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.