隨記.

前些時候回國時隨手寫下的。整理。

朋友問說你小時候怕高麼，我說不怕。現在回到家從陽台往下望手心都會冒汗，十層樓而已。到現在才搞明白，長大後會有所謂的恐高症，是因為每次站在稍高的地方都想往下跳；手心會出汗不是怕高，而是得克制住那股衝動，不然真跳下去就傻逼對不起父母了。

久違了的妖都。滿地的外省人 滿地的高樓。走在街上只顧抬頭張望 賺足回頭率：哪來的鄉下佬。竟還有人跟著一起抬頭。路上的上班族都偏愛大一號的西裝襯衣一直是很困惑的事情。打開地圖好不容易發現角落仍有一座美術館和Hadid規劃據說已有裂縫的歌劇院，其他全是mall，一個接一個，沒完沒了，太奇怪了。

猛然瞥見Costa， 農民了，原來它也來中國大陸削錢了。一路貌似都是名牌，而且都是國外的名牌，無奈在國外生活十餘年咋連很多都沒瞧見過。偶碰倆眼熟的 H&M Zara之流，店內裝修佈置得跟奢侈品牌一樣，價格也稱得上离奇。一直認為廣州是談得上城市底蘊的都市，想在都變成啥了，媽的又一堆問號。

時間真的是相當弔詭的東西。昨日睡醒一看手機時間18：14。早上六點，睡挺好，開始期待早餐。翻開書（好像回國就應該看中文書一樣)，煞有介事心不在焉地看了個把小時，滾下床拉開窗簾，廣州早上七點多的天怎麼是黑的，再一看時間才醒覺，媽的傻叉了那是倫敦的六點。與廳內各時鐘確認了一番才不甘地回房上床。盯着天花板。

推一下【轉山】，在外越飄越久情感越發脆弱，以前老人父母相關電影一概不敢看，現在連小孩都不行了，年紀真大了。男主跟屁孩兒分開那一幕差點陣亡。電影不錯，好幾幕真得努力hold住。感觉台灣的電影導演還是稍欠火候，可拍得更好。整體仍是好片一部。


順帶一提，在廣州觀影的體驗是很有趣的，影片播放時會有人聊天，有人討論劇情，有人預測劇情，有人拍照，有人微薄，有人聊電話，說實在，不關別人啥事，可你影響到別人了。。。

抬頭張眼妖都是滿大街的美女，管她是不是背多分，單是看着背影心裡就美滋滋的，若是迎面走來一位婀娜多姿那可不只是心裡自個兒偷着樂，七情上面嘴角都不禁上揚，通常換來的不是尷尬的一笑就是充滿鄙視的眼神。又成功地向轉變為歐吉桑邁出了一大步。

許多年過去了都未曾與妳說過一句話，如今妳已嫁為人妻，直到飛機起飛那一刻，心裡都還抱着一絲幻想，期許能與你在機艙內相遇，跟你說聲恭喜。其實是很沒有意義的，懷念過去就是沒有意義的，但實際上人生大部份事情包括人生本身都是沒有意義的，每個人都是個體，在找，在為不同的人事物賦予不同的意義，所以請容許我繼續犯二，祝新婚愉快，請拼了命地幸福，否則發誓一定把你奪過來。


電話費，手機費，保險費，網費，電費，管理費，電視費，慈善費，卡費，交通費，各種稅，oh my, 歡迎回到現實，and welcome back to the land of bills.

Magazines.

整理舊雜誌時翻到的倫敦  Nike 1943第二期. 現在舞都跳不動了, 年紀大了真的有差.

StyleZeitgeist Magazine. 還是有那麼一撮人做着那麼些破事兒, trivial matter matters, 尤其在這見了鬼的馬戲團. 看着這個community走到今天這一步實是不易, salute to the StyleZeitgeist family.

SOME/THINGS Magazine Issue 003 Farewell My Concubine.

SOME/THINGS Magazine Chapter 004 The Wings of A Locust.

SOME/THINGS Magazine issue 001 - 004.

Gantz.

才意識到翻譯真的是吃力不討好的一份活兒.

動/漫畫改編的live action film. 漫畫原作中血腥暴力色情面面俱到, 劇情有些小拖曳, 整體仍算過關, 精彩度還是有滴. Gantz講述的基本上是與外星人幹架的故事, 劇中角色死了又活活了又死周而復始沒完沒了, 相當弔詭. 但實際上, 卻是相當有趣的. 生生死死這個問題上可以想象為 劇中角色徹底掛點以後, Gantz作為一項(未)開發完成的科技, 有能力將角色拷貝一遍然後帶回, 當然是有一定的代價, 所有都發生在同一空間內, 至於它怎麼拷的, 至今漫畫內仍未給出答案. 有趣的地方在於, 在被Gantz複製完畢 回到此空間 接下來要去執行打壓外星人任務時, 會得到一套強力戰鬥衣, 及許多威力破點的槍支武器 -- 升級版的生存遊戲. 嚮往嘛? 嚮捏. 畢竟, 安逸久了皮就會養, 人嘛.

說回此電影, 分為上下兩趴. 第一趴基本就按照原著來, 雖說個人對劇情上有否忠於原著並不介意, 但下集未免也太亂來了吧, 毫無重點毫無意義毫無邏輯, 觀眾若想尋找perfect answer那在下集內是不會找到的.. 角色方面, 感覺二宮 跟原作男主外形上相差甚遠.. 原作中的初期男配man到噁爛變娘炮的感覺跟松山 也不搭..  吉高 則繼續過分美麗 雖說表現不多, 大部份時間處在霧煞煞的狀況下. 其他角色印象為零, 尤其山田孝之 扮演的角色, 作用也為零, 大部份角色的作用都在零附近浮動.

電影中的黑服星人帥氣度也不如漫畫中的吸血鬼原型.

電腦特技做得仍甚是到位, 感嘆一下日本相關產業的發達. 在某些部份上, 電影的原作的還原度還是相當高的. 比如說那個黑球, 又比如說這套緊身戰鬥衣, 媽的實在酷帥到不行, 各路cosplay中亦未見過屌成這樣的. 此服應該量產推廣, 幾個人穿着它在夜晚大街上拿着武士刀亂跑, 喔, 何等銷魂的一個畫面.

其實很能體會廣大漫迷對映畫化的反感, 不只劇情 選角方面也一直令人詬病. 浪人劍心之後也要改編成電影, 光是 佐藤健 出演緋村這點就足夠令人失望. 蒼井優 跟高荷惠也完全不搭. 若有意把此作品改編成系列電影, 為何不在選角方面多作些參考呢..?

The Black Book.

 SOME/THINGS Magazine Issue 002 Kamakura by Mote Sinabel.

 SOME/THINGS Magazine Issue 002 Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal.

The Things We Called Books and Clothes and Spaces.

SOME/THINGS issue 001 Cover.

 SOME/THINGS issue 001 Augusta.

 My Dear Bomb, Yohji Yamamoto.

 A Magazine Curated by Yohji Yamamoto.

 LN-CC.

 Wool attack. Label Under Construction.

 Q15.

 A Magazine Curated by Haider Ackermann.

Ron Arad Restless Furniture by Dejan Sudjic.

Lisson Gallery. Haroon Mirza.

The Beach.

I realised I haven't blogged anything for a while.

No more sharing, I'm thrilled, I just hope the place doesn't kill me. Peace.

This is a film by Danny Boyle, starring young Leonardo DiCaprio, called, The Beach, it was an adaptation of a novel written by Alex Garland, whoever that is, and obviously it's a book which I have not read. The rating was just over 6 on imdb, normally that would have put me off but I went for this for the very fundamental reason -- Voila, it's about a beach.

I've always had a thing about beach, ever since I arrived on this island. Of course, Brighton isn't exactly what I personally would like to refer to as a "beach", it's all rocks and stones, no, not the way I liked it. And as a matter of fact when I clicked on cmd + F and searched for "beach" in my previous 13 years of life prior to the arrival, I couldn't even locate anything, so Brighton there we go, despite everything, it meant something, as a beach.

It was in summer 2009, one of my cousins held her wedding ceremony at an island to the east of Tawau, East Malaysia, and it was an experience that would be planted in my brain for the rest of my life, the crystal clear sea, the butter soft sand, the villa the breeze the drinks the trees, mind me, it was paradise. The shitty phone camera shot will have to be excused, iPhone wasn't exactly as developed two years ago. Oftentimes some travel miles away from home looking for something different, seeking for an adventure but consequentially wind up sitting inside that comfort zone of ours, a dream becomes reality. It is when we dwell in the dream of reality searching for something eternal, that eventually, we would be able to see it with our eyes shut, that distinctive hue separates us from the rest, it's something concrete, something absolute, something restless.

Oh don't worry, I'm not spacing out and I haven't drifted away just yet. At one point or another, you will become acquainted with what's taking place in the film, it's exactly like Bill Murray says, a good script is a good script, it automatically gets people involved and a good screenplay, it draws you close, intrinsically. I wouldn't go as far to call Boyle a true visionary ahead of time, but I do think when people actually go back and watch this, a much much further and deeper sensation and appreciation would be developed compare to when it was first released in 2000. This was before Leonardo had began working with Martin Scorsese, he was young and immature, the act was slightly superficial, but none of it mattered, everything he was, everything back then, was a perfect depiction of a youth's impulsive and rebellious heart. The film painted a parallel universe, a nature not just in its own sense but a nature inside of ours too, like how the narration went, no matter where you go, no matter what Eden you are at, the desire, our nature will never be bleached. And the one and only Tilda Swinton, enough said really.

And this reminded me of Lost, which is fascinating, an inspiration or not.

Speaking of islands, next summer I would want to drag myself back to Malaysia, I would want to go back to that island, and I would like to see you again, my very first love at first sight, that happened in the summer of two thousand and nine. Good night. Ah shit, that sounded like some slogan for some lousy ads, never mind. Until next time.

Love.

復仇者之死 Revenge: A Love Story

不得不說, Juno, 好嘢!

很多年前, 當時仍小. 與其說是不喜歡麥浚龍, 其實更多的是恨鐵不成鋼 或者是嫉妒好了.. 其實一路都欣賞Silly Thing, 兩位麥生的號召力更加不在話下. 但Juno這麼多年 除了幾張唱片 和偶爾爲品牌拍攝的照片走秀 幾乎看不到他蹤影 (雖然也沒有經常看到其他人..), Chapel of Dawn好像又沒有了聲氣, 不禁又令人搖一搖頭, 雖然, 歌曲及MV等製作都很厲害.. 畢竟.. Silly Thing嘛..

撇開所有東西 說回電影. 也是期盼了許久 黃精甫許多年前的江湖或是阿嫂都算是令人留有印象的作品, 外加麥浚龍 蒼井空(其實真的沒有看過很多她的東西..) 兩個名字更是賺足期待值. 開場足夠驚豔, 無論是thriller horror 什麼都好, 很少有鏡頭會噁心到讓人想快進. 這是一個love story, 用最原始 最血腥的方式表達了 love.

兩位主角對白不多, 但這恰恰是最難表現的 It's all in the eyes (笑). 戲中Juno飾演的陳杰很莫名地在某些位一直令人想起窪塚洋介. 蒼井空也有少量的裸露戲 對她來說應該是駕輕就熟了. 綜合來講, 兩位的表現都並無太多可挑剔之處, 更何況還有一堆戲精綠葉. 對體制的諷刺, 社會底層小人物的心聲 當然更多是陰暗面 在電影內都刻畫得無比深刻. 故事終章最爲震撼, 亦同時給宗教打上了一個大大的問號. 上帝是什麼? 這就是所謂的神的孩子? 其實對宗教信仰並無排斥, 但若大衆或小衆整天拿上帝說嘴 自怨自艾甚至無病呻吟, 作爲一個無神論者則難免會有反感的情緒出現. 題外話一下, 突然想起近日在電影Paul中結尾的一段對白, 一位 應該是基督徒 說:"God be with you." 來自外星的Paul迴應:"Yeah, whatever dude." 哈 太酷. (是一部很好玩的電影) God my ass. Oops sorry.

故事結尾更是一個出色的點題加總結, 無論那是一個舊時自我的終結 抑或是理想世界的期盼 都是一個完美 只能用完美來形容的 結局.  戲服的安排也是出色的, 除了作爲角色性格描繪 更是對戲內整個看是近實則遠的香港大環境作了一個完美的襯托. 應該是近期從Inception開始, 對電影內的戲服越加留意 是真的留意 留意到近乎可以用observe來形容, 而不僅是單單 "Oh that's beautiful", "Splendid costume", etc. The team did an excellent job there.

片中多處悽美得讓人心寒的畫面, 鏡頭切換 細節處描寫 配樂等均是上乘. 誰說香港電影已死. 在爛片充斥華語電影市場的今天 所幸, someone is still trying to make a noise.

觀看前就百分期待Juno的表現. 有些生澀 但沒有失望. Juno 加油!

Salvation. Redemption. Save the children, save the world, save yourself. Shut your eyes, open your mind, there's more to this beautiful world than your foolish pride. Live your life, help others, motherfuckers.

Flying Dutchman.

Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture.

 Eva-Maria Riegler: Illuminated Room/Erleuchtete Raume. Featured in here.

Experimental Vision -- Roberts Rinehart/Denver Art Museum.

Monocle Issue 45.

Uniqlo +J white shirt. Pretty random, more white shirts would never hurt a wardrobe I guess.

Christmas is always around the corner. A piece of heaven wrapping around the neck for the coming winter biatch.

Gyakusou Nike X Undercover running legging. Stunning shit, worth every penny. Uh no, not when it's at full retail price, no.

I think I should probably start blogging in a proper way now. Like everybody else is doing.

Titled: Flying Dutchman;
Photographer: 曉希;

First thing rushed into my head, no other  reasons to why I gave it this name.

Mag World.

Quoting Mr. Hedi Slimane:

"...Magazines have to understand that they become the real place for some sort of creative quality, in photography, graphic design ad content. Glossy magazines need to become glossier, rarer, more exclusive and create that real sense of exception to exist next to the immediacy and globalisation of the fashion."

First copy of the curated magazine. It's been torn to shit, thanks for reading. Now there's something else I can do with it, hmm.

Some/Things. These are absolutely beautiful works.  A rare commodity on the market.

032c. The names of Rei Kawakubo and Rick Owens are more than enough to give it a nod.

Sebastian. A publication from Hostem, another fabulous retail space.

Green Soccer Journal. Who doesn't like football!

Talking to Myself.

I thought the post was published before the departure.

Apparently it wasn't.


25th May 2011

No I'm not referring to the book and no I haven't bought it, the title means what it means, literally.

I could barely keep my eyes open now, I haven't slept for a while but in fact I kinda enjoyed it to be honest, I'm overwhelmed, somehow.

First and foremost, thank you. Thank you all, it wouldn't be possible, not at all, without the helps from you people.

The website is now online, thank you my man.


www.onenostalgiclove.com

Nothing overly fancy and it's still under development, but I'm happy with it at this stage.

I am nostalgic, I'm an ass who lives in the past, sometimes I bloody hate it, but I've never tried to fight it. "Tomorrow is a brand new day" I say fuck that, you are yesterdays and you are your memories. I believe in one love, oh no, meh, ain't nothing about that boy band my love. It's just a "concept", a "theory" that I truly believe in, deep down, whoever that person is really. Love while you can, don't let it slip away.

Basically that's where the name came from.

The magazine was divided into 4 chapters: Life/Death; Space/Dream; Wong Kar-Wai/Women; Youth/Isolation. It was a royal pain, thank you young miss. It was a difficult job editing, I know. Thank you for bearing with me once again.

Go back to the website, it definitely needs a lot more touches. But for now, just in case you are browsing. It was categorized into a format of a menu, because lately I've been highly intrigued by food culture, and most people probably never paid much attention to it since we eat everyday, quality food or shit, the taste to many, is perhaps the most concerning part. I just think there's a whole wide world to be explored there. Under Mains, it's a series of photo done by Ms. Sun, (it was fun, thank you for the help too) to deliver a certain few messages, whatever the messages are, you get it or you don't. I'm never comfortable in front of a camera, and now I realized being a model, it's a fucking torture, kudos to all the models out there. And there's a photo of my dad's family, I don't know who took it, I put it there because I think its dope as hell, and family means a shit load to me.

Ingredients and Sauces are pretty much self-explanatory. Not all the galleries and museums allow pictures I'm sure everyone is aware of that. The exhibitions up there, I didn't necessarily enjoy all of them for a variety of reasons. Just a note, LNCC is probably one of the best retail spaces I've experienced, space matters in which, it shits on Layers, sorry guys. Sides, well yeah, you get it or you don't, photography never been my thing I just did what I could with what i have. Wine consists of a few parts of a visual diary I did before, and some stuff that were written on this blog under Chapters, and a magazine curated by me, and edited by a friend who was mentioned earlier.

That's it basically. It's been thrilling and I appreciate every bit of help from you people. I consider myself lucky (wouldn't mind being luckier on the market, just saying). There are a lot of things I'm not able to accomplish but throughout the years, I've always been fortunate enough to have a few good friends who are  always wiling to have my back. I don't know what else to say anymore but thank you.

Fashion, right, fashion. I used to take it as a very serious matter, now that I don't really care much about it, it's just clothes. I'm not sure whether I've lost the momentum, the passion or it's just me growing up.

Alright fucking damn, now I need a good shower and a good sleep, and I want plenty of alcohol for the weekend.

Ciao ciao.

Untitled.

多得某位友人的提醒 才想起這裏經從月po變成雙月po了. 呃.

1Q84暫時仍未有想讀的意思. 這麼多本後一開始的熱情難免減退, 單從文學價值而言 相信每個讀者都會有不同的意見, 村上先生到底是不是 大師, 也一定是各有說辭. 之前有位友人問過 你究竟喜歡他什麼 (抱歉忘了是誰問過了), 其實要回答這個問題並不難, 村上的作品是西方和日本文化最完美的結合體 書中描述的世界是獨立的 唯一的 真實的. 與讀另外一位村上先生 村上龍 時的感覺是不一樣的.

Crave了將近10年的Air Jordan III Retro, 今年再發 完全沒有過多的考慮.

往年一直是穿着dunk-hi在跑步, 逐漸感覺膝蓋及小腿的負擔加大. 在Asics及Nike Undercover之間抉擇了許久.

很白爛的一件t-shirt (笑). 金老闆有心啦. 這到底是個什麼corporate自己也搞不清楚 但其實菊花是很可愛的 幹嘛老要忘那個方向想呢 (笑).

Uniqlo近几年都會有些有趣的動漫 printed t-shirt, Gundam, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z etc. 與其是作爲日常着用 更多是對童年的懷念吧.

感謝各位. 感謝感謝.

Teaser.