Week 2.7 Nearing the End

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זה. אני אתן לך דולר אחד אם אתה יכול לקרוא את
(title has nothing to do with quotes below) 

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”  Mahatma Gandhi

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”   Mahatma Gandhi

We all are nearing the end of our project. It has been a hard fought war with many battles. Some were victorious some were loses. The final most important battle though is with our Ted Talks. It started with our shark tank pitches, then we battled through weeks of blog posts, procasination, and finally we have arrived at our final test. Everything at the start of this project has been preparing us for this moment. 

   I am done with the week the week activites for my blog so as of this moment I am in the process of working on, practicing the Ted Talk. Im planning on having a few Matthew Mcconaughey quotes or maybe even a "special" video of him if you guys got lucky. Potenial  topics I will talk about is how I overcame the struggle of senioritits, or how Latin tests made my handwriting worse because of the stress. (That last one was a joke). I hope that by the end of my Ted Talk you guys will be able to see the progress I made on my project and that I will be able to convince you that it was a success not only by my standards but whatever standards you guys are using. Good luck to everyone on their projects and genius hour.      





  

2.6 The Blog...

     

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      For this blog intro there is going to be no cheese, no more BS, i'm getting straight to the meat of what I am doing with this project these next few weeks. I'm at the point in my project where i'm starting to prepare for the infamous Ted Talks that go along with our projects.  This fact kinda scares me as I realize we are only a couple weeks away from presenting. Im telling myself this day forward I will be preparing my Ted Talk and finishing up whatever practice work I have left in my calligraphy project. Some of the final things for this project are for me to present my completed work to Mrs. Sutter, my parents, and a few select classmates and have them give their input. This input may be positive negative or "meh".

       A classmate recently gave me some constructive advice about my last blog post. I was spending the whole blog talking about how I wasn't achieving and doing what I wanted. That was the main theme expressed throughout the blog, but I failed to express how I was going to use that setback to propel myself forwards. I now see my mistake and understand now I can't let the previous weeks of me failing lead to anther wasted week. I'm glad I learned this lesson now and will be able to overcome this hardship. The hardship will also give me something to talk about during my Ted Talk. Good Luck to Everyone else on their projects and ted talks. 

Blog 2.5

Its crazy to think there is less than 90 days left of our senior years, and that means less than 90 days to think up creative genius hour starts to my blogs. It brings tears to my eyes to write this ( I was yawning as I was writing this...). Genius hour has taught me so many important lessons like dont procastoinate till the night something is due (which I am doing currently in this very blog). Now that ive quit yawning, I can stop crying and being all emotional then actually tell all yall what "amazing" thing im up to this week with my project. 

   These last two weeks weren't as productive as I would have liked to say the least. Although I can say I did some self reflection and had the chance after cleaning out one of my folders from sesmister to look at the handwriting on some of my schoolwork. It was pretty painful to look at. Now when I write and actally put some effort into it isn't all that bad. What I did manage to do was focusing all the time on trying to have better handwriting. I had this moment of pure joy this week when Kelly Rehm told me my handwriting looked good, but when I realized what she was looking at, it was my typed science writeup. It is moments like these that movtivate me to better try to really slow down, focus, and write beautifuly. Alot of you may be thinking im just filling pages with words, and yes I am filling pages with words, but they are important words, neccassry to the story of how I get great handwriting. These last two weeks I did a little bit with writing, not with the calligraphy pen but with a pencil and just trying to do my schoolwork beautifully. 

I want to thank all you guys for being wonderful role models for me to look up as we race towards the finsh line of our highschool experience.     

blog 2.4 Alex Steven Podcast

        Hello fellow classmates, sorry to disappoint you, but this week I did a podcast with Alex. If you want to hear what "amazing things" were discussed then you will have to listen to this podcast. It is only  13 1/2 minutes long and if you can't spend that much of your time on something this amazing then please let me know what amazing memes you've found, Netflix show, maybe you even are trying to come up with the cure to cancer and if you are then I congratulate you. It is people who apsire to reach above the rest, to reach beyond themselves, that inspire me. That is why i'm thankful to have someone like Alex to look up to.  

Alex Steven Podcast- (we made a rushed mumble rap song together in case that tempts you a little more to listen to this.)

Blog 2.3

   This was a good week guys. I accomplished what I set out to do last week which was to finish the practice sheets and the alphabet. I even got to talk to Mrs.Sutter and talked about how I can improve upon my work. She taught me that you actually can do calligraphy in more than just one motion, you can have multiple strokes which after practicing found to be better. I also learned it was easier to draw with the pen if you hold it at an angle to the paper rather than just straight up and down. Now that I am done with the alphabet I plan on trying out some different styles of font and using pencils, and other writing utensils to write with.

If you guys didn't already know, next week, Alex and I will be doing a duo podcast. I don't know yet what I will be talking about, but since Alex is already such a good talker I will probably let him do most of it. Maybe a few "what do you think about this Alex?" type of questions, comments so as to spice up the podcast a little bit. Regarding last weeks failed picture attempt, I really don't know why they aren't showing up anymore. I'm actually pretty sad about it and may have to ask some computer genius (Brandon) how to fix that problem. This blog wasn't very long but instead of writing a super long boring blog that no one will care about, I plan on preparing for a super cool podcast with Alex that everyone in the world will want to listen to.

Blog 2.2

Last blog was kind of cheesy and for any for you lactose intolerant people out there it might have not been the most pleasant experience. For this blog I promise to limit the amount of cheese unless you count of course the countless photos, camera flashes, and the "1,2,3 cheese" that will probably occur after all y'all hear my little preview to my Calligraphy Rap song. This blog of course isn't supposed to be about the promotion of my mixtape, but since I'm finding ways to incorporate my last project with this project seemed like a fun thing to do.

This week my project went quite well at least in my book. After seeing my the practice work I had been working on he suggested I write an entire book like those medieval monks used to by using ink, a calligraphy pen, and their beautiful font style. I'm not bald yet so I won't be devoting the countless hours work such a task would require (sorry Brandon). Anyhow, this week I got work on a lot more practice sheets and even did some in pencil. I also went to Mrs. Sutter and got some better ink and a better calligraphy pen which is the difference between having a bad relationship compared to a good one. The old pen constantly needed to be redipped in the ink, and most of the time I had to press really hard to get the pen to do anything. It was a very one sided relationship with me being the only one trying. Since my mom is a counselor and does everything for me, including giving me great dating advice, I decided it was time to move on from that pen. Thankfully I found a new calligraphy pen to share my heart with and its soo much better than any of my pervious girlfriends. Everything the way the pen looks, feels, and most importantly is not a pain in the ass when using it. I am actually starting to enjoy spending time relaxing and improving upon my ability. I planned on showing my calligraphy to Mrs. Sutter this week, but I decided I wanted to get through the Alphabet first. Which I will be completing next week. I understand now that my last weeks goal of writing the entire alphabet in a weeks work was defiantly reaching for the stars. But like in my last Ted Talk with Matthew McConaughey, I would rather have some kind of kind I can keep on chasing.

Next week I plan on finishing the entire alphabet practice sheets with ink calligraphy. Ill have Mrs. Sutter give me the hardcore blunt truth, then I from there I can determine what areas do I most need to improve on in order to progress to the best of my ability.  As always questions, comments, are always welcome.










Here is Calligraphy Rap Preview, and its at the bottom of the page.

https://sites.google.com/s/1WqEJL8CK8JbLT2MMHYPLqMQzQYbhYUas/p/1qJYEwdlIlno4ZMss9axhNKKoFLQ4Zcle/edit

Sorry for the weird picture placement. It was being dumb.

Blog 2.1 The Steven Ray Adventures

Steven Ray Journal 1/24/19.


Today is a new day, and this week a new week. When I came to this amazing realization I decided it was time to show my class and the world my
amazing calligraphy skills.

(Second image is father away so you can't see all the mistakes close up) 

This from the first time of me practing calligraphy. I came in with the expectation that I would be have the most beautiful handwriting in the world, unfortunately that didn't come true, but its probably just a universal balance thing since im already the most beautiful man alive. "Jokes" aside I was actaully kinda surprised how good I started out on my a's. I felt that the farther I got along practing the worse and worse I got. A have a couple theories on why this may be true. One I kinda lost focus a little bit as I was trying to make the letters and numbers. Second theory is that there was a time or two I had my pen turned the wrong way and that screws it up a bit when you start writing. Final theory is that it is a combination of the first two theories plus the fact that I very inexperienced. This is what I did this week and hopefully next week I can become just a little bit better.

For next week my goal is to finish the entire alphabet pratice worksheets. I also will give those sheets to Mrs. Sutter so she can grade me at my starting level, and from there I can get some feedback and hopefully apply it to this project. As a spoiler I also might drop a picture of some calligraphy rap lyrics, or maybe along with a beat which may or may not be included on my final goose goose mixtape. Just in case any of you had any confusion I am still working on my goose goose mixtape and already have a few songs pretty planned out and some beats already made for those songs.

As always if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions feel free to do so.