Final Brianstorm

When I consider about the final project, the first thing come to my mind is Diablo III. It has been released by Blizzard Entertainment 1 week ago. It’s a really good PC game, and it’s a sequel of a really famous pc game Diablo II. I have been waiting for this game for like 12 years, and I really want to share my excitement with other people.

More deepgoing, I’m probably going to make this project as a mix with both pictures and a short video. I’m going to show the process of my game career with couple screenshots mixed with some reality picture by Photoshop. This will show how I enjoy the game, and also how I screw my reality life with this game, your will really feel it, because I actually throw in more than 30 hours to play it in the first 2-3 days right after the releasing date.

For the video, I may be going to show one the most excited process in the game, which is the boss fight, I’m plan to show a very hard fight, and people will feel how nervous I am, and will feel how excited I am after finish the boss.

Actually in my plan, at the end of the video or picture, you will see my hero is in the Valhalla, because he finishes what he needs to do and also pay his life for it. The whole project actually will start from my hero’s born to death.

I think this is a very excited plan, and I will do some further fix in the next couples days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1wcd1kccE&feature=youtu.be

Blog 9: Response to Carver “Cathedral”

The story is mainly talking about the narrator's wife have a friend which is a blind man who will come to visit them. The narrator feels very uncomfortable with the blind because he has no idea how to communicate with blind people. In addition, the blind man also have a special relationship with the narrator's wife which makes him feels angry. In the end, the have a dinner together, and then get to know each other finally.
I pretty like the part that the narrator trying to explain the cathedral to the blind man. He is trying  to talk to him first, and then hold his hand to draw the cathedral instead of explain it literally. This is a great connection between the narrator and the blind man, and also get me touched.

MP6

I choose the word shave as my action word. Shave is a simple word, you can easily  relate this word to like shave your mustache. However, we always  want to do something different for arts right? So I just decide to shave my hair this time, haha...
My object is obviously my electric shaver! It is one of my favorite stuff, I use it every morning, and I really cannot imagine the life that I lose it!
The  inspiration of this project is actually come from my daily, because I really want have a bareheaded hair style once, but I just do not brave enough to make such a big change, because I usually have a very long hair...However I use this project to make my dream come true haha！In the project, I use the my shaver to shave my hair and finally I get a completely bareheaded head which you can not consider it handsome, but I think it's cool!
For a technically explanation, I just use the color replacement tool to change the brush tool's color to my skin color, then I just brush my hair, and draw a new  eyebrow.
Hope you enjoy my work, Thank you.

MP5

My character's resource.

My enemy

The picture that inspire me

My work

When I thought about special abilities, I didn’t consider how many advantages that I can take from it, but what the spirit is really behind the ability itself.  Then a person just come to my mind, he is really like a true human instead of a cartoon character who live in my spirit world.  When I feel week, or I’m going to give up, he always come to me and push me forward.  He is reckless and stupid, but always takes his courage in both hands and never afraid of anything.  He is so righteous ardour and standing behind his friend. He is my favorite animation character - Monkey·D·Luffy.

Here is a short video to show this animation and Luffy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhhIa11bCY&feature=fvst 

The basic idea of this project is a mix of Luffy’s ability and the new marvels movies together. I find a really interesting part of the movie, and here is a short video to show it:

PUNY GOD 

It’s really fun right? I basically just use Luffy’s abilities to defeat the bad people in the movie which is Loki, and the spirit behind my work is I wish to use his super power to prevent anything that important to me, and defeat everything which will stop me to chase my own dream.

Hope you enjoy my work, thank you.

Blog 8

I pretty like that how Wallace start his speech, although it is a common requirement for speech in American.  He talks about two young fish are swimming, and a old fish ask them how is water, and then they are think about what the hell is water. At this point, I think he is trying to point that it not that hard to moving forward about your mind, it only matters what you think. Water is one of the most common reality object in the world, we probably will never think about what is water if Wallace didn’t mention that in his speech.

MP4

I decided to use the image of the Scott lab’s study room.   I choose this place because I spent almost all my sophomore year’s free time here.  I always study in this room, and also a little entertainment, like chat with friends.

The basic idea of my job is cut and paste my studying image to the room, and these images are actually shoot from different time, so it looks pretty interesting because it means I always study in that spot, and also looks like I'm travelling in the time line. I also adjust visuality of my images, to make it looks like it's me in the room but in the different time.  There are also some of my friend's stuff on the desk, but there obviously are no other people in this room, because I want to show how I entertain in this room with my friend, and I still want to make it my own spot, so there are no other people. 

Response to Kaprow "Blurring of art and life"

I like the author's opinion about some art exhibit in the gallery cannot count as art.  It's just like the experience I had in Wexner Center several days ago.  Some of these people's work really make nonsense to me, and I think it's just some normal object but in the different context like what the author said, and I really cannot understand why people should admire these things. In my particular opinion, art should not only depend on the people who created, it should depends on people who is enjoying it, because the art in each people's eyes is different. And i also like his opinon about the nonoticed action during our daily life, and almost 90% of out act is not noticed by ourselves. This really make sense to me, because I always feel like this.
There's no specific part that I don't like, but I do have a question. Does the author believe in like different people have different kind of art when they are the audience? Because in my point of view, brush teeth is clearly not art to me, but it's kind of art to the author.

Micro-Assignment 3, Identity and Objects

Playstation Vita – Playstation Vita is the latest handheld gaming device that released by Sony Entertainments.  I just bought it recently, and I quickly fall in love with it because I can play my favorite video game anywhere with it.

One or two words – Handheld gaming

Cellphone – I use cellphone for about 8 years, which is more than 1/3 or my entire life.  I use it to make phone calls, send and receive text messages, surfer internet and play games.  I will feel very comfortable if one day I forget to charge my phone, and can’t use it at all.  It already a indispensable object in my life.

One or two words – Connection

Ipod – Music is one of my favorite entertainments in my life, and all of my favorite songs are in my Ipod. My head will shake with the rhythm when I listen to my favorite metal rock music, and I will deeply and completely fall into the world of music.  It will make me feel really comfortable and relax.

One or two words – Comfortable and relax

Laptop – I can almost do everything I can imagine with my laptop. I use it every day to surf internet, do homework, watch videos, listen music etc. It’s a must have necessity in my life, which can solve every problem I ever have..

One or two words – All – purpose

Wallet – This is no need to explain actually. It contains all my Bank cards, and identity cards such as driver’s license and buck ID. I will lose my self without it in the modern world.

One or two words – Identification

Besides all these stuff above, there are still some characteristic of me that haven't been shown. For example,  I really like to play basketball, and hanging out with friend, however I guess people usually won't take a basketball when they got a fire lol. 

Response to Sullivan “Feet in Smoke”

This article is mainly talking about a man’s elder bother which is a musician was almost electrocuted to death, when he was listening to his new song by the microphone for his show.  The man’s brother is somehow survived from the “death”, and he told the author about the feeling during his “death”.  I like the author’s documentation about his brother’s recovery, because it makes people feel it is a truth when he is recording this one day and another, and it’s kind of funny as well.  And it is also remind me that it’s looks very similar to my favorite video game which is world of warcraft, they have a special technology called “Goblin Jumper Cables” which is using electricity to resurrect. I think it’s kind of fun. LOL

Electricity is a necessity that we have to use it every day, and we can even use it like pacemaker to save people’s life from death. However it also cause couples of accident every day, people even could die because of this. Here comes the question, is that a really good thing to use the electricity for almost everything in our daily life?

Micro Project 2

Basically this map is mixing by some pictures by my journey to the classroom, and the clue which connected all of these pictures is the route chart which is cut from the Google Map. And I use the blue color instead of the white, which means the beautiful sky every morning. Also a cartoon sun to show my favorite sunshine during the journey.

It's actually the hardest part for me that everyday when I try to get out of my bed in the morning.  However, after I clean up, and go outside, I can feel very comfortable with the fresh air and beautiful sunshine, I can even smell it. I usually walk to the classroom. And after a couple of steps, here we go, my favorite stone will show up. It is very beautiful and has a big "O" on it which is a symbol of our school. After that I will go across some nice house, then we will meet the Lane and High cross, which is the worst part of the journey, because of the loud car noise, it will make you feel unhappy to hear such a noise in the morning right after you get up. Then after a straight long walk and a simple left turn, our stadium will show up, which means our best class is ready to go! yepppy!!! :)

Complement Explenation: My basic idea is use the google map to be my bacground, but I feel that other road or building besides my trip to classroom is useless, so I simply just cut them off by scale tool. And I put a pure light blue background instead, to represent the blue sky during the trip.  And I also use some pictures that involves my five senses, like the stone that I've seen makes me happy, the car noise from the cross,  the fresh that I've smelled etc.

Wexner Review

Art is very mysterious word for me, before I took Art Education this quarter.  However, even I’m study art right now; it’s still a mystery actually.  When I went to the Wexner center for the arts last weekend, I really feel the mysterious of arts.  The first impression about the Wexner center to me is the architecture structure.  It is really beautiful and creative.  And it’s almost the only thing I can understand that can be considered as art.  The art work inside the Wexner center is beautiful, and the most impressive part to me is David Smith’s work.  He’s work is almost like some assemble structure of cubes.  It’s beautiful but it’s hard to catch his mind.  And there is one special work watch attract me a lot.  It structured by some spheres and cuboid, and they are just pile up there like in a pretty chaos order.  The whole work is in completely white; however the name of the work is “color”.  I’m trying so hard to catch the author’s mind, but apparently I can’t, and I really wish to know it. :P

Micro-project 1

unstable

stable

Symmetrical

Asymmetrical

Radial 

My name on campus

person up close

Person and their surrounding space

An image from the point of view of a bird

An image from the point of view of an ant

This is kind of experience which very different than the last one. Although they are all taking photos, but this time I pay much more attention on it, and I also know more about shooting skills. This is actually much more fun than the last one, because we have a certain goal to deal with, but not like just randomly pick up some photos. My favorite is the basketball court one, because it really show my characters, which is outgoing and crazing on basketball. 

Pictures

Response to Hornby “Nipple Jesus”

This article is basically talking about the security guard of an art gallery screwed up his job, and let a picture which is named “nipple Jesus” to be ruined by some protesters.  He is very sad about that, and he felt how much he loved this picture after he lost it.  But the artist of “nipple Jesus” is very happy about that, because he thinks the work which brings controversy is the actual good work.  I actually pretty like the artist’s thought, because if an art work is just stand here and no one even notice it that is a failure.  However, if someone hit your work so much and even want to ruin it, that’s means your work attract people, it’s kind of successful.

In the end of the story, the guard said the artist’s movie of the nipple Jesus’s CCTV movie is not succeed, and in my mind the novel might want to show that people should not be that arrogant like the artist, but it’s might be wrong. So my question is what the actual meaning beyond the surface is, or what is the author actually trying to say about?

Response to the Walker and Barrett articles

WALKER

This article is pretty much talking about big idea in artmaking.  I like the idea because it is very helpful on introducing personal idea in to people’s art work.  Since I always search online for the inspiration, before I created my work, this is kind of helpful for me.

However, one thing that makes me dislikes this article.  Since we study the academic writing for such a long time we know that only giant idea is not a good stuff for your work, you need specific and small point to make point of your work helpful. So this article may not comprehensive enough in my point of view.

Barrett

This article is quite useful for me, because it introduces a good skill when you do your visual art work.  Denotation and connotation are both very important for people who are using the metaphorical way to do art work.

However, I still hold a question after I read the article.  This article is always using the example to explain the differences of denotation and connotation, but I still don’t get is there a strict bound that can divide these too skills? Because, in my mind, sometimes things which are denotative can always be connotative as well.

Response to the Kidd, Hickey and Weschler articles

KIDD

Although I’m not quite sure that if I understand this article correctly, but I’m trying to explain it form my understanding. This article is mainly talking about “forms” in our life. It’s like top to bottom, left to right, front to back, big and small.  In our life, we all have this kind of common sense, or “form”, that everything should go from left to right, top to bottom etc. 

One thing about why I don’t like this article is it’s too hard to understand.

HICKEY

The second article talk about one of the most epic NBA finals in the history ever, and it starts to talk about the basketball history from it has been designed many years ago. It taught me a lot of basketball history, since I like basketball, but knows poorly about the history.

I’m actually struggling on reading such a long article which full of pure history knowledge; it’s too boring for me.

WESCHLER

The third article mainly talking about people use high technology to simulate the human face, like what is the principle, and how people work on it.

This is an interesting article for me because it’s talking about the high technology. This idea connects me to another interesting question.  If they can simulate human’s face now, when can they reach the final destination of computer science, which is the artificial intelligence?

Self Introduction

   My name is Yuancheng Li, and if you want to call me Leo it's fine, because it's more convenience for people who speak English. :)  

I come from China, and I’m 21 years old. This is the second year I've been here.  I actually have many hobbies.  I love music, and Melodic Death Metal is my favorite.  Kalmah is my favorite band, which is the best death metal band ever.  I also crazy about electronic devices, actually almost all the higher technology attract me deeply.  During free time, I’m trying to follow every information about the new phone, new laptop, new hardware and software. They are all so fascinating to me.  I like sport very much, and basketball is my favorite.

Top five video games:

1.     World of warcraft

2.     Warcraft 3

3.     Mass effects

4.     Sid Meier’s Civilization V

5.     Need for speed