Current Events - February 1, 2008

Date: February 1, 2008
Headline: Obama, Clinton go one-on-one for first time
Question: What three major issues did Obama and Clinton debated over?

Caricatures

This is a caricature of Pete Townshed from Kris's blog. His nose is extremely exagerated, and it takes up his whole entire face. His body is really small and his face, especially his nose, is humungous.

This is a caricature of the beatles. The part which is exagerated is their legs Their legs are made to look really long and skinny, like sticks. We get the effect that most of them were tall and really, really skinny.

Current Events - January 30, 2008

Date - Janurary 30, 2008
Headline - Winter storms in China strand holiday travelers
Question - What major accident occured in China once the blizzards began?

Date - January 29, 2008
Headline - Hawaii sets U.S. pace for alternative energy
Question - What are economic leaders trying to turn into fossil fuel from it's original state?

Date - January 29, 2008
Headline - Warrant out for U.S. Marine
Question - Why did Mexican police arrest the U.S. marine?

Political Cartoon Symbols

The symbols are the american flag, the republican elephant and the democratic donkey. It's saying that there are 2 americas: one a democratic and one a republican.

The symbol in this cartoon is uncle sam, who represents the u.s. government. The u.s. government is loaning a lot of money to japan, who seems to not really need that much.

The symbol in this cartoon is the statue of liberty which stands for liberty. She is crying which means liberty is failing in america.

The symbol in this cartoon is the republican elephant saying that the republicans are planning to stay in iraq longer than expected, when instead they wanted to do it with tax cuts.

Newspaper Scavenger Hunt

1. A date other than today
2. The high temperature in a major city
3. A woman’s face
4. A country outside the U.S.A
5. A city within 100 miles of here
6. A vehicle other than a car
7. A movie that starts between 7:00 and 9:00 PM
8. A word with at least three syllables
9. The name of a TV show that ends at 9:00 PM
10. A politician
11. An example of good news
12. Something that makes you smile

1. Page A1 - "Brokeback" star Ledger was found dead yesterday, Jan. 22, 2008.
2. Page B8 - The high temperature in Miami, Florida is 80 degrees.
3. Page B5 - A woman whose picture is shown is Betty Jo Basham Longest.
4. Page A3 - Israel is a country outside of U.S.A. who is providing fuel to Gaza.
5. Page A1 - Bastrop corruption case yields guilty pleas.
6. Page F2 - A 2003 Ford 150 XL truck has a pricetag of $6,900.
7. Page E9 - "The Devil wears Prada" movie starts on HBO2 at 8:30 PM.
8. Page B7 - The word "computer" under Fry's Electronics.
9. Page E9 - "The moment of truth" ends at 9:00 on the Fox Channel.
10. Page A4 - Politicain Obama is fighting against both of the Clintons.
11. Page C1 - Basketball player Daniel Gibson is even better in his 2nd NBA season.
12. Page E6 - I thought the cartoon "B.C." was really funny.

Steps to making your final photo

1. Set up the negative

-insert in holder

-open aperature

-set up image using crank, easel, focus

-get fine focus

2. Set Exposure

-close aperature

-turn off light

-make test exposure

3. Make final Draft

Photography Reflection

1. The light coming through the aperture is hitting the mirror, which is located in front of the shutter, and it swings up at same time as the shutter release. The shutter speed is determining how much light is coming through the aperture according to the light source that is available. The aperture is located in the lens. You may focus the camera by looking into the lens. There will be a circle with a line going through it, and you know you are focused when the object you are looking at through the circle/line is not split in two; it is one solid object. So the image that is reflecting off of the mirror is now going to the film, and so now the image is created in the camera.
2. You put the film on the reel, which is a circular type object. You line the "rabbit teeth" up and put in the film. Keep the left side put and turn the right side until the whole entire film is loaded onto the reel. This process is known as reeling. Next, you take this reel and put it in the tank, which is a light proof container. You must put the reel on through the center column. After that, you put the lid onto the tank. I wasn't there to observe the following steps as well but I'm pretty sure that you take the tank, take the lid off, and put the developer into the tank. You swish it aroung for about 2 minutes, and then put it through the stop bath, which stops the developer. You also put fixer in it and swish that around as well. Since we couldn't get past the fixer due to some problem in the chemicals, we didn't do wash, photoflow, or dryer.