Monday, February 9, 2009

Food Choice

Today I ate for breakfast waffles which I bought at Ralphs. Which I think it came a factory from the South where they make varies different breakfast items. The waffles would be made there and then cook it there, but then they would freeze it to sale in the store. For lunch my boss took us out and I had some chicken noddle soup and then a small plate of half a rack of baby back ribs with onion rings. I think the soup is made there fresh for that day. The ribs they would also make that day. Most of the food would come from different factories that would prepare the food for them before sending it to the resturant. My food choice is well anything just as long as it is good. I am picky eater, so I will only eat foods that I know are good. I never go with something different. If the food name sound weird then I most likely will not eat it. Food and me can be a pain. I eat very little if I can, but once a while I eat more then I should or just the wrong kind of food. If it really really healthy then I would have to think about it before I eat it. I do eat healthy but not extereme. Then again I eat what is around for me at that time.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Mark Dion- In the Green River Watershed

The living art work that Mark has given to the city is great. In this that maybe some of the people would not be able to see that in nature to a close point of view. By bring this part of nature to the city is giving nature a change. However, people could still see this wonderful of nature in the woods. the most remarkable idea of this as art is interesting, because I do not see this as art, more as nature. The other hand you would not be able to see all the wonders of the tall trees from the top. There might a good point to show this to the public, in that they can learn from it and try and not destroy the beauty of nature. Just let nature take it course and not bother it at all.

Scott Calhoun

Scott story of his trip to the desert was great in the way he went detail to detail of his trip. Especially telling of the different places he went to and how he got there. It almost felt like you were on the trip with him when reading his love the desert. His descriptions of the native desert plants were great. Knowing that there is still a place in the world that a person could see all the loveliness of the desert and what it has to offer with the plants. There are plants that only grow in the desert and to see those plants would be great to take pictures of.

Tree of Nursery


My trip to the Tree of Nursery was very interesting. Abe Sanchez gave a little lecture about the basket weaving and how it has lost it over the generations with the Native Americans. However, there are a few people who still do the basket weaving to keep the traditions. Mr. Sanchez talking about the different plants that are needed to make the baskets were nice to know. The materials do come in different seasons and others would need to come after a fire. This seem to help the plants that the basket weaving do use. The making of the basket are not easy as one would think. There is a lot of talent that a person would need to make on the baskets. One thing that I took from this that I would have never known that there are only certain plant that need to make the baskets. That it takes a long time to even think of make a basket, you would need to make sure the plants are ready to be used and it not you would have to wait before using them. The different tools that is used make have change a little, but the style and way of making the baskets are still the same. Even though I learning all the plants that are used in making the baskets, I would not be able to pick them out from all the other plants. This was the first time for me to learn about making the baskets from the native plants that the Native Americans use. I found it educational and interesting to know. I would have never guessed that there are many style of making the baskets and different ways of weaving them. Just like in the Southern California Native Americans that they weave to the right, while the Norther California Native Americans weave to the left.

Monday, January 26, 2009

An-My Le

Her picture of the military were founding interesting. It is nice that we are able to see what they have to go though in training. Then to see the aftermath of the military people come home and to see the faces of the families who are waiting for them. Another is the way she was able to capture the images of the reenactment of the Vietnam War and the way it made her feel. Since she was a small child when that war happen she really could not see that much of it.

Robert Adams

The way he is able to bring out the life from the dead trees is very moving. You in a way feel for that tree or the forest of what the beauty was before the destruction of it. To see that there is life even after death for a tree or forest is interesting. The best way is to see this by having it in black and white like Mr. Adams has done with his pictures. I think in color you would not be able to see the beauty of death. The landscapes that he took were nice and it does show a different point of view that is seen through the camera.

Music Video

The video was great and very visual when it came to what we have gone through in just not the Native Americans, but the other people as well. Listening to the song there were a lot of meaning with the word that was sung. From the Native Americans and what they have reached, but have they really reached the potential that they should be at right now. Is that the way the west was really won, by destroying what was and to be where we are right now. Is it really a good place to be at.