Is heaven a physical place? Or a state of mind? Or both? I love this definition of heaven by Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art: “Heaven is satisfied curiosity.” Listen to her talk here: TED | Talks | Paola Antonelli: Treating design as art (video)
January 17, 2008
It is confession time: I am a newbie blogger aka traditional filmmaker with an active lust for Apple’s new ultra thin laptop, MacBook Air. Like many people in the media industry, I suffer from Mac snobbery,defined as “irrational belief in the superiority of Apple computers.” As I recently scoffed to a friend, ” I won’t [...]
January 15, 2008
Short. Simple. Succinct. That is why I enjoy reading marketing guru, Seth Godin’s blog. Seth’s Blog: The more people you reach the more likely it is that you’re reaching the wrong people “Who vs how many” — In just four words, he sums up the trade-offs confronting all marketers. I dig this post. Powered by ScribeFire.
January 15, 2008
I like to share a poem once in a while on this blog because poetry remains my first true love. This poem by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski in the New Yorker is a poignant allegory of communism in decline. Old Marx: Poetry: The New Yorker In the poem, an aged Marx mourning the lost cause of his youth [...]
January 15, 2008
No matter how good my Mandarin is, I know that the Beijing-er can always tell that I am an outsider (外地人）from my accent. I spent the best part of 2007, living out of a suitcase in Beijing, working on a documentary about the Beijing Olympics. For someone from a small country like Singapore, Beijing is a sprawling [...]
December 17, 2007
A friend of mine recently said, to the ultimate questions in Life, only Art can provide the answers. Death is the ultimate question we all have to confront. Many great literary works have been created in attempt to cope with the fear of Death. I find quite moving, therefore this tribute to the Swedish poet and [...]
December 16, 2007
Personalization. Customization. Localization. The British Broadcasting Company has launched a beta version of their new homepage. BBC – Homepage You get to drag and drop content modules as you wish. Sounds familiar. The homepage cites as its sources of inspiration, Netvibes and iGoogle. It is another piece of evidence that traditional media companies are taking more cues [...]
December 16, 2007
Keel over the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Move aside, the Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur. Here come the Twin Leaning Towers of Beijing. The new CCTV (China Central TV) building is one of the growing number of icons designed by international architects in the city of Beijing. I passed by this building almost every [...]
December 14, 2007
What we search for online might well reveal our deepest desires. In fact, one can attempt to construct a hierarchy of values based on the most frequently searched keywords and questions. If so, this China Digital Times story, contrasting the top ten most searched questions on Baidu, China’s top search engine and Google, is sobering. Top Ten Lists: [...]
December 14, 2007
I have been amazed by how much my reading habits have changed over the past two years. I no longer read hard copies of daily newspapers and magazines on a regular basis. Instead I subscribe to news feeds using the Google Reader. I scan through hundreds of articles electronically on a daily basis to imbibe the [...]
January 17, 2008