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Monday, October 11, 2010

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Turning Vacant Lots into City Farms
Hosea Sanders

Sustainable urban gardening is a concept that's catching on throughout the city. One of the pioneers of the movement is opening its gates to show off its crops and celebrate with the community.

City Farm has been around for nearly fifteen years. Its goal is to feed the community while setting an example of how to use vacant city space in a productive and sustainable way.

City Farm covers one full acre of farmland at the corner of Division Street and Clybourn Avenue, nestled between the Gold Coast and Cabrini Green. The farm is a subsidiary of a south side non-profit called the Resource Center.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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上个星期六宿醉归来,发现寝室突然变得非常暖和了,大楼终于切换模式了啊!换句话说芝加哥城正式冷起来了。

关于上个星期的critique,我简单写个大纲。
acturally this is my first critique. It's more funny and useful than I had thought. We see different styles of works according to different thinking and ways of expressions.And people exchange ideas about works. I get lot of feedback of artistic critism from others and I am excited about To hear different opinions. I can learn a lot from other people.

1.I agree with my teacher's suggestion that I need to use only one kind of technic and style on a series od works, or I can mislead the audiance. At first I just want to try mixture the image to express the conflict feelings and different emotions occured in a young man. And I try to use different thing to show it. I use some signal from the slang wildly used in chinese internet to imply the feeling, I thought might be interesting.

2. my favorate work on the critique is that the powerful woman and the suck man. the light used in the woek is classical, and the simple pose also give a classical beauty. And the facial expression shows the theme of the picture,the artist use body and facial gesture to show that women are more powerful and man is getting suck.

3.I am thinking about to try to learn more about using light to express. And what I care about is the condition and feels of Chinese people. In China human right is surpassed by potentate's right, and peole have limited rights to speak. The misleading of authoritative media makes people feel far away from the truth and distrustful.

《下个,路口,见》正式版MV(清晰版) 首播 -- 李宇春 Li yuchun Chris Lee

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芝加哥的天气真是好得没话说。天上无云,晴空万里,加上凉爽爽的风吹在身上,让人说不完的清爽。在这样天气里的芝加哥城一切都变得可爱干净了。
于这样的天气里坐在窗前对着电脑本应是件很惬意的事情,可是我任务在身,尚未完成,不能享受惬意的心情·····也可能是因为我窗外面对的是一堵砖墙,阳光撒不进这个block中庭的地带。要是我有个公寓带着能照到阳光的可爱阳台的话我现在的心情可能就不一样了。

话说看了关于政府的文章,我觉得政府的权利太大,凌驾法律之上,并且拥有巨大的体制。为了维护政府的权利必须进行对舆论控制;体制内的人从体制里获得了利益,屡见不鲜腐败,也乐于为维护体制而出力,事实他们是为了自己的利益。在这个架构内,经济是由政府调控的,不利于政府的舆论是要压制的,持不同意见者是要封堵口鼻施加打压的,阻止体制获利的民众是可以理直气壮欺负的。

而我却从类没觉得生活中充满这么多不平等。人追逐名利的怪像是有的,网民被舆论压制我见过,拆迁纠纷谁有理很难说得清。作为老百姓平时不会议论政治,顶多就是不满的抱怨和乱叫几声,并不会真正被压迫,懂政治能议论的人才能体会到被禁声的处境。

我想表达的是追逐名利的怪像和莫名的压抑感。新贵们成了百姓的追捧对象,代表了人们的价值观。他们往往和体制是脱不了关系的。人们的压抑感也来自于体制。他的舆论控制,媒体的导向,房价对人们财产的掠夺,产生矛盾时的悬殊较量,让人感到压迫,让人想喊喊不出来.在压力中的人们用后现代的讽刺嘲笑这些,这种精神是小白兔的精神,是草泥马的精神,他们虽然很容易就会被人吃掉被河蟹整掉,但是他们会坚持嘲笑的态度。

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