Final Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zibfBBHFGcE

 

       It really took me longer this time to form my idea about the project. The idea is so abroad that I got lost. At the beginning I thought too much about the word “narrative”, taking very seriously about the structure of the project and the meaning behind what I would do. The result was I felt I could hardly do anything with my limited imagination and skills (now I realize it is just because I spent my whole thanksgiving staying home writing paper and watching anime, my mind became a block of wood).

       I started to think about my holiday. The game vs. Michigan was the past Saturday. On the Thanksgiving Day, I looked out from my window (I live on 10^th floor), there were only several cars parked in the lot, the park lot look very empty and there were no people outside. It was the first time I saw an empty parking lot of my apartment building. Then on the game day, I was waked up by people outside, I looked out from the window again, wow it was super crowded with Buckeyes. I could make the project about how the people make the difference, but…………….…….I didn’t take a single picture on the game day. That idea was abandoned then with a pity.

       Then I got stuck again. I wanted to get help from the Richard Serra Verb List, then it didn’t help. So I started to repeat over and over again about my no idea about this project and finally I started to take videos while I was outside after class to keep a record in order to review my day to see if there would be an inspiration, then I got it.

       My friend, Coco, was with me after class one day and we were about to a Chinese restaurant, I took my iphone out and started to shoot video. She knew that I was going to have a project, but she was always asking questions like “why you take that?” “why not this?” “I have a idea, you should make a movie for me.” “In the movie I will have two handsome guys as candidates for boyfriend” I knew she was only blathered so I started to video her. “are you videotaping me?” “no, no me!” “Don’t shoot video of me………” Then she felt a little bit shy of being videotaped, haha.

       Then I found that she really liked to say “Don’t shoot video of me!” But she also liked watching the video I took of her. So I decide to record as much as possible of that sentence and put them together. I turned out to be that I waited hearing her to say that words, if I succeed my smirk sound were also recorded. Later she knew my idea, and she started to say that sentence in a very weird tone in Chinese, which was………..really unacceptable for me I swear.

       What was interesting for me or maybe also for her was that, at the beginning, she suffered and I enjoyed. Later I suffered and she enjoyed. All what she says in the video were in Chinese, but there is only one sentence meaning “Don’t shoot video of me anymore!” I won’t say too much about the video, and I believe one watching the video can get a litte bit about what I feel. Anyway, to be with my friends is a lot of fun.

Failure Paper

         My biggest failure this semester was my unskilled use of the techniques required to use in the project assignments, for example, the Photoshop (MP2). Personally I am a software “idiot” in nature and lack of creativity after these years studying accounting. The failure indeed discounted my ideal effect to what it ended up to be. Although the final draft reflected my effort in creativity, it was a little bit of far from it was supposed to be. If I were allowed for more time at the beginning, I would put more effects in studying how to use Photoshop, which is a very useful tool in the real life also.

       What I learned in this failure firstly was that I should practice more in what I’m not good at. Then I remember I lose one layer of the four due to my carelessness in reading the grading rubric. So I turned out to be very carefully later. What I wanted to say is that I was not a careless person before; maybe my mind is on the Mars these several months, because this was not my only failure due to not paying attention to the instructions.

       My biggest success was that I was hit by the inspiration of MP5 after being mad for a whole evening due to no idea coming to my mind. Then I decidedly pick up the inspiration of the brown color topic and finished it in a short time. The important thing was that I enjoyed the process.

       Yes I learned that some details in my life can be small accidents which will enable me enjoy the plain happiness. If I did search my room for the topic I will never know I can make a collection of brown clothes and accessories. There must be some more interesting things than I haven’t paid attention to.

       I would redo my project 2 if I know more about the Photoshop. I will add one more layer definitely, but what is more important is that I really want to make it reflect at least 95% of my feeling about a late summer morning with fresh air, warm sunshine, the young students and the surprise of discovering the cirrus.

Final Project Brainstorming

I don’t have a specific idea about the narrative but I can come with some method doing it without referring to other resources, those are:

Photography: just put the pictures together can be the whole story line. I can take picture recording how a sequence happens and put the pictures together in a fine way

Voice track with music

Video just recording what happened in the narrative

Mini film: can be dramatic: a heroic beginning with tricky ending is funny. May need to put subtitle to make the narrative easy to understand

Manga: very challenging for me…….

 

I probably will use the video method or photography. However I haven’t come up with what narrative to do, so the structure of the project is unclear now.

Micro Project 5- Brown Me

 

 

 

 

 

 

         My action words are MIX and LAYERING. The word MIX looks easier for me but it is not that easy when I started brainstorming what can I do. Toothpaste was always coming to my mind these days for the project after I saw a report about taking a shower using toothpaste. I could not get rid of it. The word of LAYERING is harder to be connected to my daily life. I could just come up with some image of rock layer and carpet.

         The object I finally select is the brown color system in my daily life. When I entered my bedroom someday, I saw my leopard blanket on my bed, piling up with my brown pants and light brown skirt. I started to think about how many browns I had in my room. So I started to search everywhere and got what I have in the picture.

         They are the items I use very frequently, and I was surprised by how I use it and how I like it when things are in brown. I was also surprise about that how beautiful thing look like when they are place in an order such as in brown color system. When they are separate, none of them looks special but when I collect them from different corners in my apartment, they looked pretty powerful and attractive.

         There are some sweaters, pants, shorts, pairs of boots, slippers, belts, a sling bag, a travel case, a hair ring, pairs of gloves, a shirt, a scarf, a t-shirt, and a cherry wood comb. Many of them are in leopard pattern, so that’s why I’m kind of living in brown. There used to be a period when I want everything I use to be leopard since it had been so popular worldwide.

         First I got everything I have mixed in a random matter to make a mess look, and it is in the first picture. Then to make it more joyful I open my suit case, and put some clothes, shoes and small item in it to exhibit a travelling look. Travelling is important for me since I have travel between China and U.S. for many times and I’m very skillful in packing up. It looks like a vacation preparation or a relaxed pattern in hotel, which made me lost in the fantasy of getting rid of school for five minutes. But when I realized the semester would still last for more than one month I indeed went depressed for another five minutes.

         Then I decide to see how I would look in all brown. The easiest way was to make outfit looks and it is a kind of making layering from the mix. This process was joyful for me because I had made a big brown mess in my room so cleaning it up was going to take a while. But after I made the first outfit an documented it, I could put back everything in that picture to where I collected them from, such as the closet, the hanger, the bathroom, a suitcase, and the cabinet. The process was made in perfect order. However, after I took picture of one outfit and put everything back, I realized I should have used that pairs of boots instead of this pair. This made me mad because I had to do it again to gain the best effect I wanted. I took about ten pictures then selected five best of them. It was annoying when I found something did not belong to the brown family appeared in my picture, such as the wire of the power strip, a corner of my super colorful carpet. So I removed all of them from the view of the camera, and it looked better. The whole process took about one hour, which I thought should be about forty minutes. I like my outfit part since it is interesting when the first time I made a shape of myself using clothes only, I really enjoyed the process. I also appreciate the travelling part which brought me five-minute-long vacation.

 

MP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7N98tck14w&feature=youtu.be

These pieces of sound are recorded in my apartment. I wanted to record the sound of some small things happening around me to reflect my daily life. There are boiling water and the click sound of the button when I use my kettle, the running water when I wash my hand, and the knock sound when my roommate place her Chanel nail polish bottle when she was coloring her nail (I love that color). I share a lot of things with my roommate: our nail polishes, our snacks, and our tea (we boil water and make the tea), we tried different facial mask and so on. My apartment is a typical girls' house with a nice roommate and that is want I want to reflect in the project.

Blog 9

Carver’s article tells a story about the wife’s “childhood sweetheart” spend a night is the couple’s house. The story ends very suddenly when Robert taught the husband to draw a Cathedral. The husband was apparently dislike Robert and was jealous of him because Robert’s close relationship with the wife. I can understand the husband because I would be mad under that situation. But I think at the end of the article, the husband’s emotion has been remitted, that was probably because Robert was a good person. This is how I understand the storyline. The author merely described what happened in the past, what was going on in the house, and what the conversations was. The way the story was narrated enabled me to think about, exactly feel, what changes were taking place to the husband. It was just a story.

 

As long as the author didn’t describe much emotional things about the wife and the visitor, it was hard for me to understand what is going on with their thinking. How I can develop an opinion was to through the husband’s point of view, which was the only focus of the story, I think. So I really what to know what exactly happen to the husband when they were drawing, how the drawing change the person’s opinion.

Wallace

The article is about to think with freedom. As a commencement address, Wallace’s speech is shocking at first then becomes very inspiring. I agree with that “the exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people…” Because of the difference conditions we grew up, although we are receiving a kind of “standard” education, the way we think differs a lot. One ridiculous experience I have was that through all my middle high and senior high school, we are asked to do some literature comprehension. The comprehension means, in the exam, a sentence of a literature work is picked up from the reading we have on the exam paper, and we were asked to answer to question suck as: what is the author thinking about? Or what might be the reason why the author said this? It was not unusual for me to get a zero on these questions. My answer never matched the point of view of the person who provided the standard answer to these questions. The author didn’t provide any answer, but someone else was telling us that “the author was thinking this way” But how? How could someone say no to my comprehension on a literature without the author say no? We need some attention and awareness and discipline and also to truly care about others when we want to think with freedom, but if there is someone telling us to think in a exact way, I might not be able to follow.

 

I may not be able to understand the young fish and old fish story might very well. By saying “this is water”, does the author mean education? Or it is just a kind of awareness? Well, there is no exact answer, I believe.

Wexner Center visit

Annie Leibovitz

The exhibition can be two parts in my view. The first part was the photographs of famous persons. The second was some pictures of stuffs and landscape. While both of them were amazing, the second part resonated with me.

I'm not familiar with most of the persons in the photographs, but I still recognized Michael Jackson (my dad listened to him when I was very young), Michael Jordan (I watched NBA when I was about six or seven), Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Obama and Michelle Obama, Nicole Kidman (one of the most famed actress in China), Scarlett Johansson (my favorite face in Hollywood), John Lennon (a great music artist who I feel hard to understand) and Ono Yoko (she is much harder to understand), The Rolling Stones, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Queen Elizabeth II (where I randomly picked up my English name) . That's all the faces I could recognize in the exhibition. I was shocked that the picture of naked John Lennon with his wife was taken by Leibovitz. For all the other photographs, what I could do was to guess what they might be thinking in the picture and why they took that one. There was a series of photos taken of four women around their 30s to 40s. In the first four they looked very ordinary, one of them with her children, and one wore glasses, I can still remember. In the other four pictures they dressed performing costumes, with heavy make-ups, almost naked. The contrast between these two groups was impressive that I won't forget it for a long time.

In the second part, there was some stories or memory attached to each photo of a staff, furniture or landscape. The three picture of the Yosemite Valley, the landscape of the vegetable garden at Monticello, Jefferson's home impressed most. I could feel the attractiveness of travelling. Travelling is different with tourism. My ideal travelling is to take a camera and take pictures of scenery and items to record memory all along the journey. Money is necessary but not too much is need for purpose of travel and of course I don't require starred hotel. I thought a lot while sitting in front of the photos. The exiting part for me is that some people like Annie Lerbovitz can record some pieces of history and connect it with her own memory, and the method is photograph.

Micro-Assignment 3







My Phone- I browse the internet using my phone when I'm out. I will feel lost if I'm out without it. I identify myself as an anime lover by using anime phone case. I have been recognized by someone when she saw my case. I feel like it is not only a phone for me. The wallpaper I use if from Slam dunk, he is guy who never says never, I feel inspired when I press the home button and the wallpaper shows up.

My key ring- My key ring is Zoro, the green hair guy using dumbbell, from One Piece. When it comes to the small detail I carry with me, I make the detail reflect what I'm watching.

My Cosmetic- A lip stick, a color lip stick, a hand cream and a comb. I wear make up most of time when I go to school. I will feel less confident if I don't wear lip color, might look pale. When it gets cold, I hate chapped lips and chapped hands in winter. I carry them with me all the time to offer myself something similar to......security.

My Glasses- Usually I wear glasses, although I have contact lens. I think I may look better with frame glasses, especially this kind which is designed for both male and female. I will not wear an ordinary-look glass when going out, except for an interview. My glasses are different in design from others and I like this difference.

My Planner- The item carries stress and pressure in my bag. It shows I have averagely three dues and one quiz very week. I hate the schedule but I cannot live my college life in Fisher without such a planner to remind me what I have to do next. Eevery day is marked by red, blue, brown and black, telling me what is coming up so that I won't miss a single due.

My Water Glass- Well I don't carry the glass cup with me but this has some memory of me. It is a souvenir from Harry Potter. Harry Potter occupied my middle and high school life; I'm still addicted to it. Well my parents and some of my friend say I'm not in the age (nearly 23) to be addicted to such things, but this is me. I also purchases magic wands but obviously I won't carry them to school.

My Clock- The largest part. This is the same guy who wakes me up every morning for more than four years. The sound of the alarm has been planted in my brain. There is click sound before the alarm, I can tell it when I am sleeping, and I know I will end my dream the next second. I really want to kill it when it wakes me up every time, but I can't do that. So I make it everywhere in the picture, in different shapes, intent to let it look......annoying, super annoying.

My Closet as the background- This is one of the most important furniture in my room, for a girl. It takes me three minutes to think about what I want to wear. When I picked up a wrong cloth for today, I will get the feeling that I should not wear it now but since there is no other idea, I will go out with it. I will feel annoyed when my outfitter or my hair doesn't look fine.

Summary: These items I carry with me, though some not, form my daily life. My clock wakes me up every morning, then one day of mine is initiated. I follow my class schedule of six courses, and also do everything that is listed on my planner. Basically they keep me busy, but not enough to construct me as a person. I add confidence by wear the clothes I like and put on simple makeups to look energetic. I need my glass somehow because I won't feel comfortable to wear contracts the whole day. I select wayfarer glass frame instead of other style to balance my feature. I really care about my appearance. The anime souvenirs fills my hobby potion, I learned some basic Japanese on my own. Last but not the least, I will feel lost if not taking my phone with me. I use it to listen to music, surf online, log on carmen to check grade as soon as they are updated, and contact with my friends. I'm not 100% clear about how may I look like in other's opinion, these items around me let me feel I'm doing what I should do and what I like to do.

Blog7- Kaprow

The title of the article The Blurring of Art and Life is a good introduction to this article. There is a saying I’ve heard thousands of time: art comes from life and I can’t agree more on that. Kaprow raises an example, brushing his teeth, which I rarely pay attention to unless having bleeding gum, to explain the relationship between art and life. I believe he makes it clear for me that one can discover art is there in a slience transforming influence on life and vice versa. During the work on my Micro Project two, it is not hard to understand that inspiration of art is all around our daily life and the difference between art and just routinized and unnoticed life was whether this person intends to make something different.

 

Well, if the first action after getting up in the morning is to go painting, and everyone is going to do this every day, and everyone is a painter, will painting still be art? The author leaves this question to me in the 3^rd paragraph.

MP2

I live on West Lane Avenue so I can start from my apartment ten minutes ahead and walk to the classroom.  My journal is pretty pretty short.
 

After I got out of the elevator and walked through the lobby of the first floor of the apartment building. I saw the sunshine at the beginning of a day. Because my room is shady all the year, I felt warm and fresh the first time of the day at this moment. I want to show the plants, maybe not that beautiful, with water spray and the warm sunshine penetrated them. I added some effect on that to make it look as warm as I thought.

 

Mason smelled like a tired young guy every time I got in. The café is near the entrance so I could smell a stream of coffee bean, seem like it was already exhausted in the beginning of a day. Again, I want to focus on some positive side of a business college. So the sky is blue, the grass and trees are green, the buildings are scarlet. This picture looks very clean and with energy by the young students walked on the road to fight for their future.
 

After getting out of mason, walking toward Woodruffs, every time I would hear the traffic light: “ Walk sign is on to cross Woodruff. Walk sign is on to cross… twelve, eleven, ten, nine...” I could feel the CARB bus besides me, see it out of the corner of my eye and hear the sound of the engine. Yes everyday is same.Then it was Knowlton Hall, with a big hole on its ceiling, of course them designed it. But recently I discovered something different. When I tried to look up at the sky rough the hole, I found that there had been some green cirrus growing and filling it. That looked amazing, no matter if they designed it or not. I added some sunshine effect in order to let it look like the sun shined through the hole, stroking the cirrus, projecting on the ground, which was shaddy because of the ceiling blocked the sunshine. By doing this, I want to remind myself that do not always keep my sight down to the ground when walking, if I look up, there would be something amazing waiting for me.
 

Blog 6- Wray

In Wray’s article, what I found new to me was that artist can make a exhibition of sound. I got the same feeling when I was reading “Sound feels more directly tied to memory, and to dreams.” Sounds can be recorded in the deep memories unconsciously, and it could be a person’s voice, a piece of dialogue in TV drama, the sound of chewing sunflower seeds when I was sitting on my mom’s knees lying my ear on her chest. I can understand that sound is tightly tied with memory and the old time, it is an important method to create memories when I was too young to choose what to remember. I’m currently watch one of my favorite anime Slam Dunk for the second time to help me come up with my memory and feeling about my childhood, more than fifteen years ago, when I was too young to understand what the opening and ending songs of the anime in Japanese. But I indeed remember the melody, perhaps I will never forget them in my rest of my life. The sounds come with the memories of my 6-7-years-old time, then I wanted to cry. So I like the artists’ idea about sound, because the sound is more powerful than my estimates.

 

Well it is hard for me to read this article word by word (I did read some articles very carefully), maybe because there are so many words to look up in a dictionary. I think the introduction of Cardiff and Miller’s background and their history is good to help me to understand the article. I wish if there were some illustrations to help me imagine how their work looked like, though I could not hear it.

Blog 4- Nick Hornby

The whole Hornby's article is interesting, no matter the beginning Dave introduced his background, then he met Mattha, and later the painting was stomped over. When I read the part where Dave thought if he was religious he wouldn't stomp all over Jesus face, I guessed Mattha's aim must be to let someone who was religious destroy the painting. And that is the most interesting point for me, the provocation and paradox. I read the story word by word, until the painting was destroyed, I didn't get any idea about what was going to happen and what was the author's intension of writing it. The way Dave thought and teased people was funny, for example, he used his wife, Lisa, to describe how things would look beautiful in one way from distance, and ugly in another, close up. Well it applies to me: I care my outfit and make-up out door and in front of people, while in home I wear XL size SpongeBob Square Pants T shirt and tie my hair in a messy style. This part makes laugh.

Although I like the story very much, I can't understand the last paragraph. How Dave think about himself? What the onion mean? Well I won’t be so angry or upset, or disappointed, anyway, on Mattha if she turned out to be not as good as what used to think about her. Well I might be upset about her carelessness, and I would be angry about that if I was teased by protecting and loving the painting while her purpose was someone else to destroy it, and my effects. Dave was so wrong in the way he thought Mattah's art. But what he did in the end is hard for me to understand. But overall I like Mattha's idea.

MP 1

Symmetrical ImageI was looking around in my room to find someplace that is symmetrical, my snacks box looks nice in front of my closet, which has mirror on it. Ecept for the reflection in in the mirror, the picureis asymmetrical, I think.




 
 
 




Asymmetrical image
I finished class in Fisher and walked out, seeing a squirrel on the trash bin. It is interesting that the trash bin is symmetrical while with a aquirrel on it, it is asymetrical


Radial Image
Well, I just want to take something that is radial symmetrical, and I used my peaches and the floor in my kitchen. So there is a diamond in the center of the picture, and I placed four peaches near each edge, athough peaches different from each other, the whole picture looks radial anyway. And I should wash all my peaches again after I shot the picture.







 
People with their surrounding space
I walked out of Ohio Union and took this picture after attending Fisher Career Fair, with my formal suit. On that day, there were a lot of people in Union, but I missed the chance to take a picture of all students in their formal suit. But I still caught it when there were people walking toward my place and the surroundig space was open. They didn't know I was shooting a picture of them.










People up close
This is my friend Bonnie, who lived in my room for a couple of days. She has graduate, so I want to leave some memories by taking picures of her. And she was just behind me on her "bed" when I think about how to take picture of people up close.




 
 
Name on Campus
Still with my suit on, I walk out of mason lab. I have my name card on my hand and shot picure of it with Fisher College of Business. I took this picture after I attanding the Fisher Career Fair, which was a campus activity and we were given our name card. So when I stopped by fisher I took this picture, it meant my name on Fisher, I'm connected with Fisher.





 
Point of view of an ant
Then I saw the greening beside Mason lab, I thounght it would be a perfect view of ant if I shoot the picture here. Well everything looks different from this point of view. I laid my phone bottom up on the ground, to let the camera get as close as I could.






 


Point of view of a bird
This is the view from my room. I took advantage of my apartment. It made me think about that I have slight Acrophobia, I'm a little bit afaid of height and I don't like roller coaster.



 A Stable Image
This is my hair ring, I shoot it because it was just beside my hand. As sable, I focused on the center of the picture, which is the hair rang. I tried several times to make the picture look good: I adjusted the light with my lamp, puch all other hair accessories away( although some of them still apeared in the carema), and I also took several shot to select from the best one. I chose this one with my other accessories showing up because it looks more close to my daily life.



An Unstable Image
My understanding of unstable image is that there is no focus. So I walked to my living room and waved my arm with my iphone in my hand, producing this picture.



 

Blog 3

Barrett
I find the statement "codes are open to some and closed to others because of culture, age, gender and familiarity with current and past events..." is very useful. To understand codes, people need to obtain some knowledge from various fields of study, such as politics, culture, popculture, geography...and so on. I got a extremely strong agreement on this point because I'm a person with multi culture background: I still can't understand a lot of magazine and news after being in Ohio for nearly four years.
But the interpretion of the magazine cover went to too many details, I think, expecially on the girl's face and body feature. I know the female in the middle is Beyonce, so the interpretion that cover is dominated by an inmage of seuality and desire doesn't suprised me. But before I read the interpretion, the picture just left meant very healthy female bodies and beautiful girl to me. The linguisitic message didn't bring so many connotations to me.

Walker
When to develop Big Ideas, the process to produce a big idea is interest for me. The author gives a lot of emxamples from which Big Ideas can be derived from. This made me come up with one building I saw in my art textbook when I was in China. The western architect designed an art museum which was built into several floors and have no stairs. The up-slope floor lean on the wall will lead the audience up floor. The build is cylindrical in shape, so the audience can view all the art works while going up floor. The idea to build this build come from, they say, a sentence from a Chinese classical work. How wonderful it is that the artist derive the Big Idea from a sentence of  a foreign classical work!

The article is hard to read, broken into several parts and activities, challenging my reading ability. I hope I can get some points on Big Ideas in my understanding.

Pictures:

Blog 2

In Kidd’s article, some regular patterns such like Left to Right and Top to Bottom are universal and practical. And it is right that these patterns are not always enforced. What’s more, the Big and Small rule is very interesting for me: there is no biggest object, anything big can be bigger and the same with small. Under a optical microscope, a cell can be an animal, and from the earth, the Venus just looks like a flash. If the earth is large, the Jupiter is larger, and the sun is larger than Jupiter. The sun is like sand in desert when we think about the universe. The Big and Small just can drive people mad.

       The difficult thing I feel in this article is The Enemy. The use of this term did not help me understand the article. In fact I was confused whining reading the first paragraph about what the article is going to talk about.

       In Hickey’s article, it’s very useful that the author quote the invention of basketball. The game was invented in aim to provide some social and physical expression during the winter. However as the game developed, rules appeared to govern people. I really agree with that “It was less well-designed to serve its original purpose”. Once rules are established, people have to take care to not offend the rules instead of just simply enjoy the game.

       What was hard for me to understand in this article was that I don’t understand basketball perfectly. Because I’m not a basketball fan, I don’t know what all of the rules mean, especially in English. If only the author had used an example which was not that professional, the article will be perfect for me to understand.

       From Wechler’s article, the author helps me to make one point clear: an actor need to think about the emotion he is trying to convey, and the face will take care of itself. In digital film making, the animator should take care of every detail on the face, building from the outside then get the emotion conveyed. But in my opinion a digital face can never compete with a real face. Every actor and actress is unique in the way of acting, while digital film is standardized in face expressions.

       One question confused me was: are synthetic characters necessary? I think it is perhaps necessary the development of technology in film making is rapid today, and the taste of the audience is also changing with technology. But it is unpleasant to replace all the human actors with synthetic characters.

Blog 1

This is me:

I study accounting and economics, and these two majors have brought me very hectic schedules every quarter and semester. I’m still trying to share some time with my interests, and I have been doing this for almost four years since I have been in the United States. I’m from China. Since my hometown is a seaside city called Qingdao (or Tsingtao, and Tsingtao Beer is the way why some my American friends know my home town), eating seafood, especially crab, is one of my interests. Yes crab is one of my favorite foods.

For me, in or out of school are not quite different, because I go back home once a year. During the days without homework due, case due or exams, I love watching Japanese anime, Chinese TV show and drama, Japanese TV show and drama, and movies in any language as long as they have Chinese subtitles, and watch music live stage. I put anime in the first place this time because currently my favorite is just anime. I will list my top five favorite anime.

1. One Piece, as the most popular TV anime in Japan and more than 200 million copies of cartoon books have been sold, the record is being refreshed by One Piece itself every year.

2. Gintama. (Silver Soul)

3. SLAM DUNK
4. Code Geass
5. Fate/Zero