Self Introduction by Ruiqiao Qi

    Hi, everyone! I am Ruiqiao from Shanghai, China. You can always call me Richard or Rich for convenience. I have been here for almost four years as a Graphic Design student. I used to have a strong liking in entomology but being pushed back by the course requirement since I am not good at math at all. That being said, I always love insects and willing to learn or illustrate them in new ways. The interest about small creatures like insects might come from my short stay of one year at Japan over decades ago. I can still remember the arcade game that featuring beetle wrestling, and they even have details like the Latin names of the beetle, habitats and body length printed on the playing card which I can get from starting each round of the game. The culture and obsession of insects in Japan had really shocked me in a great way. 

    

    Enough about insects? Let's talk about myself in another approach. I am, in fact, trust my ability of hand-drawing more than digital illustrating. When I am boring, I tend to draw stuffs with pencil and any paper in-reach. It does not happen a lot now, since I believe I learned how to stay focus on any kind of classes, in theory. However, I am also an anime person who has a relatively high standard of picking animations from any counties and medias. What is my favorite anime? I will tell you it is "Nurarihyon no Mago" for now. 

    I am a quiet person who thinks way more than talking. It is not only the reason that English is not my first language, but also my experience that shapes me. People say that I am overly thinking which could be useless at most of the time. That is partially true. I hate that I am losing some sort of chances, but I hate to be reckless and untrue to someone even more. I like to play single-person and open-world games for killing time. In those "lone-wolf" games, I feel like I could read the game designers' idea more sincerely and clear. The competition of other genre of games just does not feel comfortable to me. "Fallout 4" had changed my mind toward the humanity and morals of people before. For me, play those games gives me more things than reading most of the books. 

   

Introduction

Hi, my name is Gerardo Regalado and I was born in El Salvador but came to the United States when I was 2 years old. I'm currently a junior and majoring in journalism and media studies with a minor in video production. Before college I played high school soccer for three years and won our conference my senior year, but unfortunately I suffered a knee injury that prevented me from playing in college.
My goal in life is to create films/documentaries that change peoples lives in an impactful way.

On a micro level, I would describe my identity as a bit shy and for some odd reason I always tend to laugh at the most inappropriate moments. Looking back at my childhood I would say my father helped establish a "hard working" mentality in me.  He made it clear to me that if I really wanted to anything of myself , it wouldn't come knocking at my door. It would come through blood, sweat, and tears.

Once you get to know me you realize that most of our time will be spent laughing, playing a sport or going out to eat and trying different things. For example last summer we all did indoor sky diving and power sailing. Although it was a struggle to get everyone on board to do it, in the end we had a blast.

Who am I?

Hi everyone my name is Tyree Lark, I'm 29 I was born in New Jersey but live East Orange. I'm a senior at RU-N pursuing a major in New Media Technology (Filmmaking) and minor in Fine Arts (painting). I love the work I do in filmmaking as a director, editor, and cameraman. But with my painting is the best way to express myself, with my emotions to make something interesting an image with paint. But with that outside of school I'm a freelance photographer, doing landscapes, portraits,  black & white photos. The two places I take photos are New Jersey and New York.

I have a lot of hobbies and a lot of things I'm interested in, mostly street photography. I like walking around Jersey or New York and just take photos of anything that piqued my interest. It's relaxes me on a stressful day. For me the best place to take photos is New Jersey. Why? Because some people don't know that Jersey has some beautiful places and I like to show that to people.


I live in Jersey my whole life, I love it here. But for my personality I have a laid-back type of guy. I like to go with the flow. But I work hard just like everyone else. I put in the time and the work, I'm very loyal with the people who know me. But I'm very easy to talk too for the people who don't. I hope to meet everyone in the class so we can know more about each other.

Me working at a Film Festival

My painting

My Street Photography 

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What's up everyone ! My name is Angel Juarez, nice to meet you ! I'm a senior+ (5th year in college total) and this is my 3rd year at Rutgers. I transferred from Raritan Valley Community College after graduating with my Associates in Fine Arts with a specialization in Graphic Design. I was born and raised right here, in the beautiful, sunshine-y state of New Jersey. I've lived in North Plainfield for most of my live, but soon after starting here at Rutgers, my family moved to South Plainfield. I live with my parents, my sister, my uncle, and our 4 cats (Poochie, Pickles, Melina, and Ghost) who I love very, very much.

I have a lot of hobbies and a lot of things I'm interested in, mostly art related things. Over the course of my life, I've done all different kinds of art, both in school and on my own. I've learned how to play the trumpet and the french horn and was in my middle school's concert and jazz bands and in my high school's concert, jazz, and marching bands for the entirety of my high school career. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, and it is what I am probably what I enjoy to do the most. At a young age, I would copy drawings from video game illustrations I liked, most notably illustrations from the Sonic the Hedgehog game series. I would draw little comics on my free time on pieces of lined notebook paper and fold them into little comic books to show my friends at school. I loved cartoons since a young age, and a lot of my comics and drawings would show some kind of motion, a prototypical way of my own kind of animation. It wasn't until middle school where my best friend would teach me how to use the animation program, Adobe Flash, when I would finally take the next step in my life, one focused on my main skills: Design, animation, and illustration (like it says on my business cards). Video games is, and always has been, an inspiration for my work and, while it isn't my main focus, I would love to one day work in designing UI for video games.

As a person, I am pretty chill. Not a lot of things can get to me easily, and when they do, I tend to not show it. I think about a lot of things in a very strange way, usually only thinking about how they directly relate to me, which is something I've been trying to change recently. I am very sympathetic and empathetic and I always try to be a positive element in my friends' lives. I love making people laugh, it's one of the things I do the best. Most of the times I can do so without even trying, my brain seems to always just be on funny mode since it's been a setting I've been using for so long. I really like trying to help people as best as I can, but sometimes my laziness overcomes me and inhibits my actions, but that's actually pretty rare and only happens when it's something to do with my sister, who I love very much.

I am also a big fan of worm on a string.

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Hello! My name is Bryan Rodrigues Oliveira. I am currently a junior here at Rutgers Newark and I am pursuing a major in Graphic Design with a minor an art. At the moment I am currently working on an art estore with the drawings that I do. There is honestly not too much to myself and personality so to describe me in one word would be complicated just like everyone else in this time of age. At the moment of my college career, I'm just trying to focus on myself and on exactly what I plan to do with my future and overall just make sure I am happy in the career that the world guides me in. I am an extreme introvert but also an extrovert on certain days where I feel I've been too much of introvert and overall just need some sunlight and fresh air. One last thing I would say about myself is that when I set a goal I am determined to achieve it whatever means necessary and believe that whatever happens, happens for a reason.

On a deeper scale, relating back to the micro and macro level of Bronfenbrenner and the powers of ten his theory of environment and interaction have an enormous but not a too great influence on my personality. My mother without a doubt has the biggest influence on my life when it comes to almost everything and I value her opinion over most. We have a strong bond and friendship but besides our healthy mother and son relationship, she is my encouragement and reason to keep pushing myself harder towards greatness. Furthering this so does my best friend. His opinion is always valued and knowing him for ten years we have formed a brothership. So absolutely my interactions with family and friends are without a doubt healthy and positive which I believe shapes my personality to be the same.

My culture is also a great influence on my personality! I am Brazilian and most of my family speaks Portuguese and I know most of it myself but it can get difficult at times to understand my grandparents from Brazil. Being Brazilian continuously impacts my personality in a positive way because even though I do live here in the United States we still eat Brazilian food and still listen to Brazilian music and I even have friends that I speak Portuguese and we could listen to music from different countries and understand them and sometimes even connect to them deeper.

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Hi! My name is Katie Mok, I'm a senior at RU-N pursuing a major in Journalism and minor in Marketing. I was iffy about marketing but choose to continue it because I was interested in how attention can be captured and the process of doing so. I am 21, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York but currently lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey. I'm sorry but Jersey debates are weird... who cares if central exists or not? Because the only debate I care about is who has better pizza... New York by far...deep dish isn't pizza. And Taylor ham or pork roll? Why would I choose ham when there is sausages or bacon? Come on...

My hobbies varies. But I do love fashion, I could literally daydream about styling outfits together (I daydream about it because I can't afford to buy the outfits...sad reacts only please). My mom always said I was picky with what I wore since I was young. But she gets all the credit for my love of styling... my mom dressed me so well as a kid. I love taking photos on film. I love the results after it is processed, it adds that homey feel. I'm also on the lookout for a new film camera so if anyone has suggestions please let me know! Much appreciated! And of course I Netflix and Hulu...a lot. If you have Netflix please watch Next in Fashion. I actually cried, and what the designers create out of thin air is actually amazing and beautiful. And Brooklyn Nine- Nine is literally the best show ever. 

I am Chinese- American and extremely prideful of my roots, now more than ever. I'm bilingual, speaking Cantonese and English, which I feel is a big part of my identity. Recently I studied abroad at the University of Hong Kong and that experience boosted my love for my roots once more. Never was I surrounded by so many people like me, Chinese- American (and Canadian, Aussie and much more) but we all spoke Cantonese, so it was pretty cool to experience that together! 

Here are just some photos I took while I was in Hong Kong. It's a beautiful city undergoing something huge right now #standwithhongkong. But when the chance comes I highly suggest visiting. I was blessed with the opportunity!

Introduction

Hello!! My name is Quran and I am a 19 year old second year Graphic Design and Fine Arts student here at Rutgers Newark. I come from the small town of Plainfield where I went to a performing arts school for graphic design. 

Deep down I have a burning interest in learning about any and everything art related. Different types of art forms really intrigue me. I fell in love with art when I was young after watching my dad do tattoos.  My love specifically for graphic design started my sophomore year of high school when I got on the adobe programs and started teaching myself a few things. I now enjoy photography, painting, drawing, sculpting, collaging and designing.

I love people. Helping others and giving back makes me happy. My personality can be described ass genuine, real and honest. I would describe myself as a social butterfly because i find it easy to blend with different groups of people.  I try to learn at least one thing from the people I interact with on a daily and spread as much love as possible. 

Smino - my fav artist

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