學習篇

從來也沒有機會嘗試學習國畫及西洋畫，
甚至從小就對繪畫缺乏信心，
自覺要在空白的畫紙上，
利用畫筆把實物/景重現是非常困難的事。
要達到「心手合一」，更是難上加難…
從此不再深究，也確認「它」不是我杯茶。

想不到離開校院後在工作的地方加上
同事的鼓勵，兩樣也試過了。
雖然出來的沒有什麼好看，
但是也很滿足，不竟一生人也試過一次吧！

300

300
是一部喜出望外的電影。
古裝戰爭片並不是我杯茶，
不是朋友的邀請陪伴，也不會到戲院看，也不會買dvd。
改編自美國漫畫家 Frank Miller (Sin City)的作品，電影講述三百戰士敵百萬大軍。
Sin City已經很暴力血腥，此部還更甚，但非常精緻 — 從場景、服裝、音樂…
也是精心製作。
我最喜歡是基本的人物設計，每個戰士各有性格，
記不起他的名字也記得他們的故事…演技非常專業！
場景設計更是超於現實，真的要向荷李活big budget片致敬！
只有這樣的大製作才能做到令人讚嘆的場面…
及感受到只有在大銀幕下看才能品嚐電光幻影的魅力。

記得" love actually " 中的辦工室靚仔嗎?
他的名字叫Rodrigo Santoro，有非常出人意表的演出！

特首來了！

今天下午，他來了參觀工作的地方。
「你哋聽好呢個電話！」
「你哋手執好呢堆紙！」
「我代表公司升你哋500%人工！」

眾人雖知道他的「底細」，
但是他比「真」的更受歡迎，
說不定某年後，他真的變成民選特首！

The taste of food 08

某天，看過某雜誌封面中某男歌手手中拿着一個漢寶包，
加上看過那本雜誌很頓覺跟社會脫了節像外星人般，
立刻走進 M餐廳，買了那個剛推出改良的漢寶包，
來做個最潮最update的人。

做潮人的代價是把一堆junk food吞下肚下，
當天吞下的還有蛋撻，半can coke zero
幸好，某男同事幫我吃了cheese cake...

看着工作桌上的全是食品…而不是文件，
心裏不禁想，是某些事情發生的前奏...

My Brain Blue

Your Brain is Blue

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Lamma 29.1.07

Lamma 29.1.07
Originally uploaded by bunbun1978.

Ting the dream have a wonder "Companion" photo series in her blog earlier....
in respond to her blog...i have this :)

B2564

RUNning boots
Originally uploaded by bunbun1978.

Finished the 10K ..FINALLY..
after the 2 months "serious" training...
just in time to catch up ...
someone said its a joke for me to run 10k..but
this 1hr 5mins (from my own watch) becomes my motivation for my next goal "the half marathon" ---

if 10 K is my before 30s goal..this half marathon will be part of my 30s goal...

Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making”

(top)Courtesy of Philippe Parreno and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Philippe Parreno's "Speech Bubbles" (1997)
(below)Speechless: “Zé Carioca No. 4” (2004), by Rivane Neuenschwander.

Seems like an interesting exhibition where artist influenced by comics strip, cartoon and animation.

Cant tell if its a good exh as i cant look at all the artworks.

As the reviews from NYTIMES said

"Beyond the big solo retrospectives that MoMA handles with expert aplomb, too many of the museum’s recent exhibitions have a veneer of political piousness that limits and shortchanges everything: art, artists, the public and the institution itself. In MoMA’s efforts to go beyond a formalist, linear view of modernism, the museum often seems to confuse sincere political intent with genuine, groundbreaking artistic quality.
No wonder it ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. Art becomes a kind of one-liner. The viewer looks a little, reads a label, says “I get it” and shuffles on. If you are new to art, you don’t know what you are missing. If you aren’t, you feel had."

A little doubt just by looking at a few photos, is anything exhibit in MoMA are good? um...

Museum of Modern Art thur 11 june

what a different life...

Just read an article from NY times with caption
Donors Sweetened Director’s Pay at MoMA

also mentioned some key elements for the leader
"...The museum was contemplating a major expansion and needed a leader with fund-raising and administrative talents who also had the diplomatic skills to handle its unusually independent curators..."

what a totally different situation in here... and will the new leader carries these elements...

《頤和園》--導演：婁燁

今天，感動了。
在這裡，不是工作了，
而是多年前在這裡曾有過的 …
遺失了很久的感覺…回到身邊
今天所看到的，在攝錄機鏡頭下的流動影像…
因社會道德、政治問題而被刪剪、禁播 …
在這裡， 因為它特殊的位置，
在大銀幕下與一群饑渴的大眾，齊看著它…
感受它的力量…

今個月令我感動的電影也是在這裡看到的…
《頤和園》中男女主角講述這段跨越中國近代政治經濟改革時段、藕斷絲蓮、糾纏不清的(三角/四角?)感情關係。
女主角余紅 那種對感情" 把持不定、既不願投入又放不低、害怕受傷" 的任性態度。「我要與你分開了，因我知道我將不能離開你」(lets break up, cos i know i can never leave you)* 。 尋求性慾上的滿足和短暫的 " companionship"來代替失去的愛情，受傷害的以為只是肉體軀殼，但肉體和精神的步伐卻並不一致，把自己在精神上推向崩潰邊沿。

兩女一男雖經歷時代的變化， 身在不同環境，關係仍糾纏不清直到其中一方退出了，

對方再次碰上，

「現在又怎樣了？」*
一切已無可挽留，昔日的情感隨時間不覺間已變了大家美化了的、理想化的回憶…

導演婁燁那種不拘束獨特的hand held 拍攝手法及具節奏性的剪接，與男女主角的性格及整套電影發生了一種奇妙的關係 。

太多感覺了，只能盡量有組織地把它寫下來…

很喜歡這套電影了，深信有更多人把它在更廣闊的網上討論。

期侍 導演婁燁五年後的新作 (用五年作為處罰真可笑，創作力能用年月來衡量嗎？)

* (對白大約的意思、因普通話不靈)

Cannes Festival webpage
video clip:
BBC newsclips about this film

弊家伙！

剛在 yahoo主頁發現這個《六成人望30歲前結婚 》主題，誰知 click 進內是個問題訪問…
看下去發現小女子嚴重缺乏下列「特質」…

請問你覺得女性有以下哪些特質是最有吸引力呢？
善解人意 (2648票) 77% --> 自覺是有的，但曾在感情路上被人覺得缺乏這項特質…
甜美笑容 (2433票) 71% --> 嚴重缺乏，曾多次被列入「黑面」 行列
有愛心 (2223票) 64% --> 有，但缺乏耐性
迷人眼神 (1668票) 48% -->嚴重缺乏
皮膚白淨 (1507票) 44% -->有的，是遺傳了爸爸上海人的血統吧
修長美腿 (1348票) 39% --> 嚴重缺乏，短粗腿就有
智慧 (1271票) 37% --> 曾被老師稱為 " smart ass" 的我， 深信這項特質是要後天努力的…
纖腰 (1216票) 35% -->算吧！是戒不了coffee,tea , crispy kreme...等精神"震奮"的食糧
陽光氣息 (1178票) 34% --> 喜歡陽光，但曬不到「古天樂」陽光膚色 (遺傳吧)
豐滿胸部 (1171票) 34% -->嚴重缺乏 ，亦不願花錢買b wonder bra ...
廚藝 (1132票) 33% --> 有點啦！
潔白牙齒 (1051票) 31% --> 沒有
體格健美 (962票) 28% --> 正在嘗試中，以身體健康為本，絕不為吸引異性！
風趣幽默 (903票) 26% -- > 說話時直話直說，不懂修飾
浪漫 (861票) 25% --> .....um ....
有錢/地位 (294票) 9% -->嚴重缺乏

我這個性格…在本地是沒有 market 了…

Krispy & espresso

Krispy & expresso

Originally uploaded by bunbun1978.

After a full day work, this simple meal boosted up my tired body...

what a good consolation :P

Babel

Babel

The film looks very simple but it is not at all.

i keep thinking about it , trying to gather all fragments piece by piece, finding connections between them.

not only the linkage between four stories but also linkage within each story itself.

between parents and children ; couple ; family...

Four stories, four families can be seen as " unity" indivdually but what lacking between them is the coummication and understanding which cannot express in words.However, when it comes to the " breaking point", it bursted out into irrational behaviour ...

The Film title " Babel" already speaks for itself

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Babel: n. 1. In the Bible, a famous tower built by a united humanity to reach toward heaven, causing God in his anger to make each person involved speak different languages, halting the project and scattering a confused and disconnected people across the planet.

official website: http://www.paramountvantage.com/babel/

Director's interview: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4352770

wan chai 4.01.07

wan chai 4.01.07

Originally uploaded by bunbun1978.

Orange Ginger Tea

Orange Ginger Tea

Originally uploaded by bunbun1978.

days without internet

由於台灣地震的關係，網絡系統嚴重受障礙。沒有internet 的日子十分不方便 ，上不到msn就像生活缺少了一部份…不知不覺巳進入另一個時代！

父子

After This ... R and i went straight to TST and had 2 pints of beer immediately.
I guess we all felt the same, this film was so "heavy" that we couldnt breath after 160mins.
This unbearable heaviness generates from the simple realistic yet structured narrative specially arranged by the director.It makes me think about L'Argent (1983) by Bresson & The Bicycle Thief (1948) by Vittorio De Sica.(No Offense to the director! , just feel " After" is as powerful as those master works and cant believe i can still able to see it ... esp by the Hong Kong director )

Within a week, i travelled through the rich imaginative world from " the science of sleep" to the " realistic-down-to-earth" life in " After this our Exile".How wonderful to witness different film styles, both are powerful!

Ho Siu-kee: Body Gesture — Part Two

" O , that's all? "
my first impression to the exhibition after I glanced through the first and second floor of the gallery within 10 mins.

About 7 pieces of "sculptures" and a videowork were displayed, which were out of my expectation.I anticipated more from " Kee Gor " , as my colleague claimed he is one of the Masters among HK art scene.

I walked back to the beginning and started looking again.

The " emptiness" between the space and "sculptures" allow us to move freely and to explore his works from different presepectives.It also allows you to explore your own body movement while looking at his works. The most interesting part is , the artist allows you to touch and feel his "scultpures".Bit by bit, i start creating my own experience / "linkage" with his works.

I am an outsider on how to distinguish a " good" or " bad" "sculpture" but this is a very new experience for me to encounter sculptures in such an "interactive" way.
Is it only a sculpture?

PS:what a lovely little scone buscuits specially hand made by my colleague!
It matches with this exhibition perfectly: SIMPLE yet Thorough !

奇女子

剛在 HK Magazine 看了一篇關於她的短訪，對她有了新的認識。

怎樣成功堅強的女人 ，也只是普通人……

old and new

everyone is talking about the close of the cin-art today, i took a half day off and went to IFC for a new release of a film...

everyone starts to treasure or to realize the importance of things/ppl when they start to lose it...

instead of reminisces the past, maybe we should look forward and examine why we will lose it in the first place...

dont blame the change of viewing practise from cinema to dvd/cv or illeagal download ; ppl like to spend their money on other enterainment... these are just a bunch of old excuses....

how about using new maketing strategy to reach mass public... ... ? its not an easy answer ....

Just start thinking..think big..think the impossible and make it happen..like the character in " The Science of Sleep". Havent been in Cinema for a while , glad to catch a good one..