Brainstorm for the final work

As I went to NYC during Thanksgiving and I was very interested in the art works in MOMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I have been to MOMA before and the series of Water Lilies by Monet are my favorite. And I want to combine the series of Water Lilies in MOMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art which impressed me most. What's more, I saw many other paintings and creative works which cause my associations. And The Starry Night in MOMA is also attractive. 

What I want to do is organize them in a different order. It might be organized from my favorite art works to my unlike ones or from a new order of how I think the art works should be put. And I also want to share my personal understand of those art works.

I choose to use the E-journal or some other medium which can make my project move and be more vivid. And I would like my final work to record my traveling to the two museums and my feeling to the art works. If I come to those museum again, I can add my new understand or see the changing of my perspective of views. Or if I see the other painting of Monet's Water Lilies in other museum, I can add it in my project to make it more completed.

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My word: to spill & to bundle 

Recently, I begin to think about losing weight so I have to force myself to eat more vegetables which I don't like. I wanted to change a way of the combination of the food which may make me feel fresher about the food I eat every day. So the items I choose come from my meal such as white rice, tomatoes, onion and broccoli. For me, these things are very normal and I have them almost every day, especially white rice. I try to use the vegetables and rice to make a smile to help myself keep a good mood although I have to go on a diet and say goodbye to my favorite sweet food and meat.

My words are to spill and to bundle. I took these material out from my different meal firstly as the word to spill. Then I use them together to make a new pattern as the word to bundle. So I firstly put the write rice as a circle. And then I choose two small tomatoes as the smiling eyes and a piece of onion as the smiling mouth. I feel that the smiling face is similar to a snowman. At last, I use to broccolis to make a pretty bows to it and make it vivid. I feel happy and more appetizing after I make my own dish. I might keep a balanced diet if I can have such an interesting vegan meal every day. It makes me keep smiling after the meal as I am energetic not only from the meal, but the happiness it brings to me. It's very simple but amazing. For me, people may sometimes be touched by their own ideas. And the words to spill and to bundle mean a to break the original order of the things and organize them in a total new way. It's very creative and interesting for me.

Carver Cathedral

In the article, the author tells a story about a blind and him. At the beginning of the story, we can feel that the blind man is not welcomed by the author as he never see the blind man before. And the blind man is the friend of the author's wife and we can know that he is a kind man and very clever. The most interesting part of the story is their interaction when they are watching TV. Although the author can see and understand everything in the TV, he find something is difficult to convey to the blind man by words. And the blind man finally tells him to draw a picture to explain them. It is another way of express except words.

For me, sometimes, we can feel the world through image, sound or touch. There are many ways to help us understand one thing. So just try something or think about one thing in a different way.

Wallace This is Water

This article is about the commencement given to the to the graduates. In the speech, the part impressed me most is the example of two guys' talking in a bar. Although they experienced the same thing totally, their feelings are different. It may depends on their pervious experiences and their ways of thinking. Just as a same picture of the sun over the sea, someone will think that is sunrise, but others may think that is sunset. It show our different attitudes for the same thing. Actually, the perspective of view towards one issue is very improtant to us. If we become more positive, the problem may become easily solved. And if we become more logical and clam but not radical, the result may become much better. Sometimes, if we change a way of thinking, the success may arrive.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNfewRRVcSA&feature=plcp

 

This video and sounds is an interesting record of my friends. When I first thought about it, I found that the most familiar sounds for me is my friends' voices. We live in the same apartment house. And every time when I come to their apartment, I can hear their cheerful voices and happy laughers before I enter into their room. So after we had our meal together one day, I told them I wanted to record some voice from them. And what we said in the video is a popular Chinese kuso rap, which is made from the cutting of one character in a TV drama. Although people may not understand what do we mean, the tempo is lively and the sounds from my friends is funny. And in the middle of the video, I asked my friend Shu sing a vivid song named Levan Polkka. When I added some sounds to it, I found many interesting drumbeats. I added the different drumbeats to match up the rap and songs. It is very difficult but challenging as the tempos are always various. And at the beginning of the video, I added some sound effects of the forest. Our apartment locates near the Olentangy River, so it is quiet in the evening. I want to make a transfer from the quiet scene to the lively scene. And you may heard a strange cockcrow in the video. I just what to remind the listeners that there might be something interesting after the cockcrow. At the end of the video, I added a sound of door closing to show that the video is drawing to a close.

What's more, it is amazing that our voices are very different in the video. I can hardly recognize which one is mine and which one is my friend's. Sometimes, the sounds may be changed through the medium.