#10 Final brainstorm

     I’m a Food Science student. The reason why I chose the major is that I love food, and I want to figure out what is behind that delicious food, or maybe how to make it more desirable. Food is not just what we need to survive, like other material, it can reflect our lifestyle or who we are.

     For the final project, I want to create a video to show why and how I became a food scientist, what we do daily, and maybe what I will be in the future. Food science is not like what people usually think as just cuisine. It is more chemical and more biological. It can be artistic with lots of amazing reaction. We have pilot plant and chemical labs. In the video, I would take some pictures and clips to show you how this things work. I love to introduce my favorite to others. 

Failure

     My biggest failure in this class was that I always thought about normal or natural thing when brainstorming. It should not be limited in just real object. Arts can be abstract. You can see all my projects reflexed reality somehow. My creativity was limited by the real world. When I realized that, I was trying to think what happened around me rather than what I can make. It is always a good way to start with an action, not a certain object.

     My biggest success was that I work seriously on every project, and I did learn a lot. It was fun to play with the Photoshop, iMove and Garageband for the project. I had no idea at the beginning sometimes, but I started with small steps. It might come up with a better idea later, then I change my subject. As long as I was familiar with the application, it is not difficult to run another project in a short time.

     If I could redo on project, I will change the Map (micro-project 2). In that project, I just took a screenshot as my background and added some pictures. I didn’t use much technic or effect, and the way I made the map was not creative. Many wonderful projects from classmates were shown in class. They inspired me a lot. Next time, I will probably make a hand drawing map or knock several buildings together as the background, and isolate something I think interesting on the road and insert the map. Anyway, it could be done in a more creative way.

MP5 - Wrapped Block O

Action words: to knot, to tighten

     The object I chose was premium wrap. I paid attention to everything I used after I got home with this micro-project. When I opened the package of catfish which was prepared for dinner, I found the premium wrap was all stuck together and it was hard to get them apart. It suddenly turned the light bulb on – I could make a piece with the sticky premium wrap! I was thinking about making something interesting. When I was checking my e-mails, an ad of Ohio State Ring caught my eyes. Actually, it was the letter “O” on the ring. Then, I decided to make an “O” to show respect to our university.

     It took me about 12*55 in² of premium wrap in total. I made the wrap a rope, knotted it as a ring, and then twined with another piece of rope and tightened them. I got a thin ring at first, but it was not strong enough to hold the octagon structure of the letter O. Thus, I added some more wrap to the ring until it was thick enough to fold and keep the structure. After molding the octagon, my work was done – Wrapped Block O.