你一定要做个十三点！

在豆瓣上遇到一帮能聚在一起不分昼夜大砍特砍十三点样的砍的网友，我觉得似乎能把自己最神经质的一面毫无顾忌的丢出来。多么轻松惬意。

我发觉我十三点的一面正与日俱减，不久将变为十二点、十一点、......两三点。

有次看画展的时候一老头子对他孙子说，Never stop being crazy! 我好羡慕能有这样的爷爷。

Am I slowly turning back to normal?

Wild, beautiful China

Wild China (or beautiful China) is a BBC-CCTV collaboration that showcases China's landscapes and wild life. It features 6 episodes of one hour duration each and is currently showing on CBC network. Great tourism and cultural campaign for the Olympics =D

CBC network, Eastern Time
Thursdays, 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Fridays, 1:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.

Or you can resort to LD, small window youtube

Eipsode info on wiki



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I watched Wall-E again yesterday and gladly noted there're two major flying scenes which seem to pay tribute to Miyazaki. I'm sure the old man will grin behind his thick glass frames. It's beautiful, the speed and freedom in dimensionless air.

Pixar's big dreamers

Finally I learnt to sit down to devour a thick book called 'To infinity and beyond: The story of Pixar Animation Studios', a biography of the growing power (at its zenith). If you're interested in the success story of the company, it's a good read.

Hitting the 72 page mark just before jumping to a major milestone, namely their first feature length film 'Toy Story', what's covered before gives a good history of the core founders at Pixar. You, or I, realize the early talents are interconnected in a full circle of creative power. Before the famous John Lasseter, the prototype of Pixar was just a computer division at Lucasfilm. George Lucas has been kind to this division that focuses on special film effects but didn't have the extra bucks to stretch its full potential. Later on came Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apples Inc.) who bought Pixar from Lucasfilm and threw faith/money in it for 10 years before seeing profits. Then hopping on board is the true believer of character animation John Lasseter who acted like a boisterous user interface that binds technology and art in a creative marriage. It's a touching story of coincidences, opportunities and most importantly, hanging onto your dream when things are striking out. To simplify matters, I would say Ed Catmull is the technology, Steve Jobs the money, and John Lasseter the art. None without the other.

I was kidding YY if she'd work for Pixar. Her reluctance was instantaneous but I guess there's a misunderstanding. Software or hardware engineers are not underated compared to pencil holding artists. For a start, Ed Catmull is a computer geek. If not for 3D rendering tools, the studio won't have existed. They have a solid R&D division and a patented working system based on their own research. Isn't that appealing!

Here's a story from the book that makes you realize Wall-E won't be there if not for a twitch of fate tens of years ago.(ie, if Andrew Stanton quit animation industry before John's offer)No Stanton, no Wall-E. There're countless hypothesis if fate goes the other way. Say, if Lasseter goes back to Disney (although he does now but would be totally different then). Maybe Pixar would stay as a small company of 50 people till the day they go down and down. There might be another brilliant studio rising along the way. Pure randomness. The crucial part is, they are visionaries who persevered.

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As it turned out, Lasseter couldn't have called at a better time. Stanton had been trying to find steady work as an animator, but found himself unable to break out of the in-betweening or assisting ranks.' I got turned down at Disney three times over the course of three years; never got in for any opening for any kind of job that I wanted. My friends would give me a call or recommend me if their companies had work, and I'd get in, but I'd never get in at their level; it was always a more junior position. My short films were the one thing that gave me some sort of an identity, because outside of that I was just another penciller, a number in the industry, and not a great one at that.' The realization that he was in danger of being permanently pigeonholed was slowing crushing his spirit, and he said, he had even begun to consider leaving animation altogether.

'When John hired me, I told him, 'I don't know how to use the computer.'But he told me that he wasn't hiring me for my technical skills. He said, 'I want you because you have something in your short films that really appeals to me.' He was hiring me for me, for my sensibilities. That has made me give 200 to 500 percent ever since I stepped into this door and made me faithful until the day I die. Because it not only saved my potential career, it invigorated me as an artist; it made me believe in myself. I don't know that I ever believed in myself to the level that I did once I got in here because of that opportunity.;

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Coldplay的新专辑不错，推荐一下。

很喜欢伴都美子翻唱的青春の影(下载)，本以为是唱消逝光年的，看歌词又不然。我日文太烂看不懂，不过理解偏差不大的话这是说曾经能在一起的恋人最后离开了，道路漫长还要继续走这个意思吗？啊，又一首哀怨歌=.=

1974年的原唱，曾经是那一代人的青春呢，这么想还蛮怀旧的。喜欢上这样的歌的自己感觉像个老头。


青春の影
作詞・作曲：財津和夫

君の心へ続く長い一本道は
いつも僕を勇気づけた
とてもとてもけわしく細い道だったけど
今君を迎えにゆこう

自分の大きな夢を追うことが
今までの僕の仕事だったけど
君を幸せにするそれこそが
これからの僕の生きるしるし

愛を知ったために涙がはこばれて
君のひとみをこぼれた時
恋のよろこびは愛のきびしさへの
かけはしにすぎないと

ただ風の中にたたずんで
君はやがて見つけていった
ただ風に涙をあずけて
君は女になっていった

君の家へ続くあの道を
今足もとにたしかめて
今日から君はただの女
今日から僕はただの男

阳光

伸手可触的距离，遥不可及的距离，造诣出丰富的假象，孜孜不倦的变幻着发酵着，滋生出更多的幻境，利滚利的生长绞缠，变成心中不见阳光的密林。终年潮湿的盆底冒出几簇厌阳的蘑菇。

在无距离概念的干燥真空中，渴望触摸阳光、水、空气，这些生命的必要元素。看着那盆被真菌侵蚀得奄奄一息的秃木，我想到了火，以及想象中在铁板上烤得喷香的碳烧蘑菇。火种的余热在这不具特别意义的夏日逐渐散去。

一直眺望着白色的墙和Rembrandt，温柔的话语在耳边响起，也只有像今天这般、阳光灿烂的二三时，才会偶然想起。

眼药水

最近担心起眼睛过度疲劳就买了瓶眼药水,现在的眼药水很多都有“Artificial tears”（仿真眼泪）的标示。我平躺下把眼皮支开，每只眼挤下两滴后转动了下眼球，感觉泪腺被轻微刺激到了。这么一想觉得好笑，我这是买仿真眼泪来刺激生理眼泪么？那为什么不买些大蒜洋葱在眼前晃晃，再不然看些催泪的电影？15毫升的小瓶子卖5到10加元，我一直觉得“水”产品是最暴力的，爽肤水、香水、花露水，这些实验室调制出的buffer配置起来并不复杂。贵在微量的有效成分，那是化学合成和提纯的问题了。可考虑其量微不足道，就算合成多么耗费成本，对了一桶子纯净水后再分配到迷你的小瓶子里出售还是获利多多。可是再想，眼泪能代替眼药水，天然护肤品又一大堆，为什么花高价去购买自己可以解决的对策。那就别买了，你这变态的反消费者，哈哈。再次证实很久前就有的理论，如果社会充斥着我这样的货色就别谈发展了,失业吧大家。

补充：眼药水的主要成分是glycerine和hypromellose，一个是油一个是融水性的糖，都起润滑作用。