Oct 18, 2011

Pinebanana

<Pine Banana> by Terrence

     During free time, I just googled my blog title "pinebanana" and found this. It was very surpirsing to find someone else having similar thoughts. Actually, it was a piece from online "Photo Effects Contest" with the topic of hybrid produce.

The first place picture is "melonana."

Very skilled in photoshop o.o

This is the link to the contest page!

Oct 7, 2011

Chain Writing (To Be Continued)

 Nowadays, life is like a spinning wheel. I am like a puny little hamster frantically moving my feet, trying to catch up with the speed of the wheel. However, the energy also powers the wheel itself. The faster the hamster runs, the faster the hamster will have to run. Ironically, the hamster is still in the same place, no matter how much time has passed.
-Yoosun Sung
 The future seems to be far away as you're going round repeatedly to catch up the speed of fast-rolling wheel, you must hold your soul and pretend not to be hurt. Contradictionally, as much you pretend to be strong, the more pain you'll be dived into. The more pain you feel, the more you hide yourself. The time seems to crush down out of your reach. However, as you already know, the wheel keeps spinning.
-Jiyoung Lee
 Maybe that is why time is more precious than gold. How much progress one has made depends on him, but time passes uncontrollably. One might be trapped in his own trepidation about losing the race. Once the hamster loses ht eocurage to continue running, the whell stops. When the wheel stops, the hamster stops. Time is merely a means, a measure of how much one has gone foward. Time cannot crush one down, but the fear of time can.
-Jonghyun Han
 It sounds very philosophical and far away from us, talking about spinning wheels. but it all comes down to our lives right now, the life in KMLA. It seems like your in the same spot no matter what you do. Somedays, you feel too tired to catch up with the spinning wheel that, from some point of my life, started to spin on without my will wanting, and begging to stop, but being unable to, is what dominates my mind nowadays.
-Woochan Hwang

Application of Hero's Journey to Shawshank Redemption

Group Members: Seohee Kim, Sol Kim, Yoosun Sung

Our Story: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (Andy's journey)

Why we chose it: We found the story interesting-not too obvious but not too difficult.



ACT I

1. Ordinary World: 

Outside the prison

2. Call to Adventure

Trial, charged of murder though he's innocent, sent into the prison

3. Refusal of the Call: 

defends himself, tries to prevent himself from being institutionalized

4. Meeting the Mentor: 

Red

5. Crossing the Threshold: 

breaking the prison


ACT II 

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies:
Tests: sisters, wardens

Allies: Red
Enemies: Samuel Norton(first seemed to be an ally of Andy but soon turned out to be the biggest enemy)

7. Approach to the Innermost Cave:
-As a librarian, Andy planned meticulously about his escape-by washing dirty money of the wardens and letting them have him his own room for almost the entire prison year. 

(Playing the money for the wardens)

8. Ordeal:
Samuel Norton refuses Andy's request to retrial his case, and eliminates the most important evidence(Tommy Williams) that can help prove Andy innocent.

9. Reward:
Getting out of the prison.

ACT III 

10. The Road Back:
He climbs out of the sewer and gets off his prison clothes, gets the key he had hidden twenty eight years ago, go to McNary, sending a postcard to Red.

11. Resurrection:
A happy hotel owner in Zihuatanejo in the name of Peter Stevens, with abundant money.

12. Return With the Elixir:

Leaves a letter to Red, shows that he successfully escaped and achieved his dreams.