Old & Grey

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Saint Paul Cathedral , England . An enormous religious sanctuary , exquisite architecture despite it's age . St Paul's famous story was that in the 1900s , the Germans attacked the cathedral and the buildings that surround it it . St Paul is the only buildings that survived . It was truly God's grace . The hints of gold radiates the same essence of when is was first built.
St Paul is history and history  is like wine . The older it is the more we are floored with awe .

The True Happiness that we have lost

I found this kid has a great smile which is full of happiness.

Smile of Happiness by Chan Yi Ling is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

"If i had more money, i would be happy. If i had a sport car, i would be happy." Any of these statements ring a bell with you? Nowadays, many of us equate happiness with something we don't have.So we are always looking to the unreal for happiness. In our modern society, money takes an important place to us.But can money brings us happiness? I think there is a lot of arguments between the answer. For me, money is the thing that can only satisfied our desires on materials. Although it can brings us pleasure and joy but not happiness.

Happiness comes from sharing life with those you love and care about. Meeting friends for a cup of coffee, family-outing ,and etc. Simple pleasures in your life have probably given you the most happiness. Life is made up of special moments with special people. You have learn to take those moments,breathe them in, enjoy them, relish them, treasure them.

Stairway Dilemma

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"You cant fail if you never give up" ~ Stephen( The Last Kiss)

Back in high school, in his fourth year, the boy was tasked with a painting that he would use to submit for his final year art examination. Going with the theme “Stairway,” he bended his research in painting the lives of students.

Life is like a stairway to the sky, the further you climb; the more difficult it is to climb.

 As students metaphorically, we strive our best keep on climbing these flight of stairs, trying to reach to the misty top. Not knowing what is in store for us in the future. Some of us get tired and restless, with the fear of not reaching the top; we give up halfway. Others watch them sit, they can’t stand to see their friends give up, they grasped on their hands tightly, supporting them to the top.

CAT

CAT 由 WANG ANQI 创作，采用 知识共享 署名-非商业性使用-禁止演绎 3.0 未本地化版本 许可协议进行许可。 I drew this cat refer to a photo from my phone,actually this is may cat,I took this picture about one year ago.This is kind of like one of my precious in all those photo,I went to Singapore for four months,I never leave home so long like this,I miss my parents so much,and I usually talk to them through phone calling,but I really miss my cat,I don't even can hear the voice,the only way I can do is draw it up to miss my cat,and I also think about use a sketch book to take notes about my cat,to keep it give me the happy time. And I also think about I give up to stay with my parents my lovely cat and my friends,choose a better studying environment to come to Singapore,I have to more hard in study,change myself and make me be a better person.

The Best Way Out is Always Through

The best way out is always through by Brian NG is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. when we meet a problem, we should try to break through it. But most of the people nowadays will choose to avoid or escape from that situation. This will make us trap into a very horrible situation. Just think about that, if we walk in a jungle and we suddenly meet a high slope, what will you do? Change another way? If me , i will try to climb over that slope. We don't know that if that is the lowest slope among the other hill in that jungle, if we keep change another way, it will cost a lot of time.

Do It Yourself

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Braids is one of my semester project i did back then in my previous school. Its a handmade and machined sewed combination of drawstring tote bag. This is one of my work first few pieces that i'm proud of even though it didn't turn out as i expected it to be. I've decided to combine both tote bag and drawstring as i like how the function of draw string pouches always work, its easily accessed and it keep things secure too, in the pouch, thus i added the function into the tote. The handle of the tote is a braided woven wool string, its a 5 braided pattern, i chose it to be wool string as i personally prefer it if my handles are soft  when carried it on the shoulder especially when carrying heavy things. I also didn't sewed it fixed onto the bag as i wanted it to be interchangeable, so i could braid more patterns for the strap, or even change the color of the strap when i feel like it.

Why i chose and decided on doing this is because, i have always wanted to come out a product of my own, specifically more on sewing stuffs, like hand-stitch items , pouches , bags and clothes.  I grew up in an environment where all my aunts and even my mum stitches or knit. I started to have interest in it. To me, this craft is one of my passion, or usually when i'm down , i would start coming up with things i would like to sew or DIY ( do it yourself). 

Susan Jane Belton

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We all have the habit of drinking coffee, but we never care about the coffee cup. But the Susan Jane Belton painting out of the out life everywhere we can see the coffee cup by pastel.

We can see from she paintings, the coffee cup’s color she hold very accurate, when we see these pictures we will think of when we drink coffee. In the cold winter we have a hot cup of coffee in hand, the coffee cup warms out body. When you see these pictures, you can find the paintings that just simply a few pen, also can let out life is full of vitality.

So I use these pictures to express, we study the art of often exists in our life, we must be good at discover it. 

Man and Nature

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This photograph is me, using double exposure makes me and branches into one. I like this photo very much! It is give people a different feeling and view. Soft color and gentle tones make people suddenly see the light and begin to feel relieved. And the white background precipitate the theme, fuzzy leaves but able to see the shape of the people. I think we all belong to the nature, including plats and human. Human and nature should be equality. They have their own life, changes by the seasons, this is same as human. However human has been destroying the nature by cutting down trees to disturb their life. We should not do that, as the trees can cleaning the air, absorb carbon dioxide which exhaust by vehicles.They are our friends. I hope there will have more people alert the importance of trees in our life. Sometime, i am so curious about how is the feeling of the branches swing by the wind, under the blue sky.

Stomboli revisited

This is a picture of the collage created by me using Ingrid Bergman's famous still photograph from the film Stromboli. In the film she plays the role of Karin, a Lithuanian WW2 refugee who meets and marries a man from Stromboli. The film(Rosellini,1950) portrays the isolation and disillusionment she experiences once she is on that volcanic island. She feels herself to be a prisoner of circumstance and finds release only when the volcano erupts and she flees the island for good.

Circa 2013, the context changes but the perspective remains the same. Bergman appears almost consumed by newsprint, her expression one of extreme vulnerability and possible isolation. It is as if the all-pervasive character of post modern media is leaving her isolated, helpless and without respite. I have deliberately shown the collage as representative of press clippings on her face, a disembodied, engulfing media being reflected back at her- maybe from a laptop, a tablet or a google glass?

I argue through this work that the postmodern woman in 2013 is as vulnerable as the modern woman of 1950. In the later case, it is society, represented by her volcanic prison, that isolated her. In the former, it is her media saturated environment that leaves her puzzled, distressed and alone. Whether then or now, each person is trapped in her own Stromboli.

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Cosmology of Life

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I took this photograph at the Singapore Biennale 2013 at the Singapore Art Museum. 
This is an really interesting art piece, where the artist craved and shaped these miniature talisman-like sculptures to express his point of view of the worldview of nature,spirituality, and macro and micro cosmos. what intricate me is that? How tiny the object is made?   It's very interesting seeing how detailed and frail it looked like.  A picture not only tells a story , but signifies a meaning such as seeing this inspiration from a person's different perspective point of view.  It's not what you see from an tiny object, its what you view. Different people have their own views and flaws, that's what make this art piece special. " It's not by size but what's the inner that counts deeper."

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Fantasy of a child

Since I was a child . I read a lot of comic books and I always imaging myself as the character in that story.

This piece of artwork represent a boy who invision himself as one of the main star in that comic book. Fighting evil to save the world. All of us at some point in our lives has this fantasy in our mind. Sometimes it's good to have those memories, reminding us of our youth without any concern to worry about. Cause it's the source of our chilhood.

So in this art work. I took a picture of myself and edit it with an app in my phone call otaku giving an illustration that you would find in manga.

The world's leader

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‘The world's leader’ juxtaposes the leadership of two of America’s most recent leaders, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Despite having presidency of arguably one of the most prominent nations in the world today, both leaders have had vastly different approaches to governing the nation. This is symbolized by the shading of the dual ‘faces’ of America in the 21st century; Bush’s presidency has been significantly marked by the ‘War on Terror’ and the bloodshed resulted from his administration’s heavy-handed foreign policy, while Obama’s presidency, in contrast, has currently been characterized more for his focus on diplomacy. Nevertheless, their respective leaderships have collectively transformed the geopolitical face that America presents to the rest of the world in the 21st century.

Don't Let The World Change Your Smile

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"Forced smiles in photographs always look a little awkward,but real ones do more than help you look good."

     It is a place where technology is not so well-developed. Where residents still use the traditional way in everyday life. It is a place where nature is still very close to humans. Where peoples appreciate nature and nature embracing peoples.
     It is a place where long-distance communication technology is very limited. But the affection and closeness felt so real. Parent-child relationship is not only seen from the eyes. And what is seen by the eye is not a lie. Maybe they just live in the small restaurant along the walkway. Small place in a small island, where modern people call it primitive.

     This village is not my village, and they are not my neighbors, but I felt like I was in a safe place. Because the kindness. Because the attitude. Because the honesty in their eyes and their smile.

I'm just a stranger to them, but I don't know why and how they can give that expression. Maybe because everyone smiles in the same language.

(Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia)

Holiday Vacation. June 2012.

REFLECTIONS

"Nature always wears the colours of the spirit."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our daily life, we often tend to look at the bigger picture. We miss out on little things. I took this picture during the sunset, after taking numerous pictures of the sun , I looked down to see the pictures on the camera, when I saw this. Till date this stands as one of my best!

 I loved how the last few rays of the sun just glinted off the water. My favourite part is are contrasts of colours in this picture and the way the patterns formed by the water create movement.
This picture has a calming effect, I can still feel the soft ripples that the were created by the boat!
I had clicked this picture when we had visited a fishing camp in India.
Bheemashwari ,Karnataka , India

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SNOOPING

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  This project is very interesting. A sign of a woman is visible at image upper left, but the statue is snooping. It is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions to create a space with a certain visual, tactile art image, to reflect the social life, expressing the artist's aesthetic sense, aesthetic emotion, aesthetic ideal of art.I think the sculpture shows us something may be humanism.  Emmm....would you want to use this toilet?(I took this photo at China Academy of Art university)

The third and final eLearning lesson / assessment
requires you to publish one arts-related post into this class blog
by 2359h on Fri 8 November 2013. In this one post,
you are expected to:

1. Embed
   one image OR video you have created and own the copyright to.
2. License
   it with a Creative Commons licence of your choice (use http://creativecommons.org/choose/).
3. Write
   a short introduction and a short conclusion.  
4. Insert
   a hyperlink (this can be anywhere in your post -- e.g. a link to the licence you
   have used).
5. Title
   the post appropriately.

Read
through the grading rubric below carefully before you start drafting your
post.