休謨書中引述法國外交家與歷史學家杜博的一段話：
一般說來，對於心靈最有害的，莫過於老是處在那種懶洋洋的毫無生氣的狀態裡了，它會毀掉一切熱情與事業。為了從這種使人厭倦的狀態中擺脫出來，人們就到處尋找能引起他興趣和值得追求的東西，如各種事實、遊戲、裝飾、成就等等，只要這些能喚起他的熱情，能轉移他的注意力，不論引起的激情是些甚麼，即使它是使人不快的，苦惱的，悲傷的，混亂的也罷，總比枯燥乏味有氣無力的狀態要好。
Archive for October, 2008
填詞：林一峰
一個平凡星期天下午
在街上沒目的遊遊蕩蕩
碰到你還是個老模樣
但少了稚氣添幾分滄桑
很多人事都已不一樣
現實不是我以往想像
三毛錢的道理不多講
我很高興又走在你身旁
世上有一種朋友
能讓你表現得自然
就算走在不同的路上
永遠不需解釋
也知道你心裡所想
談到你工作的地方
不想提的別笑得勉強
談到已經過去的感情
我總是欠了一點幽默感
世上有一種朋友
能讓你表現得自然
就算走往不同的方向
永遠不需解釋
也知道你心裡所想
相聚時間總是太短暫 再失去聯絡也是很平常
也許你永遠不會知道
你曾經讓我感到久違的溫暖
零七年買林一峰《思生活》專輯的時候，沒有覺得特別好聽。但當今次心情極度低落的時刻，再次重新細聽，竟然感動落淚。可能，朋友不需要多，只要有一個夠好的在身邊就已經足夠。
這篇文章也是從 The London Design Festival Guide 抽出來，因為在這全球中國熱之下，我個人覺得極之有意思，所以放在這裡與大家分享的，其中作者探討了英倫設計業怎樣籍中國設計崛起尋求另一番的出路，而他認為最好最有效的方法是 Collaboration （協作）。
不單止是英國設計業，香港設計師們也要好好問一問自己究竟應該如何自處？在這「中國」設計崛起的情況下，我們作為香港設計師，總不能置身事外；香港設計正被「威尼斯化」、邊緣化，我們還有未來嗎？我們還白痴的以為自己高人一等嗎？還經常在緬懷昔日的好風光，發港英時代的舊夢嗎？清醒下啦！水浸眼眉仲唔識死！
英國人隔岸還懂得為自己設計工業的未來籌謀打算，那我們呢？自知一人之力單薄，但如果出動整個設計工業一同努力，希望我們還有一線生機、能在絕處逢生。因此，請借鏡這文章，重新再思考我們的方向，逆境自強！
Products and services are no longer just being made in China. Increasingly they’re being designed there too. So should London’s designers be fearful of the emerging powerhouse? Collaboration is the key, according to Philip Dodd.
Philip Dodd is chairman of Made in China
Let’s not begin with the mind-numbering facts and figures: that there are between 500,000 and one million mainland Chinese designers, mostly in their 20s and 30s; and that China already has a design-hungry middle of 7.5 million, estimated to rise to 600 million by 2020.
If signature buildings are now an essential ingredient of any global city, then Chaoyang has made a fair start
Instead, let’s begin with a specific place as an index of the rise of China’s creative economy. Not with strutting Shanghai, but with Chaoyang. Now if you haven’t yet heard of Chaoyang, you soon will. This eastern district of Beijing, with a population of 2.5 million, has more than a fair chance of being to the 21st century what Manhattan was to the 20th: the iconic global urban destination. If signature buildings are now an essential ingredient of any global city, then Chaoyang has made a fair start, with the Herzog & de Meuron ‘bird’s nest’ stadium recently on display at the Olympics, and OMA’s freshly opened and extraordinary building for China’s national broadcaster, CCTV, likely to be to Beijing what the Empire State Building once was to New York. Certainly the district has much of what made Manhattan such a compelling destination in the last century – shopping, a beautiful park, the city’s major business and financial district – and contemporary culture, all the way from the annual Chaoyang Music Festival which last year pulled in 300,000 visitors to thriving cultural quarters. Continue reading ‘China in your hands _by Philip Dodd’
The Events I have been in the London Design Festival 2008
Published October 21, 2008 exhibition Leave a CommentTHE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL
13-23 SEPT 2008
01_
The Arts Gallery
University of the Arts London
Spin – the art of record
65 Davies Street, London W1K 5DA
www.arts.ac.uk/gallery.htm
02_
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Donat/Dubourg
Conversations in Bronze
3 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4HE
www.cwgdesign.com
03_
Central St. Martins College of Arts and Design
Up all night
Innovation Gallery, Central St Martins
Red Lion Square
London WC1
www.csm.arts.ac.uk
04
Designersblock
Designersblock London 2008
No 1 The Piazza
Covent Garden, London WC2E 8AA
www.designersblock.org.uk
www.verydesignersblock.com
05_
Mint
forget me not
70 Wigmore Street
London W1U 2SF
www.mintshop.co.uk
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The Cass, London Metropolitan University
The Cass MA Show
Sir John Cass Department of Art Media Design
Central House, 59-63 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7PF
www.londonmet.ac.uk/jcamd
07_
Design Against Fur
Design Against Fur 2008 at dreamspace
Dreamspace Gallery
1-3 Dufferin Street
London EC1Y 8NA
www.respectforanimals.org
08_
EXHIBIT at Golden
Lane Estate
Desire of Impermanence
Barbican, 20 Goswell Road
London EC1M 7AA
www.exhibit-goldenlane.com
09_
Gallery Fumi
Materialism
87-89 Tabernacle Street
London EC2A 4BA
www.galleryfumi.com
10_
Goldsmiths, University of London
Prospect
www.goldsmith.ac.uk/events
11_
Sunday&Rex
Pop-Up Design Gallery
90 Redchurch St
London E1 6LA
www.sundayandrex.com
12_
Tent London
Tent London
Truman Brewery, Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
www.tentlondon.co.uk
13_
Conran Holdings
An Exhibition of the RCA’s Conran Foundation Prize Winners
Conran Building, 22 Shad Thames
London SE1 2YU
www.conran.com
14_
London Design Festival
Size + Matter
South Centre, Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
www.londondesignfestival.com
15_
Chelsea College of Art and Design
MA Shows
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk
16_
D&AD
D&AD 1963-2008 – 45 years of creative excellence
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
www.dandad.org
www.dandad.co.uk
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Heart & Design
River Island presents Heart & Design
Christies, 85 Old Brompton Road
South Kensington, London SW7 3LD
www.heartanddesign.org
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