日有所思

2011-12-21T17:08:00.000-08:00

This is an re-writing of an old, old piece. Just for the sake of working in some words and see how it will come out, now that I have some new tools and skills under my bell.

東京閒逛

用徒步的方法去感受東京，不能不到谷中走走。

從山手線的日暮里車站上望，一整片的黑瓦頂老房子靜立在翠綠的山坡之上，散發出一種看都看得出來的寧靜。山崗上的濃綠樹蔭以及木房子的老舊屋角，彷如百年前的景象。叫旅人的腳步不自由主地往上坡道走。

谷中這個地方得天獨厚，沒有受一九二三年的關東大地震摧毀，又避過一九四五年大轟炸的炮彈。時移世易，它依然靜靜立於小丘之上。

在這裡曲折的街巷中走著走著，身旁擦過的一排梔子花叢散發出淡淡幽香，感覺時光倒流到一個不知名的年代；僧人頌經的沈厚聲線，震動著木窗上方的空氣。小巷，益發顯得寂靜，彷彿另一個世界；在這裡，僧侶、祖先和普通居民地位平等；寺院、墓地和民居相安無事。谷中靈園裡面，還設有兒童遊樂設施，天真瀾漫的學童在其中興高采烈地尖叫奔跑，看得我目瞪口呆。

「真的有那麼看得開、那麼參透生死嗎?」有機會時我以此詢問東京友人。原來他也有兒時在墓地玩耍的記憶，「不過，谷中也不能代表今時今日人們的心態行為了。它比較像是五十年、甚至是一百年前的東京。」

果然，當我在谷中一間前鋪後居的和菓子店幫襯時，老闆娘見我是外地人，包著兩片糕點時隨手又將一串點心加進去，微笑著比劃又連連鞠躬「這是送的…」我雖然不明白她的言語，但是心意完全收到。這就是老東京的風情吧？我邊吃邊走邊想…心頭好久都是暖暖的。

School and Classroom

2011-12-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

Just finish a class.

I have to say, I have make much progress.

BUT, the class sucks!!!

可能最大的得著是，上堂，原來主角真的不是老師。

主角從來都是自己！

我都算不清究竟上過多少很差很差老師的堂了…

但事後回想，如果頂得過去

最後自己的功力，無一例外地，都比以前高了。

____________________________________________

當然，如果遇著一個良師，所得是非常利害的

一天，可以等如一年。

但好的老師是例外，不好／不大好的，才是常態。

The teacher really is not teaching much and he love to talk about his personal stuff.

He is a good artist, but not necessarily a good teacher.

He teach by example, I guess

http://www.marktoddillustration.com/

對不起，老師你真的是個不會教書的人

你只是講自己的事情，你的起伏，你的擔憂

對不起，但課堂並不是你心理學家的貴妃床

來了這裡，你的角色是要教導學生

主角，該是坐在房間內的學生而不是你

從另一個角度看，如果你能夠暫且忙記你的事情

把心放在學生身上，或許你也可以在教學中得到

一點什麼呢!

________________________________________________

I think people do not know what a teacher supposed to be anymore.

1) The cheer leader (the person who give the student the confidence to face the world)

2) The motivator (find out how to encourage a student to move forward...and say the things that helps)

3) The last one...is the transmission of knowledge.

This teacher fail in all account.

BUT, nevertheless... every time I went through a bad class, I still make much progress.

So...

The value of the class seems to be...just to keep you focus on the things that you want to do.

---------------------------------
Oh, if I am lucky, I may have a good class. But if not...still, showing up is the KEY!!!

Again...time to transform...morphing into something new...

2011-08-16T23:06:00.000-07:00

In the time of transition (again).

I've gone through this so many times that, I am use to this.

Doesn't make it easier...but I trust I can survive it. (and thrive, possibly)

In the past, it has been helpful to do these few things:

1) Reading of books: not only one book, but allow myself to read several books at once.
...Time to visit the library and just browse.
FUN: Kitchen confidential
THINKING: Christopher Alexander, try again.../ Tim Brown-- Design thinking
INSPIRING: Sketch book by other artist, Artist way

2) Travel, taking oneself out of the normal surrounding always help.
Hong Kong...and my sister. Umm...how to create that space for myself.

3) ...this is new to me...to create a garden (or to co-create with some other living being, now are the plants.)

On this crazy changing personal world...the garden will be that one constant that can hold me steady until the next stage.

Very curious to know what it may be.

Desert Hideaway

2010-12-29T05:12:00.001-08:00

Desert Hideaway by Ginko Lee featuring cowboy boots

Chakra-Box

2010-04-19T10:04:00.001-07:00

Chakra-Box
Originally uploaded by Daniela E. Gellan

I would like to make a set of pattern like this and silk screen it on a nice material.

Picking the Cucumbers

2010-04-14T19:58:00.001-07:00

Picking the Cucumbers
Originally uploaded by Chiot's Run

Can't believe someone can actually live a life like this. Way to go.

Inside looking out

2010-04-03T05:42:00.001-07:00

Inside looking out
Originally uploaded by Bjørn Giesenbauer

Love this photo...what a great spot.

To read, to write, or just to be lazy in the sun.

Love the poster on the wall...unknown artist.

Strong design.

Art, sun, some coffee...

What else do you need for a nice afternoon?

California Poppies

2010-04-03T05:39:00.001-07:00

California Poppies
Originally uploaded by djfrantic

It is time for the poppies.

All along the high way.

Only that, I am suffering from the worst allergy ever.

Is there a way that I can enjoy spring and not paying the price?

Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op

2010-03-24T04:44:00.001-07:00

ocean beach people's organic food co-op
Originally uploaded by killyourcar

I wish we will have one of these store in our neighborhood soon.

In fact, ASAP.

That's why, I have been spending lots of time volunteering for building a local food co-op.

http://altadenawantsacoop.com/

Pictured above is THE main inspirations for my involvement...the Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op.

I chanced upon it while visiting the Ocean Beach Neighborhood of San Diego.

Immediately, I said to myself: I want one.

"The best way to predict your future is to create it!"
-- Abraham Lincoln

Water Waves on sunset

2009-09-09T23:30:00.001-07:00

Water Waves on sunset
Originally uploaded by patrickpasty

Beautiful pattern...wonder what it will be like turning into a silkscreen print?

Sunday at local flea market

2009-05-09T15:48:00.000-07:00

The 1st Sunday of the month is a big day for us-Market day for the local flea market at PCC (Pasadena City College)

Compare to the nearby Rosebowl "Antique" market, this one suit us a lot better.

It is free... it is close by and it features hundreds of vendors, selling everything under the sun:

... African mask and beads, sold by a real African
... 400 years old bible (as the vendor claimed)
... vintage dress from the 50's (in mint condition and cost a little fortune)

But, then, there are always things that you don't expect:

Like this day, we ran into a guy selling some perfectly nice digital cameras with 3M and decent LCD monitor...for US$20!!!

Never seen this price anywhere. So, we think up an excuse to buy one. Just so we can have a good deal.

The photo above is me, picking over stuff of interest.

The leather bag that I carried was made from vintage cotton belt and soft piece of leather...designed and produced by yours truly--me.

Not the best design yet...I was afraid my stuff is going to fall out at any moment. But it still looks kind of cool.

I am scheming to make beggy 2.0. The next generation should always be better. Right?

Strathmore Bristol Vellum Sample

2009-03-25T09:21:00.001-07:00

Strathmore Bristol Vellum Sample
Originally uploaded by SideShowMom

just a test

Talking to self

2009-03-23T08:09:00.000-07:00

Hasn't post here for a long, long time.

Guess it is because talking to one self is still considered to be crazy in some circle and a bit strange to the brain.

Who am I talking to ?

Well, in other times, I still write in my hand made journal. But that's a different story. The tactile of pen to paper, feels a lot more real.

And I know exactly it is between me and the notebook (or maybe the small god inside)

But blogging?

Is this supposed to be public or private.

I don't really know.

Two and a half year new

2008-09-30T00:08:00.000-07:00

I have been thinking about writing my latest venture in life for some time...

Well, not so latest, as I've been in it for over 2.5 years now.

After a serious illness that last from mid 2005 to early 2006, I had made quite an unusual career detour: I became a massage therapist.

Now on Sept 2008, two and a half years has gone by and I have been working on the same ritzy spa for over 2 years. (Ha ha...)

Frankly, this thing would last for so long comes as a surprise to me: it all started as me doing something totally self indulgent during my time going through Chemotherapy.

It was no picnic in the park... going in and out of the hospital... long days laying in bed wondering what I would become when the whole deal's over...

During my down time in between Chemo, my friend Angela A. visited me and she gave me a most wonderful massage.

It was soothing, nurturing and a welcomed break from all the jabbing and poking on my whole body and system from the hospital and doctors...

I decided to take a class on Massage.

What the hell!!!

I was barely alive at the time and it was MY time to do whatever that I damn pleased.

That, became the start of an interesting journey.

Talent

2008-09-14T06:38:00.001-07:00

精彩的現場表演

看了之後，久久不能平伏

好的show

令看表演的人

也會磨拳擦掌，問：

幾時，自己也來一些勁料獻世呢？

NATASHA TSAKOS

"The Next Big Thing" - Miami Herald

www.upwake.com

Needles + Me =

2008-07-18T01:04:00.001-07:00

Summer time, lazy time.

What have I been doing lately? Not much.

Just enjoying the sun and breezy and morning swim.

Ah... also, delighted to be a beginner again.

----------------------------------------------------

If you are like myself... you probably have your high school knitting project

finished by your dear mommy.

Cheater! (hee hee)

I didn't remember having any patient in crafty stuff at all when I was a youngster.

All that's changed lately.

To my own surprise, I fall crazy in love with CROCHETING.

(one of the first pieces...)

(see what I can possibly do with the most basic stitches...)

(how about turning side ways every 10 rows...?)

-----------------------------------------------------

While your typical competent crochet people are obsessed with double stitches...patterns... and fancy needle work...

All I do was just trying to do as much as I can with my basic single stitches.

Trying different stuff...

failing terribly...

having lots of fun.

When was the last time I was a beginner?

When was the last time that everything I do is an "improvement" over the previous one?

Ha ha ha ha ha... I am loving it.

In my humble opinion: It is good for one's soul to be a total idiot beginner in a regular basis.

Liberating.

失敗的project

2008-05-14T04:43:00.000-07:00

作為啤酒杯，它們太重

握手的部位，雖則舒服，

但是實心把柄比杯身還重，

有欠平衡

只是，為母的，還是為它們拍了很多照片

它們的彎位曲線

它們的手握感覺

它們的虛實空間

都帶給我意外的喜悅。

雖然，它們不是很成功的啤酒杯

但是

我很喜歡它們帶給我的種種 lessons

place to sit

2008-05-09T15:48:00.000-07:00

Pink and Rosy

2008-05-08T10:58:00.000-07:00

Why do people love to read fashion magazines?

It has very little to do with what we wear...how we live.

It has everything to do with our dreams...

Our yearning for beauty, seduction, desire...

Isn't it a kind of fantasy for grown-ups?

Just like the way we love children's picture books when we were kids.

60 is the new 40

2008-05-07T10:13:00.000-07:00

Really enjoying drawing this older lady. So graceful and
comfortable with self. Something to look forward to.

Shaun Tan

2008-05-05T10:32:00.000-07:00

Shanu Tan is definitely one of the best visual story teller out there.

In fact, he doesn't tell his story, you can really feel IT from the image he present.

I found his book in Taiwan a couple of years ago... translated into Chinese by

the famed poet 余光中。

A children's book about depression. Beautiful work.

Here is some excerpt from his website.

I found his way of creating very refreshing.

How do you create a picture book?

Most of the few picture books I have done have each taken about a year to complete. Much of that time isn't necessarily productive in any visible way - true of many creative projects I think. It involves a lot of thinking while doing other stuff (eg. washing dishes) and playing with many ideas that may or may not work, making loads of scribbly notes and doodles in sketchbooks.

With a blank piece of paper in front of me, my imagination is not especially fired up. I could start drawing, but everything would end up looking the same - and most likely stuff I’ve done before. So I actively look to absorb foreign ideas and influences, which is one key lesson learned from years of illustrating different SF stories. Good ideas don’t just turn up, you have to go looking for them.

Research - reading, looking at pictures, playing with different media - provides freedom from the creative paralysis that comes with infinite possibility. I need specific points of reference to develop ideas, and also a kind of resistance to my own stylistic ‘default settings’ so that I think outside the usual circles, and actually learn something new.

Painting and drawing for me is not about creation but about transformation. It's not so much about expressing preconceived themes or a mastered delivery of statements but rather a process of slightly absent-minded discovery, of seeing where certain lines of thinking take you if you keep following them. I know I'm on the right track when there is a sense of unfamiliarity about what I'm doing, that I'm actually being surprised by the way mixed drawings and words make their own novel sense, and I can coax them into surrendering whatever meaning is there through repeated drawings.

Do you start with words or pictures?

This varies a lot, as there is really no ‘right way’ of coming up with a working story or set of images. Generally speaking, I tend to start with one or two images that may either be sketches, or vague mental pictures, but will have little to no idea what they mean - a fish floating down a street, a boy feeding a monster in a shed, a water buffalo pointing at something. Then I will play with words a lot to try and ‘say’ something about what is going on, while at the same time making it even more of a mystery.

I will write many disconnected sentences and phrases, and mix these with small thumbnail drawings, over many pages of a sketchbook - aware that I will throw away or change almost everything later on.

Often I end up writing and drawing a lot of material, and then strip it back to its essential images and words; build on those, and again strip it back - so it is kind of like modelling and carving using ideas.

After a while I can decided if what I’ve been doing is worth pursuing as a book - is it interesting on both a conceptual and emotional level? Is it original, and does it seem to say something that is true to real life? In many cases, the answer is ‘no’ and it ends there; though I’ve found that often parts of abandoned projects make their way into other ones.

If the story and concept seem strong (as if a publisher likes it), I will produce a dummy, a sketchy version of the book with all its pages, at roughly the printed size. It’s full of photocopied drawings and bits of paper carrying text stuck down with removable tape, so I can keep going back and exchange parts, move them around, elaborate or reduce. I’m constantly reading through to check for fluency and contrasts, and book design (where the text and pictures go). It’s also a handy thing to copy and send to my editor for comment, as well as the ‘instruction manual’ for the finished artwork and story that I refer to throughout the long process of production, which can extend, on and off, over years. Over such a period, the dummy serves to remind you of the look and feel of the project.

>Original Post

http://www.shauntan.net

3 AM

2008-05-01T12:46:00.000-07:00

If you happen to need/or want one,

2008-05-01T11:44:00.000-07:00

創作通行証 CREATIVE LICENSE

(Please feel free to print one out)

Directions:

*Put it into an official looking frame

*Display proudly next to your desk

*Smile

其一

2008-04-27T22:06:00.000-07:00

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Collaboration:
文字：張日 http://whatamundanelife.blogspot.com/
圖像：在下

Windows

2008-04-26T19:46:00.000-07:00

作死 ... 3 A M

2008-04-24T14:40:00.000-07:00

Sharp thorns grow from

a heart marinated in

loneliness.

Pushing in all directions,

striking outwards as well

as inwards...

Insistent and all encompassing...

P A I N .

"Joy", "Happiness", "Peace"

all seems like nothing but some

distant, flickering chaotic dreams

in a black and white TV screen.

...Boats that would never find

their anchors.

Sadness and sorrow, do not make

appropriate party chit-chat.

Instead, 3:00 am in an unremarkable

night...Stirred up and eradicated any

possibility of a good night's sleep.

Happiness and Wealth

2008-04-24T08:41:00.000-07:00

(Click to see larger view.)

Interesting article from the guys of Freakonomics.

A few observations:

1) Hong Kong is way down at the right bottom. Deviate from the general trend:
Wealthy but not happy.

2) China is lower than Mexico both in terms of personal wealth and happiness

3) People in Venezuela manage to be quite happy despite of a below 8k income

4) Denmark, Norway, Finland...all of them up there in the scale...there is something about the northern European countries, on top of IKEA (ha ha...)

Work in Progress

2008-04-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

Newspaper + masking tape

* Material
... responsive to my changing thoughts
... has it's own characteristic...
next: step wicker? tree branches... ? ropes...?

* Collaborations between maker and the made
"What do you want me to do... tell me."

Good material gives rise to new ideas.

* Connected to internal state of mind

Wounded

Intertwined

Ordinary

Strength

the beginning

2008-04-20T22:27:00.000-07:00

Moon Cocoon

2008-04-19T14:59:00.001-07:00

It was first developed for the
purpose of colonizing the moon.

How do you build with no materials
familiar to the human race?

~ by getting the material on location!!

---------------------------------------------

After the method of construction in the moon
was developed, the architect see
no reason not to implement it on Earth.

After all, we still have million of people that
needed to be house in our planet.

Here on earth.

It is an amazingly simple way to building a dwelling.

As the main material is nothing but Dirt!!

It is dirt cheap.

more photos:
http://www.calearth.org/cvillage/cvillage.htm

Daily Walk 3

2008-04-18T17:15:00.000-07:00

The path to the college...

A lot of corners and places...Forgotten locations...

patterns and rhythms everywhere...

Changes as the sun march through its own

way along the different time of the day.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...

Unintentional sculpture...

Rows and rows of statues waiting in silence...

Round shadows spreading out on the sidewalk...

When will the rocket takes off?

Portrait Party #2

2008-04-15T13:32:00.000-07:00

This is a portrait of my new friend Lindsay based
on her photo taken in Brooklyn, New York.

I did it with a mixture of pencil drawing and
Photoshop painting.

Lindsay find me in the Portrait party website and we hit it off
with our photo exchange. (http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com)

In addition to her drawings and paintings, Lindsay
has some delightful art book projects in her website:
NON LINEAR ART

http://straightlinesout.blogspot.com/

The above is Lindsay's take on my goofy photos taken
at the Renaissance Festival.

Let the party continue!!

Old days

2008-04-12T17:40:00.001-07:00

My family call Kowloon City home from early to late 80's. It was a very lively place to live as I recalled. The airport was close by... so you need a 15 min taxi ride if you were to pick up a relative.

I didn't realize it was such a crazy reality that we were inhabiting back then.

Nice to see this clip... Love YouTube and the person who post this!!

Ear plug? any one?

Caught my Eyes

2008-04-11T08:40:00.001-07:00

TIM HAWKINSON
http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=1#

Almost organic feel to the piece... transparent guts, inner working, mechanism within.

Walk

2008-04-07T12:54:00.001-07:00

Daily Walk

2008-04-07T02:37:00.001-07:00

A shop nearby is closing it's door.

Very sad to see the cute children's clothing store go belly up.

Are these little guys crying out for help???

First Portrait Party

2008-04-07T02:24:00.001-07:00

I love the idea of portrait Party.

It is just a great way to do some drawings and get connected to other

creative souls.

Here is my partner that I met through another great site: Illustration Friday.

She's very creative and have very interesting portrait and cute cartoon products

shown in her website. see

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cilcil

This is her take of me.

Lovely colors.

This is my drawing of her.

I have fun working with different layers in Photoshop.
It felt spontaneous and I get lots of interesting effects(artifacts)
from the process.

Definitely worth doing.

Hope you like it, Lau.

See us at Portrait Party:

http://theportraitparty.blogspot.com/2008/04/ginko-laujinga.html

Daily Walk--- 5 min from home

2008-04-03T10:31:00.001-07:00

10 am. cloudy...

Doing the same old, same old and

expecting a different outcome

= insanity

I see so much more when

I start looking

(...taking pictures)

Daily Walk

2008-04-01T06:17:00.001-07:00

Queen of the Market

2008-04-01T04:17:00.001-07:00

Faces, my favorite thing to draw.

I look at a face, have it printed in my minds eye.

I rarely look while I am drawing.

(the original photo image is from a wonderful photographic book:

PORTRAIT OF A MARKET, Photographs of Seattle's Pike Place Market

by John Stamets, text : Steve Dunnington)

Artist's Studio

2008-03-31T01:36:00.000-07:00

LEO LIONNI

This illustrator's studio looks like so much fun.

A lot of projects going on... many things to play with...

Below is my studio...still in a very early stage, so it is not

at all well lay out, yet.

It is getting there...

Most importantly, I am getting things done here.

2008-03-31T01:02:00.001-07:00

Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak's book, "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963), won the Caldecott Medal in 1964. It features a boy named Max who travels to an imaginary land where he meets the Wild Things and becomes their king. The boy then returns home where he is loved "best of all." The stamp art features Sendak's pen, ink and watercolor portrait of one of the Wild Things.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Featuring what has become author and illustrator Eric Carle's signature style of painted tissue paper collage, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (1969 and 1987) tells the story of one unusual caterpillar who eats his way through a variety of foods during the course of one week. When he is full, he builds a cocoon around himself from which he emerges as a beautiful butterfly.

Frederick: Leo Lionni's use of torn paper collage and his celebration of nature, creativity and kindness helped his book "Frederick" (1967) win a Caldecott Honor in 1968. As a field mouse, Frederick should be preparing for winter like the rest of his family by collecting corn and wheat. Instead Frederick gathers together the colors and words that make cold, dark days feel warm and bright.

你畫我畫你

2008-03-24T22:32:00.001-07:00

The Making of a Picture

2008-03-07T15:55:00.001-08:00

A study of the two kids.

This picture help me figure out all the clothes that they ware

and the general attitude of the 2 kids in the picture.

After seeing all different kinds of gingerbread house,

I come up with my own that looks yummy...

The roof make of mint candies and butter cookies...

Chocolate drips down from the edge and

sugar frosting along the side...

The little sketch for the composition.

All the elements are there, but at the final

rendering, there are still changes on the perspective

the I felt to be better suit to the whole composition

Earlier sketch of the two kids: one was shocked, one was oblivious

to what's around him.

It is much easier to draw the Witch, once I figure out her

whole outfit in this sketch stage.
Red House
Originally uploaded by David Kozlowski

this is a reference for the witch's house

Beautiful...

2008-03-05T01:37:00.000-08:00

Hansel and Gretel

2008-02-29T17:12:00.001-08:00

http://www.live-artist.com/fairytales/handg.html

Full Story...

note

2008-02-29T14:43:00.001-08:00

包益民的10本私房創意書(選自30雜誌 2006年 9月號)

1.《Andy Warhol Fashion》
作者：Chronicle Books LLC Staff
推薦原因：一般人對普普大師安迪‧沃荷（Andy Warhol）的印象不是番茄罐子就是瑪麗蓮夢露的複製畫，但是這本書蒐集的是他的素描畫作，你會很驚訝他的功夫真的很紮實，美感非常夠，這是不容易見到的安迪‧沃荷的一面，任何從事設計或是時尚、廣告的人都可以看看，內容太豐富了。

2.《Karel Martens: printed matter/ drukwerk》
作者：Princeton Arch Staff， Robin Kinross
推薦原因：這是荷蘭設計師Karel Martens的攝影作品，同時他也是全世界十分著名的設計師，我買這本書有兩個目的：第一是他的作品向來很有趣；第二是這本書編得非常有趣，他的頁碼設計在書頁的邊緣，還代表三種不同的意義，既大膽又精細。

3.《The Best Book Design 1994》
推薦原因：這是荷蘭設計學會每年都會出版的年鑑，每年選出三十本他們認為今年出版的最好的書籍，然後透過年鑑來介紹這些好書。我個人覺得1994年這本年鑑是我最欣賞的平面設計書籍，它用一條軸線來編輯這本書，所有的內容都對準這條軸線，這是設計功力上的極致。

4.《Nadav Kander: Beauty！|s Nothing》
作者：Nadav Kander等
推薦原因：Nadav Kander是我過去在耐吉公司上班時就認識的著名攝影家，他專門拍大型相片，所以欣賞他的作品也要有一點錢。這本攝影集中，他選了一些平常別人不輕易看到的作品，看完這本書等於是跟著他到世界各地旅遊，而且他的人物拍得極好，相當值得一看。

5.《Massive Change》
作者：Bruce Mau， Jennifer Leonard
推薦原因：Bruce Mau是一個平面設計師，他的特色是專門做與社會議題有關的東西，透過平面設計讓大眾對社會多一點關注。這本書他拍出目前影響全世界的趨勢究竟有哪些，而且他還商請其他人來幫助他撰寫文字與編排，既有分析圖也有相片和文字，討論如何設計我們的生活。

6.《7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon！|s Studio》
作者：Perry Ogden， John Edwards
推薦原因：Francis Bacon是紐約著名的畫家，一般人都是看到這些畫家如何創作，但是從沒有看過他們背後生活的點滴，這本書就是介紹Francis Bacon的工作環境，每張攝影照片都漂亮得可以當壁紙，而且充滿了生命力。

7.《Food By Design》
作者：Antonio G. Gardoni
推薦原因：這本書基本上是在講二十五道食譜，由世界上二十五位最有名的設計師與建築師推薦，包括菲利浦‧史塔克（Philippe Starck），它有不同的設計來談食譜，後面還介紹他們的設計作品，這種食譜與設計的連結是很有趣、特別的。

8.《Wolfgang Tillmans : PHAIDON》
推薦原因：Wolfgang Tillmans這位藝術家透過攝影來表現他的藝術，他是少數能夠把一般生活當作藝術品在拍，他的素材也是一般生活事物，甚至連攝影器材都是用傻瓜相機拍的，但是他能夠把平凡的東西拍得很不平凡，給予我相當大的震撼，我也希望能做到這樣。

9.《Candida Hofer Libraries》
作者：Umberto Eco
推薦原因：這名德國攝影家專門拍大型室內建築物，這本是他拍攝世界各地的圖書館，他不但讓你看到全世界圖書館是如何裝潢的，也看到關於圖書館的燈如何打光、氣氛如何營造，他把書籍拍得這麼漂亮，我就很想買他的底片，將照片放大來布置整座牆。

10.《Ghetto》
作者：Adam Broomberg， Oliver Chanarin
推薦原因：這是在講十二個當代街頭的故事，在非洲各個貧窮國家所拍攝的，雖然主題是貧窮，但是他詮釋的角度特別有趣，甚至讓你覺得很fashion，有些地方像是監獄及精神病院，都是很難得一見的鏡頭，讓你看到社會各階層是怎樣在過生活的。

二月二十日

2008-02-20T07:58:00.000-08:00

* 得了小獎學金，未必要去拿大獎學金。

*工作做得好，未必一定要求再上一層。

* Addiction 不好，除非是addicted to 一樣十分好的事情，例如: 太極

* 生活像一個便當盒，除了主菜，原來那碗湯亦是同樣重要，缺了，周身唔聚財。

* 寫字，不用很長篇大論，
小小幾句，也很好。

The 3rd Place at 6th

2008-02-08T20:36:00.000-08:00

Today, I was reading a blog talking about this strange "Free superhero comic class" in a "small garden in Manhattan"...

今日在一個紐約客Danny Gregory的 blog 上面，

見有提及一個小小花園裡面的免費漫畫堂

I wrote about the 6BC community garden a while back here at this blog.

早前在這裡寫過紐約 6BC社區花園的點滴，

... will that be it?...

會那麼巧是同一個地方嗎？

and find out that, yes, that's my garden.

都說無巧不成書，沒錯，就是它。

Danny and his son joined this class of comic drawing. The teachers seemed like inexperienced newbies... the location is outdoor and kind of strange...but as it is a free class, there was no shortage of students (which is not surprising, given the high density of creative people in New York)

It is pretty amazing. This is the kind of things that such a space afford to happen. The so called "the 3rd place"

在BLOG裡，Danny 記述和兒子去參加這個課堂的過程…老師是沒有什麼經驗的新手、上課的花園亦相當之神奇。但是怎麼說都是免費的，還是吸引到大群人來上課 (也說明了紐約的創作人口密度夠高吧。)

Most happy to find that, the blogger(Danny Gregory)
promptly declared the 1st exercise of the class was "Dull"
and proceed to do his own thing...

There are many great stuff happening in NYC, and most of U.S.

As for how much you can get away from it...

Very often, it depends on how good a student you are.

Can't rely on the teacher and can be even better than what's being taught.

2008-02-08T20:33:00.001-08:00

Pop up in my brain

2008-01-18T16:15:00.000-08:00

白雲千載空悠悠

When you are lease expecting it, fragments of poems like this would just get into the mind without you ever inviting it.

That's what happened when I was scanning and creating the above image for the blog head Jan 2008.

More than I am aware of it, I am a Chinese to the bone.

Never even spent any significant amount of time in China, (or in Taiwan for that matter), I am not sure whether I will feel at home with other real Chinese people around if I ever have the chance.

That really makes me curious.

It seems like an interesting thing to do.

To travel around China, not only the major cities, but far and beyond the beaten route.

To see, what it is like to be in that environment where all these poems in my head originated from.

No one can tell what it is going to be like.

No body.

_______________________________

The next day:

很好玩的，以上寫的文字，隨手拈來

自然而然地寫了出來。寫的時候，相當的理所當然…

（算不算是不經大腦呢？也不是的，有想過的。

只是隨便想想時，在大腦表層，就充滿了這些

人云亦云的cliche，寫出來就自動變成一些

自己也不大相信的廢話連編。)

事後想想，問自己真正的想望。

赫然發現，自己對去中國這回事，並不十分熱心

要排先後次序的話，第一想去，並且要去相當一段時間的地方

首推日本。

在洛杉磯居住的一段時間裡，很少機會同中國人來往。

並不是故意如此，只是我有興趣做的事情，

比較少有中國人參與，反而常會碰上日本人，

一般而言，他們很多都做事認真，對事情擇善固執，

難能可貴。

不明白的是，到今時今日，依然有人會大咧咧地說：

日本的文化都是中華大唐文化借過去的…

這種說法，有點阿Q。好像說：美國文化，就是希臘文化所產生出來的一樣…

大佬啊！不是大家都讀希臘神話，於是文化都是從希臘來的啊！

沒錯在千百年前，文化的源頭可能有共通之處，但是

文化不是一樣一成不變的、死的東西啊！

有活力的文化，每幾年都有大變動

日本文化的產生，有其非常獨特的地理、歷史因素，

老實承認日本文化有其過人之處，

並不會令中國文化就變得低了下來啊！

為什麼就不能給別國的文化一點 credit呢？

不明。

原來如此？

2008-01-13T02:36:00.000-08:00

We are the ones

we've been waiting for.

心花怒放

2008-01-03T11:19:00.000-08:00

見網友水記寫完博士論文，

在blog 裡有煙花圖誌慶。

真好! ! !

http://forestflame.spaces.live.com/default.aspx

如果我們的人生大事，

件件都有炮竹煙花以誌慶祝就好了，

真的，對當事人來講，

都是大大件事的：

第一次加薪

初為人母

寫畢畢業論文…

心花怒放，喜氣洋洋

"得意時淡然處之？"

或者等以後吧

見有些人，等得日子久了，麻木了

真的是什麼事也難以開心得起來

現階段的我，覺得，

理應"大鑼大鼓，普天同慶"

BTW, 我在新年接到通知，

得了一個小小的 scholarship

一間很有名望的學校

一個很得敬重喜愛的講師

一筆小小的stipend

一月十四日開始，上我喜愛的插圖班

心如小鹿…

咕嚕

2007-12-30T07:25:00.000-08:00

這一幅畫，以好友V小姐的說法，就是很"咕嚕"。

在香港從事廣告的她，每每見到一些類中國風味的鬼佬設計，

都相當不以為然，統統以"咕嚕"一詞蓋之。

學期中要畫一幅畫，在長條型的木板上畫上十景。因利成便

立刻把在 Huntington Garden Docent Training 裡面所學的東西，

借用來組成這"童子遊園圖"。

當初遷居美國，不會估計得到反而有機會、有閒情

去一一學習在香港冇時間一顧的東西：

打太極、學泡茶，

現在還有這麼一個力求迫真的庭園，就建在家的附近

騎著綿羊仔五分鐘，就一頭裁進一個中國詩畫意境的世界

又試上堂去。

學而時習之．不亦樂乎

the Garden of Flowing Fragrance 流芳園
Los Angeles Times article:
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-chinese22nov22,1,559095,full.story

...Their creation -- the Garden of Flowing Fragrance 流芳園 -- is springing up like some fantasy film set at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. But it is authentic in all respects. Its design re-creates botanical havens built by scholars who were the social elite during the Ming Dynasty, when the art of classical gardens reached its zenith in the city of Suzhou.

When the new garden opens in February, visitors will find handmade bricks, tiles and wood structures, all with elaborate decorative details, all crafted by artisans brought here by the Huntington because their skills are as ancient and rare as the garden design itself. Like its predecessors, the garden sits within undulating white walls, its 1 1/2 -acre lake dotted with hand-carved stone bridges, swooping-roofed pavilions and pebbled paths.

PICK A TREE

2007-12-15T11:58:00.000-08:00

十二月中，宜擇樹。
Christmas 又到，今年依然揀一株小的，
與小屋相稱。

樹是小，不過倒是真的樹，有松香。

去年的，過完節後種在後院，
己長大不少。

想像在搬走時，遺下一級級不同大小的
前聖誕樹的小森林…

閱讀

2007-12-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

學期完了。再世為人，這三周是自由閱讀期，想
想都心花怒放。

兩個我的偶像有如此的閱讀心得：

三個月一次，到書局中的雜誌部份由一邊橫掃到另一方，
什麼主題都可以抄來看一看。這樣大致可以讀出一些文化朝流的大趨勢。
平常日子，只讀自己喜愛的書本雜誌。
Stuart Brand--Whole Earth Catalogue

一般傳媒的內容太浠薄。都是太太看了，
有什麼有趣的，再集中簡要地告訴他。
(佢老婆大人都幾利害，super filter)
Nagroponte MIT Media Lab, Wired

我沒有如此super 老婆，唯有看住得過的傳媒。

New York Times 一向都有最多有趣可讀的內容。

現在有 aNobii 友的內部參考，好多書放在wishlist, something to look forward to...

WINTER

2007-12-14T11:41:00.000-08:00

雖然南加州不大會下雪，但早上的寒氣，
還是叫人知道，這是冬天。

SWIMMING

2007-11-29T09:21:00.000-08:00

早泳回家。

很好。

photo credit: marlenells / flickr.com

不知別人會不會這樣，在泳時數算，由一到十，痛苦莫名…不知何時何日才到十個來回也。

有幸友人K早前來訪教路，泳時可採用疊羅漢式數算法：　

一
一二
一二三
一二三四
一二三
一二
一

狀態好時我可以完成全個三角（共十六個堂）

狀態不好時到”四”就算數（也有十個堂）

這樣的方法，心理壓力大減，誰都可以來二個三個堂吧…

而且也可以避免在一些＊senior moment 時

忘記了自己數到第幾了。

有用。

(＊我們這邊都叫年紀大的人senior, 冇人敢提、想提個”老”字。)

感恩節 THANKSGIVING

2007-11-23T06:56:00.000-08:00

過時過節，都是大食一輪。

昨日去了DAVE 的細佬家過節，他太太娘家人多勢眾

二三十人。

看著小孩子一代代地長大，

去年的毛頭小子，今年長高長大了，

還把小女友帶來出現，

歲月如流...

International Sketch Crawl day, Nov 4th

2007-11-21T12:39:00.001-08:00

I went to the Grove/Farmer's Market in Los Angeles with a few fellow sketchers.

It was a very nice day (as usual) and I really enjoyed being around people who like to draw as much as I do.
One of my quick sketch above, see more at Sketch Crawl website:
http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2716

有點" 食古不化"，常常會想，如果我小時候有個老師，會得點化小朋友，會告訴我，寫生，並不止是"提高技巧"有用，更重要的，是透過畫畫與觀察，可以同自己身處的世界，有更深的connection...如是有人這樣講，小時的我，會明白嗎？

戶外寫生，

眼看，手動

世界整個地慢下來

集中專注地看

最微少的細節

畫本中出現的

是"我眼中的世界〞

世界和我，成為一體

過程，是深化了的experience

其後，有幾幅畫作

以茲紀錄

I am very happy to see that my native Hong Kong boost a large number of sketch crawlers...
usually people have an impression that, HK is not a very fertile land for artistic endeaver.
That impression may be inaccurate...looking at the large group and the wonderful results, I have good feelings about the creative community in Hong Kong.

香港，有可能成為中國的曼克頓嗎？
I HOPE.

一個如此這般美麗的城市，卻有著叫人
嘆氣的文化環境。

加油，努力，放眼世界
全世界都正向著你們的方向
注視

Next time home, I wish I can plan it so that I can crawl with everyone there.

功課（二）

2007-10-30T01:14:00.000-07:00

時間量杯

2007-10-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

每一個人，每日都有二十四小時，

不多不少。

多用時間做甲事，就等如少了時間做乙事，

這件事情上，人人平等。

左圖:我主觀印象中的日常生活時間表

A　美國人（三份一的時間活在汔車中…）　

B　香港人　（工作時間長，冇時停，直到深夜…）

C　我的理想時間表，有很多不同種類之餘可以讓我：　
深刻的鑽研，深度的遊玩，深沉的安睡。

Key:

2007-10-26T23:14:00.001-07:00

初看這個illustrator 的畫，有點取巧之感。
"和紙"做了很大部份的”工作”

但環顧四周，在正常日子裡面，我們要
裝潢一間房子，都會用好多其他人的出品
A 的椅子　B 的床單　C 沙發

這也是要看作者的功力的。
總之混在一起，混得好看就是了。

http://www.stephanielevy.com/

People are doing interesting stuff all over the place

2007-10-25T23:01:00.001-07:00

Here is one newly found through Illustrator Friday. I like it a lot.

www.worrystories.com

Pasadena City Hall

2007-10-25T16:49:00.001-07:00

This kind of drawing may be old fashion to some,
but I enjoyed the process very much. In fact, it is
almost the first time that I went out to draw in location,
with a friend.

It is a very nice to way force one to see intensively. This
City Hall of Pasadena, the town where I live it, has always
been just something out there, but nobody go to.

Sitting there in one morning, I attend to all the details,
the water fountain, the dirt ground, the shade and shadows
of the trees... it feels sooooooo European. I didn't know that,
now I felt it.

A very talented classmate

2007-10-25T00:40:00.001-07:00

Jennifer Lee is a big inspiration for me in the community college art class.

I was truck by the ease of her images. She naturally add what she's reading/thinking into striking pictures.

In Jennifer's blog site, there are many interesting work that she's done in her time in college.

I can see that, talent may be a burden to her. What is she going to do with it?

Finding her own voice so early may be a scary thing for a twenty years old. I can imagine her teachers wouldn't know what to do with her.

I would like to see her works in galleries sooner than later.

Keep on going, Jennifer!!

Her blog:
http://www.jennifermlee.blogspot.com/

Scorpion Gal

2007-10-25T00:19:00.001-07:00

上課的中期試，意念、草圖、完稿，三個小時之內完成。

一星期前得一字：Scorpion

到試場再得二字形容：RED, HOT

Red Hot Scorpion 就是我的題目。

拿拿林 Get to work. 三個小時很快就過，完成。

心想：如果所有的project 都是這樣就不會有procrastination 之苦了。

同老師咁講，他笑說：Don't let anyone hear you. Everyone will kill you in no time.

哈。

Pomegranate

2007-10-24T10:05:00.001-07:00

Pomegranate
Originally uploaded by Vita Arina

remind me of jewelry

(0206) Magranes
Originally uploaded by *Joanot *

feel the bountifulness of nature. I love to be a bird near this pomegranate tree.

Pomegranate
Originally uploaded by MatthewA

such a juicy RED

TINA bring me this wonderful flowers when she visited.

2007-10-23T23:55:00.000-07:00

Have you make a mistake today ?

2007-10-23T23:35:00.001-07:00

好難先至有機會可以隨便亂搞一通。

唔知為何做大人的，總是好怕小孩子亂來

但是唔試呢試路，又點學得到野呢？

回想一下，其實大部份的學野過程，

都係靠自學的。好似都冇其他辦法。

咁為何d 大人依然咁緊張呢？唔明。

我想，這 reflect 大人本身的 insecurity

多於小朋友的困難。大人，係時候放手了。

Try many things and fail like crazy.

GREEN TEA...CAPUCHINO...HOT COCOA...

2007-10-23T23:31:00.001-07:00

THIS IMAGE JUST MAKE DEMAND TO HAVE SOME
RED LETTER NEXT TO IT. IT IS PART OF THE COVER OF
MY SKETCH BOOK. A BIG PLACE TO MESS AROUND.
I LIKE THOSE RUBBER STAMPS THAT I'VE MADE A WHILE
AGO. THEY ARE SILLY AND CHILDISH, AND THEY BRING
A SMILE TO MY FACE.

2007-10-23T22:49:00.001-07:00

Fall

2007-10-14T23:54:00.000-07:00

香港作者

2007-10-11T11:58:00.000-07:00

(在 aNobii 的post 轉貼於此並加上圖像）

最愛…

想一下，香港作者有幾個真的是我個人的"最愛"呢？

有的，有的。

1)
麥嘜
好多年前看麥太所說的"買廁紙哲學〞:最長的不會是最厚身，最厚身的不會是最便宜，而最便宜的一定不會是最長…
看的時候嘻哈絕倒，看了之後多年不忘。這不叫"經典"叫什麼？

另外，麥家碧呢條友膽敢用最最童稚的風格去畫這隻小豬，在人人都慌死自己有料冇人知的年代，需要好大的勇氣。

好勁。

麥太好野！

2)
黃仁逵之"放風"

文字只是他作品的一小部份。寫的東西也可以說很"細眉細眼〞，生活日常。

但，不是說從一粒沙子可以看天地嗎？

看他寫的東西，就有這種感覺。

(他的畫作，也是一個很有sprit, 很活著、很實在的世界。)

勁秋。

3)
蔡瀾

很多小時喜歡的作者，現在己看不下去，他是例外。

由中學、大學時代看到今天，好多年了。依然可以看得很樂。

哈，找到這一張日本插畫家畫的蔡瀾，很傳神。

（至於開始時說的歐陽應霽，這算是"喜歡"，期待他以後寫出一本我"最愛" 的書來。）

好玩

2007-10-09T12:48:00.001-07:00

Isabel fr Nederlands

2007-10-05T10:32:00.000-07:00

我喜愛的 artist, 十之八九都不是美國人。

草是那邊的綠？

像她。

click on image to access Isabel's website

Ceramics

2007-09-29T22:52:00.001-07:00

I was never interested in Ceramics before.

What's the big deal about pots and dishes?? I would say, until...

... I have a chance to touch the clay lately.

It is an instant love affair.

Forget about the end results, the pots and pans.

Focus on the process of creating from clay.

Seeing things take shape within a few minute in front your own eyes!!

That's totally crazy and hypnotic and FUN!!

That's the attraction!!

What else in life that you can see a good result within minutes?

I am totally hocked.

DESIGN FOR A COMPOST CONTAINER
_Problem:
I keep the scrap from my vegetables and fruit trimmings to make compost for my garden.

The container next to my kitchen sink has not be satisfactory:

1) Good size
2) Ventilations
3) Keep the liquid in
4) Easy on the eyes

It is just magical that I can custom made this utensil for myself out of clay. !!!

Two part ceramics container.

It can have some fun in the look (below)

This is how it supposed to look like:

A few possible shapes for the handles.

Here is a design for the counter top compost container by the kitchen sink.

The size would be comfortable for me this way.

Will it walk around by itself?

Some possible feature with a slab build ceramics.

____________________________

IT IS ALL FUN!!!

2007-09-24T21:39:00.000-07:00

.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
有些故事，沒有清楚的開始、中段和結尾

Life is about not knowing, having to change,
生命，本質是充滿未知、是需要變動、

taking the moment and making the best of it,
是把握當下一刻、在可能範圍內活得最好

without knowing what's going to happen next.
縱然不知道下一刻光景會是如何

Delicious ambiguity...
甜美的迷濛

GILDA RADNER

亦舒

2007-09-24T10:58:00.001-07:00

(三）

(在阿路比的posting...)

其實亦舒值得欣賞的地方很多。

文筆簡潔，十分現代。

從她在雜文中透露的工作習慣，

更覺得她作為創作人的 WORK ETHICS 十分一流。可以開班傳授。

我自己亦是看亦舒大的，從中學開始看，有百多本吧。

上WIKIPEDIA查一下，己寫到第256本。

我特別喜歡她早期的雜文，如

我之試寫室（散文）
留英學生日誌（散文）

近年比較少找亦舒來看，但在別人家裡見到一本，

還是會開心地窩在沙發上看起來。

(二）

以前好像都沒有好好想一下關於"亦舒〞的種種…

阿路比的討論開始了我的思路，

腦海中閃過不同亦舒作品的人物，

各種各樣的女子造形。

她們的衣著風格，大概以RALPH LAUREN的最接近

保守，醒目，很貴族的樣子(英雄莫問出處）

並且隨時可以穿著上班去。

亦舒不再上班擠辦公室有許多時日了吧

但對之長期都有適度的尊重。

畢竟世人大部份都得上班出一份糧也。

(一)

喜歡看亦舒，從很早很早開始。

亦舒，名字都比別人優秀。

舒服，但不會太甜

亦舒最最成功的，不止是她的書銷量最好，

作為一個人，她好像真的能夠好好利用她的

才華，過一種她自己選擇認為好的生活，

沒有被才華所帶來的種種沒頂。

-----------------------------------

不再看亦舒，亦有許多年了。

小時候看亦舒的世界，牛津劍橋，巴黎倫敦…

何等廣闊。

她的寫法，草草幾筆，像一幅淡彩，勾出一個天地世界

雖然看不真切，但叫人充滿幻想。

------------------------------------

但到了這個讀者年事漸長，就開始感到，

坐在書桌後一直寫一直寫的作者，

所知的範圍好像一直都沒有怎樣擴大。

書中的人物場景，開始有狄斯奈的感覺，

統共不似真人，相當卡通。雖然加進

生物科技、毒品、特首等大題目，不止男歡女愛

但看不出有深入的思考認識，益發顯得像一個個主題公園…

--------------------------------------

她的雜文，也看不下去了。

是的，是的，亦舒是成功典範．

故此雜文內也以十分"上岸"的姿態

居高臨下地揶揄同行，批評小輩。

說的都有道理。

就是不再愛看。

---------------------------------------
hey！亦老舒，你何時會放下身段，

談一談"寫作的困難及克服方式"，

"中年媽媽苦與樂〞，"加國生活與香港方式之優劣〞

等話題。

你也有掙扎的時候吧？

亮出這不完美的一面吧，

I promise, 老讀者依然會愛你的。

而且以你的獨有寫法，會相當有看頭。

The Seeds Bank

2007-09-06T10:02:00.001-07:00

The Seeds Bank
Originally uploaded by 4 Abys

Are these curry ingredients?

another OTHERS

2007-09-06T10:01:00.001-07:00

IMG_9779a
Originally uploaded by Nuytsia@Tas

micro seeds

2007-09-06T10:00:00.001-07:00

IMG_9780a
Originally uploaded by Nuytsia@Tas

simply wonderful

2007-09-06T09:47:00.001-07:00

Seeds*
Originally uploaded by imapix

Common?

2007-09-06T09:44:00.001-07:00

Biogenesis*
Originally uploaded by imapix

Common Milkweed Seed (Asclepias syriaca) captured in Lanoraie, Quebec, Canada....

Even common ones are so spectacular!!

Seeds parade

2007-09-06T09:41:00.001-07:00

Seeds parade
Originally uploaded by tanakawho

Working on an illustration about seed banks... got to show the beauty of seeds.

If it is not beautiful, who would care?

Fluffy adventure 2 (three in a row)

2007-09-06T09:39:00.001-07:00

Fluffy adventure 2 (three in a row)
Originally uploaded by tanakawho

... So many beauty all around us in nature. The only problem is that we don't necessarily have a chance to look.

安住車卡上

2007-09-04T09:30:00.000-07:00

People don't live in a city

人，不是住在一個城市的

我的H城和你的H城，城市雖然相同，但經驗可以迴異。

People inhabit a train that is their LIFE

人，住在一列火車卡上，門牌上寫著"我的人生"

The train keep going and going

火車跑呀跑，日以繼夜

The scenery keep changing

風景不住改變，一刻不停留

The road that one took in the morning to work

早上走過去上班的道路

...is completely different than that same road one took in the evening back home

到晚上回家時，己經完全不同

different people, different light, different mood...

不同的人，不同的光線，不一樣的心情

in that sense, we never go to the same place twice

原來，究其實，我們從來未曾去同一個地點多過一次

because the second time around, YOU have already been a different person,

第二次去的時候，你己是另一個人

looking out the world through a different pair of eyes.

從另一雙眼睛外望，去窺看這一個世界。

再到Cambria

2007-08-26T06:19:00.001-07:00

皇后碼頭

2007-08-26T05:41:00.000-07:00

影片很有意思。

不過，youtube 的回應欄，卻叫我很震驚。

留言中，f__k字出現次數之多、文中的咬牙切齒的程度，

以及對抗議之"大學生"所作的人身攻擊，

令人幾疑回到文革…

對一件事情，有贊成，有反對，本是正常不過之事，

這些激烈的回應之中，讓我見到有部份(不少的部份）

香港人實在太驚青了，大家都生怕搞串個 PARTY

任得發展商予取予求。不敢有任何反對之音。

其實，商人的JOB是賺錢，冇錯。

他們不會把城市整體發展看成priority

要保護維港的美麗面貌，是市民的JOB，不可夠大集團

也不能靠政府。

保護大家的權益，站出來說：

"這裡的發展以經夠皮，要發財唔該行遠些少。"

是一件好事。

長遠而言，保持維港的美麗，抗拒過度發展，

對市民，對發展商，對任何一個住在香港的人

都有好處。

Jane Jacobs 敢於對她那時代的強勢政府說:"不"

是一個負責公民的表現。

後來她移居的加拿大Toronto，在她的影響之下，

發展成一個被譽為北美洲最可居住的城市

証明市民參與城市發展，是一件對大家都好的事情。

IF entry: Missing

2007-08-09T18:13:00.001-07:00

See illustrator's work from all over the world.

http://illustrationfriday.com

女生之一種

2007-08-08T01:27:00.001-07:00

很少在雜誌上看到這一種比較

爽朗的女生形象。記得中學最後一年，

轉了新校到英華女校上課，那時大家

選出來的學生會長就是這個形的女孩。

和男生喜歡的甜美形很有點不一樣。

Cambria-- a town by the sea in Central Coast, California

2007-08-06T10:00:00.001-07:00

Cambria is a very popular destination in Central Coast, California.

One of the main attraction is the Moonstone beach.

Little sand pebbles of various colors are all over the beach.

People spent hours separating them out.

Including yours truly, me.

It is a very additive activity. I mostly pick out the green ones,

I think they are jade of some sort.

This is the beach, and the town is right nearby,

with galleries, shops and gourmet restaurants.

Very trendy and expensive.

It is definitely NOT the seaside sleepy little town that

I've imagined.

The things that we enjoyed the most, picking up moonstones,

walking on the beach, looking at the sunset (2 days in a roll)

are fortunately, Free.

"The best things in life are free", still hold true.

速度快感 Speed and Sensations

2007-07-30T09:32:00.001-07:00

Drawing sometimes feels like pure magic to me.

Take this girl, for example, someone that I drew from imagination.

She doesn't exist until I put her on a piece of paper.

畫圖，有時真像是變魔術一樣

好像這個滑板女孩

她並不真實存在

她只是我腦海中的影像

在紙上呈現出來

She's definitely not me, I am the kind of clumsy people

I'll tumble down the pavement riding a bicycle on a flat surface

這個洒脫的女孩，絕不是我

我是那種在平路踩單車

也會無故翻下車來的人

On the other hand, she does capture some of my spirit inside

A sense of accelerations that I felt after riding on my newish motorbike

但另一方面，她很能反應

我畫畫當下的心情…

在這之前我騎著新買不久的綿羊仔

在家附近繞圈子練習

回家以後，那由速度所帶來的

飄飄然，久久不曾平伏

…就像這幅圖一樣

日行一畫

2007-07-24T00:05:00.000-07:00

Click to see larger view

一日一蘋果，畫公仔亦如是，

日日都畫一點。

這是我最喜愛的兒童書

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak

帶了一個 Wild Things 布娃娃去上班

有空的時候，畫它一下

向前輩學習。

食譜（二）

2007-07-22T23:50:00.000-07:00

"蘋果批"的二百萬個match,

好像在說明單純的資訊己不稀罕。

家裡放滿三層書架的cookbook,

只有少數幾本登上我的 aNobii 書架。

Harumi's Japanese Cooking

這位日本女士Harumi，老公

在電視台工作，最愛不經通傳

帶同一票豬朋狗友回家等開飯

久而久之，夏實女士就練就一身好本領

能夠在短時間內，以手頭上現有的

食材，變出簡單又好味的特色菜。

exp 1: 洋蔥、魚生、芝士沙拉
(White Fish and Mozzarella Carpaccio Salad)

exp 2: 漢堡包(三文魚肉造的）
(Salmon Burgers)

exp 3: 牛油果醬加豆腐
(Tofu and Avocado Dressing)

夠出奇不意了吧？

食譜

2007-07-19T10:48:00.000-07:00

我的書架上，有各式各樣的食譜。

有時會自問，網絡時代，還需要食譜嗎？

真的，試GOOGLE一下"蘋果批"，

有三萬九千個各式網站跳出來

(英文 APPLE PIE 更不得了，總共有

二百六十萬個網站！！)

咖哩煮椰菜花

2007-07-17T21:26:00.000-07:00

首先把碎洋蔥用小量油炒香。

待洋蔥成半透明時，加進咖哩粉攪勻。

加進椰菜花小朵同炒一會

讓椰菜花沾上一層黃的咖哩顏色

邊邊有一點焦

加進小量調味的水(salt, sugar, soy sauce ...etc)

蓋上用中火煮7-8分鐘

最後用小量生粉水混和 (optional)

...... 很香.... 很好味的一道菜。

貼堂─在自己的BLOG 上面

2007-07-16T21:08:00.001-07:00

SPRING過佐好耐啦。

只是因為有這個色系，所以覺得係 SPRING。

作為一個喜歡畫公仔的人，常常都在同顏色對話

如果顏色想走一個方向，我不會和它們爭論。

氣功之中有自發動功這一回事，在畫畫這回事上面

我也相信"自發種功"，一幅畫了佐出來，裡面

有不少是在畫的時候才在腦海中浮現出來的

不完全受主觀控制。

所以好"正斗〞

男孩和女孩

2007-07-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

這是一個同有關Dental health 的project.

近幾個星期，主觀上，曾經一度相當之混亂，感到一籌莫展…

不知道自己在走的路，是否此路不通"

但在客觀上，卻有相當多的進展。

在畫圖方面，開始在photoshop 有得心應手的感覺。

畫出來的東西，有非常自然的效果。

(女孩背景的藍色有層次，像acrylic, 很好玩。)

圖書館咭怪

2007-07-08T08:23:00.001-07:00

現在最常用的是紫色垂直的 PASADENA 咭。

最彩色繽紛的屬於洛杉磯公共圖書館。

其他的己不常用。

最希望是可以有張紐約圖書証，可以

上網下載他們的BOOK ON TAPE.

e-MEDIA 對我等咭怪真是最佳德政，

下載之後三個星期就自動

失效"歸還〞，永冇遲交罰款。

-------------------------------aNobii Posting

我是圖書館的常客，常常一借就是十多本。 圖書館於我是小孩子進糖果店(而且是免費的），所以到了今天，依然有心花怒放的感覺。 借了那麼多，當然就會有遲了歸還，被重重罰錢的慘事。 但罰得多了，就阿Q地想，這是我的慈善捐款… 手頭上有數張不同city的圖書証，友人笑說要把我的咭剪掉，好像別人剪信用咭以戎掉購物狂一樣…: Ginko | Jul 6, 2007

Ginko, 可否把不同city的圖書證掃描/拍攝，然後upload上網讓大家看看？ (純粹好奇/八卦): 傻更更foolcat | Jul 6, 2007

Ginko, 好嚴重的癮癖！:-))) 傻貓：和議。 我則長期佔用大學圖書館的書，長期滿額霸著25本書，只能還一本、借一本。用期貨術語來說，這叫「滿倉操作」。:p: 水駱駝 Forest | Jul 7, 2007

日有所思

School and Classroom

Again...time to transform...morphing into something new...

Desert Hideaway

Chakra-Box

Picking the Cucumbers

Inside looking out

California Poppies

Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op

Water Waves on sunset

Sunday at local flea market

Strathmore Bristol Vellum Sample

Talking to self

Two and a half year new

Talent

Needles + Me =

失敗的project

place to sit

Pink and Rosy

60 is the new 40

Shaun Tan

3 AM

If you happen to need/or want one,

其一

Windows

作 死 ... 3 A M

Happiness and Wealth

Work in Progress

the beginning

Moon Cocoon

Daily Walk 3

Portrait Party #2

Old days

Caught my Eyes

Walk

Daily Walk

First Portrait Party

Daily Walk--- 5 min from home

Daily Walk

Queen of the Market

Artist's Studio

你畫我畫你

The Making of a Picture

Beautiful...

Hansel and Gretel

note

二月二十日

The 3rd Place at 6th

Pop up in my brain

原來如此？

心花怒放

咕嚕

PICK A TREE

閱 讀

WINTER

SWIMMING

感恩節 THANKSGIVING

International Sketch Crawl day, Nov 4th

功課（二）

時間量杯

People are doing interesting stuff all over the place

Pasadena City Hall

A very talented classmate

Scorpion Gal

Pomegranate

TINA bring me this wonderful flowers when she visited.

Have you make a mistake today ?

GREEN TEA...CAPUCHINO...HOT COCOA...

Fall

香港作者

好玩

Isabel fr Nederlands

Ceramics

亦舒

The Seeds Bank

another OTHERS

micro seeds

simply wonderful

Common?

Seeds parade

作死 ... 3 A M

閱讀