From a french thriller to a dance party?

Every week I learn something new in STAC this week was no exception.

First I figured out that when we are supposed to write a script and we are in an area with distractions... its harder to get done than we thought. Also, its easier to write a script when you have a main idea out, instead of trying to figure it out as we went on. I think that was a big struggle with our group but I believe [well, more hope.] we finally got over that little bump in the road and can finish the script much easier.

Wednesday had an interesting surprise! New STACie?! Then we watched another episode of The Prisoner. I don't know why but for some reason I liked this episode more so than the other episodes. I think it could be because the setting wasn't just the village we are used to seeing. Even though I knew he wasn't going to escape successfully, it still killed me to see the pilot say "Be seeing you"

Thursday I learned something I never expected I would do anytime soon! I started learning how to make a book. I can't say I was great at making it throughout the process, I kept on ripping paper, some manage to be short of 3 sheets of paper. But in the end I am glad I can make something like this!

As for the French thriller movie, it is amazing from what we have seen so far, but of course so force does everything it can to stop us from watching a movie. Really? A fire drill, freezes, then disappears! Thankfully that didn't stop us from having fun. Cue in dance party music!!

even though I'm 13 minutes early HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

I actually carved my own pumpkin for the first time [my dad normally carves and I just tell him what to do.]! I decided to let out some inner nerd and made a Pokemon pumpkin. I carved Celebi my favorite Pokemon.

 

And I drew a random Halloween drawing

Just a quick sketch. Maybe I'll color it. Maybe not.

the city and the swans

The first thing my group did when we got to the city was spending a good amount of time in this little interesting cafe. The guy said "I can look into your eyes and see what drink you want" he told most people in my group what drink was meant for them, but for me I just said "Hot Chocolate please?". Of the avenues in alphabet city i liked Ave. B the best.
In alphabet city they had interesting things around, from graffiti, gardens, to inter sting shadows I liked. I just got a new camera for my birthday and I'm glad I got to fill it up with cool pictures!~

Once my group felt we were done with alphabet city we wanted to make our way to Bleeker St. but we didn't know how to. We thought we knew how to but we were lost going in the wrong direction. Thankfully a lady asked "Where are you trying to go? I can help you with directions if you need them". We told her were we wanted to go and she made a face "Well, you are no where need Bleeker. You probably need to take a subway to get there from here". We finally got to Bleeker St. and went to a couple stores and walked around that area where we came across a little market. I got a new cow hat there for only $10 [My other hats were 15 to twenty dollars]! After wards we found a little ramen restaurant and ate there. Then my group got lost again. My group figured that our phychogeography should be places we get lost. I forgot to mention: every time we got lost we found a place that was really cool. Eventually we got to the Pratt gallery and saw the physcogeography exhibit. It was cool seeing other people doing the things we are doing now. I liked the scent one the best because I got to interact with it and I thought the whole idea of that one was interesting. From there we saw the flat iron building and went to a park. Then it was time we start heading towards the theater. We then met up with part of another group [Shiana, Ellen, Elisa, and Ilana] and ate a diner. We walked to the theater afterwards.

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake was not what I expected. I was actually awake! As far as comprehending what was going on I kept up with the main parts, the prince's sad life and his encounter with the swan. I personally think I understood the scenes with the swans more than the scenes at the castle. I am certainly no dancer, so I was really impressed with not only the choreography but the fact that all the dancers could pull it off! I read in playbill that a big misconception was they thought the swans would be in some kind of ballet drag with tutus and feathered head dresses! I think the costumes the swans had on were perfect, they weren't flashy but I could tell they were swans. Plus if they had on crazy costumes it would take a lot away from the dances itself. Overall it was amazing and the ending was so sad that I almost wanted to cry! I personally think its better with male swans!~


[I'll probably post the pictures in a different blog post because this one was lengthier than I thought it would be...]

dear me, oh my, how this week has gone by!

Sorry that this blog is being posted so late! I had birthday festivities to tend to...

So thanks to Christopher Columbus this week was short [and thanks Columbus, I got a new mattress this week because of wonderful sales!~] but a lot went on. On Tuesday we had STAC art, which is always fun for me because i love to draw. This week I learned how to shade better than I did before, well with the ebony pencil [which I have never used in the past.]. On Wednesday I learned what the 'Be Kind Rewind' videos were all about. My group tried making our film a drama, and I had to die in it....
It was so interesting how we all had so many ideas but somehow ended up agreeing on one. I think it was Ashley or Sabrina that said "lets a have a circle like they have in That 70's Show" which brought up loads of ideas. Because they always come out funny [from what I heard] we chose drama because we thought making it comedy would be trying to hard to make somebody laugh. On Friday when we only had an hour to film, we were running around the building for each scene! Some teacher told us "Cardiovascular activity is not good for you". It was funny watching people wondering what we were up to. When we had to film the scene where I was in the nurse 'dying' it kinda worked out because we were running around so much my asthma caught up to me making it hard to breathe and such. Once we finished filming and started watching all the videos, I notice all of the other videos included way more humor than ours. So maybe next time I'll try something different!~

Everbody wants to change the world, but no one wants to die.

I do not know why I titled this journal that title, it popped into my head [Sorry if you thought I had something very deep to say.].

When I watch our weekly dose of The Prisoner, I feel like my mind melting just trying to figure out what the whole situation is , and what will happen next [ it is probably not healthy to so! So at first Number 6 is Number six the he turns into Pedro[ well he looked like one, with that mustache].... I mean number 12 and who would have guessed! Number 6 has a doppelganger! It kills me every time Number 6 gets so close to escaping and finding himself back at The Village.
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STAC art was awesome this week. Busby Berkley's choreography blows my mind every time I see his work! Even though he was a perfectionist, being a perfectionist was a good thing in this case, because those dances are phenomenal. I can't dance [well I can dance like nobody is looking...] so maybe that's why I admire his work so much.
When we started drawing, at first I did not know what to do, or what my overall theme for the picture to be. Then i remember a song's music video and one part of it had hands going in a circle i guess you could say and that reminded me of of something you could see in a Busby Berkley dance.
Here is the song:
Watch "Fear Garden" here~
It is very sadistic, gory, creepy,  and morbid but I like the song....

First STAC Trip!

So this week a lot went on! I feel that every week the prisoner gets more and more bizarre. When the foreign lady started slapping number six saying "Tick tick! Tick tick!", really freaked me out, in the best way possible of course. I was wondering if Number six will ever escape because if the episodes where filmed in a different order would the final escape still be the last episode they filmed? But, maybe that episode and the first episode was the only episode aired in the order of being filmed [but, I don' t think I want to know about that just because that means i would have finished the prisoner!].

This week I also learned a lot about Cezanne, Gauguin, Signac, and of course Matisse. This really changed my experience at MoMa on Friday.
Which brings me to talking about the trip. I had an awesome time on my first STAC trip on Friday! The Museum of Modern Arts was amazing! I saw so much new art that I have never seen before and art ive seen so many times before, but  seeing the real thing right in front of me was almost unreal! I used my spy skills and got some pictures of the Matisse paintings in the exhibit! Afterwords my group went to eat at T.G.I. Fridays and from there we went to Nintendo World and Kinokuniya singing the "Bed Intruder" song and saying "YEAHYUH", "OHKAY", and "WHAAT" from the Dave Chapelle show [ I don't like writing in caps very often because I feel like people are yelling at me when I see caps... but for this we were yelling it so lowercase lettering would do it no justice.]. Once we got to the theater to see "La Cage Aux Folles" I got to take a picture with a drag queen. The play was amazing! It was not only funny, but the story itself was good.
I Took so many pictures but here are just some [I uploaded all of them on facebook if anybody is interested].

Love this wish!

We match!

She told me to tag her on facebook as "Lili White-ass"

Febia and I loved this guy [and his outfit], so we took a picture of him... oh Europeans

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