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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Following the development of morden art. We see that Art not only be appied and showed on the museum or gallery but also comes to every part of daily life from the newspaper to the box of products. By the development of ecomomic after WorldwarII, there are a new styles of art and that becomes a important part of morden art movement.
I would like to introduce to you - a guy that sometime we forgot the name when Don asked us in class
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Andy Warhol Biography - 1928-1987



"No other artist is as much identified with Pop Art as Andy Warhol. The media called him the Prince of Pop. Warhol made his way from a Pittsburgh working class family to an American legend.

Born in Pittsburgh

Andy was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father was as a construction worker and died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.

Andy showed an early talent in drawing and painting. After high school he studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Warhol graduated in 1949 and went to New York where he worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harpar's Bazaar and for commercial advertising. He soon became one of New York's most sought of and successful commercial illustrators.

The Pop Icon

In 1952 Andy Warhol had his first one-man show exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in New York. In 1956 he had an important group exhibition at the renowned Museum of Modern Art.

In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.

The quintessence of Andy Warhol art was to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns. Warhol once expressed his philosophy in one poignant sentence:

"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums".

The Factory

The pop artist not only depicted mass products but he also wanted to mass produce his own works of pop art. Consequently he founded The Factory in 1962. It was an art studio where he employed in a rather chaotic way "art workers" to mass produce mainly prints and posters but also other items like shoes designed by the artist. The first location of the Factory was in 231 E. 47th Street, 5th Floor (between 1st & 2nd Ave).

Warhol's favorite printmaking technique was silkscreen. It came closest to his idea of proliferation of art. Apart from being an Art Producing Machine, the Factory served as a filmmaking studio. Warhol made over 300 experimental underground films - most rather bizarre and some rather pornographic. His first one was called Sleep and showed nothing else but a man sleeping over six hours."

Some his art works:

In my opinion, Andy Warhol has created the new way of tasting art. Before, It is not easy and quickly for author to design a art. But Andy Warhol has applied the mass production process or method on creating art. For one idea, author can create variety of design versions. For example, with the idea of Marilyn Monroe picture above, If I choose Madonna face replace Marilyn Monroe's face and keep the way of filling color. I can create a new design product. Because, Madonna face surely have difference feeling to audience comparing to Marilyn Monroe.
The new idea of Andy Warhol is the simple daily objects also can consider as a part of art design. If a normal object is recreated by playing around and mixing around with technique and putting some kinds of ideas in the way of present. Surely, It will become a new art product.
I think his idea is the transitive process to postmodern art. When digital technology becomes a important part of design art. If you play with Photoshop filter techniques, you can multiple ways to create a new image base on an original image. Pop art is a ship to bring real fine art close to real life and get more communication to people. Before, maybe the high education people or the high class people can have chance to taste art. But from now, people have more chance to do it. Art spreads out to all class in society. That is good idea to bring all together. And I like this idea.

references links:

http://www.artelino.com/articles/andy_warhol.asp

I would like to introduce a famous artist for who like the very important word that we listen everyday in class - ABSTRACTION

Wassily Kandinsky Biography - 1866-1944


"Russian born Wassily Kandinsky is considered as the inventor and theorist of abstract painting in the 20th century. In 1910 Wassily Kandisnky had seen an Islamic art exhibition in Munich - a highly decorative art style that does not allow to show images of human beings. The same year Kandinsky created his first abstract painting.

Kandinsky's Early Years

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866. He grew up in a bourgois, cultured family and learned to play the piano and the cello. In 1886 he began to study law and economics at the Moscow University. After passing his exams he started a teaching career at the Moscow Faculty of Law. He had many interests and apparently a great gift to teach himself different skills.

In 1895 Kandinsky saw an exhibition of French impressionists in Moscow with paintings of Monet and others. He was at first confused and would later described how upset he was about Monet's painting The haystack. He thought that the painter had no right to paint things in a way that made it difficult to recognize the subject.

In 1896, at the age of thirty, he decided to start a new career as an artist and went to Munich in Southern Germany. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts for four years until 1900.

Der Blaue Reiter

The art of Kandinsky established itself rather fast from 1903 on through many exhibitions in Europe. In 1911 he formed together with other Expressionist painters the group Der Blaue Reiter.

Other members of the group were the Swiss painter Paul Klee, Franz Marc, August Macke, Gabriele Münter, Alexei von Jawlensky and Alfred Kubin. Kandinsky was the leading head of the group together with Franz Marc. His dominant position was not always to the delight of the other members.

Abstract Painting

Kandinsky became the theorist of abstract painting. In 1910 he created his first abstract work - a watercolor. In 1912 he published a book on the theory of abstraction.

The Blue Rider had only a short life due to the outbreak of World War I. In 1914 Kandinsky returned to Russia where he stayed until 1921. In 1922 he came back to Germany to teach and work at the Bauhaus in Dessau until 1933. During the years at the Bauhaus the artist had his most productive and prolific time.

When the German Nazis came to power in 1933, all modern art was considered as entartet (degenerated art) and the Bauhaus was closed in 1933. Kandinsky's works were removed from German museums and confiscated.

Emigration to Paris

The artist's next destination was Neuiily near Paris where he remained until his death in 1944. At the time of his emigration to France, he was a well-established artist in the United States. Salomon Guggenheim became one of his collectors.

Wassily Kandinsky continuously developed his style over the years but never made any abrupt changes as for instance Pablo Picasso did. His early paintings were expressive, colorful compositions but figural. The style reminds of Henri Matisse. From around 1910 the transition to abstract painting can be recognized. The figural elements were more and more reduced and finally they disappeared completely. Like a musician, he titled his art works impressions, compositions or improvisations. From around 1920 on, his style became rather geometrical.

The Lenbach Museum in Munich

If you should ever come to Munich, do not miss to visit the Lenbach Galerie or Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus as it is officially named. It has an incredible collection of Kandinsky paintings - mainly from his time with the Blue Rider. The paintings were donated to the museum by Gabriele Münter, another artist of the Blue Rider group. She was Kandinsky's companion until 1914 when he returned to Russia. During the Nazi rule, Gabriele Münter had stored a large number of his paintings in the basement of her house in the Bavarian countryside." http://www.artelino.com/articles/wassily_kandinsky.asp

There are some his painting:

Improvisation 7
Black Spot I
Fragment 2 for Composition VII

In my opinion, surely I do not understand the meaning and what he wants to show on his painting. Obviously, they are too abstraction. Cubism or Expressionism, I can see at least the objects on painting or what are drawing on painting. But the abstraction painting, I am absolutely get lost on the world of colors, shape and lines. I wish that I can understand the abstraction on his painting. What ever, may be some one can understand and feel comfortable with his art. I do not say that I dislike his painting; I just comment that I do not have enough knowledge to understand maybe. I think that, abstraction paintings are kinds of personal emotion or feeling of the authors. Author abstracts his ideas, thinking, and opinion on his art world. Why he chooses the abstraction is the way of presenting his art? I think there are must be some reasons.
In my own experience and opinion, I use abstraction when I do not want to show clearly my own feeling and purpose of my design. That helps me hiding my personal on my design to open the possibility of new feeling or communication to viewers. Some people can have same feeling or see likes what I do. However, there are still have many people have difference feeling as their own perspective. It voids the situation that author tries to show his ideas and wants everyone think the same way. Surely, It is impossible. For example, some one draws a complete chair. Some one can look at it and says: " Oh ! I like this table!", because at his home, he uses chair as table. The author surely never gets angry and tries to say that:" It is a chair! Don’t you see!". Abstraction can solve those problems. Viewers can have their own feeling. It is the key to open the new theorem to postmodern art later. Don’t you think so? There is just my own bias opinion. I know you also have your own thinking. If you know something, I am surely happy to listen to.


Tuesday, September 12, 2006

How do you often dream of something?
Do you remember and can tell all your dream story when you weak up?
Sometime, you want to keep dreaming because what happen in dream is so sweety, so exicting, so happy like what u expect in real happy life.
Dream is just some kind of brain working when you are sleeping. Right ?
However, I would like to introduce to you a famous artist who designs his art works base on his dreams. Surely most of you can know who he is , because Don has showed us his website.

Salvador Dali - 1904-1989

" Salvador Dali is considered as the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century. During his lifetime the public got a picture of an excentric paranoid. His personality caused a lot of controversy. After his death in 1989 his name remained in the headlines. But this time it was not funny at all. The art market was shaken by reports of great numbers of fraudulent Dali prints. What's all behind it?"http://www.artelino.com/articles/salvador_dali.asp you can go to this link to know more about him

There are some his painting:

The Great Masturbator, 1929

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936

The Ghost of Vermeer

Painting Title: The Persistence of Memory, 1931

At the first time, Don introduces him to us. The ways of his looks also creates something oddly, mystery, curiously to me, especially his eyes staring at the viewer. However, when I see his works, I really interesting on his creation in his idea’s concept. Looking at his painting, I feel I am on a very difference world where anything is oddly. His method of capture the dream scene: taking short snap with a pen on his hand. He redraws all sense that he saw between the time of taking a short snap and weak up.

I never try this kind of technique. But I have some real experience. For example: When I feel tired and try to study. Suddenly, I weak up and realize that I am sleeping on studying chair. I still remember thinking, feeling, imaging on my head when I am taking snap. Those kind of things create me very straight feeling. I feeling that I am just from a kind of surreal world with flowing of my thinking. Suddenly I come back the real world where I am sitting on chair and studying. I think each person have his own personal experience about this. Each has his own feeling. No one knows how to take that feeling moments and get that idea to design an art work. But Salvador Dali does it. He knows how to takes his own experience to put the creation on his design. From that, he has opened the new dream land to the art world.


If you want to know more pls visit link:

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/salvador-dali/


Monday, September 11, 2006

I would like to introduce one of the most famous artist of 20th century. I am sure you know who is he. Yeah ! Don has showed to us in class.
Pablo Picasso Biography - 1881-1973

Some his paniting

The Old Guitar Player

Three Musician

LES DESMOISELLES D'AVIGNON

"No other artist is more associated with the term Modern Art than Pablo Picasso. He created thousands of paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics during a time span of about 75 years. For many Picasso is the greatest art genius of the twentieth century. For others he is a gifted charlatan. Undisputed is the fact that he influenced and dominated the art of the twentieth century like no other modern artist.
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, as the son of an art and drawing teacher. He was a brilliant student. He passed the entrance examination for the Barcelona School of Fine Arts at the age of 14 in just one day and was allowed to skip the first two classes. According to one of many legends about the artist's life, his father, recognizing the extraordinary talent of his son, gave him his brushes and palette and vowed to paint never again in his life.
Blue and Rose Period
During his lifetime, the artist went through different periods of characteristic painting styles. The Blue Period of Picasso lasted from about 1900 to 1904. It is characterized by the use of different shades of blue underlining the melancholic style of his subjects - people from the grim side of life with thin, half-starved bodies. His painting style during these years is masterly and convinces even those who reject his later modern style.
During Picasso's Rose Period from about 1905 to 1906, his style moved away from the Blue Period to a friendly pink tone with subjects taken from the world of the circus.
Cubism
After several travels to Paris, the artist moved permanently to the "capital of arts" in 1904. There he met all the other famous artists like Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and George Braques. He became a great admirer of Henri Matisse and developed a life-long friendship with the master of French Fauvism.
Inspired by the works of Paul Cezanne, he developed together with George Braque and Juan Gris developed the Cubist style. In Cubism, subjects are reduced to basic geometrical shapes. In a later version of Cubism, called synthetic cubism, several views of an object or a person are shown simultaneously from a different perspective in one picture.
Picasso and Guernica
In 1937 the artist created his landmark painting Guernica, a protest against the barbaric air raid against a Basque village during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso's Guernica is a huge mural on canvas in black, white and grey which was created for the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair in 1937. In Guernica, Picasso used symbolic forms - that are repeatedly found in his works following Guernica - like a dying horse or a weeping woman.
Guernica was exhibited at the museum of Modern Art in New York until 1981. It was transferred to the Prado Museum in Madrid/Spain in 1981 and was later moved to the Queen Sofia Center of Art, Madrid in 1992. Picasso had disallowed the return of Guernica to Spain until the end of the rule of Fascism by General Franco. "
http://www.artelino.com/articles/pablo_picasso.asp

Surely , Picasso is the master of abstraction. He is smart in creating the dimention of looking objects. It is odd for seeing objects , however it cerates the hold view of objects. The viewers can see the objects in all direction and angle. He and henri Matisee are as the god father for the Morden Art. I am happy to know an learn about him. It will create to me the sences to understand the Morden Art.

In this topic I would like to introduce to you the Expressionism art.
The artist that i want to introduce is one of the most famous artist Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh.




"VINCENT VAN GOGH 1853 - 1890 Expressive luminosity of color and blotchy brushwork are Vincent van Gogh's distinguishing characteristics which made him the model of expressionist painters at the turn of the century. Born in 1853, the vicar's son originally planned to study theology. Professional and personal failure led him to painting, in which he saw a way of giving expression to mental adn emotional tension. His own painting style was primarily developed autodidactically. In 1888, he settled in Arles, and this stay in Provence, which only lasted a year, is seen as the zenith of his creative work. In 1890, he died from the consequences of a suicide attempt. Van Gogh's pictures, which were not saleable during his lifetime, are today auctioned at very high prices."

There are some his painting:

"Irises" [1889] by Vincent van Gogh.

La Mousmé

Still Life with a Bottle and Lemons on a Plate

Starry Night over the Rhone

To help understand more the Expressionism, I would like to provide some information that i research.

" Expressionism developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Expressionis was opposed to academic standards that had prevailed in Europe and emphasized artist's subjective emotion, which overrides fidelity to the actual appearance of things. The subjects of expressionist works were frequently distorted, or otherwise altered. Landmarks of this movement were violent colors and exaggerated lines that helped contain intense emotional expression. Application of formal elements is vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic. Expressionist were trying to pinpoint the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality but the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in them. The expressionistic tradition was significantly, rose to the emergence with a series of paintings of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh from the last year and a half of his life. There was recorded his heightened emotional state. One of the earliest and most famous examples of Expressionism is Gogh's "The Starry Night." Whatever was cause, it cannot be denied that a great many artists of this period assumed that the chief function of art was to express their intense feelings to the world. The Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor was such an artist - with his sense of isolation. The Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch dealt - with different fears. The Vienesse painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele first started with their expressionistic styles within Klimt's circle of the Vienna Secession. Vienesse Expressionism later gained significance between years 1905 and 1918 during a politically and culturally turbulent era of revelation of the profoundly problematic conditions of the turn-of-the-century Europe. In the years just around 1910 the expressionistic approach pioneered by Ensor, Munch, and van Gogh, in particular, was developed in the work of three artists' groups: the Fauves, Die Brucke, Der Blaue Reiter. "

It is not easy to understand the subjective emotions that the artist shows on his painting. Because it is more abstraction so it create more attractive to viewers. Now, we live in the postmodern age, where abstraction is the key of art. That's why we understand the value of abstraction. But majority of people at his age did not understand that. It is the one of reason "he often suffered from extreme poverty".
I hope that one day; I can understand some meaning in his ways of using colors. Wish you guys also have same feeling. If you understand his style art, I am happy to listen to.
links
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/expressionism.htm

www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/



Henri Matisse - Master of color - Fauvism style
"Biography - 1869-1954
Henri Matisse was born as the son of a grain merchant in the Picardy region of northern France. He studied law and worked as a law clerk. When Henri Matisse was 21 years old he became seriously ill. During the phase of convalescence Matisse started painting and discovered his love for art, which should become his life-long passion.
Two years later, in 1892, he gave up his career as a lawyer. He attended art classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and dabbled in different styles. He then was influenced by the impressionist and post-impressionist painters Pisarro, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin and Paul Signac and by the paintings of W. Turner.
Around the year 1905 he finally found his own style characterized by daring, bright colors executed in a broad brush stroke. "
There are some his painting:

Two Figures Reclining in a Landscape

Flowers in a Pitcher

Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life)

Matisse’s painting is the world of colors, But there are some kind of abstraction in the ways of using colors. Colors in Matisse’s are not like the real colors . It is right, however, he uses them in his own purposes. If we just have a quick glad, there are not differences to impressionism art painting. They are odd in colors. There looks like have some similar in some sense of feeling. However, there are some quite differences. That is the meaning of color's presentation. There are some kinds of abstraction in colors. Maybe each viewer can has his own feeling to answer the question:" What is meaning for those odd colors?". When thinking about this, now I understand more about what Don had taught me in class. Yeah! May be it is the ways to find out the difference between the modern art and the art before that age. Before, Art is kinds of photograph the real sense. From now on, ABSTRACTION becomes one of the most important part to both modern and post modern art. I don’t know why I feel his style and Picasso’s style have some similarity ways. The answer is they are both using ABSTRACTION in their painting. I would like to leave out to you the question: “What is the difference in the abstraction between his styles and Picasso?" after I find the answer for my own. Hope you like my question.

the related links:
www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/





Claude Monet - a master of impressionism.
Claude Monet 1840-1926


" Claude Monet was one of the founding fathers of French Impressionism. Monet's concern was to reflect the influence of light on a subject. He never abandoned his Impressionist painting style until his death in 1926 when Fauvism and Cubism were en vogue and when abstract painting came into existence."

"Claude MONET was an artist by trade. He never earned money from anything but his paintings. He began at school selling caricatures of his teachers. All his feelings from happiness with his family to the painful death of his wife Camille turned into subjects for paintings. It seems that he didn't know how to express himself except on a canvas."

There are some his painting:




(hunter and his dog on a boat)



Claude Monet, The Path among the Irises 1914-1917,

Claude Monet, Red Boats in Argenteuil, 1875


Claude Monet, The Japanese Bridge,1923

I am quite interesting on his painting, because of the impressive of colors. I do not mention the relation between the name of art styles and what I feel about his painting. I see his painting is drawing a real image (real scene). But the colors used little like all of them are kind of same colors sets. I though it is a kind of his styles. For example: If I choose dark colors only for my style, all my paintings are in dark. And with a light color, I have to mix some dark colors to represent it. Although it is not light as it really is, it will be less dark in some way. I remember in class, Don has showed me some type of impressionism painting. There some kind common in the ways of creating color process. It is true to say that:"Impressionist art is based on the use of color, which has to "draw" the motive without resorting to line".
There are some links that i want to introduce to you about his painting:http://giverny.org/monet/welcome.htm

Sunday, September 10, 2006


lastwekend, I went to web and research the poster art. WordwarII poster style is my new experience that i want to learn and know.
This links below is the usefull destination for me to exlore the poster world. I would like to share it to you who like poster.
http://www.internationalposter.com/
This website provide me usefull database searching system. I can search for the style and period of posters.
There are some poster that i search for my topic : worldwar II poster
Avanguardisti!, 1935

L'Italia spezza le catene che la soffocano nel suo mare, 1941


Health is Ammunition Too!, 1942


Good News from Home, 1942


Here's How to Head Off Runaway Prices, 1943


John Falter

If You Tell Where He's Going...He May Never Get There, 1943

There are thousands and thousands posters available to see and learn the styles of design, using of colors, massages and others. Those posters were designed by difference from designers from difference countries. But they still have same common styles of design. It provides me the hold view of poster art at this period. The interesting that i recognize is: “The red color is a common used in almost all posters". This creates the awareness, caution to viewers. Beside it also indicates that “it is war times now”. At that time, drawing style is quite a common style for designer, because the color camera is new and it does not provide the right colors of images. Further more, it is difficult to put text and play around on image background like what we do in illustrator now. But I still see the creative of designers in their works. Comparing to now, we see that doing those poster is easier by using illustrator, Photoshop and camera. But it is not the point that I want to learn. The most important of designer, I think in my opinions is: “the tools just release the designers in doing a lot of works ". The most important is the ideas of designers. The machine must be slavers of human not the opposite one. Who is being slavers of machine, surely they can not create and do the new things. The real designers are the one who can create a art design sometimes just base on very simple available things around. For examples: Some natures a stone, some wooden bars or some tips of colors or event some rubbish bags. The ideas have to be based on what the tools they got on hand. Surely, the postmodern and modern designers have difference styles and ideas. It is not mean the postmodern designers are better modern designers. The important is that: “What can you do by using what you have on hand". "If you have tools on hand, do you can use all the usefulness of your design tools?". Sorry, I go further far from new experience about posters. But it is the question that makes I think over when I see those posters.
Hope you like this site!

Friday, September 08, 2006


The logo for Zero-G

•Zero-G: the first company to conduct commercial space excursions and vacations for the public
•The company’s mission: make space available to everybody
•Targeted audience:
–Age: 30 – 40 years
–Moneyed
–Adventurous
•The pioneer of a new breakthrough in weightless flights
•The premier space entertainment and tourism company offering special and unique services that enable the public to experience the excitement of space
•New era, new vision, new adventure

I create the poster above to showing our ideas and the design themes. What we trying to do is: Changing the ways of thinking of moving into space. Why? A lot of people have money and want to fly to space. Most of small boys and girls dream that they can fly into sky. The pioneers of moving into space are considering as hero. People often think that just for the super human only. But we see little further about the future. When the people in the earth are too crowded, where they have to go ?. Surely they must find somewhere else in space to live. Now, it is just the sunrise age of explore and moving into space. But in the future, there is age of exploring the space. From those small thinking, we decide to choose image of customer as a part of company logo and company service business. We try to create the difference view of people that: “moving in to space is not dangerous and impossible things that people though” ,“Let’s do it, Don’t be scary! You can do it all” It likes the first time people trying to drive bicycle. It is high technique and difficulty at the present. But in future, it will easy as driving a car to a park or taking bus to school. Beside, we also want to introduce the product of company as taking people into space to customers. Nasa of America, Russia or others government companies can launch shuttle into space for science missions. But only Zero-G taking care of sending people (not cargo or machines) into space. In future, if Zero-G becomes famous and control the market of moving passengers into space. Surely, we want every people can easy to understand and recognize the company mission and company image from the logo. “Looking Zero-G to think of transporting people into space “. Even kids can say:” I want to fly to space mom! “. When they looks at logo.
For all that reason we choose the theme of logo design as : entertainment , safety , adventure .

We know that , It is little bit difference as the theme of company now as type of high-tech leading company.

But why don’t we put the chance to do something difference than normal.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Wolverine(Hugh Jackman)

"X-MEN is not just a comic book" It is obviously proved when i watch the movie X-MEN 3 "The last stand”
I am really impressive on the characters Wolverine in film. He is a braver, heroic and loyal lover. He fights to the survival and the peace of human society.
I know a little bit about X-men comic book before, when I saw my younger brother read these stuff. I quite interested in the comic style images. But when I watch the movies, I am really exciting for the hot action and special effects on movie, further more the story of film quite little difference than what I think about America society. In the film, the message is given:” The peace, no discrimination in society between mutants and normal human people”. How to do it? In the movie I see Xavier (X – professor) is a man who scarify all his life for that massage. Why he does it ? What for ? In my opinion, The first reason is “safety place for all mutants “. Why ? Because in film mutants still consider as not normal people. They need to be treated. I relate them with the disable people in society now , Do they really get the equal with normal people ? OR they try hard just for their survival?. If I am a mutant, I also have the same question. There is not wrong if Megneto wants to destroy all human to create the world of mutant only. Both Xavier and Megneto try to do to archive their same goal as free for the mutants. I don’t hate Megneto as many people think him as a bad man. He just simple does not patient enough to find the right way. He just has one thing wrong that are he think mutant is superior then normal people. He follows the wrong ways of human that human had considers mutants as dangerous and not normal human. Xavier choose difference way , he use the love to find the love. His idea is a ultimate perfectly as the idea of community. However, in real life people just live for himself – for his survival- only more than for other people. But it is a movie, and any people who love peace and equally in society always want the better for society. Hope we all have the same feeling.

Wednesday, August 30, 2006





last weekend, i went out to visit a special place in Ho Chi minh city where i learned a lot of new experience. That is Kissaten japanese tea house on Nguyen Dinh Chieu street. I have a business with them in designing the website for this tea house. At first, when I received the task, I did not know anything about japanese tea and art. I had to spend time to search information from internet. And I have learned a lot new things about japaness tea ceremony. I also spend time with my client who is the boss of kissaten tea house for chating about the japanese tea art. It is not easy for any people understand the process of tea ceremony just by watching. The process now is simplied by removing all the unnecessary steps from the past. They just keep the most basic and importand process. Further more, the most importand is the soul or feeling of the girl who make tea. she must be cleanness not in the body but also in the soul. Just for example, in some TV show about tea ceremony. When the a girl perform the tea ceremoney process. She dresses up and wearing some stuff like ring or neckledge, because she wants to be nice in front of camera. She performs the tea ceremony in the right process. However, there are very simple thing that she forgot, she does not allow to wear a lot of nice stuffs such as ring or neckledge when she performs tea ceremony.
Japanese has make drinking tea become a style of art. that require both tea maker and the tea drinker have to understand the meaning of tea ceremony.
I would like to introduce to you the famous japanese scroll paper about tea ceremony.

the four virtues of the tea ceremony are: harmony, respect, purity and tranquility.
This beautiful scroll is an original work by Master Calligrapher Eri Takase.
If you understand about Zen, you wil know that its meaning.
If you want to know more, pls visit the link below.
http://web-japan.org/factsheet/tea/tea_c.html
Hope you guys also can learn and explore a new experience.