Final piece

I started my idea from wires and electric equipment. Electric equipment such as computers and televisions used to have a lot of wires, and it looks really messy when the number of wires becomes large. However, as far as those wires are well connected, the equipment works well so that people who use the equipment may not get the feeling of messy even it looks messy. What I want to express is that something disordered might be in order in another aspect. This is interesting because this is a harmony between two totally different feelings. We could feel this kind of harmony in our common life like messy cloud in the neat, blue sky. We would feel comfortable even if those two kind of opposite elements goes together.  

I tried to make a video with two different feelings and combine it with some sound effect but iphone is really not a good tool for making a video. I am not able to make the video I want, so I change my idea about the final piece again. 

I come up with an idea when I was trying to redo my Micro Project 5. I used the effect of mosaic in MP5 and I do like the idea of mosaic although that makes my MP5 a failure project. I like the feeling of those small segments in the picture. In my opinion, those segments are caused by some barriers, and these barriers do not look weird in the picture. We do not think those barriers look weird because we do not notice them. They exists in the picture and divide the picture in some segments in harmony. 

I took two sets of pictures to express those barriers in our life. The first sets of pictures are photos of a tree in from of my dorm. I put a piece of rice paper in front of my camera and took the first picture. One can barely recognize that as a tree. Then I took the second picture with the barrier of window-blinds. The tree is more clear now. I took the third picture with the barrier of window and the barriers become less and less. The last picture is my favorite. I took it with the barrier of screen window and the result is pretty close to I said. The barriers exists in harmony. 

The second set are pictures of trees. I choose those trees in south oval because I could take iron fence into the picture as well. However, I choose light as barrier instead of iron fence because I want to tell that we sometimes do not notice the real barriers in the pictures. At first, I choose the same angle for all four pictures and all those pictures have the angle of picture two. But the barriers of light is not that obvious in that angle for the last picture. So I change the angle for my last picture and generate that picture in the final piece. Since the angle of the last picture changes, I change the angles of rest three  pictures as well. Among these four pictures ,the last picture is my favorite because I do take light into the picture and make this invisible barrier visible. Besides, the audience may not be able to find out light is the real barrier with the last picture.


Set One

Set Two

Failure project

     The biggest failure in this semester is probably my micro project 4. I did not take an earphone with me in class so I could not get what exactly the track sounds like during the process of making it. Later I find that the effect in the trace is so loud that sounds really noisy. I failed to create a feeling of slender by giving the track to my friends. Now I realize that I should make sure what a sound track sounds like when making it. Sound tracks are different from the visual works. One cannot interpret how a sound track is by treating them as visual works. We cannot “see” how a sound track is.

     My biggest success in this semester is the micro project 5. At the very beginning of making the micro project 5, I was thinking of take a series of pictures of steam after watching the video about river in class. This is because the steam fit the word “split” well. However, I could not find any small steams near the campus area, so I change my object from steam to branch in the end. The use of Andreamosaic is a success to me. It is my first time to use this software and the effect is really pleasant. The mosaic effect in the final piece does give my friends a feeling of “split” and I am satisfied with this work as well.

     If I could redo one project, I would redo the micro project 4. I choose the micro project 4 because I know which point is not good enough in my previous work. I would use an earphone for sure and search for some more sound effect in the Internet if I could do this project again. I would also show my sound track to my friends before uploading to make sure the audience do receive a feeling of slender through the project.  

MP5

      When hearing the word “hook”, the first object I come up with is the branch. Since we need to choose an object in our daily life, I choose the tree in front of my dorm that I would see every day. The photo of a tree does fit the word “split” because the tree has a lot of branches. However, I don’t think it is “split” enough. So I pick up 12 photos of different branches on the Internet, and put these 12 pictures together by AndreaMosaic software to form the photo I took. The result is good and I do feel the word “split” from the final piece. The pictures I picked from the Internet are in the file added to carmen.  

MP 4

This is my MP 4

blog #9

Response to Carver: this novel introduces an story happens between the narrator, the narrator's wife, Laura, and a blind friend of the narrator's wife, Robert. At the beginning of the novel, the narrator's wife told the narrator that her blind friends who has not meet for 10 years is going to visit her. Laura also tells Terri that once when Robert touch her face, she got a unique feeling that she never felt before. That makes Terri unhappy of course. However, in the end of the story, when Terri holding Robert's hand drawing a Cathedral, he got the unique feeling as well. Terri get a totally different feeling and fully understand his wife.

I like this novel because by telling a story between blind people and normal people, the author introduces us a new way to feel the world. Sometimes people would feel the world much more different if they change a way to experience it. This reminds me of our MP 4. We separate the video to sound and image first. Then combine them after polishing and finally generate a brand new feeling. This novel offers us an idea of discovering the world we known in a new way, which I think is really interesting.

Blog #8

Response to Wallace: The author introduces an idea that we could change our attitude if we can not change the position we are in. This idea is really brilliant because everyone have hard time in their lives. With this idea, one then could be able to choose to be positive or negative themselves. As a student in OSU, I sometimes may mistakenly take some really difficult lessons that I would never want to go to anymore after the first exam. Keep a positive attitude myself is essential to me at this point of time.

The question I have to this article is that since the author express an idea that we could choose to be positive or negative ourselves, why I still feel his article negative after I reading it? Why don't he express the same idea in a positive way.

MP 3

My key- I choose this because I need this to allow me back to my apartment. Also, I  can not leave my door unlocked when leaving my apartment. If I do not have a key with me when I am outside of my apartment, I would probably feel panic because I have no place to go in the evening! That's not good so I would certainly take that with me.
                             Feeling of Safety

My BuckID- I choose BuckID because I could take any bus in Columbus free by BuckID! I do not need to worried about if I take change in my pocket or not. What's more, I can also buy food or print some paper work with BuckID in campus! It is incredibly convenient!
                                 Incredibly convenience

My iphone- I choose my iphone because I use this to get connected with my friends. I downloaded the app of facebook, which allows me to trace every news about my friends. I do not miss any message from my friends. Perhaps next minute I would receive a incredible news which I never want to miss from my friends' phone!
                                Stay connected 

My wallet- I choose this because wallet is really necessary for a man live near campus. There are always homeless people asking for change on high St. Avioding meeting them or take your wallet!
                              Money and Change

My contact lens- I choose this because contact lens are really amazing things for me. The world in my eye no more restructed in the frame after I change my glasses into contact lens. I would feel uncomfortable to wear my glasses again after taking the contact lens for months. I love them!
                          Brilliant field of vision