MP4 - Experience in corridor

     There is a long corridor in my apartment building. My home is at one end of the corridor. I have to open tons of doors to get to my friends’, which is at the other end. It is a corridor without any window, so there is nothing much to see, it is quite focus me on my hearing and smelling. It is quite interesting that I can smell different things when opening each door, and I begin to guess what it is. Sometimes I can hear what they are doing, but not always. It was difficult to show what I smell in the video, so I decided to pick up several things I can hear or just imagine that I hear when I smell. When I heard these things I drew a picture in my mind, like those scenes displayed in my video.

     The first door in the video was the door of my home. As I mentioned, I live at the end of building, so I can hear birds singing in the morning from the side door. The second door was in the corridor. When opening, I smelled a fresh odor of breakfast. Suddenly, I heard a sound seemed to be from the toaster. I imagined that the household was making a delicious meal. When the third door is opening, I heard someone washing, probably brushing his teeth. It was an interesting experience that I could know what is happening around even I couldn’t see.

     I recorded as I walked through the corridor, took several photos shown what I imagined, then put them together in iMovie. I took 3 video clips of mimicry of what I heard and smelled, separated the sound from the clip, and then adjusted the length and synced them with the pictures in my video. The video shows the cross sense when walking in the corridor. There are more than three doors, but I have to keep the video in 1 minute so I just picked up 2 of them with one of my home.

#9 Response to Carver “Cathedral”

     In the article, narrator talks about his experience with his wife’s blind friend. At the beginning, his wife seemed to have a special relationship with the blind man, which made the narrator jealous. That is a funny part and reduces me to read and find out what happen later on. When they met, the narrator showed unfriendly to the blind man, and he didn’t know how to communicate with a blind man since he never had a friend liked that. The atmosphere was a little awkward until his wife fell asleep and they began a real conversation. The narrator tried to watch the blind man’s feeling and described cathedral on TV. Then, they started to draw a cathedral as the blind man suggested. It was a different experience that the narrator never had before. At the end, I think he could understand the blind man more.

     The narrator mentions that the blind man touched his wife years before, and himself was drawing the cathedral with his eyes closed. It tells me even though someone is blind, he could or has to feel the world in other ways. It might be more about a feeling deep in heart. 

#8 Response to Wallace “This is Water”

The article starts with a story between two young fish and an old fish about "what is water". The water is something that around you all the time that you even don't realize. A fish can only see the water from its point of view, therefore the opinion is subjective. The author tells many stories to explain the theory, like the atheist and the religious. This kind of things can be seen everywhere. People always can find their own way to explain a phenomenon, especially with a strong believe, like region. 

The article is quite straightforward. I agree that one's opinion is based on his or her value. It is important to notice the "water". However, rarely people can exactly tell what the water actually is. Because every idea is just from one view, if we want to know the whole thing, probably we need tons of ideas so that we could create a relatively large scale of concept that more achieve the truth. We should keep the "water" in mind.

#5 Wexner Review

     I went to the Wexner Center of the Arts on Sunday. It was an exhibition showed the work of photographer Annie Leibovitz. There were three sections of her work. The first one was the Master Set that contains 156 pictures she shot for the magazines. The second one, the Pilgrimage, was quite different from the first one. She traveled with her daughter and sometimes with her assistant, and take the pictures for fun and more personal, not for the journals. I like this part, because I can enjoy the pictures for their beautiful scene with a little introduction from the handout, rather than knowing the people in the first section. 

     I was impressed by the picture of rattlesnake skeleton that I had never seen before. My favorite ones were Spiral Jetty. Not only the picture were pieces of arts, but also what was inside. The work was created by Robert Smithson on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. As the environment varies, the piece appear some time and disappear some other time. That was so amazing.

     

MP3: Identity and Objects

Laptop - This is definitely the most important thing to me.  It is thin and easy to carry with me everyday. As a student, I have all my homework, notes and lecture materials on my laptop. It is more convenient than hard copies. I also use it to listen to music, watch videos and play online games for pleasure. Basically, laptop is everything to me. It will drive me crazy if it is lost someday.
One or two words - everything

Lab coat - I choose this because I'm a food science student and I have lots of lab that I need my lab coat. I'm thinking about going to graduate school, so I have to do research in my leisure time. I love the white coat. It makes me look like a scientist.
One or two words - profession

Wallet - Actually, I need the things inside the wallet everyday. The wallet itself helps me keep the important things together so that I only need to take one thing with me instead of many things individually. It a big wallet that can hold lots of things, even my huge cellphone which cannot be set in my pocket. There are credit card, Buck ID, driver license, cash and keys in my wallet, which I used everyday.
One or two words - organizing

Cellphone - I need my cellphone not only to communicate with my friends and roommate but also to check the weather, the bus, Facebook and playing games. It is a smart phone, a alternative to laptop. It occupies most of the time when I cannot sit down and check something on the laptop.
One or two words - computer substitute

Coffee cup - I love the material and shape of the cup. I usually get coffee or hot water in my cup from cafe on campus. In the cold weather, it warms me up with a hot drink. It is a gift from my best friend, and I have used it for years. It reminds me the happy old times we spent together in China.
One or two words - warmness & memories

I center the laptop because it is the most important thing to me. As bigger is always bigger, the laptop is also the biggest one of the five. The others surrounding are in similar size just to highlight the central subject. This picture indicates that I highly rely on electronic devices (laptop & cellphone) and that I keep old friend in mind (coffee cup), and also what I do (lab coat). However, there is still something it doesn't show. I love cooking and trying out every type of new foods. It is difficult to show on the picture - apparently I cannot take a pan with me everyday!