Saturday, January 23, 2010

舊聞: the impossible project

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Quote of the Generation I

from Tarnac 9 via Chor

This book is signed in the name of an imaginary collective. Its editors are not its authors. They were content merely to introduce a little order into the common-places of our time, collecting some of the murmurings around barroom tables and behind closed bedroom doors. They’ve done nothing more than lay down a few necessary truths, whose universal repression fills psychiatric hospitals with patients, and eyes with pain. They’ve made themselves scribes of the situation. It’s the privileged feature of radical circumstances that a rigorous application of logic leads to revolution. It’s enough just to say what is before our eyes and not to shrink from the conclusions.


"As an attempted solution, the pressure to ensure that nothing happens, together with police surveillance of the territory, will only intensify."

"The impasse of the present, everywhere in evidence, is everywhere denied."

"There will be no end of psychologists, sociologists, and literary hacks applying themselves to the case, each with a specialized jargon from which the conclusions are especially absent."

"“I AM WHAT I AM.” This is marketing’s latest offering to the world, the final stage in the development of advertising, far beyond all the exhortations to be different, to be oneself and drink Pepsi. Decades of concepts in order to get where we are, to arrive at pure tautology. I = I."

"Our feeling of inconsistency is simply the consequence of this foolish belief in the permanence of the self and of the little care we give to what makes us what we are."

"Intelligence doesn’t mean knowing how to adapt – or if that is a kind of intelligence, it’s the intelligence of slaves."

"And to whom do the children of this era belong, to television or their parents?"

"...we get down on all fours to climb the ladders of hierarchy, but privately flatter ourselves that we don’t really give a shit."

Saturday, January 16, 2010

從上亞厘畢道回來

是晚本有公司的活動(對不起...),明天還要開工,之後更有火箭計劃的workshop,但仍是忍不住要去。

從林村,的士在公路上往中環跑,腦袋一片空白。

站在立法局外面,聽著會議廣播,腦袋更空白。虛偽已是前設,而議員之質素,無論你能想像到他們可有多低劣,卻永遠永遠低劣至你想像之外。荒謬。有一刻,我們在笑謝偉俊曲線拉布,下一刻,我知道那是真心膠。真切誠懇、毫無保留、奮不顧身地,當一隻狗。這是什麼世界。要是你當下對整件事仍然沒意見,決定做個沒事人的話,我尊重。只願你永遠沒機會成為被欺壓的一群。但刻下的情況,暗示著,這樣走下去,根本沒一個香港人能躲得過。

我並不激動。我只想社會盡量多一點公義。很久以前見識過衝突,永不希望在這個城市在我們的人當中發生。不要以為流血很壯麗。就算是再少的血,只要你親眼目到,都是一件很可怕的事。手會抖的。所以,要是你會去支持,無論在什麼情況下,請冷靜,及盡量令你身邊的人都冷靜。



Tuesday, January 12, 2010

八十後.高鐵.SoCO

一.
上星期為著火箭昇空計劃,夜訪SoCO的阿東。說的是在壓力團體內當十九年社工的事。說著說著,眼都紅了。是為什麼,我不知道,但肯定不是辛苦委屈或是什麼。他眼淚滴下來一剎,正翻著圖片,說自己做得不夠好。圖片之內,是一位請願時以口罩掩面的露宿者。香港並無法例不許露宿,但有關當局用盡辦法,不是安排,而是趕走他們,阿東說。他重複著,自己做得不夠好不夠好。為何當人去爭取基本權利時,無法光明正大。自己做得不夠好不夠好,他斷斷續續重複著。

二.
對,很多人每日都為我城製造著導致社會不和諧、不安寧的問題。當中包括你和我。不如回歸問題基本。是因為什麼。發展成就了我們每一為位,但你知道,有限資源下,地球也只不過零和遊戲一場。能往上站高了一點,因為下面有人撐著。現實是,從自身以至社會,我們也許都沒能力改變,不過可以體諒尊重。連發聲的權利都被掠奪,沒道理。我希望,如果有一天,你要是站在那些位置,請你都不要放棄。

三.
對於高鐵,我本來不聞不問,不支持不反對。但事實是,不能一地兩檢,這條高鐵根本不能高速行駛。事實是,總站建在所謂的市中心其實不是市中心。然後,還有鬼祟的資詢,沒數據支持的研究。為何仍然有人只將重點放在菜園村。我不明白。你想要是哪種生活。矇著心眼的只是生存。珠三角一小時生活圈,其實是珠三角一小時生存圈。

四.
八十後,我拉衫尾緊緊八十後少少。你喜歡的話,叫我八十後,可以。叫我做七十/八十中間,也都可以。你覺得我怨天地,買樓要有club house,就不可以。因為,十蚊三件的甜糕,我明知自己吃不完,會寧願貴一點四蚊買一件。club house不是我們的需要,是你們十蚊三件的技倆而已。帽子任你扣,不成問題。你扣了我帽子,我並不會因此而死去的。但人啊人,可否面對現實。為反對而反對,tweet上讀到:你試下而家話唔咁樣起高鐵睇下D人係咪都反對你咪知D人係咪為反對而反對囉。

五.
要是你都讀過下面這些,會更心寒。

每日一膠.荒謬的香港/ 香港警察變袁木鐵證
香港高登討論區/ 唔該搵人CAP警區討論個張圖send去生果報之類

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

舊聞:埋黎睇埋黎揀HappySocks

聖誕前經過中環連卡彿,Pattern怪如我眼見滿枱七彩蝦條Happy Socks,開心得不得了。未及趨前揀款,已經拿銀包準備付錢。大中細size齊備,$250 for 3。可全是pre-pack的三對包裝,揀啊揀,翻來覆去,也找不到一pack三對都想要的。卒之,將人家滿枱花襪翻得七零八落,然後,走人。回到家,不忿氣,上網找。蝦蝦蝦,有喎。雖然價錢平不了多少,但勝在任睇任揀,款式比連卡彿多,兼且買一對都得。




老老實實,本人少著襪,但靚得咁緊要,好難抗拒。想人見到而又想低調,唯有捲起少少褲腳,或,一坐低就蹺腳,等條褲自然束起。

美金$10一對,用歐羅則要€7.00,計起來差不得幾多。最重要的是,買四對就Free Shipping。送禮自用皆宜,所以,我買左,好多。

揀寶襪:http://happysocks.com

Sunday, January 03, 2010

記載差遣與恐懼

就是整天聽到怪叫。禁不住要想,那是真實存在的怪叫,還是並不存在的怪叫。但要是我聽到了,那怪叫的真實與否,重要嗎。okay。算。

還有整個月都在想,難道我都是pure o(嗱,唔要呀,我個頭搞左好耐先搞得返好)。雖然有相似病徵,大抵應該不是,因為,自以為什麼什麼的人,多數都並不什麼什麼。例如,自覺好有型的人,多數並不有型。