iPhone Mania!!!

As we know, the iPhone is like a new life style for today’s people. Everyone is trying to have one iPhone so that not to be outdated from the trend. No matter where you go, you will see people are holding iPhone at everywhere. It has somehow become like part of our life style.

The iPhone may have lot of functions with its several of applications. But no matter how great is it, it is still a phone. When time comes, we may need to ask the following questions: Are we over rely on it? Is it a healthy life style for people to practice every day? What happen if the iPhone is going to influence everyone till we can’t live without it? Yes, it is possible to be over relying on a technology till we forget our human nature.

Last but not least, a phone can be functional but don’t over rely on it. We should always go back to the human nature with the very basic life style.

开学前恐惧症

现在是深夜十二点三十六分，电脑播着Beethoven Virus的歌曲。感觉很轻松却有点心事重重。到底我怎么了？是不是脑里的哪条神经线打结了？Hmm... 难道我患上了 “开学前恐惧症”？哪有这种病的哦？真是的，我真的有问题了...

说真的，多几天就开学了。心里真的有点怕怕的。不懂这次的表现会否真的会达到我预想的那样。我可否又应付得来？不知不觉好像给了自己很多压力。真的有点不知所措... 这不会是 “开学前恐惧症” 的病状吧？~_^

Pass!!!

It’s exam result released day!!! Thanks Nic for informing me. I was goddamn nervous once I got informed. You know? My heart was beating like seating on the roller coaster. I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if I can’t get all the subjects pass. Thanks God. I made it again… (:

COMPLEX vs SIMPLE?

People say a masterpiece of someone would roughly reflect the creator’s mind. It’s quite true. For me, my works are more toward simple and straightforward type. From my point view, why do we need to make things complicated when the world is enough complex?

I know some people may think that complexity is a way of showing their ability in making things complex. But did anyone try to find out whether we need it? As we know, making a complex masterpiece will need more resource compares with a simple masterpiece. It will somehow produce more waste during the process. Is it what we want? Does it environment friendly?

Yup, there are lot of questions need to be answered before someone thinking to come out a “complex” masterpiece. But it is all depend on the creator. As I say, if you want to talk about environment friendly or sustainability, why don't you make it right in the beginning? Think about it ;)

RIP Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010)

louise bourgeois in 1990 with her marble sculpture eye to eye (1970).
© louise bourgeois photo: raimon ramis

the french born artist and sculptor louise bourgeois has died aged 98.

'I am very sad to confirm that louise passed away this morning (may 31, 2010)
at beth israel hospital after suffering a heart attack on saturday night,'
wendy williams, managing director of the louise bourgeois studio.


'maman' (1994 to 2003) by louise bourgeois next to the guggenheim bilbao museum - image: afp

born in paris on december 25, 1911, bourgeois moved to the united states in 1938
where she produced the bulk of her emotionally powerful and provocative art which
explored the traumas of her childhood and sexuality. her parents owned a studio
that restored tapestries. she had a troubled relationship with her father, never forgiving
him for his infidelity to her mother. bourgeois studied art in paris and in 1938 married
american art historian robert goldwater and left for new york. she became a US citizen
in 1951 and had three children before being widowed in 1973. she is survived by her
two sons alain and jean-louis. her third son michel died in 1990.


'maman' (1994 to 2003) by louise bourgeois outside the national gallery of canada - image: radagast

'her first two shows of sculpture were in 1949 and 1950, tall abstract figures in groups,
a bit like giant clothes pegs, and carved in balsa wood because it was soft and
possible to work without noise or dirt to disturb a young family. they might just have
been inspired by giacometti, but in these as in all her other work she is a true original…
after 1950 she went the full decade without showing, though MoMA bought one of her
pieces; in 1960 she was in shows in paris and at the whitney. the museum of modern
art gave bourgeois a retrospective in 1982, when she was already 70.


'arch of hysteria' 1993 by louise bourgeois image: christopher burke

in the late 1990s she began using the spider as a central image' and in recent years
her work has been the focus of numerous exhibitions at the TATE modern, UK
the guggenheim museum, new york among others.

(Source: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/10389/louise-bourgeois-1911-2010.html)

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I can't believe that she was passed away on my birthday... :(