過年有難得的長假，不過對很多忙著拼經濟的朋友們來說，年節還真是大發利市的重要時刻。接下來我們要介紹的這位二十多歲的女生，靠著創意和巧手，在夜市裡擺攤賣首飾，每個月收入十多萬。熟悉的樂高積木，變成了女孩子們最喜歡的首飾。當耳環，當髮飾，甚至是鑰匙圈。不但牽動了很多人的童年回憶，重點是怎麼把積木別在身上，也會這麼可愛。這些創意來自這位今年不過二十七歲的女生，秀氣的外表和一對圓滾滾的大眼睛，你可能想不到，這樣的一個夜市攤位，每個月有十萬以上的營業成績。重點是一個積木的成本可能只有五、六塊錢，但是被小左加工之後，身價立刻漲上十多倍。重要的吸金因素是，產品要充滿流行元素。擺地攤擺出了自己的品牌，小左說未來要轉向設計，讓自己最值錢的創意部分，更加發光發熱，過年對她來說，當然是忙著累積資本的好時間。民視新聞鄭博暉黃建宇高雄市報導

2007-02-15 記者:王曉玟

儘管肩上背負著近千億營業額，徐重仁的心卻很定。
他如何自在轉換於On和Off之間？

加州，冬日。暖融融的冬陽下，統一超商總經理徐重仁拿起隨身的Canon SD數位相機，對著一扇倉庫的木門、一隻迷失的野鴨、一片車窗上的楓紅，無聲按下快門。那一瞬間，徐重仁的身體放逐得很遠，心卻靠了岸。

儘管肩負近千億營業額、下轄統一流通次集團三十五個公司，徐重仁的心很定。「我從來沒有心情不好過，」徐重仁笑得像彌勒佛，「不是說人不會心情不好，而是如何用最快的方法，在最短的時間內轉換心情。」

「人要走的路還很遙遠漫長，如果不能自處、轉化心情，生活會很辛苦，」今年五十九歲的徐重仁，最常掛在嘴邊的就是「轉化」兩字，用「轉化」延續人生續航力。

不是挑夫 是登山家

「領薪水、吃頭路，你不是一個挑夫，而是一個登山家，」自認平凡的徐重仁，就是以登山家自許，轉換「挑夫」角色，在統一集團內創業，慧眼引進宅急便、星巴克、無印良品、甜甜圈專賣店Mister Donut、時髦生活雜貨店Sony Plaza。這份「境隨心轉」的功夫，來自於在On和Off找到平衡點。

攝影家柯錫杰在《心的視界》中寫道：「如果你看到的是五，一口氣便把五通通拍出來，結果將是尋常的風景明信片；如果你用你的心、眼去體會，拍出來是五減二之後的三，才是你自己的風景。」

徐重仁也是如此。減法美學，不只表現在徐重仁的攝影作品（見上圖），也是他中年生活的反射。少看新聞、少應酬，減去On的時間，雖然掛著十多個董事長頭銜，徐重仁的時間卻變多了，也更怡然自得。「別人看新聞在生氣，我看日本的BS衛星電視，enjoy情境、歐洲風光或產業變化，」他愉快地說。

徐重仁以簡御繁，以運動、閱讀和攝影三個嗜好，交織出辦公室外屬於他自己的人生風景。

近兩年，徐重仁每遇假日，就在陽明山的小徑上快走五公里。每日早晨，就從家裡出發，沿著外雙溪往淡水方向，花一個小時走上三公里。

有時，徐重仁會揹著相機出門散步，讓自己走進生活深處，找到蟄伏的生命縱深。「我拍天空的雲彩、路邊的花朵，隨性，」他緩緩地說，用心體會，垃圾堆裡也能提煉出美感。

運動、攝影之外，徐重仁Off時間的閱讀，反而讓他在經營事業時，更能吸收創意、創造消費者需求。九年前，徐重仁閒暇之餘讀到日本《日經流通新聞》一則星巴克的報導，他馬上飛往東京銀座，大雪紛飛下，站在暈黃溫暖的星巴克對街，一個人默默觀察星巴克數小時。後來，星巴克果然成為台灣都會族工作、家庭以外的「第三個地方」。

「我不是天生就很會經營事業，但是我看書很會吸收、學習，很會執行，」徐重仁笑著說。

規律的運動、閱讀、和隨性所至的攝影，讓徐重仁不管On或Off，都將天堂隨身攜帶。

Maximilian Hecker –

album:試聽 Infinite Love Song

25 June Maximilian Hecker @ The Wall

但是，Maximilian Hecker 並不是個 rocker。

「他是個藝術家！」看完 24 號演出的友人這麼形容。
「他本身就是藝術吧！」我說。

他的俊美直逼所有偶像明星，他的指尖能賦予樂器生命，他的嗓音渾然天成的美麗，他的言談卻又如此幽默逗趣，和那些憂愁的特質撞擊出一種矛盾、神秘的迷人氣息－當然，要說悶騷也可以，因為接下來的演出真的夠悶騷了！．．．詳Brilliancy紀錄2006 /6/25在the wall演唱會

英文介紹是貼給我自己看的

Maxi Hecker is the one who, until recently, stood almost every day with his guitar and amplifier at the corners of the Hackesche Markt in Berlin. He had the ambition to stand there for as long as it would take to get in on the action. Maxi has a plan, a real plan, and that it is to write the song, after which listening to, you die. No suicide, no murder, just death. Death because the song itself is so enormous or so enormously beautiful, that there is nothing else left to do, but to die. A death out of nothing, finally redeemed. After learning piano and drums in a music school, maxi discovered guitar and then eventually the bass, which well, is inevitably part of it and singing, everybody’s got to sing anyway.

At first, he was the drummer in different bands. He did write songs, but the band members would never play them the way he wished to. After discovering the 4 track tape recorder, he started to become more and more what he is today. Somebody who, in a figurative sense, masturbates in front of the mirror and sends himself flowers after that. He does everything by himself. Writing songslyrics, playing them, singing at the price of solitude. And only this gets him sighing for liberation, whisper in falsetto, to harmonies and arrangements that just want to explode and burst out of their heavy cliches.

This pale and skinny artist describes his target group as good looking women about 10 years older than himself, where he shoots straight into that (in)famous grey area between motherly love and plain horniness. He also hopes that those not belonging to this target group, develop caring pity for him. After the release of about 30 copies of his demo CD, which he gave out as a present to every friends and associates, the first real release was the song Cold Wind Blowing on the soundtrack to Alaska.de on Kitty-Yo. Maximilian Hecker is an incorrigible romanticist, longing for the mother’s heart, a scandinavian model with water blue eyes or for somebody that cooks for him.

Tracklisting:

01 Infinite Love Songs 02 Cold Wind Blowing 03 Like Them 04 Sunburnt Days 05 Let Me Out 06 Polyester 07 Over 08 Today 09 White 10 Flower Four 11 Green Night 12 The Days Are Long And Filled With Pain

More info: http://www.kitty-yo.net/artist.php?id=19

He Wishes For The Clothes Of Heaven　他想要天國的綢緞

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,　　假如我有天國的錦緞，
Enwrought with golden and silver light, 　　繡滿金光和銀光，
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths 　　那用夜晚，白晝和微光
Of night and light and the half-light, 　　　　織就的藍色，灰色和黑色的錦緞，
I would spread the cloths under your feet: 　我將把它們鋪在你腳下：
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; 　　但我很窮，只有夢；
I have spread my dreams under your feet; 　　我把我的夢鋪在你腳下；
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams　輕輕踩啊，因為你踩的是我的夢。

 You insist on singing in English, which you called the “language of pop”. Did you or would you ever consider to write songs and sing in German or another language?

First of all, there are a lot of rumours and stuff around on the internet and press. Even in this so called “biography” on my own website, which is a biography that the “Goethe Institut” once made, and that we just took for the website without really checking (I’ll have to change it!). So – I don’t care at all what language might be the “language of pop”, whatever that could possibly mean. The only reason why I sing in English is because I’ve always been listening to American and British music since I was a child. And as I always imitate when I’m creative, it’s only obvious that I also “imitate” or better “use” the language of my idols. And - I never considered to sing in a different language.
 
You’ve done some modeling for album artworks and other artistic projects. Has this involvement in the visual arts influenced or inspired your music in any way? The song, “Kate Moss” for example- does this relate to modeling?

Another rumour. I have never been a model!, at least not what is perceived as “modelling”: catwalk and editorial modelling. I’ve been on a photo once that was a commercial for some agency and then I was one of ten other “acting” people on a “Levis” commercial. That was six years ago. I never liked doing that.
Kate Moss is just a good sounding song title and a symbol for an unreachable woman. Better to name her than “that and that girl from around the corner that I like” and that no one else knows..
My main inspiration for my songs is the music from my idols (Beatles, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Björk, Cat Power, Grandaddy, Nick Drake, Simon&Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen etc.)

In general, how important do you think it is for an artist to make sacrifices and suffer, to experience pain and depression? Some artists claim that they are most creative when depressed. What can you say about that? Does it relate to your own artistic creations?

No. When I’m down, I can’t do anything, not even washing dishes. I have to be balanced and happy to be creative. By the way, if you believe or not, all my songs are about bliss (inner peace - otherwordly, disembodied and released states – eternity - paradise, if you want). I don’t think that one has to sacriefy himself to do a great piece of art. It’s much more about talent than anything else.
 
You said that when you write sad or melancholic songs you don’t always feel sad, and sometimes you feel happy. Can you describe the saddest scene you have ever pictured on your mind?/What’s the saddest thing that you can think of? Can you describe it for me?

See above. Please, let’s not get into this thing with “sadness” to much. I’m like everyone – I like to be happy and I’m searching for happiness. I don’t “enjoy” pain or sadness at all, like every other normal person. People might be confused by my music or by the lyrics, I don’t know. It’s a style that I chose, the kind of music that I love best. The lyrics might be difficult to understand, as for me metaphors like for example death (”Dying”, “Today” etc.) or apocalypse (”The Days Are Long And Filled With Pain”) aren’t morbid at all but mean the contrary of what one might think in the first place. As I said, it’s all about finding peace and harmony. For example by getting rid of the weight of the body and materialistic needs through dying.
To come back to your question: the saddest thing I can think of is losing my mother, father and brother, I guess.
 
If you went to a fortune teller and she told you that she could tell you the exact time and date of your death; and if knowing that would allow you to create your most powerful song, would you ask her to tell you that date?  (If knowing the exact time and date of your death would allow you to create your most powerful song, would you choose to know this date or not?)

No. That’s too tough. Life quality is more important than “results”.
 
If you could go back in time and photograph the Beatles where would you want to take their picture? If you had total control over lighting and setting, what would that photograph look like?

Beautiful, I hope. But there are so many great pictures of them. I can’t really think of anything that I need to do.
 
Some people believe that an unborn child is influenced by music if it’s played over the mother’s belly. If you could sing two songs, one of your own and one by another artist, to your unborn child, which would they be?

“Lady Sleep” and “Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” (Dylan).

Describe the most rebellion thing or act you have ever done in your life so far. Why did you do it, and what does it mean to you now?

I haven’t done anything dramatically rebellious. I had green hair, used the women’s toilet at school, played and sang on the street, chose to be an artist. Is that rebellious? I don’t know.

Some people believe they have a spirit guide or spirit animal which guides them. Which animal do you think is yours? Why?

I donnever thought of that. Maybe some bird.

Music is something we can use to communicate with other people and other beings. It is not limited by languages. I wonder, if you had the power to summon an angel by using a single musical instrument, which would you choose and why?

The piano. It has the ability to sound like an orchestra. Plus I’m able to play it.

You experimented with different sounds in your albums. Can you tell me something about how you progressed from the sounds we can hear in “Infinite Love Song” to “Lady Sleep”? What does this evolution in your sound mean to you?

For me, nothing has changed. It’s always the same. Arrangement and sound come second. It’s all about the song and the expression in the voice. Nothing else matters. On “Infinite Love Songs” I recorded everything except for the voice without any knowledge about recording, that’s why it might sound different. But all the records from then on (including the new one which will be released in September 2006) were recorded in the same, professional studio. The “evolution” is one of the parts that people from outside (like for example journalists) might bother to think about.
 
Would you ever consider to develop other artistic careers, such as acting, painting, or writing novels? Are there other arts that appeal to you which you haven’t yet explored? Perhaps playing Hamlet, painting a self-portrait, or publishing a collection of poems?

I’m only good enough for public appearances at music, I guess. But you never know...

What is the last thing or routine you usually do before you go to bed?

Shower and brush my teeth. Nothing special.
 
Now I want to ask a very personal question. If your father fell sick and, while confined to bed, you chose to read a novel aloud to him in his last days, can you tell me which one you would choose? Why?  (If you were to read a novel to a dying man confined to his bed, which would you choose to read aloud, and why?)

A peaceful novel with a happy end, I guess. But I never read one like that. My favourite novels are “Homo Faber” by Max Frisch and “Die Strudlhofstiege” by Heimito von Doderer.

If you were given the power to raise one person from the grave, who would it be? What can you tell me about your relationship to this person?

Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He was the only really great German filmmaker.

Which new artist or song have you fallen in love with lately?

Songs Of Green Pheasant.