The speech that I watched
and found the most interesting is Candy Chang’s “Before I die I want to…” Candy
Chang is an artist, designer, and urban planner who explores making cities more
comfortable and contemplative places.
Chang has created over 30 street art and
community projects that help people to be able to share their hopes, dreams and
secrets in public space. This speech “ Before I die I want to…” is about how
powerful our public space can be when the opportunity to
share their feeling and thinking with others and how it positively effects on
our communities to make them better places to be is provided to people. 
Chang started the speech with her opening statement, “ There are a lot of ways
people around us can help and improve our lives.” When I heard her opening
statement, her voice totally grabbed my attention because she didn’t raise her
voice or try to give the audience a comedic statement to grab their attention.
Chang gave her speech with her calm and trustful voice through the entire
presentation. I think she tried to narrate her experience and story to really
touch audiences’ hearts and communicate who she is with audiences through her
calm voice.
Chang also shared her feeling with audiences. When she talked about her mother
Joan, who suddenly passed away in 2009, her eyes were filled with tears. She
tried to commune with audiences with not only giving a speech but also sharing
her true feeling. I believe that I could feel what she felt when she created
her project “ Before I die I want to…” for her mother in her hometown New
Orleans.
Chang’s “ Before I die…” is the creative community project where she transformed
an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans into an interactive wall
for people to share their hopes and dreams. After her mother’s death, she
started thinking about what death means to us. In her speech, she said “ Death
is something that we’re often discouraged to talk about or even think about,
but I’ve realized that preparing for death is one of the most empowering things
you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.” After a day, people
started writing their wishes and dreams on the wall and sharing their feelings. I
think that people could truly open their minds from the word “ Die” because they
could realize how important and precious their lives are. Now, the project “
Before I die…” has spread across the world.
I’ve been thinking about why SNS is so popular and addictive. After Chang’s
speech, I think I might have a little clue about why SNS has became the most powerful
tool to communicate with people these days. Back a past few decades, people actually
communicated with others face-to-face and spent time with others to interact
and share feelings. However, people have became isolated with huge development of
technologies and the Internet these days. People no longer need to go out to
communicate with others, get information and interact with someone in their
lives. I think because of this lack of these emotion situations, people started
looking for the public space that they could share their feelings. SNS
became the tool that they could use to interact with others just like the wall of “
Before I die…”
Chang’s speech truly inspired me when she closed her presentation with the
statement, “ More ways to share hopes, fears and stories, people around us not
only help us make better places, they can help us live better lives.” In order
to succeed in the entertainment field, I need to share my feelings and ideas
with others to touch their minds and emotions because I believe the key of success in the
entertainment field will be the interaction, communication and sharing our
feelings with customers.
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