{ the student voice of HHS }
The Science Department here at HHS got all jazzed to create some stuff to highlight Energy Smart efforts at HHS. Emmert’s Multimedia class has kicked it off with a Recycling poster campaign…
Here’s a preliminary selection of the ongoing series. (We hope to produce 12 large posters to put around school).
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Photography by Katsu Tanaka.
Post-production by MisterE
HHS has a greenhouse that’s tied directly to the biodiesel program, recycling, and community. Katsu Tanaka and Liana Gandarillas give us the lowdown…
by Dylan Smith
I really wanted to make each artistic medium seem to come to life through a photo series.
I used empty canvas, a few bottles of paint, a piece of sculpture, some graffiti, some balls of clay, and a whole lot of mud (and Photoshop).
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Humans have spent a lot of time crafting the spaces in which we spend time. Think of it: Pyramids, castles, cathedrals, skyscrapers, museums, hospitals. Since moving out of the cave, we’ve invested heavily in planning and constructing places of habitation, work, and worship.
Junior Jamie Roselle has focused on architectural elements and given thoughtful consideration to the way our creations speak about us. As she wrote to the AP Board, “I’ve focused on a range of textures; from old and worn out to the new and modern. People have these qualities, too. What can we learn about people from the things they’ve built? What can we learn from a building by the way it ages?”
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Photographs by Jamie Roselle
Senior Courtney Mason has spent quite a bit of time in this year’s Photo AP class developing a “overlay” process that has provided her a powerful artistic voice. As she wrote to the AP Board:
A semi-transparent photograph of creased cardboard can act as a lens to add the texture of my perspective. Or an overlay of a second image could show the connection and conflict between opposites; like concrete on skin or vines on a freeway. How I view someone can be expressed through the mask of dreamy roses and glitter. Nothing is just one thing.
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Overlaying textures and multiple images is a way I can provide commentary or an insight into the workings of my mind. My images are meant to show not only the thing that’s being photographed, but also the way I view it.
Photographs and writing by Courtney Mason
If you weren’t an athlete you were practically nothing. This was a household philosophy. This was my dad’s way of thinking about us kids. If you weren’t in a sport you were working your tail off. It starts in the sixth grade—you do track and wrestling. You follow your older brother’s footsteps step for step; it’s been this way for four generations.
When I was just entering middle school, my dad lectured me about sports and how important they were for me. Then my older brothers all lectured me, saying very similar things to what my dad had said. This was peer pressure, family peer pressure to be the same. Of course I listened to them…I had no choice.
When football started up and I didn’t join, I convinced Dad that football was only for seventh and eighth graders, and sixth graders couldn’t sign up. Eventually he seemed to believe me, but lectured me again on how important sports were and how athletes get paid lots of money. To this day I hear him muttering “If I had ten million dollars, I wouldn’t be here. I’d be hunting every day, trap shooting, and living off the fat of the land.” … Read more
Kristen Ludahl spends some time with her brother talking about video games…
Imagine viewing the world as if you had been locked in a chest. When it’s opened you get first impressions of an identity, a subject, or figure as you look “against the light.” You can identify things by prior knowledge, but are left to wonder about the details and substance. Each subject is abstracted without clear identification.
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Silhouettes can be a way to explore primary forms, and to remind us we’ll never know everything. Where you might just see the shape of a little girl, I see my sister. Where you see the idea of a street sign, I see the corner of 90th and 90th that I walk by 4 times per week on my way to Brandon’s house. We have only impressions of Truth.
-Writing and Photographs by Kristen Ludahl