Autobiographies

To do for Wednesday:
Students will continue to work on their narration for their autobiographies.
If they are done with their narration they should start gathering photos and videos online that correspond to their project.
All youtube videos can be downloaded from ZAMZAR.
Just ask James or Mrs. Westagate how to do it!

GRADING::: THESE ARE DUE BEFORE BREAK ON DEC 23RD! THINK X-MAS PRESENT!

A Worthy Projects:
-Narration
-Rehearsed voice over
-Use of archival photos
-Video footage
-Original Music
-Editing effort is evident
-Images from internet and/or videos
-Beginning, middle, end structure

B Worthy Projects:
-Narration
-Voice Over
-Use of photographs
-Original music
-Editing effort
-Beginning, middle, and end structure
-Archival images
-Use of images from internet and/or videos

C Worthy Projects
-Voice Over
-Narration
-Some editing effort
-Pictures from internet and/or videos

D Worthy Projects
-Narration
-Voice Over
-Hardly any editing effort

100 Eyes Photo Magazine

www.100Eyes.org stood out to me out of all the other sites. What's so different about this site? It is a photo magazine and it has a digital magazine where you can flip the pages like a real magazine. The home page is also very, very easy to navigate. The cover pages of the most recent "magazines" are displayed right in front of you so you do not need to look through archives to find a specific volume or edition. In the "magazine", each page has picture with a text description or story to go along with it. 

100 Eyes

written by Kevin Phu

Photo Journalism

Photo journalism has always been interesting to me. I took photo 1 and 2 in this school and was  hoping to get out of stats and into an independent study but was rejected because there is a maximum of two independent study kids allowed.

Anyways, I came across a few really good sites for photo journalism. The 37th Frame is one I really enjoyed. It showcased photographers pictures and the article that goes with it. It seems to encompass many different newspapers and magazines. http://www.the37thframe.org/

Another really good site and my favorite is Mercury News Photo. It has many videos and pictures showing artistic and journalistic views. It also has a mix of very serious stories and some not so serious. Some of these include "Law Enforcement Tool or Abuse of Power" and "Recession '09". http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/

The city Of Belarus

The picture i decided to blog about, was a picture by Anderi Liankevich. The portfolio is called the Belarus Portfolio. I got it off of Burnmagazine.com. I picked the picture because it is a picture of a big city. The lights and the way the picture came out caught my attention. Also, the angle of the picture was also very interesting. It is a very pretty picture, in my opinion. The article that i read about the place called Belarus and thats the town that the picture is from. Check it out !

Link : http://www.burnmagazine.org/

The New York Times section called the Lens has links to many photography blogs.  On was the LA times.  They had a picture story called Living under the 7th Street Bridge.  The photos showed homeless people in their homes under the bridge.  One photo shows a women making breakfast next  a river.  The area is littered with trash and she stands in the middle of it cooking.  One photo shows a drug dealer with a needle.  He says "I want to be high so that I don't feel sick so I can do my drawings and pass away with some happiness because I never got it anywhere in this world."  These photos show what homeless peoples lives are like.  Many journalists have written about homeless people but seeing the conditions they live in makes it easier for people to understand their lives.

Another site had photos of poor children in India.  The story was called The World's Children.  The story started by introducing an 11 year old boy who had disabled parents and was beaten by his grandparents.  He ran away and was now living on the streets.  Another photo showed an infant lying on the street.  

"Festival Of Sacrifice" & "Stars"

The blog I read is called Eid al-Adha and the Hajj, 2009 , and it's about the beginning of the Muslim "Festival Of Sacrifice".  It includes a total of 38 beautiful photos.  The Eid al-Adha is a holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God.  This celebration takes place immediately right after the Hajj, which is a pilgrimage to Mecca.  Around 2.5 million Muslims from around the world gathered in Mecca this year.  After their pilgrimage, they celebrate by shaving their heads and slaughtering animals to be shared amongst their families.

   The second topic I visited is called Stars , which shows amazing photos of the galaxy.  I found it on the National Geographic site and it has a total of 8 photos.  This photo to the left is of a neuron star located 50,000 light years away from Earth.  It was so bright it temporarily blinded all the x-ray satellites in space and lit up the Earths upper atmosphere.

Dubai’s Improbable Tale

See Article Here

In the "Dubai's Improbable Tale" Photography I saw a photo of the Burj Al Arab hotel. This hotel has a guest reception desk on every single one of the many floors. Dubai seems amazing I need to visit there some day!

Afghanistan

There is this blog on the Boston Globe and one post has photos about the war in Afghanistan and I thought that it was interesting because it was posted on November 25th, the day before Thanksgiving and the day that the White House announced that the President will speak in a National address today to formally announced his decision to the public. In this photo blog, there 42 total photos of the last month in Afghanistan and it was a sign of the times over in that country. Here is a link to the site, I have looked at half of the photos so far.

The Life of Farrah Dornevil

   Farrah Dornevil was born on July 16, 1993 in Waltham, MA.  She currently lives with her parents and has a total of seven siblings, which consist of two brothers and five sisters.  Talk about a full house!  Her mother is Dominican and her father is Haitian.  Her mother is a nurse and her father works at Newlyweds Foods.  Farrah began school by attending Watertown's Hosmer Elementary School.  She also began gymnastics at the age of five.  She is addicted to both Facebook and MySpace.  Most importantly, she has a passion for singing, and she's really good at it.  She even writes and records her own music.  I think she should audition for American Idol.  She loves to shop and has a collection of 65 pairs of Nikes and Jordan sneakers.  Where does she fit them all!?!
      She currently attends Watertown High School and she plans on starting cheerleading in the winter.  She comes to school with a new hairstyle almost everyday.  One day it's short, the next day long and wavy, and sometimes in a ponytail.  She even color coordinates her outfits with her shoes.  Every year she travels to "mad" places, including Pennsylvania and Florida.  She one day dreams of becoming either a fashion designer or a pediatrician.

      
By: Despina Najarian

Kevin Phu Biography

Click on this to see Kevin's video

Kevin Phu was born on January 23, 1992 at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Throughout his life he moved from Brighton to Toronto, and then finally settled down in Watertown. His mother works at a Medical Supply Company and his dad gambles. The strict childhood he grew up in turned him into a rebel. He has a sister who is 4 years older than him. His hobbies include karate, which he took up at the age of 7 and stopped when he was 14. He started writing and making music in the early years of high school as a hobby and ran track for a couple years. At 15, he started working to help the family out. After high school, Kevin plans to join the Navy and serve his country.