East village research questions

Posted on February 23, 2015 by xid382

1. How the traffic light works?

Most of the streets are single way, which is easy to control and reduce the mistakes of the traffic light.

2. Why people walk through the street before the traffic light becomes green?

The city is a rush city, people all have very busy life. If they run out of time, it becomes very often to rush for time.

3. Why most of the streets are single way?

It could help the city to become more efficient rather than LA.

4. How the government decided where the communal facilities located?

Each neighborhood has subway station, grocery store, park, bank and so on. Each one is walkable distance.

5. Why there are some huge differences between blocks and blocks?

Different people live in different blocks and neighborhood. Upper east is rich people’s place. Mid town is more like a landmark. Downtown is mixed. Because of different people live in different neighborhood, the appearance of the neighborhood is different.

6. Why does the specific group choose to live in this neighborhood?

In my neighborhood, the most of the people are students, also some young people live in this neighborhood.

7.Why the culture in that neighborhood could survive in that neighborhood?

Japanese food, Chinese food, Mexican Food, American fast food, Pakistan food.

8. Compared with other cities or countries, what is the difference of dressing style?

Compared with other city, such as LA or SF. New Yorker more care about their dressing style. In the west, people could wear like a cow boy to go to work or go to school. But in NY, everyone wants to be styled.

9. Why in the neighborhood choose this kind of building style?

The building style is very old, it is not like a modern American city.

10. Why people pay attention to that public activities?

Each holiday the neighborhood or the city will have some activities. Some political event happens, people will parade.

11. How about the crime rate in this neighborhood?

My neighborhood is very good, No Crime.

12. How does the weather affect people’s daily activities?

Cold and snow in winter. Hot in Summer.

13. Which language was spoken by the people in this neighborhood?

Almost all language can be spoken in this neighborhood, but the majority is English.

14. Why people choose that way to celebrate holidays?

Fashion Week, Restaurant week! And regular holiday.

15. How does people use the city? Or how does the city use the people?

Entertainment, shopping, studying and relax.

16. Who is famous in my neighborhood?

Warhol Superstars, Kiki Smith, Perter Halley, Keith Haring and so on.

17. What the famous people did in my neighborhood?

Art work.

18. Why people love to stay in the city?

Different food, art supplies, street art working place, different brand of cloth.

19. Why so many homeless people live in the city?

I don’t know yet, it depends on the future.

20. What is the living style the people lived in this neighborhood?

Busy Busy Busy.

21. How does people feel when they walk through the city?

Indifferent, fancy, independent, busy.

22. What is the most common traffic way people choose?

walking and subway.

23. What is the night of city looks like?

Still like day time.

24. What is the goal of the people lived in the neighborhood have?

To be self.

25. What kind of relationship between human and the nature in the neighborhood?

From what I see, the city and the nature is quite in peace. But the city produce to much trash….

Gif practice

Posted on February 17, 2015 by xid382

NonLinear

Posted on February 17, 2015 by xid382

NonLinear

Linear

Posted on February 12, 2015 by xid382

linear

Deconstructing the Design Process

Posted on February 9, 2015 by xid382

: Petra Högström and Matilda Maroti Petra Högström and Matilda Maroti are the designers of Mother Of Peral. They work for Shoise. They are high fashion shoes designers.

: Refraction 2014 Refraction is the theme of 2014. The idea comes from reflection, deep sea, light and shadow. This collection is very dramatic.

: Mother of Pearl his is the high heels in the killer heels exhibition, called Mother of Pearl. I guess the idea comes from the mermaid. The material is stone or jade.

: heels Design The first step of designing a shoes should be sketching ideas. All the inspirations of that season come from reflection, deep sea, light and shadow.

: Designers need to make the pattern for the heels. Everything about the shoes should be planned.

: Then designer will use this thing to make the construction of the shoes. Which could also make sure the shoes have the right size for the consumers.

: After finish the construction, designer need to finish all the stitch on the shoes to make sure it is strong enough to be wore.

: The next step should be cutting the material for the decoration on the shoes. I guess they use laser cut to get each small square for the shoes. In the end, they put all the decoration on the shoes.

: Mother of Pearl This is the shoes named Mother of Pearl. The surface might be used by jade. The shape has a strong feeling of architecture.

: Sketch

: Nailed This shoes’ inspiration maybe comes from nail. There are thousands of pieces of nail shape on the shoes. This creature gives me a feeling of shell animal under deep sea.

: Unfrozen This shoes also comes from the same collection. This shoes name is unfrozen. The liquid shape on the surface explains the name “unfrozen”.

Petra Högström and Matilda Maroti are two high fashion designer, they work for Shoise. In 2014, their shoes collection was Refraction. In 2013, their shoes collection was Remotion. Today the shoes in killer heel exhibition is Mother of Pearl, which belongs in Refraction 2014 collection. About the material two designers choosing, I don’t know. I guess that designer might choose something as jade. The shoes are definitely hand made, they made each small pieces of the shoes and assembled them together.

Repetition

Posted on February 6, 2015 by xid382

Intuitive Maps

Posted on February 6, 2015 by xid382

East Village Photo Blog

Posted on February 4, 2015 by xid382

alphabet city

bicycle

spring

This picture was taken on 7th Ave and 34th street. There is a camera on that screen, which projects what is on the street. Michelle and I both on that screen to take a selfie. It is a very interesting way to interrupt what people are doing. We saw that, and we stopped there waiting the advertisement end for 3-4 minutes.

For those 9 pictures are the intervention project I did for Time Class. The reason I did this because I realized that many culture moved from one place to anther, during that time period, almost all the culture had some things changed. For example I used that the Chinese food, I have the Chinese background, so I could tell the differences between the traditional Chinese food and the Chinese food in NYC. But obviously, Americans didn’t know the difference, so I bought some KFC and put them into a steam contain to invite someone to eat it in a public space. People in that restaurant might have totally different thought about it. The result is that people got shocked. Especially the waiter in that restaurant.

This week I focus on the graffiti in my neighborhood. I found a lot of walls, people sprayed it over and over. The mail box on the street is the most interesting thing I found. I saw that on the street side, people did a lot of drawing on that side. But on the other side, it is very neat. It is also very interesting that, in school we learned that human’s manner, however in a lot of culture, the bad words become the symbol of each culture. As the Chinese Identity, in my mind, I think graffiti bad words are not a good things. Well, in China I only saw tons of posters on the wall, which is kind of like the third picture above. In America, I saw a lot of graffiti instead of news posters, and a lot of bad words. People make fun of the city, people express their ideas through graffiti.

All the photos are Union Square. I took it from five different angles at night. Last class, Tamar showed the class a movie about a photographer keeping taking photo of one location. So it brings me a idea of taking one picture from different angles.

We went to Matise Exhibition to observe a numbers of art work, the most part of them are paper cutting, but a few art pieces were stained glass. The bright color and the connection between glass and glass caught my eyes. The third picture is a piece of wall nearby Union Square. I guess this piece of wall also is used stained glass. But compared with the one I saw in MoMA, it uses more different color and more delicate shapes. From my perspective, this one has too much information, so my eyes get too busy. I prefer Christmas Eve in Matise exhibition.

The picture of the empty fountain was taken in Washington Park after snowing. There was a man playing the piano in front of the fountain. That day was not super cold, some people were listening to his soft music, some people were taking photos for him. From the park, we could see the Empire State, meanwhile it is also the start of Fifth Ave. Why I took this picture without any thinking. I guess maybe because of the music. I was walking around the park, I heard the soft music out side of the park. At first, I thought someone was playing radio, later on, I saw a black grand piano setting in front of the fountain. I was totally shocked, a giant grand piano on the ice, a man was playing music. People passed, people stopped, people took picture, people listened. This music became a surprise gift for the everyone who passed the Washington Park. Street art is very popular in NYC, when I first time heard crazy music in subway, I never thought people could play music in this way. I believe that all the pictures I took should related to the culture of NY, a mixed art city. For me, every building could be very unique, they all have some story. I am very happy to stop to listen to the story of NYC.

Space Project 3: Food Container

Posted on December 15, 2014 by xid382

The Project 3 is about food container. The first idea is about Japanese food, so I decided to do a food container of Japanese food.

The first 3 pictures is my sketches about my container.

After sketching my idea, I got a giant piece of wood in the Home depot. I cut them in to several pieces and glued them together. Each piece has specific measurement.

The next step after I assembled them, was sprayed, I chose sakura as the pattern on the container, because it is a good media to connect with Japan.

In the end, I put some oil inside of the container to project the food I am gonna put into.

Space Project 2– Light Container

Posted on November 11, 2014 by xid382

sketch and idea

The first picture was my original idea of the light container, these was the sketch. the second picture, I was cutting the wood base in the work shop. light container (blue)