1. breaking and entering - (jude law?)
2. amelie - what happens when happiness can be orchestrated?, french movie
3. la vie en rose - french movie
4. life is beautiful - italian movie
5. ice storm -?
6. virgin suicides - 4 girls suicide
7. choir boys (les choriestes) - inspirational boys
8. the painted veil - intriguing love story
9. a moment to remember -architect and lover who lost her memory
10. a walk to remember - girl dying
11. the leap years - touching love, HUEI SIANG CRIED!
12. the notebook -touching love of old couple, wife lost her memory
13. eternal sunshine of a spotless mind - what happens when you can choose to erase your memory?
14. a beautiful mind -russell crowe at his best
15. pleasant ville -art film
16. in the name of rose -art film
17. last life in the universe - thai& jap
18. babel -great film nice filmography
19. the three needles. -great film social issues
20. the road to guantanamo -kept me glued to my seat for v long - war on terrorism.
Friday, May 9, 2008
To kill some time, acquire some knowledge
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Pure
can we just leave it this way?
anyway, just to share with you all a very wonderful excerpt that I've read..
Mies on ARCHITECTURE OF TRUTH
IN 1900 there was a group of talented men in Europe who founded the Art Nouveau Movement. They tried to develop everything anew, houses new, dresses new, spoons new, life new, everything new. They thought, however, that it was a question of form. The whole movement didn't last much longer than a typical fashion and nothing came out of it. They were most talented people - there were no finer in the world, and they still could not do it. It then became clear to me that it was not the task of architecture to invent form. I tried to understand what that task was. I asked Peter Behrens, but he could not give me an answer. He did not ask that question. The others said: 'What we build is architecture', but we weren't satisfied with this answer. Maybe they didn't understand the question. We tried to find out. We searched in the quarries of ancient and medieval philosophy. Since we knew it was a question of the truth, we tried to find out what the truth was. We were very delighted to find a definition of truth by St. Thomas Aquinas: 'ADEQUATIO INTELLECTUS ET VEI', or as a modern philosopher expresses it in the language of today: 'Truth is the significance of fact.' I never forgot this. It was very helpful, and has been a guiding light. To find out what architecture really is took me fifty years - half a century.
I can't exactly explain what this Truth is, but I see it in CROWN HALL (IIT). I see it even more in CrownHall than his arguably most acclaimed work, the Farnsworth. This truth can be a sort of silence, aura, or poetics. I don't know how they did it, I think that's why I'm here.