Verbal Landscapes

Nature is a key fundamental element in my life. Nature got me interested into becoming a survivalist, or "living off of the land", as one might say. Nature also keeps all of us alive by providing air, food, water, and shelter. Nature is the base of all life on planet earth. Nature is the starting point on planet earth.

GT class is making me do a nature poem, backed up with slow-mos and time lapses. Creating them isn't as hard as it seems. The filming is the hardest part. You have to put the camera on a natural flat surface And hold still for 10 seconds for slow-mos and 5+ minutes for time lapses. Then, you take the raw footage into a video editor such as Final Cut Pro X (not sponsored). And finally, you go to the re- time editor option and either speed up or slow down the clip.

Every project that we do in this class is bound to have difficult parts. The most difficult part of this project (in my opinion) is the filming of the time lapses. You don't know how hard it is to hold still for 5+ minutes to film a time lapse. It's unbearable. The part that I enjoyed the most was the editing portion. It is quite enjoyable to be immersed in your own work. If you did this, you would know just how fun this actually is.

As you can see, my class really liked my video. Yesterday, my GT class watched every one's videos and voted on scores for the videos. 22.2% of the class (6 students) gave me a 4/4. I met all the requirements but I think it was my monologue that set it off. 3 people (11.1%) in the class voted my video the best in the class. I'm flattered and don't want to object to their decision. 

Poetic Personal Statment

2. BLOG POST: POETIC PERSONAL STATEMENT
Required Images: LastF_Poetic.jpg

It's been a long summer but I'm finally back here to tell you all about poetry. I feel that poetry can be very personal. I find it personal because most poems relate to the poet's life. For example, a black poet during segregation would make a poem about how hard life was (I'm not trying to be racist, I promise). A rich person would make a poem about his or her riches and/or how good his/her life was/is (again, I'm not trying to insult anyone so PLEASE don't take any offense).


As the mind grows more intelligent,
The soul grows more elegant.
Through blood, sweat, and tears, my true wonderful form appears.
Some find it appalling, some find it drawing, some find it inspiring.
My friends help me on my way, to attempt to keep the dark moments at bay.
That doesn't always work though, but the bad times help me grow.
Despite that, I avoid the darkness of feelings, because it's hard to acquire emotional healing.
That is just how my life goes, for that is the path I chose.
Should i change it I think not, don't even give me the thought.


What you just read was my poetic personal statement. Notice how I used rhythm and rhyme to create a poem that actually makes sense. I used rhymezone.com  to come up with all the rhymes that I used in my poetic statement. I also used all of my personal experiences to fuel the words that I used in the statement. This statement is also being used in the first photoshop project of the year. The finished project is displayed below.

My finished and kerned text layer.

My completed sketch layer





The entire finished photoshop project has yet to be added so just sit tight.