12.27.2009

創意香港之2012

尊貴特區政府舉辦的「創意香港標誌設計比賽」結果終於揭曉。一貫抱著看好戲的心情來期待這個日子來臨,果然不負所望,冠軍作品令人嘆為觀止、嘖嘖稱奇。先看看得獎者在官網上的作品解釋:

「宇宙萬物的創造源於一點火花。以火花比喻一切創作活動,最為貼切。創作往往始於電光石火的靈感湧現、忽有所悟,亦即讓創作人驚歎『我想到了』的一剎。上圖的火花標誌,表示香港是一個能點燃無限創意的地方。三點火花代表主要的靈感泉源,即天、地和人;思想、身體和靈魂;知性、感性和靈性。這些都是一切創作活動的基礎。」

還以為標誌設計參巧自蝙蝠俠, 比喻香港設計界實況如漫畫中的葛咸城,很佩服這種借「賽」諷今的膽色。讀完其創作意念,才驚覺自己是多麼庸俗膚淺,莫說什麼天地人知性感性靈性, 連火花都感覺不到。

卑身為本地設計一員,當真五體投地。

(正當在網上閑瀏,突然看到這本超自然冷科學書。雖不及金帆瑜伽般偉大,但肯定未來各大小設計獎項和資助一定衝著得獎者滾滾來。)

12.19.2009

The Queen & The Soldier

The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
He said, "I am not fighting for you any more"
The queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before
And slowly she let him inside.

He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill
And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
But I am leaving tomorrow and you can do what you will
Only first I am asking you why."

Down in the long narrow hall he was led
Into her rooms with her tapestries red
And she never once took the crown from her head
She asked him there to sit down.

He said, "I see you now, and you are so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I've got this intuition, says it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?"

The young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan.

And she said, "I've swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside, and often I've bled"
He laid his hand then on top of her head
And he bowed her down to the ground.

"Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel
As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed
But I won't march again on your battlefield"
And he took her to the window to see.

And the sun, it was gold, though the sky, it was gray
And she wanted more than she ever could say
But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away
And would not look at his face again.

And he said, "I want to live as an honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
And to love a young woman who I don't understand
Your highness, your ways are very strange."

But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached
She took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
She would only be a moment inside.

Out in the distance her order was heard
And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word
And while the queen went on strangeling in the solitude she preferred
The battle continued on

by Suzanne Vega, from the album under the same name, 1985