Music

A mash-up is a when two or more songs are mixed together to make a new one. So far, I've heard many mash-up. I have liked a lot of them, especially the one that mixes many songs together and it sounds very good. Good mash-ups are made with good rhythms and beats, they have to be well made. Some are not good because the beats are off, some are loud, and difficult. Mash-up artists are musicians, because they need to listen to the beats, put them together and make a good song. One of the ones I've heard is dj earworm. He is very famous because of the big mash-ups he has made. As you can see, mash-ups take skill, and are very entertaining.

Another musician that makes good music is dj dangermouse. He writes songs, and produces them. He is very famous now. One of the interesting albums he has created is the grey album. It is a mixture of The Black Album and The White Album. It is just music, although dj dangermouse never asked fo permission to use the content of the beatles. I think that there is nothing wrong with that, but there was a lot of controversy. Dj dangermouse was just making a mash-up, he was just making music.

Rain forest destruction.

Nowadays, people cut many trees for many reasons ad purposes. Some people make them into paper. Other people fabric furniture and doors, and others just use it for whatever they need it. The problem is that people don't realize that they are affecting the world by cutting these trees. Many problems occur because of the forests people are cutting. They don't only affect us humans, it affects othes organisms, and Earth. This serious environmental problem needs to be stopped.

One of the big problems destroying forests causes is that it is getting rid of many trees, and soon there will barely be trees. This affects some organisms because they need oxygen to be able to survive. The less trees there are, the less amount of oxygen will be produced. Everyday, trees are being cut down, there are much less trees every year. Accordingly, every minute, 6 football fields of trees are cut down. If humans keep cutting trees at this rate, soon enough Earth will have no trees. This is something very serious for earth and its organisms, and that is why it has to be stopped.

The other reason is because it kills many organisms. Cutting trees does't only affect animals, it affects many other oraganisms. Some of these are insects, plants, and even humans! Many animals are becoming extinct and some are already extinct, we are killing organisms! The same thing will happen to us if we keep cutting trees. Trees hold the soil in place with their roots, but when they get cut down the ecosystem changes, the place is not the same. Things become unstable, birds lose their homes, animals die, and plants get crushed with each tree cut down. Trees need to be left alone, and humans should start worrying more about them.



As a final point, people need to start thinking about destroying forests. This is because it can lead to many consequences, and we don't want that to happen. Cutting trees will affect many organisms in the world, and it may kill many. There are methods to balance the amount of trees being cut by planting one each time you cut a tree. This method may help, but the ecosystem will still not be the same. There are also many methods that can help. People just have to think of ideas to help the earth and stop forest destruction. Rain forest destruction must be stopped.

this chart is a very good representation for various reasons. It is good, because it shows all the subjects in my typing tracker in an accurate way, and I can see if my results are better.

This chart is also a good presentation. It shows my Accuracy over the time, there is all the scores recorded to show if I improve or not.

Finally, this is a good representation of how I type. It shows both the net speed, and the gross speed, this way I can compare if I type most of my words right, and if I improve.

Vacations

These vacations were very nice. I had really good time in these vacations. Most of the time I was with my family. I went to Guadalajara and had a cousin baptism. It was very fun, first there was a mass, and then there was a party. We had a great time, there was very good food, and we were all together having fun. The baptism party was fun. This time in my vacations were awesome.

I also had another fun day in Guadalajara. We had a christmas exchange. All my family was in my cousins house, and we had a great time. We had to describe the person we were giving the gift to with a drawing. I had a very pleasent time, and I received an xbox game. After this we had dinner and we watched some fireworks that my cousin and uncle where lighting up in the backyard, they were very bright and all the neighberhood stood to watch. The christmas exchange was fantastic. I had a very good time in Guadalajara. I am looking forward for the next break.

Structure Stopmotion

Structure from mistermark on Vimeo.

Reflective Statement

My stopmotion idea was very interesting. First, I didn't have any idea of what I was going to do. Then, the teacher helped me decide what to do, she suggested me that I could do something with some sticks that she had. In my storyboard I only put six steps, based on what I was going to do, and my animation came out to be like I wanted it to be, despite my project was destroyed. The hardest challenges for me is making the structure be able to stand, and making the helicopter fly out of the animation. What I did to keep the structure from falling was to make it equally balanced from both sides by making it symmetrical, and I attached the helicopter to a stick and moved it upwards to make it look like it is flying. Making this project was not very easy because it tok a lot of time, and it got destroyed; still, I enjoyed doing it. If there was something I would change was taking the pictures from the same spot so it would look better, and I would take more time in doing it, since I had to hurry. If I had the option to work on this as an adult I would think about it, first I would see if I like another thing, and if not, I would try to look at this job. It seems fun, and original. It takes a lot of time to do it, and many epople are being succesful with this, and are gaining a lot of money with this. All in all, stopmotion is a very interesting, original, and fun process.