Outfit of the extra-level quality and creativity. That's what I describe haute couture. But I am so sure this is not enough. Most of us have no chance to actually wear haute couture in our lives and so we may not be able to fully and truly understand the value of these clothes. We just can look at them at the exhibition as if they are art works, and yes, actually they are. We only can imagine how perfectly they would function, and how marvelously they would make you beautiful. There are several different things around us that might be made by hand and customized for each person and outfits are the literally closest to you and thus the most personal ones. That's why the power of clothes are strong, if demonstrated correctly. I felt nothing but admiration and aspiration after seeing the finest collection of Paris haute couture exhibition. At the same time I felt some gratitude to my daily clothes for what they are, even though they are absolutely far far away from the universe of haute couture.
There comes white little flowers from the basil I put in the water. I would like just to share the joy of living with real life, watching their daily change.
I was on a short break from a project I have been working on (though I had to join two conference calls during my break). I thought of visiting a fine exhibition of architecture. I knew I could go to the wonderful exhibition of Foster+Partners in town. In the past several months I visited exhibitions of Oscar Niemeyer and Frank Gehry, both of which were excellent. I never doubted works of Norman Foster also would attract me a lot.
But I failed to see it because it was too late. The exhibition had already closed. Then I was even more interested in the architect and his works. I googled everything and found he liked flying, he was one of the most admired modernism architect, and he designed Apple's new headquarter building. It's like, I was meant to be enchanted by his design and works.
I remember when I was first interested in Le Corbusier, I had similar experience. I was a student in junior high, and one day my mother and I went to visit his exhibition held in a town away from our home. Then we went, only to find the exhibition was closed on that day. I was so much disappointed and at the same time, looking at the wonderful posters of his works, got a really strong aspiration to learn more about the architect.
Missing opportunities are not a fun, but sometimes it clarifies something you really want to know and drives you to reach it no matter what obstacle you might have.
After 20 lessons since last autumn, I'm getting more and more enchanted by Tai-Chi. One of the coolest things I learned is the way I feel better, concentrated but also streaming and free when I try to perform the Tai-Chi move. It's amazing because even if the moves look fixed set of forms, it's also an elegant flow, and furthermore it is a martial arts. Here's some of the insightful words I had in my recent lessons.
"Our body is standing on the bone."
"Always move along a circle."
"Not to move your arms with power, but to move them along with a move of weight"
"Let the arms flow naturally."
"When you are under attack, get out of the way, dudge it and lose the balance of the attacker."
Today, 29th Monday, February 2016 is well known to be the 366th day added to match the calendar cycle to astronomic cycle of the earth. A research says that if there had not been this adjustment, today should have been 15th July, 2017. Sometimes it is a bit reassuring to know the rules and system of our society are not that perfect and we need to adjust it, because if something is not perfect it will be able to be improved. Today is no holiday for most of the workers around the world, but I take my own holiday and I'm enjoying it tracking the social networks showing the beautiful people and the latest news of Academy Awards 2016, in the middle of terribly busy-and-difficult project I'm working on.
(I sense this is just not the year for celebrating SF movies including The Martian and The Force Awakens, which I liked much among the nominees.)
People needs to be paid proper attention. That's no doubt the principle which drives human thoughts and behavior. It works in school, job, family, between your friends, brothers and sisters, colleagues and boss, and of course your love interests. The complicated thing is the definition of "proper" sometimes causes misunderstanding and trouble. But don't give up because you can communicate. Sometimes you can stand up and claim for proper attention which you think you well deserve. You can ignore and reject improper attention that you never wish to accept, and say "it's none of your business". And as well, you should think from time to time if you pay proper and enough attention to the people around you who needs your attention.
And this time I try to write a movie review in other language. Somehow, English makes me write faster. "The Martian" is about a comedy-SF-drama which praises the courage, intelligence and most of all the power of humor. That makes me like this movie very much. Even though we don't live alone on mars with limited food and air and water, while you only have solitude and terror of being crashed at any moment, we spend our own terrible moments in our lives and the key of how you can survive it is essentially the same thing that was described in the movie. But allow me to skip these important themes as tons of great reviews referring to it are already on. Personally the movie reminded me of my primitive idea of what kind of architecture the human would be able to live in space in the further, which I was thinking (seriously) when I studied architecture in university. My trivial idea resulted in nothing, but watching the movie I remembered it and thought what was missing in my view at that time. In mars you're surrounded by nothing but a red dry desert. In spaceship you're surrounded by darkness of night. You have to live in those environment. Then how architecture, engineering and design can light up it and make people comfortable and cheerful regardless of the environment? I think the key is a sense of humor.
