Summer 2017
Photoshop
Health and Nutrition
Scuba Diving
Jewelry
Private Voice Lessons
Health and Nutrition
Scuba Diving
Jewelry
Private Voice Lessons
Photoshop
Compilations of a few of my projects:
This was a very fun class where I learned a lot about using PhotoShop. I used layers, I used the selecting tools, I created my own logos and learned how to program my own website.
Health and Nutrition
Learning Outcomes:
(make sure to include these in your ePortfolio!)
(make sure to include these in your ePortfolio!)
- Demonstrate knowledge of human nutritional needs and the role of nutrition in improving individual health and the societal economic impact of food choices.
- The human body needs 90 essencial nutrience including vitamins, and minerals.
- Relate technological advancements in medicine and food production to the advancement of the science of human nutrition.
- Healthy food can now be delivered straight to the door.
- Explain the impact that the food industry has on human food choices and the subsequent relationship to health and disease at the individual, societal, and environmental level.
- They don't care about what people eat. They just want people to buy their products.
- Provide examples of past and present nutrient and diet trends in modern society and the positive and/or negative implications on human health and the earth’s resources.
- People used to make their own soaps and things like that. Now people don't even do that.
- Provide examples of positive and negative interactions of humankind with microorganisms regarding sickness, health and food production.
- Parasites are bad. Vitamins are good.
- Address diet and nutrient issues and concerns for weight control, disease prevention, physical activity, food availability, and biotechnology.
- How you eat is how you look
$10 Challenge
Emmalisa Horlacher
Bought:
5 ways to minimize fruit and vegetable waste:
Critique:
The $10 video was fun to watch. It was enlightening and encouraging. It helped me have the mindset that buying healthy food isn’t as hard as everyone thinks it is. My one issue was that although it was explained if you are buying food for yourself but it doesn’t include buying for a family. Within a family you need greater quantities. $10 really isn’t much when what you need isn’t quality, but quantity.
Comparing food (other than weight):
Bought:
- 12 Halo oranges/tangerines
- A bag of grapes
- Halos- $4.99
- Grapes- $ 6.49
- Total with Tax- $12.17
- Rough Overall Estimate of 6 pounds
- Buy a variety
- Look for good deals
- Compare the weight of items
- Choose that which is in season
- Use coupons and clippings available online or in magazines
- Buying off brands
5 ways to minimize fruit and vegetable waste:
- Put the item in the freezer or keep out of easily spoiling environments
- Turn it into a jam, jelly, or fruit leather
- Turn it into a smoothie
- Have a meal plan that includes the vegetables you buy
- Make an “everything” soup
- Can the item
Critique:
The $10 video was fun to watch. It was enlightening and encouraging. It helped me have the mindset that buying healthy food isn’t as hard as everyone thinks it is. My one issue was that although it was explained if you are buying food for yourself but it doesn’t include buying for a family. Within a family you need greater quantities. $10 really isn’t much when what you need isn’t quality, but quantity.
Comparing food (other than weight):
- Recognizing the nutritional benefits of the food item
- Recognize what is in season and what is not
- Check the price
Reflection: I have really enjoyed this class. It was a good an enlightening experience.
Scuba Diving
Emmalisa Horlacher
HLAC-1350-602-Su17
7/29/2017
Share four or five experiences from your wellness journey over the course of this semester.
HLAC-1350-602-Su17
7/29/2017
Share four or five experiences from your wellness journey over the course of this semester.
- I have had a tough semester this summer. Assignments due in accelerated classes while working a part time job with full time hours. Getting to breathe in the pool, my body weightless, watching the bubbles float to the surface was one of the most calming things I have ever felt. I found Relaxation!
- There were times in this class when I found myself in a slight panic. Jumping into the water was one of my biggest fears. One of the biggest rules in Suba is that you do not panic and you keep a constant flow of breathe. By doing the actions that caused me to panic I learned how to manually calm myself and take it slow while dealing with the problem. Scuba is a fantastic way to learn to deal with stress!
- In high-school I took an ASL class which is basically communicating without words. In scuba you cannot talk under the water so you have to communicate with hand-signals. I found it a very efficient method of communication.
- In scuba swimming becomes different. Weight is distributed differently so that you won't float and it wasn't uncommon to look up and see someone above you. The sensation is what I imagine flying would be like. Learning to scuba dive is learning to fly!
- I went to the sea base and saw my first fish! He came and swam right in between us divers. He was huge and alive! He was just minding his own business, curious about what we were doing. It was one of the coolest experiences that I will remember in my life.
I took this class because my friend Celeste dragged me into it but I do not regret it in the slightest! I love scuba diving and hope to continue my scuba-cation!
Jewelry
Emmalisa Horlacher
7/31/17
Jewelry 1040
Barbra Berk and Jewelry
In Barbra Berk’s youthful days she enjoyed the pleasures of fabric and sewing. As she grew older she pursued many careers including Russian history and magazine publishing. With her various desires she was drawn to antique jewelry but did not peruse it until her and her husband moved from New York to San Diego and she took classes at San Diego state university. where she eventually found her true passion of creating amazing pieces of woven metal wires. “It’s what my fingers want to do.” She says.
The things that Barbra most liked about weaving metal rather than fabric is the fact metal holds its shape. Metal will work harden after being woven and shaped to the correct look. Fabric is much too loose to be able to do that. With metal, you can change how it is tempered. You can change the type of metal you use which inevitably alters the color. The size of the wire is a big factor in how the resulting piece turns out. While in essence the material is different but Barbra still incorporates the same idea of how it is done, even using the vocabulary of stitching the metal in her work.
Since her realization for the love of jewelry making Barbra has grown to attract an enormous amount of attention. She has won over 7 awards including taking 1st place in 2001 at the Saul Bell Design Award for Jewelry Design. Her design can be seen in the pictures located on the works cited page. It is a wire woven gold pin that has stone settings done by Renato Dias. Her work has been displayed at exhibitions since 1993 where her first exhibition was held at the Heartland National Art Festival in Lenexa Kansas. She’s done numerous publications even to the point of writing her own book. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, Gemological Institute of America Alumni Association, Metal Arts Guild and the Textile Arts Council. She has been teaching her craft since 1999. She has come a long way from when she first started.
It was in college that she gained her first taste of jewelry. One of her biggest influences was her teacher Arline Fisch, who later featured some of Barbra’s work in her book. Arline talk about textile patterns being used ornament the body. From fabrics to jewelry the woven designs of metal seem to have a special calling to those who enjoy it.
The idea for metal woven jewelry first originated from the renaissance time. The bobbin lace is the largest example of that. Chainmail is also one of the inspirations for this type of work. While nights of old used the protective fabric to guard against swords and arrows the idea was taken and reconstructed to create the beautiful broaches, rings, pendants, necklaces and bracelets.
When she first starts a piece of work she does not do it in the traditional gold or platinum. She first creates a draft piece fiddling with lines on a paper. Then when she is satisfied with that she moves on to pipe cleaners and ribbons. Only when she is certain of her design and has perfected all the flaws does she execute the final design in the most high-quality metals.
Weaving is the art of interlacing fabric, though in this case it would be metal, horizontally and vertically. The different styles of weaving that Barbra does include the plain weave, the soumak weave and bobbin lace. In the plain weave pattern is simple. There is a vertical element that is called the warp. Sheet metal is cut into strips and wedges so that the horizontal weft can be interlaced through. It goes over and under, over and under till the weft reaches the edge of the warp. When that happens turn the wire around and repeat the process.
The next technique is the soumak, based on an antient rug weaving technique. It it much more dense and lacy whish adds beauty but also structural integrity. In the soumak the basic idea of the weft and the warp are still used. The warp uses a thicker wire and the weft is thinner. The warp is straight and true while the weft literally runs circles around it. Diversity in the patterns can be cultivated by skipping some of the over and undress or by rotating the directions of the over and under. With the plain and soumak techniques the possibilities are endless.
The bobbin lace technique pares up long wires. Unlike the weaving methods it does not use warp and weft. Instead it uses a certain amount of vertical wires, most commonly being four. As each wire is paired up with eachother you find that each wire develops a relationship with those around it. It is created on graph paper using dots that act as signposts, directing when the wire crosses. It is not uncommon for the wire to get tangled up with itself.. Barbra holds the piece together using pins much like in sewing. In the end it looks like each wire piece has a wave pattern that they follow.
Barbra does all her weaving by hand. She does not weave on a loom like traditional weavers but instead free hands the entire thing. She stabilizes her metals by the allowing it to naturally work harden through the process of weaving and shaping. Only after the wire has been woven straight does she then shape it to what she wants. She only works on one piece at a time, allowing all her focus to fall on her specific subject.
Barbra has specific tools that help her in her weaving. Masking tape is a must as she uses it to hold the wires in place. She uses a jawed vice to hold her vertical pieces in place which allow both her hands to be free. One of her favorite tools is wood or nylon plyers. She likes to use those tools because they are not as likely to scratch or dent the metal. When it comes to heating the metal she uses a pulsar welder. These are the tools of Barbra’s metal weaving trade.
Structural integrity is very important to Barbra. She often stresses and emphasizes the need for work hardening and stability. She considers her pieces that of sculptured art. She loves her work and values her jewelry.
Works Cited
http://www.peninsulaartinstitute.org/art ists/barbara-m-berk#.WYAMwvnyvIU
http://www.barbaraberkdesigns.com/html/meet_barbara.html
http://www.barbaraberkdesigns.com/Adornment.pdf
https://www.saulbellaward.com/2001-winners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1GuAKbuA8
Private Voice Lessons
I had the pleasure of Regular meetings and I recorded every session so that I could take it home and practice. I learned the song 'Colors of the Wind'.