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After completing this micro project, I was amused by my own video. I couldn’t imagine how could my video changed that much after processing it with iMovie. It was a sunny day when I took the video outside the Ohio Stadium, but through the process, I changed it to night time and add some sound of rain and storm. With the sound of barking dogs and roar of the wild animals combine with the sound of people running, the video shows people being chasing by animals. The video also use a first person view so that it could show the horror of the person trying to escape from the building. Making this video was fun because I could add a lot of my ideas to it and made it unique from any other video I had seen before. It is also exciting when you try to add some sound effect and it may sometimes surprise you when they match with what happened in the video. The only thing I don’t like while processing the video is those noise behind the audio. For example, there were some people having a conversation while I was recording people walking. I had to use some other sound effect to cover it so that it won’t sounds strange while playing the video.

Blog 9

In the article written by Carver, it mainly talks about what happened when the writer met a blind man called Robert. At some point of time, Robert asked the writer to draw a picture of a house. When the writer starts drawing, he couldn’t stop. He kept drawing even ignore what his wife ask him. I think this is a normal situation when people were paying a lot of attention on one thing. When people were concern on one thing, if they lost attention, they may forget which part they were up to. That’s why a lot of artist never does anything other than painting when they were doing their work. Although I could understand people want to finish their work without any disturb, but I don’t think it is a good idea to ignore everything except your work. It is because sometimes things happened around will give you inspiration also.

Beside this, from the article we also notice that after the writer had completed his picture, he didn’t look at it with his eyes. He just feels it with his heart. Sometimes feeling something with heart may see more than with our eyes. Because your eyes can only sense the image of an object, while your heart could also feel the emotion of the picture. Which could let you understand what the writer thinking while he was working on this piece of work.

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The five objects I’ve picked were my watch, laptop, iPhone, keys and my USB mouse. I’ve picked these objects because they are the best things which could represent me. First of all, I hate being late and I always want to be on time, so I always bring my watch with me. Second, as I am an engineering major student, I always need to use my laptop for project and notes for class. The third thing I picked is my iPhone, like people nowadays, I brought my phone wherever I go and it had become part of my life. Then for keys, there are a some shopper’s cards attach to it because I like to go supermarket and buy different foods and cook them. Last but not least, my USB mouse shows that I love playing computer games. I sometimes invite my friends and play computer games together. If I would use two words to consolidate it, it will be “Unlimited Technology” because they shows I like electronics a lot!

I think the image shows my identity very well because all of them are items I always carry with. And the background is Scott Lab and Smith Lab in our campus, and I had a lot engineering classes in these two buildings. The items I’ve picked were surrounding them which shows my life on campus is “around” these items and these two places. But this image couldn’t show people what the personality of me is because all items on the image show no emotion. Also, I think these things can represent me because I bring them but it wasn’t these things made my personality.

Blog 8

In the article written by David Foster Wallace, my favorite part is the short story of an atheist got caught away from the camp in a terrible blizzard and get saved. That person thinks it is because a couple Eskimos showed his way back. But his religious friend thinks it was because he had asked God for help. This little story shows us same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people. Which means even two people have the exact same experience, their feeling toward the same thing may still vary. This is also the reason why people have different view or feelings when they look at a same piece of art work.

There is one problem for this, that’s how can we share our feelings? And here is the use of communicating. By communicating, we show our view and share our feelings. People don’t only learn from experience, but also communicating with other. Everyone have limit of time in their daily life, they don’t have enough time to experience everything, by sharing experience with friends, classmates or families, they could learn a lot things even they never experience it before.