Banksy Artist Profile

Banksy Artist Profile

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.

Miro H's Word of the Week

Precocious word of the week

This is my word of the week. The word was "Precocious".  
My favorite part was finding a good picture. Finding the picture was also the hardest part.

Hushed by Paul Mason

Aoraki have been reading the Hushed series by Paul Mason for reading. We absolutely loved the series and were gutted when it ended on such a cliff hanger. Here are some of our ideas for a Part Three.

Miro's Ecosystem Vocabulary

This is my ecosystem vocabulary slide. I had to explain what the words on the slide meant, then take pictures of them. I found it hard to take the pictures because Chromebooks aren't good at taking them and it was raining outside. My favorite part was looking around outside for birds. (I didn't find any). Next time, to be BTB, I could take better/more photos.

Miro H's Interview

Interview with Grandma

This is the interview I conducted with my Grandma. I emailed her the questions and she emailed them back. It was hard to write the answers because I had to change them so that they weren't directed to me and to my blog readers. My favorite part was making the background. To be BTB (better than before) I could have made it prettier, e.g, added different fonts.

Miro H's Alternative ending

The stolen stars of Matariki new ending.

This is my new ending for the stolen stars of Matariki. It was hard to choose an ending to write about and to remember the Maori names. My favorite part was actually writing it. To be BTB, I could have said where in the book it started at.


Brainstorming

They could have used a torch to scare the patupaiarehe away
They could have delayed the patupaiarehe by hiding their agate so that they looked for it and then the sun would come up and they would leave the stars
They could ask the patupaiarehe to tell them about themselves so that they forget about the stars and then the sun would come up and they would run away
They could pretend to be stars and trick the patupaiarehe so they could lead them away from the actual stars

The actual ending

“Oh no!” Grandma said. “It’s those naughty Patupaiarehe! They’ve been stealing stars again!” Just then, they heard giggling and laughing. They slowly crawled up the stony bank and peered over. Down at the water's edge, there was a group of Patupaiarehe. They were dancing around a net with two white, glowing stones inside. Grandma gasped. “Those are the stolen stars!” she exclaimed. “Without those stars, it’ll be hard to know when it is time to stop eeling and rest for winter!” Sam and Te Rerehua gasped.  “We have to get them back!” said Te Rerehua. “But how?” whispered Sam. “Well, Patupaiathehe don’t like sunlight; it burns their delicate white skin.” Grandma said thoughtfully. “Maybe we can stall them until the sun comes up!” “Good idea, Grandma!” Sam said. “But how do we stall them?” They thought and thought until Te Rerehua exclaimed “I’ve got it; we’ll ask them to tell us about themselves! Then they’ll forget about the time and the sun will come up…” “And they’ll run away!” finished Sam. “Good idea kids!” said Grandma. So Sam and Te Rerehua crept over the stony bank and towards the Patupaiarehe. The Patupaiarehe stopped dancing and laughing as soon as the kids came close. “Wow!” Sam said loudly. “Did you catch that star?” Te Rerehua smiled. “You must be very strong to pull that down from the sky!” she said. The Patupaiarehe puffed out their chests and began boating on how strong or clever or good looking they were. They basted for so long that they didn’t notice the sun peeking over the horizon. “Oh look!” exclaimed Te Rerehua. “The sun!” The Patupaiarehe began shrieking. “Run for the hills!” they yelled to each other. Within seconds, all the Patupaiarehe were running away from the glow of the sun, and towards the hills. Grandma emerged from behind the stoney bank. “Kai pai te Mahi!” she exclaimed. “You two were very brave!” “But how do we get the stars back into the sky?” pondered Sam. Grandma grinned. “I know just the thing.” she said slyly. “Pōua!” she called. “Can you throw these stars back into the sky?” Pōua grinned. He knew just what to do. He hooked his gaff onto Pohutukawa. “Stand back!” he said to Sam and Te Rerehua. Then he flung Pōhutukawa back into the sky. The star left a shimmering arc behind, then bounced into its place. Pōua did the same for Hiwa-i-te-Rangi and it too left a shimmering arc behind, then bounced back into its place. Pōua smiled. Then he began walking home with his newly caught bag of eels and their newly collected agate. They would dry nicely in the sun. It was going to be a great day.

Miro's Self Portrait

In class over the last few weeks we have been creating our class waka. As part of our waka we made self portraits using google draw. On google draw we used the polyline feature to draw the features of one half of our faces before trying to colour match to the other side of our faces. Below is an example of one of our self portraits.