KUN Wang

This unit of better live let me see a lot of blog with ideas and creativity, but today I want to analyze the third blog of Ziyi Shan. At the beginning of this blog, he said that he wanted to choose a more technical portrait photography, because he felt that mastering some basic photography skills was more conducive to his major. I think what he said is quite reasonable. Mastering some skills can really help us in the process of our work.But later his ideas changed. When he found that there was no skill to learn, he realized that the idea behind the photos, culture is the most important. I quite agree with this point of view. Isn’t the meaning of images just to let people intuitively feel the ideas and culture conveyed from images? What’s the meaning of a good photography technology if there is no idea?

At the time of final outcome, what he wanted to do was about the cultural wave in the 1990s. He was inspired by a famous photographer, whose characteristic was to use the simplest way to create characters and shapes. At the beginning, he tried many ways to create portraits, but the results were not very satisfactory, so he decided to simplify the elements, use the most basic colors and props, and design models. Sunglasses reflect the fashion sense of the 1990s, and the black background can highlight the yellow clothes on the models, so he can focus on the models.It can be said that the final effect is very good.

In fact, I also learned a lot in his blog. Sometimes I just pay too much attention to skills and ignore the most important thing, that is how to convey ideas and culture. It’s good to have skills, but in a work, if people only see skills, there is nothing else, you think successful work is also a failure, because these skills are soulless and insincere. Only sincerely express what you want to express, even without skills, this work is successful, because such a work has soul.And I also learned that sometimes too many elements will make the whole modeling more complicated, and the appropriate elimination of some elements will get unexpected results. This should be what the teacher always said, leaving some blank, making the focus more prominent, making people feel what you want to express more intuitively, instead of too many elements, they don’t know the focus where?

Finally, thank you very much for having better live, which has taught me a lot and helped me to see the works and ideas of other excellent students.

Speaking about how the lecture on the theme of nature has affected the presentation of my works and my personal development, first of all, I was not clear about the direction of the theme at the beginning, but when I listened to the lecture, I decided to make a connection between fashion and marine pollution.Then I began to investigate how the fashion industry polluted the ocean. As a student of fashion learning and production, I think the most important thing is how to convey their ideas to the public intuitively through their own works, and have the ability to create and innovate. So the question is, how and what kind of innovation should I express this idea?

In my research, plastic and fiber are the main causes of marine pollution, and then I think I can use plastic and other materials to show a fashionable shape. After that, I found some images of marine pollution, and found that many marine creatures were tightly wrapped around their bodies by those plastics and fibers, which made them unable to breathe, and their bodies became deformed, which made me think that I might be able to reflect this kind of physical deformity and suffocation on the model, just like those marine creatures.Now I have all my ideas. Now it’s time for the experiment. At first, I used garbage bags to design my model, but no matter how I changed my shape, I couldn’t show what I wanted to express. Later, I spread all kinds of garbage bags with different colors on the ground to show the feeling of marine pollution. Then I used those plastic bags to design the model As expected, it shows the effect I want. After that, I think it’s not enough to use plastic bags alone. I also want to show the sense of deformity and suffocation on my body, but the element of plastic bag is too single. At this time, I think of what the professor said in the lecture, using fashion and everything around me to integrate into the world. I suddenly thought that the plastic wrap can help me to present the feeling of deformity, so I tightly wrapped the legs and arms of the model with the plastic wrap, which does not help me to present the feeling of deformity. I can also use this It’s a good way to let the model do some movements with the help of physical restraint.Next is how to reflect the sense of suffocation? Plastic bags and plastic wrap have been used. At this time, I thought of the net and rope for fruit. I can use these two elements to make a choker, and then use that net to make a mask. In this way, both fashionable elements and suffocation can be expressed, and then the model can make some struggling movements. The final effect of the whole work can be conveyed Ocean pollution is fashionable.

In the whole process of making the work, I also learned a lot. I feel that through that lecture, my thinking became more flexible. Although I failed in the experiment, I learned how to draw experience from the failure, and I also learned a lot in the process of shooting. The shooting angle, lighting, setting, etc. are gradually getting true in the constant attempt In the process of modeling design, I learned that fashion is everywhere, and anything can become fashion. Isn’t that to integrate fashion and everything around you into the world?

In the unit of better live, the lectures I watched changed my views on fashion industry and influenced my thoughts on fashion styling and production.This unit gives me more ideas about society and environment. I think all the themes are important and worth learning, but what impresses me most is nature and sustainability.

I think Kate Fletcher’s lecture on nature is the most interesting. In such a fast changing era, we seem to have forgotten how to slow down and forget the things that are always around us, but we no longer care. Fashion comes from nature. It seems that we only think about how to get those beautiful and fashionable clothes, but we never think about where they will go and what they will become when we discard them one day. We never think about the price of nature and the responsibility we should bear behind the beauty.Fashion styling and production is a profession full of creativity and innovation, and also a profession that can convey various ideas and ideas to people. Before listening to this lecture, I never considered whether the ideas I conveyed and the things I created would cause harm to nature, and never considered taking this responsibility in the past. But when I listened to this lecture, I learned what I expressed, and what I created was not only for myself, but also for nature.Nowadays, people are keen on fast fashion, which can satisfy the speed of modern people’s love of new things and dislike of old things. Fast update can make people constantly satisfy with the freshness, but this fast fashion is actually the industry with the greatest harm to nature.The batch production of jeans makes its harmful chemicals flow into the river, which makes a large number of rivers polluted. The clothes we discard every year are irrecoverable and cannot be decomposed. These discarded clothes can only be burned with fire. When all kinds of fibers on the clothes are burned by fire, a large number of toxic gases will be produced, resulting in air pollution. All of these have caused great harm to nature. When we pursue temporary satisfaction, we don’t think about what nature will encounter. Man is not above nature. Man is a part of nature.

I hope that in my future works, my works are not only for ourselves, what I convey and what I create will take into account how to integrate fashion and nature, even fast fashion can be very environmentally friendly. This is the responsibility that I should take, or through my works, to make more people realize that this is also their responsibility.

I have now watched a number of the Better Lives lectures,These lectures gave me a lot of ideas and inspiration,but what impressed me most was the lecture about Nature. In Kate Fletcher’s lecture she gave us a little test to identify the plants and animals in London,but I didn’t recognize any of them,but when she asked us to identify various brands,I knew almost all the names of the brands. It got me deep in thought.

I remember the professor said that human always think that they are the center of everything,but in fact,on the contrary,nature is the center of everything,and human are just a part of this huge system. Yeah why do we think we are the center of everything? Which of all things in our life is not dependent on nature? Don’t the air we breathe,the food we eat,the water we drink all come from nature? How can we survive without all that nature has give us? This makes me fall into a deep thought. Should nature give us these generously,and we should constantly ask for them from nature? Are we going to destroy it wantonly? Have we never thought about the consequences? Why have half of the world’s species been extinct since 1970? Even now,there are still species extinction,and they disappear in the world. What led to such a tragedy? Cutting down tress,discharging sewage into ocean and rivers,and discharging toxic gases,which cause air pollution,are all human actions. We personally kill all the creatures on the earth and make them homeless. Should we reflect on our actions and make changes? Even if it’s not for the world,it’s for ourselves,right? What are the benefits of the pollution and destruction we have caused to mankind? How many young people have cancer because of environmental pollution? The professor said this,how we live what we choose. She also said, we are part of nature,we can use fashion and other things to joined the world, not to live in sort of science fiction fantasy that it’s nothing to do with us. To find what we can to join the world and take responsibility for the lives that we lead and for those of others. I think what the professor said is very reasonable. I think when we are constantly trying to use fashion and other things to joined the world,we are not only thinking about the interests of human beings,but also responsible for all species except ourselves. We need to take this responsibility.

I learned a lot from this lecture,it also brought me a lot of inspiration. Which is really helpful for my future work.