Interview Assignment, Summitive.

Interview Assignment

Interviewee: Brady Carmichael

Q: What year were you born and where were you born?

A: “ I was born in 1993 on September 23^rd in London, Ontario.”

Q: Who are your parents and what do they do?

A: “My dad is a miner at the salt mine in Goderich, Sifto, His name is Joe Carmichael and my mother is currently unemployed because she just had a baby, Her name is Donna Hildebrand.”

Q: How many siblings do you have?

A: “I have three siblings in total me being the only from my dad. The oldest being Keisha Hildebrand, they are all younger than I am. The second being Cloe Hildebrand and the last being Claire Hildebrand. Claire was the one who was just born she has downs syndrome.” 

Q: Do you live with your sisters?

A: “No, I do not live with them, the youngest two live with my mom and Keisha lives with my aunts in Mantilouin Island. She is living the life, my aunts spoil her.”

Q: Where do you live currently?

A: “I am currently living with the Peachey’s here in town, I don’t live with my dad. Under the circumstances where I live is pretty good. I live with Anne and Wayne I have known then since I was little and Anne is the one introduced me to dog shows.”

Q: Are you involved with dog showing currently?

A: “I am not currently because Anne doesn’t have a dog to show also I am too involved with basketball and school. I used to show dogs almost every weekend. I showed for Dorothy Greenaway who owns Greendor Shelties.” 

Q: What is your favourite type of dog to show?

A: “Showing Shelties are my favourite because they show well and all the time consuming to groom them they come out looking really good. So from this you are proud to show them. They are fluffy and they look like a little lion.” 

Q: What sports do you play?

A: “When September comes I play basketball, I play it because it keeps me in shape, it is something to do and I like to be aggressive. I play Volleyball too I play the position of the labaro. I am too short to be a setter, a blocker or a right and left hitter.”

Q: What do you plan on doing in the future?

A: “I am staying a fifth year at G.D.C.I because I am not ready to go to Collage yet. Then I plan on going on to Sheridan Collage which is in Brampton for animal care. I hope to be a vet technician because I think that it is important that animals get assistance.”

Q:  If I may ask you for being so lovely why don’t you live with your parents?

A:  “Well, first off I don’t live with my mother because she is unemployed and she lives in a one bedroom apartment and she overall couldn’t support me. Also she can barely support the two kids that she has, she currently lives in Lucan.” “With my dad, let’s just say shit hit the fan. We don’t get along and communication is a problem. Instead of being a normal kid I have to play the wife role and do everything because he was a single parent. Don’t get me wrong I love my dad but I would rather have a relationship with out living with him.”

"Stairway To Heaven"- Led Zeppelin

         "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin is the song I chose because it was once one of the greatest songs of all time. 

         I chose this not because it was my favourite song but because it caught my attention when I were going through songs. 

        This song was released in 1971 with a running time of almost eight minutes (7:59). This song was composed by the band Led Zeppelin a rock band from England. It was composed by the members Jimmy Page (guitarist), Robert Plan (vocalist and tambourine), John Paul Jones (recorder, electric piano and bass) and John Bonham (drums).  It consists of many layers first starting with acoustic then going through to electric. 

       In 2000, the song was rated 3rd best in the world according to "VH1" on the list of 100 greatest rock songs. Also it was a song that was most requested in the United States of FM radio station in the 1970's, despite the fact it wasn't offically released as a single. In 2007 of November through the downloading sales promoting Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven was #37 on the UK chart.

      The song starts as a slow acoustic-based folk accompanied by the recorders then comes an electric intro. The song actually starts at (0.56 seconds into the song). Thus this "folk" section ending at 2:15 into the song and gradually moves into a slow electric section. The guitar solo starts at 5:34 to 6:44 being almost a minute long solo. The drums don't enter the song until 4:18, the drums adding a little bit of percussion to the strings.
    I think that this is one of those songs that people are going to remember for a long time. When we are old and our children are growing up it will be one of those songs that our kids will remember as being a great song. This is a song that my mom used to listen to and from her listening to it i got used to it and it made me like it also. When i was younger I was listening to the older music over the "newer" music because it caught my attention. I think that knowing that it was something that my mom liked, someone that I looked up to made me want to like it too. I also heard it a lot when I was younger.
    This song makes me think of someone that has passed in my life time that i very much cared for. This person being my sister someone who I looked up to, it helps me think of the good memories we shared together. I think that the song makes me think of her passing and the journey one takes to get there. It makes me think of peace and happiness that she must feel. The starting of the song makes this "journey" more meaningful. The starting of the song says " There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold and she's buying the stairway to heaven". This makes me think of an angel that is glistening in the journey to heaven and the stairway is her journey. She is getting there because she knows that it is the way to go and she will now be safe.  
    This song is a really good song and I recommend it to anyone who had not heard it before. I think that it could have a similar effect one someone in the same situation or even a different one. It all depends on someones point of view.
  

Real Cover.

movie poster,

Gimp Assignment 3, Hair colour change.

Here is the hair coloure change that I chose, I even managed to change her eye colour using the same technique.

Tyra Normal

Gimp Assignment 4. pathways

Gimp layer masking,

Here is my picture that I added a layer mask to, I chose Merilyn Monroe :)

three movie posters we liked.

- divides into three parts well

- is straight to the point and doesn't have much clutter.

- well back lit

- it has the catch phrase at the top and the title at the bottom and release date

- she is creepy and relates well to the theme and they use creepy colours that fit well

- the composition is well thought out and it splits into three parts well

- we like how the red indicates to the "Joker" while seeing batman

- we like the arrangement of the cards to create the theme

- the sketchy scalpel points directly at the main theme of the movie to help the viewer's eyes go to what's important 

- We like the colour composition that is used

    - We like how Michael is sort of holding the title and release date

- separates well into three parts and is parallel

- we also like how inside of Michael is his stage and this helps the viewer understand more about the movie

- We liked the catch phrase, for Michael fans this would make them want to see it.

- Lastly we like the colour balance and how the only colour is him, which makes this more appealing to the viewer.

          This is currently the poster I made for the class. I think that it looks pretty cool, I really like Gimp you can do a lot with it.

Double rainbow?

       A double rainbow is pretty amazing to see but, I think this guy may have taken it a little too far. He starts crying over a rainbow? I thought this video was pretty funny. When he starts saying that it's so beautiful, that's funny. I will admit it is really cool to see but I don't think I would start crying about it and put it on YouTube. 

Art attack.

    


                  

  Art is an important thing in my life I really love to explore what colours and patterns do to make something better in life. Art matters, if we didn't have art and creativity in life then we wouldn't have anything cool to look at. I personally think that art makes a big impact on almost everything in life from architecture to designing anything on a computer. It is a life style that everyone should be proud of, if we didn't have the greats like Vincent Van Goh or Leonardo Da Vinci then we wouldn't have many of the famous and beautiful paintings today. If no one was motivated to be creative then we wouldn't have this program that I am currently using I think that like would be boring and everyone would be the same. No one would have individuality to think of a vision and want to create something amazing. Without art we wouldn't have movies today or video games. It is all linked with art and how we vision something we want to happen. Like a director for a movie wants the actors to look a certain way, that is an important thing of art is designing and creating something. My personal favorite artist of all time would be Leonardo Da Vinci, he was amazingly talented. He was the jack of all trades smart and talented. He not only was a painter he also was a sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. He was one of the first Italian men who wanted to learn about anatomy. He often expieramented on humans to learn how the human body worked. This was not allowed in Italy in the 1400's, he was an amazing artist and much more. My favorite painting of his would be "The Last Supper" or "The Mona Lisa". They look like this:

"The Mona Lisa"

"The Last Supper"

The Ballerina

This is a picture of one of my pieces of art:

Teenage Dream - Katy Perry

        I love this song, I didn't want to put the video because it is kind of inappropriate in some parts but it is a good song overall. I really like Katie Perry and her songs they have good meaning to them. After all this is a teenage dream.

A little about Dakota.

Me

Dakota Marie:

My full name is Dakota Marie Halfpenny, I was born in Staford, Ontario,Canada on September 7th 1993. I just turned 17 on the first day of school, lucky me (joking). I currently work at Tim Horton's in Goderich. I love to listen to music when I'm at home alone. When I have nothing better to do I like to sit down and watch an old movie of some sort. My favorite type of movie would probably be thriller because I personally think that they are the most exciting. The odd "chick flick" is okay too, seeing as my favorite movie is "The Notebook". I enjoy going to the beach in the summer time considering it's so convenient for me in Goderich. I lived in Camberage, Ontario untill I was eight and then I moved to Dungannon for six years. It's just ten minutes outside of Goderich. I moved into Goderich at the start of grade ten. I really like it here, it's such a wonderful place to live. I live with my mom and my younger brother Jacob who is turning eight. I have a cat named Milo, who I adopted from the Humane Society around this time last year. When I go off to collage somewhere I want to per-sure a career to do with art. I would really love to be a graphic designer but there is so many different fields that lead off of it. An interior designer would be cool too, I just have not decided what I want to do yet. I am taking art this semester and I really love both this class and that class. I don't really know which one I like best. They are both pretty cool.