2009年5月25日 星期一

Attitude.

半個月來的槍圖、畢評、畢展,心裡面記了好多事,好多該怎麼面對一個月後的事。我也不知道該怎麼整理,所幸回到我比較熟悉的中文,或許原始一點的紀錄會好一點。

滿滿的圖與模是熱血的程度、還有思考的深度。
審題、草評、資格評、外評等階段性評圖所得之階段性成果重要性應該是等質的,得失心別太重,才走的長久。
FAIL HARD, FAIL AGAIN, FAIL BETTER.
扎實地做好每個階段該完成的事,不修飾卻很有力量。
平立剖應該足以讓自己再分析一次。
別人是沒天沒夜的畫了又改,自己是否有資格被放在同一平臺被討論 ?

好像有點太直接,希望之後看還是看的懂。哈!

2009年5月17日 星期日

Fake dream.

Her green plastic watering can
For her fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself

It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

It wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run

It wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

If I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted all the time

All the time...
All the time...

2009年4月27日 星期一

Genuine

This guy is Amon Tobin, an outstanding DJ. But after watching the following videos, I would say he is a sound artist.







Being unlike those normal nightclub DJ, Amon recorded the source from machine, animals or even the instruments still played in a new(weird) way rather than just use the sound produced from digital audio equipment. Tobin says that he sees it as a "genuine" expression of the time he lives in, as he says blues, jazz, and Brazilian genres were "genuine" expressions of the 1960s.

2009年4月25日 星期六

Objective Subjectivity

Opinion is always subjective and personal. Even those official histories we read from authority are no exception. During last four year education from university, I notice we have more opportunities to speak out our personal viewpoints toward everything and explain the reasons. The reasons will be told in a logical and well-evidenced way. However, its background is just a combination from our chosen information of books or on the internet. That means we actually created the background which seems totally objective for our saying. Take TV news or documentary films as an example. The videos or interviews were filmed without predisposition, but before it is broadcasted, it will be edited with his point of view. As a result, the information we see is barely close to objectivity.

I like music. And I want to take this object as my main theme for the following year graduate design. Therefore, recently, I traced back to the classic album from Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Most of them were released during the mid-1960s.(The Hippie) In fact, I am only 23 years old. The war is too far away from me. How can I make myself really understand that period? There even nothing about Taiwan. I am still thinking and trying…

2009年4月5日 星期日

A0893 of OASIS Pilgrimage

Oasis did come to Taiwan. Due to China's ban on Noel's visiting, Taiwan got the chance to invite this over 15 years British rock band for a gig. Two days ago, thousands of young people spending whole day time standing in lines as if making their pilgrimage. Madly, I am one of them. lol

2009.April.03, at 0700am I was awaken by my friend who had a long journey from Kaohsiung one day before the concert. Few days ago, the organizer announced that the top 1,000 audience will get the number tickets for the guaranty of entering the hall at beginning and receiving the free poster at the end, so we decided to set off two hours earlier from Chung-li. With exciting mood and "Morning Glory" from iPod, we took the bus all the way to Taipei.

When arriving there, we found out there were already hundreds of people standing in the line. Actually, we even not sure if we still can get the number tickets, but all we could do was pray in our mind and W-A-I-T. However, it was only 1100am. Sadly, gossiping was the only time-killer. Meanwhile,"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you... " was sung with guitar. Someone was entertaining everyone. Good job!;) And, since we got there, there has been always an approximately 60-year-old lady in the line. EXACTLY! Rock 'n Roll is never too old!:D
After one hour the number tickets delivered, I am the 0893 of top 1,000 audience. whew...

Finally, the most nervous moment came, but it was the worst of all. Messy and unorganized ticket checking system brought the entering process into a chaos. sigh... There were too many things to complained about. Let me skip it. By the time of am0700, we took the escalator up to the 4th floor of hall. WE quickly crowded to the right side of the stage which is in the front of where Noel stands and we were only 10 meters away. :P When the warming band, 1976, walked on the stage, I knew tonight i will jump all the way...

Like the online pre-published setlist, "Fuckin' In The Bushes" was playing as an opening. At the same time, i started to search Liam all over the stage even though i had to stand on tiptoe but still only can look through the interspace of two tall guys in front of me. Shortly, "Rock 'n' Roll Star" tune was running. We can't stop pushing ourself jumping closer to the stage, screaming and singing. Suddenly, it got extremely crowded and the air was getting hot and thin. I even barely breathed so that i jumped higher to catch more fresh and cooler air! Looking at Liam under the spot light, it's definitely the craziest concert i have taken part in.

I thought it's impossible to be worse until a group of drunken English squeezed in with elbows. Ho ho... The situation became a real CHAO. :D It incredibly got crowder and we were moving like a wave with sweat from people around me! Of course it is not comfortable so there two girls were really pissed off by those foreigners. They were scolding back to those 1.8 meter-height guys. sooo MAD! Like band, like fans. Hahaha...

Even if there were so many weird things happened around me, I still felt so thrilled to sing along with them. When Liam sung "Oh, let me be the one that shines with you and we can slide away...", my tear dropped down slowly. And, my dream came true when the hall was full of the singing "So Sally can wait. She knows it's too late as we're walking on by. Her soul slides away. "But don't look back in anger!" I heard you say." by everyone and Noel. For the best of all, I heard my very first song from OASIS, "Champagne Supernova." I even cried twice that night. It was really awesome. Thank you. :-)


One of my friends fainted away during the concert. Fortunately, a heart-kind girl helped her at that moment and she was fine at the end. Otherwise, this memory will be full of regret. Good luck for your graduate project. ;)

2009年3月27日 星期五

I LOVE YOU.



多簡單 愛情 像就做完的夢 清楚 模糊
多簡單 像第一次問你愛不愛 你說愛 愛...
多美麗 回答 它輕輕的掠過 不願 落下
這一些熱的烈的情和蒼白的浮冰 多無影
散散落
那些忽而現又有時隱而不見的飛
啊…散落
那些抓也抓不住的 才是 真的 ...

2009年3月11日 星期三

Texture of Decease

Have you been thinking about what you will look like when you are dead? Exactly! Such a weired question. However, you might start to think about it after you check my recommendation.

Last weekend I watched the movie, 送行者(Departures), which won the best foreign language film of Oscar. It's a story about a man discovering and learning a job as a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for cremation. With the emotional soundtracks, it is easily to be touched by the plots. For the best part of the film, when the man is scrupulously cleaning, dressing and making-up for the dead body, it's as if you could feel how he conducts it on their skin and the process is still deeply sacred and solemn.

Actually, before going to the movie, i am reading a book, 死前活一次(Noch Mal leben vor dem Tod). The author and photographer documented 25 patiences for their last periods in their lives. Because of the terminal cancers, most of them were informed how long they could live at the most. In other words, they were just forced to face the death... with no hope. Moreover, every individual story comes with two pictures in the first two pages. One was taken on the day they informed the deadline and the other was on the day they died. Indeed, they are all sad stories and even telling you the life is still cruel at this hopeless moment, but it reminds me of the importance of health and treasuring my families and friends before the death comes to me.

2009年3月2日 星期一

Big Winner!

This film just won the best picture of the year in Annual Academy Awards. It deserved the reputation. For me there are so many culture shocks in the plots. Especially those children living in the slum and the film ending Bollywood dancing made me impressed.

2009年2月23日 星期一

Sydney Blue

This was the last photo I took in Sydney. After lasting one week miserable, the weather finally gave me a sunny and blue sky as a farewell. Sigh... a bit sad. However, even I have been back for one week i still miss this blue sky. Most sigh.

One month journey is long and unforgettable but relaxing. I really appreciate those people I visited and those friends took me hanging around. Without any of you, this memory couldn't be so impressive. I love you and everything from this adorable country. ;)

2009年1月25日 星期日

Postcards for OX New Year!

It is lucky that i have my winter holidays in Australia and here it is ... Summer day!
I spent a few days writing postcards for my friends. Gosh! This is my first time writing so many postcards all at once. I hope you all will like my greeting for the Chinese new year.

Actually, i always talked about the nice weather and the tennis in the words. Not much special. :P
However, it is a really relaxing city for travel. So far so Great!

2008年12月28日 星期日

SENSibility for 2009

2008 is gonna be over. This year Music and Design were still full of my life. Strangely, they did separate myself into two parts.
In my school major, architecture design. During my third year class, I found myself a suitable thinking method for doing design. However, as a practical personality, I didn't notice sometime i over analyze the objects. By fourth thinking training, i start to suspect the worth of this thinking method. The result is that I seemed cut off many possibilities for making heart-touching work. On the other hand, my favorite habit, "Listening" to music. Yes, just listening. I can't compose or play any instruments. It is a great shame for me, but maybe just because i am lack of the musicology, i always listen with my own feelings and emotions. Thus, I like make myself in the imagination of music, as if music videos were playing in my head theater.

For my graduate project, i want to mix them, my sense and sensibility. It will be my 2009 expectation.

2008年12月23日 星期二

2008年12月15日 星期一

Simple but busy Life

Simple Life, a lifestyle festival, was held last weekend. With the main theme, there were many Taiwanese indie musicians doing the live performance on open-air stages. Not only the music but also the market is promoting the slow-footed living style.(慢活) They sell the natural or handmade products which is normally good for health and less harm to the environment. According to the new, there were over 12 thousand people attended this activity.
For those great music concerts, my friends and i also joined it last weekend. Even though we knew we should just enjoy fresh air and the sunshine, we still kept walking around the area to see different live band show. Moreover, i even went mad when Jarvis Cocker, a singer from UK, was singing "Don't let him waste your time". Actually, it was rather a busy weekend. lol However, I won't forget the time we sat on the meadow listening to the easy-listening music with the warm sunshine.

2008年12月3日 星期三

Something Important

詞曲/陳珊妮
你想要不變心的情人 還是永遠不老的青春
你想要更偉大更不朽 還是一個瞬間成永恆
你在期待命好使人廢 還是堅持厄運不服輸
回憶再珍貴都有極限 未來多完美並未可知
What if... what if... 誰都是自己問題的答案
What if... what if... 誰都是自己答案的問題
誰都有一輩子 好好想清楚
你想先得到一個祝福 還是先給予一個感謝
美麗再完美都有極限 思想多珍貴並未可知
What if... what if... 誰都是自己問題的答案
What if... what if... 誰都是自己答案的問題
誰都有一輩子 好好想清楚

如果有一件事是重要的 那就是 對與錯的總合


2008年11月20日 星期四

Golden Horse Weekend

2001:A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
★★★★★
Video telephone, artificial intelligence(A.I.), spacemen and shuttle before Armstrong landed on the Moon.Yes, they are all showed up in a 40 years old sci-fi movie. It is amazing that the director had so exact imagination of the future. Actually, before i went to this movie, those friends who have seen the movie told me it's one of the best sci-fi movies in the world and it won't be out of time. However, when now it's 2008 i never expect it still can be so modern, especially it was filmed in 1968. Not only the ideas, but the art and filming techniques
are avant-garde, such as its designable red couches and fancy streamlined animation.
Never save your cheers for the outstanding shows. This is
my first time attending the golden horse film festival. I am quite surprised when the audience applauded to the classic sunrise shot at the opening of the movie. Obviously, most people have seen it before and they came to theater to do the review of it. I am so impressed by this behavior. Of course, all the audience gave a big hand at the end of the movie.

8
V.A.
★★★★☆
8 Millennium Development Goals + 8 Directors' Viewpoints + 8 Stories
Ⅰ.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger - "Tiya's Dream"
Ⅱ.
Achieve universal primary education - "The Letter"
Ⅲ.Promote gender equality and empower women - "How Can It Be"
Ⅳ.
Reduce child mortality -
"Mansion on the Hill"
Ⅴ.
Improve maternal health - "The story of Panshin Beka"

Ⅵ.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases -
"SIDA"
Ⅶ.Ensure environmental sustainability - "The Water Diary"
Ⅷ.Develop a global partnership for development - "Person to Person"

2008年11月9日 星期日

CAN'T! CAN'T! CAN''T Stop Moving!

My midterm just finished and it's time for relaxing.
Are you ready to get HIGH with me?! Let's Go~

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name!

Yes!Just follow the drum and tempo,
shouting out "That's not my name "with wicked voice!
Your heart will be leaped up... :D

Tahiti 80 - Brazil


Jump off your chair!Funk Time!
Sway your hips with this French band's delightful tune.
By the way, this band will come visit Taiwan(the Wall) on 12/19. ;)

Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving


Don't hesitate! Dance whatever you can!

2008年11月3日 星期一

Immateriality

I am doing the research of Chinese painting during Sung dynasty.
The following words is what i am trying to reach out.

畫家的眼睛觀看世界,看見了世界要做為圖畫所欠缺的東西,

看見圖畫要成為自身所欠缺的東西,
看見調色盤上為畫面所期待的顏色,
一旦畫面完成,眼睛會看見了繪畫對上述所有空缺的回應,
也看見了其他畫家的圖畫,乃是對其他空缺的不同回應。

-梅洛龐蒂(Maurice Merleau-Ponty)-

2008年10月28日 星期二

25

We took the graduation memorial pictures this afternoon.
Time flies... sigh...
What it will be when we are all 25?
I will just only graduate from school. SIGH...



又過了一個夏天 又過了一個冬天
習慣性的想你失眠 到現在還沒有改變

再過個一天兩天 再過個一年兩年
我已經要25歲 就要面對這個社會

而你是否還會出現 出現在我的夢裡面
陪我渡過無數個漫長的黑夜

而你是否還會出現 是不是沒有改變
像當初分開時的那種情節

2008年10月20日 星期一

Dialogue

I like to listen to music and i am also very willing to share my opinions of it.
Recently, i surfed some old posts of my favorite music-blog website of which editor's thoughts about sharing your own opinions or recommending outstanding music. As one of his readers, i appreciate that he devotes himself so much to building up this blog.

Indeed, he even analyzed how he listening to music and expressing his feelings with words. In the same way, sometimes we also try to convey our concept through our design. It is a kind of way of dialogue with yourself.

Copyright @ 音速青春 (2000-12-29)
事實上我大部份寫的東西都還是透過主流大廠發行,他們有自己的宣傳手法和管道,絕對不需要我們在這敲邊鼓。我們的推薦對他們毫無影響,他們也永遠不會知道。既然如此,為何還是不斷的有人透過網路書寫此類的文章呢?

因為和人分享自認美好的事物,這是人類與生俱來的渴望。

而這種精神透過網路是徹底的實踐了。一種自給自足的群體意識,一個共通的主題把一群人串起來,彼此分享。不論是知識的累積還是經驗的傳遞,這是一種內聚力極強的行為。而很顯然的,在這裡那個共通的主題叫「音樂」。

音樂做為一種藝術的形式,解讀方式有千百種。而也因為我們在「談論」的始終是一個很難「談論」的東西,因此這又造成了他獨一無二的魅力與神秘感。畢竟音樂還是拿來聽的呀,再好的文字還是無法跟親身聆聽相比。所以大部份的人都是透過文字來臨摹音樂。而你對於這段文字的判斷也在你終於聽到那段音樂時有了自己的見地。

很難單純的只把音樂文字當成普通的文字來看待。因為對於書寫對象一定會有好惡的。在聆聽的過程之中,你聆聽的方法、過去的經驗,透過極為私密的自我對話,最後造成了你對他的好惡和價值判斷。但這好惡卻是可以改變的。在不同的時間、地點、心情之下,總是會有著不一樣的解讀與感受。因為我們在談論的不是一個客觀存在於世界,永恆不變的科學現象。

每個人心裡都有自己的度量。量著自己和音樂的距離、音樂和音樂的距離、自己和別人的距離。每個人永遠會有自己的最愛,而且絕對不會和任何人一樣。因為人是有機的,音樂是人創造出來。兩個有機體互相碰撞,這才是他迷人且吸引我們走到此地的原因。

所以我決定不但要寫喜歡的,而且也要寫不那麼喜歡的。

我覺得不喜歡的部份反而更有趣,因為把CD找出來聽,會覺得他其實並沒有自己印象中那麼糟糕。但神奇的是大部份已經把他歸類在不喜歡的CD,聽久了還是不喜歡。喜不喜歡實在是很不科學的說法,所以在替他們找原因時就很有趣了。自己跟自己的對話。

2008年10月16日 星期四

I Have It!

Yes! I have a singing in my ears!
Last night i went to Yo La Tengo concert at the WALL.
The warm-up band was Texas Pandaa from Japan. It's MAD!
They left guitars keep rolling and screaming during their performance.
Actually,that was my first time listening to live concert of post-rock and so close to the speakers.
For me it is quite noisy. My ears were boooom... :S

Then we waited another half hour for our crazy band...
Finally, Ira showed up!!! Everyone cheered!
At the very first song, surprisingly, he gently murmuring my favorite "Our way to fall"
I was thrilled and singing along with him...


I remember a summer's day
I remember walking up to you
I remember my face turned red
And I remember staring at my feet
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you
And I remember pretending I wasn't looking
So we try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Cause we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love
I remember your old guitar
I remember I Can't Explain
I remember the way it looked around your neck
And I remember the day it broke
I remember song you sang
I remember "The Way You Looked Tonight"
And I remember the way it made me feel
So we try and try
Even if it lasts an hour
With all our might
We'll try and make it ours
Because we're on our way
We're on our way to fall in love


However, after it, the whole show just got bursting rock...
That's right! The theme tonight is bursting sound.(破音)
But... I still expected Georgia could sing more.
Her voice is really adorable, no matter how old she looks like.
At the end of encore time, this over twenty years band even gave the audience to request the songs.That is pretty cool.
Yo La Tengo! My ears did have your singing! sigh...