When I heard about horror movie, even when I want to watch, I give up at the end almost all the time. The sound always makes me feel scared and sometimes the lighting, costume did make me feel uncomfortable. However, with other perspective, the movie uses successful ways to make the movie successful in horrifying. Just like Mis en scene, non-digetic sound and digetic sound.

According to the class notes that provided in the blog, “Mis en Scene consists of setting, lighting, costume and figure expression and movement, and also consider camera placement”. Then, back to the movie “Buffy”, there was a situation that the light turned down quickly which made the classroom dark, after that, there were just two people left and then the skull showed up. It just horrified me and I feel cared. Actually, not only this action happened in the movie, if this situation happened in daily life, people should be scared in a short time.

The digetic sound is the sound “whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film” (Class notes). There were two actors stuck into an elevator. At that time, it was really nervous for them to get out of that situation. One of the actors puffed hard when he tried to get out the elevator. The sound of the breathing from the actors just made the situation more nervous.

The non-digetic sound is the sound that “whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action, and is represented as coming from a source outside story space” (Class notes). The music which plays during the boy and girl kissing each other were actually not related to this situation, but it made me more immersed in the situation. I think this is non-digetic sound and this sound is invisible and made the atmosphere more strange and horrified, it let people have more time to think or feel the situation.

This noon, I ate outside with my parents in a cafe which located in the downtown in my hometown. I took notes on my cell phone when we still waited for food and during our lunch time.

The first person was a little girl. Actually, I did not pay attention to this little girl at first, but she started talking to me and caught my attention very well about her adornment. She worn a Disney T-shirt with a lot of flowers, and it has a lot of light and bright colors, such as yellow, and red. She also had a beautiful white pleated skirt, and a shining sandal. She told me that her grandma sent her those pretty clothes and sandal as a gift for her birthday. After that, she danced for me. She had a black long straight hair and decorated by bobby pins. The assumption that I made to her is that she seemed like 5 or 6 years old, because those aged girls really like shining things and she obvious is a Chinese. I think she is a really happy girl that has a lot of love from parents, grandparents. She can dance well, then, I think she might learn how to dance during this summer in some training center.

The second person that I noticed was a male that sat alone by himself. He looked differently from other people, and he seemed do not get involved with the food and drink. He wore a white shirt and black pant, and he wore a golden watch and a pair of glasses, he got into the cafe almost the same time as me. He then chose to sit close to the window and spend much time look outside. As for the rest of time, he texted and called somebody. He ordered two cup of juice, one pasta, and one steak. I think he might wait for a female, because he brought a pink bag with him and it seemed like a gift. He did not stop texting or calling, so he might had an argument with that female. Based on his appearance, I assume that his age may around 30 to 40, and he was a successful male who maybe wait for his wife and hoped his wife can come and accept the gifts he chose for her.

The third person I noted was a female who sat next to me and ordered a cup of coffee in English by saying the word “latte”, not in Chinese. I was surprised by hearing English in my hometown, because it is really a small city in China. She had little curly and brown hair. She was tall and thin. The thing that surprised me was that she wore a white t-shirt that was from American Eagle, and also, she wore brown flats. I feel that her values are a little bit similar as me, I do like to wear t-shirt and flats in summer, and I did curly my hair and changed my hair to brown, although I may not order food in English in my hometown. The assumption that I made to her is that she might be the same age as me (around 20), and she might be an abroad student who study in America, because what she wore is very American style, it was casual. I think she may have a lot of freedom in daily life that she can do a lot of thing individually.

When I see the topic of this discussion, it just reminds me of a lot of things. Personally, food is art. I grow up in a small city in China, China has a lot of different type of food from different area. Those food that cooked in different style and different flavor is really attractive. For example, different fish have to be cooked in different style. Some of them need to be fried, some of them need to be steamed. Then they would have different flavors and taste great. The author says, “Both an original recipe and an actual dish (a particular performance of a recipe, as it were) are works of art if they are regarded aesthetically” (Page 17). In that case, the author just believes that recipe and dish art works of art. I think it may because the dish or recipes are special and beautiful which may attract people very well.

However, I do not think fast food is art. Because they cooked only by machines and some other chemical factors, some of them even lose the original flavors of themselves. For example, like hamburger that mentioned in the “Fast food video” (first video presentation), the beef just came from “hundreds of different cattle, raised as many as five country, and grounded together”. Those meat may not delegated, and they cooked by machines, they lose the nutrition and become unhealthy in the fast food chain. Therefore, I do not think that fast food is art, because they cooked by machine, and cooked without the design of chef or artist.

According to Ellen Dissanayake’s essay, “The crucial factor for claiming the beginning of a behavior of art, I believe, would have been the ability not just to recognize that something is special, but deliberately to set out to make something special” (Page 23). That is to say it is art to make something special. For example, like chef in Michelin stars, they try to make food special to attract their customers with the highest standards for them, or somehow, they want to appreciate art which created by themselves. Those chefs act as an artist of food. As a result, I think that food is art especially for slow food.

Actually, I do have a question that really confused myself. Originally, I do not believe that fast food is art without analyzing the reason, which means it seems I consider fast food is not art automatically. Is that only because of my personal experience?

Work Sited

Dissanayake, E. (1991). What is art for? In K. C. Caroll (Ed.). Keynote adresses 1991 (NAEA Convention), (pp.15-26). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

Tefler, E. (2002). Food as Art. In Neill, A. & Riley, A. (eds.) Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates (2nd ed., Chap. 2). New York, NY: Routledge.

 

1. Ellen Dissanayake coined this term “paleoanthropsychobiological”, which used by herself to describe the view of art. This term “paleoanthropsychobiological” which can be separated as “anthro”, “Psycho”, and “biology”, came from many objectives like human history, human societies, and psychological and emotion effects. Dissanayake created this term in order to show the relationships between these three objectives. In addition to that, she claims that “art must be viewed as an inherent universal (or biologval) trait of the human species (Page 15)”, which means many things that related to human nature can be treated as art. For example, like language. Therefore, the combined term paleoanthropsychobiological can deeply describe the art.

2. Based on Dissnayake’s point, she states that “Among these tendencies, I claim, is also the behavior or propensity to ‘make special,’ particularly things that one cares deeply about or activities whose outcome has strong personal significance.” (Page 22) , “something that is “special” is different from the mundane, the everyday, the ordinary.” (Page 22). That is to say, “making special” is to make something unique, to make something that is really different from the general and normal thing. For example, language is an art, no matter what language it is. Every language in the world is unique, some people create Chinese in the ancient, but at that time, some other people may make efforts to create another language. Those language have different features, different pronunciations, different characters, and different histories, etc. Maybe even people created language wanted to create other kind of art at first, they may never know that they can create a language. With the time goes by, languages are developing in the history and recent times. Many words combined, many language combined.

 

3. Here are 3 different periods of art in the western European history.

–>The Renaissance in 14^th century (medieval period)

–>The modernism in 18^th century

–>The postmodernism in 20^th century

In the 14^th century, Renaissance artists “gradually replaced God-centered with man-centered concerns”, and “the “art” was accurately representing that subject matter, using craftsman like standards of beauty, harmony, and excellence.”(page 16).

In the 18^th century, the modernism focused on aesthetics. “This was that there is a special frame of mind of appreciating works of art-a “disinterested attitude that is separate from one’s own personal interest in the object, its utility, or its social or religious ramifications.”(page 18). That is, art became more abstract and personal from people’s mind.

In the 20^th century, postmodernism, art became more abstract than last period. Art is interpretation in this period. In this period, people became more individual and personal when they appreciate art, “interpret it according to their individual and cultural sensibilities (page 19)”. Additionally, “Postmodernists point out that any “truth” or “reality” is only a point of view- a representation that comes to us mediated and conditioned by our language, our social institutions (Page 20).” Therefore, art is more about individual interpretation.

This assessment is really a good one which can give people some ideas about different value. When I see the list first, I choose family without hesitation. I think many people choose family as the first one as me. The reason might be that people spend a lot of time with family, and share many things with parents and other family member who can support you and encourage you. Today, I went swimming which can helps me be stronger and healthy. After that, I went to hospital for my allergy. During the afternoon, I just sat in front of the computer and do my schoolwork. Right now, my friend just give me a call so that we decide to go for a dinner tonight. What I choose is family, health, security, personal accomplishment, and friendship.

 

This summer, I back home and stay with my family. I always miss my parents when I stay in U.S.. This time, we stay together, we make food, hang out together to get happiness as much as we can. My parents are the origin for me to do everything, they give me power so that I believe I can overcome every difficulties, they do give support me by their spirits, they told me that you can do whatever you want, and you should believe that you are excellent. As for health, health is the basement for everything, only you are healthy both mentally and physically, you can have the abilities to achieve your goals. Then, I choose security. I think I enjoy stable life, I want my family stay with happiness. In that case, if you can meet our basic needs, we can strive together to make our life better and better. Personal accomplishment stays an important part of my life as well. I believe that I need to work hard in order to achieve my own value in life so that I can be confident and powerful to protect myself and my family. The fifth one is friendship. Friends help me a lot all the time. They can be your friends, and they can be your teacher as well. When you are in trouble, the real friends always stand out to support you without hesitation. I think this assessment helps me do a deep thinking for what I really need and want. Right now, I may feel more clear about values.

 

• Family
• Health
• Security
• Personal Accomplishment
• Friendship

Independence

Community

Personal Development

Wealth

Creativity

Integrity

Leadership

Loyalty

Prestige

Wisdom

Service

Expertness

Power

Location

10 ways to grow your followers on social media

This article is about how to increase you followers in social media. There is no doubt that social media is becoming important in people’s life. People can use social media to make friends, share experience and even find jobs. Then, having followers would be key point for people to become influential in social media. In this case, “how” is the first step for people to be successful in social media. I believe increasing the followers in a kind of art, only if you show your values, show your attractiveness, show our experience and everything related to yourself, that would be a kind of art that can help you stand out and market yourself in real life through social media.

The first popular way is to follow people in your target audience, which means you need to make comments under other’s post and then you can exchange points. After that, you can share other people’s content to get the attention from others. There is another way that is similar to share content is about focusing on your own content, which means you can make your own page more attractive, just like LinkedIn which can help you show your skills and abilities. Leveraging google authorship is a good way to build your own brand and show your profile to public. Once you have your own profile, you should keep your updates consistent and you should include your profiles in your email signature. These steps would help you get more chance to let people know more about you, and give people some ideas about who you are. At the end, joining LinkedIn and Facebook can get people’s attention about your previous experience and increase the possibilities to get opportunities in jobs and life.

Is those ways looks like art? The answer for me is positive. What I believe is human being is creating art all the time. It not only about writing, painting, etc, it is more about you explore some way to promote yourself, to show yourself, to express yourself. Then, you can increase your influence in real life through social media.

When people ask me what art is, the first several words that come into my mind is no limits and no boundaries. No matter whatever the definition is, art is always no limits and no boundaries. Then, as for this article, the author defines art as “art must be viewed as an inherent universal (or biological) trait of the human species, as normal and natural as language, sex, sociability, aggression, or any of the other characteristics of human nature” (Page 15) which is really about what I believe. Art is an object, an experience and everything relate to human-being, otherwise, art is about creativity,art comes from people’s deep heart, and art can express you inner thought.

However, besides human nature, I would like to say the nature is art as well. For example, when you go to the forest, you can see as many trees as you can, but every tree has different shape and style. I do believe these different nature phenomena are art which created by nature itself, not by human. In that case, everything in the world I believe it is art, and it is attractive and influential.

After stating the definition about art, the author starts to talk about the art in different period, like medieval times, renaissance, and eighteenth century, which helps me to gain more ideas about art. In those different periods, the forms of art are really different. Art starts to serve religion and then gradually change to god centered and men centered. In this period, art become portray of life and world. After that, the trend of art tends to be the combination of social and intellectual. As I mentioned above, I think art is no limits and no boundaries gradually.

The author uses a quote to clarify the opinion she has, that is ““Disinterest” implied that viewers could appreciate any art, even the artwork of eras or cultures far removed from their own, whether or not they understood the meaning the works had for the people who made and used them. In this case, art was “universal””(page 18). It actually takes some time for me to understand this sentence. It says viewers appreciate any art even if they could not understand why artist made them. It may kind of explain the no matter what type of art, people can have their own perspective to realize and to have their own understanding of what art is. Then, back to what I believe, art is not limits and no boundaries.

In my point of view, value is something that is really abstract. There are no absolutely correct answers for it. However, sometimes we can define them in different situation and perspective based on different people. Just like the article says “individual A may like B in one respect, like C in another, like D in another. In other ways B may be more like D, C like A, and otherwise all four may be quite different”(Page 6). In this case, people all have different personalities that can attract others, those personalities may be considered as values which are about emotion, social experience, logic, etc.

Actually, I did ask my father “what is the value for different people?”, my father’s answer was “the value should be related to how much you contribute to the society, how much you get back from society. If you contribute a lot of time to do your business, then you should think about how much you earn as a whole.” When I recall the answer from my father, I think I can understand more about value. It is about different understanding of different people. My father act as a businessman to answer this question, but as for me, I believe the value is about how your personalities affect or attract others in life. It is obvious that different people have different feeling and emotion about other things.

Besides, as a person, not only do you have internal value, you also have external value. What I believe is about internal value, but what my father think is about external value. I believe people should realize the value of themselves clearly, in that case, they can be more confident in many field. If people only know the internal value of themselves, they may ignore how much they can contribute to society and how much they can do to change the world.

Therefore, people’s value is about how they know themselves, not only about personalities, but also about how you use your personalities to attract and affect others, to confident yourself and to make contribution to society.