What I have done well?
Brainstorm in discussion.
What i have learnt to do better?
Trying my best to understand relations and those interesting and charming ideas from reading. Use those new ideas to think about how to make better video. Combine the reality and theory i learnt.
What i could have done better?
To record and express my thinking to public.
Fail, pass, Credit, DI, HD
One sentence:
Reading refresh ideology with list, List is beautiful like a poetry.
Charming.
#1 how to write differently
#2 how to write better
#3 the role of editing in you writing
#4 how to take notes more effectively
#5 how to make more quickly
#6 strengths and weaknesses in doing essays (the map)
#7 how to use these to plan contributions to group tasks (collaboration)
#8 dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty (exquisite corpse)
#9 paying closer attention
#1 How has your understanding of yourself （as a lenarner, or media practitioner/maker）changed? (this is a quant question)
#2 How has your understanding of ‘relationality’ (of connections between things and how or why these connections matter) Changed?
#3 How have your assumptions or ideas about your discipline, practice, or the world, been productively provoked through the semester?
Yesterday I participated in the HRAFF–Human Rights Art and Film Festival, as a volunteer, in ACMI.
So excited to join this kind of volunteer job, as a volunteer, we have some welfare, like enjoying films for free. So at that night, I saw a film named CHECK IT, I don’t remember well who is the director. Whatever…
It was a documentary film, talking about African American people in United States. Most African American people in the film, they didn’t go to uni, even some haven’t finish their high school. They don’t have shinning life, or childhood, growing up in violent environment, but it doesn’t mean some of them won’t to change their situation, for better life and a real and good job to feed themselves. This film focus on few people, expressing their changing life and challenges.
I am learning documentary, thinking back what ideology I learned from uni, the ontology, I have a question that I know that listing, relationships, “things” and “stuff”, but what if the thing we gonna do or film is a story itself? How we take story as “things”?
I have to say, I was nervous there. Thanks Joel he said a lot.
Actually I am not satisfy with what we have done. For the video, like the professor said in the class, it was a boring technical skills in video. I agree, but I actually not very interest in technical filming skills. I believe that simple isn’t easy. Personally, I have to say there was an accident when Nina was dealing with the video. She thought that we were doing video of Group 4 from Germany, but Group 7 actually. Why we didn’t find out this problem when she was discussing with us on video, because the location of Group 4 and 7 is the same, kitchen. The good news is, we found out this question before we submit it. However, we didn’t have too much time to make a new video, so keep using the one Nina made. That’s why it seems like not that related well in the video and audio.
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.