DiDine, robots, and macaroon cookies

Watching live shows, sharing viewing experience together; its not exactly the same as watching it at home by yourself on a computer... This is a screen within a screen. You can share "movie viewing" experinece this way. :)

Didine, the french contemporary girl who lives in Lyon - who is so nice to everyone, and her friend the snappy fashion coquette girl, the one who jumped to her death. And a young girl with her petit vieux - whom she married, happy as can be. The star of the movie - one of them aside from DiDine, is that old white hair chic aunt of a handsome young man. This aunt, dry, smart, well brought up - was smothered by conservatism of bourgeois upbringings... see how poor she is, poor and respectable, she missed her life. No money, she buys these little soft cookies, offers them to Didine, didine took it to the toilet (she saw how the aunt licks the cakes and puts them back in the package - she would have liked to eat cakes, but these... hmmm. So Didine buys real macaroons, those expensive cookies, not a few, but at least two dozen! Wow, this is such a contrast. Its like 200 times more expensive than the Lu cookies!!

When the aunt finally accepts to tasting them, she bites a small mouthful, the flavour that she doesnt like, she spits them out again! To show how fussy this woman is... and then she bites into different ones making comments and telling her memories of her youth...

Didine is a sweet person, but why how did she get into her "rut" ? We dont know, but in the end she got her man. :)

Very subtle fine movie.

Compared to the Halle Berry, What we lost in the Fire... there is a difference of zillion meters... No amount of crying can convey a sadness as the lady licking an ordinary industrial cookie from the package.

Well, I didnt write this well enough, i know.
Just to keep a record of what i saw.

This is my year of the movies, secondlife, and maybe robot making!

These are short notes to myself.

Le Ballon Rouge hhh and the original

Juliette Binoches movie, and she is a great actress! We see the marionnettes and the voices... then, zoom, its her, she puts all the voices in with great animated facial gestures... see we should learn to speak with animated expressions. What a great scene. HHH has made an authentic movie of Parisiens lives, it rings true. Divorce, art, dreams, people on the street, baby sitters, annoying neighbours and irresponsible friends... presents, single mother... small apartments.

Only thing i say is flawed is the costumes. Juliette Binoches character in everyway is an artistic person, not a name brand user. But all her clothes are very very chic, stylised outfits. And she changes clothes way too often in the movie. She starts out in a revealing bra in a little sweater... very nice... all the outfits are beautiful on her. But her character does not seem to be the type who wears all these fancy outfits, as they dont really co ordinate with the rest of the apartment or her rambling messy life.

The boy is cute, the half sister is adorable, piano teacher, puppetier, everybody very authentic.

Then i looked up in youtube for the original. The original film is charming, so French in the kindly attentive way, the little boy asking everyone to share an umbrella so his red balloon deosnt get wet...

Both the original and the hhh version are authentic. One is the nostalgic soft charm the other is the human, warm details. Both are great.

And the heart wrenching touch is the finish, a song sung by Camille, it sents shivers up my spine each time I listen to it. Its in a trailer - also in Youtube.

Camille Dalmais, i looked up some web sites and found one that had some lyrics of her songs... Great lyrics, so precise, so careful so simple and good.

Great film. A master is a master. The work of a master film maker, it looks easy.


Checked on Youtube: Found someones comment, that the theme song Chin Chin... etc
is a french version of a Chinese song!! by Cai Qin

Original lyrics

被遺忘的時光 蔡琴 The Forgotten Time

Cai Qin interpretes

詞/曲：陳宏銘

是誰在敲打我窗
是誰在撩動琴弦
那一段被遺忘的時光
漸漸地迴昇出我心坎

是誰在敲打我窗
是誰在撩動琴弦
記憶中那歡樂的情景
慢慢的浮現在我的腦海

那緩緩飄落的小雨
不停的打在我窗
只有那沈默不語的我
不時的回想過去

是誰在敲打我窗
是誰在撩動琴弦
記憶中那歡樂的情景
慢慢的浮現在我的腦海 (less)
Added: 27/03/07
Category: Music
Tags: 被遺忘的時光 蔡琴 The Forgotten Time



French version
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hXcL4L6Nubo
Camille Dalmais interpretes

real life : the weakest point

I was writing my paper on the Digital Guqin Museum, suddenly I noticed I couldn't upload the paper! I had missed the deadline by ONE month, due to the registration date and paper deadline date are similar, and it skipped my mind!

So now, I re-evaluate why and how did this happen?

Sometimes its so strange, I begin to think there is some super natural forces. So far in my life, I had important letters lost through strange circumstances. I had imagined the lost letters - via post - was an excuse of the sender... but 2 years later, I received them with many post marks... the letter had been travelling around the world! and finally arrived 2 years later!

Exporting sl to rl is a lot more work then going from rl to sl - people say the learning curve is steep... but the other way around involves not only a "learning curve" anymore.

It involves real life collaborative efforts, and at any step of the way, if someone suddenly weakens, your structure is only as strong as the weakest point.

Digital Guqin Museum Linden Campus site plan, Oracle Poems

Oracle Poems are coming!
In Chinese culture, consultation of the Oracle is always important, this is linked to luck flow... its is important to gamble, in gambling you test your luck.

Gambling, oracle consultation, reading of random signs in nature, are all linked to the flow of luck...

If you have a question to ask, and dont know who else could give you a better answer, consult the Oracle ... :)

Oracle Books

Yi-King
Napoleons Egyptian book
Wong Dai Sin

and many others
they will be coming to sl soon

tokyo rl + sl concert

Glad that I went to Tokyo. Now, I saw with my own eyes, what are avant-garde, experimental artists. Too bad I didnt have time to talk with the others too much, as i had to man my own machine and talk to visitors too.

It was rather inhaitual for me. It was a birthday party of a sort. Everyone was dancing, singing, free improvisation. They were cheerful people with long orange color hair, and dark sun glasses even inside the room. Bhutto type of dancing movements, screaming, noise guitar, and toy pianos, toy accordeons, all making up 3 hrs of a wall of sounds, they listened to each other...

i would have liked to know more. :)

I was in a separate little room, as guqin music is quiet, and i needed darkness for projection... so the two events were quite in one space... it is not mixable without changing the meaning of the guqin part. So, it happened and was done the best way possible. People were drinking and eating at the same time as the performance is going on, some free from yelling, singing... i have never participated at such an event.

Anyway it was intersting, fun, but more time was needed.

Here i upload three clips shot by Five, who came to the sl concert.
There were around 15 people on and off... the ambiance was right, quiet. People IM ed other people to come... :)

after i ran back home, i received another guest from sl in rl here in Paris.
So i met two people from sl in rl.

Whats the result? I had to do it.
Dont want to speak silliness closed in by sl anymore.

But strangely enough, some sl friends, even if i never meet them it doesnt change my relation to them. Others, the fact that when the occasion was possible but was not made used of... it rather puts an end to the relation... because... because, because... who knows why ?

And those who were able to move from sl to rl will be treasured all the more, because we had experienced a step thats rarely taken.

Now, next...

14jan08 tokyo

So i am here, and i met a man on the plan who lived in Beijing 25 years ago, he was very talkative, retired w his wife, on a cheap tour to Greece for one week, i invited them to come to the concert... hahahah, it might not be their thing - noise guitar? ... however. He said he will bring some of his photos of china 25 years ago to show me.

Interesting meeting. He was head of a big insurance firm living at Peking hotel.

I arrived in Tokyo and staying in Ginza, in a nice hotel, not expensive! Full feature, with microwave and washer dryer! and a balconey.

Its located next to a fish market and the chic area of town with all the Hermes, chanel stores...on the wall of this hotel is a huge red fish! So i will not miss it!

Already, i enjoy it.

The plane was one hour late. As the plane landed, it shuddered and shock all the magazines flying down the isle! Hah!

The curator will show me some of his music stuff.

We went to the electric town, and checked out gadgets... :) the same as last time when i was here with Swannjie Jie, but this time, its less hectic. And i enjoy just looking around.

Today is a holiday, lots of people on the street, a lot of the women wore kimonos!
And tv teams on the street too interviewing people.

Its Dress up day, or New year festival?

:)

Nice.
I am glad i am here because, i made a decision and i carried it out, now see how far i could get.

:)

clutter, clean, chic

http://relaxin.slmame.com/

Such a well organised blog
I have seen slmame before, but for some reason this one is well organised, and simple to see. Maybe graphically pleasant?

Sometimes we dont know how much time it takes to make a blog thats clean, and uncluttered. :)

Clutter, is sooooo haaarrrd to clear.

Can clutter be a style of chic...? Only if yours own, other people clutter is tiresome... too personal, too expressive... but when i see Francis Bacons painting studio - I find this clutter this years of uncleared paint on the table is a freedom. How many people could enjoy this scale of insouciance? Or letting go.

Thats why we all need an atelier space. A personal private space that no one could interfere - even just visually.