Art - Progress So Far

What artist model/s have inspired your work and how?
Right now with this unfinished artwork, I'm planning on using repetition. Like Andy Warhol. He uses repetition to make a photo or an artwork that is very repulsive less shocking once you've seen it again and again and again. Like the photo of a car crash that he had taken. He repeated it again and again and again and after you'd looked at the photo for so long, it wasn't so appalling. I'm using this technique with my dolphin surround in the trash. Except so far I only have half of the original.

Focal point
I think my focal point is the mouth of my dolphin, it catches your eye because it has a lot of different patches of tone and includes some of the darkest spots. 

Colour
No colour just yet. I may add some, I'm not sure. Maybe coloured pencils? I might add colour on the next drawings (repeated ones). I'm a little nervous to add colour because I'm scared to mess it up.

How does this artwork read as a series and does it introduce your kaupapa well? 
(Trying to understand this to my best... and I'm not sure how to explain, but I'll give it a go)
This is number one of the series. My kaupapa is all about ocean pollution (litter and straight-up trash) and how it affects sea animals. This artwork shows a dolphin surrounded in some trash with a six-pack beer ring caught in its mouth. The next drawings of the series will also show animals caught in some trash or at least surrounded in it.

(Sorry, the camera quality isn't very good, I could've also taken the photo in better lighting)

Chop Suey - HEc

Chop Suey

When we collected our ingredients, we chopped up the vegetables (capsicum, onion, broccoli) with a clean green knife on green board (washed it under the water too so no bacteria; chemical, germ/bacteria, dirt, is left on there), chopped up our meat on the red board with a clean red knife (and collected it with tongs, a red board, and carried it back to our table). Our food is safe because we used the right boards and knives which limited cross-contamination (juices and bacteria spreading), we also cooked the food in the pan, so no bacteria should've survived because it died in the heat. They're either on separate boards or in separate bowls to prevent cross-contamination too.

Our food can be contaminated chemically, biologically and physically (sprays- chemical, bacteria; sneezing- biological, etc, or hair/nail/metal/insect getting into it- physical).

Health & safety procedures prior, during, and after the practical:

Prior: Washing hands (killing off bacteria with soap and hot water), putting on an apron (preventing food from getting onto your clothing), washing down benches with spray and cloth (killing any bacteria that was possibly left on the bench), etc.
During: Using the correct boards and knives (preventing cross-contamination), washing dishes with hot soapy water (killing bacteria stuck to equipment), etc.
After: Washing down benches with spray and a cloth to prevent bacteria from spreading to the next group's food when they cook on that bench (cross-contamination and killing bacteria).

I know my food is safe because: We have carried out the procedures and strategies needed to keep our work area safe and clean to cook and eat. 

HEc- Second Cooking Lesson- Ham Wraps

HEc- Ham Wraps

High-risk food that was used, how you have to handle it to keep safe:
Mayo; high-risk- brought out at the very end so it wasn't just sitting there becoming contaminated.
Ham; high-risk- brought out at the very start and eaten before the end.

Health & safety procedures prior, during, and after the practical:

Prior: Washing hands (killing off bacteria with soap and hot water), putting on an apron (preventing food from getting onto your clothing), washing down benches with spray and cloth (killing any bacteria that was possibly left on the bench), etc.
During: Using the correct boards and knives (preventing cross-contamination), washing dishes with hot soapy water (killing bacteria stuck to equipment), etc.
After: Washing down benches with spray and a cloth to prevent bacteria from spreading to the next group's food when they cook on that bench (cross-contamination and killing bacteria).

I know my food is safe because: We have carried out the procedures and strategies needed to keep our work area safe and clean to cook and eat.

The Bystander Effect - English - Mini Writing

For English almost every day, we needed to write a small portion of writing based on a topic given to us by our teacher.

The Bystander Effect

Do you know what the Bystander Effect is? Well if not, let me tell you. The Bystander Effect has
an impact on responsibility. Let’s say you are in a room with a large number of people and a man
collapses to the ground. Even if it is in your nature and your first instinct is to help people, the time
it takes you to assist is delayed in bigger groups of people. Whereas if it were just the man and
yourself in the room, you might rush over in record time because there’s no one else in the room
to help. 

In a big group, you tend to think, ‘this man needs help, but I’m no doctor, maybe there’s someone
else with better skills than me.’ Or, ‘oh no, someone help!’ Did you notice that ‘someone’? In
many cases, you are the someone that needs to help and make the responsibility your own. Even
if you’ve never met the man before. He needs help, and he needs it now. Don’t stand there and
watch the incident take place. Take charge.

Tricolon/Tripartite
 I had never heard of them let alone knew what they were before researching this topic. Anyway, tricolons. Rhetorical terms that are made up of parallel clauses, phrases, or words. Tricolon is derived from the Greek language meaning, ‘section of a sentence.’ You can find tricolons in many different places. Just to name a few; poems, novels, storytelling, advertising, movies, etc. They can also be used for comedic use, then known as a ‘comic triple.’ Tricolons are also used in slogans, they’re usually used to make things more memorable so you won’t forget the line anytime soon. Here are a few examples; ‘I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid,’ -Dorothy Parker. ‘You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at a catastrophe.’ - The Wizard from The Wizard of Oz. ‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn,’ - Benjamin Franklin.

Art- NCEA Level 1- 2020

ART

This year in art, we are choosing our theme. We needed to put a mood board together (shown below) and find artwork from each of the artists and decide who's art interests us the most. Maybe if we want to create art like them... We also needed to create a brainstorm (shown below) on what we want our Kaupapa to be this term. 

(I apologise for how blurry the Mood Board is)

Medium: I think my medium this year will be design and little to no photography? The main medium though will be design.

Artists: Andy Warhol is most likely going to be my main muse although I quite like Shepard Fairey's work. Yoshitomo Nara's art is... interesting too. I don't know if I'll use their art as an inspiration.

Topics: I think it will be based on how humanity is- more or less, destroying the earth? With plastic problems, climate change, Aussie fires, I might even base it on a possible world-ending scenario (caused by mankind).

Climate Change Blog Post - Science

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Currently, in Science, we are learning about Climate Change. 

What Is The Green House Effect?

The greenhouse effect is one of the reasons the earth's worldwide climate is rising (global warming). Usually, solar radiation comes through the atmosphere and some of it is absorbed by the earth's surface. And then the solar radiation is reflected from the surface and atmosphere. But, greenhouse gases can prevent this. While most of the solar radiation is reflected, some of it is reflected back to earth and bounces back and forth between the surface and the greenhouse gases. Kind of like a game of ping pong. Except for this ping pong continuously heats up the earth's surface when it is absorbed.

Effects Of Global Warming

• Disease- Disease may spread because certain pests and bacteria can survive hot, wet temperatures.
• Weather Patterns- Seasonal and regional weather patterns could change dramatically. There could be more and more frequent and stronger cyclones, storms, and rain.
• Seal-level Rise- Towns on the coast would be in grave danger. They'd go from being suburbs to swamps. Roads and railways would be flooded.
• Rainfall- Intense rainfall could lead to flooding of rivers and streams, maybe even flash floods.
• Agriculture- Certain areas may not be able to grow individual crops. 

What Is The Solution?

Biofuels. The way we can use biomass to fuel cars, rather than actual fuel. Biofuels is an organic type of fuel we can make- which is a lot quicker than the slow geological formation of fossil fuels like oil and fuel. 

Planning Card - Social Studies

Lawless Behaviour

State your point

In this paragraph, I am trying to prove that a treaty was needed to give rules and laws around certain things in New Zealand. If not, things would have gotten really messy.

Why your point matters

The point is important because they were trading and there was prostitution, etc. They needed to enforce laws so this would stop, although not everyone would listen.

What evidence/facts am I going to use to support my point?

For example,

• Prostitution
• Trading
• They drank profusely, 300 sailors 12 ships at a time

Sum up your point

The lawless behaviours needed to be addressed and that's what the treaty did.

Maori Rights & The Missionaries 

State your point

In this paragraph, I am trying to prove that they needed the treaty to help them protect the Maori rights, to prevent more killing and support them with purchasing things such as land.

Why your point matters

The point is important because without the treaty it would allow more slaughter, leading to the Maori population dropping and more Europeans/missionaries would take over.

What evidence/facts am I going to use to support my point?

For example,

• More killing= population change
• Maori rights unprotected
• Maori land is lost due to Europeans

Musket Wars

State your point

In this paragraph, I am trying to prove that they needed the treaty to stop/prevent musket wars and find a better way to trade/not trade at all. 

Why your point matters

The impact/effect of all of this is because it started out as trading food and land for muskets and then it evolved into wars- considering the musket war.

Declaration of Independence

Open with your question

In this paragraph, I am going to answer what the declaration of independence is and what it did for New Zealand.

Answer your question

Interestingly, it was needed to be signed by 34 chiefs, specifically the north island, and it earned us a flag.

What evidence/facts am I going to use to support my point?

The flag, and the peace between other countries.

Why my point matters

Because it started us off and now here we are. Our own flag, we're a developed country, etc.

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My Social Studies Essay

Why Was A Treaty Needed In New Zealand?

In 1830 there were approximately 100,000 Māori and 200 Europeans living in New Zealand. The behaviour of the Whalers, the Missionaries’ desire to help protect Māori rights and the Musket Wars were reasons that a treaty was needed. The Declaration of Independence was another contributing factor to the need for a treaty.

A reason a treaty was needed was the lawless behaviour of some of the British settlers- like whalers. Although there were a few French, American, and Australian settlers, British settlers were the majority. Considering they were at sea for months at a time, once they arrived ashore at port Kororāreka, they let loose and were unquestionably reckless. Most of the time there were around 300 different Europeans from 12 different boats in one place at a time. They got drunk, fought, diseases were spread, and prostitution was also involved- meaning pakeha had their way with young Māori women. Kororāreka was now known as ‘the hell-hole of the Pacific.’ While all of this chaos and recklessness occurred, local Māori was trading with pakeha. They traded things like food and land for jobs on their boats where they could sail the seas. Within the span of 10 years, several whaling stations were set up around Aotearoa. For these stations to be located, the whalers had to have permission from the Māori, so they came to terms. Young Māori women were arranged to marry whalers. 

Besides the whalers and their irresponsible ways, another reason a treaty was needed was to protect Māori rights. One group that felt strongly about this was the missionaries. The relationship between missionaries and Māori was superb. Without this special ‘bond’ between the two, things would be very different. Missionaries also taught Māori a number of things such as religion, farming, the British ‘way of life’, and writing and reading in Māori. Māori became very worried about the constant prostitution, spreading diseases, whaler recklessness, and the thousands of deaths caused by the Musket Wars. Missionaries were also concerned, but they focused on how much land Māori was losing and the affect it would have on the Māori. They even bought a few big land plots for them. The relationship was very influential towards signing the treaty since missionaries supported it. Hundreds of Māori were encouraged and agreed to sign.

Furthermore, off the topic of Maori rights, a treaty was also needed to prevent/stop the 19th-century Musket Wars. Before muskets were introduced, Māori fought wars with traditional weapons. Pakeha traded with the Māori, they exchanged muskets for large amounts of food, flax and sometimes land. Now that a lot of the Māori society had muskets, that lead to war. It was either over self-defence or revenge. Either way, massacres still took place. It is believed that approximately 20,000 people were slaughtered due to these wars. It first started out with iwis in the upper north island (Nga Puhi- who were the first to gain muskets) and they slowly made their way down to the lower north island and upper south island causing wars all the while. This forced the iwis without muskets to trade with pakeha so they could stay safe. 

Lastly, the treaty was needed so the Declaration of Independence could take place. On the 28th of October 1835 to be specific. New Zealand did not have a flag yet, which meant that they couldn’t trade very fairly. Chiefs didn’t even have authority over big groups of people, the ‘iwis’ were basically small extended families- which they kind of are. The Declaration was signed in the home of James Busby. He was sent here because 13 rangatiras had written to the king and requested protection from other countries. Once James Busby was here, he decided a flag would help other countries respect New Zealand (New Zealand couldn’t trade because their ships and wakas were being seized by Australian customs for not sailing under a flag). So, Busby invited 25 rangatiras to choose a flag, which they did. And then, on the 28th of October 1835, the Declaration of Independence was signed by 34 northern chiefs. Signatures continued to be added until 1839 when there was a total of 52 signatures. The Declaration was signed in agreement that Māori would still have mana over Aotearoa, New Zealand would still be an independent country, there would be annual meetings where they would solidify laws, and that they would send a copy of the Declaration to the king.

In conclusion, there were many different reasons why the treaty and Declaration of Independence were needed. Without these two agreements, New Zealand wouldn’t be how it is today. Wars would still be at large and the behaviour of everyone would be appalling. We wouldn’t have laws, we wouldn’t have been able to trade, and instead of just Kororāreka being known as a hell-hole, all of New Zealand would be. I’m thankful our ancestors took the step and made Aotearoa a better, beautiful country.