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hates school

wenqiwu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:46:24 +0000

Well. Senior year is not what exactly I vision to be. It’s sucks. First of all everything is due almost the same date. Like most of the applications for college is due the same date. Also many teachers in school give us tones of stupid useless homework to work on. I mean this is just sucks.
I am an art person. Tomorrow is the national profolio day. I haven’t a really stong profolio put together. And I fucked up so many other things like forgot to go to the sat and satii tests. I mean when so many things come together to u . U just feel so stressed instead solving them logically.
Well. Last saturday I had dinner with ms wong , my favourite teacher in lab( how can I phrase it , she was my favourite teacher in lab, after she left, almost others are not as good as she does to me. She really inspired me, and makes me believe that I can be an amazing artist. I mean I never vision myself going to study art and fashion for the next 5 years. Although I still question myself and my talent constantly, but I know that I have to try.

first week working on the medium

wenqiwu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:36:24 +0000

Last week everyone got their medium group, and for the next couple weeks we are all going to work on the medium project. Unluckily I was assigned to the documentary film group instead of the grapic novel group. To be honest I am really not happy about the assignment. Because I am going to work on things that I don’t really care until the december. Anyway I still need to deal with it.
Well my group members are those hippsters who I don’t usuallly hang out with. They decide to see the movie super high me which is based on things about pot. So obvious those hippsters are so addicted into cigarettes and pots. I am just so sick of them. Gosh even today for the work day, no one showed up except me, the only one in the group who hates the movie to analysis the stupid movie. I have to say fml…
I mean this is life about suffering thing u don’t like then the success is there waiting for u.

more new thoughts based on the feed back

wenqiwu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:50:11 +0000

All of the sudden my concern makes me think about what anna wintour used to say that fashion is about moving forward, you can’t hold back. So i was thinking is that all life about as well. So i decide i am going to move on . I want to do something different than last year. i am going to focus my project on human rights and social issues, like homophobia, racism, sexsism, etc. And i really want to do a grapic novel presentation on my project. MAybe this decision is kind of out of my comfort zone,. but i am kind of excited. ALthough i can’t do the research on things i love, but i can present them in an arty way, like graphic novels. lol. Unfortunarly i was be assigned in the documentury film group for the medium study, but its also a good way to learn something new, something i am poor at( editing movies).

As long as i decide what medium I am definetly going to use for the presentation. I still need to narrow down my choice of topic. Although mel told me to focus on fashion related things, but i am moving on. I was thinking about doing a topic about homophobia, because recently i was watching brokeback mountian again for my film study, and the ending kind of remind me of the laramine project. Both of the characters were beat to death because of their homosexuality. I feel like the homosexual, bisexual, and transexual people are one of the few groups are being denied in many part of U.S. They should be pay attention to because they are part of the country, and they are human being as well. So i was thinking to do a graphic novel on homophbia. I hope it will work.

new thoughts

wenqiwu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:43 +0000

After I had conversation with mel about my topic, I have some ideas about what i want to do for my key stone project. Since i love art very much, i really want to do a project that can show my strength. But meanwhile I am passionate about my sense of fashion and chicness. So i want to do something with that as well. But I tried this topic last year so i think i want to try something different and new to show my innovation. Mel told me i should just do something about fashion, like history of haute couture. But these are all know by people, we can just google it and find these information. Also if i decide to do the project about fashion then how am i going to present them. All of my concern suddently makes me wonder about what mel suggested me. Shall i do these ?

somethinig shocking to me

wenqiwu — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:47:51 +0000

So first step of stepping out from my comfort zone, I checked out some human rights news on new york times, turns out there is something really shocking to me. The source www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/world/africa/09sudan.html
This article basically talkes about a women in sudan went to jail for a month because she wears a green lose fitted pants to the public.
At first I was shocked because I have no idea somewhere in the world people ( especially women ) are still being punished by what they are wearing. For a person like me who loves fashion and clothes, if one day I went to jail because I am a guy who wear ruffles; I will be so pissed off. I think this article is really interesting and made me pay attention to read it because it’s not just about fashion , it shows the issues that I don’t know and it makes me feel like there are so many problems than just being beautiful. Also technically this article relates to fashion a little bit. So maybe for my key stone project I can focus on things that are relating to global issues, but also relate to fashion a little bit . LOL

I think this is the first time i went to nytimes check out something except style and arts. I hope that can stepping out from the my comfort zone more for the keystone project.

Topic searching….

wenqiwu — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:15:02 +0000

I have been written blog post for the past couple weeks. So today, i am going to look back, and see what potential topic i can possibly use for my keystone project.

Most of my blogs relates to fashion somehow. I did a post about high heels for women nowadays. Two posts about movies, sex and city, devil wears prada, clueless, valentino documentary, and marc jacobs documentary. all of these movies relates to fashion.

so i was thinking maybe i should name my topic as ” the relationships between romance movie and fashion”. But meanwhile i am also expecting to do something new. I did an article about fashion & beauty last year. So this year, i am expecting to try something new, something I am not normally familiar with, like science, human rights issues. I am normally do not step out from my comfort zone. So basically I am in my dilemma. Am i suppose to continue doing project which relates to fashion & art, or i should just go for another direction?

why we love to see the shoes that hurts us ?

wenqiwu — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:47:49 +0000

I just realized I still have 1 post left . So I have to do it on my blackberry, which is really uncomfortable. During lunch, I was reading the new york times, there is an article called that why we love to see the shoes that hurt us. There is an image that how dramatic the shoes are now ( on the paris fashion week). In the article, the auther mentioned about how women would rather lose their comfort of their feet, instead of look taller, and more poweful. I feel this is really interesting because that in different time period, women always trying to use their outfits to gain power. Like michelle obama, anna wintour. These powerful women always use their outfit to show their position.
Does it really true that women nowadays trying to use the height of shoes to get sexual priority from men? I certainly do not know , since I am not a women. But there’s something I am sure that since the 90′s ( sex and the city came out) women care more and more about their shoes than ever. Maybe many shoes from the runway are not made for daily wear, but these shoes also shows the fantasy for the future. Maybe many guys like me are jealous, because simply the high high heels are the priority for women to wear instead of men. I feel like the developmnt of fashion also indicate womens’ social postions now.

something touching…

wenqiwu — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:24:15 +0000

Well, recently I am really busy about the college things, honestly i really don’t want to do any of those things, like applications, essays, sat etc. So I used a lot of my free time of watching fashion movies. Since The Devil wears Prada, i just fall in love with the movies based on fashion. First of all they are not just movies about women and men who love clothes, most of the movies have more depth meanings. Like DWP( devil wears prada), it shows that a girl pursues her dreams, but in the end she realizes that what she’s pursuing is not what exactly she’s looking for. So she just walk away, happily. ( also due to my film studies class, we talked about film genre, so i put DWP in romantic comedy/drama).

After the DWP, I watched Sex and the City ( movie ) for the 100th times. Still hates their acting,( those 4 actress are acting away too much, make me feel like their life are fake. some of the acting are way too exaggerate for their age). But i really do enjoyed the costumes in the movie, those clothes are everyone who loves fashion will die for. L0L. After all i feel like although the movie is a hit, comparing to the tv series, the movie is just so bad.

Then done with the fictional story, i started looking a documentaries of fashion. So far, my favourites are The last Emperor Valentino, and Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuittion .( maybe these two are the only two are famous). I also saw the September issue in the theater last month, it’s just okayish, not as good as these two documentaries about designers.Two different generation of desingers, two different style of documentaries. For the Marc, the movie is more like a comedy, since he has a really unique and funny personality, and everything just ends the way like the romantic comedy should end. But for the valentino one, i cried, a lot. I watched the valentino one this summer, I was crying when i was watching it in the theater. Then recently the dvd came out, so i bought them and just watched it again twice; i cried also during the 3rd time of watching it. I mean i don’t know why I was still very emotional although i watched it before, maybe it’s just so sad for many people that he retired, not because he wants to from his heart. It’s because of new generations are just steal his name and label trying to make something more valuerable. For Valentino its not about the fashion, and clothes anymore. simply his name are just using by those greedy people who’s trying to make a huge fortune from it. To those people who loves fashion and documentary movies but have not seen these two before, i highly recommend people to watch these. Not only because they are so good, but also you can learn something about fashion. You will realize that fashion is not just a superficial thing, people in the industry have deeper feeling to things just like other people as well. Like love, friendship, relationships with family, work. After seen those movies you may realize that fashion maybe the one of the most difficult industry to conquer.

Those movies inspired me of what i want to do for my future. i can clearly remember that after I saw the DVP, i just want to be a fashion editor like Anna wintour. I realized that i can never be someone like her at all, since my english sucks. LOL… Anyway. i am really inspired by marc and Valentino. They make me feel excited about the industry, because they make me dream about one day maybe i can be as successful as they are, but meanwhile they scare me as well, i can’t help to think about what if i fail. No matter the resorts will be, i just excited about how lucky i am that i can do things that i love to do.

HB PRC!

wenqiwu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:45:19 +0000

first let me explain the topic. HB PRC means that happy 60th birthday to peoples repulic of china( my motherland ). I feel like millions of people is going to write about this , although its tacky to write one more post about this event, i still feel its really necessary.

I was born in Shanghai 18 years ago. Bascially in my generation people lives really happy there. Unlike the foreign public media always say that china have some serious human rights issues. But indeed there is not really any. ( people who really don’t know about my country should just stop talking craps to my country).

Two years ago i moved to New York with my parents. Its definitely a new advanture for me, so far i love my life in U.S. I don’t know why this post suddently became so corny, like my bibilograpy. well, the reason why i write this post is because i just want to celebrate like other chinese people ( no matter they are in China or other country).

In the end i just want to say that i always love the place where i was born and grown up. HB PRC!

Clueless? Clueless! Clueless….

wenqiwu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:32:59 +0000

Yesterday i watched the movie clueless for the a million times, this time is for the film studies class. I don’t know why i love this movie, i mean generally i just love the romantic comedy movies, even the bad ones. My parents used to say that the my body is full filled of the romance comedy genes which makes me think things all in the romance comedy way. I don’t know its a good thing or a bad thing.

Sometimes i think its a good thing because i can keep me optimistic and happy. I always think things will have a happy ending. which sometimes things do not work out that way. Like i am always dreaming things but none of them really come true. ( once again proved that sometimes actually doing things is really important to all of us).

The characters in the movie just remind of me of myself. I can always remember the line that ” when I feel misearble and can’t control of the things around me, I need to go to some place to gain my strengh. The mall” . Athought i really don’t go to malls but we do the same thing. Shop. I don’t know why shopping is a really good way to make unhappy people happy. i mean its much more better than eating desserts, when u unhappy u eat, u will just gain weights, but if u go shopping, you can loose weight and buy the things you like at the same time. Maybe its a cluesless behaviour but its effective. LOL

I mean although i know what i want to do for my future, but meanwhile i still feel clueless, i don’t know why, but i know that i don’t like that feeling. sometiems i wish i can just be as normal as other guys, but i am not. I just feel clueless.. even when i know what i want to do.