Kepler's new media in art

     This is exactly what we want to talk about! ZODIAC!! Sally and I came up this idea since we both read the quote "Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness" (McLuhan, 63).       Our brains are used to use stereotypes to identify new people. We stick labels on them and those labels sometimes determine how we treat others. Although Sally and I both agree that "stereotype" is actually not a bad thing, what we have now are too serious. We do not want gender, races, ethnicity, or colors to speak for us.      Zodiac signs are also ways of using stereotypes, but they are much more mild than what I have mentioned before. And the most important thing is that this is not what we can get at the first glance of a person! If we know the zodiac signs of new people, we will bring more expectations to them, and it will really make the communication more interesting. If you have read Sally's blog post already, you will know the differences in these four signs. When we were

My First Art Show      It is so cool to hold an art show! This is my very first time of participating in an art show, and I felt very proud of myself. They all look so good!! Honestly, when I stepped into the empty room, I didn't even know what was going on and how it would be looked like. However, when we put our pictures into the frames, and hanged them onto the wall, they were suddenly different. Especially when the lights were on, and I was like "woooow". I am really an artist!! I will always remember this feeling whenever I will have art shows in the future. I really appreciated that!      Also, I enjoyed the entire process of taking pictures, editing them, making photo book, and printing my favorite pictures, although it took a very long time. I met many problems, but my friends helped me a lot. They gave me so much support. This art show gathers everyone's fantastic ideas. I read through all of my classmates' photobooks very carefully, and I deeply apprecia

Tao Te Ching                                                                   Here is the link of my  powerpoint .       The creator that I chose was Laozi. When I was doing google search, the first idea that came to my mind was "Tao Te Ching". I hadn't read this book before, so I spent two weeks reading both Chinese traditional and English versions. There are 82 chapters. Each chapter is quite short though. I took a lot of effort on understanding the traditional expressions in Chinese, and the "Tao" is abstract for me too.     In my understanding, Laozi explains how everything works in its own way naturally, and how we can just let things happen without intentionally  intervening them. It is called "wuwei" in Chinese (which means doing nothing). SO here is my thesis: things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme. I wrote this because people usually find that things will eventually go in an opposite way from what they expecte