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?