Monday, June 1, 2009

我們不會忘記


今天參加紀念六四的遊行,轉眼間已二十年了。

一九八九年,我才十歲,還記得當時每天乘車上學都會經過新華社的門口,只見四周掛滿橫額。電視機播著天安門廣場的片段,漆黑一片.只聽見一些啪、啪聲,火花從黑色的畫面閃過。

當時並不知道發生了什麼事情,記得一位從北京來的朋友說他表哥在廣場內,緊鄰的人中彈了。

香港罷工、罷課了一天。

大家都不喜歡李鵬,說要有一圍酒席是煮那些奸臣⋯
最後,有一位名叫袁木的人在發言,說沒六四清場中沒死過一個人。而我看著他的樣子,知道他對著千千萬中國人面前說大話,謊話。我在那刻哭了,並永遠記下這頭冷血畜生的名字。

每次聽到這首歌就想說:中國人,我們要爭取做人的尊嚴,做人的權利,從歷史中汲取教訓。

腐敗的思想只會令我國滅亡。

學生們沒有思想表達的權利,還有什麼文明可言?

為已死去北京的大學生和四川的小學生默哀,願我國的同胞有天能一同呼吸真正自由的空氣。

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Pretty ugly


This giant China Life billboard located in Wan Chai Hennessy Road. Everyday I go to work will see this, and I start thinking, studying, and understand: Sometimes, keep things simple can also make the layout look awful, photoshop effect won’t make things
look better. But make the whole scene look dumb. Bad composition, bad art direction also kill everything. Why they can ask Yao Ming to shoot this ad, but not make things look nicer and more professional? Should China Life hire better designer to work on this advertisement? Or China Life should stop wasting money on making ads? Or Yao Ming just do this for free and they got no budget to hire better designer to do this?
I start thinking about people in Hong Kong could not judge what is pretty or ugly or what they want is "pretty ugly"?

Sunday, May 10, 2009

MILK


Art Direction is always the part that draw my attention to the movies. Like The Royal Tennebraums 2001. I love the art direction a lot. The 60s style costumes, the weird personality of the actors and the music in the movie are so great. All they need is a good story line which I think is the most important thing for a movie. A movie that touch our heart.

Digging into the imDB, I find out Halsted Craig Hannah is the graphic designer in MILK, which I loved those signs of how they have been created, so simple but strong and powerful!

Milk is a story about Harvey Milk, a gay politician in the US. I couldn't believe coming out as being gay will be so dangerous in those days. I feel lucky, because nowadays, seems like more people could accept this. But who knows what happen later in our society? As you could see, some religious group still think that homosexual is abnormal. Same sex marriage is still banned in lots of countries. Will our mind going backwards and be more conservative? Did Darwin mention Human Devolution? I hope one day, I could tell my kids about our stories. And that day would exist.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Why We still smoke?


Looking our government promotion will drive me crazy. Sometimes, we need direct and bold message to tell people why we quit smoking. In Hong Kong, you will see ads like below: A beautiful cool lady, a happy family with elderly and kids. What is this about??? Quit smoking and you will be like them?? What about I keep smoking and still look like them?? Why I need to quit smoking? And the answer is in the copy, which we couldn't see them at all!

I don't know what's the logic of our government anymore. I feel frustrated to our government. I know why Wong Yuk Man and Long Hair Leung will give Banana as gift to Donald Tsang. I know why we want to say PK to someone who is really PK.

Sometimes, we need to be more direct. To the people who pretend they are elegant. To the people who take away our rights to express what we feel. To the people who is not honest to the citizens. To the people who is selfish to others.

I want to live in a real world. Let me know about the truth.