What to do when your stuck at home. That's something I've been working on for sometime and found several ways to keep myself occupied. This includes doing artwork, doing homework, and cleaning the house. But what I'm doing as a new activity is cooking with my grandmother as she teaches me how to make traditional Colombian meals. For Wellness credits, my grandmother helped me make such dishes as rice, beans, omelets, arrepas, tortas, and soup. I also learned how to keep the kitchen clean, how to cut and cook certain meats, and how to use food when there is a shortage.
Today, we are going to talk about how to make simple Lasagna that could be completed easily. Here are the listed ingredients.
- Half a medium bag of Spinach
- Lasagna sheet pasta
- Rosemary and Two cloves of Garlic
-Grounded beef
-Canned Tomato Sauce
- Onion
- Flour
- Mozzarella and Chile Cheese
-Canola Oil
-Salt
1. You first crush the rosemary with the two clothes of garlic and salt. Afterwards, you get a cup of water and the ground beef and put them in a pot to cook. You mix the garlic mix with the ground beef and put a top over it to let it cook. Mix it occasionally.
2. You then get the spinach and cut it up into small pieces using scissors. Make sure you take out leaves that look wrinkled or to moist. You then wash and dry a glass holding.
3. Get 3 cups of water and the store bought lasagna sheets. Heat the water until it's boiled and put in as many sheets as long as there is pasta on the bottom, middle, and top. During this time, after 20-25 minutes, the meat will be done.
3. Get the tomato sauce and cook it with half a cup of flour and some cilantro. This will make the paste thicker. You then cut the onion into small pieces and mix with the paste until the onion pieces looks well cooked.
4. Oil the holding until it is all slippery. Put the first layer of pasta on the bottom and add the cut up spinach. You then put the meet, then the sauce, and top it off with the two cheese. Repeat until you run out of both meat and spinach. If one runs out before the other, save that for later.
5. Make sure to pre-heat the over to 350 degrees farenhiet. You then put the lasagna in for 35 minutes until it's done.
Friday, May 8, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
The Midwest Dream
If you could make the world a better place, how would you do so. This is a question I looked towards during my class, Endurance. In this class, students studied explorers around the world, understanding their impact in history, and how their discovery lead to saving several lives. Students also explored hardships of people who survived tragic events, such as the Holocaust or being stranded in the middle of the poles. What students did for an assignment was to make predictions about their future lives and what they would do to make the world a better place. In my future, I want to give job training to teenagers in Visual Effects or animation.
This semester was different because of the COVD-19, and students were forced to stay inside. This meant students couldn't explore their surroundings and didn't have resources that they had in school. The class was all online and communication towards feedback was done through Google Hangouts or Doc comments. It isn't sure what the future will be for the school, but students will see homework differently due to the isolation.
This semester was different because of the COVD-19, and students were forced to stay inside. This meant students couldn't explore their surroundings and didn't have resources that they had in school. The class was all online and communication towards feedback was done through Google Hangouts or Doc comments. It isn't sure what the future will be for the school, but students will see homework differently due to the isolation.
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Food Work Isolation
What to do when your stuck at home. That's something I've been working on for sometime and found several ways to keep myself occupied. This includes doing artwork, doing homework, and cleaning the house. But what I'm doing as a new activity is cooking with my grandmother as she teaches me how to make traditional Colombian meals. For Wellness credits, my grandmother helped me make such dishes as rice, beans, omelets, arrepas, tortas, and soup. I also learned how to keep the kitchen clean, how to cut and cook certain meats, and how to use food when there is a shortage.
For the past few weeks, I learned how to make Empanadas, or a chicken/steak pie. It is made throughout all over South America, but I focused on how to make it the Colombian way. Here are the steps to making the Empanada.
The ingredients are corn flour, all purpose flour, cilantro, Sazon Goya food spices, 2 eggs, chicken, a potato, rosemary, garlic, onions, oil. Panela (spanish sugar cube)
1. Get 2 cups of water and heat it with the Sazon Goya, Panela and the cilantro. At the same time, Lightly oil a pan and cut off the fat from the chicken( 1/3 a pound).
2. Once done with cutting fat, put the chicken in cooking, and t mash the garlic and rosemary together (along with some salt) in a separate container. Fling it on the cooking chicken and use water to get the remainder off. Put a top on the pan with the cooking chicken.
3. Take the first egg and boil in water with potato. Get 1 cup on all purpuse flour and and 2 1/2 cups of corn flour. Mash it with the second egg and slowly pour the cooked cilantro water into the mix. Keep mixing until you can round the mix in a dough ball.
4. After 20 minutes, with turning the chicken around the pot to cook, the chicken will be done.Use two forces and tear the chicken into string. Once done, cut up the boiling egg and leave the potato for more boiling. Once the potato is done, take the skin off and mash it. Mix the potato, chicken, and, egg into a bowl.
5. Cut half a onion into small pieces and cook it for four minutes to take away the acidity. Put onion into mix.
6. Take the onion pan and heavy it with oil. Take a plastic sandwich bag, cut open two new sides, and roll out the dough in small balls. Flatten the dough balls with a pizza roller with the bag and then put the chicken mix on one car side. Use the bag to make the dough cover the mix.
7. Take a bowl and make a shape out of edges of the Empanda. Close the dough with your fingers and let it fry with the heated oil on the pan. Cook on medium heat until the empanada is a golden brown. Repeat until all dough and chicken mix is done.
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| JN "Empandas" own work, 2020 |
For the past few weeks, I learned how to make Empanadas, or a chicken/steak pie. It is made throughout all over South America, but I focused on how to make it the Colombian way. Here are the steps to making the Empanada.
The ingredients are corn flour, all purpose flour, cilantro, Sazon Goya food spices, 2 eggs, chicken, a potato, rosemary, garlic, onions, oil. Panela (spanish sugar cube)
1. Get 2 cups of water and heat it with the Sazon Goya, Panela and the cilantro. At the same time, Lightly oil a pan and cut off the fat from the chicken( 1/3 a pound).
2. Once done with cutting fat, put the chicken in cooking, and t mash the garlic and rosemary together (along with some salt) in a separate container. Fling it on the cooking chicken and use water to get the remainder off. Put a top on the pan with the cooking chicken.
3. Take the first egg and boil in water with potato. Get 1 cup on all purpuse flour and and 2 1/2 cups of corn flour. Mash it with the second egg and slowly pour the cooked cilantro water into the mix. Keep mixing until you can round the mix in a dough ball.
4. After 20 minutes, with turning the chicken around the pot to cook, the chicken will be done.Use two forces and tear the chicken into string. Once done, cut up the boiling egg and leave the potato for more boiling. Once the potato is done, take the skin off and mash it. Mix the potato, chicken, and, egg into a bowl.
5. Cut half a onion into small pieces and cook it for four minutes to take away the acidity. Put onion into mix.
6. Take the onion pan and heavy it with oil. Take a plastic sandwich bag, cut open two new sides, and roll out the dough in small balls. Flatten the dough balls with a pizza roller with the bag and then put the chicken mix on one car side. Use the bag to make the dough cover the mix.
7. Take a bowl and make a shape out of edges of the Empanda. Close the dough with your fingers and let it fry with the heated oil on the pan. Cook on medium heat until the empanada is a golden brown. Repeat until all dough and chicken mix is done.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Final Project
Part one: The Past
It’s hard to break out of a medium sometimes, it’s almost like a habit. I’ve been doing animation on paper so long that I think the challenge would be to just use a computer. There are many reasons why I choose to do it on paper rather than digital and I guess this use of the medium is intertwined with who I am as a person.
Through Family:
For one, my mother never liked video games and she separated animation from technology when I told her my interest. At some point, I played video games way too often as a pre-teen and stopped at the expense of my mother. I started to hate technology even when it was unnecessary and even when my mother’s discomfort was gone from her. For a time, avoiding technology was a goal for me and that would slowly erode overtime. Not because I saw the benefits, but because I didn’t have the ambition I used to have and that resulted in me putting more time on my phone rather than my work. So, doing animation on paper was to avoid the current present, where I spend too much time on technology and not do work.
Through Authenticy:
A second reason why I did animation on paper was the authenticity of it. I thought if something was older or had a history, it would be better from the current theme. When I did animation on paper, I felt like I was doing it as an art form rather than a work form. That it was physical and I could hold on to the paper and later on have a history with it. That is the same for frames from Disney movies. It almost felt like a storybook, where all the frames were a permanent imprint and you could flip/ read through them. Compare this to computer animation, where it was all code. To me back then, it wasn’t real. I also felt I would trap myself to do more flash cartoons and that, to me, didn’t sound authentic.
Though Preference:
The third reason was I didn’t want to learn about technology. It felt too complicated and I felt I was good at seeing movement. I tried to do animation on technology when I was younger, but I felt discouraged at the end. I also didn’t want to be an artist online and I assumed that would mean using digital. In the end, I thought it would be too much trouble as I thought I would only need the materials and just a good college. I didn’t think too much about it.
Part Two: The Present
Now, grown up, I can’t avoid technology. I already use it far more than I need to and I'm starting to ignore important factors of the industry. My mind has shifted towards doing technology in RISD so I could get a stable job as I always wanted. I’m even possibly thinking about doing other careers in case this one fails, such as being an architect as my family suggested. I’m not uncomfortable with being an online artist if it means getting to do what I want and I;m even interested in starting a studio that only uses computer animation and I could manage it. Only time will tell what I want to go into, but I know I can’t avoid this large factor of the industry, especially now with current events.
So I’m looking back on pieces of animation I did and I want to do a timeline showing my progression. Having a brief description of each piece.
It’s hard to break out of a medium sometimes, it’s almost like a habit. I’ve been doing animation on paper so long that I think the challenge would be to just use a computer. There are many reasons why I choose to do it on paper rather than digital and I guess this use of the medium is intertwined with who I am as a person.
Through Family:
For one, my mother never liked video games and she separated animation from technology when I told her my interest. At some point, I played video games way too often as a pre-teen and stopped at the expense of my mother. I started to hate technology even when it was unnecessary and even when my mother’s discomfort was gone from her. For a time, avoiding technology was a goal for me and that would slowly erode overtime. Not because I saw the benefits, but because I didn’t have the ambition I used to have and that resulted in me putting more time on my phone rather than my work. So, doing animation on paper was to avoid the current present, where I spend too much time on technology and not do work.
Through Authenticy:
A second reason why I did animation on paper was the authenticity of it. I thought if something was older or had a history, it would be better from the current theme. When I did animation on paper, I felt like I was doing it as an art form rather than a work form. That it was physical and I could hold on to the paper and later on have a history with it. That is the same for frames from Disney movies. It almost felt like a storybook, where all the frames were a permanent imprint and you could flip/ read through them. Compare this to computer animation, where it was all code. To me back then, it wasn’t real. I also felt I would trap myself to do more flash cartoons and that, to me, didn’t sound authentic.
Though Preference:
The third reason was I didn’t want to learn about technology. It felt too complicated and I felt I was good at seeing movement. I tried to do animation on technology when I was younger, but I felt discouraged at the end. I also didn’t want to be an artist online and I assumed that would mean using digital. In the end, I thought it would be too much trouble as I thought I would only need the materials and just a good college. I didn’t think too much about it.
Part Two: The Present
Now, grown up, I can’t avoid technology. I already use it far more than I need to and I'm starting to ignore important factors of the industry. My mind has shifted towards doing technology in RISD so I could get a stable job as I always wanted. I’m even possibly thinking about doing other careers in case this one fails, such as being an architect as my family suggested. I’m not uncomfortable with being an online artist if it means getting to do what I want and I;m even interested in starting a studio that only uses computer animation and I could manage it. Only time will tell what I want to go into, but I know I can’t avoid this large factor of the industry, especially now with current events.
So I’m looking back on pieces of animation I did and I want to do a timeline showing my progression. Having a brief description of each piece.
Friday, March 13, 2020
The Midwest Reader
The future is wide and bleak as many people would put it. But I believe it will only grow better as time goes by. In my class, Equality, we were asked what we think the future is. We looked at the past and present on disadvantaged groups such as blacks, latinos, women, and the poor. We also talked about current events that affect everyone such as the Corona virus, marijuana laws, and current presidential candidates. We also had a professor of UIC, David Stovall, as guest speaker.
For the final project of the class, we are supposed to predict an event and create a news article based on that event. The article needed to include minorities and have an opinion piece at the end. I focused on children's media and how it accurately portraid the demographic of the US. The article was based around the Media Act of 2073 or the "Mouse Law".
Akre J " Child Obesity..."news.legalexaminer.com, Legal Examiner, Web, Dec 2007
Drobot, "woman suit",shutterstock.com, ShutterStock, Web, March 2020
JN "Diamond", own work, March 2020
"Man in Suit" shutterstock.com, ShutterStock, Web, March 2020
"McDonald Fries"mcdonalds.com, McDonalds, Web, March 2007, March 2020
For the final project of the class, we are supposed to predict an event and create a news article based on that event. The article needed to include minorities and have an opinion piece at the end. I focused on children's media and how it accurately portraid the demographic of the US. The article was based around the Media Act of 2073 or the "Mouse Law".
The factor I struggled the most was organization and formatting of the article. It took me out of my comfort zone as I just do standard essays. Besides that, making the project was fun since I had full creative freedom.
Underneath is a person examining the article 100 years later. The article was put in the time capsule and the person shows their reaction.
Akre J " Child Obesity..."news.legalexaminer.com, Legal Examiner, Web, Dec 2007
Drobot, "woman suit",shutterstock.com, ShutterStock, Web, March 2020
JN "Diamond", own work, March 2020
"Man in Suit" shutterstock.com, ShutterStock, Web, March 2020
"McDonald Fries"mcdonalds.com, McDonalds, Web, March 2007, March 2020
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Midwest Studio, the GCE of animation studios
Building a business takes a lot of initiative and groundwork, but starting a business plan sets your limits for what you can do and what you need to achieve. In order to start planning, you have to understand and learn about how a business works. This is what my class, Social Entrepreneurship, taught in my school term at GCE. During the class, we learned about different legal structures, how to organize roles, and policies companies use today. We also had a guest speaker who works as an independent contractor explain the sacrifices he does for his company.
For an assignment, my class and I created our own individual business with a product and a mention of social good. I ran for education or job training, specifically in the field of VFX. I looked at the demographics of my customers, the org flow chart, and how much money the company will make in 3-5 years.
The enjoyment of making this project was to just dream how my company would look like and if it was an actual possibility. Also enjoy the work I put in and how I could use this in the future after I went to college. I regret doing accounting the last because that changed most of the text I already did.
Friday, February 14, 2020
A Chapter in Chicago
History is constantly changing and being affected by what was before it. This is true in Chicago as it's the third largest city in America and has a history of bigotry and segregation. Over several weeks, I learned about this history of the city and understanding on how it makes the present. Through my class, Equality, I saw Chicago through the politics of gender, race, and class. We also went to see "Harriet Tubman" in the Geneskile film center. It's a film about the hardships of slavery and an american icon. We read "The Case for Reparations", a document by Coates T. that depicts the suffering of black lives since the 1900s and how that continues to this day. Finally, we watched the play "Roe" in the Goodman theatre. A non-bias story that depicts the controversial topic of abortions and the nuance perspective of each historical figure.
What my class did for an assignment was to write on a piece in history and to interview a minority who saw that experience first hand. For myself, I focused on Lori Lightfoot and her significance as mayor. The struggle I went through for the assignment was finding the interviewee and asking the appropriate question at the end of the assignment. I enjoy the design of the project as I tried to make it resemble the Pride Flag.
What my class did for an assignment was to write on a piece in history and to interview a minority who saw that experience first hand. For myself, I focused on Lori Lightfoot and her significance as mayor. The struggle I went through for the assignment was finding the interviewee and asking the appropriate question at the end of the assignment. I enjoy the design of the project as I tried to make it resemble the Pride Flag.
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