IMA journey
Life Tracker In the fictional story, Fish of Lijiang, the protagonist was undergoing mental aging and unconsciousness due to the unknown exposure in the new hazardous technology, time sense compressor, inserted on the lower and middle-class workers. In the book, he “wakes up in the morning, but not knowing it is the second or the … Continue reading Group Research Project 3: Reflect
After the significant breakthrough of deciphering Heptapod B by the research team led by Dr. Louise Banks, I got particularly interested in Linguistics and communication based on a completely distinctive worldview as human beings. As a photographer, I was eager to explain this fascinating human technology that I love the most to the aliens. With … Continue reading Story of Your Life – Pioneer Plaque
Crystal Boyuan Zhang Afterglow by Ed Sheeran Concept and Design My first impression of the song, Afterglow by Ed Sheeran, was the absolute quietness and warmth. Intuitively, I used many circular shapes and curvy lines to illustrate this mild feeling created from the acoustic music production. I used the central largest black circle that embodies the small detailed circles … Continue reading Project I: Sound Visualization
In this recitation, my partner and I created circuits with a new sensor, an ultrasonic ranger. Without the given schematics and instructions to follow, we successfully created two functioning circuits and discovered the fun of writing codes. Question 1: What did you intend to assemble in the recitation exercise? If your sensor/actuator combination were to be … Continue reading Recitation 3: Sensors
How do aliens in the story using language and communication style different from the human language (oral, pictographic, phonetic, etc.)? In Story of Your Life, the aliens, called the Heptapods, have a different language system from human language because of the difference in the way we think and view the universe. Language is the reflection of … Continue reading Story of Your Life