Final project

For my final project, I suddenly remembered when I was young I heard a sentence,"Maybe we are living in a monster's belly." So, I started to think connect our real word to an unreal world.

The first picture is our familiar campus and our football stadium, they belong to ohio, this is a real fact and everyone knows that, then in the second picture, ohio is one state in the USA, also, USA is on the earth, so I cut down the ohio map and  USA map, using PS to move maps in front of the earth.

Then, the third one is two cute monsters, they are talking with each other, and I reduce the earth then put it on one monster's hand, may be on the monster's world, the earth is just a stone and they are watching the inside of the stone's change. In the third picture, there's a boy watching his castle, i put monsters on the table seems like the two monsters are walking out of this castle.  Then on the fourth picture, a spacecraft is flying in the universe, look at the window, this is just the boy who was in the third picture. Then, the space craft like a bird is ready to enter into the crystal ball in the fifth picture, a witch is trying to control the ball to see something special.

The reason that I made these pictures is that I want to show when we are busy doing something, or walking fast to across campus, there maybe someone is watching us in some other world that we can't know that. The more I think deeply in this way, the more miraculous I feel. When I am creating these pictures, maybe some monster are laughing at my blog!

Failure Paper

During this short summer term, I think I have learnt much knowledge on art, especially on  PS and making a video. So, in my projects, I think my biggest failure is my second mini project.I do use some PS technical ways to support my  project, but now I think this picture can't give myself the attraction, and I am not satisfied on this project, maybe I could change other special things in my life to combine this project, and edit the picture more creative. And according to my biggest success, I'm sure it's the MP4, the short movie that I made it. At first I just shoot some unrelavant videos and some sounds, then I can put them together and change the background sound, also tells a story, it's miraculous for myself, I don't think I can make a movie by myself and to my surprise, when veryone was  watching it, they enjoyed it and agreed with my project and my idea, it is really good feeling with a sense of achievement.All in all, I really had good time on doing project, once I finish it, I'm very proud on what I create, and it's really improtant because I have other two courses they are just so boring and a little tough sometimes for me, but when I'm doing the project, I feel a relax in some ways. Although some videos that we watched in class are kind of strange and unfamiliar for me, I know many people doing what they like, showing me a different world.

response to the Cathedral from Carver

Be kind to others is kind to yourself indeed
It’s hard to describe my feeling after reading the Cathedral from Carver. Carver’s short story still goes through smoothly, as flowing water, not much flowery language. When I first read it, I almost fell asleep. However, when finishing reading, I can feel a warm heart in Carver’s chest.
From my own perspective, the author wants to tell the reader that if you are kind to others, it’s also a kind to yourself. Like the protagonist in the story, at first, he doesn’t even hate the blind guest, however, as their conversation goes, they know each other better. Finally, when the protagonist closed his eyes, I think he already know to understand other people, and should be kind to others.

Response to address of david foster wallace

Address of David Foster Wallace

After reading the sparking address of the famous writer David Foster Wallace to the graduate of Kenyon College in 2005, there really are a lot of thoughts came into my mind.And the most impressive one is that when we believe something or regard something like a “truth” in one given situation, there may be no problem, and then how about put these beliefs in another situation? Will they always be true? maybe not. Just like a same gesture may have totally different even opposite meaning in different culture, some beliefs which you think is always right is not a free pass all over the world.

 Many Americans hold the view that it is our right to keep the gun and gunpowder legally.However, stroke by the cruel gun shooting in Denver and other gun shooting in the history, now I strongly don’t agree with the Gun amendment. The truth is although everyone can have a gun; it will add the crime  to those harbor evil intentions people and most of the normal cannot use the gun to protect themselves effectively. It is just a simple example, but I really wish that we will suspect and doubt and rethink those so called “truth” one day.

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For this project, I got "store" as my main idea, the store means to held and stay something in some spaces, as I was thinking what special one can expresses "store" and it's in my daily life and I will use it everyday, so I think about the refrigerator, I open it for several times a day and I never notice it can be art. But, just like the reading that art can't be art, every thing can be art so I choose it as my project.

so, firstly, it's the front of the refrigerator, on it are the fridge magnets. Everytime my roommate and I were travelling to another city,we will buy some magnets as a souvenir.They are like our way to trip, we always arrange them as first to go then the end to go, and every souvenir shows the character of this city, like the green cactus represents Houston, my roommate went to Houston and purchased it, the weather in Houston is very hot just like the Green cactus grows in the desert!

Then, I open it. Obviously, once you open it, you will feel a cold and fresh feeling around your body and also, I feel many smell mix together, sweet fruit and fresh vegetable get together, also many sources will play an important role to combine them together.like we can see, there are 3 main spaces to store the food and everytime I buy new food, I will arrange them on a special way, first space is using to some main food like rice and some sausages, second has green vegetables and eggs, and the third one has some cans.And at the end box there's my important good-mask, they support my skin to get enough water, girls like mask!

The refrigerator is very common in our family, and I never think it can be an art. I took two pictures on different view the front and the bevel door of the refrigerator, it will give me different mood. I can feel the straight feeling on each food on the front face, and on the other photo, every food becomes smaller and some food hide into the small corner, but I can still see the important food in the surface. As the view of art, they are together to wait me enjoying eating them, their range can be an art I think, after arranging them, I can see different world in the refrigerator. I can't leave it to make my body running well, 

Response to Sullivan Feet in Smoke and art can't be art

It's an interesting story I can't believe it is a true one. At first, I thought his brother died, because the author and other people were all very sad , and I liked author describes the details, it was very clear and could let me image the scene when the author was in hospital to see his brother. But surprisely, his brothercame to himself at last and he didn't remember the whole thing that he had been experienced.

After reading twice, I can't get the point on his brother's die, what's the reason that his brother do that or just an accident?and , thank god his brother was alive back to his life , it is the miracle and now we maybe can't find the reson he can do that. Life is indeterminism.

 

Art can't be art is very meaningful article, I never think like brushing teeth will be relevant to art, I mean they are very common behavior in our daily life, and once I see art, it maybe very abstract that I can't understand the point just like the artists' video we watched. It's ture art is everywhere in our life, the only thing is we need to find them and look at them as an art. And it's really helpful to blow up some actions and analysis them as an art view, it should be fun.

And actually I don't quite agree with author's mind, if every movement in our bodies we will trade it as an art, I might crazy with it.and I can't face my normally behavior like normal, sometimes I will think it's a little weird to do that.

 

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I first made the video like that and I am so surprised by what I was done. I recorded the video by my iphone, there were 3 videos that I editted. The one I was walking downsdairs, when I was in the elevator and the water dropped down from the water pipe. Then I imported them into imovie and exported the sound from the water dropping to the itunes. After done this, I opened the "guitar" to edit the sound and I used the music keyboard to flip some musical note. Also, I cut the downsdairs and the elevator to couple of pieces and then put them together by different turns, and import the audio that I made before. But I faced trouble on publishing this video, I don't know why I can't put it into my blogger, I will keep working into it, but if it doesn't work, I can just show it in my flash. 

My idea of this video is combine walking and elevator together and adding the sound of the water dropping because at the end of the video, I left the water pipe video there. I want to show someone was in a hurry to some where and at the last minute you will find that was just the water dropping! I think the most difficulty is when putting the audio to the video, I can't control the length of the sound and I don't know if they are matched together.

Wexner Center Review

      Today, I went to the Wexner Center with my friend. I'v never been to the Wexner Center, and once I entered into it, I feel like I entered a bright house, then we went deeper, I saw lots of works that made by candle, most of them are lips and breast. Actually I do think some of them are very abstract that I can't understand what does it mean. The first sight I saw the lips, they were like my desk lamp sitting on the wall! And I can't get the point from author's paintings, maybe I'm more logical than my perceptual organization. I also watched a short part of the video, the author Alina was a woman from Poland, she had big eyes when she didn't speak, she seems like unhappy and a little overlooked, when people asked her some questions she said little words but once talking about her projects, I'm sure I saw shinning stars in her eyes,  I can feel she is a little shy but she put her almost whole emotion into her works and creations, she aspired freedom, and maybe that's why she created lots of bodies as her exhibition.

This is parts of her exhibition that I found it online,  the whole lip is very reality."Look the yellow parts below the face is  like cheese," my friend said it. But we're just kidding, actually, we feel a little scare when we saw the exhibition, so we just around Wexner for about 20 minutes, and after we went out, we found there was a shop here and it sold some interesting created things, I felt I was more keen on this shop !

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My beat headset: Girl like pink, this beat I just bought it for 3 days, but I can't leave it anymore, I like listening music and watching drama and show, when I can't  figure out my assignment, I choose to watch drama to have a rest, the problem is it's so late at night, so I brought the beat, it has very good impression when you don't want people outside to hear the voice.

Eyedrops: It's my best good friend, I need to face the computer for almost 24 hours everyday! My eyes need break, so this eyedrops makes my eye feel fresh and once it drops into my eye, I feel like my eyes become cool and comfortable.

Key: It's my key for my car, it's really convenience for me to have a car, I can drive to supermarket and also to Easton for shopping. So, I put my favorite little chicken on it incase it won't be missed.

Water bottle: This water bottle has my favorite color-green and inside this is the flower tea, it contains lily, medlar and honeysuckle, it will make you feel confused but in China, almost every girl likes to drink the flower tea, it's very healthy and can replenish the vitamin. Also, we use rose, chrysanthemum, and other flowers to make tea.

Calculator: This calculator has a long story, when I was in my high school, I used it though every exam also the final college entrance examination. I don't think I will use it anymore after my last day of the high school, but when I transfered here, I use it again, especially when I was taking the accounting course. It's really good to use and simple to know how to use it.

Notebook: Everyday, I must write down what I should do incase I forget what to do next. So, it's kind like my schedule of a day's note, sometimes I need paper, I usually use the paper on this notebook to write down some words. I can't leave it too.

  

When I was making  this picture, I was thinking let my photos hang on the wall, so I searched the background about the wall. Firstly I opened all photos I took and I dragged the background up on these pictures, because I don't want these no-processing photos on the background, then I used the knowledge that I have learnt today, cutting down the part of the photo that I need to paste. And I folded three of each cutting goods then changed the opacity, making them feeling more dimensional. But I can't make them feeling like hang on the wall.

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       I made a map for a journey on  my English class to the art class. When my English class was over, I took a photo about the door in front of the classroom with the room number on it. Then I observed my friends around me, they were very happy to finish the class, and I guess they wanted to have a big lunch with each others, when we were waiting for the elevator, I smelt the humidity, I thought it should be an old building on campus. Then I went to the SEL for a little while, after I got out of denny hall I felt very hot,  SEL was rebuilt these days and from out side, many roads are prohibit to go, I could just went to another way to enter. Once I got into it, there was coffee smelling everywhere, also I felt a little cold there, there's so different with the temperature outside. After finishing checking my emails, I was get ready to go smith lab. It was very special that our classroom was on the fifth floor, I haven't been to there before this summer, so I took a photo from looking downstairs, and also, I took another photo about the number of the classroom. I think what makes my way unique is I changed 3 places in half an hour from denny hall to smith lab.
   

     And this is my map, there's a mini fan and all my photos are blowing by its wind, and every photo has  shining white stars to connect the building's name. I made it by several layers and edited every photo, dragging them to good positions. I enjoyed in processing these photos and it is my first time to use it,  I found it very interesting to make this map, still I'm just new to photoshop, there's some more I need to learn.

Response to Nipple Jesus

    I spent an hour and a half to read this story, it was interesting. When the guard  took his job, he didn't like his work, he just took it for his wife, and he know nothing about the art, but since he saw the Nipple Jesus, he started to think about what's the meaning about this painting and the people's reaction on watching the Nipple Jesus. So, I just have some crush in my heart that is not everyone is an artist, but everyone can be an artist if he wants to think and ponder over.
    But I can't understand why Martha said art is about provocation, I think at that time the guard must be mad of himself, she wanted audience to do that, but he couldn't understand, I couldn't too. If this is really a great exhibition, you don't need people  forced to make some reaction to your works.

Response to Walker and Barrett articles

Walker    Big Idea and Artmaking
      After reading this article, I got the feeling that big idea can represent one artist's style and what he or she wants to tell people about his or her artmaking,  and the theme, subject and the big idea are totally different, any themes and subject making can set together to express one big idea, also, during the class, the teacher can lead students with these big idea and essential questions to get closer to the artist, then the students can understand what the artist wants to show them more deeply. If I have a big idea with my subject, it's very meaningful for  me to create my own subject more logically I think. 
     For distinguish between the subject matter and the big idea, I'm may confused with two of them, if the subject matter is the topic, then the big idea is the concepts for the artists, but sometimes the concept can also be a topic too.




Barrett   Interpreting visual culture
      I found this article very helpful to identify the denotations and connotations,  the denotations is  that we can see but different people has different understanding on the same denotations, and the connotations are after your watching,  what's in your mind or what you received in the denotation, they are connected very closely,when an artist wants to express an subject, he uses denotations to connotate people, to show up his connotation, he needs some image and some denotations to express that, but the connotation can be different maybe.
      Actually I just understand the part of the Teddy Bears and the cereal boxes. I just felt lost in the part of art teachers interpret a painting, I don't know what author wants to say in here.

Respons to Kidd, Hichkey,and Weschler

Kidd    the Cheese Monkeys'
     I read it twice and finally found it was an interesting article. The author told the readers to think about art on left to right, top to bottom, big and small, and in front of and in back of, they are all connected on the two dimensional plane and 3 dimensions. And I really like the part when discussing the big and small, the author tells a example, pretending you are a farmer and you want a tomato to look huge, you can blow the tomato up until all the space are filled with this tomato, it's interesting that we change the good bigger and then it is hardly to recognize that original looking. Aslo, we never think why we should do something beginning left to right, like when we write some articles or names, it's hard to tell the reason why.
     And what I am confused is that in the first part, the author mentioned the enemy, I just felt lost when I finished to read this part, I didn't catch up the author's thought about the enemy, and I don't think it makes any sense.




Hickey  The Heresy of Zone defense
     I must say I like to read the first paragraph of this article, the reason why is I like watching basketball game especially NBA Final Game. I even searched this video on google, and watched this third quarter, and the author uses this basket ball game to introduce the meaning of the rules, I think people can't be tied by the rules just like when they are creating art, sometimes the rules will hurt people not protect people, things always have two sides and we should know that, once an rule is published, it will face some sacrifice one day.
    But there's one thing I can't agree with the author is that every rule in any sports must be clear and observe. Without these rules the game can't go on and the sport will become a chaos. As same as to our laws and rules in our social lives, we must have some rules and laws to keep the balance of the society.






Weschler   Why is this man smiling?
      When I started to read this article, I found it really interesting to write about the whole process and the problems when creating an digital character by digital animators. From this article, I learnt many knowledge about making an digital 
character, for example, how to make the skin looks soft like the real man? There are 44  muscles in a human face and a person can have 5000 facial expressions. How to put the soul into digital animators to make audience can feel their emotions?
      I just feel a little confused with one problem, why not change the digital animators to the real person? I know, for the audience, there are more attraction for the digital films than a real person film, but is that the fact that we want to cheat by the digital technology?




   

Introduce myself

Hey, my name is Siyang Li, and I'm from China~
I transfered here in last fall quarter and my major now is Finance, I was born  in Henan Province which is in the north of China,  then I  I followed my parents moving to Shanghai, and after the final entrance of collage exam, I took my two year college life in Tianjing Province, which is near Beijing, in the north of China, so since I am teenager, I always change my place to many cities in China, and now I'm in the USA! For me, it's really fresh on everything during my first quarter, and now I am kind of suitable for here. I'm not a shy girl and I like making friends, listening others' stories and also I like travelling.

Favorite fruit: watermelon,
Favorite sport star: Kobe Bryant
Favorite film: Chun jiao and Zhi ming ( it's a chinese film about love)
Favorite band: May Day (they are a five guys from Tai wan, their sons are very encouraged, I listened    their songs since I was 14 years old.)
Favorite drama: For now is Pretty little lier~

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1. Asymmetrical image:

 It was a sunset and we were on the highway, once we saw this beautiful scenery,  we stopped the car and took photos there, I didn't do any photoshop on this one, why it seems like darker is there's some dark color in the window of the car, so it comes up darker than the original sunset.

And this is my favorite photo！ I like its color!

2. Symmetrical image:
This is my ipad, and I do think it's the symmetrical staff, but my ipad is the first one, so it's a little heavy .And if you have ipad , it is really helpful to study.

3. Radial image:

 It's my cooking range, and once I was cooking, I saw its radial red light, I think I found it as my radial image.

4.person and their surrounding space:

There's a girl playing piano and many people surrounding her and listening to her music carefully, she played very well but I don't know if it's a small concert or not.

5.Person up close:

 This is my best friend, and we have been friends for 10 years, I love her so much, we always take photos by ourselves, and those photos are all our memories. She studies in Italy and I really want to visit her to have a trip in Italy with her~

6. Image view of an ant:

My friend has a bright sunglasses so I took a photo about her right side of this sunglasses and also, I was in this photo too!This is one of my favorite photos too!

And I do think I use the ant's view by taking this glass so close~

7. Image view of a bird:

This is my favorite drink Aloe drink~,

I think it's the best drink I have been tried since I am in the USA, 

now it seems like there is a fan on the top of my drink, but don'r worry, that's just the view of a bird, my fan is still on the wall.

8. Stable image:

My roommate and I are walking on campus, suddenly she shouted, "Strawberry!", and I came to see then took this photo, I don't think it's a strawberry, maybe just a flower!

9.Unstable image:

When we were playing billiards, we found every two balls were getting together for each side of us , it's so weird!

10.Name on campus:

Yesterday when I was spraying the oil in making pizza in Union, I sprayed my initial on it, I find it hard to searching my name on campus, so I made it on campus!

    According to my first pictures that posted before, I took these 10 photos more carefully because every picture has its own prompt, like the ant's view. I think I learnt more on these ten pictures, I know what is stable image and unstable image mean, which should I focus on when I taking photos.

And my favorite pictures are 1 and 6 also my best friend's. And I really had fun during photo's time.

I always like taking pictures to remember something important to me, so both photos are my enjoyable time and they can make me aftertaste current scene.

ten pictures from now.