sense of value - LDA

Sense of value

One of the biggest problems with people is that we are not able to value a thing on its own merit. We always compare, and we need comparison to establish value. Things only become valuable when it is scarce, when it’s no longer available. It happened to Vincent Van Goh. It happens in our emotional life, it happens to our environment.

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studio :LDA - starting of a good deed

The starting of a good deed is a bit like the chicken and egg relation.

Human bt nature often find excuses to do a good deed on this ground.

Therefore, a government or an institution, must take on the initiative to start and catalyse a good deed.

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studio LDA - Listen

Listen, even when the piece of advice given to you is wrong.
Ihe process of listening carefully is always right.
You would be amazed how much you can benefit even from a piece of wrong advice.

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studio LDA - Are you the white flower ?

God is always fair.

Do you notice that most white flowers are scented while the colour ones are less so. So if you think some others are rich and you are not, then, think a little more. There must be something you have that the rich don’t.

Maybe you have just overlooked it.

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studio lda - Would i be sold ? ( chinese )

Please click on the doc to view original script by author. Enjoy

a little competition is always good

Woke at 6:30am, feeling bored, I switched a CD player on for a little soft music and rest on a chair by the living room's window. Soon after the music played, I heard birds chirping on the tree next to the window. The chirping was so beautiful my listening was switched to focus on the birds rather than the player. My wife said everytime she on the player, the birds would chirp along as if they are competing with the cd player. Yes, a little competition always makes life better.

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architecture aesthetics and architecture

The problem with a lot of architecture (presentation?) is that people focus mostly on aesthetics. And architecture aesthetics is a bit like fashion dressing- no matter how a person looked in his or her dress, the real content is not known until you come to term with the person. Better still, live with the person, and you will come to know the content in real.

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studio LDA - Arts and life are not equal, Yes ? No?

Most artists claim life is itself art, but little or almost none agree the formula works the other way round.

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studio LDA - a marathon and 100m run

Nobody would do a marathon with the speed of 100m.

Maybe the developing countries should concern on the sustainability of development rather than worrying about the effect of having 6% to 7% growth instead of above 9 % as forecast.

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studio LDA - wisdom

Wisdom

Material wealth can be inherited almost without fail.
Knowledge can be transferred quite easily.
Wisdom, that is the thing you need to get for yourself.

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studio LDA - delayed corruption

it was originally good, but for some reasons let to rod..

studio LDA - broken unity

A piece of concrete slab..



broken and covered in over grown grass..


The easiest way to unite sand to one piece. ( of ....)

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studio LDA - What is design? What is art ?

What is design? What is art?

The topic is intentionally paired so we can compare and contrast the two; design and art. By so doing, I hope to induce a better understanding of the two subjects.


I start with my limited understanding;

Design is cool, calculated, goal driven.
Art is emotional, expressive.
But they can work vice versa, or in any combination.

What do you think?

little things in life

We always go big thinking that it will make us happy. But in fact, it is the little thing in life that make us happy. Say a paper and a cup of coffee in the morning. It never fail on me.

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Living for an idea.

Some people die for an idea. I am not going to ask for this much, but at the least, we should live for an idea. Shouldn't we ?

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studio LDA- introducing a book " words & images"

Introducing the book “ words & images “ by Ng Buan Cher.

She , the author, was the head of fine art department at MIA.

I haven’t met the artist. All that I know of her work is only through a book titled “words and images” that I came across in a friend’s studio. If you have a chance please read it up. Its easy reading and I find in inspiring. Just to quote the artist..” ..in the way we see the world, we see ourself.”

I share with you some of the images scaned from the book.



Today's song - Of sky - 75x55cm


Today's song - Of bridge, 1986 - 75x55cm



Today's song - Of rain, 1986 - 75x55cm



Today's song - Of reality, 1986 - 104x76cm



Sky, bridge, rain, reality.....to me...the sky today ever less blue, bridge today ever more broken, rain ? even bloodier, and reality, evn more defaced. I don't know whetherb if Ng is an artist or a forune teller of the world anymore.-- look fr studio LDA

studio LDA - Taller

Taller
Nobody ever remember
We are part of the stars
So we try to be taller
Yet
Nobody is taller than anybody
Nobody is ever taller than cow grass

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You are part of me and I am part of you

“You are part of me and I am part of you”.

You might think it is a romantic line from a love story script. The fact is, it is a scientific truth. And it is a line true to almost anything, “dead” or “living“, around you.

When I last watch a movie titled “The fountain”, about three characters’ common search for eternal life. I was shocked and at the same time disappointed by the ending of Tomas, one of the characters; having drunk the sap of tree of life, turned into plants. It’s no different from a scene that I long ago seen in Manga, and it is contradictory to the medics saying about somebody turning vegt. But one thing I did enjoyed though was the movie tinged my mind on a subject long buried; meaning of eternal life.

I do in certain sense believe that everybody will physically live forever in chemical term. Just like the universal concept about energy will not perish into nothingness. The death of one thing marks only the beginning of some other energy forms. A dead body will perished into soil; feed the plants and small living organisms, which in turn feed the larger living forms. As the process goes in cycles, and the chemical presences can be transferred in solid, liquid or gaseous state, you, and me can therefore be part of running water, cloud, any thing you imagine to be.

Thinking beyond a poem from an ancient Chinese poet Chow Tze Jien’s poem, that he composed while his brother Chow Je, the Wei kingdom emperor, was trying to find an excuse to kill him; “.. it was originally from the same root, why such a hush and rush. (for the branches to burn itself to cook the beans, of which the beans and branches used to grow on a same tree) “.

Think what human are now doing to the earth and to each other. I believe we are the silliest living things on earth. No wonder Adam was banished from Garden of Eden. Now I know, it was we who had banished ourselves. For one simple reason, when we cannot recognise the materiality, how can we ever recognise our own soul.


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material dissolves into sense

In a micro world, material dissolves into sense.
Because of the immaterial presence, it is sometimes known as god.

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design is always bigger than the designer

For a really great designer, the design is always bigger than the designer.

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