Week 3
Entry-1
Date- September 16, 2013
One of my favorite books of all time is called El Libro Salvaje
by Juan Villoro, a famous Mexican author who has won various awardsand has a
great philosophy about reading and literacy. In his book El Libro Salvaje a
teenage boy (Juan) goes to the house of his crazy tío Tito, a man who lives in
books. Throughout the story I learned about the power of reading and how to
engage with books to get the most out of your reading experience. The Author
points out the power of the reader, how we can change the story, how the story
one person reads is different than what another person reads depending on who they are
and how they feel. One of my
favorite parts in the story is when Juan reads a book then lends it to a friend,
who read a different story in the same book. After hearing what she read, Juan
re-reads the book and so the story changes to match what she read. Though books
can’t re-write themselves in real life (probably) this experience rings true
with me. Sometimes I read a book and then find out that one of my friends has
also read that book. He tells me how he interpreted it and I tell him how I
did. Sometimes I like how they interpreted the book so much that my experience
on what the book was about and what happened in the story actually change! I
love this book and I love reading, another one of my defining
traits.
Entry-1
Date- September 16, 2013
One of my favorite books of all time is called El Libro Salvaje
by Juan Villoro, a famous Mexican author who has won various awardsand has a
great philosophy about reading and literacy. In his book El Libro Salvaje a
teenage boy (Juan) goes to the house of his crazy tío Tito, a man who lives in
books. Throughout the story I learned about the power of reading and how to
engage with books to get the most out of your reading experience. The Author
points out the power of the reader, how we can change the story, how the story
one person reads is different than what another person reads depending on who they are
and how they feel. One of my
favorite parts in the story is when Juan reads a book then lends it to a friend,
who read a different story in the same book. After hearing what she read, Juan
re-reads the book and so the story changes to match what she read. Though books
can’t re-write themselves in real life (probably) this experience rings true
with me. Sometimes I read a book and then find out that one of my friends has
also read that book. He tells me how he interpreted it and I tell him how I
did. Sometimes I like how they interpreted the book so much that my experience
on what the book was about and what happened in the story actually change! I
love this book and I love reading, another one of my defining
traits.
Week 2
Entry 2
Last school year I was part of a program at Lux art institute in Encinitas. it was called the Lux Jr. Art Board. I was one of fourteen teenagers to participate. The program was meant to give young artists the opportunity to see the larger art community in San Diego county and abroad as well as give them special art opportinities. We did many cool things related to art that not many people my age have had the chance to do. One of these things was a project where each young artist was assigned a piece of the wall of our classroom on which we would draw something that represents our art style. Some people worked with wood, others painted super heroes, I painted a scene with my animal-people. As you can see in the picture my art style is having animal/human creatures interacting in the city and suburbs. This art style is unique to me and represents who I am as an artist. I love creating worlds that our like our own but different in some way. My animal-people art pieces represent my creativity and my love for creating unique pieces of art.
Entry 2
Last school year I was part of a program at Lux art institute in Encinitas. it was called the Lux Jr. Art Board. I was one of fourteen teenagers to participate. The program was meant to give young artists the opportunity to see the larger art community in San Diego county and abroad as well as give them special art opportinities. We did many cool things related to art that not many people my age have had the chance to do. One of these things was a project where each young artist was assigned a piece of the wall of our classroom on which we would draw something that represents our art style. Some people worked with wood, others painted super heroes, I painted a scene with my animal-people. As you can see in the picture my art style is having animal/human creatures interacting in the city and suburbs. This art style is unique to me and represents who I am as an artist. I love creating worlds that our like our own but different in some way. My animal-people art pieces represent my creativity and my love for creating unique pieces of art.
Week 2
Entry 3
This is another picture from my Jr. Art board experience. In addition to creating art, one of the other special things we got to do was meet actual artist and ask them questions up close and personal. This particular Artist is the first one who we got to talk with, Her name is Susan Graham. She grew up in the Midwest and makes 3D art pieces using sugar and egg paste. We got to ask her about her art pieces, what inspired her, and what techniques she uses. I admire her art because it is so delicate but so common. In her art pieces she uses a very fragile medium to make everyday sights; telephone towers disguised as trees, sheets and guns. One of the main themes in her art is the combination of the natural world and the man made world and the funky creations they make. For example, telephone towers made to look like trees, I think many can agree that they look weird. At a first glance it looks like it is something natural but in reality it is man made. I like that theme and think it is relevant to my experience of living in a suburban city. You have stores and roads but you also have lots of trees and shrubs in the same place. I'm not talking about landscaping but the real natural world. Being both a nature lover and a person living in a city I find her artwork very relatable and all around interesting.
Entry 3
This is another picture from my Jr. Art board experience. In addition to creating art, one of the other special things we got to do was meet actual artist and ask them questions up close and personal. This particular Artist is the first one who we got to talk with, Her name is Susan Graham. She grew up in the Midwest and makes 3D art pieces using sugar and egg paste. We got to ask her about her art pieces, what inspired her, and what techniques she uses. I admire her art because it is so delicate but so common. In her art pieces she uses a very fragile medium to make everyday sights; telephone towers disguised as trees, sheets and guns. One of the main themes in her art is the combination of the natural world and the man made world and the funky creations they make. For example, telephone towers made to look like trees, I think many can agree that they look weird. At a first glance it looks like it is something natural but in reality it is man made. I like that theme and think it is relevant to my experience of living in a suburban city. You have stores and roads but you also have lots of trees and shrubs in the same place. I'm not talking about landscaping but the real natural world. Being both a nature lover and a person living in a city I find her artwork very relatable and all around interesting.
Entry 4
week 3
I recently finished reading to Kill a Mockingbird and have also recently figured out the theme of the story. "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird" means that it is a sin to hurt or destroy the innocent, vulnerable people in this world. Mockingbirds, creatures that only "make beautiful music for people to listen to" where good people, like Boo Radley, only are nice to people. Boo Radley was not mean to, Scout and Jem. In fact, he gave them many presents. Boo did not deserve the bad reputation that other people, ignorant to who he really is, put on him. I agree with the theme, I believe that people who are vulnerable should be protected. It takes people like Atticus, who are willing to face the wraths of mobs to protect something good that isn't strong enough to protect itself.
For a large portion of my life I was involved in the Karate studio IIMA, they had a philosophy that as a person who could do karate I was not only responsible to protect myself but also to protect those too weak to defend themselves. I think that in a world full of hatred and war it is important to protect the oppressed and good vulnerable people.
week 3
I recently finished reading to Kill a Mockingbird and have also recently figured out the theme of the story. "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird" means that it is a sin to hurt or destroy the innocent, vulnerable people in this world. Mockingbirds, creatures that only "make beautiful music for people to listen to" where good people, like Boo Radley, only are nice to people. Boo Radley was not mean to, Scout and Jem. In fact, he gave them many presents. Boo did not deserve the bad reputation that other people, ignorant to who he really is, put on him. I agree with the theme, I believe that people who are vulnerable should be protected. It takes people like Atticus, who are willing to face the wraths of mobs to protect something good that isn't strong enough to protect itself.
For a large portion of my life I was involved in the Karate studio IIMA, they had a philosophy that as a person who could do karate I was not only responsible to protect myself but also to protect those too weak to defend themselves. I think that in a world full of hatred and war it is important to protect the oppressed and good vulnerable people.
entry 5
week 3
This is another Lux Jr. Art Board picture. This picture shows yet another one of the unique experiences we had. We got the opportunity to critique artwork. We learned how to look past what a piece looks like at first glance. First you should look at the skill level of the artist, you can tell their skill by amount of detail, how they take advantage of their medium, etc. Then you work your way into the abstract, trying to see what the art piece represents, if it has a title you can see if, to you, the art piece captured what it was trying to capture. I also learned that appreciating an art piece for the skill of it's maker is very different that appreciating it for what it is trying to say.
week 3
This is another Lux Jr. Art Board picture. This picture shows yet another one of the unique experiences we had. We got the opportunity to critique artwork. We learned how to look past what a piece looks like at first glance. First you should look at the skill level of the artist, you can tell their skill by amount of detail, how they take advantage of their medium, etc. Then you work your way into the abstract, trying to see what the art piece represents, if it has a title you can see if, to you, the art piece captured what it was trying to capture. I also learned that appreciating an art piece for the skill of it's maker is very different that appreciating it for what it is trying to say.