Annotated Bibliography – Climate Change

• Letzter, Rafi. “Are We Really Running Out of Time to Stop Climate Change?” LiveScience, Purch, 26 Sept. 2019, www.livescience.com/12-years-to-stop-climate-change.html.
  • Scientists have predicted that we only have 12 years (now 10) to slow climate change enough before it becomes irreversible. This does not mean that the world will end in 12 years, but that humanity will have to learn to adapt to the consequences s of global warming. The best path to follow is reducing our net emissions by 45% by 2030, and net zero by 2050. Climate change has already killed thousands of people, through disease and crop destruction, and will only continue to worsen each year we don’t take action.

• “Is It Too Late to Prevent Climate Change? – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet.” NASA, NASA, climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-climate-change/.
  • Even if we stop emitting greenhouse gasses today, global warming will still continue as it could still take centuries for the planet to respond. Despite this, we can still act now to lessen the effects of climate change using a “mitigation” and “adaptation” approach. This is a global effort, however, and we need to start working together with world and local governments to start making a difference.

Newman Library Adventure

I recently went out to Newman Library, on a quest to find the section closest to my degree, something that wasn’t a book, and a blue book.

What I found first was a blue book.

The blue book was Paganism 101 by Trevor Greenfield. Paganism is something that I am incredibly interested in and want to learn more about, and I was surprised to see so many books about it.

The next thing I found was a small area used to study.

What really caught my eye was the colored panes between the desks. I thought that it added a bit of fun into needed safety measures. Plus this looked like a really cool place to chill and do homework in.

The last thing I found was the section closest to my degree.

They didn’t have a dedicated art section, though there is a library dedicated to art and architecture. This was the closest that I could find for creative technologies.

Overall this was a cool adventure to go on. I learned more about the resources available to me as well as how to use them because of this activity.

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Mini Movie

While working on various projects, I noticed how my desk doubles as my studio and how I’ve surrounded myself with my own work. I decided I wanted to focus on that. I paired various clips of the book project, a sewing project, my crochet projects, and my old paintings to an instrumental in iMovie.

Book Photography

I chose this picture as my photo for the book as I really liked how the shadows fell on it in the center and the angle showed the depth of the cutout. I took this photo using my DSLR Camera, its a bit outdated but honestly I liked how it takes the image in a sort of different way than my phone camera does. It sort of focuses on the center point better. That’s why I chose this picture.

Short Video

For this video I attempted to make a first person perspective with some of the transitions being “blinks”, just to simply represent looking out at the road from my deck. I also added some cheesy transitions, just to represent something of all of the different cars going by but all condensed into a minute. This is also my first time video editing and so I wanted to get better a trimming and making transitions look smooth between car changes.

The file size was a little to big so I sent a link to it below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nZRakUWcpujm0ZaV_zWfOHt8IfRO2jz8/view?usp=drivesdk

Mini Movie

My mini movie was about my time in college. It was supposed to just be little clips of my friends and I studying together, but I ended up adding clips of us just hanging out or going out to eat. It was really fun getting all the clips for it just because I found some videos that I didn’t even know I had. It was also really nice to look back on some really fun times I have had at school.Clips21-03-22_10-57 (1)

Short Video

For this blog post we had to make a short video. This could be about anything that we wanted and after watching the Lana Del Rey video, I saw short clips of many different things happening that combined to tell a story. For my short video I decided to take multiple short videos of my guitar and me playing the guitar. I decided to put a recording of me playing in the background to add to the video’s story of how beautiful guitars are and the way they sound.

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A lil movie I made in the summer :)

This makes me so nostalgic for the summer time

Daily Affirmations and Notes Journal

I created this journal using the signature method that we learned in class. I wanted to make a journal that I can use daily because I enjoy writing as a form of self-care. I wanted to make this journal instead of buying one, so I could personalize it as much as possible. I used watercolor for the cover page and  printed out lined paper that I customized to keep my writing organized. I printed out the line paper on one side, so that I could have blank pages in the journal for sketches.