Ouverture

Love and Love Sweetness

Update to Reflection

Well, isn’t it more interesting to be politically incorrect.

The creation of such project is to stimulate interpersonal interactivity. And yes so be it stated as my own comment presented. However we all understand and acknowledge that even though Paula Scher (of Pentagram) created the Citibank logo on a piece of napkin just like Feynman (or, feyn-man) does with his physics, it would not work as a good comment to the ubiquitous, obnoxious inquiries on “how you made it”, and convincing the client is of more hassle than it takes to create something that actually works. The corporate clients, or dubbed “rich, bourgeois bubbleheads” usually would not pay for the work but for the process since they were mundane, hard-working, relentlessly ignorant to the true value and meanings behind aesthetics and the humanities, and could see only time taken — equivalent to the intensity of labor deposited in a piece of work — as the decisive factor of any creation. My offense to those stuck in this sistema: if you were offended, you do not belong there.

The creation of this project is based purely, instinctively, definitely, positively on the fear of solitude. I enjoy elective solitude — but in a better way I’d say that what I really enjoyed would be a hassle-free lifestyle, or a way of life that does not call another way of life to balance itself just like Koyaanisqatsi. I would be thrilled to be in control of my own life, therefore I envy and abhor the lack of interpersonal communication, despite the very true fact that has been proven many, many times over in every single literary epic, classics and unclassified or even unclassifiable books, that true friends and fellowships, in which spiritual freedom could be obtained, perhaps across such little time-slice, are rare. I want to be in total control in my own life and fear of losing it, and that is the major single reason that I’ve created this project. It was not initially conceptualized by a grand or even avant-garde goal to “connect different people across the world”. Such great themes are not suitable for us the minor, dreaming, gypsyish, nomadic vagrants. We were more bound to be conceptualized as the unfortunate underdogs for fortune, the unreachable goal at least to us, is the very deep well of disgust, agony and insensitiveness.

I hereby declare the death of the author — or precisely, the death of the author’s voice a faked cultural blow. The purposed death of the author’s voice was no more than a few whines of the underdog who could not understand that particular voice. Of course, we would love to whine as underdogs and bark the majority — trash, detriti, urban legends, dire kerning, dirty tracking, idiotic coloring, excessive pinning — away for good. Design is a combat against the ugliness of the world, and to believe in one goal in order to concatenate our forces and eradicate, or even educate the lonesome vibe out of peoples’ head, we would declare an universal rule of aesthetics. And then, we would become the majority, applauded for our incarnation and our true metamorphoses into demigods — and, catch some freedom, despite the very true fact that we immobilized ourselves in such circumstance… At last!

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It was said…

… that every single man or woman is a star. Put the Ls, Gs, Bs and Ts in the sentence and it would be politically perfect. (Screw it for its own sake.)

I would very much prefer creating objects and ideas rather than simply consolidating them.

Project Tribunal

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合理與不合理的山寨貨

關於華碩的山寨品 eee PC 小電腦，我的經驗是這樣的：

一、同樣的價格，可以買到蘋果 PowerBook G4 12”（多虧當初的蘋果遠見，與時間造成的貶值）。鍵盤好打很多，螢幕也棒……速度也好。

二、結果 eee PC 鍵盤縮水，變成跟手指甲一樣大。螢幕也很爛。小，而無當。

三、班上某同學竟然買了一台。（以竟然二字表達驚訝）

Ｅ：你的手那麼大，這樣的電腦方便嗎？

某：安啦！我是學中式笛子的。

四、蘋果公司大頭曾經公開表達，他們「不知道怎樣製造並非垃圾的美金五百元電腦」。我在使用了塑膠殼的 MacBook 看見這段演講以後，擊節讚嘆：「所以他們把這電腦定價成一千美元！」（註：該電腦送修七次餘，日前已經被蘋果換成新的款式了，正常、穩定使用中。）

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Stacked

Silhouettes

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Experience — right in your hands (on the imminent potpourri)

A book tells a story via its own structure. Any artwork has structure (be it a badly organized one, or vise versa). What I want to do with this book right now is to give it a story. A story, told via its own structure. A story that has once actually happened and therefore memory-worthy. We write in order to reclaim our memory. We memorize in order to reassure our being, or in other words, our status quo.

As Rene Descartes told us in his early years, we think, and therefore we are. We feel the emotion. Not until we could feel the environment and the atmosphere may we confiscate ourselves on a known pivot from where we start sketching, building and deriving. This book design is to provide a certain emotional recall pivot and to be able to interfere with ordinary emotion, therefore — or, furthermore — to arouse intrigue. Emotion first, rationales second.

A designer while commissioned is borrowed his/her eyes to shed some light on a subject.

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冥冥之中

與輔導老師談話，赫然發現日前線民指稱「台南大學呂明蓁老師（性平會的中部負責人）手上有一份 Queer Nation。高雄醫學院性別所也有。高師大也有……每個走性別教育的都會有這本」，原因是教育部性別平等小組，在我設計（與協助主編）的 心泉 # 165 出刊以後，要了六十餘本走。

這真是太令人震驚了。或許更有趣的還在後頭，但這給我一些能量：小，但堅定，像一顆火種。（反過來說，代表這次丟臉丟到教育部去，更因而遍及全臺。喔耨。）

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物與萬化

那麼，什麼時候把夢想變成真實。什麼時候作成全然誠實的物。什麼時候成為一個真正的人。

Baffled / Raffled / Waffled

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雙腳所踏之處即是

身體爛到快死了。現在等辦新的護照，然後今年底以前會找到第二個家。

把手上一個舊的影片拿來剪接，作成簡短的版本。問題：鏡頭語言亂七八糟，沒有小孩的視角，只有看大人、看所謂「成功漢化的布農族成功人士」的視角。這種東西剪接救不回來，因為基底意識本來就有問題。至於合唱團：合唱好，訓練合唱不一定好：那明明就是磨滅個人特徵，培養更多的群性的過程。至於合唱比賽之來源，其實更簡單明朗。弄不好的話，這些孩子一輩子成為服務性奴隸人格。弄得好，才有自信重建這回事。而，當我們爭爭奪奪解釋權的時候……孩子其實什麼都不說。我們自認他們不懂，但其實大謬。

Triumph of a piece of glass

Link: Original

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Clipped

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Quick Reference

做了後像強烈的一場惡夢。製作物被質疑，貼上表格；文件豢養心靈，筐制自己。逃不掉走不了，被重重地壓著。

這不過是一場夢。我相信凡是有開頭者就有結束。如此一切便都可預期。可預期者，便不造成恐懼。

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National Walk Like a Hustler Day