3-14-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today was a very constructive day in Language Arts for both myself and my group. I have come up with a few ideas for my "spreading the word". As I've said before I plan to make and distribute photos, and create a website. I also want to make a video to put on Youtube and use the Kony style of spreading the video through social media. My group made a few big decision too, to scrap our wall idea. We decided it was a bit improbable with our resources and that we had not done enough research to continue with it. I think it was a wise decision, because I feel that the idea is personally very useless and unsafe, as well as difficult to impossible for us to do with the limits we've been given.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-12-12

Everyday you learn something new. Now that we are pretty close to being finished with Tuesdays With Morrie I thought I might share my opinion compared to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I have so far liked Tuesdays With Morrie a lot more. I remember thinking that The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was slow, but Tuesdays With Morrie is also slow, and I like it. I find it interesting how there are so many flashbacks (convenient for literary elements). I think it has a similar parallel plot element with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I am finding that Tuesdays With Morrie seems very short. When doing the reading for each section it seems like you don't read very long and there are only 4 sections. It's unfortunate that were going to be done soon.
 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-9-12

Everyday you learn something new. Lately I have become very worried about a back injury that I have. Last season in football I hurt my back and had to stop playing. It was serious enough that I took a season off and had to let it rest several months. I had to do stretches several times a day for it. I recently started playing football again and now I am starting to feel it hurt again. The whole thing is beginning to make me worried that I will never be able to play again. I don't consider football the most important thing ever, but I hate the thought of not being able to play. I have been doing it for years, and hoped to be doing it for several more years. I hope this all works out in my favor and I can start playing again without worrying.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-7-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today we were able to send our first email to our projected group partner. As our communication person I hope to see a response soon. I have been assigned with making posters and presentations for our group. I am pretty excited about that since I do actually enjoy doing things like that. I want to start soon but I think our project needs to develop more first. I can make base creations for our posters/presentations though. I have also determined that it might be nessecary to make a website for educational/presentation purposes.

"Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

3-5-12

Everyday you learn something new.Now that our I've finished my research paper I have started thinking about our group project. Since my job is communications I have been trying to figure out who our contact is and how that should work. I have ideas, and I favor the Neighborhood Services Department people out of all the possible contacts we have found, but I can't make decisions without consulting my group. I was thinking about creating a website for us, but it might not actually be necessary. I want to create a Skype account, but that might not be necessary either if our contacts don use/have it. I think we need to get some group time in class, like a whole period, so we can all make these decisions together and everyone will know what to do next.

"Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

2-29-12

Everyday you learn something new. Today we watched a video about a man and his photo editing. As I said in class, there was a definite relationship in the art of the 2 projects, the photos and our graffiti. I think that the differences are more important though, because the pictures are legal art, but graffiti is not. I read a whole article today about how graffiti can be justified, at http://www.graffiti.org/faq/damico_a_legal_and_economic_analysis_of_graffiti.pdf. I think that people need to find a way to make their graffiti somewhere other than walls. Could the same thing be done on paper? I dont even embrace the idea of legal graffiti walls, because it seems dangerous to get a huge group of people that might be in gangs together. I know my project is more about cleaning up graffiti, but in our awarness i think we should do something to recommend alternatives. 

"Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown

2-27-12

Everyday you learn something new. My research has been going pretty well so far. I have found may sites by individual cities about graffiti, most of witch are .gov. I have also found many .org sites that outline financial effects of graffiti as well. There are a few .com articles that I hope to use, they are from sources that I find reputable, like the New York Times, but I still have to get approval for them first. In my research I found a few articles about graffiti internationally, in cities like Athens. I cant spoil the surprise, but I find it very interesting. I also found an article while looking for more information about the 2004 Olympic Stadium in Athens. Apparently after building the stadium and holding the Olympics, the stadium was abandon. It is now destroyed, and there are many refugees and gipsies living in the remains. It's terrible to see a country build something so great to hold the biggest sporting event in the world, then leave it to rot.

 "Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the Stars" - Les Brown