escaping the giant wave 3-31-08 12-31

Well it turns out that kyles father is taking the family on a business vacation. The whole family is very happy to go. So everyone packed and where ready for the coast of oregon.
At the airport kyle fells a punch in the neck. It turns out that Daren, his nightmear, is also going on the trip. The're dads worktogether. As if it couldnt get any worse both families are staying at the same hotel.
Kyle gets sad and knows something is bound to go wrong. But he looks at things on a bright side and thinks maybe just maybe he could fight back when Daren tries to hit him again.
Kyle and his family where going to stay at a 5star hotel. But when they arrived the hotel was underconstruction and they where told to go to the hotel next door. Which sucks. Its old and smelly and not very clean.
I think that must suck! If your all happy about going somewhere and when you get there it sucks.

article on savador dali 3-28-08

I read about Salvador Dali and his many talents in painting, writing, and drawing. He had many interesting pieces of artwork. A lot of his artwork is at the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg. There the show films too.. "Dali and Film"
His paintings where based a lot on what was happening in his time era.
When Dali was a child growing up he wathched movies on a hand cranked projector. He studyed the tricks and wanted to make images come alive. So with the help of his good friend Luis Bunel the both createdthe films Andalusian Dog and the gonlden Ages.
After reading and observing Dali's awesome artwork and reading about his movies im very curious to go to his museum. Dali was a very intersesting man and did fenominal artwork.

::Escaping the Giant Wave:: by Peg Kehret 3-25-08 Pages 1-12

This book cought my eye because there is a beutiful blue wave on the front of the cover and these awesome blue eyes. The book so far is good.
The book starts off at in Kyles sixth grade class. A couple of days befor summer vacation. The class is having a disscusion on what they would change about themselves. A lot of students speak out and have a lot of things they would change. Kyle want to get more money in his allowense. He figures that all he has to do is be more helpful to his parents.
He also explains his feelings over a bully. Daren Hazelton. He met him the first day of kindergarden and he has been a bully to kyle ever since the first day!!
It must suck to have to always see someone you dont like. I guess Kyle learned how to deal with it.

article on Victor Jara 3-20-08

I read about Victor Jara. He was a Chilean theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. He wrote wonderful songs about what was happening in Chile at the time.
I actually herd 4 of his songs in Spanish class. He had very strong lyrics.
Victor Jara was born September 28, 1932 and died September 15, 1973.
On the morning of September 12, Jara was taken, along with thousands others, as a prisoner to the Chile Stadium. In the hours and days that followed, many of those where forced to stay in the the stadium were tortured and killed there by the military forces.
He was was repeatedly beaten and tortured. Many of his bones were broken.And on September 15 and his body dumped on a road on the outskirts of Santiago, and then taken to a city morgue.
All this happened because his political view. He didnt like the government. In Chile at the time people couldn't even say bad things about the government because they would get hurt or in this case killed.
I think its very messed up how they killed this talented artist.
I guess we really don't value the things we have in the U.s. we could say what we want about who we want and nobody will kill us.

21 Days to save her life. By Lauren Brown 3-7-08

The article was about a girl named Jane. She had an eating disorders. I learned that eating disorders have the highest morality rate of any mental illness. Jane went into a help center, Renfrew Center. There she got treated and helped. She kept a journal through her stay. In the entries, she described her feelings. During the first days she found it terribly hard to eat. She couldn't event keep anything in her stomach. Near the end of the 21days she began to gain wight. She eventually got over her illness.
Its was sad reading about this girl. It must be horrible to be or to know someone that has an eating disorders! I love food!!
A fact is that most health care providers only 21days of treatment. That means if you don't have the money to pay for more treatments you suffer and even die.

Revolutionary images

This article out of an Art magazine talked about tree Mexican muralists. After the Mexican revolution, that took place in the 20th century, many artist were inspired to paint paintings that where related to the revolution. The paintings where awesome. They are full of color and seem to have a story behind each one of them! In Diego Rivera's paintings he used, figures with mask like faces, a lot of shadows, soft lighting, and curved organic outlines.
Jose Clemente painted amazing portraits. He used low point view, dark silhouetted shape background, and foreground with casting shadows.
David Siqueiros also painted beautifully. He painted close ups.
These muralists seemed very inspired. I loved their artwork.