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a friend of mine is in a big problem.

but everything seems like the problem comes from her,

like she’s putting herself in the problem.

i thought, i have to advise her as a friend.

i thought, i have to tell her what she can not recognize herself.

i told her everything as possible as she can understand.

but she didn’t wanted to accept it.

she said  i just don’t understand her and her problem is more complex

than i’m thinking about that.

maybe it’s right. the life is more complex than anyone can imagine.

and what i thought like what is correct and what is fault about her is just my own subjective sight.

i realized if i keep advising her, it will be just what i try to judge her.

i thought i have to do something for her. but what i can do for her is…

i don’t know. i really hope she’s gonna be ok. i believe for her.

i’m working on my report for art history class where i attended 3 years ago. yes it is… it is a long long time ago.

and it is the time i finally have done with this report.

anyway it is a quite interesting theme.

i’m studying about medieval paintings those are involved with a story of philosopher aristotle.

it’s really interesting to study why this great philosopher of century

gave his back to a woman to ride on.

the story is …

aristotle was a teacher of young alexander the great.

after young alexander was fell in love with beautiful woman

phillis(she was a maid of his mother),

he didn’t concentrate on his study anymore.

his teacher aristotle was angry about his student

and warned against beautiful women.

finally he forbad young alexander to meet phillis.

phillis who couldn’t see her lover anymore decided to avenge aristotle.

one day, aristotle was walking around in the garden. on that day, phillis especially looked beautiful. because she glamed up herself with pretty dress and flowers.

she went to the garden and approached to aristotle.

at first sight his heart was stolen away from phillis’es irresistible beauty. he wanted love from her. phillis who was waiting for this moment, said to him.

“if you want to take my love, let me ride on your back around whole this garden!”

beauty of a woman blinded a great phillosopher, a great teacher.

he took her on his back, and took down his fame and honor.

alright!

as i found the background of this story, this is not a real story.

this actually was a very popular story in 13th-century in france, written by Henri d’Andeli.

and this story became a very frequently used motive for medieval paintings.

this story sounds very exciting but it’s not that easy to analyse

social and cultural contexts in this story and why so popular this story was.

what i’m interested in is

why did the author especially find out aristotle for the role in this story?

there are also other great phillosophers like socrates.

was aristotle’s theory unwelcome at that time?

if yes, why?

…

i love tim burton, i love alice, i love wonderland.

and it must be a perfect combination.

tim burton’s new movie ‘alice in wonderland’

ok i didn’t mention one more important thing about this movie.

furthermore this is 3D!!!! i love red-green-glasses too!

actually what i got in cinema was not the red-green-glasses.

those are now just for a old 3D technique.

and what i was gonna watch was *Digital* 3D.

so there are no more red - greens.

(new 3D glasses look just like sunglasses)

and the movie begins…

i loved the strange extraordinary figures, the tim burton’s creatures.

and… and?

i was wating the movie gets ending as soon as possible.

because it was very hard to bear up against *Digital 3D Torture*

i was feeling really bad from extream shining colors and

unsharpness. i almost saw my dinner out of my stomach.

it’s too bad but this movie was not pleasant anymore.

there are some reasons why i love tim burton.

the worlds he creates seem very sad, ugly, abandoned…

but there are another extraordinary happiness and beauty.

his twisted screwed world made my heart so warm.

when i watched his movie(batman 2) for the first time,

i got shocked from this strange emotion which i’d never got before.

just i can say

the new wonderland was not made by tim burton

but made by new digital 3D tech.

i got back to school.

felt strange.

many new faces and also old faces.

anyway, it’s great that this school still perks my interest

to learn something.

if i had more time and money i really want to stay more in the school.

because i want to learn more. i need to learn more.

but

i don’t want to live in a ideal world.

learning is important but i can not idealize the world in study.

the real world is quite different than i’ve learned in the school.

confronting with real world and solving real problems

should be my next assignments. as a designer.