Christy Lee What is that weird smell? One might ask this question as noni falls off its tree. Noni is a fruit that is often found in Saipan that many people use to improve their health or treat certain sickness. As seen in the above picture, noni is grown from such and its parts are used for multiple purposes. According to drugs.com, noni is generally … Continue reading NO..ni?
Lyzelle Castillo The Northern Mariana Islands being composed of small, beautiful islands are surrounded with coconut trees. Although coconut trees accentuates the beauty of the natural scenery of an island, every part of a coconut tree is proven to be useful as well. For instance, the coconut tree trunk is commonly used in construction for it can be transformed into a durable timber. Partnered with … Continue reading Coconut Trees Have It All!
Printers have been used to great effect in human society and technological development. For millennia after the development of literature by the classical civilizations of Sumeria and Egypt, literature was a luxury accessible only to the very wealthy. This was the case due to the fact that copying books was a laborious, time-extensive task and books became ultra-expensive as a result. Consequently, much of the … Continue reading Rule of Odds – LJV
Patterns, patterns are everywhere! They can be found in nature, such as in the sand patterns that naturally occur in sand dunes, animal coat patterns, and snowflakes. These patterns can occur due to numerical sequences that naturally come out in inanimate objects, like the Fibonacci sequence, or can occur in biological organisms, such as genes encoding patterns in animal coats. However, humans have also incorporated … Continue reading Patterns – LJV
When it comes to visualizing items with diagonals and straight lines, often the first thing that comes to mind are blades. Blades have been used since the dawn of man, and have been made out of a variety of materials, such as stone, obsidian, steel, and (surprisingly) wood! Blades serve a variety of purposes, with warfare being only one of the multitudes of possible uses. … Continue reading Triangles and Diagonals – LJV
William Kim In the photo above, we see many patterns in the blanket. The blanket above is made out of very soft texture and materials, which keeps people warm and comfortable while they sleep. The reason why people sleep with blankets has been answered by science. It is because our body’s core temperature drops before and during your slumber, so you need the blanket to … Continue reading Patterns
Song SeongBeom (Kevin Song) The photographs above depict the photographic technique: Patterns and Textures. In this world, there are numerous amounts of pattern present. Broadly speaking, everything is a pattern! In the “Patterns and Textures” technique, combinations of intricate details with interesting patterns accentuate the depth and vivid color of the overall photograph. The photographer that came to GCA has opened a new scope of … Continue reading Patterns are EVERYWHERE
Patterns that had specific meanings at their inception later travel through various cultures and treatments. When not in use, they return to the archive, only to be reincarnated at a later time in a new place or in a new style… as if [Carl] Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious were made literal in this storage of shapes. –Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European … Continue reading Patterns and Textures -Joshua P
Linda Li This photo was taken on the way to school in the afternoon. The way that every student and teacher in GCA at least walks twice a day on school days. The daily schedule rarely allows one to look down the road. For the senior, there is less and less time or the chance to walk this way. I hope every senior can cherish … Continue reading Leading Line
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