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Had the honor of recording & mixing this one 💪🏻 @owney_tk did his THING on the one! Much love bro!! More work to be done #justspeak #OwneyTk #ZakkRiffle #hiphop #rap #bars #musicvideo #producer #songwriter #denvermusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CL42_YaAdGB/?igshid=igi0hlj2x1

[tirtanrm]

People will judge for what they see. But let me show to y'all how to shut up their mouth. Just let them speak out loud and you just sitting in ur chair with a cup off coffee.

[justbtses]

i'm getting terrible whiplash from all the moaning then the giggles and sweater paws.

what the fuck jeon

[lifenliving]

JUSTSPEAK is back with 7th edition. Topic Positive Pulse of the Pandemic. Stay tune to listen to our top experts on this subject. Save the Date: Saturday, June 26th 2021 @ 5 PM #JustSpeak #VasanthaVaikunth #Positivepulse #PositivePulseofthePandemic #pandemic

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Got that draco if I say so betta lay low or get pop - Prince Carter- #selenagomez #yeezy #kyliejenner #lebron #fucktrump #lilpeep #anime #offset #6ix9ine #nochill #omg #durant #snäpme #kobe #cardib #petty #justspeak #justlisten #starwars #drummers #musically #musicians #apperal #kingdombuilding #goodmusic #blackmagic #bands #highschool #college #tyetribbett (at Mesa, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrgEZTHgv5k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kw6z08xzc3t6

[queerdoboibri]

Celebrating North Kentucky’s 1st Pride! With @justspeak-always

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#IDO #facts #justspeaking

[jeromyu]

不懂拉赫曼尼諾夫的，不可能是稱職的國際新聞記者 （好似係 #justspeaking #岸郊野 (at 香港文化中心音樂廳)

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Prisoners right to vote campaign launched | Scoop News

Prisoners right to vote campaign introduced

28 November 2018

JustSpeak is calling on the Government to safeguard rights that ought to be genuinely universal by reversing the restriction on prisoners voting.

" The Supreme Court has ruled that the existing law weakens the fundamental right of all individuals to enact a democracy. We concur, and we are getting in touch with Parliament to do the best thing and change it" said JustSpeak Director Tania Sawicki Mead." We have actually spent a. year commemorating the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage. in New Zealand, however thousands of ladies and males serving time. in jail have been denied the right to vote.

" All of us. desire individuals who have actually been sentenced to jail to be able to. go back to their communities with a better opportunity of living. great lives. Rejecting them the right to have a say in our. democracy contradicts that.

" Disenfranchising detainees. creates a group of people who undergo the laws, and. punished under them, however have no input in their production,. modification, or operation.

" Due to the fact that our justice system. disproportionately locks up Māori, the current law has the. greatest influence on Māori whānau, who are currently. underrepresented in citizen turnout.

" Like numerous New. Zealanders we are happy of our history as the first country. In the world to recognise that everyone is worthy of the. to vote. Our right to identify who govern us is. basic", said Ms Sawicki Mead.JustSpeak is launching. a campaign in support of this cause, starting with a. petition which can be found here- https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/make-voting-a-right-for-all!.?.!We are pleased to likewise have the assistance of Amnesty. International and the" https://justspeak.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5c0d09934b1ce49cdd442fd54&id=1a2a039051&e=6f2e9f8cd3" target=" _ blank" > Howard League Wellington Branch in this&. campaign.Copyright © 2018 Robson Hanan Trust, All. rights reserved.New Zealand media. professional line-height:22 px; font-weight:

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Week 4 + 5 - Research and Development: Play and Interaction:

Week 4 and 5 have been slow for both Studio and Play and Interaction. I unfortunately did not get as much research as I would have liked to get in week 4, which is why I am combining the two weeks together into one blog post. This does not mean research will stop though. I will still be reading into certain elements through the process, for both studio and play and interaction.

As a brief overview as to where I am at: 

Child Poverty - Week 4 was the end of our research topics for studio. This meant that I completed prison integration and we decided to not focus on that for this semester through studio. Amanda looked into Child Poverty so after having a discussion with her, I managed to gather a lot of info in one studio session. In week 3, I initially wanted to research my own facts around Child Poverty, though for one - it was already being done in our studio group and two - I thought it would be better for myself and our team to focus on a subject/idea none of us had looked into yet. This also means that marking later on will be easier as Ben can clearly see what I have completed for studio and play and interaction. 

Installations and events - this was a very trick topic that I first attempted to find more about, and ended up only finding one event, and a few organisations that had conversation evenings/awareness talks based around Child Poverty in NZ.

Applications - I started to think about more, how will we be able to connect with the parents and children? and how will we keep them engaged enough for them to come back and do business through us again? This is where I started to look into apps, child friendly + games + input/output + child poverty related.

Idea’s starting to form - possible application idea for children to interact with Doodle Dolls affectively. 

Child Poverty Main Facts: (That have surfaced from Amanda’s Child Poverty research for Studio)

Child poverty “can lead to serious and prolonged mental illness in children” (Feek, 2017), that can eventuate into a problematic adulthood that has a negative effect on both the individual and society as a whole (Peters & Besley, 2014).

Poverty rates are consistently higher for those aged 0-11 years old, compared to children 12-17 (Feek, 2017). This is Doodle Dolls target market.

Child poverty rates are increasing at a rapid rate. As Roy (2016) states, “one-third of the country’s children, or 300,000, now live below the poverty line – 45,000 more than a year ago”.

Stuff (2016) estimates that “…90,000 kids are living in severe poverty” and that “New Zealand has a goal to halve poverty by 2030"

Peters & Besley (2014) state that “New Zealand has substantial rates of child poverty and material deprivation. These rates significantly exceed those of many other developed countries and, at least on some measures, are much worse than three decades ago. The evidence suggests that child poverty, especially when experienced in early childhood and/or when persistent and severe, can be very damaging —both to the children directly affected and society as a whole. Amongst other things, child poverty contributes to the large educational achievement gaps between children from lower and higher SES backgrounds. For such reasons, there is a powerful case for reducing child poverty. I have argued that decision-makers have the available policy tools to alleviate child poverty and mitigate its effects–at least to some extent. The issue, in other words, is not the means, but the political will.”

Sadly, “NZ has the worst teen suicide rate of the developed world, with 16 suicides per 100,000 in 2016" (Fyres, 2017)

Feek (2017) suggests that “Prevention is the key; which can be aided by policies that support better incomes…“. Hopefully Doodle Dolls will be the beginning of a solution to end New Zealand’s dismal child poverty rates.

Installations and Events:

FLY ME UP TO WHERE YOU ARE: The Contact Festival Playground

Fly Me Up to Where You Are New Zealand in Upper Frank Kitts Park is the culmination of a four-year project that began in 2012 and has gathered 15,000 flags made by children aged 8–12 at Decile 1 & 2 schools in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington.

The project encouraged the children to tap their creativity in order to process their concerns, hopes, dreams and ideas. It offers a platform where their voices can be expressed as a collective artwork.

Fly Me Up was facilitated by artist Tiffany Singh, who considers it a priority to provide a space for learning, sharing and connecting to the world around us. Her hope is to ignite enthusiasm and responsibility in our younger generations for the wellbeing of the community and the world we wish for.

When I found this event, I thought it was such a brilliant idea, it was a shame the flags were up for only so long. I was also touched by the amount if children writing quite serious things on these flags. According to a Stuff article by Rachel Thomas, “While some wanted people to recycle and "be happy", Auckland-based creator Tiffany Singh says the biggest thing our youth wanted were basic needs.” "In terms of being safe and warm and having food on the table ... that was eye-opening." The simple fact that these children knew they were struggling, and knew their families were in a tough place makes them that much more inspirational and makes me what to be able to connect to the children themselves through the Doodle Doll process, rather than just having adults send in their child’s drawings. 

Stuff article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/77297349/nz-festival-flag-art-project-collects-dreams-of-kiwi-kids

Website: http://www.festival.co.nz/2016/events/fly-me-where-you-are-new-zealand/ 

I also found some support groups for poverty and hardship that were promoting classes/advice for people in need. (Save the Children, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), Just Speak.) The only issue with this, is you had to be looking for the help to find it. Doodle dolls is an opportunity for children to put themselves in a better place, as well as have fun while doing it. Another issue is, if the parents do not not get something out of it, why would they put the effort into sending an image for their child if all they are trying to do themselves is put food on the table for the family. What are these families priorities? 

Applications: 

This research has been started, though will be extended into week 6 and through my play testing process. What makes a good application? What makes children want to use it? What will keep the children/adult coming back to use it? Talking to Ben on Thursday really helped with this. He mentioned that I had to make sure the app was for a purpose. I pitched the idea that it would be an app version of our business (adult uploads an image through the app and then is alerted when the application is complete, though Ben stated that this wasn’t necessarily faster/easier and wont have the users coming back. 

Games are so commonly downloaded on the app store, in fact, Over 5 million iOS games are downloaded per day by 63 million iOS gamers in the US and EU. Games represent the largest single App-category on Apple App Stores, and account for half of the downloads of both free and paid Apps. In New Zealand alone, mobile games have been downloaded more than 130 million times in the past year. Games such as Flappy Bird, was such a huge hit for such a simple game, simply because the game was addictive and kept the user coming back, trying to bet their own high score. 

I initially wasn’t going to include games into this app, though doing more research into it and how children’s applications are based around entertainment and education through fun learning could be an interesting way to engage our child users + keep the parent happy that they are having fun and learning at the same time. If there is a way I can combine teaching the child about poverty and hardship in an interesting and engaging way, through an app that also connects the child to the parent, then I think Doodle Doll’s will be starting something really positive. 

I have found a website where it shows highly rated games for children. they state that for children between 5-8, “...socialization and creativity are key -- and believe it or not, there are several quality apps for that! When choosing apps for this age group, go beyond the usual arcade games (although those can be fun) to apps that help kids express their feelings and unleash their creativity.”

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/best-apps-for-kids-age-5-8# 

Next plan of Attack: Developing ideas:

Ben’s advice to complete before next class (pitch and presentation week) was to create a few user flows for adults and children in a early stage of app development. This will be interesting to develop and test when I have an early design of my chosen app. I am going to play around with several ideas, including games and other activities, or just a mobile version of Doodle Dolls. Play testing both will give me a large ground to cover and will allow me to eliminate ideas when I come across them if they are unsuccessful. 

User flows + updated pitch and youtube presentation is the goal to complete in the last week of semester. Heaps of work to do!

References: 

About us. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.cpag.org.nz/about-us/

Best apps for kids age 5–8. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/best-apps-for-kids-age-5-8#

Child poverty and injustice - justspeak. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.justspeak.org.nz/child_poverty_and_injustice

Fly me up to where you are new zealand, 27 feb – 19 mar 2016 – new zealand festival. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.festival.co.nz/2016/events/fly-me-where-you-are-new-zealand/

The issues. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://savethechildren.org.nz/the-issues/

Over 5 million ios games downloaded per day. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://newzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Newzoo_Distimo_press-release_1805111.pdf

Pullar-Strecker, T. (2013, October 30). Nz game studios report huge growth | stuff.co.nz. Retrieved from http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/games/9341992/NZ-game-studios-report-huge-growth

Thomas, R. (2016, March 1). Nz festival: flag art project collects dreams of kiwi kids | stuff.co.nz. Retrieved from http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/77297349/nz-festival-flag-art-project-collects-dreams-of-kiwi-kids

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Boot camps won't pitch governmental issues to youngsters

Boot camps won’t pitch governmental issues to youngsters

Six years prior, a couple of us required with JustSpeak – a criminal equity assemble drove by and for youngsters, talking up for an all the more just Aotearoa – sorted out a group discussion on training Boot for youthful guilty parties. The general population who went to the gathering overwhelmingly restricted training camps, and we composed a report after the discussion taking note of the…

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#justspeak #dontcritic #getsomecoffee #coffeebreak

[auliafifahjunaidi]

Hello everyone ! Hello @instagram ! We are from Just Speak family. Yesterday was an awesome day because we had a great holiday at Ringgung Beach. With the pure white sand and clear blue sky we had a precious moment with precious people. We learn, we share happiness and have fun! Wait for another moment made by us yeah !! #justspeak #family #gathering2 #people

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Poem: Questions In the Dark #freestyle #freeverse #restless #insomnia #creative #justspeak #tavaresteaches

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