Monday 18 October 2010

A wei wei

i am sure most people who interested in art or live in London have already read about this man , a Chinese artist call Ai wei wei . The most interested bit to me is his background and what he is trying to do with his work , Although i believe many artist would express their political view though their work ,but A wei wei does mean more to me just because i am a Chinese girl who born and grow in Hong Kong . As you may know Hong Kong now is a part of China , as i grow older i feel i got the responsibility and interest to know more about this country .I don't live in Asia anymore , so my point may not be that practical , but i think i am in a good position to have an overview picture , something between east and west . For Ai wei wei , he keep mentioning about the power of media , in my case , i find out 90 % of the news from media , for recent year "social media" . Almost all social media are banned in China , but there are still some people who can jump over the fire wall to express themselves freely on these social network .Media of cause is powerful , we believe what on news , books ,TV etc , even you don't believe it 100% it still create an inspiration. From this Ai wei wei pieces it do bring up a question to myself , i may be in the best position of seeing both side , at least i can ask and debate , i hate fantasy on people and how people project on certain country and give them too much credit when i know those are fake . Another question is that Ai wei wei bring up from his book - "what is fake , what is real "? The idea is so similar to one of my favourite book , a chinese classic literature-" Dream of the Red Chamber " .Except all this question , i do like the way he create a history , like a nature memory for the people who work in the small scale factory in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen, all craftsmen or village people do know someone working in this project .The sunflower seed sculpted and painted one by one in 2 years by over 1000 craftsmen,and here you go 100 millions of porcelain sun flower seed at Tate Modern.





Sunday 3 October 2010

male fashion

man don't talk about fashion , unless you are gay ( that is the general stereotype or at least many man think so ) . I found man are more comfortable to talk about clothes , right call them clothes not fashion . I  never understand why man are so worry or careless of what they wear , maybe they care , but in case people think they are gay if they dress nicely ,that is just pathetic. Most man will say they don't have time , or  don't really care what they wear or look , in my theory if you don't even have time to wear something "nice", that is just an excuse to being lazy .We can accept a man wearing crap much more then woman, but why ? If you are so care less on clothes , then why you bother looking at the mirror or even wear something . I do believe fashion/ clothes can reflect a certain level of confidence , simple as if u dress up , someone may look at you , are u comfortable enough to be seen ? Dressing up may sound a bit too fancy for most man , i don't mean you need to follow whats in fashion week . I mean at least we know you spend an little effort , fashion is simple and can be complex , i will definitely respect someone dress nicely especially at any social event , it also show how much your care about yourself or life . Most of us are not model , but we can use fashion/clothes to push our self to another level , it can be just an illusion , but can you tell whats real whats not in life for sure?Once you start dressing smart , there is no going back , after sometime it naturally become a part of life. By the way , i need to point out one thing , taste is another big story , it is not even related to money or how much does it worth . Many people can really able to spend a fortune to look shit .
My tip is spend what you can afford , and open your heart to play round it .

maybe wardrobe make people think about "come out the wardrobe" = gay

this is NOT nice !