About Me
- ChristinaYA
- Video Production major. From China. Have been in the U.S. for 4 years.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Blog Assignment 5A
I chose the picture by Ben Gossens. I don't what the picture called, but I think is "Woman prays in the shell," maybe. I chose this picture to reframe because this is a picture that only contain one "subject" at the foreground compare to others. If this fram is part of a movie, people may want to see what is going on in that shell other than to see the houses. In this picture, the subject is literally in the middle of the frame, that drag more attention to the woman and the "room." In addition, the lines of window point to the woman, so that the first second I look at the frame is look at the woman. There are also lines in the sky direct the attention to the shell, .
I zoom in on the whole "room" instead of whole shell is because I want to see more detail inside other than background. The original frame has more lines and shapes that in someway distract the attention from the woman even though there are some pointing lines to her. In contrast, the original frame has both flat and deep space when the second one only have a deep space. The affinity of deep space is in the shell, and the black color shows that there's more space toward inside.
The artist chose to a long shot that includes the background is because he want to show the contrast between the normal world and the world in shell. All of the houses and and floor are straight lines and shapes are squares, triangles and rectangles. Compare to all the straight lines, when I got a close up on the room, there are pretty much all curvilinear lines and shapes are irregular. Consciously when we look at the first frame we will see the shell is so different and wired in the middle of the frame. Subconsciously we will think that they are in different world.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Blog Assignment 4A
Brainwashed by Seth Godin
The article introduces seven layers of reinventing ourselves after we are brainwashed. The two I am going to talk about is Acknowledging the Lizard and Make Art
The layer of Acknowledging the Lizard is mainly about how we ignore the resistance, which is our "fear" in our mind. It is absolutely true that when we are threatened or in an very bad situation, our mind will direct us to be "safe" first rather than taking a risk to challenge the the resistance. Here Godin teaches us that we should know what is the threat and the problem first and find a way to get rid of or just ignore those, so that our brian will work much better in creative world.
The second layer I think is interesting is the layer of Make Art. The art here is not the art art we learn in school like drawings, Godin explains his "art" means the thing will change everything. We are taught from article to take more risks to creating things. We can freely think, create, and interact with others. He also give examples that the people may not understand what is a piece of art means as the creator can, but that is the risk people should try. That is the beauty of art.
The question of the relationship between these two layers and this blog I create this quarter, actually, I think there are some connections among them. Right now I am making art as I am creating everything single new ideas in the blog. Even though this is not the way that we interact with others at the certain point, this is still classified as social network. Honestly, I think these blog assignments are too much. Even though we have two whole weeks to do these four blogs, not many people will start until the day even the night before the due time. Within in 24 hours which eliminate the time of class, sleep, eat, and other works, these are too much for me, at least. I know this is my personal problem, I should start the very early. I think if the blog is one per week is much better to balance our times on these blogs for me. This is my own thoughts about the blogs, and I probably need start working on next blogs as early as possible, so I won't stay up late to finish at the same time.
The article introduces seven layers of reinventing ourselves after we are brainwashed. The two I am going to talk about is Acknowledging the Lizard and Make Art
The layer of Acknowledging the Lizard is mainly about how we ignore the resistance, which is our "fear" in our mind. It is absolutely true that when we are threatened or in an very bad situation, our mind will direct us to be "safe" first rather than taking a risk to challenge the the resistance. Here Godin teaches us that we should know what is the threat and the problem first and find a way to get rid of or just ignore those, so that our brian will work much better in creative world.
The second layer I think is interesting is the layer of Make Art. The art here is not the art art we learn in school like drawings, Godin explains his "art" means the thing will change everything. We are taught from article to take more risks to creating things. We can freely think, create, and interact with others. He also give examples that the people may not understand what is a piece of art means as the creator can, but that is the risk people should try. That is the beauty of art.
The question of the relationship between these two layers and this blog I create this quarter, actually, I think there are some connections among them. Right now I am making art as I am creating everything single new ideas in the blog. Even though this is not the way that we interact with others at the certain point, this is still classified as social network. Honestly, I think these blog assignments are too much. Even though we have two whole weeks to do these four blogs, not many people will start until the day even the night before the due time. Within in 24 hours which eliminate the time of class, sleep, eat, and other works, these are too much for me, at least. I know this is my personal problem, I should start the very early. I think if the blog is one per week is much better to balance our times on these blogs for me. This is my own thoughts about the blogs, and I probably need start working on next blogs as early as possible, so I won't stay up late to finish at the same time.
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