K+G

In my school if you get lucky enough you will get a teacher that does k+g. K+G stands for kind and gentle.  What it is is you pick a name out of a bag then you have to be extra nice to that person and write them poems and notes and stuff. It is super fun and its nice because each person is super caring to one person and another is super caring to them.

HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!(I don't celebrate Hanukah) I like giving gifts, receiving gifts, and seeing my relatives! In NYC they put up a huge snowflake on 5th avenue, In Time Warner they put a bunch of snow flakes that glow, Christmas tree in Rockefeller center, All over the city they put up lights on the trees,and on Christmas day they light the empire state building top red and green! I love walking in Central Park cuz I like when I sing walking in a winter wonderland I actual am.   Happy Holidays! 

My favorite website!

My favorite website is freerice.com it is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It is a website where they donate 10 grains of rice every question you get right! The 10 grains of rice go to a starving kid in Africa. I luv this website because every time i go on it i am helping someone LITERALLY!!!!!!!!! I think that u should go on it as well as me! bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving

I LUVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's one of my fave holidays.I go to my grandparents and my cousins come and we all enjoy a 6 course meal that my grandfather makes cuz he used to be a cook. he makes turkey of course,but my favorite is his stuffing and cooked carrots. What do u have and what do u like best?What did u do for thanksgiving? comment below! 

Mona Lisa's disguise

 I just think this is funny its a little blurry but check it out below!

Hearts,Peace signs,and other doodles

     I feel like in every kids school notebook is a home for all doodles. This might just be me,but I doodle all over all my notebooks i do this  because i will get bored in class and drawing lets me escape the urge to fall asleep during math class. And I do it ALL the time! I read in books and all the main characters just happen to be amazing artists and I think that all the kids in the world are as good as that when it comes to doodling in their notebook. As I doodled I always wondered about the person who was the first doodler and who invented the classic doodles like hearts,swirls,and all that junk. post what u think about when u doodle.

3D Printing

            I had this assignment  for school which was to bring in a article from some magazine or newspaper, and I was looking on the Internet when I found this article about how IPhones make you less social.I liked this article but by accident I crossed out the window. ICKY!!! I thought. I searched for the article but could no longer find it so I had look for another article. Suddenly I stumbled across another article about printing. The article talked about 3D printing it was this new cool thing that was being made its this printer that prints out models of stuff. I attached the article below.

The company’s move into design and manufacture for consumers reflects a sharp drop in the price of 3-D printers and the expansion of new businesses that manufacture amateur designs. Autodesk, traditionally in the business of expensive industrial software,hopes the free consumer software, available in a series of  packages, leads to sales of premium software down the road.

Consumers “want to be more involved in design,” Mr. Bass said. “It’s always been true – they write on their sneakers and T-shirts. Smartphones and tablets are the places where they are going to want to do this work.”

Three-dimensional printers, which create objects by rapidly spraying thousands of layers of quick-hardening natural or synthetic materials into precise shapes, have fallen in price from several hundred thousand dollars a few years ago to $2,000 or less. Some printers are considered reliable enough that ventilation systems for jet aircraft use their parts, though designs made with the Autodesk consumer software are unlikely to have that precision. The printers are made by specialty companies, but bigger manufacturers are looking at the market, which could drive prices lower.

It is also possible to order the manufacture of amateur designs on the Internet, or to make use of industrial cutting and finishing equipment at do-it-yourself clubs. Part of Autodesk’s effort to promote its new consumer software involves alliances both with Ponoko, a New Zealand Internet company that makes objects on demand using 3-D printers, and TechShop, a small chain of construction shops with its own grinders and plasma cutters.

These “industrial shops for hire” businesses aspire to be part of a new do-it-yourself market of amateur artisans. Big home-and-garden retailers are thinking about entering the market, possibly with specially branded kiosks in their stores

People can also use the Autodesk software to make models themselves from cardboard or other materials. One program, called 123D Make, analyzes the shape of the object, and then presents it as a series of slices, cut from whatever angle or thickness is desired. Each slice is given a pattern number. These can be shipped to Ponoko to be laser cut out of materials like acrylic or cardboard for a fee. These are then sent to the customer for assembly. Alternatively, the shapes can be printed  onto paper and used like a dress pattern for cutting pieces at home. Autodesk is offering a library of more than 4,000 objects that can be selected for home manufacture.

The software for turning pictures into models, called 123D Catch, requires 40 to 60 snapshots in clear light. These are  uploaded to Autodesk and transformed into a visual model that can be sent to 123DMake for slicing and manufacture, or uploaded to YouTube for others to view.

An early Autodesk consumer product, a drawing program called SketchBook Mobile, has attracted seven million downloads to mobile devices in about two years. An early consumer 3-D program for the iPad, called 123D Sculpt, has also been popular. “It opened our eyes to a world of people who want to be creative,” Mr. Bass said, “Over 30 years, our 10 million customers is more than all of our competitors’ combined. Now we have 30 million unique visitors a month accessing our consumer sites.”

Sketchbook Mobile sells for $1.99, compared with about $4,000 for Autodesk’s popular industrial design software. 123D Sculpt is free. “The consumers are taking us places no one knows,” said Samir Hanna, the company’s vice president of consumer products. “It could be about the services around it or getting a piece of the transaction.”