NHD Reflection 2009

This year's NHD topic was Individual in History: Life and Legacy. For my Individual i chose Leonardo da Vinci. I chose him because i wanted to chose someone that was not common so that a bunch of people wasn't going to have him and i also wanted to do someone i was going to be interested in, so that i would stick with it and it would seem less like a chore.

I chose to do an exhibit because it was in my element. I couldn't do a documentary or a website because I'm not that good at using computers and I wouldn't want to do a paper because it seems kinda boring and i don't have the patience for it. i like the exhibit because we get to design how we want it and try to catch the audiences attention and draw them in. For my exhibit i titled it Leonardo: the artist, the inventor, the man. On the left panel i focused on his art with paintings like "the annunciation" or "the baptism of christ." On the right panel i talked about him as an inventor or scientist adding pictures of his studies recorded in the codex leicester. In the middle i wanted to focus on Leonardo himself "as a man" with a timeline and putting pictures of two of his most famous works "the last supper" and "la gioconda" being the most famous, most copied, and most parodied paintings in history.

This year i think i did well, a lot better than last year. I made it to cities. Now i have to continue working on my project. I think that if i could do it over again i would have managed my time better instead of procratinating and waiting until the last minute.