Thursday, December 31, 2009

Avatar 3 : Make the Bond !


在電影Avatar 裡,最令我著迷的,
除了比任何飛機都靈活快速的大靈鳥外,
就是人與萬物之間的連結;
神經叢的傳輸,記憶,溝通,會意與連結;
一種不需言語的,用心電感應,用感覺頻率的方式,
用眼神,用呼吸,用意念,用心....

與你連結。

與大地連結,與週遭連結,像這株大樹一樣,擁有精神,擁有生命,擁有靈魂!

"我要如何找到哪一隻靈鳥,才是屬於我的?
選擇了我? 能與我連結的,唯一的靈鳥?"

答案令我佩服....
"是那一隻,嘗試殺了你的!!
你必須征服它, 打敗它!!
馬上與他作心的連結,與它一起翱翔天際,它就屬於你了!"

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Next Five in Five : 5 New Technologies

(IBM)最近公布第四屆「未來五年的五大創新」(Next Five in Five)預測報告,鑒於人類城市化趨勢日益顯著,去年居住在城市的人口更首次超過全球總人口的半數,今年預測未來五年可能改變城市人類生活、工作和遊戲方式的五大創新科技。

一、城市將擁有更健康的免疫機制:由於人口密度不斷增長,城市持續成為疾病和疫情傳染的溫床。不過,「健康網路」(health internet)緊急系統將提供市政府、醫院、學校和工作場所更佳的監測、追蹤和預防機制。

二。「智慧建築」(smart buildings)的趨勢已然展開:未來新科技將管理建築物內部,包括暖氣、飲用水、汙水處理和供電等系統。在器材損毀前便可自動回報,其緊急裝置也可立即反應,而消費者和企業主可透過監測,節省能源和減少碳排放量。

三、電動汽車和巴士將日益普及:以非石化燃料為動力,相較於氫氣和生質燃料等新能源,IBM看好效能提升後的電動車電池,可望成為最受歡迎的綠色能源。新一代的電動車電池將可數日甚至數個月不需充電,一次充電可行駛四百八十至八百公里。

四、智慧的系統用水:城市對水的需求在未來五十年將增加六倍,為此,城市將建立智慧型供水系統,節省五○%的水資源浪費。而先進的淨水科技將可幫助城市在當地將湖泊和河流的水資源淨化為飲用水,並且循環和再利用水資源,而預計輸送飲用水的能源消耗可減少二○%。

五、城市可迅速對事故或危機做出反應IBM並未明說此一科技系統將如何建立。

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Avatar 2 : Hindu Gods Reincarnation


Avatar is a 2009 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.

In 1994, director James Cameron wrote a 114-page scriptment for Avatar.[5]

Avatar is centered around the themes of imperialism and biodiversity.[46] Cameron has said that Avatar shares themes with At Play in the Fields of the Lord, and The Emerald Forest, which feature clashes between cultures and civilizations, and acknowledged the film's connection with Dances With Wolves, where a battered soldier finds himself drawn to the tribal culture he was initially fighting against.[47]
In a 2007 interview with Time magazine, Cameron addressed the meaning of the film's title, answering the question "What is an avatar, anyway?" Cameron stated, "It's an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form." He said that "[i]n this film what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body". Cameron stated, "It's not an avatar in the sense of just existing as ones and zeroes in cyberspace. It's actually a physical body."[4]
At Comic Con 2009, Cameron told attendees that he wanted to make "something that has this spoonful of sugar of all the action and the adventure and all that". He wanted this to thrill him "as a fan" but also have a conscience "that maybe in the enjoying of it makes you think a little bit about the way you interact with nature and your fellow man".[48] He added that "the Na'vi represent something that is our higher selves, or our aspirational selves, what we would like to think we are" and that even though there are good humans within the film, the humans "represent what we know to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world and maybe condemning ourselves to a grim future".[48]

----Wiki, Avatar----

Saturday, December 26, 2009

"Avatar" :Listen to your Heart !


With “Avatar” James Cameron has turned one man’s dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life — our moviegoing life included — as we know it.

An Eden in three dimensions, that is. In keeping with his maximalist tendencies, Mr. Cameron has shot “Avatar” in 3-D (because many theaters are not equipped to show 3-D, the movie will also be shown in the usual 2), an experiment that serves his material beautifully. This isn’t the 3-D of the 1950s or even contemporary films, those flicks that try to give you a virtual poke in the eye with flying spears. Rather Mr. Cameron uses 3-D to amplify the immersive experience of spectacle cinema. Instead of bringing you into the movie with the customary tricks, with a widescreen or even Imax image filled with sweeping landscapes and big action, he uses 3-D seemingly to close the space between the audience and the screen. He brings the movie to you.

After a few minutes the novelty of people and objects hovering above the row in front of you wears off, and you tend not to notice the 3-D, which speaks to the subtlety of its use and potential future applications. Mr. Cameron might like to play with high-tech gadgets, but he’s an old-fashioned filmmaker at heart, and he wants us to get as lost in his fictional paradise as Jake eventually does. On the face of it there might seem something absurd about a movie that asks you to thrill to a natural world made almost entirely out of zeroes and ones (and that feeds you an anticorporate line in a corporately financed entertainment). But one of the pleasures of the movies is that they transport us, as Neytiri does with Jake, into imaginary realms, into Eden and over the rainbow to Oz.

If the story of a paradise found and potentially lost feels resonant, it’s because “Avatar” is as much about our Earth as the universe that Mr. Cameron has invented. But the movie’s truer meaning is in the audacity of its filmmaking.

Few films return us to the lost world of our first cinematic experiences, to that magical moment when movies really were bigger than life (instead of iPhone size), if only because we were children. Movies rarely carry us away, few even try. They entertain and instruct and sometimes enlighten. Some attempt to overwhelm us, but their efforts are usually a matter of volume. What’s often missing is awe, something Mr. Cameron has, after an absence from Hollywood, returned to the screen with a vengeance. He hasn’t changed cinema, but with blue people and pink blooms he has confirmed its wonder.
---New York Times ---

Thursday, December 24, 2009

滄海一聲笑


笑傲江湖,滄海一聲笑:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDPJsRg7SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUVhD1-libQ&NR=1

滄海笑,滔滔兩岸潮,浮沉隨浪記今朝?
蒼天笑, 紛紛世上潮,誰負誰勝出天知曉?
江山笑,煙雨遙,濤浪濤盡紅塵俗事知多少?
清風笑,竟惹寂寥,豪情還賸了一襟晚照。
蒼生笑,不再寂寥,豪情仍在痴痴笑笑....

Monday, December 21, 2009

金瓶梅 3 : 潘金蓮的馭夫術

潘金蓮的妖媚的名聲遠播已有五六百年,如今可謂是家喻戶曉,人盡皆知。但是卻有很少人去考慮潘金蓮這個“尤物”能讓男人們能拜倒在自己石榴裙下的真實原因。   “

尤物”,這是中國歷史上許多文人對美艷女人的稱呼,唐代著名詩人白居易在《八駿圖歌》中寫道:“由來尤物不在大,能蕩君心則可害”;北宋著名詩人蘇軾在《初食荔枝詩》中也吟出:“不知天工有意無,遣此尤物生海隅”的詩句,凡此種種,不一而足,皆以美艷女人為能移人性情的“尤物”,寓褒於貶,令人深思。而明末清初的著名文人李笠翁則認為“尤物”之所以能移人性情在很大程度上有賴於她的“媚態”。同時代的戲曲家李漁也認為女人要博得丈夫的喜歡,要讓男人們神魂顛倒,“媚態”是絕對必要的。而潘金蓮身上所具備的,正是令男人們神魂顛倒的“媚態”。也就是說潘金蓮,並不是那種有色無香的塑料花一樣徒具美艷的女性,她是那種既具“魔鬼身材”,又有“尤物之媚”的“色、香、味”俱全的女人。   

有人就曾坦言,潘金蓮在中國古代說部中雖然不是一枝獨秀,也是少數富有女人味的角色之一。多少男人痛罵潘金蓮,不見得不想潘金蓮。看《金瓶梅》,在很大程度上就是看潘金蓮;沒潘金蓮的世界如《金瓶梅》第八十七回“武都頭殺嫂祭兄”以後,就索然無味。多少讀者感謝蘭陵笑笑生筆下留情,沒有如《水滸》早早處死潘金蓮,這才會使從第一回到第八十七回潘金蓮活躍其間的錦繡文章有如此好看。   

潘金蓮之所以能讓男人們拜倒在自己的石榴裙下,靠的就是“色、香、味”俱全的御夫術。 
  
首先說潘金蓮的“色”。其實“色”就是美色。潘金蓮的美色是不容置疑的,在當時的清河縣是無人可比的。《水滸傳》中第二十三回“王婆貪賄說風情,鄆哥不忿鬧茶肆”一章中說,“那清河縣裡,有一個大戶人家,有個使女,娘家姓潘,小名喚做金蓮;年方二十餘歲,頗有顏色。”這一章還描寫了西門慶與潘金蓮第一次邂逅的情形:一日,這婦人收拾家中的簾兒時,“正手裡拿叉竿不牢,失手滑將倒去,不端不正,卻好打在那人頭巾上。那人立住了腳,意思要發作;回過臉來看時,卻是一個妖嬈的婦人,先自酥了半邊,那怒氣直鑽過“爪哇國”去了,變坐笑吟吟的臉兒。”《金瓶梅》第二回“俏潘娘簾下勾情,老王婆茶坊說技”一章中則說得更為精彩。西門慶與潘金蓮不期邂逅之時,西門慶的眼裡的潘金蓮“翠彎彎的新月的眉兒,香噴噴櫻桃口兒,直隆隆瓊瑤鼻兒,粉濃濃紅艷腮兒,嬌滴滴銀盆臉兒,輕裊裊花朵身兒,玉纖纖蔥枝手兒,一捻捻楊柳腰兒,軟濃濃粉白肚兒,窄星星尖翹腳兒,肉奶奶胸兒,白生生腿兒……”可見,潘金蓮就是那種男人一見就心驚肉跳、不能自持的“美貌妖嬈的婦人。如果看了第一眼就覺得如此,那麼到了床上那還不讓男人們魂飛魄散,死去活來?   

其次說說潘金蓮的“香”。其實所謂女人香並非實指女人的玉體噴香,而是指女人的才藝。一個無才無藝的女人即便是泡在香水裡,也難以吸引住男人的眼睛,只有色藝雙全的女人才是最香艷的女人。而潘金蓮就是這種可以牢牢吸引男人眼睛的最香艷的女人。西門慶和潘金蓮幽會之初,潘金蓮的色藝使西門慶神魂顛倒,格外亢奮。《金瓶梅》第六回“何九受賄瞞天,王婆幫閒遇雨”中就寫的十分香艷:   

西門慶與婦人重斟美酒,交杯疊股而飲。西門慶飲酒中間,看見婦人壁上掛著一面琵琶,便道:“久聞你善彈,今日好歹彈個曲兒我下酒。”婦人笑道:“奴自幼粗學一兩句,不十分好。你卻休要恥笑。”西門慶一面取下琵琶來,摟婦人在懷,看他放在膝兒上,輕舒玉箏,款弄冰弦,慢慢彈著,低聲唱著:冠兒不帶懶梳妝,髻挽青絲雲鬢光,金釵斜插在烏雲上。喚梅香,開籠箱,穿一套素縞衣裳,打扮的是西施模樣。出繡房,梅香,你與我捲起簾兒,燒一炷兒夜香。西門慶聽了,歡喜的沒入腳處,一手摟過婦人粉頸來,就親了個嘴,稱誇道:“誰知姐姐有這段兒聰明,就是小人在勾欄,三街兩巷相交唱的,也沒你這手好彈唱!”   

的確,西門慶成群的妻妾之中除了潘金蓮,還能誰會有這等情趣?勾欄小姐雖善彈唱,但那是在賣唱,那功利性往往沖淡了娛樂性,那裡或明或暗的討價還價往往讓那輕歌曼舞變得索然無味,遠遠比不上自己妻妾借曲抒情,率真自然。   

在《金瓶梅》第八十回“潘金蓮售色赴東床,李瓶兒盜財歸麗院”一章中,應伯爵也充當了一次“媒婆”的角色,想把潘金蓮介紹給西門慶的下任張二官,便狠狠地誇耀了一番潘金蓮的才藝之後說:“你如今有了這般勢耀,不得此女貌,同享榮華,枉自有許多富貴。”將潘金蓮的風流才藝視為榮華富貴者“有福的匹配”。雖然說王婆與應伯爵等小人勢利,但潘金蓮的過人的色藝由此可見一斑。   

最後說說潘金蓮的“味”。這裡所說的“味”,當然指的就是“女人味”。潘金蓮美艷無比,媚態可掬,當然是與她一身的女人味分不開的。西門慶妻妾成群,其中唯一有女人味的便是潘金蓮了。這個來自大戶人家的丫環不僅玉軟香溫,而且女紅更是出類拔萃,用王婆的話說,是“好個精細的娘子,百伶百俐,又不枉了做得一手好針線。諸子百家、雙陸象棋、拆牌道字皆通,一筆好字。”   

潘金蓮精於女紅,在《金瓶梅》一書中處處可見。第八回“盼情郎佳人占鬼卦,燒夫靈和尚聽淫聲”中,西門慶賀三十歲生日之時,潘金蓮特地做了“一雙玄色段子鞋;一雙挑線香草邊闌松竹梅花歲寒三友、醬色段子護膝;一條紗綠潞水光絹裡兒、紫線帶兒、裡面裝著排草玫瑰兜肚;一根並頭蓮瓣簪兒。簪兒上著五言四句詩一首,云:奴有並頭蓮,贈與君關髻。凡事同頭上,切勿輕相棄。西門慶一見,滿心歡喜,把婦人一手摟過,親了個嘴,說道:『怎知你有如此聰慧!』”   

在西門慶眾多妻妾當中,善女紅的當不乏其人,但是既善女紅,又善詩賦,將兩者天才地交融在一起的,唯有潘金蓮一人。難怪她別具萬種風情。當然,有了這種別具的萬種風情,於是就有了令男人們心蕩神搖的的“媚態”。   

說到“媚態”,西門慶與潘金蓮第一次邂逅的“簾下勾情”就是絕妙佳品,而《金瓶梅》第八回“盼情郎佳人占鬼卦,燒夫靈和尚聽淫聲”中寫的一個情節更令人驚艷:潘金蓮於三伏天黃昏盼西門慶不到,罵了幾句“貪心賊”,“無情無緒,用纖手向腳上脫下兩隻紅繡鞋兒來,試打相思卦”,再配上《山坡羊》曲:凌波羅襪,天然生下。紅雲染就相思卦。似藕生芽,如蓮卸花,怎生纏得些兒大?柳條兒比來剛半杈。他不念咱,咱何曾不念他!倚著門兒,私下簾兒悄呀,空教奴被兒裡,叫著他那名兒罵。你怎戀煙花,不來我家?奴眉兒淡淡教誰畫?何處綠楊拴繫馬?他辜負咱,咱何曾辜負他!   

這一段雖為心靈獨白,卻將潘金蓮夢斷蘭橋般的苦戀之情,表現得淋漓盡致。後來潘金蓮終於盼來了情郎西門慶,兩人竟是以別具一格的親嘴方式來表達別離後的情思,接著是潘金蓮就以丟帽撕扇的媚態表演自己的萬種風情。   

由此可見,潘金蓮把色香味俱全的女人媚態表現得何等淋漓盡致,真可謂令人眼花繚亂,歎為觀止!也正是由於潘金蓮擁有如此高超的御夫術,才會使諸如西門慶這樣的花心男人神魂顛倒,不能自持,夜以繼日,醉臥香裘,結果因色而亡。 ( 以上引用)

此外,她檯面下的政治智慧,手婉大膽更是讓她贏得西門慶之心的關鍵。

Saturday, December 19, 2009

"金瓶梅" 2 : "沒有神的所在"


話說潘金蓮在家裡包養小厮;西門慶取了一根馬鞭子,喝令:"淫婦,脫了衣裳跪著!"

她真個脫去了上下衣服,跪在面前,低垂粉面,不敢出一聲ㄦ。她直撒謊嬌說沒這事ㄦ。

西門慶見她脫的光赤條條,花朵ㄦ般身子,嬌蹄嫩語,跪在地上,那怒氣早已鑽入爪哇國去了,把心回動了八九分。

這裡頗有Sadism SM 的意味;下一步,他讓自己找了個台階下,畢竟她是他的最寵。

男人總喜歡被捧上天,無論是真是假,

李瓶兒道: "他拿什麼來比你! 你是個天,他是塊磚;你在三十三天之上,他在九十九地之下。你等為人上之人,他若是比得上你時,奴也不忎般貪你了。"

在一個妻妾鬥爭的環境哩,好比政治黨團環境裡的訛於我詐,結黨結派;

論姿色,論出身,論才學,論財富,總總加起成為了所謂的,生命值;

但是"生存"的政治心機與人際智慧,卻是最後得勢的最大關鍵。

金瓶梅裡,字裡行間在在透露了明代的官場腐敗,民間貧困,與人類的基本慾望...


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在燙燙的熱水池裡...

Sunday, December 13, 2009

金瓶梅 1: 潘金蓮...




她說, "我與你撥火,只要一似火盆來熱便好。" 這是直接撩撥武松內在慾火的雙關語。
她說,"你若有心,吃我這半盞兒殘酒。" 這是食色性也,口水交融的性暗示。

潘金蓮在時代背景下,是個命運的犧牲者;
在她的世界裡,道德是殘酷的,是虛偽的鎖鏈,生存才是真實的掙扎。
她善用青春美麗嬌媚的利器,被視為中國文學史上最放蕩,卻又最被寵愛的女人。
唯獨見識不廣的武松,不解風情,自始自終正義凜然與慌亂失措的矛盾,
處處讓讀者揭起心中對女人的悲憫,與不捨。

重讀前幾章,感受自己感官慾望的悸動,卻在內心底處醞釀著,深深的虛無與傷悲。
在浮生如夢的凡間世界,生命最深沉處,
沒 有 價 值,唯 有 慾 望 。

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

新小說,紅樓夢:

紅樓夢開券: "滿纸荒唐言,一把辛酸淚;都云作者痴, 誰解其中味?"
從前會抱著書,盯著螢幕,不眠不休的哭了一晚...葬花去...
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新小說對話:
他不小心開到了河堤邊,對岸是美麗華七彩的摩天輪;就這樣手牽著手坐著吧!
"哥,跟你說,我喜歡放風箏,很喜歡吹泡泡。"
"像小女孩. 下次,我們傍晚去坐摩天輪好不好? "

從摩天輪上可以看到,遠方的101;
眼前陰森森的古堡,用鳥籠自然景觀打造的沐蘭....
不知可否看到裡邊的游泳池? 還有什麼?
晚霞,用晚霞勾畫出來的我的輪廓, 精準的弧形,加上聲音,在心底形成一幅抹滅不去的印象畫。

生動的在眼前;擁抱..

Monday, December 7, 2009

Love's Excutioner 2 (愛情劊子手) : Introduction




Dr. Yalom is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of several highly acclaimed textbooks, including Existential Psychotherapy and The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. He is also the author of stories and novels related to psychotherapy, including Love's Executioner, When Nietzsche Wept, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, and The Schopenhauer Cure. His latest non-fiction book is Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.

“I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy—I too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. I hate to be love's executioner.” (from the opening of the title story)

In this rare glimpse of the thoroughly engaged therapist at work, a master psychiatrist openly confronts not only his own feelings and errors but the uncertainty at the heart of the therapeutic encounter.
Dr. Irvin Yalom breaks through that uncertainty to a patients ultimate truth-to the fear of death, say, behind the life denying nostalgia of Thelma, the elderly patient of the title story who is possessed by a long past love affair; or behind the macho behaviour of Carlos, a middle aged man compulsively lustful in the face of his fatal cancer.
It is, says Dr. Yalom, only by recognizing the stark facts of human existence, only through full awareness of oneself as mortal, that any one of us, not merely patients in therapy, can come to live as whole creatures.
Indeed, these enthralling tales go beyond therapy to speak to the human condition in all its poignant oddity. And in them, Irvin Yalom achieves a pathos and humor worthy of Chekov himself.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Love's Excutioner 1 (愛情劊子手) : Irvin Yalom


Irvin David Yalom (b. June 13 1931 in Washington DC), M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Born in a Jewish family in Washington DC in 1931, he grew up in a poor ethnic area. Avoiding the perils of his neighborhood, he spent most of his childhood indoors, reading books. After graduating from Boston University School of Medicine in 1956 he went on to complete his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and his residency at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and completed his training in 1960. After two years of Army service at Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu, Dr. Yalom began his academic career at Stanford University. He was appointed to the faculty in 1963 and then promoted over the next several years and granted tenure in 1968. Soon after this period he made some of his most lasting contributions by teaching about group psychotherapy [1] and developing his model of existential psychotherapy [2]

In addition to his scholarly, non-fiction writing, Dr. Yalom has produced a number of novels and also experimented with writing techniques. In "Everyday Gets a Little Closer" [3] Dr. Yalom invited a patient to co-write about the experience of therapy. The book has two distinct voices which are looking at the same experience in alternating sections. Dr. Yalom's works have been used as collegiate textbooks and standard reading for psychology students. His new and unique view of the patient/client relationship has been added to curriculum in Psychology programs at such schools as John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

The American Psychiatric Association awarded Irvin Yalom the 2000 Oscar Pfister prize (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry).[4]