RIck Owens video portrait

A cutting edge videos from SHOWSTUDIO presenting portrait of edgy, grunge and avant garde American designer Rick Owens.His collection has always been very inspirational especially the washed/distressed tight leather look that is modern and medieval at the same time.

Amazing Jiu Fen, Taiwan 九份一日遊

WHAT: I visted a beautiful and historical town of North Taiwan, JiuFen 九份 over the summer. It used to be a gold mining town but now it's a famous and must see tourist attraction.

WHERE: JiuFen, Taiwan 九份

WHEN: August 25, 2010

WHY: Food, Sun, Tea Houses, Old Sidewalks, Random Vacation Houses, Handcrafts, View of Pacific Oceans,

Horse "I" rehearsal notes Part 1 驫舞劇場"我“排練紀錄 1

Notebook Date: 8.19.2010
Project: costume design
Event: Horse Dance Theatre 驫舞劇場
Event Date: 10.21.2010 - 10.31.2010
Presented by: Horse Dance Theatre 驫舞劇場
Title: "I" 我
Choreographer: 黃健瑋, 蔡柏璋, 陳武康, 蘇威嘉, 張子凌

第一次看“我”排練紀錄...

 

Peter Zumthor's Val Thermal Baths

Peter Zumthor, a recent Pritzker Prize winner Swiss Architect was introduced to me by a close friend. I did a little research on him and is very very impress with his master work of Val thermal bath. A Val spa building that was designed with sensory qualities in mind in term of architectural experiences. As described in one of his writing for "Thinking Architecture", Zumthor's approach seeks connection between human and architecture. He uses experience and emotion as part of his underlying criteria in selecting materials and designing spaces. The inside and outside of the buildings is choreographed so perfectly like a stage performance to enhance the bathers 5 senses of see, hear, touch, smell and taste. From the steaming bath waters to the natural lights coming through the stoned walls, the building is designed poetically to lead bathers into rediscovering the ancient bathing tradition. Zumthor using natural surrounding stones as its main inspiration for its building blocks for integrity, purity, and peace.
Here is an excepts from Mr. Zumthor for "Thinking Architecture"
“To me, buildings can have a beautiful silence that I associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, and integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well; a building that is being itself, being a building, not representing anything, just being. The sense that I try to instil into materials is beyond all rules of composition, and their tangibility, smell, and acoustic qualities are merely elements of the language we are obliged to use. Sense emerges when I succeed in bringing out the specific meanings of certain materials in my buildings, meanings that can only be perceived in just this way in this one building. When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, when I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history, and its sensuous qualities, images of other places start to invade this process of precise observation: images of places I know and that once impressed me, images of ordinary or special places places that I carry with me as inner visions of specific moods and qualities; images of architectural situations, which emanate from the world of art, or films, theater or literature.”

Selective Portfolios: Rampage Menswear 1998-2001

Project: Selective portfolio
Title: Rampage Menswear.

最近在整理檔案是看到了一些以前在美國工作的作品。
In the year of 1999, I was hired as chief designer to launch a then young mens contemporary bridge label RAMPAGE that was already known in the women's market. At the time, the potential for mens market was big especially the young mens market, generation Y who were ready and willing to spend on fashion, music, electronics and so forth. It was my first major job to design an entire collection front concept to finished products. I had an opportunity to work with sales and merchandising at one point selling $3 million per season. The collection was very much gear towards teenager wanting to get out of their casual clothes for a change for a party or night out event. Here are some editorials pictures.