My bike tour in Berlin. Tour : Flughafensee - Spandau - Hennigsdorf - Tegel. The whole route is about 30 km, but it depends how long and how you want to ride in the forest.
Living in Berlin is going to take a long rest. Living in Tainan is going to start.
Berlin is a special place for me, it is the city where I learn to live alone for the first time.
Tainan is definitely importan for me, cuz it is my hometown and I spend the most time here.
I have written 1 year about the life in Berlin, heard so much condensed life experiences, learned many thing, and received lots of courage. What I have received are much more than what I gave.
Many thanks to the people I interviewed and you who read this blog :)
Except the hot weather which is hard to stand, Tainan is a lovely city with slow tempo of life. Tainan is famous for delicious food, but Taina has much more than that.There are many people work hard.
Therefore, I decide to write this project. To record the people who come to this place and how they live here.
Please be here and support me!
Write me if you have some thing to say, some one to interview or want to join me.
Don't be shy and no hesitate!
huiwen826@gmail.com
Work, that’s why I moved to Berlin. I have been here since 1999.
喜歡柏林嗎？
Do you like Berlin?
喜歡啊，柏林很舒適，是一個很簡單的地方，不需要賺很多錢就能夠生活下去，非常多的綠地，非常多的空間。
Yes. Berlin is a comfortable and simple place, where you don’t need to earn a lot but enough to live for. You can easily reach the green lands and have many spaces to move around.
Teufelsberg is a cool place. Berlin TV Tower (Berliner Fernsehturm) is also a nice place with lovely scene. I have been there for many times. The revolving restaurant on the tower is quite interesting, though the food is just normal, haha. Dong Xuan Center is a very big Asian market, where you can find many kinds of odd or interesting things. There are also many food standers and clothes. But the most attractive part for me is the little gadgets.
(看起來正面只是普通的十字繡，但是其實暗藏玄機，當你用手去觸碰的時候就可以產生不同的聲音！)
（The front side looks nothing special. However, once you touch it, you will hear different sounds by moving your fingers. ）
我在網路上有看了一些關於你的訪問，其中有提到你本來是從事影像方面的工作，怎麼會轉換跑道？
I have read some interviews of you in the internet
before I came. One of them has mentioned that you were working in the film
business. What makes you change the career?
I always like making things by my own. I got a lot of fun from my
previous job, but I’m a person
who has highly passion with what I’m doing. So, since the working surrounding can’t satisfy me anymore, I decided to change. But it wasn’t happened in a sudden. While I was working in the film business, I
already start inventing things that I want to do in the spare time.
I don’t like
dealing with tax. (Tax is really a
big problem for everyone XD)I like the
rest. I like brainstorming, doing experiments, cutting films, designing the
mechanical part, writing program, composing the music and so on. I am satisfied
with completing the whole process by myself!
私密空間（My little piece of privacy）是一個會隨著屋外的人移動而跟著移動的窗簾。
The project “My little piece of privacy”is a curtain, which will move following the people who pass by.
吉屋出租（À LOUER / FOR RENT）則是一個會跟著屋外的人移動而跟著移動的招牌。
The project“For Rent”is a cardboard that will move following the people who pass by.
兩個計劃是來自同一個概念對吧？我超級喜歡那個動來動去的窗簾，非常的幽默，很容易勾起人的好奇心啊！
They are
made from the same concept, right? I do like the idea of moving curtain. It is
very humor. And it just triggers the curiosity of people!
是啊。My little piece of privacy運用的是窗簾，因為在柏林窗邊有窗簾還滿正常的，所以我就設計了這個會隨著路人移動的窗簾，然後放到我的網頁上。後來加拿大那裡有人看到了，邀請我做點什麼，而那裡非常特別的是，大約在六七月算是一個搬家潮。整條街上都充了For rent的招牌，非常的引人注目，我喜歡將設計和展出的地方做連結，於是我就設計了這個。
Yes. The moving element is curtain in the project My Little Piece of Privacy , because it is normal in Berlin to have a curtain before the window.
That’s why I use
it. Later I put the video in the internet. Then I got a invitation from
Sherbrooke’s Media Art
Biennial Éspace [IM]
Média in
Canada. There is a tradition that people move to new place in summer. The whole
streets were full of the cardboard: For rent. You can’t and won’t miss it. What’s more, I like to connect my project with the location, that’s why I make this change.
(I
check it in the internet, it’s a tradition in Quebec. It was a due to the law
before that the end of contrast of house should be on 1st July, so that no body
will be kicked out in the cold winter. Now the law doesn’t exist anymore, but this tradition
keeps.)
我有看到你有一個workholic chair的設計，但是我遍尋不著影片啊！
I saw that you have a project workaholic chair. It
looks quite cool, but I just couldn’t find the video.
是啊，他沒有影片，成品也已經不在了。我很喜歡一直動手做新的東西，但我並不一定要擁有它們。
Yes, there is no video anymore, even the product is not here any more. I
like keeping creating new things, but I don’t need to have them.
NO. I have just too many ideas, haha. I may have 10 possibilities for
just one combination, but neither do I have time to try them all nor do I have so many resource. Therefore, the
ideas that haven’t been done
now may probably come out later or turn into a new form with other things.
網頁上你的作品主要分成project（計劃）與workshop（工作坊）這兩個類型。
什麼是你工作的重心？
Your works are separated to project and workshop in
the website. What is your main focus?
The most of time I make new things, whether big or small. I think and
then I make it. I will put my projects in the website. People who saw it and have
interest will connect me for workshop of installation. The most invitations for
workshop are from art school (Kunsthochschule). Normally, it takes 1 week time. With enough time to develop
and imagine, we can create countless ideas and then choose one idea to realize.
Sometimes I will work in the Festival. But due to the time restriction, people
who participate will have less space to show their ideas.
你是不是很喜歡midi的聲音啊？在許多的物品或是影片裡面都可以聽到這個音效。
Do you like the sound of midi? Because I heard this
sound effect in many products or videos.
You mean the sound like TV games? This sound is not played by instrument
and then recorded. It’s all written by program, it is simply made by the mathematical calculation.
是不是像小的時候玩電腦遊戲會跑出來的那些聲音？
Just like the computer game in the old time?
沒錯，就是單純的電腦運算的聲音。
Exactly, that’s simply
the sound of mathematical calculation in computer.
我所運用的其實都是很簡單的技術，就是一些以前好像很複雜的科技，但是其實非常的簡單且有意思。
I like to use the simple technique. There are many technique which seems
to be old and complicated, but in fact, they are simple and interesting.
I think, I’m a big kid. What I am doing now is what I wanted to do when I was a kid. At that
time I don’t have the
ability to realize it. But, now I have the ability to think and to make, I can
fulfill my dream.
