Mr. K

i really don't think i can draw anymore,
this took me like four hours
and it doesn't even look like him. pardon me
who is Mr. Richard Kelton, a wonderful wonderful man that i was ever so fortunate to have met because of the Gauguin Exhibition*.
founder of the Kelton foundation in Santa Monica, has got me to look into art again.
to pick up passion for history, culture and life in general again.



I wish you well!


*don't know about the Gauguin Exhibition ?
you should go. because it's quite good

鶯歌

amazing ceramic museum at 鶯歌

the architecture, exhibition,were all fantastic, especially when everything's free. some pieces i just absolutely loved:

Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye

Catrin Howell

everyone should go

JPG at 北美館

another crazy show with jean paul gaultier fashion at 北美館. i like the overall feeling of the room and the sketches oh my god by pauline binoux is lovely.
i do recommend, but not to everyone as it is a "weird" show"

meet the innovator yes!

attended a seminar/presentation with Frog Design's Hartmut Esslinger and 3 other (local)big shots, the presentation was great (i love color blocks and lots of pictures), but i feel bad for the other people who had to sit through the mediocre translation. 詹偉雄 goes on about steve jobs the god, and how we should all live beautiful lives by using beautiful products (as prescribed by his elitist columns). 禧冠 was witty and more pragmatic which i appreciated. it seems like all the discussions about design in taiwan is how awful cost-down solutions are and how the taiwanese design world will be so much better if we just let that go, break open our checkbooks and really deliver perfection without compromise. but i mean, it's never going to happen here, it's just not us, because we want cheap and fast money so we make cheap and awkward products. i donno, i'm very cynical.

禧冠 Esslinger 王志仁 詹偉雄

synthetic happiness

2010自行車展
it's like my bike all grown up
WANT!

but all the consumeristic excitement today reminds me of Dan Gilbert on synthetic happiness, i guess in the end we don't really become happier getting what we want, it's all in our heads.

蔡國強泡美術館

推薦北美館的蔡國強展

有些大型的擺設滿震撼的

不是抽象也不會無聊

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