What it wouldn’t be, it would...

I got this from Design You Trust - Part 6. The original post is from Here.

“What captured me the most is the title of this project: "What it is, it isn’t." beside the image of awkward looking cabinet, of course. Then, I realized the text was taken from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, which is written by Lewis Carroll and this project by Ontwerpduo get its inspiration from it.

What it is, it isn’t.
‘If I had a world of my own,
everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is,
because everything would be what it isn’t.
And, contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn’t be.
And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
You see?’
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.


To describe the work better, these are exact text from Ontwerpduo:

‘Objects are how we perceive them to be. Our minds make things what they are and for us this is reality. Think of a branch hanging in the water. We see, with the refraction of light, the branch under the waterline in a different angle. But we know that in reality the shape of this branch is different. We learned how to see the world… read the rest and see more pictures here”

 Photo credits: "Alice in Wonderland" from here.

101 Dreams - Part 1

My Dreams. 

One to Twenty-five 

[1-25]

(Fulfilled dreams are "bold") 

 Directions to this exercise are here.

March 25, 2010

1. MacBook Pro

2. iPod Classic sports strap

3. Old leather notebook

4. Really nice fountain pens

5. Collection of tumblers and mugs

6. That grayish hat from TopMan

7. TopMan Sweater

8. Adidas Porsche Design shoes

9. Whole lot of Ray-Ban shades

10. Rolex Watch

11. Watch bag full of watches

12. Wardrobe full of designer clothes

13. Jet Ski

14. Whole lot of Kayaks

15. House in Palawan, Philippines

16. Rooftop Apartment in Manhattan, New York
17. Apartment in Paris [France]
18. Place in Madrid [Spain]
19. House in Porto [Portugal]

20. House in the south of France
21. House in Barcelona [Spain]
22. Grand Piano

23. Nikon D90
24. Smena
25. Lomo Camera

...to be continued [Part 2]

Photo credits:

"Zugster Leather Moleskine Cover" by Adam A.

"El Nido, Palawan" by Google

"Porto, Portugal" by Luis Marques

"Grand Piano" by Jerry Ipsen Photography

Tumblr Finds One

Fritz Panzer, Drahtskulptur für Raymond Carver, 2005
wire sculpture consisting ladder, lustre
chair, floor space 180 x 160 cm, hight 190 cm

(via iheartmyart's tumblr stream)

From Design You Trust .

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 

by Gustav Klimt

josetonio.tumblr.com

Dream, dream, please?

*Gasp!* Justin Beiber is in the hospital. It seems he fell of a ladder trying to reach puberty.

Sorry about that. I honestly have nothing against the guy, but it was too good to not share. I got it from Neal Jordan. Ha, ha, ha!

Quick update: everyone's back home-- and we love Apple. (Jem, remember that dream you had about us having so many 'gadgety stuff'? I think it's coming to pass!)

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Something to do:

• Get a piece of paper and pen.
• Number the paper from 1-101.
• Give yourself twenty minutes and SHORTLY list your dreams! Long-term. Short-term. ALL. 

Example
1. Buy that Zara sweater
2. Speak French
3. Visit all inhabited islands in the Philippines.
4. iPad
5. Work with Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter ...


Now you.
Get creative! Don't stop! No matter how small or big your dream may be. Write it down. 


Then (if you're up for it) email me your first ten or twenty. [jose.dhenson@gmail.com]
I'll try to compile your answers and post it here. If you want to be anonymous or if you want me to put your name-- let me know! 

GO!!

Note: You don't really have to limit it to 20 minutes. You could take all the time you want really. The purpose of the time limit is to keep you from writing essays for every number!

Keep a look out, I'll post what I wrote on my list. I'll post maybe twenty at a time. (I did it a few weeks ago) Or I'll choose from my list-- haven't decided yet.

This for now.

I want to make myself a banner for this site. I'll have to have ideas first then though. Before then, here's a picture so there's a little color on here.

The Peculiarity of Silky Sandy

One sunny afternoon in the mountains of Snowy Tops, a slithering silkworm named Silky Sandy wept.

Silky Sandy was of the royal silkworm family. And down in Vulnerable Valley, Silky Sandy knew everyone and everyone knew her. She not only knew of what happened beneath the ground in the soil but also of what went missing down below.

But on this peculiar sunny afternoon in the mountains of Snowy Tops, the jovial, jester-like worm cried. She cried and cried until her little worm eyes dried. She cried until her skin went arid and cracked. She cried like it was no one else’s business. 

She did so because in fact, it was no one else’s business; she was all alone up in Snowy Tops: away from the other worms, away from the busy life down in Vulnerable Valley, and away from the fame one inherits as a royal worm.

This is getting dull.

I'mma hafta start posting pictures and videos.

"Midnight At The Oasis...

...sing your camel to bed."

Alright, show of hands, who knows that song? If you do, you're cool. Now, if you don't... eh, please go and search it up on YouTube. But for all, both those who know it and those who don't alike, search Renee Olstead's version. ahhh, I love Renee Olstead!

I wasn't allowed to embed the Youtube video, so here's a link instead.

So, that was just really random. I was supposed to title this one "Midnight". Simply because it is midnight and I was just gonna make this one short. Buuutt, me being me, I ended up singing that song "Midnight at the oasis... ". Great, just great.

For those of you who read my last post concerning my terrible tooth ache, also known as my 'mouth misery', you'd be happy to be informed that the pain is gone. Yes that is right, I sat under Dr Lim Wooi Teong's bright, blinding white light and smelt his elastic gloves; I tasted his nasty silver tools, listened to his foreign tongue give orders to the dainty little nurse and endured; Alas, I have survived the Dentist's chair! (Although, I walked out of the Penang Dental Surgery clinic with two fillings filling up one cavity on one of my lower-right molars--but, proof of victory, like a trophy, I'd like to think of them, hehe)

 Cute picture I found here.

I wish all problems were just like tooth aches caused by cavities. You have them one day, and after a much-needed trip to the dentist where he digs the nasty stuff out and fills it in with the good stuff, the pain is gone. (Unless of course you have your teeth pulled out or... get braces then that's a different story.) Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I hope that we could cramp up all the hurts and pains of life into a short period of time, say for a couple of minutes, an hour or even a few days. And after that allotted time, the hurts and problems, pains and grieves that were meant to last us a really long time disappear. But we all know that just doesn't happen. A great chunk of our problems take months to solve, and most of our pains take years to heal.


Say, kind'a like the X-men's Wolverine's special ability to heal rapidly. He still feels the pain but the wound and/or injury is soon gone since he heals with exponential speed! Now if only I could heal that quick! Physically and more importantly emotionally!

From ComicBookMovie

While I was sitting in that chair, the dentist's chair, and tried to distract myself from the pain by listening to the hushed chatter of the people outside, I thought of the different pains people go through and how long it usually takes for them to recover. I thought of those who never are able to recover. And silently, I wished upon my imaginary star, and prayed a silent prayer that we could all possess the mutant Logan's special abilities. But, I know that life isn't that easy; not all tooth problems are as simple as a cavity: some of them go down so deep, it takes several visits before the doc can take all the foul out.

All in all, I'm glad my tooth problem was just a cavity. An easy-to-solve cavity problem.

aghh, I apologize, I wanted this blog to have more... content-- more meaning, ha ha. But what can I say, a blog is a blog and blogs equal nonsense!

Update! My mom and Jenny are away for the night. It's Victory Weekend!
Jonathan is in Taiwan. My dad is in the U.S. of A.
So that leaves Luis, Sabina and me. We are at home and we just watched Matrix Revolution. Haa, Matrix is so good. I'm appreciating it so much more now. I'm gonna have to watch the previous two movies again some time soon. Who wants to join me?

The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003), & The Matrix Revolutions (also 2003)

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