This is a claymation that my partner and I had to make in English. It is about Hernando Cortes and not only his voyage to the new world, but his whole life. We had to take a picture and then move the clay just a bit, then do that over and over. Then we had to load it on a computer and put the pictures together so it looks like the clay is moving.

The most enjoyable part of the claymation was the computer editing. When we got to add in voices in was really funny. Especially when we had to do the Aztec ya-ya-ya thing. It was pretty cool to make your own music on garage band to. It was also fun to voice the girl. It was adding credits were cool, and I liked the dedication. I also liked the part when it said the J.C. production, and the kid laughs. That isn't me, I found it on garage band. It wasn't the funnest when we had to import to google video though. It took forever!

The hardest part of making a claymation was the time. We took a lot of pictures, so we had to move it very little. We took 420 pictures in the love life scene! Also, because of the amount of pictures we took, it took a long time to make into a quick time. Then we also had to upload it to google video. Then I had to download it at home, and post to YouTube! It gave us time to watch Mikes' video. So that wasn't to bad. But I was tired of waiting so long!

The most important thing I learned was that when you really persist it will pay off. We had to keep persisting and taking pictures, and in the end we would have a really smooth claymation. We had to wait for like a quarter hour and then we had it on quicktime. Then we had to wait half an hour for it to load to google. Then we had to wait six hours for it to be playable on google. So even though it took us a really long time (and I mean a really long time), it payed off with a prettyn good claymation. We had to keep working when we got tired of sitting next to Mike. Or maybe everybody was being way to loud and we had to record. Or maybe Jack just wouldn't share his camera. But in the end it worked out pretty well.

So we now have the video here, on google, and on youtube. I actually wish we could make another. You should rate it 5 stars on youtube! Thank you for your support! Bye!

Okay, I am just going to talk about stuff that has happened to me. So first, today we owned pretty bad in the inter mural volleyball. Well, actually, we aren't that great, but we have Ellie Greene and Chelby, who are pretty good. And then we have me! Okay, we were against mostly seventh graders to, so they weren't that good anyway. Also, one piece of advice, never hit the ball with both hands out to one side, and hit it like that. I tried and the ball just hit me in the face. It hurt. Next, is about either my eighth grade project, or a class assignment. So for our eighth grade project we are going to make a movie. Unless the class assignment to make one is first. So Cameron wants to make a horror movie, or have some some air soft war, where we could smear ketchup if we got hit, and make it all intense. I just want to make sure there is one seen that someone in a kayak is paddling through some reeds at Deer Lake, and have to jump out. I don't reallly mind why they jump out, as long as it is cool, but I like some people in a speed boat shooting at them as a good reason. Or I want a Comedy, which would be really cool. Well, that is about it for today, but when something else interesting happns I will write about it.

Okay. First I am going to write about Zork 1. First, if you ever get really far in it, make sure you save often. Because you see, when I played, I couldn't save, so when I accidentally rode the inflated boat, I went off the waterfall and couldn't get any of my stuff back, and I was really, really far. Also, since you will never be able to figure it out, when you get to place were you find the shovel, take it, then go on the way you were headed, and dig in the next room. Remember, dig until you find something. Another game I own at is mini-pacman, and it really is mini. the whole game is about the size of my thumbs fingernail. Luckily there is only one bad bloop guy. Actually, I am just O.K. Sean is way better than me. Third, in my Adventure Ed. class we get to backpack for 5 days on the Washington coast. We have to record our journey in these really cool journals we made. We already hiked Mount Pilchuck, but that was for only one day. It was really cool, because it was cloudy that day, but we hiked up above the clouds so it was really hot. The view was really cool to. On the coast hike I am lucky, because my partner is bringing a big blow up mattress, so it will be really comfortable. After the coast hike, like a couple weeks afterwords, we are going to take a train to California and bus around a city and hike on an island, and walk around and stuff. I am really looking forward to it. Well that is it for now!

Okay, this is my lifegraph, a thing we had to do in English. It has ten good things on it, and ten bad things. Even though meeting my best friend was really cool, the best thing that has happened to me so far in my life has been going to camp. It was really cool! The one thing I regret was I didn't go allthe way up on the giant swing because I really don't like being high in one of the harnesses, even though I really like flying in planes and stuff. It was really funny when we had the dork dance and my friend and I borrowed dresses from the girls counslers. It was so funny! Also, our get wet get dirty was really fun. We jumped in the pool, then rolled in the dirt, and then ran to wherever we could think mud would be! We were throwing mud, and one of my friends would go take a shower after every mud pit we found! Then we ran to the beach and ran into the water. Everyone said it was freezing, but I don't think it was that cold! Another cool thing was when we took the camps boat (Camp Orkila by the way) and went to Satalite Island. We walked ways when we got there, and went to the other end of the island to see the counslers in training. Then we headed back to our camp, and made a fire, and just hung out. We played lots of card games, like Can't, and explored around our camp and on the beach. We then ate dinner and had smores, then played more card games and stuff, and I would just start laughing pretty randomly, and that would make everyone else laugh, and that was really funny. Then on the way back to the camp the next day, some of us sat in the front of the boat, so we all got wet, and it was really fun. I now want to go again next summer!

Okay, these are all my embarrassing moments that my family call "chaseisms". Okay, once we were playing a card game that I had to make a word, and I had two cards, a N and an I. It is really stupid, but I couldn't figure out what I could spell; I kept saying ni? Ni? That is my most embarrassing. Once we got to a hotel on our way to California to see my grandpa, and when our key card wouldn't work, I had a great idea, and voiced it aloud. "We should knock!" Another time we were boating for the summer, and while in Sidney we went to the Sidney Spit. We beached our dingy and walked a bit, but when we saw the dock we decided we wanted to move the dingy down this way. When my dad and my brother went back to get it I asked my very smart question of "Are they going to drag it the whole way?" And it was a heavy dingy. So yes, I, a genius, have said my share of slightly stupid moments. My brother has also made a funny parkerism, since his name is Parker. Once when in Las Vegas, a guy walked into a elevator and then we walked in after him. We pressed 1 and then he pressed 3. My brother, obviously unable to figure it out, asked, "What one are we going to get to first?" So those are my stupid sayings.

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Seeing Redd is book two in the series The Looking Glass Wars. After Redd jumped through the crystal heart, she was recreated in a artists painting, and begins to get recruits to serve her evil purposes, and is looking for the Garden of Uncompleted Mazes. Mean while King Arch of Boarderland is using clones of Redds destructive glass eyes to attack Wonderland. Alyss is faced with her love for Dodge, a guard for the palace, and disobedience from the loyal Hatter Maddigan out to save his daughter Homburg Molly. Now with Hatter gone rouge, Redd massing forces and searching for the key to her power, and King Arch with a wicked plan for control not yet all the way revealed, Alyss faces her darkest hour yet.

Today I started to read "Seeing Redd" book two in the Looking Glass Wars trilogy. The firs book in the series is really cool, and it is like a not as happy but more realistic Alice in Wonderland. The books are really good and now they are making a movie. In the book Alyss Heart is the heir to the queendom of Wonder land, but when her evil aunt Redd invades, she must flee into our world, after her parents are killed, with Hatter Maddigan, the legendary bodygaurd to the queen. When she returns sixteen years later Redd is in total control and city of Wondertropolis is in disrepair as thiefs stalk the dark streets. Alyss must learn to relearn the power of her imagination, for in her world, imagination is real. Using her imagination for instance, she can make an illusion of hundreds of card soldiers, or make a thousand live gwormies. Using her imagination, and her loyal followers, the Alysians, she must battle Redd, and her deadly assasin, The Cat, who her more than friend Dodge Anders is out to kill because of his fathers death has a heart clouded by vengeance. Now Alyss must save the queendom from her diabolic aunt.

Yes! I finally got a picture to work! I still have no idea how to add music though.

I have been working on my blog a while, and some of the things like how to upload a picture or music can be really confusing!

HI! This is my new blog! I have to do it in english and social studies at my school.