Feeling free inside oneself is being free. A quote by Rei Kawakubo. I found I haven't got time to spare for updating this blog. Yes I am extremely busy and I have no obligation to update. Still that doesn't mean I don't have things to say, feelings to be noted, and images to keep in my mind. I find Rei Kawakubo's clear and brilliant words fit to me right now.
I get up a bit early, at around 5 am every morning. I spend 2 or 2.5 hours before I leave my place to office, so not much of an early bird in the office. I believe morning time is too comfortable to be spent for work at office. But sometimes I write this blog in 10 or 15 minutes in these morning times. Morning activity is good in two ways, first : you have energy full charged, and second : you cannot spend too much time because you must be in time for work, so naturally your thoughts runs sharper and brighter. Then I reread it some time later in the day and most likely feel that I liked my writing. It sounds clearer and more lively than the other time I write. It's official. I am clear, sharp, bright and lively in the morning. Now I am writing this in the middle of night, when I am not supposed to be best to write, well because, my blog doesn't have to be perfect.
It is always nice to see people sitting on a chair and feel relaxed, calm and laid back. We take it granted that chairs are there for us but they do a great job everyday. Chair can support us and provide us a little but only independent space to makes us comfort and peaceful, and to get us ready for the next action. This is something I discovered at the airport lounge, not in the luxurious one, but in the narrow and crowded corridor filled with chairs. People sit, eat, work, sleep, chat and wait for their flight. People can do all these things because simply, chairs are there. Then I remebered that so many greatest designers and architects have created chairs as their masterpiece work. I'm almost thrilled to feel that I should learn more about the design of chairs, because they're just wonderful.
I grew up in a modernized, tidy and large city in a local area. The city has a blessing combination of fun of modern city life and rich nature. My early life was so much in the latter as my family had been living in a garden suburb. The condominium was built on the bank of the river and between the two long and gently-sloping hills. The whole area was full of green. Actually everything but the road was filled with and surrounded by rich green. I spent my childhood here from age of 5 to 18, so it's no doubt how I need to be close to green and feel extremely familiar with the sight of green.
At that time in my room I used to devote myself to music, drawing, reading, thinking and imagining. At night the outside of the room was a very quiet suburb landscape of river, hill and trees. There was nothing that distracted my attention, and everything encouraged my pleasure and training of deep reflection, free imagination and scrutiny of generating words.
Today, living in a middle of the capital city, not just almost everything outside my window urges me to go out, take some action and have some new experience, but also a great amount of SNS posts and messages are always interrupting me (which, of course I am enjoying very much). From my friend's lucky experience to the world's greatest or funniest moment are floating around me 24 hours a day. It's so hard to feel in the quiet evening as if I were the only one who is awake at the moment, just as I used to feel in my younger age in my quiet suburb life, but sometime the sense of the moment suddenly comes up. Probably, this is a sort of the-end-of-summer-feeling.
How can the Internet of Things make our life happier, healthier and funnier? There we've been aware of tons of great innovations and ideas. Electronic appliance, furniture, house, car, watch can be not only intelligent but also connect with internet and database around the world. Our environment can possibly read our mind and learn what we want before we decide what we want. But the image that has impressed me most as an almost-real vision of future bond between technology and human is, the laboratory in the Iron Man. There he can talk with Jarvis, an artificial intelligence, but more like a butler than a robot, and with a quick wave and move of his hands as if he was touching, tapping, swiping and pinching an invisible large iPad, he can structure the virtual reality modeling and the next moment (at least in the movie) the model becomes a real thing. What is cool and wonderful here is he is totally controlling the information, intelligence and virtual reality which surround him, with a very clear vision of what he is going to do, what he wants and what he would like to create. If the ordinary things can be so smart, we should go beyond and become more aware of what we can do and what we can bring to innovate the real world.
