Week 4: bottling the beer

My dad had been collecting beer bottles for months to prepare. We needed 50

There was a bucket full of sanitizer, I hand sanitized each bottle... so tedious!

Trransfering the beer. Since the beer had been sitting in the clear containter for two weeks, some gross stuff collected at the bottom. So transfering the liquid to a clean bucket will help us filter out thr garbage.

After we trransfered the beer into the new clean bucket we added some sugar water to the mixture. The sugar water will allow carbination to happen in the bottling stage of the beer. 

all of the bottles are filled

capped 48 beer bottles by hand!

my dad likes to put green tape on the beer he made so he knows that its his. The bottles are used and have other lables on them. The beer will sit in a dark place for two more weeks until I can refriderate and finally drink my creation!

Anons response post

I think its crazy awesome Anonymous is jumping in this. I just think of them as the rebels who are slightly dissing or government on “declaring war” on ISIS. I love how passionate they are and everyone is willing to chime in. Taking down 149 Islamic State-related websites and exposed 101,000 Twitter accounts and 5900 propaganda videos, proves that its not just the French anons that are angry, it’s the entire world. Its cool how we can all come together on line as one, but could be anyone from anywhere, but they are a partner.

#prayforparis

The world of social media has grown our world. Everyone is a person, and had their own profile to show for it. We have grown so technologically dependent we don’t even meet people in "real life “anymore. However social media makes things quick. We depend on Twitter and Facebook to deliver our news. We filter out the noise we never paid attention to on newspapers and original news reports. Were interested in what our friends are interested. We only see the news that they agree with, and we shape our views and opinions on that. This Paris thing, I saw so much garbage and opinions people paint all over their profiles to express to all of us that they feel some type of way. I know that social media obviously went crazy when the attacks happened, but I just try to ignore that and stick to the actual news so I can just get the facts. 

GPSdoodles

Stephen Lund is a badass. His gps drawings are insane! His hardest one he talks about, the mermaid one, is super cool. I think this type o art is more impressive and credible because it takes physical fitness, Lund talks about how the mermaid piece took a lot out of him, exhaustion and hunger, he did it over two days. And its not even for sure that a drawing will turn out the way he planned. He said after he downloaded the data he was glad to see that the drawing turned out good, but he could take a wrong turn our route, and all of his work could be ruined. I like this form of art. Its time consuming, and can be thoughtful, and its just plain awesome.

Project week 3 give back; Belles signature sangria

What you'll need: Brandy (any kind is fine, I just had the dude at the liquor store pick out a random kind for me.) Spanish table wine, however I used a cabernet/merlot blend. It made the sangria less crazy sweet, which I like. I added pomegranate juice and orange juices. Simple syrup. Ice. Then I used blackberries and oranges to garnish. 

To start, add one cup of the brandy 

one cup of the pomegranate juice 

One cup of orange juice

This is the simple syrp I made.I added about a half a cup and then added more at the end when everything was mixed, if needed. Its equal parts hot water and sugar. I used sugar in the raw, so mine turned out this weird brown color

Now add most of the wine until the pitcher is full

ice, oranges and blackberries 

YUM 

Run keeper

My really sad attempt at a heart. My first try I tried doing a smiley face, but then I realized that you couldn't break up the tracking. So my smiley face ended up looking like a slice of pizza. So I started over and came up with this poor excuse for a heart. 

UT's most friendly ghost

Codes to the videos:
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While using stop-motion editing, we were able to construct a three-part Vine video containing three components: Complication, Climax and Resolution. The inspiration behind the story we chose was utilizing our campus’s history and it’s haunting past. The complication starts with a girl in the library who seems to be haunted by a campus ghost. While using stop-motion, we were able to give the illusion of the books moving by themselves, as well as, someone appearing and disappearing behind the main character of the story. At first, we felt silly walking and moving in slow steps and freeze frames, but once you see the product on screen, it all comes together quite nicely. This scene took 7 tries since we were still figuring out how to make it look good and work out the kinks. Once, we finished the first scene, ideas for our next two sequences surfaced quickly.
The second part to this was the climax, which was actually really fun to do! By using one of the more dated styled bathrooms, we depicted the climax of the haunting as a girl being followed by a ghost. We also used light effects to give the ghost the ability to appear and disappear from behind the main character.
The third scene, our resolution, is when the girl finds out that it is actually her friend that’s been haunting her this entire time. The third scene only required one take and was the easiest of all three.

Project week 2

 Right now the beer is fermenting in my fathers garage in Ft. Myers. I have learned that brewing beer is a waiting game. Lots of science-y things are going on, were turning sugar into alcohol and hops and oats and malt into beer. Its really cool being able to make something out of nothing. I am super bummed I cant bring the beer to class and share the delicious fruits of my labor.