Blog Assignment #8

http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/66.01.Brainwashed

Step 1

            First of all, Acknowledging of Lizard is a serious resistance that stops people that force you to come back to the instructions. When people want to make a positive adventure or do something creative, the Acknowledging of Lizard will jump out to tell people that what they are willing to risk is really dangerous. In addition, making art is my favorite level in the article since art makes me happier in my life. Making art is a creative activity that doesn’t follow any direction, and give people a huge freedom in their mental world. Moreover, the connection is a new type of digital way to communicate with other people who might really know in actual world. The connection that the author mentioned is not the hypocritical way in some public moments, such as speeches and charity events. It is a direct way that connect people’s mental worlds.

Step2

            Have you imagined how awful the older education system is? Before reading this article, I still think I should follow the direction that older education system give me, such as being good on mathematic, always do something that our teacher ask us to do, and not doing extra work. After I read this article, I realized that my brain really have been washed for a long time, my first entire 21 years life. However, I think the media 203 is a different type of class. It teach us being more creative, and give us freedom to do the concept in our brain; also, the blog assignments give us lot of freedom that we can choose the audios, videos, senses, pictures that we like for homework. For me, this quarter I learn a lot from Media 203 and this blog, and I think our class contains some elements of seven layers. I personally prefer making art, acknowledge the lizard, and connection more.

           First of all, I am a 2D concept artist, so I have more sentiment of making art. When I studied sketch in China, I had no choice to draw what I want to draw. The only thing I have to draw is human’s head portrait since it is the only project that Chinese painting text for college offers. In that time I really hate the painting because I really don’t like draw human’s head portrait everyday, but now I feel happy since in Ohio University and media 203, I have enough freedom to draw what I want, what ever monster, naked girls, or Darth Vader; and also, painting and making art also make me more creative to do other things, such as our blog assignments. In addition, acknowledge the lizard is a new concept to make me being more creative. Before taking media 203, when I want to do something I had never tried, I felt afraid to do it, and I think that is the mental resistance. For instance, I had never tried 2D animation before because I felt afraid to waste time to do a new thing that maybe I would screw up; however, when I took the media 203, I had to do a small animation project, and then, I think I did it well. I also told myself that is not that hard I imagined. The class encourages me a lot and helps me take a part of mental resistance. Moreover, the digital connection also helps me a lot. For example, Facebook gives me more opportunities to contact with more people, and e-mail provides me more chances to touch game companies.

            Those are three levels that help me most in Media 203 and blog assignments. I appreciate it and I think I will keep them and carry on in future.