Music

 The song I will be performing In music is called clair de lune, it's a classical piano piece by Debussy. I'll be doing a solo because it's a bit easier to practice because I won't have to try and teach someone else and myself at the same time, I think I need to work on using the piano pedals a bit more to make the song feel more like its self since the song is very harmonious, I think trying to implement the pedel and the keys will be hard but it will be a good challenge.

Visual Art: Transcription Street Art

In Art we have been looking at various types of street murals, we were to look at different cultural types of murals or just any art style. I quite enjoyed the proccess of having to use a grid and use a different section of the art, I used half of the Face and tried to have my own spin on it which somehow worked but the orginal by Lionel Smit is still way better. I Think I could try do the whole proccess again and use paint instead and try use different brushes or palate knives to make it rough but soft.

Street Art: mural

I quite enjoy this mural not only because its vibrant and has really good attention to detail but the shading and the lighting is really beautiful and it has this affect of dragging your eyes in and theres so much tiny details that is why i'm so intrigued with this mural.

Instrument elvauation

What have you studied in music this term?
We have studied a range of instruments and how to play chords or how to play the melody
Which instrument have you enjoyed and why 
I enjoyed guitar because I just have a soft spot for it I guess.
which instrument did you find most challenging and why
I would say guitar because of the strumming pattern
which instrument are you going to focus on for the rest of the term and why 
I'm going to be focusing on guitar this term because i generally really just want to be able to play a song.

photo montage

Hannah Hoch
Hannah Höch, née Anna Therese Johanne Höch, (born November 1, 1889. Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist known for her political photomontages. Made from newspaper clippings and found objects, her work often engaged with the early 20th-century ideal of the “New Woman”—one who challenged the traditional domestic role of females.

Hannah Hoch played a huge role in our photomontages, we had to learn about how she as an artist had become so popular for her bazaar photo work.

For the past 3 weeks, we had been trying to recreate Hanna Hoch's bazaar art style we had two-three weeks of making scrapbooks and after we had finished our scrapbooks we had to make three posters based on Hannah Hoch's way of putting everything together but we had a choice on what we wanted the images to be.

My photomontages

My first photo is a guy lying in a stadium with butterflies and a butterfly covering his face the focal point is the butterflies.

My second one is based on what a lucid dream what kinda looks like and my inspiration is based on for the bee's are from Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

My third one is kind of how I perceive eye's and eye color's I thought of stars because i think stars just add a beautiful feature to it.

Guitar

 Labeled Guitar  

What is challenging about playing guitar:

What I think is challenging is the strum pattern and the shifting to different chords.

What are the differences between guitar and ukulele/ which one is better/easier for you to play:

Guitars are bigger than ukuleles. Also, the standard guitar has 6 strings, while the ukulele has 4. The fretboard of the ukulele is significantly thinner than the guitar

Song you like that incorporates guitar as the main instrument/ who preforms it/sings it and why you like it.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z603ccaj74

I really like this film and the song he plays aswell. 

Ukulele

Describe your study of ukulele, have you enjoyed it, was it easy or hard
it was easy to learn about it but when I held it and started learning the chords and the strum pattern it was very difficult but I enjoyed it nonetheless


where is the ukulele from where was it formed? by who?
The ukulele originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian adaptation of the Portuguese machete, The instrument, originated in Europe and was introduced to Hawaii in 1879 when a Portuguese immigrant named Joao Fernandez


Add a labeled picture of the ukulele



Which song have you been learning? 
We learned the song Just the way you are by Bruno mars

New Zealand Government

we are learning about New Zealand's politics & how the government runs. New Zealand is a democracy and has an election every 3 years. Democracy is a form of government in which the common people hold political power and can vote. New Zealand is also a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of Government. Our head of state is presently Queen Elizabeth II. At the moment she is represented by the Governor-General, Dame Pasty Reddy.  New Zealand's Government is made up of four different categories/groups, these include the head of state, Legislative, Executive, and, Judicial.