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The article “How I Learned to Love Yoko Ono” written by Lisa Carver mainly talks about Yoko’s personality and her art works. In the article, the writer indicates that there are two different schools of art: The one who create arts which is beautiful and the one who make viewer to see or feel what is already beautiful. In my opinion, I think both of them are equally important. We always need artist who create arts, but not all of them could be shown to the public as not all artist have money or power to show their arts. So they need someone who can help them to show their arts to others. And those people have to understand art a lot to determine which art is good and beautiful. The article also states that some people might feel Yoko is weird, but she never cares about how people think and continue create her own works. Which I think is very important to an artist. They shouldn’t concern about what other thinks but only concern on their own work. Because other people’s idea doesn’t mean what you have in your mind.

But it is also a problem if you do not accept other’s ideas. It is because everyone got their own point of view, not everyone could understand what feeling your art is trying to express. To solve this problem, they best way is you first create an art by yourself, then you show it to others, listen to their opinion, than try to apply those opinions to your next art work. Never make any changes to arts you already done. Because this action will definitely change the whole feeling of your art.

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The article “Big Ideas and Artmaking” was written by Walker. The article is about how ideas affect the creation of arts. Sometimes we might get big ideas, and we could develop them and made those ideas into arts. The writer even claims that the idea is more important than the subject. Because subject matters the topic of the art while idea matters the concept. So a good idea really changes the quality of an art.

But if we concern too much on idea and ignore subject, we cannot create good art either. It is because we cannot make an art without subject. No matter how brilliant your idea is, it cannot transform to an art. So I think artist should first according to their ideas in their mind to set up the subject and title. Then expend their mind base on that subject and title they had set up.

The article “Interpreting Connotations in Visual Culture” written by Barrett is about the connotations in vision arts. The article states that arts always trying to show us something or want to express something. So it is very important for use to understand what the artist is trying to express and which is hidden behind their art. Sometimes those clues were very difficult to find and we have to look at the art really carefully to find those clues.

In my opinion, expressing emotion with hidden clues sometimes might change the whole feeling of the art we are trying to create. But if the clue is not easy to find, people may just ignore them. So it is really hard to decide how we should set up those clues. I think this is very import for an artist to think about before they are trying to add those things to their arts.

Response to the Kidd, Hickey and Weschler "Uncanny Valley" articles

The very interesting thing the article Kidd taught me is how you could use the difference of large and small to made things shows differently. Besides the size of the object, the essay also suggested overlapping is another method to make one thing in front of another thing in two-dimensional plane. Those methods remind us we shouldn't always look at one thing in same way, sometimes we have to see the same thing from another side and we might get totally different feeling.

This article might find difficult to understand of you are trying to understand it as a three-dimensional world. Because some of the method suggested in the essay were impossible in a 3-D world but only possible in 2-D world. The other thing hard to understand in this essay were the last part. Design a moment in time, it really confuse me when I first saw this phrase. But I think it might means one very special period of time means a lot to our life and it might change our life.

For Hickey’s article told us that the “illegal-defense rule” banned zone defenses, which was one of the ways to defend in basketball, didn’t made the game worse but better. Which also means forbidden something which make the game unbalance will actually improve the game. By applying this to our life, these rules also give us the border line of doing something. For example, if we were creating arts, we shouldn't make something which might hurt others or violate the law, but beside that, we can expend our mind and do whatever we have in our mind.

In the article, it states that some people want to apply a “winning program” to basketball game, assign player to specific “position” within “system”. I think this is totally wrong because no one likes to watch a basketball game run by a program. It will be boring and repeating as the game is following a formula while it had been created. It is an exactly same situation for arts. We don’t want to create art with a program, this will make most of the arts in the world looks similar. So I think people should always be creative and not just following or copying other’s works.

In Weschler's article, while the staffs were creating 3-D characters, they had failed many times but they never give up. Even a very tiny problem they had to use much more time to think how they can solve it. This really encourages me because in our society, there are too many people give up immediately when they face problem. They never try to think of any ways to solve the problem but only think they could never make it and give up.

It’s hard to understand why those said the 3-D characters to be “too real”, in my opinion, I think it will be better to make a 3-D character as real as possible. But why they don’t want those characters looks real? The only reason I could think of might be the character’s skin were too detailed and looks scary. But besides this I couldn't think of any other reason not to make those characters more real. 

Hi Everyone!!

Hi, my name is Clinton. I am from Hong Kong and I've been studying two years in New Jersey before coming to OSU. I am studying engineering and planning to enter ECE major. I want to get a job in the area of electronic engineer. In my spare times, I like surfing the internet, finding interesting videos and pictures. I also love going out with my friends and try out restaurants wherever I seen. The best five restaurant in Columbus were: Joys Village ( a Chinese restaurant and their Joys Village tofu were the best!!), Buckeye Donuts (I used to have them for breakfast), Noodle's Company ( they got different kind of noodles and desserts for you to pick~), Chipolte (they could fill your stomach no matter how hungry you are!!), last but not least, Fortune Chinese restaurant (  their Hui Guorou were the best Chinese food I've ever had in Ohio!!)