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the unbearable lightness of blog
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Jan 2001
*blank*
I am in the Bermuda Triangle of quality mangament right now, there's absolutely nothing for me to do except to breed more meaningless blogs...
Serenity Now!!!!
Finally, the weblog is back to normal, but is it really fixed or did danchan just edit the freedom of speech in here?
Jan 2001
Jan 2001
Jan 2001
The Cell is a piece of sh*t movie but...
boy did the sets and costumes look cool! If you see a little of the 'dark deco / futurism' design that is reminicent of Coppler's Dracular costumes then it's no mystery to you that Eiko Ishioka had a leg in The Cell. Kinda scary she can work so effortlessly with any given medium, I thought David Copperfield was a loser till I realized Ishioka designed his stage, so now I totally wouldn't mind paying 100 bucks to watch him pull rabbits out of a hat!
Her relatively new book Eiko On Stage is out for several months now, the layout looks like crap but it does offer a lot of inspiring photographs and sketches. It's a bargain considering how rare it is that a designer's work can make you pause and think with every flip of the page ^^!
Bonsai Kitten
Courtesy of Salon's Inbox is this link to a site that helps you shape your newborn kitten like a bonsai tree...
Jan 2001
I can finally take a nap @ work!
ZzzzZZzzzZZ....What? Urh? Where? Mummy? Huh? What the hec is that sound? Who the f*ck put this in my ear?!
More Super Flat!
Link to site Hiropon Factory, I suppose this dude Takashi Murakami coined the Super Flat movement and created this factory to cultivate young artists. Alot of cool stuff to BUY here, can anyone translate how one can purchase this ethereal statue / figure (Hint* Sakura)? There's only 3 left! One of us has to get it!
PS. An addtion to note : Screw it man, 200,000 Yen is like 2,000 bucks! It's not like I can paint that darn thing to perfection anyway...
Happy Chinese New Year!
Yup, it's another New Year for the Chinese. So Gong-Si-Fa-Chai (hope you have a prosperous year) and Hong-Bao-Na-Lai (gimme those damn red packets full of cash)!
Jan 2001
Is this high school English class?
Who the hec writes an analytical essay on a weblog? When I think of 'crouching tiger' and 'hidden dragon' I think of a movie from the alternative triple X selection at your friendly local video store...
Jan 2001
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Why did Jen (played by Zhang Zi Yi) leap off the bridge at the very end? The key lies in the two final dialogues she posed to her love - Lo.
The first dialogue was the question - "What was the phrase the young man understood before he jumped off the mountain?"
The answer to that in crappy translation was "If the heart is distilled, then all will be clear".
What the hec does this mean?
There are two essential forces attempting to influence Jen as she progressed through the movie. On one side was Jade Fox, who pushed for Jen to thrive on her emotions, to abandon her established values and family in order to roam the land and unleash her preordained talent. The other was Li and Shu Lien, who suppressed their emotions and love for each other in order to uphold the very same values Jade Fox was luring Jen to abolish.
To understand the dynamics of these two opposing views, Jen's construct as a character must be considered. Jen is someone who has the gift of talent that is beyond the means of all who surrounds her, which was the root of all her confusion and rebellious attitude. In reality, everyone spends their life in search for that one talent which defines them, and it is the act of searching that provides us of our purpose. So what if someone, from a very young age, already understood and exercised that level of gift? The result is exactly as Jen illustrated, which is the lost for a meaning in existence. Combine this fact with an undeveloped emotional mind set, and you will derive the good old cliche - 'rebel without a cause'.
What became the end of Jen's two teachers Jade Fox and Li? Well, they like, died. Jade Fox died in regret of not destroying the talent she can never have (to end something is to own it forever), and Li died in regret of denying his love for Shu Lien for the sake of 'nobility'.
The death of these two in itself destructed the very lessons they were trying to cultivate, bummer, eh? Jade Fox's death tells Jen that if you become a slave to your emotions and abandon the society, you will get stabbed through the heart (literally!), and Li's death is like, if you suppress your emotions, you will not live life at all and get stuck with a poison needle on your neck. Both of which aren't very attractive options.
"If the heart is distilled, then all will be clear" - The death of her two teachers allowed Jen to witness her very own inevitable future if she has chosen either path (heart is distilled), therefore Jen was forced to mature very quickly and thus understood the reality of life (all will be clear) - ie. you can't have your cake and eat it too, meaning that you can't love freely (not only interms of a person, but of one's purpose in life) with the constraints society imposes.
The often time romantic solution to this realization we've seen over and over is unfortunately - suicide. Where does suicide take Jen? This hinged on her other final words, which was to ask her love Lo to make a wish, a wish that would come true and last forever just as the legend has promised. Lo's answer to this was - "To be back in the desert, and be together for an eternity".
PS. Does art imitate life? I am thankful for the opportunity to meet and get to know someone who has talent beyond even her own understanding, it is through her that I have the fortune of witnessing Jen's characterization in its true form. The struggle of being a friend to someone like this is you feel the responsibility to push them to their fullest potential, knowing all the while, when they get there, there's the grave possibility that they will not see the purpose in anything anymore and as a result, self destruct either mentally or physically. Why the responsibility to push? There are only a handful of people in this world who has the genius to bring to us what the remainder of the population, through their life time of trying, cannot achieve. It is the purpose of common folks to acknowledge such talent, cultivate it, preserve it, so they will bring to the human race a dimension that wasn't thought possible before, thus pushing the collective consciounceness toward its true potential. What is the actual cost of this act of progression? Just to name a few - Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, Jesus Christ...
Jan 2001
More IT
TheITQuestion courtesy of Eatonweb.
Legos...
Someone's got time on their hands. Salon's Technology Inbox had this today:
"Legos, those beloved staples of our childhood playrooms, are now, it seems, being configured into perverse positions and sickening scenarios that no well-reared child could possibly have dreamed up."
The Inbox also provided a more wholesome Lego link.
Jan 2001
Jet Set LA
I was surfing the web today in search of great capitalistic temples, and I came across the fantastic site known as Jet Set. I think I wanna be friends with Jet Set Hsuan and Jet Set Johnny, they seem to know all the hippest joints in LA...
PS. I must go to that Tea Station place because it's mentioned in all of their catagories, it must be a highly regarded venue worthwhile of a 3 star rating on the likes of Michelin Guide.
PPS. Are these two connoisseures of good life related to Jet Li by any chance?
PPSS. Can Evan be any cheaper? You guys should at least get a banner ad on his site!
Who needs a hot chick...
when you have a Sony DRC Wega (no free ads on danchan darnit!)? I had no idea my brother loves his TV so much until I saw the latest commercial he created...
Groovi(sion) dude ^_*
Dude, I'm in love with design group Groovision's stuff, there's something very pleasing about perfectly arranged 2D dolls with varied clothing and hair styles, maybe it represents a sacred world whereby if each and one of us looks exactly the same, at least we still have our damn hair and clothes to make us individuals!
Anyone's ever heard of Chappie? Her music sounds alot like the art - E-pop! (Hey, I just coined a movement! ^^)
groovision + chappie + pal@pop = ?
groovision / coil = ?
Jan 2001
IT is a flop!
Kamen came out and said his baby Ginger is over-hyped!
Super-"flat"?
Who's brilliant idea was that to throw a quasi-rave with an art exhibit? Whoever came up with it, the idea obviously stuck pretty well. The last time there was that much energy and excitement in the Big Blue Whale (a.k.a. Pacific Design Center) it was when Frank Gehry first showed off his new line of twisty-wood furniture to the general mass in the same cubical building some seven eight years ago.
I overheard someone commenting that it was much like a Disney ride waiting in line for all that time. True true, not only in terms of the longest line since Crouching Tiger (bad analogy, but the idea's the same), but you know how in Disneyland when you finally hop on the ride, and it wasn't all it's cracked up to be? Well, thus the inferred Super-"flatness" of it all.
Which might not be all that inappropriate, because Superflat is an art movement that takes established 2D medium icons in its most cynical form. Therefore, a bunch of artsy wanna b's like myself can feel spiritual heightening by attending a show that gives you the smell, but not the sh*t of what it represents. Was it intentionally ironic that we filed in like busy ants to a mount only to be faced with a bunch of stiff chemical plant workers in orange staring back at us? Maybe, but I sure can't figure out why only one of the figures was stripped of its suit down to the wasit level.
The Superflat show in Japan was quite a departure from LA, it has a vastly varied collection than the scraps we had the fortune of witnessing. But hec, the music was good no? Not by accident either, if you look carefully at the DJ list, big arse names like Fantastic Plastic Machine (big ass indeed) and Susumu Yokota were spinning to our pleasure. They are pretty much the IT (no Ginger puns intended) electronica DJ's in Japan right now.
Jan 2001
Jumbo
Taiwanese are overachievers.
IT's a scooter?
Inside has a story speculating that IT is a scooter. So does Yahoo. Salon's Technology Inbox jokingly predicted that IT would be a scooter.
Jan 2001
IT...
Sounds like a Steven King novel... What if it uses brain waves, exemplifies it so no cell phones are necessary, and allows humans to interact without even speaking?
Cell phone companies will be threatened, maybe health risks associated so may not be legal, under $2000 but no long distance or airtime charges... fun as hell reading Javier or EMate's minds... changes way of thinking since that's ALL YOU NEED TO DO
Schlaulau is off to Japan tomorrow for five days, but promises updates just like Dan is doing while battling chimps in Malaysia. I will be battling off crazy Japanese kids off the streets in Tetris.
Schlaulau out.
It's like this machine...
Yeah, and you like, put baking powder in it, you know what I'm saying? And like, it churns out these yellow powder and stuff, and like, when you inhale it, like you don't need a car cuz like you walk so much faster and have so much energy and stuff and JUMP HIGHER too! My dealer didn't think it was too cool though, I dunno why...
IT is a hoax, those damn hackers!
If it's too good to be true (like meeting the love of your life in a wedding), then it IS too good to be true!
The only time Bezos the Clown and Steve Hand Job will ever get together is to sell off that piece of sh*t company known as 'Apple' at wholesale price..
Fascinating indeed Schlaulau....
Any guesses here what IT could be?
* less than $2000
* fun element to it
* components that fit into couple of duffel bags and boxes
* no problem selling it but might not be allowed to use it
* change lives, cities, way of thinking
* certain billion dollar companies will be threatened
* mass market product
An interesting clue that might be important is that he assembled TWO of these things as a demonstration. Unless one of them is a backup in case the other failed, there might be some interesting revelations about the product as a device to interact.
Okay HYPE or HOPE?
Check out "IT", quoted as the next big invention...
"Credit Suisse First Boston, expects Kamen's invention to make more money in its first year than any start-up in history, predicting Kamen will be worth more in five years than Bill Gates. Jobs told Kamen the invention would be as significant as the PC"
"could be assembled in less than 10 minutes", but would "sweep over the world and change lives, cities, and ways of thinking.''
WHAT IS IT? Maybe it is time to buy stocks of Kamen's company...
http://www.inside.com/it.html
Jan 2001
Ok, so I didn't water the plant!
When scary fairy Stephen King put up his novel the Plant for his readers to download for a buck an episode I thought it was pretty cool. Not that I am an avid reader of King's novels (or any novel for that matter), but I wouldn't mind a bargain once in awhile, and a cheap read is indeed a cheap read.
So I downloaded the first bloody episode (no British pun intended here) and dutifully paid my buck through King's affiliate - Amazon.com (let's get rid of the big publishers?!), didn't mind too much it's so bloody short (British pun intended here), because hec, it's like, a buck. Then I read it during my lunch break, and thought it was a pretty good read (this f*cker can actually write!), thus deciding this digital distribution deal is a wonderful addition to wonder bread.
Episode 2 came about and though I did intend to pay another buck for it, somehow I forgot to go through the ordeal. Enough readers however paid the dollar (75%) to justify the release of episode 3, which I intentionally did not pay for because just as King's plant evolved into a demon, I evolved (or regressed) into a cheap ass.
The episodes got longer and longer by #4, but I've lost interest in the stupid glut of vegetation by then, because who the hell reads a book one darn chapter at a time and months apart? By the time I got back to reading each additonal episode, my short memory span (not too different from that of a goldfish) has already spared me the knowledge of who what where why, as if it's not enough that reading is foundamentally painful to me, now it attributed to my early case of alzheimers...
ZzzzZzzZzzZZz....
Work is so boring I found we::log fun once more...
It was suddenly brought to my attention that my excessive endulgence in this prolonged jet lag is due to a serious lack of self discipline. It is as severe as any form of addiction, and I hereby pronounce myself a sick man as a first of many steps towards a full recovery.
I sleep when I feel like it, usually right around working hours, I nap constantly, and I get absolutely nothing done all day long.
I think I like my new life...
Jan 2001
Best Picture
Salon's Oscar Predictions are out.
I'm personally predicting Bring It On as Best Picture.
What about you guys?
Jan 2001
Actually I took out a loan...
This is one expensive f*cking piece of s*ht address book, but snoty suggested I get over to my depression so I did it the old fashion way ^_*
handspring-equipped Emate
With that list of names and numbers Emate didn't get, he finally figured his dilemma:
He cashed in all his MIcrosoft stocks and bought himself a handspring device...
Hey Emate does it have cool games? Does it get email? Pretty cool.
Gotta go now.
Jan 2001
Never Suffer From Depression
It will only kill you!
Jan 2001
Put this on your toaster Emate!
So I can watch you eat it too!
I usually like to start the year by...
recounting my regrets of the previous year in hope I can make some positive adjustments. So here goes -
1. that girl in SJ.
2. that girl in Insomniac
3. that girl in IT Cafe
4. that mixed-looking girl in Singapore
3. those two girls in Shabu-Shabu
4. those two girls out of the elevator
5. those two girls in the elevator
If I missed you on this list, call me. If you are on this list, call me. If you are not on this list, call me as well.
Thanks! ^_*
Jan 2001
Which Backstreet Boy is gay?
click here to find out :o)
Just somet i found funny since i'm not a Backstreet Boy Fan!
Happy New Year from Los Angeles!
Eh, I'm like completely sober for once, which is quite good news considering all the previous new years ^_*!
Who wants to put up their new year resolution? Hmmm, what should mine be about...
To have a more productive year!
PS. Hey, Grand Avenue is building up quite a crowd across the street from my apartment, maybe there's time yet to get wasted!