It’s a little bit early to see autumn leaves but coming soon.
could see through the colors
exuding fugacious warm days
following cold air
This challenge was set by the Daily Post.
capturing in prose
It’s a little bit early to see autumn leaves but coming soon.
could see through the colors
exuding fugacious warm days
following cold air
This challenge was set by the Daily Post.
One week of exciting, thrilled and bit strange experience has been passed after my usual updating the OS on my iPhone. As you know, it was same as the well known formula Apple had. A lot of improvements and new functions, charming user interfaces, adding small but useful tips etc. The iOS team made a good job. However, I still have a question: where is Steve.
Of course, the interface of iOS7 is simple enough as you see and I’m not saying the software architecture seems complex. A question is perhaps what “simple” means. To see an animation when you go back to the home from an application for example, the visual effect looks slightly busy compare to the traditional context of Apple way. Icons is also simple but vivid.
When you see a pictures you took, you might find an unexpected object in it. One of the reason is, when you see something, you see only what you want to see. While you look at something charming through a finder, it is natural to escape the attention of trash bin at the bottom right of view. Such a additional information may make it busy.
Apple would have found a good word to explain the new interface. The word “flat” sounds well. A skeuomorphic designing method may not give a simple impression today. I suppose Apple needed to move toward the future. It would be just on way to the next.
It seems to be a time to go back to the question. It is said that Steve Jobs knew Zen culture which affected his idea. But I don’t believe it. Probably he had his own criteria as everyone does. At least, his strong leadership would be an Apples criteria. When he said yes, it was simple.
いつものようにiPhoneのiOSをアップデートして、素晴らしいような、でも少し変な感覚でこの一週間が過ぎた。いつものApple。様々な機能追加に魅力的なインターフェース。iOSチームはいい仕事をしたということだろう。だが、どこか疑問が残ったのである。ジョブスはどこに行ったのかと。
確かに相変わらずシンプルなインターフェースであるし、ソフトウェア構造がどうのこうのという話ではない。ひょっとするとシンプルとはどういう意味かという話なのかもしれない。ホームボタンでアプリから戻る時のアニメーションがどこかうるさかったり、シンプルなアイコンが派手過ぎたり感じるのだ。
撮った写真に予想していなかったものが写りこんでいることがある。理由のひとつは、人間が見たいと思っているものだけを見ようとすることだ。素敵な何かをファインダー越しに見ている時に、隅にあるゴミ箱には気が付かないものだ。
Appleは新しいUIにフラットという良い単語を見つけた。現実のメタファーは、現代では必ずしもシンプルな印象を与えない。恐らくは、Appleは次世代に向けて動き始める必要があったのだろう。
最初の疑問に戻ってよいころだ。ジョブスは禅をよく知っておりそれが彼の考え方に影響を与えているとも言われている。個人的にはそうは思わないが、おそらくは、彼は彼自身の基準を持っていて、彼の強いリーダーシップがAppleの基準になってはいただろう。彼がイエスと肯いた時、それはシンプルだったのだ。
You see many lines here but is there any patterns?
The picture was taken at a museum of potteries, perhaps earthenware would be a better expression, where a famous potter lived in this house fifty years ago. His name was Shoji Hamada.
Looking into the room, perhaps you could see some rectangle patterns on walls, floors and tables.
This challenge was set by the Daily Post.
Looking into a deep and dry blue
through a break in the trees.
Falling down to the sky like
fragments of the summer filigrees.
When dry air covers the city of Yokohama, close to Tokyo, it tells the Autumn is coming just over there. Autumn is also rainy season. Both dry air and rain brings the harvest season to Japan.
乾いた深みを木々の間から覗き込む。光が零れるかわりに自分が落ちて行く。秋の空は深い。
通勤電車の軋む音にふと、前に座る疲れた誰かがふたり分の椅子を使ってうなだれているのに気付く。薄目を開けて混雑し始めた車内を見回し、再び目をつむる。まるで世界など最初からなかった様に、周囲から目をつむる。
ひどく暑かった夏の終わりに秋の扉をこじ開けた風雨が、ひと足先に黄色くなった葉を散らす。秋にはまだ少し間がある。
通勤電車が乗り換え駅に近付いて行く。スピーカーがパチと音をたてる。乗り換えの案内。そして、「どうぞこの先も気をつけて行ってらっしゃいませ」と、いつもと違うアナウンス。
The typhoon MAN-YI is going close to Yokohama. Am I now inside of the storm system? Probably, it is leaving us.