Final: Creation of a narrative

Campus Trip(final project)

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When I first get the final project, I have to say, I have no idea how to deal with it. I want a great ending and an amazing artwork. So, maybe I should think a lot of ideas and try to select the greatest one.

At first, I really got an amazing idea, I want to try to show everyone an object with one single color and ask them what they think. For example, an orange is good. I will write down every word they think of about this object. Finally, I will have a conclusive for the color like “Green seems to represent natural and health”, and “Blue makes people feel calm” and so on. However, there are some troubles if I choose this. Because maybe I have to make some objects and color them and take them to class to show and use PowerPoint to show the conclusive. Well. It is maybe not as good as I think. I still cannot produce an amazing product and this more like something in psychology class.

Then, I try to find some other options. Taking the pictures of the different color buildings in OSU is also a great idea. I can find out if there is a relationship between the building and the color. However, I give up because I find almost all buildings in OSU are almost white and red. There is no green building or blue building (At least I haven’t found yet). I give up this idea and pick up the similar idea about buildings in OSU. I can have a trip around the whole campus and photo them. I can make these photos a video to show everyone the beautiful scene and buildings in OSU.

I have to say this is really a long trip to walk around the whole campus. This is an almost five hour’s trip and I took over 300 photos. The routine of the whole trip is my first picture of my final video. Then I start to think what I should do to these photos. I cannot put all these pictures to my video. Because I do not want my video is too long and too boring. I deleted the repeat and not-good-looking photos and try to make the rest is the best. Finally, I select 160 photos to make my final video.

I decide to divide my whole video to three parts. In the first part, I will show the most beautiful photos and scenes I took. The second part is my whole trip and the third part is the fast view our whole campus.

For the first part, I start with the routine of my whole trip. Then, I have to choose the background music. In this part, because these are the most beautiful photos I took, I need to make my photos change slowly in my video. I have to choose a song with slow rhythm. I choose a really beautiful song “Kiss the rain” as the background music. I use IMovie to make my change of photos totally have the same rhythm as the song. I make the difference of music and photo less in 0.1 second. Finally, this part becomes the enjoyment of the campus.

In the second part, I have to make the rhythm a bit faster. I chose “canon” as my background music in this part. This part shows my whole trip. I arrange these pictures by the time I took them. I use the different effects and make my photos pass quickly to match the rhythm. This part is my trip of the whole campus.

The last part is the most amazing part. This is my favorite part. I use the opening song of “The Big Bang Theory” as the background. I also use the same method to show my photos in this way! First slow then really really fast. You can see the picture but you cannot remember it. Because there is too much information in this little twenty seconds. Over 100 photos and pictures in this 20-second. I do make some trick in these pictures and if you look carefully, you will find three trick pictures. These three pictures are not just totally meaningless actually. Here are explanations:

1: Cartman in South Park: the same pronounce as our website “Carmen”.

2: E. Gordon Gee: the president of our university.

3: Sheldon---The Big Bang Theory.

Finally, I think I really make the best artwork I have ever made. 

Blog 10： final project

I think I will make some artwork to do more research about the art. This time, I want my project is some real items more than a picture or video. I will put my artwork on the table and let the classmates think what emotion or what things they will connect in their mind. Then, I will talk about what I think when I making my artwork.

Failure blog

After I read all my work throughout this semester and think about my whole semester, I think the biggest failure is I missed several classes because of my exam and some other reasons. I cannot know some other people’s interesting ideas about some of the topics we talked this semester. I really love the conversations in our classes talk about our works, blogs and so on. This just like discover a new world! However, because my math and economic exams, some of classes I have to give up. I should try my best to take every class of this course.

In this semester, the biggest success for me is I know how to use Photoshop! I really love this application. The Photoshop is professional! I can make any change on a picture whatever I want. Actually, I want to learn how to use Photoshop since I was in high school. About sound and video, I have already can use some application to deal with, so I am not really interested in iMovie. I think the application I use to handle the sound and video is better than iMovie. (I prefer to use Cool Edit Pro to make the sound.) After learning how to use Photoshop, I can make the photos I take more beautiful than before. I can make the blue sky more blue, the white cloud whiter, the green river greener.

If I could redo one of my projects, I would like to redo my project 3, which is “Identity and Objects (The things you carry with you)”. I think the six objects I choose could not all represent who I am very well. I should add some other stuff like flashlight and voice recorder. 

Micro-Assignment 5, Identity at Play

Here are my words: open and grouping. When I was thinking how I should deal with these two words, I think it’s really hard to combine these two words into one object or item. So I decide to think about these two words one by one.

First, open could be either an easy or a hard word to consider. It can be very easy like open a door or open a window, but it’s too normal and even not worth to think! Then, I think about open a book. That is a good choice in my opinion. When I open a book and read it, I learn more knowledge and know more about my word. This is not just open a book! This actually is opening my mind! Open a book opens my mind! Then, I consider the book can be grouped by math books, science books, history books and so on. So, this could be a nice choice.

Then, I start to think the other word: grouping. I think grouping is the process we make thing that have the same property together. I can just use a filter screen to divide the rice and water separately. This is the first thing I thought of. And this has nothing relatedly to the word “open” at all I think.

Suddenly, I thought of a movie I watched several days ago, American History X. I was greatly touched by this movie. This movie talks about a former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. I think this could become a really amazing topic. And the object I choose is the stereotype. This is not a really object but this is a phenomenon that exists everywhere in our life.

We always attempt to group other people to one kind of people when we meet them first time which is the first impressions. This is the stereotype. For example, some people always working hard and seldom go to party or never play games, we might call them bookworm. Some people always go to party and have the bad grade in class, and we might think they are not a good person (maybe actually he is really a kind person). Sometimes we may not want to make friends with someone just because we had the bad first impression of him. We group him to the “bad people”. This is actually a bad thing. We should not just group them and refuse them just by our first impression. However, what we should do is open our heart and try to accept them. A person who “seems bad” really maybe a great person, then you could own a great friend! When we open our heart, we can find a lot of kind person and the world will be more beautiful.

Stopping grouping people by the first impression, no more stereotypes, try to open your heart and make more friends!

Micro-Assignment 4, Identity and Sound

The place I choose is the Seven Eleven near my apartment Riverwatch Tower. I choose this place because I really go this place very often. For example, when I need to buy a hotdog for breakfast, when I need some water to make my dinner or when I need the batteries for my mouse, I will go to Seven Eleven! Why? Because it is close and convenience! The most important reason I chose this store is I will buy drinks almost every morning before I go to class. Usually, I will buy a bottle of Rain Lime flavor Gatorade for my afternoon class and a double gulp size cup of cherry flavor fruit juice for my class in the morning.

The sound of “beep” when I open the door of Seven Eleven is really unique for me. I think anytime I hear the beep sound like this; I can say there is a Seven Eleven store nearby. In this Seven Eleven store, I can hear a lot of different kind of sounds: the sound of open and close refrigerators, the sound of get ice from coke fountain, the sound from the check stand. All these sounds can make me think I am in a Seven Eleven store. Especially the conversation between the cashier and me which happen almost : “Do you need your receipt?” “No.” “Have a good day!” “You too.” Well, this cannot be more familiar to me. I am one hundred percent sure I am in Seven Eleven!

Youtube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2tna2Y6sZY&feature=plcp

Blog 9: Response to Carver “Cathedral”

This article tells us a story about a blind man named Robert. Author’s wife was hired by him and used to read newspapers and books for Robert, and they became good friends. In this article, there is one part moved me deeply. The part talks about that when the author’s wife left Robert and married her ex-husband, the blind man Robert wants to touch the author’s wife’s face and try to remember her. I think the blind man Robert is really poor, can you imagine that if you want to remember a person, you have to try to touch every parts of the face, and you have no idea what the color is? That is so hard and poor.

After reading this article, I know more about the difference between disabled and normal people. Sometimes a disabled person may have to pay ten more times effort to get the same achievement to a normal person. We should respect the disabled and try our best to help them.

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Blog 8: Response to Wallace “This is Water”

After reading this article, I think I know better how to thinking about things happened in my life. Sometimes you can never change a person’s mind even you could show him or her exact evidence. This is because we can never know his or her belief. Just like the example the author give, a person lost in the blizzard and get survived finally: if he is a person who believe in god, he could even believe in god more and think the god saved him; however if he is a person who does not believe in god, he would just think other person saved him but not the god. That is the difference, they have the different view about the world, and no one can change it.

I totally agree the author and in my opinion, we should not be angry to others just because they have the different ideas with you. We should stand in their view to think the questions and maybe try to find how the difference happens in the same question. This is a great way to make and keep more friends.

Blog 5: Wexner Review

Wexner center for the arts recently is exhibiting the artworks designed by Annie Leibovitz, who is a famous American portrait photographer. She took pictures on almost everything, including the great people and the beautiful landscape. I really love her landscape pictures. Among all of these pictures, I mostly love the picture of Niagara Falls which is taken in Ontario, Canada, in 2009. This is a really great picture, and I can feel the fall is full of power and grandeur. The fall is as far as the eye can reach in the picture. The rising water vapors show the powerful of fall. It is really an amazing landscape picture.

This picture of this Niagara Falls uses the perfect composition. Annie Leibovitz took this picture in a very special angle view. In the picture, the fall is curved and through the whole picture. This kind of composition of picture shows the large and powerful of the fall. I love this picture.

Micro Project 3: Identity and Objects (The things you carry with you)

1: Sennheiser HD598 headphone --- Music became a part of my life since long time ago. This is the best headphone I have ever used. That is the reason why I choose this headphone. I always use it when I walking to class. I bought this headphone two month ago and I was amazed by the sound of it. When I listen to music, it’s just like the singer is singing songs near my ear and only for me and I can feel what the singer feels. I love this kind of feeling!

One or two words: Vivid

2: IPhone 4 --- It’s the best cell phone I have ever used and I almost never let it leave my pocket. That’s why I choose it. IPhone 4 makes my life easy. I usually use it to check my email, surf the internet and play games. This is really easy to use. Even a person who had never used a cell phone knows how to use it. I think IPhone 4 is important to my life.

One or two words: Easy Life

3: Seiko watch --- This watch is my last year birthday present. My mother bought it in Hong Kong. A watch is always important for me. I wear it every day. It tells me when I have to go to class and when I should go for lunch. This watch has the extremely accurate movement. It never varies more than a second in a month!

One or two words: Never late

4: Sony Mp3 S544 --- A good headphone needs a good Mp3 player to produce the good sound. There are over 700 songs inside this Mp3 player. Half of these are Chinese traditional music---my favorite kind of music. These songs could make me calm down at any time. The most of the rest half songs are pop songs. When I listen to these songs, I am enjoying my life. I feel I am swimming in the sea made by the music when I listen to songs by HD598 and this Mp3.

One or two words: Enjoy

5: My purse --- I put my cash, chase debit card and my buck ID in my purse, so I have to carry it every day. I bought my purse in Hong Kong last year. I love this purse because it is not like some other purse. My purse has a zipper to close and this is really useful! I will never lose a coin by using this purse!

One or two words: Wealth

6: Calculator TI-84 --- I am a traditional math student, and of course, no one can deny the truth that a good calculator could be consider one of the important tools for a student like me. Why I choose TI-84? Well, because this is the best calculator that we can use during the math quiz and exams. I have to take it every day at least this whole semester because I have math classes every day!

One or two words: Major Tool

7: My keys --- There are six objects on my key rings. Three of them are keys: the grey one is an electric key, it opens the front door of my apartment building---riverwatch tower; the other two are normal keys, the small one is the mail box key and the big one is the key of my door. Two cards show the two supermarkets I usually go: CVS and Kroger. The purple one is a little torch. I use it to find little objects in dark. It’s really a useful small object.

One or two words: Pass




My Sony S544 MP3 and my great headphone HD598 shows I am a person who loves music very much. Music became a part of my life since I was very young. I love enjoying my life, and listening music makes me have this kind of feeling. I would like to use a watch that can show me the accurate time. I hate to be late and I prefer to finish everything that long time before it is due. IPhone 4 is my favorite cell phone because it is easy to use, I love the great technology to make my life easier. I love reading IT news about cell phones, computers, the newest CPU and so on. I am a math major student, and I have to carry my TI-84 calculator every day. On my key rings, I have two supermarket cards, that shows the two supermarkets that I often go. These two supermarkets are not far away from my apartment, that's why I choose them.  Just like the reason I choose IPhone, I prefer the life become easier.

Blog 7: Response to Kaprow “Blurring of art and life”

In the article, the author, as an artist that research on activities that happen in our lives, tells us this kind of new form of art. In the author’s opinion, nowadays, some people may think that what the author research on is not a kind of art. The artwork should only be put in the places like library or museum. According to the author of the article, people always ignore the art things or behaviors happen in our lives. For example, people brush their teeth every day, the author consider it as a kind of art because of watching the elbow moving makes her thinks a lot. I think the author wants to tell us: a lot of small things happen in our lives but we always ignore them; if we care more about these small details, we could feeling that we are living in a world that full of art.

I totally agree with the author, because sometimes I have the same feeling. Sometimes when I walk to school, I may ignore the scene around me; however, if I pay attention to the details, I can see a lot of beautiful thing like the blue sky and white clouds.

Let’s pay more attention to our world and feel this world that full of art!

Micro-Assignment 2, Identity/Mapping

On the first day of the class, I remember I got up early in the morning. I searched the Google map to find the exact place of Ohio Stadium. (Although I had already known where it is, and I just want to make sure I wouldn't go to wrong place.) I found the stadium is not far from my home------Riverwatch Tower at all. And this is the exact same place as I thought. So, I decided to walk to my ArtEdu 2520 classroom.

The air is fresh. This is my first feeling when I walk out of Riverwatch Tower. There was no cloud in the sky, and the sun was shining. It should be a great day, but I do not think so, because I hate the sunshine. I felt hungry because I hadn't ate my breakfast. I went to Seven-eleven and bought a hot-dog  and green tea. I walk along the West Lane Avenue until I saw the traffic light, it is about 200 meters. Then, I have to wait until the traffic light turns green to cross the road. After crossing the road, I walked straight to Ohio Stadium. I walked around 500 meters to arrive the Ohio Stadium. On the first day to the classroom, I really had no idea about what is the exact place of the classroom. So, I walked around the Ohio Stadium and tried to look for a notice. Well, I did find it. There is a paper on the glass door. And the paper shows that here is the way to ArtEdu 2520 classroom. Then, I just walked through this door and went upstairs, and finally, I found the classroom.

Blog 6: Response to “Cardiff, Miller and the Power of Sound”

This article shows us a kind of very interesting artwork------using sound to record lives. Cardiff and Miller is a couple of artists who are famous of their work of sound. The article talks about what happen to artists Cardiff and Miller when they were making their artwork. They recorded almost all their lives, their travels, their dialogues. When people come and listen their artworks, they can feel that they become the persons in the recording and they can feel everything happens. For example, in their artwork “The Murder of Crows”, people can feel a kind of the strangest and most fraught periods of lives happened to artists Cardiff and Miller. This is really an interesting and amazing experience.

After reading this article, I find this could be a really interesting experience for us to feel the art. Nowadays, almost all of us have a device to record sound like our cell phone, mp3 and so on. We can try what artists Cardiff and Miller do by recording one day of our lives! Maybe we can find some great and amazing things.

Blog 4: Response to Hornby “Nipple Jesus”

Artist Martha created an artwork named Nipple Jesus. She made a large picture of Jesus by lots of small nipple pictures. At first, no people care about this. Maybe they just think this is an artwork. No people come to argue this. However, when it was known by a lot of people, the situation became out of control. People start to protest the exhibition of this artwork. Lots of people came here to see the artwork. The police come, the vicar comes, and some people become crazy. A person even tries to throw eggs to the Nipple Jesus. Finally, we know the truth. Artist Martha actually just want to watch a show or we can say make a film, and that is just for fun!

This is really an amazing and interesting story. Maybe everyone would be shocked by the ending of the story. Just thinking about it, a Christian was throwing eggs to the Jesus picture and claim he loves Jesus! In the article, I find that when other people asked Martha why she make this picture. She’s answer is “well, it’s a free country.” Is it a kind of sarcasm?

Micro-Assignment 1

Ten pictures

1: Asymmetrical image

Great Campus building!

2: Symmetrical image

   This picture was taken in Main Library.

3: Radial image

I use seven rainbow color books to make the radial effect.

4: Person and their surrounding space

It's really a beautiful fountain, isn't it?

5: Person up close

The photo of my roommate   - -...Interesting expression!!

6: An image from the point of view of an ant

These pictures are what I think the ants could see.

7: An image from the point of view of a bird

Well, birds could see much more than a person.

8: A stable image

This duck kept standing near the pond for five minutes by this posture.

9: An unstable image

I love taking these kind of pictures! These two ducks rushed to me when I was feeding others.

10: Your name on campus

I thought a lot before taking this picture. Finally I choose Main Library...

I took the first ten pictures when I was having a small trip around the campus. I hold the camera, and walked around in the campus. When I found the beautiful scenery, I just pressed the shutter. Actually, I take a lot of beautiful pictures during that trip. I remember I found many interesting things at that time. A squirrel was using a curious sight looking at me, and it was not afraid of me at all. This is really my favorite picture. I love this cute creature.

However, this time is different, because this time, the pictures I took has to follow the requests. I still took all these pictures on campus and maybe this is the only point in common. I first think about where on campus I could take these pictures. I wrote a list to decide the place. And I just go there and take the planned pictures. Well, I found an interesting when I took these pictures. Sometimes what the camera sees could be amazing than what you see. The “ant view” pictures really amazed me!

I think I feel more enjoyable when I was taking the first ten pictures, because I can feel freer to take these pictures. I do not need worry about the request. I could choose when to take the pictures, and I think this makes me feel more artistic.

Ten pictures of Columbus

Blog 3: Response to the Walker and Barrett articles

1: Article Walker Big Idea:

  This article introduces to us one series of artworks named In the Garden designed by Bartlett. From these artworks, we can learn the concept of rules and systems. In Bartlett’s artworks, we can found there are several rules. These sculptures are used easy-found materials and all of them have life-size scale and the same subject matter. In my opinion, use some same rules could really make the series artworks seems better, because same rules could make people feel harmonious among these artworks. I agree the author’s point that people usually created the great artworks when the artworks match their emotion.

Use the same rules in the series of artwork does make the artworks look more harmonious. However, sometimes could also make the audience feel tired, because the audience might think these artworks has no “bright point”. In my opinion, in a series of artworks, maybe use the different rules not a bad idea. The audience may always find surprises when appreciating the next artwork.

2: Article Barrett Visual Culture 

  Just from the tittle of the article, we can see this article talks about how to read and what can we know from a picture. The article mainly discusses the denotations and connotations about the pictures. I can use an easy example to explain the difference between denotations and connotations. A girl sends you a box of chocolate, there is a label on the box---“chocolate”, and you will know inside the box is chocolate. This is the denotation. If the box is heart-shaped, you may think the girl loves you, and this is the connotations.

  I think denotations and connotations may not always be true in our life. In contrast, they may cause misunderstanding often. Even a cement mark may change a sentence totally different meaning. Sometimes things are not the same as what we see or what we think. 

Blog 2: Response to the Kidd, Hickey and Weschler articles

1: Article Kidd The Cheese Monkeys Excerpt 

After reading this article, I find this is really an amazing article. The article analysis some phenomenon about “from left to right”, “from top to bottom”, “big and small”, and the relationship between you and your enemy. I really agree the point that our enemies are sometimes will become the motion that makes us better. The article talks about the big and small are relatively. You are really a big thing to an ant, however to the whole world, you are just an ant.

I think there is some problem about talking about why from left to right. I will give some examples. In ancient China, people are usually write words from right to left. Japanese nowadays are still used to writing from right to left.

2: Hickey The Heresy of Zone Defense

This article talks about the rules about the basketball games. I agree the point that the rules should be changed because of the different ages. Different ages will cause different notions. Just like the author talks in article, dripping paint was very free when the author was young. However, later, “Pollock's joyous permission had been translated into a prohibitive”. Just like the rules of playing basketball, they are always changing.

Some of basic rules I think should not be changed in my opinion. No matter how many ages past, people should always own a kindness heart and never attempt to hurt anyone. This should always be the never change rule.

 

3: Weschler Uncanny Valley

After reading this article, I was amazed by our faces. We can use 44 facial muscles to produce 5,000 different expressions! This is really an interesting fact, isn’t it? This article talks about the problem of making the great animation nowadays. The only problem is how to produce the better details to make the animation more realistic. I agree the better animation have more details and less saw teeth. I compare the new computer games and some old computer games, and I can easily to find newer computer games’ picture has less saw teeth and pictures are look more natural.

In the article, the author said that the better details in animation need the better computer hardware. I think the computer hardware developing speed is really fast! For example, 2 years ago, Intel i5 dual-core CPU chips were almost the best chips on computers, however, the Intel i7 four-core CPU is really becoming a popular chip!

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Blog 1: Introduce yourself

My name is Xihao Wang. I am now a second year student with mathematic major. I am from Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province, which is next to Shanghai, China. My hometown Suzhou is really a great place. It is very famous in China for the beautiful gardens. However, in almost every big cities of China nowadays, environment pollution is really a big problem. I cannot see the pure blue sky and cotton like cloud when I was in China. I can see them every day here in Columbus. That is why I love this place---Columbus.

I have a lot of hobbies. First of all, I love reading books and watching movies and serials. I can learn many things from books or movies, and some are could not learn from my teachers. Secondly, I am interested in listening to some mysterious stories. I love stories such as UFO, 2012 and superman and so on. Moreover, I love listening to some kind of Chinese music. Finally, table tennis is my favorite sport.

For five top topics, I would recommend:

1: My favorite show: A Big Bang Theory;

2: My favorite headphone bands: Sennheiser;

3: My favorite movie: The Dark Knight;

4: My favorite place to eat in university: Moy’s in High Street.

5: My favorite place to travel: Shangri-La in Yunnan Province, China.

  Bazinga!