《十八仝人撐公投》
導演：鄭啟明、葉文希
音樂：歌姬湯馬士 (Les Misérables)
It’s not necessarily a perfect film, but it’s an appropriate film for America in 2009.
It reminds me of one of my favourite songs — one of the saddest songs ever written.
這個「海潮」和環球所合作的 mixed media MV 都很好看。 在香港比較罕見呢。 他是誰啊？
陳奕迅 《一絲不掛》
謝安琪《雨過天陰》
Death Cab for Cutie – The New Year
So this is the new year
And I don’t feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance
(In the distance)So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
For self-assigned penance
For problems with easy solutionsSo everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let’s make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into oneI wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
There’d be no distance that can hold us backSo this is the new year
告訴我，我們為了什麼而藝術？ 你為了什麼而聽音樂，為了什麼而陶醉於王家偉的電影裡？
你吸收咁多 arts，share 咁多條超靚超形超勁超有創意 YouTube 片又為咗啲乜？睇戲又為咗啲乜？
我有陣時好討厭 d 藝術仔(包括扮晒嘢嘅自己）不停咁吸收。好似不停咁鉋一支鉛筆咁。 鉋呀鉋，鉋呀鉋，有一日就鉋到無晒。
但係鉛筆係用來寫字同畫畫的。
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朋友借了一套叫《東京奏鳴曲》的電影給我。故事是講述一個日本家庭內，因爸爸失業而所帶出的各種問題。
其實戲整體上無俾我太大感覺，佢只令我諗到類似的其他“mid-life crisis”電影。但係電影令到我想到其實很多時藝術嘅目標係要照明(highlight)一啲社會上嘅問題。《東京奏鳴曲》的頭一段就對日本嘅失業就描述得好好。帶出那是日本面對全球一體化、社會年輕化、和傳統思想所帶出的 conflict 。
就好像畢家索的 Guernica，是一份有思考的藝術。
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當然，藝術不一定要有社會性的思考。也可以是其他反省。但作為 audience，我覺得要知道發生什麼事。我討厭做一個 hea 爆的 consumer。吃過就算。右腦刺激過一番以後就繼續再找刺激。今年聽了幾十隻碟，下年再來過，但是我 iTunes 已經有 40 Gig。
夠了。我討厭這種感覺到死。我不想再吸收。我的靈魂像似飽到嘔。鉛筆鉋尖了就不要再鉋。
在一個 media overloadad 的時代裡成長，我們要學習的是 the art of silence 。
從吃過的 media 中，消化，化成力量和一套價值觀。要在生活中活出來，去做一個好的未來。
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(more…)
“We procrastinate when we’ve forgotten who we are.”
“I worry about a world where our expertise tends to get stuck at, what the Dreyfus brothers have called, ‘being an advanced beginner’.”
I think this is probably the most inspiring collection of thoughts about modern productivity that I have ever seen, and his book is not even written yet. Merlin’s really passionate, and there’s truth here that speaks to the worker in an information age, so I have a feeling that his book will be enlightening.
… But for now, I need to figure out who I am and get back to work.
Oh, watch out for the colourful language.
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) from Merlin Mann on Vimeo.
