Hi I am currently a year two student who is studying in Central Saint Martin's BA Graphic Design. Just to share something about art and design and life.
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Crit today with Joshua Tree's conceptual drawing brief.
My drawing is inspired by a news happened in China recently. A two-year-old girl was crashed by 2 cars respectively, the whole thing happened in 6 mins and there are 18 people walked pass by, but no one helps the little girl. This news cause a great sensation in China. People start to discuss how come people can be so cold-blooded. And I start to think about it as well.I think people are kindhearted actually, in certain case. However China always have some street deception, and people learn from failure, learn from what they experienced, and they start to build a wall to protect themselves. There's no right or wrong for people to build a wall, but now when the accident happened, those 18 person was blamed by others, because this wall can protect them from hurt, at the same time become the weapon of killing the 2 year-old girl. The onion I draw represent the wall we build, as to protect the inside target, and the wall itself is the weapon, since onion can makes people cried as well.
Many feedback is questioning why I chop the paper, actually to be honest, I don't know why. I know it's a bit funny and irresponsible to have this answer, but this is the truth. If I really need to give a reason for it, it might because I want people to know that is the inside of the onion, and I don't want to draw a knife. What they suggest is perhaps I need to decide the chop position.
This is the first time I joined the photography lunch club, and today's topic is about digital photo, teaching some Photoshop skills. I love photography, it captures the moment, but it's not only about that moment.
Postmodernism is referring to a new opinion on the entire Western value system, it's a movement of adding new elements and ideas to what we have destroyed (bad things about modernism), becoming something that is belong to us, not only for certain people anymore. The exhibition 'Postmodernism' showing now at V & A, tells what the postmodernists have done between 1970-1990. I went to the exhibition yesterday, it took me about three hours to finish the whole thing.
Photography, film, architecture, music, poster, magazine, ceramic, fashion, product design...etc everything in the creative industry had joined the movement. If people who are not interested in art, or they don't know anything about Postmodernism, it's quite hard for them to understand what's going on in the exhibition. Though the exhibition has provided many information about the artwork that they are showing, there are still lack of history background of postmodernism provided. For example, Memphis is a very important group of international young architects and designers, who as a group of creators, creating furniture and products which full of postmodernism characteristics. However, I cannot see any information about them in the exhibition, it only tells 'Martine Bedin for Memphis - Super lamp prototype'.
Image from V & A website.
Martine Bedin (for Memphis), Super lamp prototype, 1981. Painted metal with lighting components. V&A: M.1-2011
Anyway only enjoy watching the artwork it's worth enough already. I especially like architecture part, like what the architects had done. Frank O Gehry, his own house in Santa Monica. I like the way it was built differently from other house (tho I saw many buildings nowadays look different already, but all are inspired by this house!), I remembered what my art teacher in secondary school told me, architecture should makes people feel safe, safe to live, so there is always big columns supporting house. But what I see Frank's house are different, surrounded by many green trees, living there seems living in another world, full of surprises, might have something happen everyday unexpectedly. As well as Charles Jencks, I like his garage rotunda. V & A reproduced his blue garage, this is really impressed.
剛剛看完Into The Wild。我約略介紹劇情：有個straight A的大學畢業生，從小過著不愉快的童年，爸媽被名利二字灌醉，終日家噪屋閉。從大學開始已經想逃出這個社會，一畢業就把所有存款捐出，把散紙燒光，開始過著身無分文的流浪荒野生活。在流浪其間他遇到很多人，這些泙水相逢的人比起他平時身邊的人友善得多，願意無條件幫他，請他吃飯，借他住宿，更有個老伯希望可以做他的親人。他流浪最終目的地是阿拉斯加，在前往的途中（也是荒山野嶺）發現了一架廢置的巴士，他在裏面住了數星期，最後因為太肚餓，誤食植物而中毒身亡。
'And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.' one of the inspiring quote from the movie.
Just watched Into The Wild. I briefly introduce the story: There is a straight A college graduate, living an unhappy childhood, his parents are drunk from fame, they always shout against each other at home. Starting from college education, he has been thinking about escape from the society. After graduated from college, he donated all deposits, burned all his money, and began to live penniless in the wild. During this period, he met many people, much more friendly than the people around him usually. They are willing to help him unconditionally, invited him for dinner, take him to stay, even an old man hopes to be his grandpa. His final destination is Alaska, on the way of his journey, he found an abandoned bus in which he lived for several weeks, finally he was dead because of eating poisoning plants.
This is a true story. Many people say this is a good film, of course, I also think it is a appropriately good movie, as long as you properly select the appropriate scene/sentence/truth. Because honestly, after watching I think the main character is a person who score high in academic but score zero in living, irresponsible, but of course, unlimited courage. However, he mentioned many truth is indeed very useful, very thought-provoking.
Protagonist of the film wanted to pursue ultimate freedom and so he isolated himself from normal world. In a nice way to say is that he hided to the corner of the world to find his own way of life. But in an other way to say, is to throw himself to the wild, not giving a shit to money world and the dirty society. In fact, he was just trying to escape the real world that he was still not used to it even he lived for more than twenty years, tried to live in another world which is not yet developed by human. And this is what he called freedom.
Freedom, the word is too wide, nor too narrow. I do not deny his definition of freedom, but at least I do not agree. He got the right to hate that money brought fame and fortune and hate the relationship between power, he got the right to hate those who cling to power and wealth, that become cold-blooded ruthless unscrupulous person, he got the right to hate a never equal society, but no right to leave without telling, in vain for so many years he studied, with straight A, the word responsible had never appearing in his dictionary. Although he did not done anything wrong, he was just leaving after the completion of his studies and try to live a life of what he wanted, but please do not forget people always living in a group, a person is related to another person, for example, after he was missing, his family were very nervous, and his mother has been in a very worried situation which nearly sick. As a son, how can he did that to his family? He has knowledge, but no common sense, smart does not mean everything, wild life not just rely on a few books you can get, there was something called experience, not taught in books, not money could bought and this is also the reason why he died.
Hate society, tired of competing for power, does not mean running away is the only way to solve the problem. People who have ability should use his ability to change the world, tho the force are not strong enough, it is always better than doing nothing, right? Although only he must not change the world of ideas, at least he should try. If everyone in the world only think for themselves, feel not satisfy with the world, and then went to fight for these freedoms, I am afraid that the world is in a mess already. People is not wearing clothes, but leaves, and what we eat every day is bloody sashimi.
Freedom （自由）from the Chinese characters explain, even it is narrow, there are still seven mouths(exits), people can find freedom from these exits; but again wide, seven frames framed the exit, no matter how hard you try to escape, you still can not escape from the box. In my point of view, the real ultimate freedom should not be any one word can describe and explain, it should be a mediated environment, rather than pursued and it comes.
If leaving is to prove he had the courage, had the ability to survive in the wild, had idea about life and society, he had. At least, better than those who often cried to become backpackers travel around the world but still doing nothing to have more guts.
I understand why he did this. It is mostly because his child life. From medical research, child life is affecting a person's growth, his identity, I cannot imagine how this family affect him so much, but I also see there are thousands examples of children, can still grow healthily, strong, even they got a broken family. I am not saying what he did is totally wrong, I am just questioning the way he did things.
