If you secretly wished to experience some of the aspect of the saying, here I can guide you through.

Have you ever felt that you are subject to age discrimination when you tried to ride that small slide in the playground of your neighborhood where there is a sign saying no living soul over 13 or something similar?

Now today, forget about your big multiple sighs and big sagging disappointments around that playground.

Just visit the New Museum in my neighborhood, Lower East Side.

http://www.newmuseum.org/

There, you can experience the Carsten Holler exhibition until January 15th, 2012.

You can ride a Big Sci-Fi slide that’s piercing through three stories of the building. Of course, no worries about age discrimination. You can ride a shiny merry-go-round with pride (no shame, thinking of your age). Sci-Fi alien Santas will greet you with space ships and you can walk around with a big sci-fi helmet that will distort your vision upside down.

Don’t dispair around the playground in your neighborhood any more. Be happy at the New Museum. The Artsy Sci-Fi Playground will await you in the shiny silver armor.

Have Fun!! And Greet 2012 with futuristic ideas~~ ^^

Tons of younsters and superpower hero/heroine enthusiasts flocked together in groups to see who is attending to show off their super power this year. Some of them may not be living in the city. But the heck, Who cares? As long as you are here to make your presence, you’re part of the community.

Spotting some of these half-naked super heroes and Roman soldiers walking by on the street of LES (half way down in Manhattan) at chilly night was a big secretive amusement for a person who was a part of the super-hero group during the day.

Why don’t you join the festival next year? You’d better hurry. It might take a whole year to develop such a cool persona.

(Photos by Unjoo Na, Copyright @2011)

If you haven’t seen any in real life, then see Ryan Gosling in Drive.

A loner with a sensitive soul. Immensely suppressed anger with pure childlike innocence. His melancholy teary eyes contrast his skillfully firm grip on the steering wheel when he drives to protect his amorous connection. You’ll feel that you can lean on his firm back without much worry.

As you can guess from the 60-page-long final script reduced from its original script which took 6 years in development, there is very little dialogue, other than the characters’ succinct or non-verbal communications.

I feel like today I rediscovered Ryan Gosling and Director Nicolas Winding Refn. Ryan was handsome, charismatic, and sexy in Drive, unlike the first time I saw Ryan in person at the Blue Valentine screening from last year (don’t get me wrong, Ryan. I really like the movie, your performance and your witty conversations after the screening. I think you are handsome, charismatic and sexy in real life as well). At the last year’s screening, Ryan was to me like a guy living next door. When I saw him in person, he didn’t show off the movie star vibe. He was friendly, nice and seems like a compassionate easy-going next-door neighbor. I think He shines more on a big screen, then on he’s like a true star. In that sense, he is a good actor to me. It was also interesting to hear how they all got involved in the first place. Ryan Gosling got involved first with the movie script and called Nicolas to persuade him to join when the director was in LA, unhappy and high on fever reducing drug (?) he got from Harrison Ford. And then, much later Carey Mulligan called Nicolas to work with him after seeing the director’s next movie clips. Nice job, guys. A cool movie and a cool director.

All of sudden I wanted to check out Ryan Gosling’s other films, so I decided to go and see “Crazy, Stupid, Love” this weekend. And I’m gonna watch “The Notebook” again because I just realized that he was the main character in that movie, which I loved when I first watched and thought was the best romantic film. Are you that romantic and sensitive in real life, Ryan? ^^

Go and meet your Guardian Angel. Drive is not Fast and Furious. But, way cooler.

Loved the sound of the music.

F1, Brazil, racing, legend… Nothing much in common with myself. But felt so much from this one documentary film. What a magnificent life. What a legend. And what a loss.

If you did not see this movie, you should go watch it yourself. You’ll be inspired. How is your life journey going? Can you match Senna’s?

Ayrton Senna Lives Forever (Senna Visiting NYC)

Sharks are everywhere!

They are waiting for the smell of blood, and then will sneak into your territory to bite off a huge chunk of your flesh. If you watch “Jaws” from 70′s again , you will feel a chill in your spine and know how terrifying it is to feel that some creature is lurking in the dark space below to come and eat you alive. ooooohhhh~~~

In this heat of the summer, you don’t have to go too far to dip your feet in the cool ocean to feel the chill of such predators. In fact, they are everywhere in the city, watching every move you make and every misstep you take. They are just waiting for you to get close and show them the smell of blood.

Sharks in the city? What the hell am I talking about? Isn’t it temporary insanity from the heat wave? Have you ever watched ABC’s “Shark Tank” by any chance? If you have, you would know what I’m talking about. Obviously. it’s not temporary insanity. Venture capitalists and a bunch of angel investors (somebody gave them this cute name^^) with lots of money are waiting for a next victim to show them the blood.

And of course, so-called victims are desperate and money hungry entrepreneurs. Whenever they are getting weary after a long struggle for cash or they want to make a fast-forward in the competitive market segment, they usually start looking for sharks, with some benign expectations that sharks will shower them with sweet cash, not with their sharp teeth. Entrepreneurs wish that their dream of sweet cash might be able to decay the sharks’ sharp teeth and make them dull somehow. Well, some might say ‘dream on’. Sharks are sharks. They will sharpen their teeth everyday and will have enough money to go to dentists to check their teeth secure.

While watching “Shark Tank,” I was amazed by how many entrepreneurs become vulnerable in front of money, actually in front of blood-hungry sharks. Upon certain pressures and influence, they give out a big chunk of their flesh disguised as company shares and hand over their babies to sharks, wishing that sharks will take care of them better than themselves. How about you? Are you willing to give out your flesh and dreams, in order to make bigger dreams? Are you ready to deal with the sharks? Me? Not sure yet. If I am, then I would be in a much stronger suit.

Check out this video. Two shark friends of mine, Art Chang and Shelly Palmer, are talking about the current trend of startups which sharks are waiting to devour. Although it was broadcasted last year, the message still has some resonance in this current.

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(Tribute to Part2)
Death
It will await
Who’s gonna be the one. Harry or the other?
Destroy the articles and the serpent
Attacks of the dark ghosts and the wizards battle will begin
Harry saw the past
We will see their future
And the legacy will continue.

Harry Potter will be missed and remembered!

Code Name: LIFE IN A DAY

Commanding Officer: RIDLEY SCOTT

Director: KEVIN MACDONALD

HeadQuarter: YOUTUBE

Mission: To record a day in your life with your HD camera and upload to Youtube for a user-generated documentary entitled “LIFE IN A DAY” which will be premiered in 2011.

Mission Accomplished: 4500 hours of footage was searched, reviewed and cut down to a fantastic 90 minute documentary.

On the mission day, I was also drawn out by my friend to the mission as a participating agent, posing silly to a camera. Since I haven’t heard anything about it yet, so I guess our footage was not selected for the documentary. It was some silly verbose statement anyway, so I’m not disappointed at all.

Instead, I am amazed by the beautiful images I witnessed on the “Life in a Day” trailer. I bet the abundance of artistic talent dotting all over the world will amaze you as well.

Check out the Trailer!

This 70′s TV series remake “Battlestar Galactica,” which I think is a political drama, is a story about a space battleship’s elongated journey for survival and hope after a scary nuclear apocalypse caused by an unexpected rebellion of the machines called “Cylons” that man had created to make life easier.

These “Cylons” evolved to the point where they look, act and think exactly like humans. Their biological (?) evolution led to the mechanical revolution against the mankind, to total nuclear annihilation, except 50,000-odd people left on board, drifting in the dark space, without much promise or future. Only left by occasional deadly attacks or deceptive infiltration by the robotic beings.

How scary is that? Thinking about a possibility of the world coming to an end… Especially, when the imminent threat might exist by the very technology we created for our convenience. What is happening in Japan might be only a fraction of what we are going to experience in the years to come? Do we have the strength to overcome all the obstables and grave adversities to come? Donno.

If I say that I’ve had some not-so-subtle Cylons moments myself, would you believe that? Well, the story goes like this. You know that I have a blog called “New York Dreamer,” right? Obviously, you might know it by the time you read this, so I have no doubt about that since you are gazing on it right now. It’s my great pleasure to come here and talk about some silly stuff and communicate with you guys (apparently human beings). But at some point, I had this creepy feelings that I might not be talking to human beings.

How do I know? Cus I smelled some robots and delicious spam when I found myself hypnotically accepting repeating comments with slight variations from some similar comments of the past. And sometimes they were talking nonsense when responding to my humanly communications. And how else do I know? They are not on my Facebook group page to reveal their true identity. lol

Sometimes, it’s hard to distinguish. Sometimes, it feels and sounds like humanly comments. But when I find similar copies a few days later, chillin’ sweat falling down on my spine… Think about it. These robots can make a serious attack on our system, by pretending that they are one of us and by implementing some languages made to look like coming from us. Scary… So I had to withdraw from my pleasurable activities for a while. I hope you know what I’m talkin’ about. haha.

But again I decided to come back to my beloved blog to overcome my fear and fight against the robots with my humanly words. And I’m pretty certain that other human beings will join and help me with my cause. The only being that can prevent the next Cylons’ attack on our digital survival is US. Let’s do it, then.

Come and communicate.

Heed the following messages from Battlestar Galactica.

“The Cylons were created by Man”

“They Evolved.”

“They rebelled”

“There are many copies”

“And they have a plan…”

Wait a sec. We don’t even have the “Jump” technology to avoid the Cylons’ attack. We are so screwed. Damn. We need better cool technologies to survive. And our human dignity to discern them.

That is our hope.

(Click) Battlestar Galactica Trailer

And Geoffrey Rush’s speech ruled on a Sunday night in NYC. He showed up in Manhattan to talk to many actors from the Actors Guild of America and film makers. For me, making an eye contact up close and personal with this wonderful actor at the night when he won the Awards was somewhat surreal.

At the beginning of the conversations, he wittily commented on the meaning of the Awards in his life: “It’s like flash moments in life, without having a bus coming towards you.” I giggled out loud like I did when I was watching “King’s Speech.” He’s exactly as witty as the Lionel character at King’s Speech.

He’s one of the few actors who can really act. And it was interesting to know that he grew up in a town in Australia where no theaters or theatrical performance he could experience. He was exposed to the rich theatrical and literature environment in college. And his first movie appearance was not until he was 45. Before that, he spent many years in theaters, uttering lots of shakespearean prose. “I’m a slow learner.” He said.

Oscars for Geoffrey. He’s damn good for a slow learner. Indeed, he has many colorful stories to share. ^^
I wish I could share more of his witty conversations, but for my sleepy heavy eyes. Tomorrow is waiting for me now. Maybe next time… Good night~*

I missed you guys. I have lots of new year’s plans. How about you? It’s fantastic to share you dreams and future with people. Let’s do that.

I’m posting some photos from my trip to Korea as my gift for you. Happy weekend~