Sunday, February 25, 2007

Future of the book


Future of the book
When I visited the blog Future of the book, I was so surprise because this was a very cool and interesting blog. When I clicked A Brooklyn painter working with his hands and a few machines, and my attention was grabbed by the Vidiots on Parade. I t was a caricature, and we could see cartoon walking. It was so funny and matchless.

From the title of the blog we can guess what was this blog talking about? This bog contain two boxes, this left box is about the content of the blog; it included pictures, videos and contexts. The right box included different links, pictures, comments, comments evolved, and the archive, which we can get more information about this blog. On the top of the left box, we could see the other people’s blog. They included a lot of information, which it support the blog Future of the book. The contexts included the writer’s discussions with the other people, and other information for his/her reader. There were a lot of different hyperlinks in the context; the reader could get more information regarding stories topic. Inside the different posts of Future of the book, and we could see there were different tags on the bottom of the posts. When we clicked those hyperlinks we could get some correlated information about this post.

There was a very good organization and much information in this blog; the writer had a clear content and storied guided the reader follow his/her ideas, which we were easy to understand what the writer was talking about. I compared this blog with my own blog, I could found out there were some similarities with my blog, but all over the blog was more different. There were pictures, videos, and hyperlinks contain into my post, which support my story and guided the readers follow my ideas. Those parts were similar with the blog Future of the book. In each post of this blog contained many tags to support his content, but the most different was about the two boxes of this blog; it made this blog strong and visual. In the left box we could found out the older blog, and in my blog we found the older blog on the bottom. The writer combined the big and small word together, which was more visual. The hyperlinks were used in different way in this blog, one was to support the writer’s story; one was to guide you to the other people’s blog.
There were some inadequate aspects in this blog, it was little colorless and monotonous. In the main page is monotonous, which did not have nice and colorful background and did not have nice or interesting pictures. It was so hard to grab the readers’ attention. Some hyperlinks did not mark different color with his text; if the readers did not pay attention, they would miss those hyperlinks. If the writer could attend to my suggestion, this bog would be better.

image essay



ON WAR
When I first time saw this picture; it gave me a great impression, which I remembered as long as I live. Everyone wished have a happy and satisfactory life, but who can guarantees? I did not know; I just wanted the war was over now. This was a human tragedy. The old man wore dark blue clothes and the grey-bearded on his face. He found out his granddaughter in a pile of died people, and he holed the little girl in his heart tightly. He looked at his granddaughter with sorrowful expression, and he could not believe he had lost his beloved. The little girl had died. She quietly lied in her grandpa’s heart; her eyes were close, and the blood was all over her body; her hair is so disheveled and dirty. The bomb had truncated her right leg and burned her clothes; the blood dropped from her cutting leg. From the picture we could guess her age about ten year. Why she had died? The little girl was killed in the day time, who could killed the people in the light of the day? I did like to answer.

In side the picture, there were a lot of people lied on the floor without shoes. They were piled together at the side of the light yellow building. Behind the old man; a woman was looking for her family in the pile of died people, who wore dark black clothes. This picture represented what was war, and the mean of the war. At the end I wanted to ask anyone “is the war ever necessary?” please give me an answer.

The second extra credit opportunity- what the beautiful arts







It was a nice night in the Denver Downtown; I went to reading meeting with my good friend Fu Wang. We lost in the downtown that we could not find the building. When we found the Colorado Building, the meeting just had about fifteen minutes left. So we were late for this meeting, and we called the meeting center to ask someone open the door for us. About one minute a disabled opened the door for us; he welcomed us with a smile. When we reached the meeting, I saw the people full the whole meeting. I was so surprise to see Joshua here because he did not show out in the last reading meeting; he sat in second place by right hand side of the last row. He said hello to him and he gave me a smile back; I saw his face was a little red; maybe the old man’s interesting reading had given him energy. It was so quiet in the meeting, the last poem described the mountain and river. Every audience enjoyed in the old man’s lecture/speech, but his interesting reading just have ten minutes left. Ten minutes later, the meeting was over. The audiences left the meeting, but some students were staying there to enjoy the original arts.




Here, I needed to thank Joshua give me an opportunity to get this extra credit for I was late. I stayed with my friend in the museum; we walked around there to enjoy different nice arts. There was big paper-cut art in a small room, and it was similar with Chinese paper-cut, but it was little different. The Chinese paper-cut was about the pictures, propitious words and pattern. This paper-cut was a big circle and there were A in the small circles. This paper-cut named Radiant Anarchy Doily, and it was Black and pink paper. Simon Pariton created in 1998. Pariton had born 1964, England. When I walked the next room, I was so surprise for those exaggerate and interesting sexually action arts. Those pictures were about the women, there were the other sexual arts about men in the other room. Those sexual pictures you were not able to see in China. The detail I do not like told about here. If anyone likes to see the pictures; I will show you in the class. I do not have any cable to upload to computer from my cell phone.




I was so scared when I saw a man lie on the floor, which it was a mixed media robotic man. We could see it moving in the TV, and a lot of people saw it moving. When I walked into a clear and white room, I saw the mixed media installation: wood, bottles, mallet, and water. When I hit the bottles, I could very interesting music. Also in other room I saw a mixed media, when it was charged. It could play music by itself. Above those things did not real grab my attention. I walked into a small white, one big and cool brown car model grabbed my attention. I stayed to look at it about twenty minutes, the maker made it up with thundered part of car. You could see very detail about different parts of the car, which was I never saw before. Any way if you had missed this reading meeting; do not worry you can visit this website to see arts, but you are not able to see the nice car model.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Observational Essay-Success In Person




It was a beautiful day; I went to see my friend who worked in Heaven Dragon Chinese restaurant. This was my first time here, and everything was fresh. I had an interview from Dan Tang, who I never saw before. He left China at eighteen years old and spent time in a refugee camp, then came to the United States. Tang still works at least fourteen hours every day, saving so his three kids can go to college. Tang spent a year in California living off a $221 monthly welfare check, learning English and partially repaying the charity that bought his plane ticket. He then moved to Colorado, where some friends owned a Chinese restaurant. In the next three years, Tang worked for his dream that was to have his own restaurant. Tang’s real journey was in 1985, and he opened Heaven Dragon in a nondescript strip mall off East 120th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. It has since become an institution. President Bush had ordered three times takeout from Tang when he was in Denver town. Now Tang is very modest about his success, he did his best on developing new food, and shared his best food with his customers.

Before I interviewed Tang, I did a long observation on my subject. There were seven mud stoves, two big oil-pans, two big food cabinets, a big bowl washing machine, two tables for cutting vegetables, a hot water stove, a huge refrigerator, and other stuff. It made up a huge kitchen. Tang wore a clean uniform with a white apron in the front. He had a separated hair style, but it was a little bit disheveled, and there were tiny wrinkles on the side of his eyes, and his nose is bigger than normal. When he smiled the deep lines were around his mouth, and a line of white teeth leaked out. If you paid attention to observe him, you would discover he was a little bit humpbacked.

See Tang was teaching his cook how to cook; he requested the cook to control the fire that made the food more delicious. He shook a wok at regular times, the stove fire was roasting his face, and his face turned to red; he perspired all over his face when he stood in the front of the stove. After he went to wash his face and hands, he was going to make food sauce. He put soy into the bucket, and then mixed with the other sauce. He tasted the mixed sauce time and time again until he thought the sauce was perfect. The sauce spattered on his face and clothes, and the black pepper went down his nose and he started to choke. The tears streamed down his face; he took a wet towel to wipe the tears and his face. He mopped the kitchen floor after he finished the food sauce. And then Tang was going to cook the lunch for his works; everyday he tried to make different kinds of food for his workers. In this lunch, he cooked a combination sea of food soup and Chinese style cooked ribs which you could not find on the Heaven Dragon’s menu.

Tang invited me to their lunch, that was great food and so delicious which I had never tasted in other Chinese restaurants. He made jokes during the lunch hour that made the monotonous and boring job interesting. After the fifteen minute lunch hour, he began to develop a new style food. Tang sat in the corner of the kitchen, and tried to make new sauce for his new menu. I just peeped at his action in the side of a corner; he was so serious about doing his job and there was a serious expression on his face. He knitted his brows and scratched the back side of his head, and then he put that sauce into the garbage bucket. Tang called an old cook and asked the old cook about some problems who is about sixty years old and the years have silvered his hair. He was very thin and bony, but he was in high spirits. They were discussing the problems, and they still did not have a complete answer. A fat man walked in the kitchen and joined in their discussion; the guy was about two hundred pounds, but not very tall. I asked my friend who is that, and my friend told me that is Tang’s brother who was managing the second Heaven Dragon in Broomfield. After ten minutes, their discussion had a result. Tang put a new food sauce prescription into a small bucket, and then stirred the mixed sauce by a wood bar. They moistened the new sauce on their fingers and put it into their mouth; Tang moved his tongue in his mouth, and then shook his head. He used new sauce to cook the Happy Family, and then all of the cooks tasted his new sauce. Every cook erected their thumbs, but Tang did not really agree with the other cooks. He said: “the new sauce did not really accord with American taste; it is too light.” He recorded a new sauce prescription in a notebook and put it into the drawer, and then Tang turned around and continued doing his job......

In the end of the interview, I asked Tang one question: “how can you face one bored job for twenty seven years?” Tang’s answer was so simple that he liked this job, and it was his life. I will borrow Confucius’ advice: “choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Fortunately for Dan tang he did.
From this observation and interview, I understood a simple lesson. I need to find my goal and finish it. As you was badly cut up when you failed; you can only succeed if you do your best on your job.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

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Copper Nickel ( for extra credit)

I had attended the reading published meeting with my friend Fu Wang on the Feb 09, Friday, 2007. There were just thirty percent people here, but the meeting contained a lot of interesting story and all the information I needed. I did not see my section’ students here, I think you have missed a good meeting.
In the meeting, the people gave me a sheet is about the Denver mint reading series. Now let me introduce Joshua Poteat to your guys and some information about him. Joshua Poteat’s first book, Ornithologies, won the 2004 Anhinga Poetry Prize, and his chapbook, Meditations, won the Poetry Society of America’s 2004 National Chapbook Award. He has received awards from American Literary Review Columbia: A journal of Literature and the Arts, Nebraska Review, and River City. Recent poems have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, American letters and Commentary, and Ninth Letter. The second person Allison Titus, her poems have appeared in American Literary Review, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Jubilat, and Quarterly West and are forthcoming in Crazy horse, Cake train, and Typo. Her manuscript Barter, Fasten was a finalist in the National Poetry Series Competition of 2006. Now let me bring a good new for you, and you will give more surprise in March 27, 7 PM, King Center Recital Hall of CU Denver. HA HA, it will be FREE! FREE...
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In the meeting, there were four people read the poem, they are Chris Ransick, Jeff Franklin, Matthew Cooperman and Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Chris Ransick was the first person to read the poems and shared his experience for us, he lived in California and he like the ocean, beach and sky of California. He made jokes when he read about the poem; he said “the boulder football player grabbed the girl’s hair by hand and dragged around the playground.” The next personal Jeff Franklin read the poem “For the lost boys”, the face of book is nice a painting, it draw boys on it. Also Jeff made jokes when he read this story, and he just selected some interesting parts to read.
I like Chris Ransick’s reading, because he was so funny and he shared his experience with us. He combined the story with his own experience, that made the poem so interesting and it was easy to grab my attention. I think the local point of his reading is that combine with his life. I think this meeting was so helpful, it open my mind and give me more ideas for my future writing. We can learn some writing skill in this kind meeting, comparing with my own writing to improve my writing skill, let me know what I need to learn more.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Funny Chinese boys-post 3

I searched this video from Youtube, and I selected it from hungry of funny videos. It gave me a strong impression, so I want to share this funny video with you. Its title is” two Chinese boy-I want it that way + the making of,” this video is describe two Chinese boy making joke in the school dorm, their model is to be cool; they wear the yaoming’s jerseys number 11 of NBA rocket team. The beginning of the video is so amusing and lead up the focal point of the video; it is easy to grab your attention. Also these two Chinese boys worked well together as a team, to bring the best out of the video. I think it is a good way to show out their talent and humorist, share their happiness with everybody.
The content of this video include two Chinese boy imitate the backstreet boy in the school dorm, their action and sing style is so humorous. The video posters add the funny words in the feature at the end of the movie; make the video more funny and interesting. But I think their roommate was not interesting their show, he was just interesting in his internet game (hot blood legend). He was so confusing why my roommates do this stupid thing, and he left the room for a minute.
Any aspects of the video that have not been altered by the person who posted the video, except the feature of the video. The video poster just added some interesting and funny words on it, but they did not change the content of the video. This particular clip you are not able to watch on TV or in the movie theater because this is a real story, or maybe they did not have any chances to show their amusing skill on TV show. The poster did not need to spend a lot of money on it, you only need to take out you camera and record it into your computer, that is so easy, isn’t it. Possibly you have chances to watch this kind video in the school show, but you can get more choices form internet.
The focal point of the video is two funny Chinese boys being a humorous by imitating the backstreet boys singing. They did not care someone say them are stupid guys; they were so enjoyable in their life. It gave us a very good hint that do anything you want to do and do not worry somebody’ thought. They share their happiness for us, make the life easy.
If you are thinking about showing your talent, instead of trying for the TV show and getting refused. Why not consider changing your mind and think of an easy way to show off all your skill by posting your show on the Youtube. In the Youtube world you are completely free, you can find your place here, open your mind maybe one day you will become a celebrity.
This video’s context involves two Chinese students imitate backstreet boy and their funny style, that help me understand what are they going to show and gave me a lot of inspirations.

Drunken Man- post 4

On Saturday night, I went and played the pool with my friends in the Colorado Pool Ball Center. The pool hall is place for entertainment; you can have beer, play pool and listen to cool music. I saw a middle-aged man and his girlfriend sitting in the bar, they were enjoying beer, they were real happy and enjoining their chatting. After they finished a dozen of beer, the middle-aged man and his girlfriends started to play pool. My friends were so confused why the man used the number 15 color ball as the white ball to hit the other balls. My friends were wondering if that was a new style of playing pool. He is so awesome; he used the back of the pool stick and made two balls into the hole at the same time. My friends said to me we should try that style. I said to my friends “that man is drunk that is why he is playing that way.”

The middle-aged man ordered his third dozen of beer. By the time he finished his second cup of beer, the man became incoherent and overly excited and his face turn red and his eyes also turn a little yellowish red. When he walking to the restroom he fell twice, his girl wanted to support the drunken men, but the man refused to let her help. After five minutes the drunken man finally came out from the restroom, but he was still tripping and falling all over like a drunken man, and his body smelled like alcohol. The drunken man left the pool ball center with his girlfriend supporting him out. Someone else entered the restroom after the drunken man, but the man rushed out of the restroom immediately because of the smell. The guy was yelling “who make put those fucking shit all over the floor in the restroom,” and he cleared the dirty thing on his shoes. We left the Pool Ball Center and headed to the liquor store for some Red Bull, which it is next to the Pool Ball Center. We saw the drunken man’s girlfriend putting him into the car, we told them “you need to take a rest before you drive home.” The lady did not listen to our advice and started driving away…….

Alcohol is bad for our health. But people still drink it as much as they like not considering their health could be in danger. Now I need to tell you a real story about my friend from China who died from drinking too much alcohol. When his family discovered him, his body was lying on the floor, and the body was cold, his pulse and heart stop beating everything was too late. Because of alcohol we will never be able to see his smile again and hear his funny jokes. Now all we hear is his family crying. See what drunk driving did click here.

There were 16,694 alcohol-related fatalities in 2004-39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year. Please read about alcohol alert to find out what you can do to help stem the tide of drunken driving deaths in your neighborhood...and make money at the same time. If you want to know how much alcohol I can drink, I think you need found out from book or internet.

I researched this subject that I want to give you an advice, do not drink and drive. I think everybody is my audience, especially for the drinking people. They need to know that alcohol is harmful to our health, and learn to say no to alcohol.