M4

    It is a reall nice day and many people come to oval for some sunshine and reading. I create these pictures by putting a small american flag on a bench in oval's north side.
    All these pictures create the theme: throught-provoking weirdness. I hope everyone comes to sit on this bench or anyone who passes by and see this small flag will wonder why this flag is here.
    People will feel confused  and begin wondering who puts it here and for what reason he put these weird combination here. Someone thinks about the relationship between bench, flag, oval with their imagainations recalling some history, political meaning. Or someone may do some word game, guessing the hidden meaning behind this combination of these stuffs. This infinite guessing and thinking is a lot of fun. My inspiration comes from the "Da Vinci Code" signal and decoding magic. I want to do something to create a riddle for some fun.
    Also, maybe someone thinks this throughly and really hard about this and find nothing eventually related, instead of a complicated political allegory, it is just someone's random setting for an art project in their opinion. This introduces another good theory: sometimes treat life simple and think less instead of being complicated will gain more fun.

blog 7

    I like this essay because what the author feels the same way for me. It amazingly similar to what I think. I feel so emotional to say what I am thinking after reading this essay.
    The blurring of art and life is exact what I am always thinking. When I read this:" Brushing my teeth, for example, in the morning when I'm barely awake; watching in the mirror the rhythm of my elbow movmg up and down ..."and "I looked up once and saw, really saw, my face in the mirror. I rarely looked at myself when I got up, perhaps because I wanted to avoid the puffy face I'd see, at least until it could be washed and smoothed to match the public image I prefer. (And how many times had I seen others do the same and believed I was different!)" I feel shocked. It happens a lot on me, sometimes I watch in the mirror of my self and suddenly I feel the person in the mirror is so strange and so new to me. I barely know him or when I watch him I feel so different with what I think in my imagaination. Every morning when I wake up, a new day is coming and life keeps going without one second stop. I am saying busy everyday, busy at class, busy at working out, busy at eating... Everyday I rush from one class to another class, barely giving myself sometime to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the road, barely paying attention to passengers accompanied, baring noticing the fun from the routine daily activities.
    Art not only exists in the gallery or museums, when you enjoy your life, art is life and life is the most amazing art you have ever seen.

M3

    I pick orange color as background because orange is my favorite color.

    My five things are earphone, falshdrive with keys, phone, hard drive and my watch. All these things basically contain some type of memory or it could remind me some certain memory. I think when you lose some physical things, today you can almost buy the exact same thing for sure. However, the painful experience of losing things is the memory or  certain psychological value it embraces because of your using or your personal feeling on it. So, what I choose are all things fit for what I state above.

    Also, hopefully my favorite orange color type could reduce my pain from a house fire. Whatever, if my house really is on fire, I probably would feel fortunate encough to escape without caring about those physical stuff. 

M3 five things

 That's my earphone, I enjoy listening to the music with this. Also, orange is my favorite color. They are not expensive for if I lost it, it won't hurt me so much considering my earphone losing history.

my phone, it basically contains all my friends' contacting information and amounts of pictures taken in the last few years, it is precious. However this nokia phone is a smart but I use it only for texting and calling. Basically it has no other functions for me.

My keys and flash drive. The flash drive have important information of me and I like that harvard key ring. This ring could always remind me the fantastic trip to harvard university and everything in boston in that 2012 spring break.

My watch which is the 18th Birthday gift from my mother, I really like that through I don't wear it often. If I lost it my mom will be pissed off for sure.

My hard drive, basically it equals my laptop. 500GB, it is enough for rebuild memory if I lost my laptop. So it means everthing. By the way, I want to say thanks for today's technology.

Blog 6

    This is a incredible story. It teaches people cherish life and family and formally it is a wonderfully organized short novel.
    I feel extremely touched and all kinds of thinking just comes up on my mind. First thing is to be cherish life. To be alive sometimes is a luxury and you never know what is going to happen in the next seconds. I really fancy the trait of always being positive in americans' characteristics, which makes life looks good everyday and everyone is happy without a reason all the time. Secondly, treat your family and friend as nicely as you can. They are the richest treasure in your life.
    Taking it as a short novel, is a good work. Actually I really enjoy this emotion-realated short story when I in china. This is a refreshment for my reading experience and enrich me the charm of english. There are some of words I need to look them up in a dictionary but I still feel the mood and tone from the writer when I read it. Especially I read this in the quiet library with listening some blues, which makes the emotional feeling extra intense.
    This is a thought provoking and I enjoyed reading it totally.

micro project2

    This is a really interesting project. Althrough it takes a lot of efforts for a PS rookie to be creative and get this down perfectly because I really like this project.

    I think what makes my journey to school is what I feel during the journey. My feeling is always unique from the others and it is what I want to show.

    How my five senses activated: eyesight: probably not completely activated when step out of home, it goes from sleep to awake on the way to classroom.  olfaction: extremely strong especially when I pass by the buckeye donuts because of an empty stomache in the morning. hearing: willing to be completely occupied by the music. touch: basically not activated and still sleepy. gustation: not activated, no breakfast and plain water can not generate my gustation begin to work.

    This work's background is the map marked the route from my house to classroom. A is my house and B is the classroom. Usually, I begin my journey without breakfast so I feel hungry and thinking about all the good food in my brain when I walk out of my house. Next thing I do is plug the earphone and try to reduce the hungry feeling. Also, at the begining of the journey, I am still sleepy and dizzy.
   
    During the journey, I either watch the sky or the ground without paying attention to the passengers or the buildings. The buildings along the journey stay the same everytime and the passing strangers change all the time. I rarely pay attention those things.

    The southwest corner's picture is a little joke I make. They are the two guys I walk with everytime for class. They share lots of interests and make pure friendship with each other. So I texted that picture: walk here not alone but lonely. Is that funny?
    Finally, the journey is over when I head up watching the great stadium under the clear blue sky. A great school day begins.

Wexner visit

I have been thinking for a visit to wexner center for a long time and finally I made it last Sunday with friends.

It is a nice building, or we can see, an art from the outside. There were not many visitors that day so a really quiet environment benefits me enjoying this exhibition. I walked along the uphill hallway and saw some sculptures and paintings. The structure of the exhibition is interesting and the exhibition is named cubes and anarchy by David Smith. Sometimes I had to step up a narrow entrance to see the other area making the visiting a lot of prediction and expectation. It is like I am visiting cubes after cubes. The design of the visiting lines is a kind of art. For the contents, the entire show’s theme is basically the combination of some geometric drawings. David really tries to use cubes to show his anarchy and freedom idea. In the sculpture called Cube I, David applies most simplistic steel pattern sticks together creating pithy artworks. It is really hard to define which sculpture looks like which thing but I could sense the artist’s idea behind making this exhibition which is the pursuit of doing pitchy.

     It is a little disappointed that the wexner center is this small but eventually it is a worthwhile art trip there.

Micro project 2

 from ant view

stable

bird view

Radial Image

my name on campus

symmetrical

 unstable

asymmetrical

 people and surrounding

person up close

When I take the photos from the bird view and ant views, it is different not only the experience of taking photos but also the photos taken.

It is really enjoyable for thinking my name on campus, but when I think in a new way, I found an interesting way to do that. Also, this weekend I went to Indiana to watch celtics games, which celtics won at the same time I took some good shots in the stadium. Taking photo is also like a stable memory for some situation, photography is always enjoyable for me.

My name on campus and person up close are my favorite. For the first one, I like the design and the idea of doing it. Secondly, I really tried to catch the most natural expression or situation of person when I take the person up close one. I tried many times but I still think it is worthwhile.

10 photos here

one corner in campus

Mirror lake

North commons

donkey

lovely holiday

look up

people mountain people sea

hung over shirt

lovely building

walking

class notes

formal guide
1.horizontal  landscape   cinematic    2.vertical portrait

1.implied lines cross lines  center--->stable static  symmetrical
2.Rule of golden mean 1/3's
   unstable/dynamic 黄金分割 asymmetrical
3. radial cross lines and diagnosis  center and around flower shape

Response to "Nipple Jesus"

    Nipple Jesus is a fantastic amusing short story. And also it is a serious thought provoking masterpiece.“ The author Nick Hornby is also a reputable novel and script writer.
  “Everyone’s a prat”. "Fucking hell" I like the tone the author convey his idea. The clue of this story is clear and the description is vivid. At the same time, it is quite concise and easy to understand. To sum up, the language performance is hilarious and successfully track readers keep reading. Apart from the language, the title is also attracting for readers to begin reading.
    However, there are some points confuses me. I am not quite sure what exactly the author want to  say. In the end, "I" got home and get "the fucking onion". I believe the author wants to put a allegory here but I don't know what it is.

10 Shots

Nights falls in Boston habor

 Someone studies hard in Library

statue in cleveland

President Lincoln 

 Evening of Quincy Market

beautiful street

artist in boston commons

Fine art 

Quincy Market

Last night in Boston

Blog 3

    Big ideas and Artmaking explores the relationships of big ideas and artmaking during the artcreating process. I like the paragraph of investigating subject matter or big idea. The author applies several prominent artist's work such as Van Gogh's big idea of expressing human emotion using the subject of sunflower. It is clearly explained the subject and big ideas's connections.
    This article does not give a specific conclusion whether big idea or subject matter. It is two sides of a coin and both matters for a perfect artwork.
    For the second essay, Terry Barrett deciphers the strategy of interpreting visual culture in this article. Terry illustrates several forms of art seperately at the same time introducing the method of interpretation. The article's organization is clear.
    I do not understand the magazine part very well. The Denoted Image the Connoted Image.and the Linguistic Message are confusing. It is hard to imagine that much.