Monday-Nov 30, 2009

Today is another enjoyable day which Jimmy has talked about presentation and storytelling. He asked us to tell three things about ourselves that two things have to be true and one is not true. All of us have to stand in front of the class and give a speech which I think this is a good practice before we have our final presentation next Monday. Most of us get nervous when we stand in front of the class because of the body language which is moving their bodies, looked up on their left hand side or folding their arms; however, some of them were good presenters. We have discussed a little bit about how to avoid the body language when we have a presentation, and we have to read our audiences while we give a speech. we have to tell about what we have done during Thanksgiving after we finished the presentation.

3 adjectives:
1) infuriating:
-causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening.

2) Slippery:
- tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface.
- tending to slip from the hold or grasp or from position.
- likely to slip away or escape.
- not to be depended on; fickle; shifty, tricky, or deceitful.
- unstable or insecure, as conditions.

3) Instrumental:
- serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- performed on or written for a musical instrument or instruments.
- of or pertaining to an instrument or tool.

Monday- Nov 23, 2009

We have looked at other students' posters and their creative briefs at the beginning of class, and we voted on each posters which has a great concept. Jimmy asked us to pick one poster that impressed us after the voting. Then Jimmy told us a story and asked us to close our eyes to imagine it. At the end of the story is we ended up enter the cave, there are many doors that have different names on it and opened the door which has our own name on it. Then, he asked us to drew what we have seen after we opened the door. I have seen my parents and my dog after I opened the door. At the end of the class, Jimmy has given and talked about the final project to us.

3 adjectives

1) Aesthetic:
-pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.
- having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.
- pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.

2) Dogmatic:
-of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal.
- asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.

3) Emphatic:
- uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- forceful; insistent.
-very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking.
- Phonetics. having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.

Monday-Nov 16, 2009

At the beginning, Jimmy has asked about what is the one thing you learned from Kim Baer? I think I have known that how Kim Baer's passion can last more than one year, and how she reached the topic to see anything that is related to her project. I think it is good for us because I have tried it when we have an assignment about to create 30 sketches to persuade other students come to enroll to CSULA to study graphic design. Also, Jimmy has talked about if you have any concept, you have to sketch out and sketches can clearly communicate intention, and it can express your idea or concept. After the dicussion, we have walked around the classroom and looked at other students' 30 sketches of posters, and Jimmy also asked us to give a rating to every poster that we like it or dislike. Most of them have really great ideas for the posters and presentation.

3 adjectives
1) Pragmatic:
-of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
-treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results.
- of or pertaining to the affairs of state or community.

2)Intuition:
- perceiving by intuition, as a person or the mind.
- perceived by, resulting from, or involving intuition.
- having or possessing intuition.
-capable of being perceived or known by intuition.

3) Theoretical:
-of, pertaining to, or consisting in theory; not practical.
-existing only in theory; hypothetical.
-given to, forming, or dealing with theories; speculative.

Monday-Nov 9, 2009

On the Monday class, Jimmy has taught us to play a game. We have to pass an objects to a person who is sitting next to you, and ask that person "This is a who." Then, the person have to ask "A who?", and you have to say "A who." , and the person has to say "Oh, a who." Although it is just a simple ask and answer question, it is really tough for most of us, and especially when two objects met at the same person. However, we still can't make it after an hour. I think this game showed that communication and concentration were so important to everyone because even this simple ask and answer questions still can make people messed up which way to ask and which way to answer. I have told my friends about this game, and they suggested that let's play it as a drinking game, but I don't think we will make it while we are drunk. After the game, we have looked at our classmates' assignments. The one I like the most is Jessica Vance because she placed different scents in the bottle which represented different part of her memories in her life. Although I didn't get a chance to smell the scents, but it was so special to me.

3 adjectives.
1) Shady:
- abounding in shade; shaded.
- giving shade.
- shadowy; indistinct; spectral.
-of dubious character; rather disreputable.

2)Granular:
-of the nature of granules; grainy.
- composed of or bearing granules or grains.
- showing a granulated structure.

3) Laxative:
- of, pertaining to, or constituting a laxative; purgative.
-(of the bowels) subject to looseness.
- (of a disease) characterized by looseness of the bowels.

Wednesday-Nov 4, 2009

On Wednesday class, Jimmy had talked the highlights and low light for our assignment since the first day of class. Most of the students thought that apples and blog are too much work to do, and most of the students liked game day. After the discussion of the highlight and low light, we have watched TED ideas worth spreading. Those speakers are Scott McCloud, John Maeda, Paula Scher and Milton Clasor. I like John Marda the most because he is so funny and he talked about the simplicity, and he used Cheetos and potato chips to draw butterflies which I have never thought that food can also create an art work.

3 adjectives
1) Pliable:
-easily bent; flexible; supple.
-easily influenced or persuaded; yielding.
- adjusting readily to change; adaptable.

2)Lorn:
- forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.
-Archaic. lost, ruined, or undone.

3) kinky:
- full of kinks; closely twisted.
-closely or tightly curled.

Monday-Nov 2, 2009

At the beginning of the class, Jimmy had talked about how to talk about your ideas. First of all you have to understand your audience and read your audience to see if they are understanding your concept or not. Jimmy had also taught us that don't show the work you don't like and don't stop until there is something you like. He had told us about his experience that he would like to work on few different sketches in one project, and he would choose at least three sketches or ideas that he thinks it is the best to his presentation. On the other hand, he had talked about a little bit stage fright in the class, and asked who has stage fright. I was so surprised when I saw few people raising their hands because I think most of my classmates are the good presenters and they know how to explain their ideas well in the class. Then, we have discussed the new games in the end of the class. Most of the students had drawn 20 sketches for one game, and some of them had drawn 20 sketches for few new games.

3 adjectives
1) Finespun:
- spun or drawn out to a fine thread.
-highly or excessively refined or subtle.

2) Gruesome:
-causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly.
-full of or causing problems; distressing.

3) Grizzly:
- somewhat gray; grayish.

Oct 26, 2009

On Monday class, every student had to bring games to class. Then we have separated into a group and started to play games. I have chosen to play The Game of Life because I haven't played it for long time ago, and I was totally forgot how to play. An hour later, I lose in this game because I am the person who was the poorest. We have played Uno after finished playing The game of life, and we have also played Snake and ladder. It really had fun and enjoy it because I don't have to think about anything and just played games with my classmates.

3 adjectives
1) Complaisant
-inclined or disposed to please; obliging; agreeable or gracious; compliant.

2)Convolute:
-rolled up together or with one part over another.
-Botany. coiled up longitudinally so that one margin is within the coil and the other without, as the petals of cotton.

3)Gorgeous:
-splendid or sumptuous in appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificent.
- Informal. extremely good, enjoyable, or pleasant.

Oct 21, 2009

At the beginning of the class, Jimmy has introduced us the two movies that we will watch and the director of the film to us.Also, he has introduced the artist, who named April Greiman, is a comtemporary designer in United Stated. The first one is "Powers of Ten" which is a nine minutes simple film that creative by Charles and Ray Eames. It starts with two person lay on the grass and starting to zoom out to the space. After 100 million light years zooming out, It started to shift back to two person, and zoom in to the hand of the man. The second movie that we have watched is "Why Man Create" which is written by Saul Bass and Mayo Simon and directed by Saul Bass. This movie has divided into eight sections, such as Edifice, Fooling around, The Process, The Judgement, A Parable, Digression, The Search, and The Mark. Although the first movie is a little bit boring, it still keep my curiousity to see what will happen, especially, when it started to zoom in to the hand of the man. After we have finished the two movies, we have dicussed about our assignment that we have to find three images to tell a story at the end of the class.

3 adjectives
1) Foxy:
-foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
-yellowish or reddish brown, as of the color of the common red fox.
-discolored or foxed.
- having excessively warm tones; containing too much red.

2) Expressive:
-full of expression; meaningful
-erving to express; indicative of power to express
-of, pertaining to, or concerned with expression

3) Dreadful:
- causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible
- inspiring awe or reverence
-extremely bad, unpleasant, or ugly

We have a assignment is to find ten simple images of a person or an object from the magazine on last Wednesday. Today, we have to bring these ten images which I forgot to bring, so we have to break into groups. We have to find one simple image and have to change its meaning by using ten words or ten short phrases. I think this practice is really hard for me because my English is bad, but it is also full of challenge because I can learn how to substitute the meaning of an image, and learn more adjectives to described images. For the first time of practice, I thought we have to say something that is the opposite meaning of the image, but I know I got it wrong. Therefore, I didn't say anything at first. However, the second practice made me feel more comfortable because I think I know what to do, but I am still bad in English. There are many adjectives I have to check from the dictionary.

3 adjectives
1) Engrossing: -fully occupying the mind or attention; absorbing
2)Chaotic: -completely confused or disordered
3) Shapeless: - having no definite or regular shape or form
-lacking beauty or elegance of form

On October 7, 2009, we have watched a movie called "Kurosawa." It was a Japanese film in 1990 which talked about eight different dreams. In these eight dreams, the more memorable dream is "The Foxes Wedding" which talks about an old legend when there was a sun shining through the rain, the foxes have its wedding. Also, if someone see the foxes' wedding, he or she will get killed by the foxes or he or she had to suicide. One day, a little boy hide behind a big tree, and saw its wedding. Unfortunately, foxes have found out the little boy was watching its wedding. When the boy went home, his mother didn't let him get in until the little boy beg for forgiveness because the foxes have already sent the knife to the boy which asked him to kill himself. I think this one is an interesting dream to me because I like different legends from other countries. Although this dream is in slow motion, I was curious about what will happen next. On the other hand, at the end it didn't tell us about whether he is alive or dead which seem like let the audiences to create their own ending.

3 adjectives
1) Brilliant: - shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous
-distinguished; illustrious
-having or showing great intelligence, talent, quality
-strong and clear in tone; vivid; bright
- splendid or magnificent

2) Surreal: - of, pertaining to, or characteristic of surrealism; surrealistic
- having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic

3) Patriotic: - of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot
- expressing or inspired by patriotism

On October 5th, Jimmy taught us about mind-mapping and idea- mapping. Mind- mapping is a graphic way to explore an idea, and the idea-mapping is a way of brainstorming. We have also learned how to draw an idea- mapping which included information, words branches, colors, images and paper. After we learned what is mind-mapping, we have to think of a topic and draw a mind- mapping. In this practice, I have learned how to brainstorm my idea and draw it on the paper. I think it is a great practice because after I draw it, I have discovered that there are many things that can be related to my topic.

1.zesty

full of zest; piquant: a zesty salad dressing
energetic; active: zesty trading in growth stocks.

2.sketchy

like a sketch; giving only outlines or essentials.
imperfect, incomplete, slight, or superficial: a sketchy meal.

3.unique

existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics: a unique copy of an ancient manuscript.
having no like or equal; unparalleled; incomparable: Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint.
limited in occurrence to a given class, situation, or area: a species unique to Australia.

2nd day of class on sept 30, 2009

On the second day of class, Jimmy has talked about how to create new knowledge. Also, colors can influence the mood, for example, some of the fast food companies' logos would like to use red and yellow color which can influence people to feel hungry. Because I haven't taken the color theory class, I have never known that every different color has its own meaning. Moreover, I have also learned how to read images because pictures have more meanings than a word. When Jimmy showed us a drawing that Jesus was hanged on the cross, and there are few people were crying for Jesus. At first, the drawing looked so sad, but someone has added two bubbles dialogue next to Jesus and Saint Mary to change the meaning of the drawing, it turns out to be so funny and interesting. On the other hand, a new word that I have learned is iconography which means representation something and idea. Today, we have an assignment is about to draw a graphic novel that tells about what make us to choose college. I think this assignment is more difficult than write an essay, however, it is good for me to practice my drawing and learn how to express myself by drawing a picture.

Three adjectives a week
1) Passionate: having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid.
easily aroused to or influenced by sexual desire; ardently sensual.
expressing, showing, or marked by intense or strong feeling; emotional.
intense or vehement, as emotions or feelings.
easily moved to anger; quick-tempered; irascible.

2)Angelic: of or belonging to angels.
like or befitting an angel, esp. in virtue, beauty, etc.

3)Elegant: tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.
gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style.
graceful in form or movement.
appropriate to refined taste.
excellent; fine; superior.
gracefully concise and simple; admirably succinct.

The first day of class I have learned how to explore something. It was so interesting when Professor Moss has given us an apple, and asked us to try to look at an apple, touch it and smell it. I was thinking why we have to explore it? I have never looked at an apple for two minutes, but I have known that after two minutes I can tell how its shape looks like, and discovered that it has damaged on it. I have learned if we look at something for few minutes, we can find out many things from it. The first time I have heard that we needed to render an apple in fifty different ways and tools, I was so scared that I don't have fifty different ways to render it. On the other hand, I feel so curious about what will happened if I did it, and I also think that it was a good challenge to let me solve the problems that I have.
Professor Moss always need us to type a blog twice per week, and I think there are too much works to do for this class. However, I understand why he wanted us to do it is because he wanted to know did we pay any attention during the class and what we have learned about from this class.

Three adjectives a day
1) Sublime: elevated or lofty in thought, language.
impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration.
supreme or outstanding.
complete; absolute; utter.

2) Sophisticated: experienced and worldly-wise.
artificial.
complex, advanced .

3) Manipulable: capable of or susceptible to being manipulated.