Key words: Creativity Belief Imagination Version Love Patience Talent Quiet Passion Freedom  

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In the presentation “Law That Choke Creativity”, I am touched by the three stories that the speaker Lawrence Lessig talked about. In the first one, he showed that “the culture moved from this read-write to read-only existence” (Lessig, TED). He told us the negative results how these advanced machine block human creativity. In the second one, he stated […]

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1.Correctly identify the primary thesis of  ”Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins” The primary these of “Computer Graphics: Effects of Origins” by Beverly Jones is that how past art patterns influence the evolution of the formation of computer graphics, and how computer graphics and current art combines to influence the history and cultural bases of computer graphics. […]

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After seeing the presentation by Jane McGonigal, I found my views about online games and gamers change totally. I am convinced that “gamers are a human resource that we can use to do real-world work, that games are a powerful platform for change”(McGonigal,TED). First, I am shocked that McGonigal thinks that the time of playing […]

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How do you define “spirituality”? My definition about “spirituality” is related to the deep mind of each person’s inner world and can only be expressed by one’s own ideas. The spirituality one can feel may be invisible to others, since it is a special individual term. In addition, spirituality is the origin of one’s personal […]

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After reading the article “Art as Spiritual Practice-The Mission of Art” by the author Grey, I got much more insights into the real meaning of art and its relationship to spiritual practice. The author first describes the difference between seeing and looking, and regard it as “a difference which is fundamental to artist experience” (Grey, […]

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1.      The First article I found is “Why Our Brains Love Horror Movies”. In the article, the author Sharon Begley analyzed the major reasons why most people would like to spend their money on horror movies and its relations to physiological reaction of human’s nervous cells while watching the movies. She described that human’s […]

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One example of non-diegetic sound from Buffy episode is at 14:00 when people sleep and their “voices” are all absorbed by the box of the monster. During this part, there is a very strange and scary background music, which increases the dramatic effect to the movie and creates horror to the audience. It is an […]

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