This is my artist profile on Banksy. It was my 4th task for T-shaped literacy. I had to research him and transfer the information into an artist's profile.
My favorite part was looking at some of his artworks. The shredded 'Balloon Girl' is probably my favorite. The hardest part was adding more detail and information. If I could add one more thing, it would probably be added more about his personal life. To be BTB, I could have added more information.
Banksy Artist Profile
Banksy is the famous multi-millionaire street-artist who chooses to hide his real identity. People are still trying to figure out who he really is. Bansky started spray-painting walls in Bristol, 1990. Some of his most famous pieces sell for millions. The most famous artwork was painted in 2002, Girl with a Balloon. This painting depicts a girl with a red heart-shaped balloon. Whether you see the girl as losing the balloon, or about to catch it, the meaning can be interpreted as a loss of innocence or the arrival of new hope and love. This painting sold for 1.37 million dollars.
Many people think that Banksy's real name is Robin Gunningham, born in Yate, 19 km from Bristol, but other people are not so sure. Banksy’s identity is still mainly a mystery to the world. Banksy’s paintings are a symbol of hope and emotions, but also of what is wrong with the world. His work should bring comfort to the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable. Banksy’s paintings are normally spray-painted and stenciled.
Banksy is an artist, not a graffitist.
This is my task for what my opinions are on graffiti and the men that were arrested. I found this activity really hard but I'm not sure why. I think the hardest part was to explain my thought about graffiti. My favorite part was looking at pictures of Graffiti vs. Street-art. To be BTB, I could have added more about my thoughts and opinions about graffiti.
Here is the link to the site that I used--> https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/graffiti-street-art-ndash-or-crime-868736.html
Task 2: Graffiti- Street art or crime? Read the article and then write a blog post about your thoughts on the topic. What do you think of Graffiti? Do you think those men should/shouldn’t have been arrested?
The difference between street-art and graffiti is that street-art is normally pictures, and normally has permission, whereas graffiti is normally words, and is messier.
Many people think that graffiti is vandalism, but I think it depends on what the graffiti is.
Graffiti vs Street-art
Some graffiti looks like street-art. It sends a message and is a picture. This type of graffiti is what most people like. This also goes the other way. Some street-art looks like graffiti, so people don’t like it as much.
I think the men should have been arrested, but not for such a long time. I think that they should have asked for permission. They are such good artists that people would probably want to hire them for their art. They should respect the areas that people don’t want them to paint, but then again, that was the point; to make people notice their art.
I think that they should get maybe a week in jail as a warning, then if they violate the rules again, they have a bigger punishment.
These are my questions and answers for our T-Shaped literacy article. For T-shaped literacy, we are reading and learning about street art. We were looking at an article about Christchurch street art. I learnt that after the earthquake, people wanted to fill in the gaps in their city and make it a more beautiful place to be. People painted to bring joy, and they also painted to emphasize how much everyone lost.
I enjoyed looking at the art because they were all so cool and they all had different stories behind them. The hardest part was answering so of the questions, because the article doesn't tell you exactly what the answer is. I had to bend the answers a little. To be BTB, (Better Than Before), I could have written more, and made it less confusing. I also could have added the article.
This is my slide about the Toi Moko. We did the weekly quiz about what had been on the news recently. One of the questions was "What is New Zealand Billionaire Gabe Newell doing?". The options were 'Building a game park in Aukland,' 'Sending a gnome into space,' and 'Buying an island in Hawaii'. Guess what the answer was? Sending a gnome into space, and my group guessed it correct!
My favorite part was doing the quiz. We were in our house color groups, and my house color, (Green), won the quiz with 14 points out of 20. The hardest part was making the slide creative and eyecatching, because a slide of mummified, tattooed heads is not pretty. To be BTB, I could have included all of the macrons on all the Maori words that needed them.
This is my activity about the coral reefs in Australia dying. It was in the news quiz that we did, and this was the activity that we all had to do. I worked with Emma to make the drawing. We got some pictures of really cool corals, but they weren't in the Great Barrier Reef sadly.
My favorite part was looking for corals and their names because some corals looked really cool and had really confusing names. It was hard to fit everything into the google drawing. I had to make it bigger twice. To be BTB, I could have added more information about the corals.
For writing, we are writing how to play a game/sport. I chose Shark Attack because no-one else knows how to play it.
It was hard to check that I had everything because I already knew how to play. I checked my work with four people before I blogged it. My favorite part was explaining how to play. To be BTB, I could have added more tips and tricks.
How to play Shark Attack.
Introduction: Shark Attack is a good game to play at school because it includes everyone and you can never have too many people.
Amount of people for a netball court: 15 or more
Roles: 2 Sharks (Taggers), 2 Dolphins (Freers), Fish (People running across), and Seaweed (People that are tagged).
What to do: Everyone stands on one side of the netball court. A teacher or person that isn't playing chooses the Sharks, and they go to the middle of the court and close their eyes. Then the teacher/person chooses 2 Dolphins. You want to keep the dolphin's identities a secret otherwise the sharks will target them. Once all that is done, the sharks yell "Shark Attack!" and all the people on the side of the court (Fish) including the dolphins run across to the other side. The sharks try to tag the fish/dolphins before they get to the other side. If the fish/dolphins get tagged, they stand still on one spot and become seaweed. The seaweed can tag people but only on one spot. If you get tagged by seaweed, you become seaweed. Then, the sharks call 'Shark Attack!" again, and the fish/dolphins run across again. This time, the dolphins try and free the seaweed. The seaweed can't tag the dolphins. If you get freed by the dolphins, you join the fish and run across to the other side. If the dolphins get tagged, they can't free anyone (including themselves), but can get freed by fellow dolphins. The game only ends when everyone including the dolphins are tagged, and you can start another round, with the dolphins being in.
Tips and Tricks: Try to group around the seaweed with the dolphins so the taggers can't see who the dolphin/s is/are. If you are seaweed, don't yell out the dolphin's name. The taggers will try and target them.
