I really sometimes see the airplanes landing on the runway as the flock of birds. It's not that they look like birds (they don't), but they're like the migratory birds busily landing and flying away in every 10 minutes.
Although I like the finest, modern airports and do respects who creat them, my opinion is airports should be functionally simple. Airports are for jets, not for jet-sets. Airports are for managing the secure and organized flights as quick and comfortable as possibe, and offering a safe place for the high-tech iron birds to feed them and support their cross-border travel.
When looking at too much commercialized or too much localized airports I must say I feel confused. Do they have to be equipped with so many amusement for tourlist, especially in the age when almost everyone has its own i-something gadget to pass time? And isn't airport an international common place, which allows passengers a temporarily care-free time without minding the local differences outside the airport?
2011-09-05
2011-09-03
165 Triangle
ガレット・ブルトンヌ(Galette bretonne、フランスのそば粉パンケーキ)は普通円い生地を四角く折りたたむものだと思っていましたが、この店では三角でした。しかも正三角形。
新聞紙でも切り取って試してみればわかりますが、円形を正三角形に(つまり、円に内接する正三角形に)折りたたもうとすると中央が空いてしまいます。この店ではどうやって作るのでしょう?上手くたたまれていましたが、もちろん、初等幾何学をちゃんと覚えていれば分かったかもしれません。
それにしても三角形というのはあまり食事に登場しないようです。角が尖がっていていかにも量が少なそうに見えるからでしょうか?ピザの一片はちがいます。あれは底辺が弧を描いているので、三角形ではありません(幾何学ではこういう形を何と呼ぶのでしょうか?)
さて三角形のガレットを食べてみて分かりました。生地に包まれた中央に温かい卵やズッキーニ、サーモンやハーブが詰めこまれているのですが、角から食べていくと、あとになればなるほど(中央に近づくほど)ガレットの面積もボリュームも段々と増えていくので、実は大変な満足感を味わうことになったのです。
新聞紙でも切り取って試してみればわかりますが、円形を正三角形に(つまり、円に内接する正三角形に)折りたたもうとすると中央が空いてしまいます。この店ではどうやって作るのでしょう?上手くたたまれていましたが、もちろん、初等幾何学をちゃんと覚えていれば分かったかもしれません。
それにしても三角形というのはあまり食事に登場しないようです。角が尖がっていていかにも量が少なそうに見えるからでしょうか?ピザの一片はちがいます。あれは底辺が弧を描いているので、三角形ではありません(幾何学ではこういう形を何と呼ぶのでしょうか?)
さて三角形のガレットを食べてみて分かりました。生地に包まれた中央に温かい卵やズッキーニ、サーモンやハーブが詰めこまれているのですが、角から食べていくと、あとになればなるほど(中央に近づくほど)ガレットの面積もボリュームも段々と増えていくので、実は大変な満足感を味わうことになったのです。
2011-08-29
164 Intelligence
Anna Karina
I think it is the way people laugh that inevitably and brilliantly shows his/her intelligence. A cheerful, clear and honest laughter makes you believe that the person has refinement, good nature and good sense of communication, which I call is intelligence.
2011-08-28
163 Tiffany Blue
©Tiifany & Co.
アクアマリンにほぼ近く、わずかに緑がかった明るい色、ケンブリッジ・ブルーに一番近いと思うのですが、その色をTiffanyのシグネチャー・カラーのような青という意味で"Tiffany Blue"と一般に呼ぶのかと思っていました。その色が実は、同社が19世紀に創業した時から商標登録されていることを最近知りました。「Tiffanyのような色」ではなく「Tiffanyの色」というわけです。
Similar to aquamarine, but with a slightest greenish brightness, which I think is most close to cambridge blue, that the color is generally called "Tiffany Blue" because it resembles the signature blue color of Tiffany & Co., was my understanding. In fact it has been protected as a color trademark since its foundation in 19th century. The color is not "like Tiffany" but "the very Tiffany."
では彼らに倣い自分のアイデンティティたりうる色をひとつだけ決めるとしたら?好きな色はすぐに幾つか思いつきます。中でも一番好きな色を決めるのもそれほど難しくはないでしょう。自分ならネイヴィー・ブルーです。しかし、子供の頃はセルリアン・ブルーかスカイ・ブルーでした。数年前ならライム・グリーン。世紀を越えてとまで言わなくても、自分のライフタイム全てを象徴するひとつの色など、決められるものでしょうか。
So if you follow them and choose one and only color that idetifies yourself? You might probably come up with one or two of your favorite colors soon. It's not so hard to name the most favorite among them. Mine is navy blue. But in my childhood it used to be cerulean blue or sky blue. A few years ago it was lime green. It seems impossible to pick up one color to symbolize one's whole lifetime, not to say as much as over the century, doesn't it?
結論;
ある企業をつねに象徴する永久不変のテーマカラーをひとつ決めるのは、自分の人生に置き換えてみればどれだけ難しいことかわかる。
Conclusion;
Try to pick up just one color that embodies yourself in your own life. You'd understand how difficult it might be to choose one signature color that symbolizes one company always and forever.
2011-08-25
162 The Anthem
Oasis "D'You Know What I Mean?" 1997
彼らの曲はよく「アンセム」と呼ばれました。今でもスポーツの応援歌という意味ではよく使われますが、いわゆる現在のPOP/Rockは、大多数のアンセムより個々のアーティスティックさ、多様さを競うようになったように思います。
わずか10年ほど前、音楽は単純でした。CDを買い、ひたすら聞き、MTVを見てライブに行く。その繰り返しです。ロックスターの影響はいとも単純にファッションにも及びました。彼らが好んで着用していたミリタリー風モッズコートは学生にはひっぱりだこで、大学構内がカーキ色で溢れかえっていました。
"D'You Know What I Mean?"は必ずしもNo.1に挙がる曲ではありませんが、当時は"Coolest thing in the world"でした。今では、まあ、同じ感覚には到底なれないのですが、ドラムは間違いなく最高レベルのcoolnessを備えた曲です。彼らの持ち味である(時に過剰なまでの)「ビートルズっぽさ」が、この曲では珍しく控えられてよりモダンさを発揮しています。人の表情もヘリコプターの滑らかな動きもすべて同じような質感、ちょっと独特の精緻な無機質さで捉えた映像も見事です。
"Coolest thing in the world"で通じるもの、それがつまり「アンセム」です。
2011-08-21
161 A Lady with Crochet
In one evening I was dining in a bagle cafe. I was reading an architectural magazine and began fed up with it. I walked up to the shelf and took a magazine full of Hollywood celebrity news.
Soon after a lady came into the shop and sat at table next to mine. She seemed to be in late 50's, small and plump. Her mussy black hair was without luster, her blotched face was dull, and her outfits were somber. Only her shoes were chic, but overall, she was unlikely a kind of person whom you're wiling to spend some time sitting next to.
I've lost interest in her and stopped watching her. I was back in the report of marriage and divorce of gorgeous people. Then I heard her voice ordering cafe au lait. It was clear and sweet, which would make anyone notice how she was careful about etiquette. It was charming in contrast to her appearance.
When I finished coffee and magazine, she was completely quiet. I gave her a last glance---and was surprised. She was listening to music with earphone from her shining mobile phone and engaged in some crochet. The thing she was knitting was not certain but something made of two different grey and rose pink. It looked less 'granny-made' and was a delicate work. The contrast between her unattractive look and sophisticated act was so vivid. I kept staring at her but she stayed calm perfectly ignoring me.
I felt even I could write her story. She, 'the dull granny' might actually be an arm-chair detective who was solving the case while knitting. She might possibly be an ex-Very Important Person who now off duty. I kept imagining like an ambitious movie producer after I left the shop.
Manwatching hardly makes fun these days, but keep watching, and you will find an unpredictable moment full of surprise and joy, from time to time.
160 Globe Trotter
I think I had better start planning my journey-in-late-summer-or-possibly-early-autumn. I have in my mind some ideal cities for my destination. Any of them will brighten up my vacation.
When I see many happy tourlists from entire planet, sometimes I can't help wondering if it is surely valuable for them to visit here, because I'm not so perfectly certain why my city attracts a great many people. Are you really enjoying my city? Isn't it much more comfortable to stay in your own in the middle of summer?
Then if I go some city, the citizens would say to me, "Why do you come all the way to my country? Is there anything to see?"---this is exactly the question I was asked by a kind young man when I traveled Europe. He even recommended me to change my course to neighbor countries.
For him it might have been odd if I chose the country out of many famed resorts to spend my vacation. It wasn't. I chose the place first and took a vacation. The difference is simple but significant. You have two ways of journey; one for resting yourself in a beautiful scenery and fine food, and other for questing whatever, going wherever you want.
There are double the reason to go round the globe.
When I see many happy tourlists from entire planet, sometimes I can't help wondering if it is surely valuable for them to visit here, because I'm not so perfectly certain why my city attracts a great many people. Are you really enjoying my city? Isn't it much more comfortable to stay in your own in the middle of summer?
Then if I go some city, the citizens would say to me, "Why do you come all the way to my country? Is there anything to see?"---this is exactly the question I was asked by a kind young man when I traveled Europe. He even recommended me to change my course to neighbor countries.
For him it might have been odd if I chose the country out of many famed resorts to spend my vacation. It wasn't. I chose the place first and took a vacation. The difference is simple but significant. You have two ways of journey; one for resting yourself in a beautiful scenery and fine food, and other for questing whatever, going wherever you want.
There are double the reason to go round the globe.
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