The exploration to Waxner Center is unforgettable journey, because I consciously activated all of my five senses. When I pushed the door and went out of my residence, It is so cold outside. Considering that the way to Waxner Center is kind of far away, I unlocked my bike and started riding it. I could feel the wind blowed from my side. I rode so fast so that the feeling of flying made me forget the chill weather. Then, I decided to slow down to observe the view and architectures. When I saw some buildings I like, I stoped the bike and take some photos about them. About 20 minutes later, I felt a little bit hungry so I went to North Commons to eat lunch. Even though I got a lot of food in buffet, my dissatisfaction for flavors made me start to miss spicy Chinese food in my hometown. During the lunch, because I ate alone, I listened to the audio book of Harry Potter at the same time. The innocent and nice magic world made me relaxed and delighted. On the way to my destination, I found some interesting things other than architectures such as the a cubism-styled sculpture and a black wall with handwriting on it. Finally, I arrived Waxner Center to see David Smith's exhibition . The passage of Waxner Center made of scaffolding is fascinating and the fragrant flowers on the oval let me realize the coming of spring.
In my micro project 2, I use a campus map as the background. Basically, I use the images of whole building to show what I see on the road. However, It is also interesting to use the most typical or fascinating part of the building such as roofs, windows or columns to represent the whole building. I use the polygonal Lasso Tool and Magnetic Lasso Tool to cut out the buildings and use free transform tool to fit them into the map. I change the opacity of images into around 85% to make it available to see the original background that those photos cover. Then I use pen tool and convert point tool to draw the route and add color to it. I use paint bucket tool to fill the map with colors. Basically, gray stands for void ground. Blue and white stand for buildings. However, I don't want it to be so rigid so I randomly break the rule in order to create diversity and make it more like a free-style art work instead of map paper. Finally, I use type tool to show my other 4 feelings except for visual sense. I realize that I gain a lot after I finally accomplish this project.



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