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10-minute scene in CNFR 002 (Spring 2023)

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I’ve just gotten home from a wonderful night with James (my family friend), his girl friend, and two of her friends. It was a beautiful summer’s night spent at a French restaurant with amazing tapas. I also, in the summer breeze, shared a flourless chocolate cake with Ri Le and wolfed down some Halal cart with Amir Lankarani. Yesterday I laughed my way into the night with Alex Sadler and Jonathan Brown, talking about random bad American movies and talking about how single we all are and singing along to a live cover of the Lumineers. I also had a heart-to-heart with Katherine Hu about our fears, hopes, and excitements about our first semester at HLS, and I shared some green tea Lady M crepe cake with Claire Tao. The day before that I ate some bull frogs with Hao Qi, Wanzhen and Charles in Flushing. I am grateful for friends who are able to listen, take me in for who I am, and celebrate and hold up each other. 

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Here’s some pictures of food you’ve made in the past two months with your sister so you can be reminded of the endless wonders of everyday life. 

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Today we had a great, productive day. I think that my attitude towards snorkeling has changed. I am no longer as aversed to it because today I was able to get my own snorkel mask, which I will treasure for a long time to come because after I use it I do not feel nauseous and do not have a headache. Today we went spearfishing, made some new friends, filleted those fish, and had hot pot. In general it’s been a wonderful day!

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Haha my day’s been good too! I saw a documentary called Hospital directed by Frederick Wiseman that recorded the day-to-day minutiae of a busy Manhattan hospital emergency room in the 60’s (this is with Rosalind’s film club). I quite liked it! I think it’s a bit disguised as this piece of observational documentary/direct cinema but in actuality contains such dramatic narrative and manipulative editing. And especially in a moment like the one we’re in rn it was a challenge to “see” death and illness in a hospital institutional context and not look away. Then had played some tennis b/c my family has decided to take up tennis lessons as a family lmao then read some tings made dinner then watched this incredible silent film from 1935 called New Women which I really loved! Also my mango wine is now fermented! We had a lil wine-opening ceremony 🦋

Also saw this yesterday outside of a Buddhist temple and meant to send the photo to Aim! It made me smile. 

My mother, sister and I also went out for brunch to this vegan cafe, and then we visited a quilt museum. There we learned about Hawaiian pattern (reflective symmetrical pattern which resembles water ripples). we learned that Queen Liliukalani spent much time quilting when she was under house arrest. We also learned that the Hawaiian flag was banned after the kingdom was overthrown and it wasn’t until the US annexed Hawaii that the flag was allowed to be flown again. In the meantime Hawaiian people created quilts to keep honoring their kingdom.

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"Until the Lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter." - African Proverb

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I had a dream that we all had wings and could fly, but if we were feeling down or unenergetic then we would fall to the ground. At first the camera lens would be trained on one main character, but then, seamlessly would change its focus onto a different person. In this case the person who the camera lens changed to is Claire. It was just stunning because Claire used her skills to explore this new landscape. The ceiling of this new space we found looked like the grand canyon, and she would float up to the ceiling and look through each of the crevice, just curious about this new world and her new power. I think there’s something unsettling about changing the main character of the film so unceremoniously. 

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Panel on Art Criticism and Power in the Art World

Antwaun Sargent - when introducing the work of the new artists the first question should be what they are trying to show with their work so in that way it's more of a conversation instead of just a shut down critique (think back  othe writing MFA seminar system of not letting the creator speak) - And also being aware that sometimes critics don't take the work seriously (to the point of factual inaccuracy) and that's part of why certain artists (especially artists of color) will be reinforced to operate with their communities

Now - it's no longer the older system (however sexist, racist it is, etc) Self hype versus institutional hype

He doesn't think the institutions' powers have diminished that much at all (even if its readership has decreased)

What's happening online is praise and curation, and un-priase by omission - people are being lazy - it's an argument (disagreement, expand, etc) = it's lazy! "tell us what to think, we will not do anything beyond what you say" - this implies that the critic should have a creative role

No one's modeling the negative critic, but there's a lot of negativity negative criticism that has been used by the auction house to sell Jeff Koons - even that will be appropriated and used

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Spring Lit Hum Study Guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WQAz_8jPVexOWavv_OnXbYsnvv8IBApSbPQ4lZW07FM/edit

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BEIJING心得

New material age - metals like cobalt for battery You can trace human history through what has been taken out of the ground, through metals

So now in all of our best batteries the key elements are lithium and cobalt, stacked one on top of each other; in electric cars there can be up to 5-6 kg of cobalt. In the very beginning there was copper extraction - because there were actual copper sticking out of the ground. And in the the beginning cobalt was retained because it often hangs out with copper or nickel, and those are heavily mined metals. And actually up until the 50’s when mining companies got cobalt they put it in the waste pile because they didnt want to disrupt the already low price of cobalt. Because there was no demand for it in the market.

They mentioned the use of machine learning to find out where cobalt is. It is estimated that our current supply of cobalt will last us only around less than 10 years. And how their data is very sparse right now and very diverse. But that the machine learning would be able to interpret the data and eliminate the biases of someone like a human geographer/navigator.

和刘编辑聊天

说到，认为islam教的东西比较简单，但是也很适合给那些喜欢辩论和哲学的人信仰。 不是一味地追求fundamentalism。比如他没有想学阿拉语，但是他还是认为应该为真主服务，只不过是应该用自己所能的方式下为真主服务。他的命运就是做一个汉人伊斯兰教徒。所以他其实广泛地了解和讨论汉族和中国文化的很多东西，和伊斯兰教结合起来。他认为他如果学了阿拉伯语就只不过多了一个会阿拉伯语的人，但是其实他不学阿拉伯语也可以为，而且可以更好的，为真主服务。以前伊斯兰教徒死的时候都需要请会阿拉伯语的人来祷告。但是后来人们就说：难道真主只听得懂阿拉伯语吗？

现在有新的英语的翻译。但是中国的就大部分用的还是一个刘峰的

关于新疆，他认为不能和纳粹的集中营做对比，因为中国并不是消灭种族的 京剧讲的是比较严肃的话题，很多都是从三国演义等等过来的故事，但是演员是最重要的，因为舞台非常barren，所以如果演员表演不好就没有很多吸引力了。所以刘编辑小时候就很喜欢这些故事，现在就是找到了一个另外的

演员拥有所有的焦距点河北剧讲的是比较白话，轻松的话题。

记录一下周一，八月十二号发生的事情 今天是我在金融时报工作的第四周。这一天FT遭遇到了被中国政府封杀的遭遇。但是奇妙的是大家的反应。极大部分的人在表面上没有做出任何反应。每周周一都会有编辑部的投稿回忆

周五，8月10号 我今天和姥姥有了谈话，了解到她生活中很多事情。第一次了解到姥姥当时的性格和经历。按照她来讲，她中学的时候是她最风光的时候。她当时特别闹革命，考试考的不怎么样，但是因为特别会鼓舞人，讲话，所以都不错。

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总感觉中国的记者语言都像是用英文直接翻过来的一样

“而至于何时能实现北爱完全归属于英国控制，欧盟拒绝给出明确时间表。这个不确定性让脱欧派支持者不能接受”

可以看一看国内的新闻有这个问题吗。如果没有的话，这可能是一个思想目标？

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中国地理

名字由来：苏州：因为江苏设省时，所辖的最强的两个府分别是江宁府和苏州府，就是南京和苏州，所以各取一字，取名江苏，以前很多省都是这么命名的，安徽是因为安庆府和徽州府，福建是因为福州府和建宁府！

本来上海属于苏州，清朝时期之前没有发展起来-清末上海开埠，慢慢发展起来，民国时候，孙中山搞的啥大上海计划，设立上海特别市，直属中央管辖，从此江苏失去上海，另外在中间有一块就是现在的淮安和宿迁的部分，当时是安徽的。

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Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

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Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz was born in Waterbury, Conneticut on October 2, 1949 and studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She began her photography career for the Rolling Stone magazine in 1970, which she left after 10 years, shooting 142 covers as the chief photographer. In 1983, Annie Leibovitz began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair, with a more controversial style of portraits of celebrities, ranging from U.S. presidents to teenage heart-throbs. Also, in 1983, he began working for Vogue.

In the 1980’s, Leibovitz started working and creating advertising campaigns for American Express and the Gap, she also contributed to the Got Milk? Campaign. In addition to her magazine edition work and advertising campaigns, she has also published the book women and was chosen as the official photographer of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and the World Cup Games in Mexico.

Other accomplishments of Annie Leibovitz include working with various art organizations such as American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Furthermore, exhibitions of Leibovitz’s work have appeared at famous museums and galleries including the National Portruait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

http://www.wexarts.org/ex/?eventid=6355

http://www.biography.com/people/annie-leibovitz-9542372

http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/annie-leibovitz

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