Filthy

adjective

: very dirty

: very offensive or disgusting and usually about sex

: very evil : morally wrong

Source: Merriam-Webster

I encountered this word from the reading “City Limits” by Colson Whitehead. “It’s the early seventies, so everything is filthy. Which means everything is still filthy, because that is my city and I’m sticking to it.” I never heard this word before. After I find out the definitions I finally understand why. Because mostly I use word dirty, so I never tried to see another way of saying it or in a more specific way to describe something dirty.

Urban Artifacts: Phase 4

For this project, I learned the difference between a stable and an ambiguous figure-ground and also the interest by using garbage to create an art work. At the beginning I didn’t have any thoughts for these figure-grounds, so when I was creating a stable figure-ground I just picked up any item and tracing it on the middle area of the figure-ground without any thoughts of the composition. Because of it, one of my ambiguous figure-ground was messed, the composition was uncoordinated, if I have a second chance to redo it I believe I could fix it into a better looking. This project gives me a good experience for the figure-ground relationships and compositions. I could use this technique to create stable and ambiguous shapes for the book homework.

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ENG 1101 Project #1 Process

English 1101 Project #1 Process

In this project I know what I wanted to include by reading the instructions. I knew from there as our goal of this project is to introduce ourselves and also interpreted our OPENLAB avatar. I realized there were a few things I had to eliminate such as some personal private information. Enthusiastic to promote our own is not wrong, but it would be much better if we could be more temperate. I didn’t take much care of the composition because of everything already said in the instruction. It told us we need 4 paragraphs and what should we wrote about in each paragraph. I had let my classmate Efy to check my draft and I got a few good suggestions from her properly. She told me to add in some details of how people would misinterpret my avatar and how. As I read my classmate’s project and giving feedback I also got inspirations for my own project as well. We are always improving by absorbing others ideas. I spend 10 mins for both brainstorming and outlining, the time had increasing to two hours when I did drafting and revising, and for the last step polishing I spend only 20 mins. It took me a long time to finish up this project, but I also learned a lot as well when I wrote it. This project helps to introduce myself to others and also gave me a chance to recognizing more about what I was thinking about myself.

Project #1 Introduction (Final)

 Jingyi Jiao (Jingyi) was born in China, came to US when she was 13 years old. Before she came to live in here, she only know the easiest sentences for greeting just like “hello” or “how are you”. So it took her a hard time and a long period to try to communicates with others. Her English is still improving. Hopefully, she would become voluble and loquacious in English after she graduate college. She graduated from Midwood High School locates next to the Brooklyn College. During the time to make a final decision for the college that she had to enrolled to, she abnegated the Brooklyn College, and chosen City Tech. Jingyi love to draw the manga, to read manga, and to watch anime began from childhood. Even many years later, the passion for it never changed. She determined her future career must to be related to anime and design, such as animator, manga artist, graphic designer, and or the voice actress for anime only. However, these are her occupation insight before this summer. She is now simultaneously interested in creating a film as well. She got this consideration during this summer when she was volunteering at the creative department of a TV station names NTD ( New Tang Dynasty). As a staff volunteer she went for advertising photography for once with an advertisement crew. The director was stylish, voluble, and with  a strong capability of dictating . She was fascinated with that ability, imagined if that was her, she felt to be a director is a right occupation for her to express her creative and direct ability. So now she adds in a new future career in her consideration list which is the director. Apparently, this would be the reason why she was chosen to enrolled to the City Tech, based on the name of the college, New York City College Of Technology, it obviously indicates they do teach a lot about the computer program usage, which means it also includes the graphic design, film editing and animation courses.

        People could see Jingyi’s aesthetic from this avatar. You might think it is a wired avatar, but she doesn’t think so, she feels ordinary with this kind of antic avatar. The appearance of Jingyi’s avatar is a full shot of a Calico cat who’s acting in a humorous funny position. This is an anime Calico cat. He tightly stuck his face on the camera lens that taking a photo of him. He has a big eyes, small mouse, and a huge puffy face. This is a picture from an anime named Natsume’s Book of Friends, which is one of her favorite anime with healing style. By observing the cat from her avatar, he is a Calico cat likes to do the stupid things, and usually fooling around and making trouble. He also likes to eat a lot and fall in sleep for a long time, day by day never reduced, the appetite leads to his body and face shapes become puffy as what you see how he looks like now. He is lazy, crazy, and comical, but he is also friendly, playful, and sensitive.

        Jingyi’s avatar can be considerate in a few different ways. Some people might misunderstand it as her avatar is just showing how comical, silly, and slothful the Calico cat is, but there actually are more tiny contents in this avatar that you haven’t noticed. Avatar, can be said that is people’s inner reflection. Calico cat stuck on the camera lens is not part of his fooling, it can be defined as he pursues to get closer to the others, wants to make friends, wants to help, and wants to encounter with more people. He desired to catch more attention from the people, so he wouldn’t be alone. 

        Jingyi’s complete profile will convey who she is. What is she good at and bad at, what she doesn’t like and does like, what her career goal is, and what her hobby is. She is trying her best to let her classmates and people to know more about her. Her overall life would never live without anime and manga. She’ll be glad if she got a chance to go to Japan, so she could visit the place where Japanese anime produced and met with those amazing manga artists. Jingyi wishes she could visit there in the near future. 


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Urban Artifacts: Phase 3

The Stable composition took 10 minutes, The Ambiguous composition took 50 minutes, in total took an hour.

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This phase of the project relates to the previous phases. They both have same color, structure, and composition. The only difference is they create by using different tools. The one before was using brushesand this one is made of black paper cut.

 

Inextricably

adjective

: impossible to separate : closely joined or related

(source- Merriam-Webster)

I encountered this word in the reading “Univers Strikes Back” in this sentence: “ A cosmopolitan place such as New York or Paris or Kumasi draws its energy from a mix of persons inextricably connected with a larger world who have the right to participate in a world discourse.”

Project #1 Draft #2 Introducing Yourself (Jingyi)

My name is Jingyi and I was born in China, came to US when I was 13 years old. Before I came to live in here, I only know the easiest sentences for greeting just like “hello” or “how are you”. So it took me a hard time and a long period to try to communicate with others. My English is still improving. Hopefully, I would become voluble and loquacious in English after I graduate college. I graduated from Midwood High School locates next to the Brooklyn College. During the time to make a final decision for the  college that I had to enrolled to, I abnegated the Brooklyn College, and chosen City Tech. I love to draw the manga, to read manga, and to watch anime began from childhood. Even many years later, the passion for it never changed. I determined my future career must to be related to anime and design, such as animator, manga artist, graphic designer, and or the voice actress for anime only. However, these are my occupation insight before this summer. I am now simultaneously interested in creating a film as well. I got this consideration during this summer when I was volunteering at the creative department of a TV station names NTD ( New Tang Dynasty). As a staff volunteer I went for advertising photography for once with an advertisement crew. The director was stylish, voluble, and with  a strong capability of dictating . I was fascinated with that ability, imagined if that was me, I felt to be a director is a right occupation for me to express my creative and direct ability. So now I add in a new future career in my consideration list which is the director. Apparently, this would be the reason why I was chosen to enrolled to the City Tech, based on the name of the college, New York City College Of Technology, it obviously indicates they do teach a lot about the computer program usage, which means it also includes the graphic design, film editing and animation courses.

The appearance of my avatar is a full shot of a Calico cat who’s acting in a humorous funny position. This is an anime Calico cat. He tightly stuck his face on the camera lens that taking a photo of him. He has a big eyes, small mouse, and a huge puffy face. This is a picture from an anime named Natsume’s Book of Friends, which is one of my favorite anime with healing style. By observing the cat from my avatar, he is a Calico cat likes to do the stupid things, and usually fooling around and making trouble. He also likes to eat a lot and fall in sleep for a long time, day by day never reduced, the appetite leads to his body and face shapes become puffy as what you see how he looks like now. He is lazy, crazy, and comical, but he is also friendly, playful, and sensitive.

My avatar can be considerate in a few different ways. Some people might misunderstand it as my avatar is just showing how comical, silly, and slothful the Calico cat is, but there actually are more tiny contents in this avatar that you haven’t noticed. Avatar, can be said that is my inner reflection. Calico cat stuck on the camera lens is not part of his fooling, it can be defined as he pursues to get closer to the others, wants to make friends, wants to help, and wants to encounter with more people. He desired to catch more attention from the people, so he wouldn’t be alone.

My complete profile will convey who I am. What am I good at and bad at, what I don’t like and do like, what my career goal is, and what my hobby is. My overall life would never live without anime and manga. I’ll be glad if I got a chance to go to Japan, so I could visit the place where Japanese anime produced and met with those amazing manga artists. I wish I could visit there in the near future.

Project #1 Draft (Jingyi)

My name is Jingyi and I was born in China, came to US when I was 13 years old. I graduated from Midwood High School locates next to the Brooklyn College. During the time to make a final decision for the  college that I had to enrolled to, I abnegated the Brooklyn College, and chosen City Tech. I love to draw the manga, to read manga, and to watch anime began from childhood. Even many years later, the passion for it never changed. I determined my future career must to be related to anime and design, such as animator, manga artist, graphic designer, and or the voice actress for anime only.  Apparently, this would be the reason why I was chosen to enrolled to the City Tech, based on the name of the college, New York City College Of Technology, it obviously indicates they do teach a lot about computer usage which means it also includes the graphic design and animation courses.

The appearance of my avatar is a full shot of a Calico cat who’s acting in a humorous funny position. This is an anime Calico cat. He tightly stuck his face on the camera lens that taking a photo of him. He has a big eyes, small mouse, and a huge puffy face.

My avatar can be considerate in a few different ways. This is a picture from an anime named Natsume’s Book of Friends, which is one of my favorite anime with healing style. By observing the cat from my avatar, he is a Calico cat likes to do the stupid things, and usually fooling around and making trouble. He also likes to eat a lot and fall in sleep for a long time, day by day never reduced, the appetite leads to his body and face shapes become puffy as what you see how he looks like now. He is lazy, crazy, and comical, but he is also friendly, playful, and sensitive. Avatar, can be said that is my inner reflection. Calico cat stuck on the camera lens can be defined as he pursues to get closer to the others, wants to make friends, wants to help, and wants to encounter with more people.

My complete profile will convey who I am. What am I good at and bad at, what I don’t like and do like, what my career goal is, and what my hobby is. My overall life would never live without anime and manga. I’ll be glad if I got a chance to go to Japan, so I could visit the place where Japanese anime produced and met with those amazing manga artists. I wish I could visit there in the near future.

Comment on ” The Tool”

This article gave me a great feeling of those people who invented airplane. Aircraft for society now is just an ordinary transportation for people to traveling from a place to place. This article made me comprehend the difficulty of making the aircraft,from the beginning of invention until the moment of seeing it flight into sky. Many difficult problems were out during processed the aircraft, as compared the past and modern technology there were a big difference. So it was difficult to invented a aircraft during that period. They have to deal with thermodynamics, and the swarm of preoccupied draughtsmen tackle their work. But in the end they still invented. I admire their perseverance and teamwork,the moment the airplane took off makes me the great sense of accomplishment. I learned a lot from this article. As long as there is determination to do something it will succeed.