Earth Day Project

This activity was very important for us. We are both people who really care about the environment and like to express how beautiful we think it is. Not all people feel this way about the planet, so we want people to think differently, and learn to give thanks to nature for our planet. We did encounter a few problems throughout the whole experience. The fact that we waited to the last day, was a big problem. Although, we had to choice, since Debora was on a trip. Still, we found the way to make it end up perfectly. The photos were taken all by us in different periods of time. We even recited a short poem about mother Earth. and even make a crazy video of ourselves. I really hope we win, because we put a lot of effort to it. The music also fits perfectly with the slide show since the lyrics even match the situation.. This was a lot of fun to do, and I hope we get the chance to do this again.

Spring Break 2O1O

This spring break was amazing, everything I thought it would be. It all started when my mom my brother and I decided to give my grandparents a surprise visit. It was a long way there, but it was all worth it. Before we went to their house we stopped to do a little bit of shopping in San Diego. Next, it was off to their house. For that whole week we went to the movies, did a little bit more shopping, eat out, and get lots of ice cream. While I was with my grandparents, my grandma saw that I could be a good candidate to paint, since it was something she would do when she was young. So she got out a lot of her old oil paints, I started to paint randomly since she would not tell me what to do. All she told me was to paint an apple that showed contrast. Once I was done, I was actually pretty happy with my work, and so was everybody else, so my mom took me shopping to but all sort of tools I needed in order to paint. Including all of my grandma’s paint she gave to me. Now I really like painting with oil. It is sort of like a therapy, and thanks to my grandmas vision to think I could paint, now I do it all the time. That was also what I did when I couldn’t find anything else to do.

Before I went to visit my grandparents I bought a new series that a close friend had recommended for me, it was Gossip Girl. That was another thing I would do when I was bored. I ended up loving the series. It was all I expected it to be. Now I am waiting to buy the second season and get going. I had an amazing time. That is, until Saturday. We were all settling down to have lunch, when all of a sudden my whole family runs out the door to the patio. I had no idea what was going on and just stayed in place. My mom then violently screamed for me to go outside. The second I stepped on to the grass I felt as if the floor would rip open. Never in my life had I been in a earthquake, let alone one of 7.4 on a Richter scale. It lasted about 50 seconds, which seemed more like an hour. My whole family was very scared, but to be honest, I was not that scared. It was more like weird. The feeling was like something I had never felt. I was practically loosing my balance. I could see all around the neighborhood as all of the people would run screaming from their houses into their cars. Once the nightmare was over, we thought it would all end. That was obviously not the case. There were estimated more than 600 aftershocks, but we only felt about 8 of them.

That whole next week as we traveled on the car, we could see some serious damage that stores and houses had. The ones with the most damage were definitely the Oxxos. We could easily see how badly prepared they were. It was as if they were mad of pure paper. When we tried to go shopping, everything was closed. It was kind of sad because my brother wanted to do his shopping but his favorite stores were mostly closed. Most things were closed the next few days. It was a different to have a new experience like this one, but not when it affects so much people. To our house, it didn’t do that much damage, but to the houses of the poor people it did. Now they have to sleep outside in tents because their houses are completely destructed.

After all of that fun, it was time to go back to Puerto Vallarta. Once we got here, my parents took us to eat tacos. They were delicious like always. It was getting late and I really wanted to get home to unpack all of my many things. There were many things to unpack, so it did take me a really long time, but once I was done, I felt more in place. The next day my mom, some friends, and I went down to the pool for a little while. We talked a lot about our spring break since today was our last day of it. I personally would have wanted to have one week more, but that was not the case. Now I can’t wait for next years Spring Break to do all the things I couldn’t do in this Spring Break, and please with no more earthquakes.

336 Downfall of Love

Love is something that has been in controversy for a very long time. Some people say they will never fall in love, and how it is unimportant and only a distraction. Others however, say they wont be truly happy until the point they find true love since it is the only thing that matters. These two ideas are shared by many people. I must say that love is actually both. There must be some part of it all that makes people happy. Although at the same time that happiness can be darkness for others. There is no way to actually state if love is a good thing or it Is not. It is all based on experience. I, however, have not yet experienced love in that way. I must admit, I do feel scared to. I have read a lot about what love can do, and what it can cause. There is one thing I am sure of, its not something people can regret happening. First loves are the best since you have no idea what might happen. Even the whole process of being in love can be amazing. This is all very fascinating, but what I will be talking about in the Downfall of Love. When love goes all wrong, and when people have no choice but to let go. The hardest part of it all.

Little girls always want to plan their wedding, and their perfect prince for when they grow up. The thing they are not told, is that love does not always last. Actually, it usually does not. Love can end in a great variety of ways. People can lose interest, people can fall into temptation, people can even move on to what is best. The truth is that no matter the way it ends, someone will end up getting hurt. That is the truth of the matter. I'm not only talking about adult love. Young love is the exact same way, or even maybe worse. Since they have less liberty and have more limitations. Also because they are smitten, and they think it is all rainbows and unicorns. They don't think there are people out there trying to hurt them. This is a big problem with teens. Boys are just looking for one thing, and they are capable of doing anything in order to fool girls into doing it. Love is seriously some tricky business. No one ever knows where it might lead to. People always talk about finding true love. What is it does not exist? Will we ever know? There are all of these stories of heartbroken girls and boys. Yet they still look for love. So I will ask this, why are people so obsessed with love? Will they seriously not be happy until they find it? I guess that is all up to them.

As I have stated, love in not pretty. Maybe I am wrong, and maybe all we need is love. But there is no way to predict how that downfall will end up like. It all depends on the situation. Love can be magical and amazing, but that does not mean that the downfall wont hurt. Because I can promise you that it will. I bet that the world be much better off if love was actually sincere. Of course, that too depends on the person and the situation. If someone can define is love is a good thing, I would love to hear about it.

Rotoball Final!

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.

This project was definitely a trill ride. I came across a lot of different obstacles, but I was able to over come all of them. The one that took me the longest, was adding the motion pencil thing to the video. I did every single step a lot of times to see if there was anything wrong with what I was doing. Although, I could not find anything that I was doing wrong. Finally, I saw that form one little step, that was not added, made it so hard for me to finish. I have to admit that I did receive a little bit of help form my classmates. Once that was all figured out, I found that the other steps that I still needed to do were a complete piece of cake. I was a drag to have to do every single key-frame. But it was worth it in the end, since all of the movements did look real from that point on.

Finished Rotoball

Wow! This video could not have come out more perfect. I loved the way it was ordered around, and how it was designed. It was very cool to see what each of my classmates wanted to do with their cartoon. We are really creative now that oi see the video. There were only a handful of things that should have been fixed, but are obviously going to make a difference once they are fixed. I personally do not need to make any changes, because I followed all instructions from the start. My classmates, though, have to change the speed of the video and the color of the background. Since it looks to similar to the color of the persons outline. I am sure that if we show this video to other people, they will want to do one for themselves also. I feel completely grateful for Rodrigo and for the teacher, because they were the ones who put more of their work in order to make it fit together more fully. Not everyone gets the chance to do things like this, so I am definitely happy that we who had the chance, could accomplish it all. I cant wait to see the final take of the video once the changes have been made and fixed up by my classmates. I am still shocked with this amazing ending result.

Rotoball

I had a blast making this cartoon. I personally think it was because I had never been taught to do things like that. Most of the time they would teach how to use excel or power point, or one of those simple things. This time it was very different. The thing I most liked was the fact that we had to make a video of ourselves and trace it. So it was really us in the cartoon. Although, it did get pretty hard at time. I especially had the difficulty of when I had to make the butterfly move around the screen as if it were flying. I was supposed to use the tracing cheat. Although, it was a complete fail, since I tried and tried to do it but I could not succeed. Until my classmate who was next to me helped me out. This was a complete new experience and I cant wait to see how the ending will be when Mr. Mark makes them all together. I am very interested to see what my classmates have made. This is a skill that I do not plan on throwing away. It is something that not all people know, and I am very grateful that I got taught how to use it. I told my mom that I was learning these new skills at school, and she was it shock. She started to tell me what she would learn when she was in school. It had completely nothing to do with what we are learning now. These was a new experience that was was quite fun, I cant wait to see what more there is to learn

Technology

This video was like nothing I had ever seen before. It was very smoking to see how technology has been growing. Now they are connecting the physical World with the digital World. That is something that will definitely change the way some people live their life. I would definitely buy one of those. It is something that would be very interesting to try. I wonder all of the things that could be done with something like that. While watching this video I was thinking how much people have changed in regards with technology. It obviously has a lot of things that need to be fixed still to make it even more real. But the most shocking part of it all, was that one man did it. Not a big group of scientists, only one man. I loved watching the way he started out. It was based on pure curiosity, and then how he got more and more into it, until he came up with something magnificent.

The greatest things about technology are the way they can help change peoples lives for the better. They can make you stay in touch with family, and stay connected. Have more variety of education. With technology now we can get a very good education since it makes it a lot easier for us. Many things are still not done with technology, but that wont last for very long. Now, even medicine is done with technology. That is definitely something that has been helping the world a lot. Since it is actually helping the lives of people.

I like the fact that he said that kind of technology can be made at home. He’s not like other people who are only interested in selling it to big companies and making a lot of money. He actually wants to encourage people and make them know they can do it to. Open source means that you kind find the materials to make it from practically anything. And you don’t really need to waste that much money on it. Anyone can do it. The cons are that not that many people will be able to do it perfectly. It will obviously have a lot of flaws if they don’t really understand what it is they are doing. Some people would much rather just buy it out. The pros are that people will definitely be encouraged to try it out. See if they can accomplish something like that. Many students would also want to give it a try. This video leaves a lot to think about. It gives us a lot of clues of what is to come in the future.