Mayday (Lee Guitar Allstars)

I attended Lee Guitar Allstars concert last weekend and I was really glad that I made it. Mayday was at their best, revisiting their old rock and bringing memories flooding back into my mind. When 温柔 came on, I had goosebumps all over and it was certainly the best version I ever heard in my life so far :) Mayday has always been my fav chinese band and I grew up with their rock which is so easily identifiable yet extremely meaningful. Enjoy below are my all time favourites.


温柔



拥抱



純真

五月天 ~ 你不是真正的快乐

one of my close friend said this describes perfectly someone she knew.



五月天 - 你不是真正的快樂

人 群中 哭著 你只想變成透明的顏色
你再也不會夢 或痛 或心動了
你已經決定了 你已經決定了

你 靜靜 忍著 緊緊把昨天在拳心握著
而回憶越是甜 就是 越傷人了
越是在 手心留下 密密麻麻 深深淺淺 的刀割

你不是真正的快樂 你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了 也決定不愛了
把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼

這 世界 笑了 於是妳合群的一起笑了
當生存是規則 不是 你的選擇
於是妳 含著眼淚 飄飄盪盪 跌跌撞撞 的走著

你不是真正的快樂 你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了 也決定不愛了
把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼

你不是真正的快樂 你的傷從不肯完全的癒合
我站在你左側 卻像隔著銀河
難道就真的抱著遺憾一直到老了 然後才後悔著

你值得真正的快樂 你應該脫下你穿的保護色
為什麼失去了 還要被懲罰呢
能不能就讓 悲傷全部 結束在此刻 重新開始活著

keren ann - lay your head down

I'm addicted to this :)

Anaserrano

http://www.anaserrano.com/ANA_SERRANO/cartonlandia.html

Air Lines by Mario Feese

http://www.lx97.com/maps/#

Gastronomic Garden by Taebeom Kim

Via http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/11/aagrotecture-4-gastronomic-garden.html

There's a lot of things happening here. First, there are the allotment gardens hovering over — perhaps are even propped up by — compost tanks used for recycling garden scraps as well organic waste of local residents.

One particularly large bulbous structure, somewhat reminiscent of sludge digesters at some sewer treatment plants, is designated as a place for contemplation, though it would most likely become a site of illicit activities and even grave criminality in the real world.

Somewhere on the site is a parking garage. This, together with the compost tanks, would generate energy via a process that unfortunately isn't elaborated in the project statement nor in the images we have on hand. We suspect the “oven tower” plays a role. Something to do with (carbon monoxide) convection perhaps?

Connecting its “semi-independent levels” of leisure and production are walkways and bridges for vehicles and pedestrians.

Samantha Lee's Farmacy

Via http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/10/aagrotecture-3-farmacy.html

This is Samantha Lee's proposal for a farm at King's Cross London which “grows, manufactures and sells medicinal herbs.”

Lee essentially answered the central question of the studio — Can extremes of programmatic effectiveness blend with the fragility of human habitat? — by turning the farm into a civic infrastructure similar in function to hospitals and neighborhood clinics.

Lee writes:


With the notorious past the area has with drugs, and in this process of regeneration, this farm plays a role in its journey of healing. Herbs were selected according to ailments specific to a city like London – for example stress, insomnia, colds and depression.


Urban agriculture as detox centers for urban living.

Perhaps a much richer, more architecturally inclined Jamie Oliver — in a similar neo-eugenics quest to make thinner, fitter, happier Britons — may want to buy the designs and actually build it.

Further integrating this infrastructure into the site, “the growth of the herbs takes place within nets, stretched along the deteriorated brick wall of Regent’s canal, where visitors either pass by to experience the fragrance of the herbal gardens, or can purchase from the pharmacies. The wall also acts as a division between the staff and the visitor where back passages are used to access the herbs.”

The central element of the design is the Gas Holders, a Victorian-era building since dismantled and now reconstructed here. It is the “space for the factory and its machinery necessary to wash, dry, grind and distill these herbs into their commercial state. There, the visitor finds walkways and look out points completing the experience of this factory and farm.”

In appearance — and this could be mostly due to the model's chromatic choices — the structure looks like a rustic cottage for an apothecary, something the Crusader turned monk-herbalist-sleuth, Cadfael, might have produced if he were at the AA.

Or a steampunk version of Hugh Fearnley–Whittingstall's River Cottage.

It might also be something that came out of Peter Jackson's SFX studio. The Farmacy, after all, seems to be subconsciously engaging in Tolkienesque fantasies. It belongs in Middle Earth, not in a contemporary global city such as London. In fact, the reconstructed Gas Holders reminds one of water wheels, a symbol of industrial progress but now more often a signifier of the pastoral.

All of which could be Lee's central argument, her “urban script”: to “blend” well into the spatial fabric of the city without people turning riotous at the sight of some industrial monstrosity, it's best for urban farms to mine the mythical rural idyll for nostalgia and vernacular forms, reinterpreted.

Aquaculture

via http://pruned.blogspot.com/2008/10/aagrotecture-2-aquaculture.html

Without drive-by commentary, here is Benedetta Gargiulo's project statement in its entirety:


Aquaculture is an urban landscape that playfully explores and re-imagines industrial food production, inviting visitors to examine the complex interrelationships between the private consumption and mass production of fresh fish.

Formed as a sinuous pedestrian network extending along the sides of Regent's Canal, its central structural element is water. Aquaculture is characterized by continuous waterfalls and levelled terraces, which co-exist with the topography of Central London. It is a fish-farm that doubles as an innovative architectural body, providing a network of bridges, multi-level pathways and accessible connections across the riverbanks, while contemporaneously purifying and treating the canal's water. The cultivated fishes are treated, filleted, and packaged on-site for instant consumption or for take away.

The visitors participate in the entire industrial process whilst experiencing an ‘Aqua Bridge’ or entering the ‘Aqua Tunnel’ by glancing at the mackerel and cod production lines from the sushi bar or simply by crossing and walking along the canal.


But we do want to say that we wanted to post this project because of that beautiful ribbed structure, a possible nod to the nave of St. Paul's, the iron truss roof of Saint Pancras or the de-fleshed carcass of aquacultured mackerels. Of course, the referent could be something else or altogether nonexistent. Perhaps it's a single computational iteration chosen with quasi-randomness amongst many. Or not.

In any case, this well-defined shell provides a nice counterpoint to the jumble of bridges, access ramps, tunnels and conveyor belts — all recoiling within and without, jutting in and out, directing fishes, fishmongers, diners and pedestrians here to there and vice versa.

Re-mixed Topographies: Maya Lin’s Systematic Landscapes

陳奕迅 - 好久不見

曲: 陳小霞 | 詞: 施立

我來到 你的城市 走過你來時的路
想像著 沒我的日子 你是怎樣的孤獨

拿著你 給的照片 熟悉的那一條街
只是沒了你的畫面 我們回不到那天#

你會不會忽然的出現 在街角的咖啡店
我會帶著笑臉 揮手寒喧
和你 坐著聊聊天

我多麼想和你見一面
看看你最近改變
不再去說從前 只是寒喧
對你說一句 只是說一句 好久不見

Field of Light by Bruce Munro 2

愛我還是他

Chambre des officiers, La

Just watched this period war movie at alliance francaise which is rather slow but intense.

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life changes as he struggles with his defaced looks.

I'm still in love with french movies for their colourful intepretation of life which is so dreamy and full of hope. I think this even permeates down to their cinematography and dialogues.

After the movie I can conclude that FRENCH LADIES ARE EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL AND EMATES CHARM! The photos here can no where compare to their grace in this period drama.

Knitted Animation

Guillaume Decaux!

Guillaume Decaux is finally blogging! I really love his french cartoons
http://www.alcide.fr/

sam bosma

Check him out at http://sambosma.blogspot.com/

Water Cube!

These pictures of the Water Cube are better than what I saw when I was there at the construction stage. Congrates for winning the prestigious Jorn Utzon Award for International Architecture.

Via inhabitat.com

The 2008 Summer Olympics were exciting in many ways, including the 25 world records broken by swimmers in the Watercube, and especially the many wins of Michael Phelps. The swimming pool was predicted to be the fastest Olympic pool in the world because it was 3 meters deep, one meter deeper than most pools.

From an architectural standpoint, we were excited to watch the construction of amazing new stadiums like the Bird’s Nest and the Watercube. Energy efficient and eco-friendly buildings like these stadiums are surely becoming the norm. Additionally, these structures haven taken cues from nature and biomimicry. The Watercube’s design is based on water bubbles in foam, and while it may seem random, this structure is derived from principles of geometry and crystaline systems.

The building’s structure is framed in steel, while the bubbles themselves are made from ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) pillows measuring 0.2 mm thick. The membrane lets in more light and heat than traditional glass does, which keeps all 5 pools warmer, thus reducing energy costs by 30%. Rainwater from the roof is collected and recycled with efficient filtration and backwash systems, and an incredible LED lighting system turns the Watercube into a beautiful kaleidoscope at night.

The jurors who selected the Watercube said, “The Watercube uses state-of-the-art materials to create a visually striking building that is also energy-efficient and ecologically friendly. The most impressive aspect of the project is the outer shell or molecular skin that envelops the building. The building has a chameleon-like quality that captures light in an extraordinary and memorable way. In every respect, the Watercube is an engaging and ethereal building that comfortably straddles the traditions of both Chinese and Western architecture.”

Second Nature at 21_21 Design Sight

The exhibition includes an installation of fibres called Clouds and Venus chair, created from crystals that form on polyester mesh left in a mineral solution for over a month.
Cellular Automation - Origin of Species 2 by Ross Lovegrove. “Focused on the mystery of life, this new work creates a construction of bones by stereolithography,”