Morgan's Post

Valentine’s Day!
By Morgan Kam

      Every year, on February 14th in the U.S., we celebrate Valentine’s Day. Legend has it that a man named Valentine was an imprisoned man who fell in love with his jailor's daughter. Before he was put to death, he sent the first valentine himself when he wrote her a letter and signed it “Your Valentine”, the words still used on cards today.

      Another interesting person you would like to know about is Cupid; he is the symbol of Valentine’s Day. In Latin, his name means “desire.”  He would go around wounding humans and gods with his love arrow, and making them fall in love. In Roman mythology Cupid is the son of Venus, goddess of love.

      People celebrate Valentine’s Day by buying other people chocolates, candy, cards, and roses. I celebrate it by visiting family and friends. How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?

Audrey's Post

Types of Art

By: Audrey

              Art has symbols, take the tree for example: the tree means life or nature. Art is creative, and you must be able to have a detailed eye while looking at things, you will imagine a lot too. There are many different types of art. The picture above is called a Landscape drawing either an imaginative place or a real setting.  You should be describing the place by using colors,and shading.

 

I have one favorite, the Abstract drawing. You do it when you draw almost scribbles or nothing that is real at all. An object with strange features, Abstract. Here is a very good example of an abstract drawing. You see, art can be anything, from a scribble to sculptures. And if you stare at Abstract picture you will notice hidden pictures or things.

Another type type of drawing is Sketching  it is the most popular, you might do it. Here is an example. Sketching is when you slowly made lines and make the out lining of a picture, you will need an eraser at the end to make the corrections. You know the cartoons like, Pokemon, Cinderella,and Snow white . Well, those are all Sketches, colored in. A lot of pictures beings shown really fast making it look like a show.

The last type of drawing is a Portrait. It should be familiar to you it is a picture of something from the waist level up. For our school pictures, those are portraits. Portraits can not be only a person actually, it can be a flower, cat,  anything living.

Have confidence in your art, don’t compare your drawing to another. Just do your best, and your drawing it would be wonderful! Do you enjoy drawing why or why not? If you do, what type of drawing?

Shaan's Post

Super Bowl 45

By: Shaan

This Superbowl was the best I have ever seen! It was a clash of Titans as Greenbay won. They were leading by 11 at the end of the first half but at the end only won by 6 at the end. I rooted for the Greenbay packers but the only reason I did was because Charles Woodson (the game changer on defence went to the same school as my dad (University of Michigan). That proves that the Steelers really stepped their game in the second half.

                     1st Quarter       2nd Quarter        3rd Quarter        4th Quarter

Greenbay            14                       7                     0                      10

Steelers               0                       10                    8                        7

      The half time show was spectacular it featured the Black Eyed Peas and Usher. They sang Tonight is gonna be a good night and performed it well.

Naren's Post

Real Iron Man

By Naren

How cool would it be if Iron Man was real? Right now we don’t have the technology is what some people say. The others say if we don’t have the technology yet then let’s invent it. I personally agree. Only a hand full of people were so close to making a real Iron Man. A guy made something like the suit. Anthony Le has been a fan of Iron Man since he was a kid. He was inspired to build his own Iron Man suit. It looked like this:
    
The material Anthony used for the armor is thin. Le built a copy of Iron Man’s arc reactor for the chest but it only powers the guns. It took 1 month and more than $4,000 in all. The gun in the shoulder could be converted into a paint ball shooter even though the guns don’t work. It also actually moves. Unluckily, the suit can’t fly, communicate without opening his helmet, or do many other various things. Another Iron Man suit is the XOS 2.

It gives the user 20 times more streghth than the he/she ever had. It is planned that Raython’s idea will be used in the military for carrying bombs and other stuff. Another military suit will be the HULC.
 Waist-mounted 100-volt battery pack. The creators rent the suit in Japan.
The next one is the Lifesuit (Prototype 14).
To understand the Lifesuit, you have to know a little about Monty Reed (the creator). He got hurt and suffered a severe back injury after a parachute crash and the doctors said he could not walk ever again. Now he's walking after creating this suit, but he won't forget that experience, and so the idea of the Lifesuit was created. The latest suit, Prototype 14 (or LS14), uses a system of compressed air that can allow the wearer to pick up objects as heavy as 200 pounds, just like the XOS and the HULC.
The next suit is the Trojan T Series. Troy Hurtubise's Trojan armor isn't a fully powered suit. Instead, batteries on the helmet powering the radio, a laser pointer, and even an air conditioner. It was popularly nick-named  as the "Halo armor" thanks to its looks.


This is all real. These five creations are little steps to the amazing and invincible Iron Man armor. Who knows? Maybe you might create the armor just like these guys. Would you want to create this or at least have this in your future? Why or why not?