How to evaluate? One of each of us.
#1 I’ve learnt How to work in a same group in such a long time.
#2 I’ve learnt that it’s more important to recognize what thins do, rather than what they mean.
#3 I’ve learnt to see things than to their form.
#4 Thins go beyond initial assumptions.
Other groups:
#1 redirecting agency and understanding what agency is
#2 questioning what constitutes being
#3 observing both our habits and our agency
#4 exploring different avenues is useful (not all narratives)
Description:
This black hat, as you can see, it’s on the ground. The black, I have to say, resulting in a strong visual impact. The cover of this hat, in other words, the cover is designed in a pattern like ‘chapped ground’. Meanwhile, it is easy to find out that the inside material of this hat is really different to the outside material. The inside material isn’t glossy, more accurate, it is soft. Also, it is really dark to get into the hat so we can see it is really good at blocking sunlight. Oh yes there are decoration, obviously, couples of Adidas, on the main structure in hat. Why? I have no idea, people can’t see the Adidas if they don’t flip over. A little piece of label is also inside the hat, it is telling people that made in China. Beautiful hat, but because the camera I used to take this film is my phone, shaking to some extent can’t be avoided, and also it loses focus sometimes.
Today I have to force myself to think out how to express the ‘Active and Positive relationship’, only because the microphone will be returned tomorrow. Sometime, working under pressure can really help thinking, creative thinking. So I just remember the table example that Adrian said in class, he took that example in couples times.
He said that “Just look at this table in front of us, it made up of wood. We normally will say that we chose this wood to be made of this table, why don’t we say that this wood chose to be made of the table in this room, in front of us.” (Not totally the original one) Whatever, but this example reminds me a point that in normal thinking and recolonization, people is the active object, choosing wood to make table. When we change our mind, in ontology or onto-cartography, wood could be the active objects, because we all are equal.
There is a truth that whether which object is the active one, the Active and Positive relationship won’t change, which means the sounds of relationship won’t change. For example, still the table example. Ignore which is the active or positive side, we have already known that there is a relationship between the people and wood, certainly the table is the agency. Because of the existing of this relationship, there is process of making table, such as delivering wood. And all the sounds from this process, namely from this relationship won’t change. The sounds still the sounds.
So follow this direction, I decided to record the original and common sounds in the kitchen.
For example, ‘Carrot cuts the knife’. Yap in common understanding, carrot can’t cut the knife, knife is the active one and carrot must be positive. However, in the understanding of ontology, carrot can cut the knife, and the sounds is same to the sounds that knife cuts carrot. That’s it.
When we were confusing about the project, Nina recommend that we can focus on Food, How food goes to people’s mouth. So it’s about the process. This process won’t be bad, it’s good. But remember that we need to focus more, focus on a thing. Moreover, if we go further the process of producing food, that will be a big program. We need to get access to some factory, or maybe farm?
So talking about the how food get to people’s mouth, we thought the related ‘eating’. ‘Eating’ is a good direction we can dig into.
‘Eating’ officially is a process, as we know. However, it is not only a process but a relationship. I mean, ‘eating’ is presenting a relation between two objects, one is by eating, the other one is do eating. This is a ‘Active and Positive relationship’. Following this ‘Active and Positive relationship’ direction, we can change our usual and common mind that why says people eating apple, not apple eats us? Why we are the active one? If we cut a piece of apple, putting it in the air, there will be oxidation reaction on that piece of apple. Is apple the active one, making the oxidation reaction? Or Air is the active one, making oxidation reaction?
Well, they’s for this idea. But the problem is, how to express this ideology in our video and soundscape? Still discussing.
The next due day is next Tuesday, it is on the way, so quick.
I have seen the video they made lots of times, and listened to the soundscape. You know that we need to make a 1 min video response to the new soundscape, plus a new soundscape. So totally at the end it is a 3 mins file. Unfortunately, they didn’t record the list in their soundscape, although I can roughly imagine that what stuffs make those sounds, I want to get a 100% answer.
The original theme, or I mean the location, is kitchen. Yeah, how lucky(really?), same to our first soundscape we made. The video is about someone eating in a place, like restaurant. Not only eating, but drinking. They spent lots of time on (food) in the plate, and some related stuffs that people carry with, such as water glass cup, tissue, coffee. I am so sorry that I can’t completed understand the meaning, and the thing that they pick out of the kitchen.
Remember what Adrian said, we should focus more, narrow more, on the thing. ‘Treat the thing as a thing.’ So how can I understand the soundscape well, pick out a thing from their soundscape.
I have to say, this article is really interesting. It refresh my brain and ideology system.
In our discussion, I record some questions, and want to post them here.
#1 can’t really understand the sentence under the ‘Sky, earth and the weather, ‘between mind and nature, persons and things, and agency and materiality, no conceptual space remains for those very real phenomena and transformations of the medium that generally go by the name of weather.’
#2 just in the above sentence, what are the differences between things, agency, and materiality?? Maybe plus one, the medium.
Just roughly finished the reading, the only feeling and feedback I have is: Interesting, but can’t totally understand well.
Until now, what I get from the article:
Author give us a new view to observe the physical relationship that actually have been proved by scientists. Like the sun, sea, whether…
However, I do think I need to reread the article again.
In this very interesting article, I have to say that It took me hard to understand, to a large extent, what the author wants to present.
Author, at the beginning, criticizes the current materialism. As he says that the materialism now is narrow, and only concerning about the physical stuff and discursive. His key idea is that matter, here he mentions, he made up of ‘stuff’ and ‘things’. Stuff means physical stuff that is materialist as people recognized. About the ‘things’, as the author says, is something invisible, recognized by people’s brain. Yep, the relations between machines.
Today, we back from the Easter break, most of everyone had a good holiday.
Today was my turn to bought some food for the afternoon tea, bread, grapes and an Asian snake. But it was seems like that many of them were not interested in the Asian snake I bought, a little disappointed. I understand it, after all, to them that snake is unknown to them.
Talking about the ‘movie moment’, we enjoy every groups projects, and wrote comments and thinking. I found out that this time, the each videos is improved, to a large extent. Personally, I am very interested in the one named ‘revolution’, am I said in current way? However, Adrian said to us that our videos and audios are not narrow enough, I though they are. Anyway, we will get better next time.
Just remind about my group video, which is done by me. I don’t know whether everyone figure out what I want to explicate and present in the video. What I was thinking on the video is that the optical theory and principle. A simple example is reflection. The light come in from the Convex lens of lens, go directly to the Photosensitive element of camera, then imaging. Moreover, the glasses the part is presenting that the camera and lens focal length imaging of the physical principles. Hopes they get my points?
Today we enjoy every groups’ project, we also wrote our thinking on paper.
Thanks guys.
