Edward de Bono in 5

1. "Proof may be no more than the lack of imagination."

2. "The natural tendency of mind is toward certainty, security and arrogance...We need to pay equal attention to possibility...possibility is the key to creativity."

3. "Information may be about facts, but the way the information is seen is a matter of perception."

4. "We are very happy with what we have because we cannot conceive of anything better- and until we can conceive of something better we are not motivated to look for it."

5. "When everything becomes a commodity what is going to matter is the ability to design and deliver values. That needs creative and design thinking."

- Edward de Bono, an expert on creative thinking

Fear-less

"Fear limits our options, strangles creativity, restricts our vision of what is possible. If we're lost in fear, we view any change as a threat, and the unfamiliar as a mortal enemy."- Michelle Graves

恩人們...我一定 - 忘不了

詞曲：童安格　

為何一轉眼
時光飛逝如電
看不清的歲月
抹不去從前
就像一陣風
吹落恩恩和怨怨
也許你和我
沒有誰對誰錯

忘不了你的淚
忘不了你的好
忘不了醉人的纏綿
也忘不了你的誓言

何不讓這場夢
沒有醒來的時候
只有你和我, 直到永~遠

..只有你和我...逆爭上~緣

Li Ka-Shing in 5

1. "The strength of a nation and its people depend on education and medical care. These are the country's roots. And like a tree, the deeper its roots, the more flourishing its branches and foliage."

2. "You can use your skills to earn respect, but you will only touch others with your contributions."

3. "Perhaps the key to success is to identify your moral and intellectual coordinates. A life without principles is a life without direction."

4. "I believe in freedom as I believe in responsibility."

5. "Your life is meaningful if you can honestly say that you have done your best to do some good."

- Li Ka-Shing - Chairman, Cheung Kong & Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

"You can't improve unless you want to improve." - Lebron James

Advice from the Dragons

Robert Herjavec, CEO - Herjavec Group (internet security):

"Work hard, have fun, be nice, play fair, dream big. We only get one chance at this, one life to live. If you're going to play this game, play it to win."


Brett Wilson, Chairman - Prairie Merchant (Venture Capital):

"Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be better."

"..life is about balancing passion with priorities. Simply being excited is wandering aimlessly. And a plan with no passion is empty."


Kevin O'Leary, O'Leary Funds:

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. You have to get up in the morning after the worst day you ever had and go back to work."

"It's true that money doesn't buy you happiness, but it sure makes misery a lot easier to take."

"None of us own our lives - we are all living on borrowed time, if you're going to do it - do it now!" - Oprah

"你可以感動人, 哪怕你的(歌唱)技巧沒有那摸會轉,成熟, 那都還成立. 可是不管你如何會轉, 但都不感人, 對我來說是沒用的"- 林隆旋

Power of '1'

"Somethings you just can't achieve alone. But like all other things, they started from 1 person." - Seth Godin

"You are the authority of what's not possible" - Vincent Antoine Freeman

"假的東西永遠都會被真的沖掉" - 蔡琴

生於憂患 死於安樂

Pursuit of happiness

Most kids can do what they desired and feel happy about it, while most of us (adults) can't without thinking about consequences that our actions might bring (both good or bad). You could say that on one hand, kids are more naive/ imature/ selfish/ over-optimistic by ignoring or unable to think ahead of their actions. But the truth is that these atitudes are what makes kids happier than most of us. Certainly, it is the process of doing what one desired that makes one feel very very happy. In the world where "i wish i could do this if....", "i want to, but its going to..." "I couldn't do it because..." are more often spoken, sadness and dissapointments reign over happieness. I certainly hope 10, 20, 50 years later, or at the time when i look back at my life, it would be filled with a plethora of happy moments, I think most of us would desire that as well.... then what's holding us back from being more happy? Perhaps at times, unlike kids on the other hand, we are too sophisticated/ matured/ unselfish/ and over-pessimistic. Dont just get disobliged or intimidated over the possible results, enjoy the process of doing what is desired.

"We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Thomas Jefferson

黑色柳丁

今天我心情有一點怪怪
可是說不出到底為什麼
好像有一點悲哀的徵兆
可是病因不知道
頭上有橘色的加州陽光
我的口袋只有黑色的柳丁
我只有一個藍色的感覺
不要問我為什麼
很想說但又感覺沒有話好說
我只恨我自己逃不出這監獄
或許我是個沒有出息的小蟲
不該一直作夢你不是個英雄
葉子用墜落證明換季
可我昏昏沉沉沒有辦法醒
你願意做個英雄
還是你會要放棄
天是亮的卻佈滿烏雲
所有焦距被閃光判了死刑
你想做什麼英雄
我看你不過是傭兵
我只想哭只想哭只想哭
我只想哭只想哭只想哭
今天一起床我就頭痛
不管吃了幾瓶藥都沒有用
心情有一點莫名的焦躁
你離我越遠越好
外面有橘色的加州陽光
我卻躲在自己孤獨的黑洞
我只有一個小小的要求
就是請你Leave me alone
我只想哭只想哭只想哭
我只想哭只想哭只想哭

詞:陶喆/娃娃曲:陶喆

Power of Nature

"As I took in the scene, I realized my own littleness, my helplessness, my dread exposure to destruction, my inability to cope with or even comprehend the mighty architecture of nature..." - Nathaniel P. Langford, 1870

Sensational beauty

"You recognize some thing to be beautiful before you recognize what it is." - Mark Gage

Beauty is often a pure sensational/subconscious experience autonomous from its actual subject matter. It is not till you recognize something being beautiful that you start seeking reasons to why it is so.

"its nice to be important, but even more important to be nice" - Peter Li

Client point of view

"Our relationship to architecture is less that of a driver to a vehicle than of a consumer to a meal. The consumer (inhabitants) is concerned not with the evolutionary process and pressures that lead an animal (building) to take a certain form but with what tastes and textures results from that process (such as atmosphere)." - Reiser Umemoto Architects in Atlas of Novel Tectonics

What makes a building appreciative by the inhabitants is not necessarily the methodologies and techniques implemented during the process of creating the project, but the (perceivable) environmental qualities given as the result of using these methodologies and techniques. Inhabitants must feel the difference.

Driver to vehicle: Eisenman's House Series
Consumer to meal: OMA's Seattle Library.

我心中尚未崩壞的地方

"...當人心變成市場 市場變成戰場 戰場埋葬多少理想
回想著理想稀薄的希望 走著鋼索我的剛強..."- 阿信/五月天

10/90 Rule

10% of movies at Hollywood Box office occupies 90% of ticket sales
10% of available online music accounts for 90% of total downloads
10% of dvds in Netflix inventory gets rented more than 1000 times a quarter year

The hit-driven culture thus explains why 10% of population controls 90% of wealth

but all that is changing....

MAD on Context

"建筑師在爭議說應不應該建造有地方特色的房子。我覺得那不是建筑師要負擔的責任，因為一個地方的特色 本來就存在了，所有老的、有價值的文化載體，除了建筑屋，還有其他的東西。我們要做的，是考慮當代社會需要什么，然後做未來的東西，那樣你才能把這個地區 的Identity一步一步推前走，讓這個地方更丰富。...我們活著是為了未來，但是我們需要知道歷史，老房子是我們生活的一部分，但是用不著大家都生活在過去。我們了解過去是為了知道以後要怎樣生活，但是為了正確的往前走，我們則要了解歷史." - 馬岩松, Mad Architects

Creative Endurance

"As the careers of numerous writers, singers, and business people demonstrate, the true test of creativity isn't the first hit product. It's coming up with a second success." - Martin Peers, the Wall Street Journal

Constructive Criticism

Constructive criticism means learning not to say 'No'

Saying "Yes" opens up new set of possibilities

"遇到問題時要 面對 接受 處理 放下" - 小鐘

The Age of Recommendation

"We are leaving the Information Age and entering the Recommendation Age. Today information is ridiculously easy to get; you practically trip over it on the street. Information gathering is no longer the issue-making smart decisions based on the information is now the trick... Recommendations serve as shortcuts through the thicket of information, just as my wine shop owner shortcuts me to obscure French wines to enjoy with pasta. " - Trend-watchers at Frog Design

Web 1.0: They were the Producers who generate information as much as they could - websites, blogs

Web 1.5: they were the Distributors who makes informations reachable to as many as possible - search engines like Google, youtube

Web 2.0: and lately they become the Tastemakers, who directs people/traffic to specific information via reviews/ratings/tags/links/embeds/etc, based on their own opinions and self-interests - social networking programs, Diggs, stumbleUpon, technorati,etc

"Your products and your customers are your ads, and so are your employess." Robert Scoble, FastCompany.tv

Even Joshua Bell can't escape consumerism

Joshua Bell the violinist performing in Washington DC Subway:

What commodification does is teaching people to read labels, dollar signs and brands to determine what's valuable: A performance given by Joshua Bell at the National Theater with tickets sold at hundreds of dollars drew sell-out crowds, while the same performance given for Free at the subway station the very next day caught no attention and interests in the crowd, except for one girl in the end, who happened to recognize Bell initially via his previous appearance, but still not his work. Consumerism can sometime blind our perceptions in discovering the real value that often constructs those labels/dollars/brands.

"當你看的懂 聽的懂 一見事情 一個道理以後, 並不代表你會.
當你會的時候, 並不代表你會做的很好.
當你做的很好以後, 並不代表你做的最好."
- 郭建良, album producer

Collective Design Intelligence

" I don't suggest that design should be a democracy. But shouldn't design at least be a conversation? Designers can put their ideas on the web. Customers can make suggestions and discuss them. Designers can take the best ideas and adapt them, giving credit where it is due." - Jeff Jarvis

Although Starchitects and single authorship will probably never disappear in the design industry, however, as our world becomes more flattened and interconnected due to hardware (broadband, wifi, smart phones, portable notebooks, etc) and software (social networking, blogs, Google) ubiquity, the number of off-mainstream & off-the-shelf design opportunities for the amateur or the 'not-yet-famous' becomes greater.

A decade later
Starchitects will continue to serve the rich and powerful elites, covering 5 % of total commissions & clients...and diminishing, but its the Emergent Designers who will accommodate the needs of the mass of niches, which accounts for the rest 95%...and increasing, meaning if a portion of niches are gathered, they will combined to achieve more significant cultural influence over a major starchitects' project. Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory has been true in movies, music, and publishing industry, design might also be true. Whats for sure is that Internet allows present and future of design process to run on open-meritocracy over hierarchy.

Design is in the service industry

Observe changes in which other disciplines are conducting their businesses and innovative means of establishing relationships with public and ask potential clients "How may I help them to make what they wish to do Better?"

好想童年的回憶

躲避球 操場 運動會 畫畫 月考 早自習 營養午餐 糾察隊 打手心 訓導處 娃娃車 涼麵 小龍包 麥克雞塊 七龍珠 蠟筆小星 櫻木花道 大雄 297公車

童年就像這首歌很輕鬆愉快 度過無憂無慮的時光...




時光機

牆角迎風的雛菊
茉莉花開的香氣
閉上眼回到過去

劃分界線的桌椅
下課卻靠在一起
我就是離不開妳

一路乘著溜滑梯
我們說好走到底
以為從此就分離

用黑板上的日期 倒數找妳
慢慢清晰 原來思念妳
是加了糖的消息
我用鉛筆 畫的很仔細
素描那年天氣 蟬鳴的夏季
我想遇見妳

那童年的希望是一台時光機
我可以一路開心到底 都不換氣
戴竹蜻蜓 穿過那森林
打開了任意門找到妳 一起旅行
那童年的希望是一台時光機
妳我翻滾過的榻榻米 味道熟悉
所有回憶 在小叮噹口袋裡
一起盪鞦韆的默契
在風中持續著甜蜜

周杰倫
方文山

Meaning of "Just do It."

Employees of Nike are told by their managers to better seek 'forgiveness' than 'permission', so just do it !

"Sometimes, success can blind you to the oncoming possibility of failure. And fear of failure can keep you from success." - Jeff Jarvis

Architecture/music/mood

"Architecture is like the soundtrack of a movie; it controls the way we feel about the movie, although we never quite pay attention to it. We are always giving credit to the actors, producers, cinematographers, but its really the music in the background that tells us the plot and how to feel." - Jeffrey Kipnis

"Success seems to be largely a matter of Hanging On after others have let go" - Willim Feather