Pompom Tree

Making a pompom, it was a art mission for the second year textile students. We first year student also had the chance to make a pompom and join the night party in the British Museum.
The pompom tree in the above picture was put in the central of the hall in the British Museum, it was popular work for the visitors.

 Making a pompom, you will need:
Cardboard
Compass, or two circular items you can trace around
Wool
Sclssors

 

M&M'S

M&M's originated in the United States in 1941, and are now sold in over 100 countries.
The M&M'S shop is near the China Town. This food company is known as its chocolates and the beans figures, it is popular in children and young people.
The cute figures with four bright colours remember me the beautiful time of my childlhood.

 

The M&M's has more and more fans. Flowing the development, it change the chocolates' taste and colour. In addition, the company offer more interesting extra products, such as clothing, towel and dolls.

Color changes in chocolate M&M's
The following is a summary of the changes to the colors of the flagship (milk chocolate) flavor of M&M's, the only filling manufactured since the beginning of the brand. From 1941 until 1987, each package contained M&M's in five different colors; when red M&M's were reintroduced in 1987, they were added as a sixth color instead of replacing any of the existing colors.

                                                                                                                                              --Wikipidia

Visit of The British Museum

This was a special exhibition in the British Museum. It was about the medicine for the whole life of human beings.

The various medicines are for different diseases and for different ages period of human.
For instance, the red medicine pills are for cold, and the white pills are stomach pills.

Following the growth of man's age, people need to have more and more different medicines to keep the human's health, and the quality of the medicine need to be higher.

In a man's life, everyone has the experience to take medicine and to go to the hospital. Sometimes, for some serious disease people need more fine tool and medicine, such as syringes.                         

Tree of Life

The Visit of The British Museum

 

A symbol art work in the British Museum -- Tree oh Life

This tree is all made of metal, including the birds and other small animals around the tree.
The designer wanted to express the serious damage of natural eco-systerm caused by human activities.
Many animals lost their homes so that amount of species have distinct.
Human beings have the responsibility to protect our home.

Anarkitty

Dream Catcher -- Anarkitty Exhibition

                                               One exhibition of Anarkitty's works

                                                               Battle Ready

Acrylic on Canvas
91x61cm, 2011
Available at
Frame of Mine Belfast

                                                              Fireworks

Acrylic on Canvas
91x61cm, 2011
Available at
Frame of Mine Belfast

                                                            Dream Catcher

                                                            Not So Innocent

                                                              Chief Kimi Mila

Dream Catcher

For my object analysis I am going to use the dream catcher as my research topic.

Years ago I received a dream catcher as a gift from my friend. I was so interested in its beautiful colour, design and its story.

The dream catcher is originated from Native Americans, appeared from 18^th century. It is said that dream catcher is a kind of webbing with plant fibres. It is also sometimes decorating with various beautiful beads and feathers.

 In the ancient mysterious Native American story, people hang on the dream catcher in the front of their beds before sleeping. When the nights came, there were various dreams drifting in the sky. Those beautiful dreams went through the dream catcher and laid on people like feathers. However, the terrible nightmares would be caught by it. Different tribes of Native Americans have different stories about dream catcher, but they gave the same meaning for it—beautiful whish for people.

In the present day, dream catcher has become more and more popular. People use it to decorate the home and some designers use it as an interesting element in fashion.

In the following 2000 words essay I would like to research the background of dream catcher, related Native American culture, the making of dream catcher, related art works and its use in the past and current day.

Blog Evaluation

This is the first time that I ever started to work on a blog.  Blog is a very good way to record our ideas and our research. It can also show a greater audience our works in progress.

I have met basic requirements for establishing a blog. There were several articles on the blog. I have completed what tutors ask us to do and in addition, I added some of my own research and thoughts.  

Creating and maintaining a blog is a good way to practice and improve my English writing. As an international student, we don’t write as much as native speakers. So creating an English blog is a challenging experience for me. I learned a lot and improved my English.

Currently the blog is more as a personal blog for me only. I will try improving its contents and adding more articles so that it can be appreciated by a greater audience.

In working the blog, I planned and managed my time well and finish all the work according to the schedule.  In my opinion, the communication from the tutors to international students could be better, since most of international students are not so familiar with an English blog and therefore have much less experience and a bigger hurdle in creating a blog.