Thursday 26 July 2007

about body interaction

[MK remark] 承接下文

如果可以的話,可以帶著背包到處走、到處看展覽,這個禮拜去上海,下禮拜去台灣,那多好。不能去,也只好安慰自己說,那個展覽沒什麼特別罷了。

曾經,fancy about body interaction,因為我們不需要keyboard & mouse,就能用最與生俱來的body language來跟電腦作interaction。但這些年來,看多了,卻反而感到膩呢,好久沒看到一個body interaction讓我感動過。不得不開始認同Jeff Han較早前的一番話“I was really sick of these really lame art projects where you wave your hand around, kind of like an iToy. I just didn't like that.”

我猜Jeff Han家裡一定沒有wii.

現在看interaction,看visitors' reactions倒比看作品有趣...


[More about Jeff Han]

關於Jeff Han, 很值得看的一篇訪問:

TED: Jeff Han, A Year Later (from wired.com)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72905

身體•媒體—國際互動藝術展



展覽時間:2007年7月14日—8月12日
展覽地點:上海城市雕塑中心 (淮海西路570號)
展覽主辦:復旦大學上海視覺藝術學院
     上海文化發展基金會
     上海城市雕塑藝術中心
展覽承辦:復旦大學上海視覺藝術學院零時藝術中心
策展人: 裏查德•卡斯特利(Richard Castelli)、龔彥

source from: http://www.we-need-money-not-art.com/?page_id=106

review from {看得見風景的房間} : http://btr.blogbus.com/logs/6806598.html

The Simpsons Movie



早前,去戲院睇Shrek 3之時,開場前看到Simpsons trailer(即係英文網站裡面的Teaser1),裡面精景的開場白,已令我決定今個暑假要好好入戲院睇一趟Simpsons,以重見2D Animation的魅力!! 

Must see (Video > Teaser 1)
http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html?cid=us

From Yahoo!Movies HK
《阿森一族大電影》是2007年暑假全球最強動畫之一,故事改編自美國家傳戶曉、享負盛名的卡通片集,足足有18年歷史。全片特別強調故事性和破格笑料,更大膽地用回史前最傳統2D畫功,締造另一番連3D動畫也表達不來的幽默感,尤其現今3D動畫濫拍荼薇,此片誕生更覺難得,必定起哄!(http://hk.movies.yahoo.com/070530/28/28jtg.html)

Review in Times Online
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2118613.ece

Wednesday 25 July 2007

ArtRage 2.0

還是積極寫點網誌才好...

不知是否我後知後覺,今日透過newsletter才知道有ArtRage,光看demo,就覺得它的interface較一般專業繪圖軟件user-friendly,也比小畫家功能來得多.



ArtRage 2.0, a freeware painting tool, good for kids or fresh graphic users. The main point is... it only needs 2.5MB hard disk space, and it has a simple & user-friendly interface.


Saturday 14 July 2007

Please laugh!

There are many things you can laugh at in this world.

Today I just read a magazine which mentioned about London 2012 Olympic logo. It analysis its pros and cons, well, actually it's making jokes on it.




It's so-called “Oh-no” logo. Hahaha…. This name completely reflects how people think of it. This is a logo which took a year to design and has to help raise £2bn of private money to pay for the running of the Games.”quoted from BBC. I just don't know what they are doing?!!! Is it so-called British design? Oh, come on....

Londoners hate it, British hate it, the people who ever see this logo hate it.

So here we go....
More of your alternative Olympic logos

So funny.... Not only about the readers' design, but also their responses.

I really love this one!!!!! XD



Andrew Robinson: "The five colours represent Olympic tradition. Also a bundle of taxpayers money going down the drain."

I think, London 2012 Olympic logo, in another word, does encourage the “ordinary” people starts to try on design. Hahah, it does has its own pros really.

See also >>>

Friday 13 July 2007

[書介] 設計中的設計 - 原研哉


設計中的設計 DESIGN OF DESIGN
作  者:原研哉
編/譯者:出版社:龍溪國際圖
ISBN:9868129206
出版日:2005.06.21

到底何謂[設計]? 對一位專業設計者而言,這是一個相當基本的問題,而對我的人生也一直在追尋著這個答案.邁入二十一世紀的當下,伴隨著資訊科技的發展,全世界正陷入一大改革的漩渦中,對於商品或溝通等等的價值觀也隨之動搖..... 當科技正要重新改造世界時,卻往往犧牲了蘊藏於生活中的美感價值.當技術與經濟掛帥且強領者世界向前邁進的同時,生活中的美感也正不堪於此瞬息萬變而發出哀鳴.








[MK]

這本書風聞已久,但一直未曾有機會拜讀.


看了首三章,已經覺得此書值得推薦.不是因作者的名氣,而是作者對設計眼光之寬闊,深感佩服!


作者在第一章,已經精要地交代設計離不開文化與經濟,這是我們經常所忽略的.我們錯把設計置於一個社會下的一個產業及學科作看待,已忘卻它跟我們的歷史脈絡是如此的息息相關.作者簡要舉出英國、美國、意大利、德國設計風格之不同,沿於它們受其歷史文化經濟發展所影響.當然,還有日本如何在二次世界大戰敗下來後,奮發圖強,重視設計所帶來的經濟效益.


第三章,本人尤愛第三章,哈哈!


很少在一本談設計的書籍中,看到對人類各個感官的設計如此重視,尤其是出自一個以視覺為主的設計師.由此看出原研哉看設計之闊.