4/23/2017 0 Comments Week 12This week we had lost of open work time and writing time. We had to write one longer piece for humanities and two smaller pieces for humanities, so we had a lot of writing on our hands. In Chem, we learned about polymers, monomers, and the polymerization process through a lesson and and experiment in which we made slime. - How does epoxy work? Epoxy is a 50/50 mix of resin and hardener. The hardener acts as a catalyst to the resin, which means adding the hardener to the resin is what causes polymerization. A polymer is a chain of monomers linked together. An example of a polymer is PVA (Elmer's Glue) and borax. The monomer in this situation has two carbons with hydrogen around them on all of it's sides except for one. In the one open spot there's one acetate. This is what makes PVA or Polyvinyl Acetate. The borax acts as the catalyst, and adding it causes all of the monomers in the PVA to link together and create a polymer. Polymerization is just when he catalyst reacts to the monomers and causes them to form bonds with each other in all directions. This experiment help with the project because it helped us know what was going on with the materials we're handling. Now I know why the consistency of the epoxy changes while I mix it. What can we learn from light? What information is in light? Light can teach us about the elements that things like planets and stars are made of. You can tell by the kind of bands it makes when it absorbs light. Light also lets us see color. Color comes from an object absorbing and reflecting a certain energy/color of light. In humanities, we answered the question "How does the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers lead to wonder and curiosity?" In 350+ words. Below is how I responded to the question.
Scientists, artists, and philosophers all deal with life in the lens of their own jobs. They each deal with life and death, creation and destruction, light and dark. In the specific example of light, many people from each of those professions and more (including composers, poets, authors, scholars, and saints) were inspired by the phrase in which Genesis said “Fiat Lux” a Latin which inarguably translates to “Let there be light” in every translation. I think they were inspired by this because of all the different theories on how light began and how light affects life in such a dramatic way. Each of their ideals on light are different, so the phrase hits and inspires them differently. All the different ideals of the old great artist, scientists, and philosophers are some of what has shaped modern creation stories. Most of what people in these professions do, is made to make you wonder. Artists create things with a vision and concept. In the case of some artists, they create for the sole purpose of making others think deeply about what they've created and how it makes them feel. Sometime pieces involve abstract and high concept subject matter, and that makes people curious about what is meant to be portrayed in the piece. The meaning of an art piece can never be exactly known, unless the artist themselves explains it. Without being explicitly told, all people have are their thoughts and wonderings about the true meaning. Philosophers ponder deep subjects like the meaning of life and what is love? (baby don't hurt me) Philosophers are always asking questions which obviously makes you think, but the questions they ask are things that are widely accepted to be unanswerable. For example, there's no way a person could actually know for certain if there truly is another life after death, but that doesn't stop philosophers from asking themselves and others if there is. In a way, there whole job is marking themselves and others wonder about some of the most important things of life. Scientists cause wonder in many ways. For example, when scientists discover new things, people wonder how that thing has never been discovered and how the scientists discovered it. Scientists go through numerous tests, reviews, and revisions in order to try to prove that things they themselves are wondering about are true facts. In science, nothing would happen without wonder and curiosity. How would you know what to test and research if you weren't curious about something? Scientists are really really important and actually know what they're doing unlike some people (cough trump and pence and all the other conservative assmasters) and also global warming is real so take that.
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4/16/2017 0 Comments WeeK 11This week we started preparing our final landscape prints. A group of girls including me (the same who developed for the last phase) were all interested enough in the process to ask to be taught how to help people epoxy the photos. Apparently, since we're all SO intimidating to other people, nobody said anything about us helping UNTIL a photo was messed up. Then people realized that they should take responsibility of their photo because in the end it's their's, and if anyone is going to mess it up it should be the person who's photo it is (although hopefully nobody else photo gets messed up). After that situation, the six of us decided to let people take responsibility for themselves by choosing to step back and not help other people with their epoxy. • How does each part of the process change/involve light? Each part of the process is affected by light differently. The light source in the actual photographing affects all sorts of things like color value and quality, contrast, and exposure. The lighting also affects editing, because editing depends on the light in the photo. For example, if your photo is very under exposed, when editing you'll turn the exposure up or if your photo is not saturated enough for your liking you can turn it up to make the colors pop. The resin blocks the glare from direct lighting and also blocks harmful if lightning rays that cause photo fading. • Why is it important to frame and exhibit work? It's important because for lots of things. For example, it gives you opportunities to learn and experience how to present your work. It also give all kinds of people a chance to see the work and see what your capable of. Presenting beautiful work feels all sorts of lovely, because is shows that you're capable of doing fantastic things. — What role does each step play?
There's 4 steps to creating beautiful photos, each of which are very important. These are the 4 with explanations in why they matter 1. THE PHOTO The original photo matters because of it's not height quality to begin with, it never will be. You want to have the highest quality and most beautiful picture you can get. You want something that would be good without the next three steps but great with them. Everything from the framing, to the balence, to the contrast should be top notch. 2. PROCESSING IN PHOTOSHOP This is important to make sure your photo is in its best form before print. You want to make sure all he details are taken care of, so that it's smooth sailing from here. Honestly, after this step, the hard work is done. You want to make sure to De-noise the photo to get rid of any pixelation, and to make sure your saturation, contrast, vibrance, and brightness are what you want. Once that's done, you do the necessary editing for the metallic photo paper, which usually includes balencing the red in the photo and turning down the contrast. 3. METALLIC PHOTO PAPER This paper adds extra dimension and wow factor to your photo. The sheen of the paper makes the photo look more smooth and professional. It especially brings out bright colors and highlights, making them look brighter and clearer and overall nicer. The paper is kind of expensive, but it just give our photos another layer of beauty and uniqueness. 4. EPOXY TOP COAT Epoxy serves many purposes. It makes it look more clean and put together, as well as adds depth to he photo. It reduces glare and give more opportunity to see the photo as it truly is, and it resists sun damage. It's truly a perfect addition to our photos. Not only does it make the photo look even better, which is hard to do at that point, it gives the protects the photo and gives it longevity. This is a perfect selling point, but also it's good to have insurance that all the layers of hard work put into the photo will stick around. 4/10/2017 0 Comments Week 10This week we mostly worked in our project groups. We also talked about matter and conducted an experiment with dry ice, as well as clean, revise our Steinbeck inspired writing, and write about someone else's photo. My project role is a Travel Agent. This week we helped plan out a trip to sunset cliffs. We helped with permission slips and the important details to make sure everything went as planned. In the future we hope to plan more field trips and make sure the calendar is constantly updated. this week in chemistry we played around a bit with dry ice. We learned about phases of matter and how to make he solid dry ice turn into a liquid. When we were playing with it, we found that pressing a coin into the ice would make a high pitched squeak/hiss noise, and I wondered why that was. I asked Andrew and he told me it was because the heat from the coin was causing the ice to turn to gas more rapidly, therefore creating vibrations between the coin and ice that cause the noise. Once the coin got cold enough, the noise stopped and the ice began to get cold and get some frost on it. Below are some photos of what that looked like Last week we were asked to write about a place we love in the style of John Steinbeck. This week, we were asked to revise that. The button below will link you to my piece.
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