Mini thesis research paper

When I presented this story, I first set up an alternative environment to hold the possibility of making changes. Environment Changes in this story would be presented by Current and the weather… they lead to the separateness and forcing the ice man to re-identify his circumstance and begin his journey to search his life out. So now we can see there are 2 parallels:

a) The Iceberg’s push by the current: Taiwan’s cognition in the modern world.

b) The ice man finds his way to survive: How to re-identifiy ourselves with this island. 

Here are some points I made, some adjustment to the story board:

■ What’s behind under the water or how large this iceberg actually is were an inspiration from this animation short. 

I plan to make the audience go through the whole story, and find out what’s beyond the ground 

level of this island: Once we get curious, definitely would be interested in how the Historical, Archeological tracks or productivities and economical activities can effect this man’s decisions on staying for good or how he comes out ideas for the sustainability. 

■ The definitions or “must do” I gave to this story:

A round character,
A piece of land that contains secret to be dug out.
within unpredictability.
One or two strangers join the story , bring in new elements and then leave.

Messages or influences on him,The island remains wandered in the ocean
At last, the character changes his state of mind and applies a new meaning to his island.

■ Precedent /Le maison en petits cube /

The lonely old man tried to build another penthouse due to the over
float. For picking up his dropped pipe, he screw diving into those
rooms he had built, and remembered what he had left behind there.

In my storyboarding process, I want to make sure of both easier to understand the metaphors and not too literal and became a mundane short. What I found in Le maison en petis cube was, it’s only about the feeling of what’s happening right there; not to consider about reality, this fiction structures an independent, isolated life of an old man, and it’s really similar to my concept of “one man island”.

The Mini Thesis proposal

“No man is an Island”, but Taiwan’s diplomatic relation with others takes us back to the ice age. In this project, Ice man with his iceberg can be the perfect way to explain things away when ridiculed.

 

I tried to layout the ice man who had been separated from the main land and then driven by the current, floating with his only iceberg. He is facing to abandon and look for a new fruity land, or exchange anything he can get for a sustainability of his life and it’s bond with this iceberg.

The short will be presented in Animation form(

Maybe also sculpture installation). 3 themes:  The separating (national ide

ntity), The searching (diplomatic problem), The exchanging (resources, trade, economics).

Soundtrack for Amelia Earhart

I want to talk about the soundtrack for this short film right here. We knew that this is going to be an abstract film, and we animate most of the part.  

Following the storyboard: 

The first three scenes of circles and bubbles transform into different shapes and penetrate the water surface in to the air. In this first test, Christina suggested the same level of accordion music. This perfectly created an headroom for the audience to connect with the animation concept which we want a very strong mood of Amelia's air crash in the beginning.

We also choose elements of recording from the reality : Mechanic operations sound, noises, Wind sound that was highly grained by filter. By adding into our music, we heard the layers and depth more, and got more excited about the final sound layout. 

We all agreed with Non-literal soundtrack, so, I did a lot of chopping the lyrical music into pieces and mess up the order, then put together agian. This experience gave me a new thinking about this whole project. However, the chosen one was holding very limited portion or had very specific tone and effect. But after all,  we reorder the Time and Space, decided the way they should be seem. The soundtrack became a very strong ,individual portrait after all. And that's what we were so happy for, an unique, individual short film about this unusual women and her final flight.

Soundtrack:

Part 1 

Part 2

Part 3

  

The character portrait of Amelia Earhart

This would be our first group project, to depict or to reconstruct a dreamlike, more abstract character trait of this incredible women Amelia Earhart.  We discussed about the style and form of this project at first, and we all agreed with the more abstract images and lyrical sounds over, so this portrait would be very non-literal short film. 

First, we took elements seem which feminine to us: water, clouds, bubbles, transformed shapes and fog.And the color Blue. 

We also researched on the historical records of her last flight, and personality trait, we sort of knew about the importance and order of her career should be the first thing in our project. Then, we built our story board around the environment she had ever been and flew through, the last journey she had been through, and then, the death.

  

  

And then we had Christina's water footages, Rita's illustration to shape those element into patterns, and then I brought in the sounds and music to cooperate the transition in our visual presentation. The tough parts were actually the state of her mind. 

  

automatic writing | Shirely Clarke : Dance in the sun

video link to Ubu.com

The day I saw Shirely Clark : dance in the sun was about 3 months ago. The first impression about her experimental film would be a little bit surprised that it seems to me she is more into to cooperate with sound. The focus and tracking of the main character(the dancer) was transferred in different scenes like desert, or beach and the studio with pianist playing. It reminded me the study in choreography of camera by Maya Deren. But Maya’s composition and transit of scene to scene were more precise and carefully. 

I realized, in the age of only black and white film, people are very good in using the contrast and tone in recording the texture or feeling of any object they shoot. It’s also very astonished that when those objects were arranged and used their shape to become something has potential meaning, the black and white texture just did the work so well. Sort of finding the material and realistic on the surface, but underneath, there are movements and rhythm that brought the audience to romantic state.

The keen piano broke my brain in the very beginning, and it actually became a very important part in this film too. Sort of give you a complete edge of this dancer’s movement and his mood to dance. Everything happened so fast, I felt I was pull into this film and my eyes had to fallow. The man saw a shell in the beginning and started to imagine he is running on the sand. So far the film gave us pretty much clues about what the man was thinking, and with the help of “the man picked up the shell on piano” and “his gesture of watching toward in the distance (to the sun, or desert, we don’t know) “. I can sense the environment by jumping back and forth between two scenes very easily.

I saw one shot that the light came from the left side so on the right side wall we can see a complete shadow, he danced with this shadow on the stage for a while. I thought it’s a very interesting shot, and this is one of the very few shots that both the camera seems like audience watching from down stage. So I assumed that it meant to be a couples dance scene. At the next scene, dancer showed up again in the desert, but his figure came black like a silhouette, and his pants were in white. In the background, skyline cut this dancer’s figure horizontally just on his waist. This is very beautiful arranged, maybe the most impressive scene I found in this film. Maybe for Shirely Clarke, who was a dancer, this coherence dancing in different spaces can be understood easily since she was always a dancer.

Story Map

week3 | Narrative and Life, Closure

I am surprised to find that :

The satisfaction of having the closure or the reasonable explanation in narrative actually comes from human's nature.
I like the article makes different examples of painter's narratives.

In different styles, and different ages, we saw they make the none-linear story in only one picture. It like a micro-story. And viewers were fascinated in the imagination they filled up automatically. More examples like Francis Bacon's work, even make me wonder the certain mysterious feeling can produce through the absent and incoherent space(time also) in the narrative. I am glad this article helped up a lot.

This is the animation I found yesterday about a Country doctor.
I called it my type of mysterious story telling.

First reading answers

1. Which story events are directly presented to use in the plot and which do we infer? Is there any non-diegetic material given in the plot?

The death of Kane & The investigation for rosebud. Charles Kane dropped his snowglobe, muttered the word "rosebud" and then passed away at the very beginning of the film. Thompson (reporter) was greatly interested in his life and the mystery meaning of “rosebud”. This meaning of this word prompted Thompson to collect every piece of information about Kane's life. This was achieved through the interviewing of Kane's friends, lovers and workers. Therefore, the action made the audience believe that the movie is about a journey of investigating Kane's life.

I think the non-diegetic materials are: the lost pieces of Kane's life, something the narrators wouldn't know. For example: the meaning of "rosebud"which was visually revealed on the sled.Is it related to his mother, childhood, love he was looking for, or just a normal life before he was adopted? Other elements of the narrative that we infer include the geographic setting of the film. We see Kane and his family at the beginning of the film in a fairly secluded, rural town. Eventually, Kane moves to the big city and his life is accordingly urban. Finally, he moves to Xanadu - another removed location that is depicted as a dreamlike fantasy world. It would be possible to argue that the geographic progression of the film mirrors Kane's personal temperment. The visual clues that are given to the viewer in the setting allow us to understand the kind of life that he is living in various periods of time. For example the very first thing that the viewer reads when the movie begins is a "No Trespassing" sign that is located on the entrance to Xanadu. This visual clue tells the viewer that we are entering the private world of Charles Kane.


2. What is the earliest story event of which we learn? How does it relate through a series of cause and effects to later events?

The very first thing that we learn is that Charles Kane died. This set up the story so that the viewer was in a position where they already knew the outcome of Charles Kane's life, allowing all of the other events to then appear in flash back form. Notably:

The time Kane lived with his mother (and later was adopted). Mrs.Kane hoped that her son could become a rich and powerful man with a better life, so she sent him to live with Thatcher after gold was discovered in the family mine. This plot indicated that the future of Charles Kane would be very successful. But at the end, Kane did become rich and famous but died lonely.

Running a newspaper company :Kane’s first business was giving influence to the public through media: the newspapers. By using a very subjective way to edit the newspaper, Charles Kane showed his characteristic for the first time in the movie: A man doesn't follow rules. This character trait becomes evident throughout various interactions that he has with other characters who the viewer encounters throughout the film.

Leland talked about Kane's 2 failed marriage: Regardless of opinions from his wife, Kane showed his stubbornness and eagerness, not only in his business world but also in his personal life. He had affair with a singer named Susan, which lead to his failure in the political campaign. But eventually, he divorced Susan, and his failure with his love life which was already told to the viewer by the newsreel and the fact that he died lonely.

Affair with Susan leads to the scandal and causes the failure of his political ambition: Kane once again tried to get a higher position and reputation by joining into a political campaign. After the failure of campaign, Kane tried different ways (he built an opera house for Susan and planned an opera ) to take his power back and reclaim public attention via controling the news report with his position.


3. What is the temporal relationship of story events? Has temporal order, frequency, or duration been manipulated in the plot to affect our understanding of events?

The movie begins with Kane’s death and the newsreel that briefly summarized his career and personal life. In search of the reason why Kane had ended up being rich but lonely, and the meaning of his mysterious last word, “rosebud,” the reporter starts to investigate. As he goes through the diary of Kane’s guardian and interviews with Kane’s friend, wife, and butler, the audience learns about Kane’s life of different periods from the flashbacks. After the reporter gives up searching for “rosebud,” the answer is revealed in the very end.

The beginning of the movie leaves the audience with questions and feeling curious, but the following newsreel immediately gives us ideas about who Kane was and the broad facts of his life.As the reading pointed out, the newsreel outlines the sequence of the film in terms of what elements of Kane's life we will learn about. Then the flashbacks make us learn more about Kane’s life from different perspectives. This order is not only interesting but also very powerful.



4. Does the closing reflect a clear-cut pattern of development that relates to the beginning? Do all narrative lines achieve closure, or are some left open?

The unexpected answer to “rosebud” is finally revealed at the end, which makes us think about what Kane’s life would be if his mom did not send him off to the guardians when he was a child, and would he still be alone in the end of his life. We only learn about his childhood from the guardian’s diary, in which there is a huge gap between Kane as a child and an adult. It makes us want to know more about what his relationship was with his mother, and how he became used to the wealthy life and developed his characteristics. It leaves us with more questions.

In terms of the setting, we start and end the film in the same geographic location, giving the viewer some degree of closure. However, because the final reveal of the sled was so abrupt and matter of fact, we are left questioning and wondering what we really saw throughout the film. Finally the movie closes again with the "no trespassing" sign, alluding to the fact that Kane ultimately was a private person and the full meaning of his last words will never be known to the viewer.


5. How does the narration present story information to us? Is it restricted to one or a few characters’ knowledge, or does it range freely among the characters in different spaces? Does it give us considerable depth of story information by exploring the characters’ mental states?

The narration of the story is done via all of the supporting characters in the movie as well as the news reel obituary reporting. Essentially the viewer is asked to investigate the story and the character of Charles Kane via the gaze of those who he interacted with as well as the public. Additionally, and somewhat subliminally, is the exploration of "Citizen" Kane through his own crafting of his public persona via the media, the newspapers and the public statements that he makes consistently throughout the movie. The reading explained that the omniscient narration that appeared prominently at the conclusion of the film focused the viewer and allowed the patterned sequence of the film to be revealed in a seamless manner. Because the movie was initiated with the death scene, the viewer already knows the outcome of his life story which is traced throughout the film, so you feel that you are educated and knowledgeable about all of the information presented in the film, that is the facts. However, despite the actions and the factual information of the narrative that is revealed repeated times, each character adds their own twist on the true nature of this enigmatic figure. As one of the newspaper men said at the beginning of the film (paraphrased) 'it is not enough to say what a man did, you need to know who he was', and that is what this form of narration provided for the viewer. Each character introduced a little more insight into the true nature of the real Charles Kane. The character's mental states showed the viewer how despite himself, Charles Kane was someone who deeply affected many people's lives. In fact, it is somewhat ironic how throughout the entire film, we are seeking information about Kane's mental state and trying to decipher the deep meaning of "Rosebud", however, the means of doing this is by probing the mental states of the supporting characters of his life.

About me

Photography

My interests in portraits lead me to photography. I assisted to photographers after graduated from my undergrad program.

Most of their works were commercials and magazines.

First job as a designer

My first full time job was exhibition designers, more like a planner and super-size print designer. I sort of worked with installation and display room for a while, basically they are just carpenter and printing works.

Experimental film & animation

then I had more interests in animations and films after i came to this program. so I would continue to improve skills, concepts and to have more controls on my work.

Final presentation

Is it Sparkle, Aura or Flow?
Mysterious animation interactive experiment

 I was aware of certain mysterious feeling and flow that happened when I was watching the experimental film or animation. Being inspired by unknown and none-verbalized transit of the film, this intimate experience is what I think the most interesting thing. 

Just wondering how humans’ brains recognize mysterious moment and those none-verbalized situations by appearing and disappearing of those electrical activity, I am more interested in the organic order of the world and more believe in each person’s experience can’t be generalized how they feel the flow and movement in the film.  

Paper download here

Powerpoint here

precedents

Interface | animation interaction

{ The neuro-feedback technique }

Sean Montgomerm is the neuroscientist who combine Design with bio-technology in his work. His neuro-feedback work: brain machine uses chips to store the data of brain wave and translate into LED lighting. Using FFT(one of algorithm to compose DTS decompose sequence of value into components of different sequences ), he turns the data into signals by LED lights . Therefore we can see our thought (brain waves) through the cap.

ps. eeg technique read brain wave to different type of wave: alpha wave, beta wave...ect.

for example: alpha wave is 8-10Hz.

pictures from www.prduceconsumerobot.com

{ Animation test 1 }

Prototypes | Final Project

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No.1 | Scroll bar tool

Let the scroll bar send your message

 

 Provide an easy tool that to scroll and mark the arrange of your "feeling" period of time.The high density area inside the bar also address on the hight point of your "flow".

No.2 | Palm sensor 

 By testing your palm temperature to tell the different of your physical changing.

No.3 | Squeezing tool

Hand holds squeezing tool can test your strength of a grip and tell you when is the high point of your unknown feeling.

No.4 | Heart beat

Small vibration attach near your heart or hand. 

You experience other's heart beats while watching the same video, share your physical response through the heart beat sensor .

#3 experiment from LIly Huang on Vimeo.

 

Rewrite final project concept

it's the Spirit, Aura or a Sparkle?

 I would like to know how I project the outside world through my spirit and fresh to become an imaginary world in my work, and how the viewers connect their world to mine. 

It would be the representative of the world or just a description of the quantum mechanics . If there is a form of force, energy, electricity or movement that is factual and can be described by physics, but not be captured in languages or any state of your emotion, it is certainly an abstract feeling that so close to your body's spatial experiences and consciousness. 

The transition is in between the tracing back to your memory and awareness of incoming "future " ,and then this force or electricity in your brain (the core of your body) just occurs.

I want to animate a short film and put it into a loop. Just like what I found in Paul Driessen's work and the rhythm I felt in Maya Derren's film. 

I want it to arise awareness of one's existence just like gravity grabs you to the earth. It would be an experiment that at the end when users quit the screen, they type and leave a short messages and select one specific scene that they strongly feel to connect to.

References:

Barbara Maria Stafford , Hedonics  p149. 

Sensorium, Embodied experience, technology, and contemporary art.

Paul Driessen

Animator

Precedents and Research

What is your design concept?

I questioned about if there is a certain force, movement,energy or medium that human sense can't aware of, and it drives the human emotions but without being seem, or evokes a very vague, undefined feeling. 

I feel the mysterious when I couldn't interpret or understand what my feeling is: Odd, absurd, curious... When I am not using subconscious or psychology field to state my mind, I would like to believe that it is the force , something very massive , so chaos that we couldn't generalize or conclude in our experience. And by mean of this thing, we completed our emotional needs, causes, and shows. So I would like to point out them by presenting "Time" , and provide the "Chance " for audience to catch it.

Animation concept for example:

1) "We are too fast to see this!"

The concept is from the birth of the universe, every star ran away from each others because the expansion. Present it in the short animations. characters are pulled away from every scene and become a little spot. also changing every starting point for running away in the whole composition, it shows that we are not the center of the universe.

2) "Our lives are too short to witness the whole cycle..."

Making a fine story represents "things run on the orbit ". And characters show regularly in certain logic or rules (but with slightly different changes increasingly)  in normal speed. Break the rule as a Loop when showing. so there is no such short cycle audience can figure out.

3)  "We are too anxious to give a name to everything..."

Unidentified movement and characters. like behind a veil. 

Maya Deren
Experimental filmmaker
She documented the Haiti rituals, modern dance, martial art, 

and in the way she cut or tried to experiment the coherence in her films makes me aware of the relation of objectivity, distance between light & shadows and certain Flow that can't be described.  

1945, A study in choreography for camera
1944, At Land




Alison de Vere

Designer, Animator and filmmaker

This film 'The Black Dog" finished in 1989, was about a journey of self-searching and desire of subconsciousness.

Author used a lot of symbols and metaphor to imply ancient culture with the religion, genders, desire and human's strength like : knowledge, saint and parents' love.  They are very visual and personal, which provides me a close up of organic life form of a single inner. 

For the concept:

Peter Galison

Physicist

He received his Ph.D in both Physics and the history of science in Harvard, and claimed that even the science are dominated by large scientific proof, statistically significant, repeating result, but in high energy physics field, there is still a single behavior of particle passing through the electric field that is a single instance.(Richard Feynman's multiple history idea)

In the way that cannot be explained by the characteristics of existing know particles.

   

In this talk of how human is no longer the center of the universe, but a piece of universe history, phenomenon. 

How each person's life was described by non-human way of description.

(method of Martin Heidegger). I wonder even the scientific statistics can be the perfect relativity of spontaneous or a very chaotic, more ancient form  of organic behavior. 

Meeting of the Minds

Sample for tv series exploring intersections of art, science and philosophy, recently awarded NEA Arts on Television grant. 

Venn diagram of

 self domains

Through the process of drawing my domains venn diagram, I found my preferences and reasons of doing art and design can be traced back to my Personal experiences.

My parents have influenced my rational thinking because of their management background. but how I express my thoughts through the photos, drawings and writing came from the controversy I found when dealing with my recognition as a Taiwanese, gender as a woman and status as a traveler.

 

Future/

Filming, post-production as career, 

Dialogue with people, 

Self-conflict in Culture, economics, and Political status. 

New language, 

Eastern vs. Western thoughts,

Travel. 

Personal experience/

Can't be explained :

Ego-centric

No religion

Mysterious things

Explainable:

Genders

Colonial history of Taiwan

Japanese influence

The unsolved political problem between China and Taiwan

Parents 

Education

Personal choice/ 

Can't be explained:

Childhood

Cosmos, Physics

Narrative

No category, believe in the cause and effect

Not Logical

Can't be explain

Organic

Myth and Story telling

Mysterious power, energy or movement 

cause the unidentified human emotions or the choice of memory.

Explainable:

Documentation | Film, photography, writing

Feminine topic

Analogue Photography

Story telling

Hand made

Literature | context, form, aesthetic and style

Organic | plantation, food, human body functions, recycling, environment

The visual art preferences

/Visual art / 

Movie director, 

cinematographer: Shunji Iwai, 

Wong Kar Wai.

Illustrator: Rodney Alan Greenblat

This cartoonist did several album covers 

of a japanese band “Puffy” back in 1995.

post-contemporary art:

Chen Chieh-jen

Taiwanese Artist, his work 

shows the conflict of being 

Taiwanese after colonial 

period , is presented in film 

or historical pictures.   

 

/Thinkers/

 Hermann Messe : a Very eastern thinker, his books talked a lot 

about searching your insight and experience the reality .

Poet Syvia Plath

: She used large numbers of metaphor and 

images, analyzed her emotion

, inner struggle of her ca

reer and self identity.

 

/Books/

Hermann Hesse : Siddhartha

Mag: Monocle

/Website or software/

大人的科學: Science for grown up

/Company or Org /

明和電機：www.maywadenki.com

Amadana : www.amadana.com

MTV in  the 90's

/Your own work/

Crafted Daydream : the hand made brand, 

using very good cotton to take our using 

experiences back to childhood. 

/Profession/

eco-product designer

Free writing in the class | 08

Oct 28 | List and describe 2-3 things thatyou experienced in your second iteration that were as you expected/predicted and 2-3 things you found unexpected.

-What I expected from the 2rd prototype are:

1) Improve the looking & scale might attract more people.

2) Staying away form the prototype in certain distance when we are testing it in public space can avoid the attention been discovered. (Try not o effect people by showing up , and it actually works).

3) We recorded the person who played our game were trying to locate where we were, but he failed.

4) We predicted that kids might be the main user of our hexagon puzzle game, and we designed the cardboard in very saturated color: orange. This worked out very well, children who were not playing the puzzle also came to touch it.

- What i unexpected:

1)After few hours we relocated the giant chess piece, after 5 mins later, we found someone had beat up our giant chess prototype and put it near the garbage bin.

2) An elder man came to the hexagon puzzle twice, and tried to put them into shape very carefully. By both hands and feet , he was actually waiting there to see what's our next action. Maybe he is waiting for our response through reshape the hexagon

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Oct 24 | In "interaction Relabelling"how is the "aesthetics of interaction" defined or explain? List one example from text, list one example for your life or your observation?

- Definition:

Interaction relabelling is the designing method which is very different process of  "design". We compare this with the prototype we are making, and try out different concepts. This can create diversity of "How a prototype been created". This process of comparison and then design, can be seen as two dimensions: The " functional usage" of the prototype and  "aesthetics of interaction"( good interaction experiences when user engages in it ).

- Example #1 :

In relabelling interaction design piece, the " appointment manager prototype" contain: 

1) Function of triggers and handle which provide user a brand new experience when using it.

2) Different from the other appointment tools, make this product a Label.

-Example #2 :

In my Fake rock project. I first designed the rock to have the function as a chair, but i actually borrow "the same experience form the people who sit on rocks". In this point, the whole design is just like a normal public chair design. But until I relabeled and added "wheels" under the bottom, this chair became "movable". For this renovation, I assigned very different function as a chair and turned it into  a unpredictable usage that  people may interact with the rock. I am not sure about how the rock will be treated. With more and more possibility of interaction that might occur, I saw more aesthetics of interaction in this Fake rock project.

Oct 21 | Do you think you've found something surprising about your prototype this time?

This time we pick three prototypes, each of them is one form our team mate's works.

The "Fake rock chair prototype" is more unpredictable , we don't know what kind of reaction the public may have. Therefore we decide to see more possibility of changing the design or appearance this time.

Fake Rock chair is obviously what does its name refer to, but after more discussion with Kunal , I decide to change the material and touch of this chair. Instead of making a solid fake rock, i want it to be soft as a bean bag. And this simple shift from solid material to soft one totally blows away the concept of "being a Rock".

  

Oct 17 | What are the 4 prototypes? and what is the example of each of them?

Integrated  \ Role

             \ Look & Feel

\ Implementation

The "Role prototype" tries to discuss about how does the prototype play the role in user's life:

Like the hand drawing, sketches of different ways in dealing with user's documents, remembering phone numbers...ect.

No needs to provide the "Look & Feel " in user's point of view. Role prototype gives a link and tell the users how this invention "do" for their lives.

The "Look & Feel prototype" is used to draw an outline and the shape (2D, 3D dimensions) of looks. It gives the public, audience (a broad acceptance) the actual look of this prototype.

It also gives the "manager" a idea, how to carry out this product in the future. Like the model has only the outlook , no actual function or any practical usage inside the shell. Giving just a "look" and "touch" of material. Model can be very  easily understood.

The "Implementation prototype" is only the "concept" or "function" that it's not necessary providing any form of look  and tough, neither the effect to human's lives. Purely for "solving problem", especially in the purpose of designing or producing process.

The "Integrated Prototype" is the one that combines 3 types of prototypes on the top. More considering as the "Finest prototype".

  

Oct 14 | Can you draw any relation between the Whyte ch.5 and your observation?

In the Columbus park observation we did this weekends, we found the high density of people. Through the reading i found the example of  a successful public space or plaza always has a busy corner, where to provide food like a vender or a place to sit to welcome people from the street to stop by this place. So does this park.

The columbus park has it "little business corner" along the outline of the park but not inside. There are shoeman, fortune tellers, watch fixing service... Local people love to buy their service, that's why they usually stop at the outside of the park's fences. 

The article also talked about the surrounding environment can be the  big difference to effect the whole public space.

As you see in the picture on the left ,  side A is near to a "city hall" or "government building" and this cold concrete building can't be found any entrance or walk side that people hardly walk on that side of street. Even this effect the right side of the park entrance. Instead of this situation, on the side B and C of the park, there're small business just like i said before, restaurant, retail store, which draw a lot of interests from people's eyes level to walk toward or linger around this street. And it effects the entrance of Left side of the park definitely.

Oct 07 | What do you find memorable from the anthropologist audio and Whyte's reading?

I have to say the audio is a little bit like lecture i heard from Toefl test... 

but this "by ordering" and pretty condensed content is clear about being a designer or anthropologist, how to design a work or make a study that relies on the public and make them the users.

Their special interests in watching people, and they consider the study objects "not just" in "only one case", but observe also their responses "outside of the case" is more valuable then general social studies.

In the reading by William H. Whyte, I found a very interesting observation about the relation of plazas and crowds.

The study shows the usage of plazas or public space always work out in the opposite with designer's plan. For example: In the plaza, there must be a broad walk side for passing through, in the center space there are some public statues , or benches for pedestrians, amazingly, people choose to have conversation on the walking path,  and regardless of the usage of this path for just walking. Couples or friends meet on the street corner or in the middle of traffic jam. Statues become the place for people to lay down or lean on. As for the broad plaza space: not too many people like the broad place while they are waiting or chatting.

Sep 26 |what did you find interesting and surprising from the time-altered video?

- I found that if i reverse the "sound" and movement, it would create the "weird feeling" that it makes me scared a bit.
when i was shooting the footage, i always ran out of memory of my camera.

- This time we have to use time-altered and speed up technique, so every footage suppose to be longer to be able to be edited and manipulated.

-Also, I found that in playing with time-altered editor, the materials like : water, flexible texture or body movement are the easiest way to make successful effect to apply to this homework.

- I prefer speed up than slow motion, and i realize I become not that patient with slow motion so i speed up everything i edit. By the end, i made some changes and played some footage back to their normal speed, i felt dizzy watching them.