Balloon race reflection

 Yesterday, on the 12th of November, our class held a design contest to design balloon cars. I  was in a group with Oliver black, and worked on the design. I enjoyed the design aspect, and attempting to make something unique and well preforming, though our group didn't do to well. our design didn't use a straw for propulsion which turned out not to work as well as expected. we also weren't able to get much air into the balloon as well. all of these factors combined to make our car not go past the finish. If we were to do it next time, I would like to have bluetac and toothpicks to make a body structure instead of the meat tray. this would allow for more creativity and ad more diversity towards the designs, adding an extra level of interest to the protect.

Writing sample T2

This is a writing sample from term 2 week 10.
TITLE HERE Waitomo Caves.

Dull as it may seem, the limestone was mesmerising. The way the dull brown is shown is  a piece of art; with depth and perspective to add variety to what would otherwise be boring. Constantly, drops of water fell around our group, strangers in a strange land. How long have we been here? An hour maybe, I'd say more. My feet would normally hurt by this point, but now in the ominous, elder rich-like cave, it feels trivial. “Ahead is another cave curtain, this one even larger.” Our guide told us, as the track rounded another corner. The caves went on forever, but I knew we were getting somewhere.

Boredom is lost in the immersion the caves provided, though I don’t know if anyone could be bored in such a place regardless. We reached the next metal balcony, looking over a deep ravine in the rock. Water was below, but  it was too dark to see it. “Here is the passage of the Waitomo river that formed these caves. It still flows and scores deeper and  creates more caves to unearth.” So said our guide. Moving on, we reached another marvel of nature, though it was now familiar to us. The sheets of rock that formed over thousands of years on either side of the metal track; as we passed, water still flowed, increasing the size and grandeur of the cavern.

As we walked through the passage, we rounded a corner and saw something odd. A large metal pipe sticking out of the dull yellow-brown roof. It seemed out of place surrounded by the contrasting metal walkway and irregular stone walls. “When building this area, the builders had to get a lot of concrete down, they used that pipe, looked in and saw something odd, and guessed what it was”. The guide stated, attempting to form a sense of mystery. But memories of my sister's trip guided me to the pipe, and looking upon what I knew to be the sky, but so high it made it look like a gem. It was hard to remind yourself just how deep we are.

Finally, the guide took us to an end of the road lookout, over the single most beautiful thing I've ever seen. A vast cavern floored with stalagmites and water shining in between, highlighting the pillars and spires of stone in a certain grace that I have never seen before. Like what an artist would dream of, or a builder would aspire to create. All by virtue of extreme luck. The telltale dripping sound tells me the place is still in formation; making me want to aspire to make such a thing as that. Our guide told us it was called the prettys, such a name could not bring justice to what I saw.

Upon leaving the cave, where so many things I saw made me reconsider what I know, I felt more touched than any art ever captured by a human hand. Nothing will ever do it justice, and would be a simple counterfeit of the real thing. One quote echoed in my head as I walked the paths I had tread before. “It doesn’t have to have a reason to be.”

And here is the marking for the piece. I scored level 6b.

I am quite happy with this report, my next focus focus is going to be structure, creating a deep link in between the paragraphs for the optimal piece.

Dark life art project week 9

One of our week 9 tasks was to draw a seene from darklife, I choose outside the derelict sub while ty and gemma were inside. Note: selibite gang sub above the derelict, contenental slope in background, deep sea kelp and seaslugs.  

Geocity review

Geocity is a task based around geometry, building cities in the form of net based structures, and learning about geometric terms in the proceses. we needed geometric terms and understanding of there applications to create a city-like landscape out of paper nets. I found the task enjoyable, even if the amount of time provided was impaired via extensions and eula time provided. All round I enjoyed  the task, even if the elements are time consuming.  The main reason for me not completing everthing I set out to do is because I was to ambitious, as in I set to many objects to build, under estimating how long it would take. I also had the disadvantage of horticultur extension, but that was only a block that I missed, and can't be helped. all round I enjoyed the task, and completed a amount that would have been enough adiquite if I had a standard amount of work, but I fell to  my own fault.

Term 2 Week 6 reflection. (2020)

Week 6 reflection.

• I did the majority of my tasks this week, completing as much as I could wherever possible, I didn't complete my Reading time but the rest was just about completed with the complication of EULA. all round I worked effectively.
• How would you have changed it?) I enjoyed the learning in the eula maths, even if some was phrased confusingly I understand it all. the dream scape was at a point of grindy, with there lazily designed question system and general shear amount of time required to complete it.
• I term of obstacles for my learning, hort extension was obviously a large part of not completing work, but in class there wasn't much distracting, and my table group worked well. I also had time in tech to do work that week.
• What is your aim for this week? How will you improve? I feel I can complete it to a higher standard I coming weeks, completing all tasks and building a new understanding and facing challenges as they come up.
• I enjoyed the prior knowledge task, allowing learn and write a lot about something. Here is the slide deck:
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T2W4 reflection

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T2W2 reflection