FAITH

哥林多後書 四章

4:1 我們既然蒙憐憫、受了這職分、就不喪膽．

4:2 乃將那些暗昧可恥的事棄絕了、不行詭詐、不謬講　神的道理．只將真理表明出來、好在　神面前把自己薦與各人的良心。

4:3 如果我們的福音蒙蔽、就是蒙蔽在滅亡的人身上。

4:4 此等不信之人、被這世界的　神弄瞎了心眼、不叫基督榮耀福音的光照着他們．基督本是　神的像。

4:5 我們原不是傳自己、乃是傳基督耶穌為主、並且自己因耶穌作你們的僕人。

4:6 那吩咐光從黑暗裏照出來的　神、已經照在我們心裏、叫我們得知　神榮耀的光、顯在耶穌基督的面上。

4:7 我們有這寶貝放在瓦器裏、要顯明這莫大的能力、是出於　神、不是出於我們。

4:8 我們四面受敵、卻不被困住．心裏作難、卻不至失望．

4:9 遭逼迫、卻不被丟棄．打倒了、卻不至死亡．

4:10 身上常帶着耶穌的死、使耶穌的生、也顯明在我們身上。

4:11 因為我們這活着的人、是常為耶穌被交於死地、使耶穌的生、在我們這必死的身上顯明出來。

4:12 這樣看來、死是在我們身上發動、生卻在你們身上發動。

4:13 但我們既有信心、正如經上記着說、『我因信、所以如此說話。』我們也信、所以也說話．

4:14 自己知道、那叫主耶穌復活的、也必叫我們與耶穌一同復活、並且叫我們與你們一同站在他面前。

4:15 凡事都是為你們、好叫恩惠因人多越發加增、感謝格外顯多、以致榮耀歸與　神。

4:16 所以我們不喪膽．外體雖然毀壞、內心卻一天新似一天。

4:17 我們這至暫至輕的苦楚、要為我們成就極重無比永遠的榮耀。

4:18 原來我們不是顧念所見的、乃是顧念所不見的．因為所見的是暫時的、所不見的是永遠的。

Amen.

晚餐

今日，o係CMC苦戰10小時，兩點幾，終於番到屋企。

當我打開個電飯煲o個刻：嘩！有湯啊！

然後就響起一首歌，尋回一碗湯～～青青的小菜～～

呢一刻食緊飯ge我，諗緊一個問題：點解我甘堅持要番屋企食飯呢？

平時9點半開飯，10點番當然要留飯，12點番都留飯，就算2點番，都要留。

有時o係出面食左，番到屋企都會再食多次～點解呢？點解呢？點解呢？

………To be continue……

忽發奇想

點滴。

09年的時候開始畫Visual Diary，原來現在已有畫第7本了。

昨天去重新閱讀的時候，除了覺得自己幾好笑之外，還有很多的成長。

以前的shir還真懂得去鼓勵未來的shir－w－

shirzai，一畫就畫了5年。他不只是我筆下的一隻character，

而他就是我，我就是shirzai。

如果一個人所畫的反應出他的本相，

其實你見到shirzai都不難去理解我是個怎樣的人…哈哈

堅持

因為在你那裏、有生命的源頭．

在你的光中、我們必得見光。

詩篇36:9

不是一瞬間的光熱，

乃是照亮人的燈臺。

等候

今天，考生到處奔走，我們這些家長也伴著呆呆的等待。

三年前的誤打誤撞，憶當天我還極抗拒接觸電腦，科技。

一年前再到另一個地方，凡事非偶然。

就這樣，神帶領我到城市大學的創意媒體。

人心籌算自己的道路．惟耶和華指引他的腳步。

箴16:9

尋索

我還未沉澱完。

最近不斷地想很多關於方向的問題，

我該作些什麼？如何去務實實踐空泛的理想？

腦袋會浮現過往遇見很多不同的面孔，

會重溫些片段，

人，生命，愛與淚。

一個人若有一百隻羊、一隻走迷了路、你們的意思如何．

他豈不撇下這九十九隻、往山裏去找那隻迷路的羊麼。

若是找着了、我實在告訴你們、他為這一隻羊歡喜、

比為那沒有迷路的九十九隻歡喜還大呢。

太18:12-13

低能開心

爛左個hard disk之後咩都無曬，哈哈

呢條片係上個sem幸存的 assigment~

其實我知道，每逢我做緊d好KAI、好低能嘅work嘅時候，

係特別開心架~

Conversation - Final Project

Everyday, we have to conduct conversation with many people. Do we know what conversation is?   

By designing a performance by conducting a conversation, ask the audience to think about what qualitative conversation is.

Audiences conduct a performance by themselves. Two audiences can involve in the performance each time.

The performance has two levels.

Level 1. CONVERSATION

·      Write the message “Focus on your conversation” on a paper and put it inside a box.

·      Audiences have to conduct a CONVERSATION.

·      Audiences have a task to do, once they hear a CLAP sound, try to be the first person to know the message in the box AFTER 1 MINUTE.

·      Once the person in charge admits that the DIALOUGE become a CONVERSATION, she will clap her hand once.

·      Keep the conversation after hearing a clap sound.

·      Audience are free to move around the area

Level 2. Listen to YOU in the conversation

·      Write the message “Listen to you, but not me” on a paper and put it inside a box.

·      Audiences have to conduct a conversation.

·      Try NOT TO SAY “I”, “ME” or “MYSELF” in the conversation.

·      Once they say “I”, “ME” or “MYSELF” in the conversation, step back into the area that have set.

·      Audience are free to move around the area in other time

·      Audiences have a task to do, once they hear a CLAP sound, try to be the first person to know the message in the box AFTER 1 MINUTE.

·      Once the person in charge admits that they can listen to each other, she will clap her hand once.

·      Keep the conversation after hearing a clap sound.

How to measure that the audiences are conducting a CONVERSATION?

To define……
The spoken exchange of thoughts, opinions, and feelings; talk.

association or social intercourse; intimate acquaintance.

According to How to have a great conversation by Lily A, Ben Rubenstein, Krystle C., L.

How to have a great conversation

1.     Find out a few things about the person you'll be talking to.

2.     Ask questions so that the other person can talk about himself or herself.

3.     Inject invitation and inspiration.

4.     Comment on a general interest topic.

5.     Listen actively.

6.     Forget yourself.

7.     Voice disagreement with respect.

8.     Accept occasional silences.

9.     Occasionally, ask the question that is looming over the conversation.

10. Tell stories, preferably funny ones.

11. In a pinch, comment on the awkwardness of it all.

12. Know when the conversation has ended.

How to have a great conversation by Lily A, Ben Rubenstein, Krystle C., L.

http://www.wikihow.com/Have-a-Great-Conversation

Development of the project

Sometimes, we ask for something too clear during chatting that others may obviously know the purpose of why we find them. Such as want to know some secrete, announce something. This kind of chatting is target-oriented, may achieve some kind of result. However, Is that a good conversation? So that I want to design an activity to show, the purpose of a conversation is – focus on your conversation; exchange thoughts, opinions, learn to listen and forget myself.

Why to choose conversation as the topic? How it related to art?

As I think, conversation itself is art. It involves choice and alignment of content, choice of words, use of sentence pattern, speaking tone and manner, these things need to under design through the brain before we speak it out. Since the action and reaction time is far shorter than we normally make a tangible work, therefore it is more important to learn the art of conversation to maintain good relationship with others and indeed make a more effective conversation!

Make it as an open, interactive work
Since the topic, conversation, itself is not a tangible thing, I design it as an activity that need to have direct reaction between the designer and the audiences. 

It is an open work that the duration of the performance, the position of where they place are depends on how they perform. Every audience will make different outcome.  

During I design the performance, I consider the following things……

·      Can they know what conversation that I was expected before the performance?

·      Are there enough clues for them to know how to achieve to conduct a conversation?

·      What guide should I set to let them know my purpose?

·      Will they engaged in the performance?

·      Will they feel awkward after the conversation becomes a performance and fail to meet up the objectives?

Humors
When I test on this activity, active and outgoing players seems easier to achieve the project goal within short time, however, is that mean the one who complete the activity faster has inspired more than the slower one? In my point of view, there are no direct relationship between time and inspiration.

Conclusion

There are still many possibilities that can explore and more user test has to be done to improve this activity. I believe this activity can be more inspiring and thought provoking. 

Painting is not dead!

What is a painting? 

According to my daily observation, a painting is an outcome that someone makes mark on a surface by using materials and it can display on somewhere. Take making an oil painting as an example, someone take oil dye by using a brush and put it on a canvas. It can display in gallery or somewhere else.

So, anything can said to be a painting if it fulfills the above criteria? Can I say that the action of shaping and eating an apple is similar to making a panting? Why or why not?

Is there specific surface?
 
Unlike traditional flat surface, an apple is a tangible three-dimensional surface that also allows making marks on.

 Is there specific way to make marks?
In bygone days, a painting usually comes from construction rather than destruction. Undoubtedly, both ways allow making marks, while shaping and eating an apple is a destructive action that also can make marks.

 Is a painting need to have a specific done day and a specific artist?
When I shape an apple, I am the first artist to change its appearance. However, different marks can be made from oxidization and decomposition. The apple will turn to yellowish and change in shape in size. Obviously, these marks are not made by me, should I count it as the long-term evolution of the material itself or there is another intangible artist? 

Do a painting need to have audiences? Is it really necessary to present it in an acknowledged open area?
After I think of this, I do think that it is not rubbish but a painting when it’s in a garbage bin. The Ashman is my audience no matter he/she appreciates it or not. Same as an artist, I keep an attitude that not all people will acknowledge it as an artwork. After I do this project, I change my view via what is painting and the way of making and presenting a painting. Painting is a lively action that can be made by everyone everywhere without constraints in time. As the title said: Painting is not dead!

Extraordinary Pure in Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea by Shirley Li

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, a 2D hand-drawn animation made by a famous Japan artist Hayao Miyazaki. The film successfully present every matter in a extraordinary pure way, the love between a boy and a fish-girl; trust from adults to kids; the bravery of two little kids to take an unconditioned adventure, teach us to maintain balance between the submarine and human world with patient, etc. Every single plots and arrangement are shown with a kindhearted sprit. As I first saw the promotion, this animation more likely targeted the children as the audiences, but now, I know that it is for everyone to recall our most pure, positive belief that hidden in our heart.

Innocent and cheerful child’s universe

Unlike the previous animation made by Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea shows a more lively and cheerful art direction. Realistic and precise background and color tone are keep all time in the previous work such as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, etc. Here, the color saturation is higher and both the characters and background are brightly colored. Apart from the common used watercolor, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea use pastel as a new try. Miyazaki falls in love with the softness make by pastel. Sharp supplementary colors are used on the main characters and props. Ponyo is wearing a red dress with a green water bucket on hand while the small boy Sōsuke is wearing a yellow shirt. In addition, lines in this animation are more lively and curved. Not only Ponyo is usually compressed to show her innocent, elements in background like Lisa’s kitchen, props like Lisa’s car, even if the cloud in the sky are round shaped. Colorful elements and lively curves make this animation far more energetic.

Plentiful wholehearted movement            

As Ponyo and Sōsuke are 5 year-old kids, they have energetic and nimble movement. They jump and run around within the frame and have active facial expression. Director is designed to draw realistic movement that happened on children. For example, they will shake their body even they just standing delight. Miyazaki also set these clumsy motions in order to make it real. Also, there are plentiful off screen movement within the frame. Apart from locating or eyes on the main characters, the movements of the marine creatures are attractive. Especially in the scene that the whole island is the underwater, thousands of fish, swimming around Sōsuke’s small boat, these common fishes we see daily suddenly become extremely cute within the frame.

Show your enthusiasm

After Ponyo rescued by Sōsuke, Sōsuke promises to protect her forever. They build such kind of simple love to each other. Although her father Fujimoto caught her again, she tried to escape from his barrier by breaking the magic. The enthusiasm show by Ponyo becomes waves like tsunami. Ponyo run above the waves to follow Lisa’s car, waves turn over and over like Ponyo’s passion. When Ponyo saw Sōsuke, Ponyo run without hesitation to hug Sōsuke. Sometimes we hide our feelings too much and become emotionless to express ourselves, while enthusiasm here dare everybody to move.

The green water bucket will make you safe

Sōsuke rescue Ponyo from a bottle and put it into a green water bucket, however, her father Fujimoto caught her again. Sōsuke believe Ponyo can find home if she see the green water bucket that put on the fence. Sōsuke recognize that she’s Ponyo when she carried the bucket. A sense of secure is build with this bucket to Ponyo. Ponyo is with this bucket until the end of the film.

To be the Light of others

There is a scene that Lisa call Sōsuke to stay home after the tsunami to protect Ponyo and be the light to guide others. The hidden meaning of Miyazaki set the location of Sōsuke’s home on the top of a mountain clearly identifies this idea. When the lights are on in the room, this house functions like a beacon to guide ships the ways.      

Be satisfied with simple things

After Lisa, Sōsuke and Ponyo arrive home, they settle down and do some daily stuff. When we see how they excited that they interact will the food, the soup and noodles suddenly become very attractive. As to Sōsuke’s family stuff, Sōsuke can not see his father Kōichi always since he have to work on ship, but they treasure the time when they can chat by using the light. Satisfaction is not depends on how much your own, but to treasure the things you have.

Simply good to the others

I believe everyone are kindhearted in the underneath belief. Even when you hurt by the others, will you try to keep faith in treating others well rather than hide us so as to prevent from hurts? Sōsuke give the grandmothers a protecting charm even if one of them had said Ponyo is ugly. And Ponyo gave soup and food to the family they meet on the boat without any hesitation even they don’t know each other. Human relationship build from these tinny caring actions.    

Keep positive even the environment get worst

There is an amazing scene that everybody is with a smile even if the tsunami destroyed their city and brought their poverty under water. Residents drive a boat everywhere actively to find the one who seek help. United and positive thinking help human to live with joy even if the environment get worst. 

Trust the kids

Undoubtedly parents have to guide and help children to face to the difficulties, however, they have the responsibility the build the children by trust them and give support in many circumstances. The whole story is focus on the casual relation of how Sōsuke and Ponyo’s choose to affect the life of all people and the world. Ponyo’s mother Granmamare declares that if Sōsuke can pass a test, to love her no matter what she is, Ponyo can live as a human and the world order will be restored. In this story, Sōsuke and Ponyo’s mother give them the freedom to choose base on trust.   

Become reconciled with the submarine

In the beginning, there are thousands of Jellyfish swimming in the sea showing the beauty of ocean. Ponyo’s father Fujimoto, a once-human wizard who now lives underwater, control the balance of the submarine environment. He always expresses that human are dirty and bad. In the first time that Ponyo escape from the protection of Fujimoto, Ponyo was trapped by the trawl. When Fujimoto go out to find Ponyo, Fujimoto pass through the dirty seabed that full of rubbish. This animation highlighted these plots to show the reality in human world. We manage the submarine badly. However, the ending part of the animation tell us an answer of what we can do, is to become reconciled with the submarine like how Sōsuke protect Ponyo. It’s a metaphor showing that the pass of Sōsuke not only can let Ponyo live as a human, but also the world order will be restored.       

Lovely theme song

Ponyo’s eponymous theme song, “Gake no Ue no Ponyo” further enhance the energy and pureness of this film. They invited an eight-year-old girl Nozomi Ohashi to sing for the song. This song used to push forward the film mood to be cheerful, lively and energetic.

This film arouses me to be pure like a child when facing the world. The world can be far more complicated than we can imagine, but we will not be happier when we become the complicated one. Just recalls the wholehearted sprit from our heart to treat others good, empowering others by positive energy, shows our passion with act. We may not reward immediately, but the world will become better if we firmly believe it and practice it out.         

Recreate a PAST work by the PRESENT me

The upper one is a work made when I was in primary school in China. It was copied from the text book directly. I remember that I draw it just because I have nothing to do. Draw it with a pure heart without thinking too much on how to beautify it. When I analysis it with today's eye, it is a stylist, 2D, flat artwork. The detail is precisely outlined.

The bottom one is my re-invented work base on the left one. Before I draw it out, I ask myself: What should I thinking of when I making this work? Should I try to beautify it to show my very good drawing skill? What media should I use? No Doubt, when we grow up, we think more complicated.
Why can't I re-create it by using a pure heart like a child? After that, I grab my favorite watercolor box and try to draw it. "Oh boy, are you love to run? Just let go of your hand and feet! " "Oh boy, do you want to run like flying? May I add some curves to you? " "How about the background and color? Just fill it up!" I draw it without thinking too much. Undesignedly, I enhance the feel of perspective by drawing an oblique  background. In addition, the sense of foreground, middle ground and background were enhanced by adding some shrubs at the back. At that time, I know that when I am not constrained by the design principles but equip it as my day life being, they will come out in my art work.

I find back my passion to draw when I making this art work. Not to block my stroke and hand just because of make it more complete and beautiful. Freedom is the beauty here.

Blindfold Photography

In this project, Grace, Queenie and I have a brand new photo taking experience! The excitement of this project is to change the normal photo-taking condition, capture photos by other sense organs, the sense of smell, hearing, touch rather than sight. Grace is the blindfold photographer; I play the walking-stick to guide Grace; and Queenie is the camerawoman to record the whole progress. We took a Polaroid Camera and walked through Nam Shan Tusen in Shek Kip Mei to capture the things that impress us. The above photos are captured by Grace. When she heard the sound of scraping the scale of fish, felt the strong wind came in front of, felt the not smooth ground, she took the first 3 photos. In the unconditioned environment, Grace walk really really slow because she can not anticipate the steps in front of. However, new possibilities come from interaction of unanticipated things. Sometimes we did many things under rules to prevent mistakes and want to make beautiful pictures according to our preset of beauty. But the presets may constrain our way of thinking and exploration of new things. I love the picture that with 4 red chairs. This photo was took after I told her that we can have dinner. Although she don't know what she have took, the photo shows the anticipation and hopes to sit.

After that, I and Grace shift our post so that I can experience being a blindfold photographer. Here is the photo i like the most. Because this stair teach me to walk on it according to what I feel on the change of hand drill.  When it's steep, keep taking steps. When it's in level, walk on leveled ground. It's the first time that I am not focus on the visual but the sense of touching when I looking at a photo.

          

－＿－

甘耐以來，個hard disc就係跌呢一次…
唔夠2年，甘就爛左－＿－真化學～
定係你會拎＄5500來整番佢？
交唔到功課唔係問題，之前d work的process無左都唔係問題，
最重要係無曬d相啊……善忘哥唱善忘歌－＿－
世事無常中的可幸，是阿真之前無啦啦俾左＄100 coupon我曬左少少相，
呢一刻終於知道原來得閒曬下相係美德！

The OpenEndedGroup

The inter-disciplinary art practices encourage to create something new by crossing boundaries. The OpenEndedGroup significantly merge the body movement with simplified dynamic lines to present motion. In my view, it transform the dance into a new presenting art form and create a new interactive theatre for performers. The most interesting thing for me is the strong 3D space that create by the dots and lines. Different intensity of lines create faces and 3D space.

Touch the Sound

A sound journey with Evelyn Glennie（2004）

Shortly after she fall in love with the snare drum, her ears lost 80% of its function. She continue to use her body to feel the melody and rhythm of the world. All the other senses will become the particular sense she lost. It creates a type of senses, what she said, the mysterious sixth sense.

Everyone has their own ways to understand of the world, whether using images, sound, text, or whether contact, and so on. The combination of senses in different strength let everyone to have unique understanding of the world.

Have you ever try to explore the potential of every kind of your senses? Perhaps we do not believe our ears are so strong in fact. Let say, when you hear someone dropped something on the ground, you will be issued worried, because you know it is a phone, rather than the other debris;  You can always know Which family members outside home, just by hearing their weight during walking.

I sometimes play with my eyes, when there is dust or tears in eyes, the light source into graphics or dynamic lines when you looking at it. Am I exploring? Maybe every of us have the ability to awake these senses and create our own mysterious sixth sense.

她戀上了snare drum後不久，聲力只剩下兩成。她用身體繼續去感受世界的旋律和韻律，原來，其他官能會成為她的耳朵，其他宮能的復甦使創造有新的知感。

每個人都有自己去了解世界的方法，不論是影像、聲音、文字抑或接觸，等等。強弱不同的官能使每個人組合出對世界獨特的理解。

我們可曾去探索每樣官能的潛力？或許我們不相信自己的耳朵其實是如此的強，譬如說當你聽到有人掉了東西在地的時候你會發出憂心的驚嘆，因為你知道那是一部電話而不是其他雜物；你能分辨哪位家人正在家門外，只因你聽得出不同人拖著鞋走路的重量。

有時我會玩眼睛，當眼睛有麈埃或淚，看著光源時會這些光會變成一些圖形或動態的線條，我是在探索嗎？或許我們也有能力去使這些官能甦醒，創造自己獨有的知感。

被我遺忘的…

剛與家人行山，姐提起初中時我倆曾幾度發生過“SunShir歷險記”，我聽完有點茫然，憶不起半點的片段…

約兩年前，我發了個夢，若那個夢是個故事，那故事應該是這樣的…

上學、放學、回家、進食、作息，進進出出遇上無數的人，有認識的，也有不認識的。過了很久，突然有些認識的人不見了。有些認識但不太熟的人變成半透明。街上有不同程度半透明的人與我擦身，他們交疊在地上的影子依舊多，但我不全看見那些人。到底我怎樣才能完全使那些人清晰呢？朋友說要憶起和那人的回憶，才能看見他們。若他們己在我的世界消失了，我還能憑什麼去記起那些回憶？

…

某些人和事，重要的，不重要的，有意無意地被抹去，沙灘上的腳印，或去或留，不由得它，只管被海潮沖刷。這些人的事的透明度漸漸降低，有天在我的世界消失了。不錯，它們依然存在著去為別人的刻劃當刻、現在、甚至未來，但卻在我的世界絕了跡。回憶，我想你，但我卻想不起你的面貌、聲音和一切…我可以怎樣？或許隨年月逝去，記憶因人有限的記憶體而需要角力，幸運的話，壓縮後留下精華；稍不小心，變成差劣的影像或破碎的字詞，褪色、模糊、變更；又或者，裝置壞掉，重置過後，一掃而空。每天，都用僅存的記憶為自己的歷史塑造獨有的模樣，同時又竭力以文字、圖像、聲音去挽留記憶。或許，用你我的碎片去組合，能堆砌畫面，但這回憶是否屬我？