jueves, 29 de abril de 2010

50 things I hate and love about Skateboarding!

Love:

1. The speed

2. Learning a new trick

3. Drops

4. When you do high, clean tricks.

5. Friends

6. Grinding

7. Getting to know skateboarding brands

8. Getting new shoes

9. Getting a new skateboard

10. Getting new skateboard parts

11. Getting new skateboard clothing

12. Getting new skateboard hats

13. The feel of new skateboard gear

14. The sound of the skateboard when you ride

15. The sound of the wind when you're in mid-air

16. The sound of the skateboard when it hits the ground

17. All of those three sounds happening so often at the park

18. Visiting a new park

19. The feel of a waxed ledge or rail

20. Watching your friends progress with you

21. Meeting new skateboarders

22. Skateboarding contests

23. Drunk people that come up to you, try something on the board, and fall

24. Skating places that you're not supposed to skate

25. The first time you skateboard

Hate:

1. Cops

2. Not getting permission to go out to skate

3. Getting really hurt

4. Sweating a lot

5. Losing your breath

6. Watching one of your friends get seriously hurt

7. When you want to buy something, but someone else buys it first

8. Breaking your board

9. Not finding your board when you're going to go out

10. When a wheel falls off the board when you jump

11. When a truck breaks

12. When a bearing breaks

13. Doing a high quarter pipe drop and falling backwards

14. Falling when you grind, one of the worst ways of falling

15. Not having wax and wanting to grind

16. When your shoes break

17. When the grip tape gets ruined

18. When the board chips

19. When the board gets wet and grows fungi

20. When someone insists on playing a game of S.K.A.T.E, but you don't want to

21. People who keep bragging about how they can do any trick

22. Fat kids who skate, sorry

23. Adults who stereotype skaters as drug addicts, not all of us are

24. Losing a game of S.K.A.T.E

25. When you feel like you didn't accomplish anything new during a skate session

Those were the things I love and hate about skateboarding, thanks!

martes, 27 de abril de 2010

Peer evaluations and project

I think that both of the evaluations I graded were good. They had original photographs and the audio was clear. They used creative ideas, but they had some minor flaws. For example, one of the projects I graded used last names for their credits, but nothing exaggerated. They were really cool, not exactly shocking masterpieces, but I did enjoy them. I don't think there was like a PERFECT project, since no one is master of perfection, but there were some that were better than others. It was a really nice thing to do, the evaluation also helped me to look more clearly at my project.

By reading the evaluation and grading other students, I realized what qualities my project had, and what flaws it contained. I could notice that my project was missing something important, and without the evaluation, I don't I would have found that mistake. My project lacked of pictures, that is what I realized when I was looking at the evaluation. I only used three pictures because I did a mistake. The teacher gave us a maximum of three pictures taken from the internet, and I used only three pictures in total, thinking that the maximum of pictures was only three. I really messed up, now I know that.

If I could change my project at all, I would put in more pictures than I did. At least like fifty pictures or something, but three are almost none, and it was a mistake to do that. I will think about re-doing the project or not, I still haven't seen my grade. If my grade is kind of bad, I will probably re-do my video. I would also like to have higher quality images, since the ones I put in did not have the best quality, for some reason. So now we all know, the evaluation opened my eyes, I would like to change something about my Earth Day Video project.

jueves, 22 de abril de 2010

Earth Day Environmental Post

I am going to talk about an environmental idea. If some billionaire came up to me and simply gave me a billion dollars, I would make a center to take care of the Earth. I would make this building in which people did things to protect the Earth. We would have like a cleaning site, a place where you could admire nature and much more. It's probably something I will never be able to do, but if I could, here are my ideas. They're pretty great, I hope someone does this someday. Not exactly the same as I will describe below, but something where people could enjoy the amazing nature that our Earth contains.

I would build a place called Nature, it's not that creative, but it's catchy and easy to remember. In the cleaning room, we would store gases with a suction system and clean the toxic matter it has. We would then use it for machinery, which I will talk about later. The gas would enter this chamber in which many components would take that gas and extract toxic or harmful matter. Then it would go to a double-check chamber, in which small remaining particles would be removed. Then the gas would come out into the using chamber, where it would be clean and ready to use. It would be a place where only authorized personnel could enter.

The now processed gas would be used for machinery. These machines, which would be located in the Ozone Layer section, would clean and prevent the ozone layer from being destroyed. The processed gas would be launched into the Earth's surface, in which the ozone layer is located, and kind of form an artificial layer so the ozone layer doesn't get all of the impact from harmful material. The artificial layer would come less effective, but when that time comes, we would just shoot up some more gas, it's as simple as that. This would also be part of the restricted area.

We now move on to the public are, where everybody can go and enjoy of the creation of the building. We would have kind of a food court, but with natural and healthy food only. Meat would come from naturally dead, well fed, and not processed animals. The majority of our food would be vegetables and fruits. We would plant them ourselves and cut them ourselves, no fertilizers or bug sprays, our personnel would take care of them naturally. We would have a viewing area, which would be out in the open. You could just sit there and drink a cup of hot tea while admiring the beautiful forest and fauna we would have at the buildings side. We would also have a waterfall full of trees, in which birds would stop to chirp the day away.

Our prices would be regular, not expensive, but not exactly super cheap. This is because the maintaining of the building, even though we would have the gases, would be really expensive. Therefore, the prices would be average. People could also buy yearly passes, and they would be cheaper than buying a ticket daily. Of course, this would probably never happen, it actually kind of fits in the fiction area, it's not that realistic. Well, at least I have shared my ideas, I hope someday at least something similar is built. Hopefully you, yes, you, take care of the Earth, let's save it! Thank you for reading.

martes, 20 de abril de 2010

Earth Day Video!

The track we chose as our background music is Hana (Flower) by Masaaki Kishibe. It's a really beautiful song, and we did not think twice before we picked it. I created the entire poem, it was not that hard, but it was kind of hard sometimes to find the correct rhyme. I think it was good, since I wrote it in about ten minutes, and it does not have a bad quality, it's actually pretty sweet. We used Puerto Vallarta images, using different elements to describe the poem. We firstly used a picture of the Malecon so everyone could appreciate the sea. We then used a picture of the moon, which describes a part of the poem we used. Finally, we have the Caballito, which is located at the Malecon. It's the Caballito just in front of a beautiful sunset, it's our personal favorite. I personally had some trouble using the iMovie, I spent all night figuring the system out. I didn't sleep until 1:20 A.M, it was a pain in the butt. That was pretty much it, live long and prosper (SPOCK!) Random...

jueves, 15 de abril de 2010

The perfect spring break

The perfect spring break to me would be one full of new things, and full of crazyness. I would like to have an Aston Martin Phantom to ride around the city, since that is my dream car. I would learn how to surf, how to kiteboard, and how to wakeboard. Those are the three most famous aquatic sports, and I have never tried even one. I would like to make new friends. I would like to meet people that I could trust me, and at the same time trusted me back. I would like to go with those friends to the beach and perform the things I mentioned earlier. Maybe grab a few soda pops and just chill while feeling the wind. I know that those sports are hard to learn, or at least that is what people say, but I would totally go for it.

After all the water stuff, I would like to go to a fancy city and stay at a fancy hotel. Maybe go up to New York City and just go to the greatest hotel there and enjoy my visit. I would not ask for much there, just good food and peace. No disturbing me or anything like that, just me with myself and a cold Dr. Pepper in my hand, watching T.V. Then, I would go and relax at the pool, enjoying the sun and the women, being a guy. Then just get back to bed in my room, turning on the warmer and sleep the most comfy way I have ever slept. Wake up totally fresh and feel renewed. Until now, we have gone through 7 of the 14 days of Spring Break.

Then I would go on to the madness. People going crazy and having the best time ever. Pulling over to important parties, of course, healthy and nice crazy parties, not drunken-fests. Maybe go skateboarding to the big ramps up in San Pancho, and just going the maximum speed. Feeling the adrenaline, feeling the wind, feeling how you elevate from the floor. Flying without having to have wings, to enjoy that breeze, to enjoy the sunset. That would be the most perfect thing, I know it would. Maybe going up to the street skate park after ramping. It's right ahead the tunnel, it has small ramps with copings, but mainly street. I got to say I love skateboarding, everybody should do it. We have gone through 11 days now.

This part of my Spring Break is called The Bear Stage. I call it The Bear Stage because it is like hibernating. Just staying at home and watch some good movies, sleeping eighteen hours a day. Sleeping, waking up, eating, watching movies, sleeping. Three days in a row of just that routine. I find it kind of necessary since I just wasted all of my energies on the past Spring Break days. Maybe playing a little Playstation 3, mainly doing entertaining, but not tiring stuff. Feeling like if you're kind of hibernating, I think you might understand what I am saying. After all of this, going back to school. I know, boring, right? Unfortunately, that's the way it is, and also, this story leads to ending. Thank you for your time folks.