I have waited for it to come here since last August. Yet nobody to go to movie together! T T

http://disney.go.com/arrietty/

Miyazaki is not directing the next film. 36-year-old animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi is making his directorial debut with this project. The film will open in the summer of 2010.

The original, Carnegie [...]]]>

I have waited for it to come here since last August. Yet nobody to go to movie together! T T

http://disney.go.com/arrietty/

Miyazaki is not directing the next film. 36-year-old animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi is making his directorial debut with this project. The film will open in the summer of 2010.

The original, Carnegie Medal-winning 1952 novel revolves around the “little people” — 10 centimeters (about 4 inches) tall — who live underneath the floorboards of an English country house. (The Japanese title literally means “the little people under the floor.”) 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. Ghibli’s adaptation will transport the setting from 1950s England to the Tokyo neighborhood of Koganei in 2010. (Koganei in western Tokyo is the home of a number of Japanese animation studios, including Ghibli itself.) – ANN

POETRY – Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age… Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor [...]]]>

POETRY – Pablo Neruda

And it was at that age… Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don’t know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

시 – 파블로 네루다

그러니까 그 나이였다… 시가
날 찾아왔다. 난 모른다, 어디서 왔는지
모른다, 겨울에선지 강에선지.
언제 어떻게 왔는지도 모른다.
아니다, 목소리는 아니었다, 말도,
침묵도 아니었다.
하지만 어느 거리에선가 날 부르고 있었다.
밤의 가지들로부터,
느닷없이 타인들 틈에서,
격렬한 불길 속에서.
혹은 내가 홀로 돌아올 때,
얼굴도 없이 거기에 지키고 섰다가
나를 건드리곤 했다.

난 뭐라 말해야 할지 몰랐다. 나의 입은
이름 부를 줄
몰랐고,
나는 눈멀었었다.
그런데 무언가 내 영혼 속에서 꿈틀거렸다,
열병 혹은 잃어버린 날개들이.
그 불에 탄 상처를
해독하며,
난 고독해져갔다.
그리고 난 막연히 첫 행을 썼다.
형체도 없이, 어렴풋한, 순전한
헛소리,
쥐뿔도 모르는 자의
순량한 지혜.
그때 나는 갑자기 보았다.
하늘이 걷히고
열리는
것을,
혹성들을,
고동치는 농장들을,
화살과 불과 꽃에
만신창이가 된,
구멍 뚫린 그림자를,
소용돌이치는 밤을, 우주를 보았다.

그리고 나, 티끌만한 존재는,
신비를 닮은, 신비의
형상을 한,
별이 가득 뿌려진
거대한 허공에 취해,
내 자신이 심연의
순순한 일부임을 느꼈다.
나는 별들과 함께 떠돌았고,
내 가슴은 바람 속에서 멋대로 날뛰었다.

- 파블로 네루다/ 김현균 옮김, “시 (La poesia)”

So That You Will Hear Me
by Pablo Neruda.

So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.

Necklace, drunken bell
for your hands smooth as grapes.

And I watch my words from long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

It climbs the same way on damp walls.
You are to blame for this cruel sport.
They are fleeing from my dark lair.
You fill everything, you fill everything.

Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy,
and they are more used to my sadness than you are.

Now I want them to say what I want to say to you
to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

The wind of anguish still hauls on them as usual.
Sometimes hurricanes of dreams still knock them over.
You listen to other voices in my painful voice.

Lament of old mouths, blood of old supplications.
Love me, companion. Don’t forsake me. Follow me.
Follow me., companion. on the wave of anguish.

But my words become stained with your love.
You occupy everything, you occupy everything.

I am making them into an endless necklace
for your white hands, smooth as grapes.

네가 내 얘길 들을 수 있도록
-파블로 네루다

네가 내 얘길 들을 수 있도록
나의 말들은
때때로 해변의 갈매기 발자국처럼
가늘어진다.

목걸이, 포도처럼 보드라운
네 손길을 위한 취한 방울.

그리고 나는 내 말들을 멀리서 바라본다.
나의 말들은 나의 것이라기보다는 너의 것
그것들은 내 오랜 고통을 담쟁이처럼 타고 오른다.

축축한 벽들을 따라 그렇게 타고 오른다.
이 피투성이 장난의 죄인은 너
그 말들은 나의 어두운 동굴로부터 도망친다.
모든 것을 네가 채운다. 모두 채운다.

너보다 먼저 그 말들은 네가 차지한 고독 속에 살았고,
너보다 더 내 슬픔에 길들여져 있었다.

이제 나의 말들이 네게 내가 하고 싶은 말을 해주길 바래
내가 원하는 대로 네가 내 얘길 들어주도록.

번뇌의 바람이 언제나처럼 나의 말들을 휩쓸어 가기도 해.
꿈의 폭풍이 여전히 때때로 나의 말들을 뒤엎기도 해.
나의 고통에 찬 목소리에서 너는 다른 음성들을 들어.

해묵은 입들의 오열, 오랜 갈망의 피.
나를 사랑해다오, 벗이여. 나를 버리지 마. 나를 따라와 줘.
나를 따라와, 벗이여. 그 고뇌의 파도 속에서.

그러나 나의 말들은 너의 사랑으로 물들어간다.
너는 모든 것을 차지한다. 모두 차지한다.

나는 그 말들을 끝없는 목걸이로 만들어.
포도처럼 보드라운, 하얀 너의 손을 위해.

Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty’s murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed awhile
And on my pathway stood
Until I thought her body bore
A heart of flesh and blood.

But since I laid a hand thereon
And found a heart of stone
I have attempted many things
And not a thing is done,
For every hand is lunatic
That travels on the moon.

She smiled and that transfigured me
And left me but a lout,
Maundering here, and maundering there,
Emptier of thought
Than the heavenly circuit of its stars
When the moon sails out.

윌리엄 버틀러 예이츠

W. B. Yeats

Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty’s murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed awhile
And on my pathway stood
Until I thought her body bore
A heart of flesh and blood.

But since I laid a hand thereon
And found a heart of stone
I have attempted many things
And not a thing is done,
For every hand is lunatic
That travels on the moon.

She smiled and that transfigured me
And left me but a lout,
Maundering here, and maundering there,
Emptier of thought
Than the heavenly circuit of its stars
When the moon sails out.

누구를 사랑한다 하면서도
결국은 이렇듯 나 자신만을 챙겼음을
다시 알았을 때 나는 참 외롭다.
많은 이유로 아프고 괴로워하는 많은 사람들 곁을
몸으로 뿐 아니라 마음으로 비켜가는
나 자신을 다시 발견했을 때,
나는 참 부끄럽다.

사랑한다는 말은 가시덤불 속에 핀
하얀 [...]]]>

http://snowcatin.egloos.com

(松尾芭蕉)古池や蛙飛こむ水のおと
오랜못이여
개구리 뛰어들어
물 치는 소리

old pond…..
a frog leaps in
water’s sound

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)

閑さや岩にしみ入る蟬の聲
한적함이여
바위에 스며드는
매미의소리

Stillness–
Poems(haiku) of Matsuo Basho (松尾芭蕉の俳句)
by Matsuo Basho

Are you tired of creating building websites using the same old grid-based layouts for every project? Have you been itching to break away from the norm and attempt something a little more organic?

Today we’ll take a look at a few sites that have done just that to see what we can learn [...]]]> From: http://designshack.net

Are you tired of creating building websites using the same old grid-based layouts for every project? Have you been itching to break away from the norm and attempt something a little more organic?

Today we’ll take a look at a few sites that have done just that to see what we can learn about alternative layout methods and how they can be successfully implemented.
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Grid Layouts

Grid-based layout is a cornerstone of modern web design. In a time where clean, minimalist designs are held up as the ultimate ideal (a direct response to the messy design styles of the 80s and 90s), the very definition of “good design” will no doubt include mention of simple and solid alignments.

Ultimately this is a good thing. Grid-based layouts provide unmatched structure, balance and organization. They bring a predictable rhythm and a sense of familiarity to the design and let the content stand out on its own accord.

Grid layouts are incredibly user friendly. We instinctively read a page from left to right, top to bottom and grids tend to reinforce rather than defy this tendency. With a grid-based design, the content is exactly where the viewer would expect it to be, no extraordinary effort required.

We have entire design galleries, like the one shown above, dedicated to grid-based designs. There are countless CSS frameworks and Photoshop templates devoted to helping us achieve rapid grid layouts with minimum effort. If design is a religion, grids are the holy scripture to which we ascribe truth.

If we run with this over-reaching metaphor even further, then today’s topic is nothing less than “blasphemy.” Let’s explore how we can introduce a little more variety into our layouts by abandoning the grid, at least partially, in favor of more organic layouts and graphics. It turns out there are in fact multiple ways you can structure information, just don’t tell the design gods.

Find Other Ways to Direct Attention

Our first example of an alternative layout comes from We Are Empire, a digital design agency. Here’s a screenshot of the homepage of their website.

As you can see, it definitely doesn’t represent your typical web page layout. There are several things to note here. First, the primary objects on the page are circles. Any normal, grid-based website is usually made up primarily of rectangular objects. Grids are made up of rectangles so objects with four edges and at least minimally hard corners work quite well.

By contrast, almost all of the organic layouts you’ll come across utilize circles heavily. Circles feel more organic and seem to fit this layout style better. Further, they present rebellious designers with yet another way to deviate from the norm.

Even more important than the shapes of the objects is the way that they’re connected. Once again, grid layouts can be read very naturally, but organic layouts leave the eye to wander in confusion in search of what to look at next.

By creating a rudimentary path, the designer here has created a clear flow of information for you to follow. Looking at this page, you almost can’t help but to follow the path with your eyes; a simple and extremely effective trick for controlling the user experience.

Fewer Objects

The path helps, but isn’t a complete necessity. This is especially true when there are really on a few objects in the layout. For instance, check out Michael Wong’s page below, which utilizes a similar layout.

Wong’s site uses another popular technique for these types of layouts: mouse-controlled animation. As you move your mouse around on the screen, the objects in the layout move around in a parallax effect that simulates a 3D interface.

Structure Is Still Present

One very important thing to remember as you stray from grid-based layouts is that you don’t necessarily have to abandon structure altogether. As the Melonfreelayout below illustrates, your design can still be highly logical.

Here, in favor of a simple grid we find heavy utilization of rounded symmetry. The design is quite attractive and well-balanced. Reading in a circle definitely isn’t the easiest thing in the world but the end result is refreshingly different.

Focal Points

When you’re working with an alternative layout, always attempt to stay keenly aware of where you are creating focal points. The layout above intentionally has a heavy draw towards the center where you’ll find a large graphic of a melon, which represents the name of the company.

In your layouts, use size, color and placement of objects to create specific focal points and analyze how well they work with the visual path that you’re trying to create (from above).

Build a Scene

A very different but still quite popular alternative layout method is to create a scene that serves as the interface for your site. I typically warn heavily against this as it usually ends up going in the direction of a bad, Flash-driven fast-food-type site where you can’t find a single thing.

However, this method can and does lead to some attractive, well-designed sites as well. Consider the iCodeLabs site below, which uses a really great illustrated scene that can be navigated by, you guessed it, moving the mouse around.

One key feature here is that the iCode site reserves the explorative scene as an optional fun element of the site. The primary navigation is a more familiar bar interface at the bottom of the page. No hunting for links here!

Grids: Hidden But Rarely Gone

The big secret to all of this discussion about abandoning grid-based layouts is that they’re rarely entirely absent from a given web design. In fact, if you visit the sites shown above, you can see that there’s still an overall grid structure to many of the pages. The alternative layout methods exist in areas within the greater structure.

The lesson here is that you don’t have to, and often don’t want to, completely abandon the safety of clear, simple and logical layouts to achieve something that looks and feels unique.

Tilted Grids

One clever way of hiding your grid-based layout is to make strong use of diagonal lines instead of vertical and/or horizontal lines. The same exact conventions that are used in normal grids can be applied, the result simply looks edgier.

As you can see, Estilo DLT has the appearance of an organic layout, but in reality it’s conforming to some very strict layout principles.

Conclusion

Breaking away from the norm can be a remarkably refreshing experiment. It helps you to think differently and see design in ways that you never have before. Exploring alternative layout ideas is a prime way to get your feet wet in this arena. Use the examples and information above to get you started in the right direction.

Remember that grid layouts are often broken but rarely abandoned completely and that even when you aren’t using a grid there can still be a very logical structure to your layout. Leave a comment below with a link to any untraditional layouts you’ve come across. Also, let us know whether you’re a stickler for grids or are prone to venture outside the box with your layouts.