2011年5月5日星期四

Penrose Stairs - illustration of paradox in [Inception]











A stairs never ended. Keep walking...stop when you want to stop...no matter where or when you stop...it is the same...it is a freedom in the spirit...

[it] = paradox ?



Paradox


A paradox is a seemingly true statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation which seems to defy logic or intuition.



Taoist philosophy



Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu, in a section of his writings about dreams:


Those who dream of a banquet may wake to lamentation and sorrow. These who dream of lamentation and sorrow may wake to join a hunt. While they dream, they do not know that they dream. Some will even experience a dream within a dream; and only when they awake do they realize they dreamed of a dream. By and by comes the great awakening, and then we may find out that this life is really an extended dream. Fools think they are awake now, and flatter themselves they know if they are really princes or peasants. Confucius and you are both dreams; and i who say you are dreams - i am but a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may come forward to explain it; but that tomorrow will not be until ten thousand generations have gone by.


Once upon a time, i,Chuang Tzu, dreamt i was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. i was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man. Suddenly i awakened, and there i lay, myself again. Now i do not know whether i was then a man dreaming i was a butterfly, or whether i am now a butterfly dreaming i am a man. between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a barrier. The transition is called metempsychosis [the transmigration of the soul]. (Emphases mine. Source: Humanistic Texts.)

Inception






"An idea is more than a thought, it's a virus, a cancer of sorts, that can spread until it completely takes over a person, until it defines the person. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can tranform the world and rewrite all the rules."




The Film

I am still confused about what i try to look at from the video clip. However, i suddenly remembered a movie that seems follow a similar concept. I wish that might helps!

The Dream-Sharing Technology



The sparkling is not the free building process for the male charactor. I kind of feel it is something about another dimension that people communicating and interacting inside. I am not quite sure what i exactly point to however [it] might could be add the fouth space to architecture.

Independent Student Research Projects: Architecture and Technology

FAME 3.0

The beginning is always hard. Hopefully it is in the right direction and could blog something interesting.
FAME 3.0 is a research project base on the individual perspective or "dream" across the fields of architecture and contemporary technology.
As in the first stage, i am abit struggling with what should i research on and how to link [it] to the architecture field. After some random search, i decided to start with some inspiration clips and images first. See if any thing could pop up to form a argument...