Post #5 A Meaningful Night in Mabee Library

On March 26 the Monday night, I got this week assignment as a student media photographer, I was asked to go to Mabee Library to take photo with the decoration of a painting show. It is the show with a lot of paintings crated by the children from all over the world, I saw the paintings from Russia and Kenya. Although these paintings are just drawn by children, the title and content are associated with a lot of aspects in the world, such as the environment protection, animal protection, outer space discovery and the future life. Not only the content of the paintings are colorful, but also the material of the paintings are also filled with diversity. Some of them made from cloth while some of them made from the stone and the little glass. Sketches, oil painting, watercolor painting, collage painting and so on, these made the show like a beautiful graden with the different fragrant. The children's pure true heart and imaginative viewpoints is reflected obviously on these paintings, which made us have a smile from the heart after seeing it. After 3 hours' work, we made the library study ground more fresh. I was happy with the colorful paintings and a new environment of our library.
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Post #4 Think about the Apple Effect

The people wait for the new Iphone Beijing

    
     This week on Wednesday March 7, Apple released its "Revolutionary new Ipad". It is hard to say from what time everytime Apple released its new productions like Iphone and Ipad, it becomes one of the most important news in the world. Furthermore, for the fans of Apple, it is more like their most expected day in the year. In American, there are many people stand out of the Apple store wait to buy the new product. In China, things turned to crazy, the crowd mixed with the real fans and the scalpers filled with the square in front of the store, even more the scalpers had conflict with the secrity of the store which led to Apple claimed stop selling Iphone4s for a while. The most ironical things that I read is about a coach take a group of people went to the Apple store Shanghai, they jumped out of the car with the united colour on their heads, people around all thought they are the tourists of a travel agency, however, they are a company hired scalpers who would wait for the new Iphone4s.
     These crazy phenomena have raised a heated discussion in China. Why people are so crazy for the Apple productions, how Apple made their productions so successful and so on?  I am also one of the people don't understand and really want to know. Now it seems that I have some ideas about this question. Befor the Ipad 3 released, I saw a bunch of news referred to the recations of people to Ipad 3. It is reported that half of the people in American will buy the new Ipad and the army announced to spend 800,000 dollars on Ipad 3 purchase. There so many supports to the new Ipad come from its own country people! Nevertheless, our country's people seemed more conservative on supporting our own brand products. We always think things come from the developed countries are better than us. We have our own brand clothes, automobiles, cellphones and computers, but they are in the weak position of competing the western brands. The most impressive thing I remember is when a domestic IT company release a advanced tablet recently, the news of it located in a discreet part of a famous portal website technology section while the Apple and Samsung these foreigh brands took up the majority part of it. Despite that tablet also has a high definition display and a speedy processor, there are few people notice that. A brand want to go over the world, it needs to popular in the domestic and get the support of native people. We really need to do something for our own brand right now.

Apple Ipad3 fearture:http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/123pibhargjknawdconwecown/event/index.html

My favorite video embed in the blog

Kobe is my idol, I like this video because it taught me a lot of useful basketball skills.

Post #3 Contemplate about my pictures

     It is a common Wednesday for everyone except me because it is the day that the Washburn Review published, I cannot stop seeing the latest paper and see if my picture was been used. I've been in the student media for two weeks and I've already done two assignments as well. Two pictures were used in the paper since I joined it.I like the environment in the student media, everyone is kind hearted and helpful and it is really a good chance to exercise the skill you want to improve. Besides the feelings I described above, I also have some contemplations that I want share with. It is the most important principle in photograph--The subject.
     The second picture I have taken used in the newspaper was an activity called diversity. I took the picture with two Chinese girls and a American boy in it. That was the reason I thought why they would use that photo. It displayed the diversity to some extent while diversity is the main aim for that activity. The picture should reflect the aim or the activity title. I undestood it immediately. A good picture sometimes may not a best combination of every elements in photograph, but it is certainly a obviously presentation of the subject's feature. Hold the subject or the aim of the object you will take photo it's a golden rule in photography. The contemplation of this picture now guide me to read the title of the activity at first carefully and rethink it over in order to find the key term of the activity, then focus on it during the process take the photo. I believe it will make me take more better pictures in the future. I felt encouraged all about these results and contemplations. I will keep working on it!