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.