on Today was a great day! I traveled with my Mom to Newburgh to meet Ann Gorman. Ms. Gorman is a breeder and owner of award-winning Shibas. Her most prized Shiba is named, Hoch. He has been named “Champion” of many dog shows and has even been featured in magazines and I actually got to meet him along with Bella, another Shiba and a beautiful Husky. Ms. Gorman gave me lots of great facts about Shibas and about showing dogs in general. It was a great day!
on Today Mr. Sneider, a local Shiba owner, returned my email and answered my questions about Shibas as pets. He was very excited to share lots of information about being a Shiba owner and even said I could meet his Shiba one day. I learned lots about their temberment and what it takes to be a Shiba owner.
on After finishing the process of coming up with a topic, I had to find a main question with some sub questions to follow up. My helper and I figured we had some of the question focused on the Shiba inu, because the Shiba is what got me into Japanese dogs in the first place. We decided to target evolution as the main part in our question, we found it more interesting then something like “Which dog is the best?”. Eventually, with four drafted questions up for choosing, we chose the first one to be our main question. The following reads “#1 How have Japanese dog breeds evolve over time and what key elements have made the Shiba inu most successful?” Meanwhile the three following questions discussing breeders, more comparisons, different dogs, etc. And we will hopefully have more sub questions as we progress.
on For my capstone project I’ve decided to study Japanese dogs, at first I was determined to do Japanese culture as a whole but it proved to be complicated, I made a poster including multiple topics that relates to Japanese culture, such as, fashion, art, buildings, health, travel, food, school, dogs, etc. I figured I’d chose one, and I chose Japanese dogs out of my love for the breed the Shiba inu and my interest in it as well. Though I knew I shouldn’t focus on the shiba, that would be difficult. From a list from japanese dogs, I decided to chose 6 dogs, which are the Shiko ku, Kishu, Japanese spitz, Japanese Chin, Japanese terrier, and of course the Shiba inu. 
(The poster that helped me with choosing my topic.)
on While working on my rube goldberg, there has been multiple times when ideas failed to do what I hoped. I tried hitting a button on a toy cash registor that would open a drawer hitting the ball into a small toy that would launch a little ball for pets. Hopefully it would launch into the mini fan, and if it did the fan would spin the ball around and eveuntally launch it sideways, but it was hard to control all of that and the placement wasn’t the greatest either, and it rarely fell into the launch anywho.
I ended up having to change my plan, and having to make things less complicated so it would be easier to pull things off most of the time. And that idea made my experiance easy because when I was ready to record, It took little to 1 try, Even if it took longer it would had been worth it.
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While browsing through the cabinets in the basement for the Rube Goldberg project, I happen to come across a bell. I decided the best idea would to use it since nothing else in the basement seems to have an action that can be performed using strict methods to complete the task of ringing the bell.
With my materials I figured the best option to start would be from high up, so it would be easier to maneuver marbles, golf balls, etc to trigger the next action. After that I went on from there.
on For the Rube Goldberg project, I decided to use the materials found in the most open space of the house; The basement. The materials, which include dominos, blocks, tubes, cups, tracks, etc were (unsurprisingly) the most useful in my task of hitting a bell.
Materials: Dominos, blocks, tubes, cups, tracks, scissors, pencils, popsical sticks, string, marbles, and a marble-set.
on Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg “Rube Goldberg” was born July 4, 1881 and died December 7, 1970. He was an inventor, sculptor, author, engineer and CARTOONIST.
His most notable cartoons are the ones showing very complicated “machines” that performed a simple task in a complicated way.
Because Rube’s father was a fire commissioner, he was inspired to pursue engineering. He went to the University of California, Berkley and studied engineering. His first job, however, was a sports cartoonist for the NY Evening Mail.
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Recently, in school we have began working on the Constitution project. In such project, each student rolls a dice. One dice contains the topic, (People, Documents, Art, etc.) and the other holds how you will be doing it, (Explain everything, Design something, Padlet, etc.) I found my self with The art of the Constitution. I’ve deciuded to pick a painting of the famous Dolley Madison, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1804. Gilbert Stuart was considered one of America’s foremost portraitists. He painted many famous people back then, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and known for her high social standards, and being married to President James Madison (March 4, 1809 – March 4, 1817) Dolley Payne Todd Madison.
About Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert Stuart, a famous who lived from December 3, 1755, (Saunderstown, RI) to July 9, 1828, (Boston, MA). He was the third child of Gilbert Stewart, a Scottish immigrant employed in the snuff-making industry, and Elizabeth Anthony Stewart, a member of a prominent land-owning family from Middletown, Rhode Island. Stuart’s father worked in the first colonial snuff mill in America, which was located in the basement of the family homestead.
His best known work is the unfinished portrait of George Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, begun in 1796 and never finished. Stuart retained the portrait and used it to paint 130 copies which he sold for $100 each. Some of his other notable works are (Lansdowne portrait) (1796) George Washington (Vaughan Portrait) (1795) The Skater (1782) Self-Portrait (1778) Catherine Brass Yates (1794) John Jay (1794) John Adams (1824).
About Dolley Payne Todd Madison.
One of the people Gilbert Stuart painted, Dolley Madison was popular due to being married to President James Madison, and would sell ice cream often at the white house. She clearly held ice cream very dear. There was even a ice cream place named after her; Dolly madison’s icecream. All in all, Dolley Madison was a memorable women, who was the only First Lady given an honorary seat on the floor of Congress, and the first First Lady (and first American) to respond to a telegraph message.
Thoughts, impressions, and questions about the painting.
I feel like the art is a bit, blurry. Though that is expected with art. Otherwise that, The background and shading stands out. And was carefully detailed for using paintbrushes back then. Though I feel like the hair should be a bit more, there. Though the visible hair is well put together most of the hair blends in with the background color; Making it almost impossible to the eye to see.
Conclusion.
Overall, Dolley Madison and Gilbert Stuart are wonderful people, who are well vauled in history, and they as well desrve such fame.
My recreation of the Dolley Madison by Gilbert Stuart.
Sorces:
Wikipedia,
Conversations with my grandmother who has an interest in history and Dolley Madison.