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.

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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.

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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.



 

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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.

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