For this one part that I was drawing a speech bubble and it just didn’t look quite like a speech bubble so Ms. Willemse (My teacher) suggested for me to get one of comic life so I asked her how to do that and she showed me and I put blah blah blah in it and looked just fine. This is what the end of my drawing looks like.

 

Now we’re on to quilting. If you think I’m bad at drawing at the start I was even worse at quilting. I was doing tons of stuff wrong I ended up staying after school to finish stuff everybody else finished in class. My quilting was probably in the top 5 worst in the class. I got a little bit better and met quilt square didn’t look to bad in the end but it definitely wasn’t the best out of my group.

(Those are our quilt squares not yours)

 

(This is my quilt square not yours)

THE END OF THOSE QUILT SQUARES

 

In class we had make a civilization then make a hero then put it on a quilt. Not many people were excited about that last one. We were put into our table groups to make it. My group came up with some pretty crazy stuff. The people in the civilization are goose,beaver,Canadian,fish people. Yah it’s weird. They live in the Bermuda Triangle and they are the main reason why there are disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle happen.

Our hero was a girl from Oregon that wanted to be nicer like a Canadian(Random detail). She was brainwashed/convinced by Poseidon to get on this plane for a better shot life. She got on the plane(Flight 19 the first disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle) and Posiedon created a storm right over the Bermuda Triangle right over top of the Bermuda Triangle. She morphed into a fish,goose,beaver, Canadian to survive the water with one of the pilots. They founded the civilization and to this day it still lives on capturing explorers.

 

Then we had to learn to sew I won’t go in to too much detail but at the start I sucked. If you want to here about my quilt square read my next post.