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Okay everybody so I just found a hot new feature to add to our "blognowledge" about blogs and to help richen up the negative space in it as well. I hope everybody likes this addition to our banner and can figure out this on each our own. Hope everybody has a bubbly, bright, blogtastic day

I must begin on the fact that my diorama project took me only 30 minutes! I made a replica of a Badger Creek, CO to represent the danger our society faces with cutting down trees...I had to use shredded lettuce for the vegetation, chocolate cocoa for the dirt trail, granola cereal for the rocks on the sides, and green tissue paper for the mountains and the environment background of the shoe box ;)

RaeAnna's Diorama

I created a diorama on a heavy subject. AIDS. HIV/AIDS is prevalent in Africa, especially South Africa. A lot of people are miseducated on the topic. AIDS is not only transferred by homosexual intercourse, but mostly through unprotected heterosexual intercourse. It can also be transmitted, and is very often, during birth from an infected mother to her unsuspecting child. In just one year an estimated 2,500 adults die of AIDS related illness... just in South Africa.

Lakesha's Diorama

My diorama is about the issues surrounding the health care plan. People are split on the issue. Some are for it and others are not. I think its important to have good health regardless. The House Energy and Commerce committee has already approved a bill for health care reform and the House is expected to take up the debate after Labor Day. Anti-health care reform protesters are trying to use violence as a way to stop it.

Wilson's Diorama

It was hard for me to pick a certain topic that I feel strongly about, (I was going to pick the economy but that didn't pan out) so I sort've improvised--I've packed my diorama with hints of different things I feel strongly about. Censorship is a HUGE no-no to me. I also am constantly thinking about the uncertainty of the future. I also hate it when something is taken and contorted to portray another message. I've taken these concepts (and my lack of artistic skill) and made this diorama. It portrays New York City...burning. It is a testament to how we as Americans take life for granted and keep polluting our world with our expansionistic ideals, and ethnocentric views. (not merely physically polluting our atmosphere, which is bad as well!!) Everything can be taken away quite swiftly and in any number of horrible ways. In the diorama, I placed a few buildings that appear to be scorched, and are surrounded by flames and the remains of a forest. The fire is, in a way, a metaphor for censorship--The entire city is burning...but look at how pretty those flames are! Taking something, contorting it, and twisting it to show something that contrasts with its true meaning, and censoring all who are being affected by it. The trees are almost additional. I wanted to show something that looked natural, that was a part of the world, torn down by us who use it to further taint and spread. They also happen to be the one true 3-D aspect of my diorama. Here's a picture of it (Sorry I only have a low-fi camera-phone)



-Wilson