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

Cardiff and Miller is a couple of artists who are known for their sound art work. Unlike other artists, they prefer the sound to create their art, recording different people's lives and projects, like using the sound of station to create one project. Cardiff said that 'What comes before and after, though, is just as important.' When the author was on the iPod walking through the train station, he got so involved and focused on what he was hearing in the iPod speakers and what he was seeing on the screen he thought it was actually real life. Therefore, he even tried to avoid the approaching things on unconscious. That reminds me the world’s first film screening in 1985. When Auguste and Louis Lumière played their shot film of train, most of the audience tried to avoid the coming train. 

I really enjoyed this article and The way Cardiff and Miller present their art has broaden my mind. I found nothing difficult to interrupt my reading. 

MP 2

My journey begins from my apartment Harrison apartment to Schoenbaum hall and finally to Ohio Stadium. This is a typical path of my Wednesday and Friday classes. I am the person who likes to record instant moment of people and objects in my life so I love to take pictures everywhere. I took most of the pictures with my iPhone on my way walking to classroom. Actually, when in my first Art Education class, I am really confused as it is located at the stadium and at that day it took me a lot of time to find it. What makes my journey special is that these pictures are taken at different time, different day and different weather. The one with some cloud around is recorded on a day I woke up and I saw it was going to rain and the clouds were like crazy to get together so I cannot wait to take the picture. For another one having a leaf on the ground, I took it a week ago and it was really cold at that time just after a heavy snow. I saw that leaf although it was so tiny but was really beautiful with some snow covered on it. Also, for the one with Schoenbaum hall, I pictured it today because today is sunny day, which can make my work adding something warm besides those cloudy or snowy day pictures. The background I used is one morning when I walked to school, I just thought why not took my shoes, it is like a moment I went to class in such bad weather but I still felt excited as I never saw a big snow in my life before. Besides, I draw the routine line and building name by myself, which can more represent my personal experience of this work.

Response to Hornby “Nipple Jesus”

When Dave first looks the picture of Nipple Jesus, he loves it. However, when he gets closer to it and finds the artwork is made by lots of small nipple pictures, he thinks it is rude for Jesus and totally hates the artwork. But finally, after the whole day, he changes his mind again and considers it is an intelligent way to make the artwork brilliant. He even disappointed when the artwork is destroyed because he seems have fallen in love with the artwork. This kind of change reminds me how one’s opinion can change during the time. Most of the time, we people’s opinion will change because the change of time, emotion, environment and others’ opinion. It is often that we see someone have one hobby but as time goes on, he becomes crazy about another thing and totally forgets his love about the original ones.

One thing that confused me a little bit is people’s strong emotion towards the artwork. A Christian even throws eggs to the picture! All in all, it is only a piece of artwork. No matter what it consist of, the whole picture is still Jesus.

Response to Ono

       Like the author in the article told us, Yoko Ono "clutters our view, inward and outward". The first two picture and video i found is the period when John Lennon was still alive. They are the perfect couple no matter in the stage or in their life. When he was gone and other tragic things happened to her, she just uses another way to express her lonely and sadness as an artist. Maybe her art could not be understood by most of people, but she got the attention from people and people can understand what she has experienced. 

      Such as the second video, before opening the video, i thought it was an ordinary cover song. But when her singing coming out, i even bothered to continue watching it. Thinking a while, i believe that this way is probably her own way to make art, to present the negativity, to speak out her inner voice although it may not so beautiful as others. So that's why the author said Yoko is a genius, an ultimate feminist, that she knows how to liberate herself. This article really arises my interests and i found there was no many difficulties for me to read it, instead, i looked up a lot of information from website and have a more deep understanding of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Micro Project 1

Asymmetrical image

Symmetrical image

Radical image

Person and their surrounding space

Person up close

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 name on campus

The first ten pictures and the second ten pictures are all from my daily life. Also, they are taken from the perspectives i would like to present to other people. The difference i can think about is that the second group pictures needed more attentions to be taken. I need to find out like how to think as an ant in order to take the picture from the point of view of it. The last picture that show my name on campus is hard work, as my name is quite long and i took the most of time among ten pictures to finish it. And i used a picture software to edit it to make it like my name. Although it is a tough way, i found it is most enjoyable for me. It is a great opportunity for me to walk around the campus to find my name. I mean, i do it for my assignment but in the same time i relax myself a lot away from the heavy study burden and have a great time to take the trip in the campus. My favorite image is the radical one. It looks like a quite ordinary one but i just tried thinking hard to how to take a radical image. All of sudden, i saw my orange in my fridge and i said to myself, why not cut it in half and make it like a radical image. Then, i did it and this is how it presents. 

One Day in my life and Response to Walker and Barrett

A funny car with Elk antlers !

A view from some chair near Oval, looking like a painting

The ad from downtown, really impressive

The apartment where i live, the harrison which is quite near campus

The lunch which my roommates and i made, a very traditional Chinese meal

The clouds seemed like be covered with a plastic bag

The trees are off leaves and bared 

The night view from Easton shopping mall

The salmon my friend ordered, and it was baked with cedar. Yummy, yummy!

The dessert time!

Response to Walker and Barrett articles

Walker

        The author in the article said that an big idea is not always the same as the theme and subject matter does not mean an big idea, which is really interesting. Actually, as for me, i always consider theme as the most important role in a art because the artists have to follow their theme. But now, I come to realize that there is big ideas that beyond the theme. Big idea is kind of a series of theme when they are creating their work. The author used the example of Motherwell's art. The theme of his series is death but the big idea is about human emotions. In addition, I think it is easy for us to tell the differences between subject matter and big idea. Subject matter is what the painting seems to talk about but big idea is the things the work really about. For example, if a painting is about sunflower, then sunflower is the subject matter. However, the big idea could be more diverse like happiness, strength, or anything that reflect the spirit of sunflower.

     I do not find anything quite difficult for me to understand this article actually. 

Barrett

       In this article, black Sambo is an metaphor that reflects the stereotypes. Due to the feeling of fears, the racists may create the black images linked with violent tools like guns or knives. It is also possible that the racists claimed black men are good at sports while they are poor in brain. In some degree, this kind of situation presents envy and jealous. As a matter of fact, it is not rare in our daily life. One may spread a rumor that his colleagues or classmates are dangerous to make others convinced they are bad only because he feels threatened by their talent.

     One thing that I feel a little confused is the example of Barthes' analysis of the Panzani spaghetti ad. In fact, I could not recognize how this ad reflect the distinction between denotations and connotations. From the article, I know the ad shows the freshness of the products and the Italianicity. Is the freshness means the denotations and Italianicity refers to connotations? I just think it does not illustrate the true meaning detailedly and appropriately.

Thanksgiving @ New York

The Hotel where we live, a very beautiful and modern decoration one 

The view on Soho

My friend Menghan and i are having afternoon tee at a Italian restaurant. Best Tiramisu ever have !

An old police department attracting lots of people

The China town always gathers crowds there

Having a Hong Kong style breakfast, yummy yummy!

Enjoying Mamma Mia, really really fabulous !

Street View on fifth avenue, which can be seen a lot on the movies

Do not know the name of the building, but really impressive

We are leaving NY City, Bye !