“There’s always somebody who wants to be the Big Man, and take everything for themselves, and tell everybody how to think and what to do. When, actually, it’s he who is weak. But if the Big Men see that you see that they are weak they have no choice but to destroy you. That is the real tragedy.”
“Next time, we should go to Paris. Next time, we should go to the moon. He was a dreamer. But there are worst things, than being a dreamer.”
瘋狂的九十年代，是一個充滿實驗性的年代。個人覺得四部短片分開欣賞會比較好消化。
「白金毛 MAO」導演：林海峰 ／ 編劇：甘國亮
「食風贊嬌 BLOWING IN THE WIND」導演 ／ 編劇：甘國亮
「無相無色 TWINS」導演：葛民輝 ／ 編劇：甘國亮
「愛到要死 LOVE GAME」導演：葛民輝 ／ 編劇：林海峰
“We may like to think ourselves as civilized, but that civilization is in a large part bestowed by material wealth. Without this stuff, we would quickly be confronted by the same basic struggle that animals are faced with.”
“Wrapping a present with paper gives it a crispness and pristineness that emphasize the newness and value of the present inside. …The unwrapping of a present is akin to the act of birth; a new life for the object begins.”
“People love books, more perhaps than they love the written word. They use them as a way to define who they are and to provide physical evidence of their values.”
“Silica aerogel, the lightest solid in the world, which is 99.8 percent air.”
“Aerogel were created out of pure curiosity, ingenuity and wonder.”
“…materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human needs and desires.”
Hear The Wind Sing 風の歌を聴け (1979)
“Expression and communication are essential; without these, civilization ends.”
“Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they’ll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.”
Pinball 1973年のピンボール (1973)
“So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.”
“Each of us had, to a greater or lesser degree, resolved to live according to his or her own system. If another person’s way of thinking was too different from mine, it made me mad; too close, and I got sad.”
www.harukimurakami.com
The 10 Best Murakami Books – Publishers Weekly, Aug 8, 2014
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Serialisation is always the challenge and ultimate goal for any designers.
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Wind-up Toys by Maywa Denki, 2007.
Musical Toy by Maywa Denki, 2014.
“You are what you love, not what loves you…” –Donald Kaufman
“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more managable size.
Most people yearn for something exceptional, something so inspiring that they’d want to risk everything for that passion, but few would act on it. It was very powerful and intoxicating to be around someone so alive.” –Susan Orlean
“…I believe that what’s most important is what cannot be measured. I’m not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people’s lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.”
“Maybe they think about things a little too seriously. Perhaps there’s some pain they’re carrying around inside. They’re not good at making their feelings known to others and are somewhat troubled. They can’t find a suitable means to express themselves, and bounce back and forth between feelings of pride and inadequacy. That might very well be me. It might be you.”