Micro Project 2

1. Shells

Shell is  my favorite thing in my life so far. I grew up in a coastal city in China. I love collecting shells since I was a kid. Every weekend my grandparents will bring me to the beach to have a walk along the beach. And I always collect a lot of shells while I am walking. Shells give me a lot of memories of my childhood with my grandparent. I got those shells in Galveston when I went to Texas for vacation this winter break. It remind me of my childhood. I put them in my room as decoration.
Childhood memory

2. Phone

It is iPhone 4s. It is very useful and important for me. I use it to send messages and make calls to make connections with other people. I also use it to surf the internet, send email and take pictures when I am not near a computer. Wherever I go, I always bring it. If I forget to bring it with me I will feel very uncomfortable.
Communicator 


3. Running shoes

Running is a part of my life. I run 3 times a week in RPAC to exercise. Sometimes when the weather is nice I will run around campus with my roommate. It gives me good mood because when I am running I feel my brain is completely relaxed. Also it helps me build strong body!
Health helper

4. Laptop

It is a technology century. I use computer to know and to make connections to the rest of the world. I spend most of my time in front of computer every day to do school work, play games and surf the internet. The bottom of my laptop is broken so I took it off and put a red case on it. Red is my favorite color. I am glad I choose to be a buckeye because the color for OHIO is red!
Heart Window

5. Cold stone Ice cream

Ice cream is my favorite food. Every sunday I will go grocery store to buy a big bottle of ice cream. Cold stone is my favorite brand because it has special meaning for me. Every time when I date with my boyfriend he will give me a small bottle of cold stone chocolate ice-cream. So whenever I eat it I will think of my boyfriend and feel the love he gives me.
Love


6. Book

I love reading book. It expand my view and helps me know many things I don't know through the book. It gives me a lot of knowledge. This book I read is about finance. Doing business need a lot of experience. But I am still a student and don't have many experience. However, I can learn some experience from the book. Many successful person write their experience on the book. Through reading their experience I can get a scene what business need and what's going on in the business world.
Teacher


7. ipod

I listen to music a lot of time when I am alone. I love listening to music when I walk alone. That makes me feel the road I walk is not that long. Also I feel amazing how music can change my mood. Every time  when I have a bad mood I will listen to music. It can calm me down and give me encouragement.
Mood changer

8. Sea Star Jewelry

I wear this sea star Jewelry everyday. I got it from my Mom as Christmas gift last year. As all the other girls, I like to be beautiful. So I have a lot of jewelry and this sea star jewelry is one of my favorite because it is related to the sea. I love everything related to the sea.
Beautiful

9. Black tea

Tea is my favorite drink. I like all kinds of tea especially black tea. I make tea when I get up and back home everyday. Whenever I get thirsty or even not thirsty I will drink a cup of tea. I feel I am addicted to the tea. If I don't drink it for a while I will miss it. When I study in library I always buy a cup of hot tea from the coffee shop. It can make me more concrete on my study.


10. pencil

As a student, pencil has company me for so many years. Even through I don't like study, I cannot deny that pencil is a part of my life. I use them everyday. I cannot work without pencil. This is my first pencil I brought in America. I like to keep all the "first thing". So this pencil is a kind of special for me.
study fellow

I use the sea picture as my background and put shells around my picture to emphasis the importance of shells and sea for me. That's the place I grew up. I am a sea girl:) I made computer and phone biggest and put them in the middle because I spend most of my time with them everyday. I cannot image the life without them. Other things I just put them in order so this picture can look beautiful. I am good at playing piano but I didn't include it in my picture because my piano is in my home in China. I miss it a lot. Also I am a very stubborn person. Whatever I decide to do, I will do it. The last thing about me is I am a dog person. I will be crazy when I see a dog. 

Photography Scavenger Hunt

symmetrical image:

Asymmetrical image

Radial Image

person at their surrounding space

Person up close: My host family's baby boy wearing the Chinese hat I got for him from China

An image from the point of view of an ant

An image from the point of view of a bird

A stable image 

An unstable image

My English name in my friend's dorm

It is my name card in Sloopy. I work here

Assignment 1

This is the way I go to school everyday. I just moved to my new home at the end of the winter break. So on the first day of class, it was the first time I drove to school from my new place. The route was completely new for me. In case of getting lost or being late for class, I looked into google map carefully at the night before first day of school and wrote down where I need to make a turn, which freeway I need to go, where I can enter the free way and so on.

I miss my sweet home every morning I leave home. So I took a picture of my home when I started my journey. As I drove to school on the first day of school, I was looking for the marker on the road carefully to make sure I need to turn right here or turn left there. So when I was doing this project, I looked into google map first to picture down the route I went and then I took pictures of all the road signs. I paid attention to the markers because on the first day of class those markers were very important for me! I never drive on those road before. Those markers help me know where I was and which road I was driving on. So I took a lot pictures of those road markers and then inserted them to the route I pictured and made a map how I went to school. After I arrived school, I can only park in C parking area because I only get C parking permit. So I looked for the  sign"C" to find the place I can park on the first day of class. Then I found one C parking area next to Taylor. So I took a picture of the "C"parking sign and then parked my car!  That's my journey to class!

My Journey to Class on The First Day

Every morning I drive to campus. It is a kind of long way. On the Google Map it says the distance between school and my home is 9.3 miles and it costs 19 minutes to drive to school. But usually I only use 15 minutes to get school. Of course it doesn’t include the time looking for a parking plot. It is so hard to find a good parking plot in the “C” park area on campus! I feel the drivers in the parking area are crazy! Everyone is trying to accelerate the car, not slow down the car to get a parking plot in the parking area. I am always the looser when competing for getting a parking plot due to my poor driving skill and “let other people go first” attitude. I still remember how embarrassing I was to find the Art Education 252 classroom on the first day of school. I never have classes in stadium before and I even don’t know there is any classroom in stadium. There are many entrances to the stadium. So when I was looking for the classroom on the first day, I worried a lot about which entrance should I go? The stadium is so big, once I enter a wrong door I will totally get lost in stadium! As I walked around the stadium to find the entrance I should enter, I saw some people wearing uniforms go out of a door. So I think there may have some classrooms after that entrance and I walked into that door. But as I walked upstairs, the people who were going down and wearing uniforms all looked at me strangely. Then I realized I went in a wrong place. So I went out of stadium and looked for the right entrance again. Finally, I saw a paper and saying “Art Education 252 is in here!” I was so excited when I saw that note. Then I followed the arrows and found the classroom. I set off home 1 hour earlier before the class time so I was not late for the class. Such a hard trip to classroom on the first day!

Response to articles III

Kimmelman Article

I like the way the article introduce the book. It quotes the introduction from the book and gives some background of the book, which helps the readers know more about the book and have a idea about what the book talking about. Through reading this article I feel like the people who introduce this book is talking to me directly by the tone he uses in the article. He also talks about some of his own story and experience. It makes me feel more interesting and not feel bored when I read this article. I also like its ending. The author of the article asks some questions at the end of article, which makes me feel more interested in this book and want to read the book.

Even through the article introduce the book very well; I didn’t see its main point of this article. It didn’t show reader the strong point of the book.  It makes me feel the book is just  as “normal” as other book even through it is interesting.

Response to articles II

Response to Walker

I agree with the author’s idea that theme sometimes is the same thing as big idea but sometimes not. In today’s Art Education class we watched two videos and the instructor asked us to write down the artists’ theme and idea. At that time I was confused because I felt theme is the same thing as idea. But the author helps me solve this confusion. Theme sometimes is just a part of the big idea. Just like the example the author gives us, Motherwell’s the big idea is the exploration of human emotions; but the theme that people’s emotion’s towards death is just a part of human emotion. I also like the example of Jennifer Bartlett that Jennifer’s subject is Garden but Jennifer’s idea is the use of rules and systems.

           

             I cannot understand the idea of the first picture on page 9. Also her horse artwork is a kind of weird to me. From the introduction of her I think she like horses and she has great passion to horses. So I think the artwork of horses made by her should make the audience feel her passion to horse. But through her work I cannot see any beautiful side of the horse. What I see is a horse stuck in fence made by the wood. I don’t disagree anything in this article. Overall I like this article’s idea very much.

 Response to Barrett

            I like the example that analysis of a photographic magazine ad for Panzani spaghetti products when the author wants to illustrate the distinction between denotations and connotations. The interesting point here is that he uses the sounds of ‘Italianicity” to resemble the word Panzani. It exactly explain the distinction between denotations and connotations.

            I have some confusion about “booty” which explained by the author. It may because I am not familiar with American Culture. I agree that the magazine cover is connoted to be aggressive. But I don’t agree that it is emotionally shallow.

response to articles

Response to The Cheese Monkeys

I love the author’s idea that “ big and small can extend to infinity.” We can never say what is the “smallest” because there is always exist something that is smaller and we don’t know what is the “biggest” because it is infinity, just like we never know the smallest number and the biggest number. The other thing I found which is interesting is the way he thinks of viruses. He thinks viruses are fools. When talk about viruses, people always think they are bad, disgusting and scared. But I have never seen anyone think viruses are fool. After reading his explanation of why viruses are fool, I strongly agree with his idea because only the fool will work so hard to let it die. 

            I don’t agree with the author’s thought that people will picture Tuesday on the left and Thursday on the right when he says, “Things go from left” on Tuesday and then say “to right” on Thursday. What come to my mind when I read what he says is the on Tuesday everything go from the left side; everyone comes from the left side of a city and heading to the downtown, the traffic all come from the left side. Similarly, “to right” on Thursday makes me picture that on Thursday everything goes to the right. There is a place in this article confuse me. In a paragraph he writes “Conversely, TWA comes a knocking, and wants a poster boasting of their powers. Why not use a shot of a long bird-a midflight speck in a vast, sheltering sky. Have the type trailing after it, and, when I zoom in to read…oh…it’s not a bird at all. A plane” I don’t know what’s the purpose the author write it and I don’t know what he wants to express.

Response to The Heresy Of Zone Defense

I love the idea that the game, playing basketball is an art. It is very interesting. Before reading the article I think the players in the game just want to win, they don’t care about anything else. But now I think the players in the game not only want to win, they also want to present the audience a beautiful performance, a beautiful image of the game. They try to win quickly and beautifully. They try to shot in a beautiful position.

I don’t understand dripped paint in this article. What is dripped paint? In the article the author feel the rule make the game worse. The rules make the game as a film directed by the coach. And the basketball today is high profitable and bad moral. I don’t agree with this idea. I think no one control this game. The coach in the game is just to make the game more successful, to prevent some moral hazard and to help the players to play better.

Introduction

My name is Yi.  I am sophomore at OSU. My major is Finance.  I am from China and it is my second year in the United State. I am a dog person. I kept a dog as pet when I was at home in China. My dog is a boy and his name is Eli. He is a pretty puppy and has brown hair. People always think he is a toy not a real dog because he looks just like a doll. I went to Houston during the winter break. I love the weather here! It is much warmer than in Columbus. The temperature in Houston was always 70+ degree when I was here. I  am used to the warm weather because the temperature in my city is always warm. I just went back to Columbus the day before yesterday and it was so chilly when I got off the airplane! Hope the winter weather can end soon even through I know it will last until March..I attach the picture of me with my love dog!