All of the three images I took in the library. You can find most of the international students In SEL. Are they really wanna stay there? Or why they stay there. I wanna use the funny picture that the person is very smaller than the objects to show sometimes we can not handle everything in this country or in this world. We think we are strong but are we?

The first one I am in the coffee. Personally, i thInk coffee is good but I dont really drink  a lot.  This picture I wanna show I feel bored with the  food on campus and also wanna say even if you have a lot coffee during the final, you still can not fcous on studying.

The second one is I am dancing on the keyboard. We use computer every day. It is becoming part of our life. It is the connection between us and our family, friends, others, and the world. 

The last one is I am walking on a pen. The pen is upward. Life is like this pen. Its has the valley and peak. Even if , where we are, we need to be positive .hehe. And I also wanna say  the studying and exploring , experiencing what you dont know are the things you wont regret in our life. Being honest t yourself and enjoy the life ...ohahahahahahahahhah

project 3



These five things are chinese hot pot sauce, phone, Rooney Mara's poster, passport and my bunnies.
My favorite Chinese food is hot pot. I usually bring a lot sauceAmerica to  when I back China .Oh, i love the spicy food. I want to eat them every secons. For the phone, I can all people , play the games, listen to the music and shoot the pictures. I bring it so that i will not be bored and always have something to do. After I watched the movie" The Girl Withh Dragon Tattoo", I am becoming the fans of that girl and Rooney Mara. I like she is cool and indepent. I dont know, I just feel like when I see her, I can get a feeling of getting the strength. The passport is the identity for me. I need to being it whereever I go. The last one is bunny. I like bunny and collect bunny stuff. I bronght something when I came to here. And I also bought some in American. I feel like I am happy when I sleep with them. hahaha =）

blog reading 3

WALKER BIG IDEA

Big idea in art is the deeper concerning and understanding in life showed by the art. The writer talks about the relationship between theme, subject matter and big idea. Sometimes, the big idea is the same as theme. Big idea always is expressed by the subject matter. Then he also use Jennifer’s art work to talk about how big idea is expressed in the art. I like the teaching tips like the questions asked to students. These let me think how to think through what do I want to show people in my project and how to use the comparison of color, line and other elements in drawing to show my big idea. I think if an art work has an big idea in it, it will be meaningful and educational. And before you come up with a big idea with one subject, we need to know very well about that part. So you can have a good understanding, rather than making others confused you.

My confusion about this reading is the explanation about her work. I feel kind of hard to understand it. For example, the painting “ the garden”, how it can make sense with she wants to break the rule?

Barrett Connote/Denote

This reading is about the connotation and denotation in the art. I feel like this reading is kind of same like “Walker Big Idea”. The connotation is like the subject matter which give people the directly visual feeling. Denotation is like the big idea which is hiding behind the connotation. However, for denotation and big idea these two concepts are different. My thinking is big idea is what the creators want the people know. The main idea is confirmed. For, denotation, the same as the big idea is it has what creator want people have a type of feeling when they see the work. Different people can have different feelings. For example, different ages kids have little different reaction with the Teddy bear. I feel like the denotation is kind of like the people’s identity. We can have other own identity, but people can still put different dentity to us, even if they don’t know us. For example, I am Chinese. But if I usually stay and live with Americans, some people will think maybe I am Asian American. So , actually I just have the identity of Chinese. But people give me an identity of Asian American.

I think I understand this reading. My little confusion is what is the first picture in the first page “ cut and paste” mean?   

project 2

(i dont know why this is very smaller-.-)
This map is about our thinking on our way to the classroom. I use the pictures i took when i walk to classroom in the morning. And add the some funny pictures to express my feeling and thinking.

My apartment is in the west lane. The first picture is about my apartment. Our class is at 9:30. But i usualy get up at 9:10.haha .So the next pictures are about I was very sleepy. Then  walk, walk , i was still sleepy but better than when i just woke up. And i ramdonly cheack the time on my phone, I just realized i will be late for class. But i just felt ok with that -.-..Maybe the teacher looks like very nice ..Then i saw a statue. I felt pretty funny and made me feel fresher. I copied the style in my heart.. That traffic light is speacial. Every wednesday at around 9:30, i usually meet a guy i dont know who he is , but i think he is kind of  handsome?! So, just image in my mind, may be next time can say hi- -and hang out in the end...OMG..btw i think i wont do that...Then i saw Klnowton hall, I found some Roman style pillars was standing there. When i wanted to think about what that is , i know it was 9:32. I ran for the class in the end.
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I put the picture i took and download in the internet in different layers, and changed their size.

Blog2 reading

KIDD THE CHEESE MONKEYS

One of the reasons I like this reading is the language and structure. For example, “ Ladies and Gentlemen ”, “ you are going to war” and “ Now that’s where the real fun begins”. The writer use lots formal words that make this book not like a book, like a conversation between readers and writers. This style actually as the same as what the author talks about in the book, the new thinking about the drawing. He analogies our normal thinking about drawing is like our enemy. We need to think about us and break the rules about the drawing. After that, we are going to a new world.  He talks about big and small, left to right, front and back, top and bottom and from and content these stuffy to describe his think about drawing. I think the writer want use to know we need to be a conceptive, and detail-oriented before we drawing.

The problem for me about this reading is it looks like preface or introduction about this book and his main idea. I kind of hard to exactly know what does he want to talk about the war and who is your enemy. How we can beat them and so on. But in a word, I think this book must be very cool which is written by a cool person. And I also very interested about the book name “ cheese monkeys’

WESCHLER UNCANNY VALLEY

I like the movie “The Lord of the Rings” which also uses the digital animators which is the main idea in this reading. I was surprised and shocked by the characters that are created by human when I watch the “The Lord of the Rings”. That’s an amazing.  From this reading, I know that its very difficult to make a digital animators. For examples, how to make the skin looks soft like the real man? There are 44 muscles in a human face and a person can have 5000 facial expressions. How to put the soul into digital animators to make audience can feel their emotions?  Another problem is they can not make the animators too real. :0…

The confusion is another point in this reading their job is not creating the new and real man, is to fool audience. That is enough . haha ..So are we cheated by the creators?  How to explain and understand this point?

as-is

the ant view

the bird view

the people and thing around her

the unstable

the stable

the name on campus

the radial one

the person up close

the Symmetrical

the Asymmetrical

When i tool the photo this time, i felt i had more thinking because we have the topic. I just ramdonly took the picture before. And i also found i had some difficulty this time. Because i always not sure if i was right to the topic.

i like the porcess of taking pictures, like thinking how and where to take the pictures. When you figure out how to take one picture, we may be go to different places and obeserve more carefully than before. For example, if i didnt take the photo of the flower in the oval closly this time, i wouldnt find how beautiful they are. I always glance at them when i passes the oval.

My favotie is the stable flower one. Because this picture gives people an feeling of attractive because their wonderful color. This photo makes me happy and feel the spring is coming.

These picture are randomly in my albums. My friend borrowed my camera though. Hope these are OK=）

B1-introduction

Hello, this is Bixi. You can call me Joyce:). I am Sophomore in Math major. When I tell people my major, most of them will be surprised and think I am smart. I choose it because I wasn’t good at it in high school and want to learn more about this scary major. - -…I just know I ‘enjoy’ the pain that math gives me. I have been in America nearly two years. Rather than feeling painful in the beginning of my American life, I enjoy the life here right now, meeting diverse people and experience the surprise no matter good or bad in this country. Btw, I still miss the food in china. I love traveling. Miami and Chicago are my favorite cities in America until now. Chicago is a  combination with history and modern. I really like watching people’s performance in the subway. Miami is fresh letting me feel happy. I like watch movie like the girl with dragon tattoo this kind of movie. And I like singing when I have the shower, even I am not a good singer. I usually cook at home, so kind of good at cooking. I practiced Kung Fu in a whole summer before I came to American, in case I can protect myself when I am in dangerous. But it seems like useless right now. I like here. Haha.