Monday, February 08, 2010

Focus

From Phuket 2010


In the spirit of travelling light, I am trying to focus on what is essential. It gets easier. What is light, becomes all the more apparent in the darkness.

Taken on new year's eve, 2009 in phuket.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Note about Format

From Krabi 2010


Most of you might not have realised this, in the off-chance that anybody did, I'm trying to change the format of my blog. Kinda like me breaking out a little, it's awkward now, but what I envision for it ultimately is to have large-format images that are totally in your face, sucking the viewer right into the picture, instead of the kind, conveniently-small, carefully-framed photographs that I used to put up here.

Krabi and the Blur

From Krabi 2010


From Krabi 2010


From Krabi 2010


From Krabi 2010


From Krabi 2010


From Krabi 2010


From Krabi 2010


Mostly a trip of eating tons of pad thai, getting sun-burnt, being mosquito bait, and getting strangely invigorated by swimming long distances around and into some pretty sublime sea-caves.

By some strange virtue of a defect completely on the part of my poor camera skills, I have come to really like blurred subjects in my pictures, or blurred images. I think this penchant for blurred photographs came about from the mix of early noughties new york art exhibits and bad overtly feely architecture school montages.

However, if you want some idea of the beauty of the natural limestone beach landscapes in Krabi albeit through some grossly unthinking bad photography of mine, I've provided a link to my photo album below. It was a fun trip! ^_^

album link

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Rendezvous in the City

From Dana


From Dana


From Dana


From Dana


You are one of a kind.

And ps: I <3 my new second-hand nikon 50mm 1.4 lens!

It's thursday night, but it feels like a friday. i'm meeting an old friend, and i just procured for myself a first- a new lens, and i am mighty excited. She seems to be the perfect muse, for a Wong-Kar-Wai-esque night out in the city.

Monday, January 25, 2010

You, again.

From Macro


I guess i don't want to lose momentum. ^_^ Putting pictures up, no matter how insignificant always reminds me that there is stuff out there that have yet to be taken, sewn, edited, drawn, printed, painted, experimented on. I want to not be able to help myself but to make, make, and make again.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Anything but Mellow

From Macro


From Macro


From Macro


From Macro


From Macro


Dying solo- a chrysanthemum.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Full Season, and some fond old Mushroom Swiss

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I wish the picture was sharper, but warm lighting tends to do that to you. However, this isn't the season to be a perfectionist. Some of us are more than willing to put 2009 to a close. I'm one of them. To say the least, 2009 was a hard year. And the school of hard-knocks teaches you many things- one, that there are more hard knocks to come, some, even harder. Two, be glad for the good food and the good moments, all the other blessings that come with it. Three, you could have it worse, and yes, you could have it better. You just gotta take what you got and run with it. Four, don't stop looking up. ever.

Not the cheeriest of posts, eh? Well, I've abandoned my camera for long enough. I've left the paint to harden in their half rusty tubes, and pencils to rest, deep beneath layers of papers. Bills, mostly.

It rained in today, but I got out, and walked about. I found my camera lens 3mm away from destruction, salvaged from being smashed in, I decided to use it. Just when you think that you've laid some things aside for a happier season, they come out at you, and demand your attention. You can't say no, and feel the better for it.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Lull

dream of the great glen

So I haven't been making anything remotely beautiful these days. Slowly, my life has yellowed, and over 3 months since my return, become an adult shade of mud. There hasn't been much of a fight. Just a gradual process of slow resignation. Before the stars in my twenty-something year old eyes completely fall out and die in quiet tragedy- mourned by only me, I resort to posting one of those pictures I took in better times. Hopefully, my bank of old photos will tide me through till the next image I make.

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

I've been listening to this song alot by Fleet Foxes, First Aid Kit does a good version of it too on youtube. (link)

Oh yeah, I'm officially a working gal now, holed myself up in a budding interiors firm on a hill, in an old school building. I like the place. X3

motherchildmountain

Wanderers this morning came by
Where did they go
Graceful in the morning light
To banner fair
To follow you softly
In the cold mountain air

Through the forest
Down to your grave
Where the birds wait
And the tall grasses wave
They do not
Know you anymore

Dear shadow alive and well
How can the body die
You tell me everything
Anything true

Sunday, June 28, 2009

What's the Buzz?

beeeee

The Shopping Bee!

okay. *deep breath*

~SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION WARNING!~

I'm shopping again! But this time, professionally, as a part of a small entrepreneurial effort with a partner back in sunny Sporeville. ^_^

It's not anything artsy, but rather the opposite. It's more of something tailored to your evil and sometimes unabashedly consumerist desires. Make your guilty pleasures just a little less guilty. Let's undercut Takashimaya, or Isetan or whatchamacallit big shopping mall that proliferates on Orchard Road. What is The Shopping Bee? That's me, the bee. Busy doing all this buzzing.

http://theshoppingbee.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Dusty Sketches

From Bored


I miss Europe!

Rodin, La Caixa, Madrid

Spidey in Calatrava in Valencia

Scarfman

From Bored


Honestly, there, it takes a month of advertising proper, to get rid of a used bunk bed. SOLD. Now this will have to suffice.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Nice Nice Things

wen's wedding magic carpet

YES! The bells are ringing for my old old friend, the new new bride!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

It isn't real until you actually meet someone....

From "WHERE'S MY VOTE???"- Iranians all over the world


... who is actually your friend. And suddenly the middle-east isn't this place at the back of your head, and the violence or the unrest isn't so muted and far-away. The blinds of apathy that you once wore fall away. It is real.



Friday, June 12, 2009

You are Filthy but Fine



New York, I Love You
But you're bringing me down

New York, I Love You
But you're freaking me out

There's a ton of the twist
But we're fresh out of shout

But you're still the one pool
Where I'd happily drown

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you're right.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Digital is Death

Dreakyv

I'm still in this sorry habit of spending too much time in front of the computer. Thus explains the above experiment in the liquefy tool in photoshop. Ouf. I need to leave the comput

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Itching

M before spain

I've concluded that I'm the kinda person to do a million and one things at the same time. After i've graduated, i've been plunging myself in various little projects that pay me in nothing but fun and happiness.

Above is a painting (an experiment of sorts) i did the day before i left for Spain in 2007. It reminds me of that year out where i spent time in the woody attic extravagantly indulging in what i like doing best. I am itching to paint. but wait, what's this? I have a shirt in my head that's dying to be made. oooh. and what's this other thing? what? Oh. tons of photographs and a mini micro venture waiting to be fufilled.

Busy busy me.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Reconstruct

Dee Dee

The Singapore Army issues these HUGE oversize grey cotton t-shirts that make for the perfect slouchy outfits. HUH?

I cut out the ARMY word emblazoned across it and add in my own peepkaboo organza window.

Look for my machinations at:
red komodo

Friday, June 05, 2009

Noir Morning

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Call me eccentric.

Yes. Dawn is barely breaking. So. Clad in my pjs and a bathrobe to keep out the unending dismal drizzle, I grabbed my camera and snuck up to the rooftop, whereupon I wandered about freely outside the Terrace in the Sky, a rather stodgy old wannabe class act of a restaurant. I thought briefly that if i got caught, I'd pretend to be sleepwalking.

The full story:
2nd Fate

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Homemade

If there's one thing me and my mum have always loved, it would be watches. However, thanks to having been given the one ultimate watch by my parents on my 21st birthday, I no longer have the means or need to buy another. Still, everytime I'm stuck in transit at an airport, I do my usual round and look at the watches they put out.

I digress. I really just want to feature Haruo Suekichi, a maker of steampunk watches (GET OUT, FOR REALS!) so I don't forget his work, his attitude, or his love for crafting everything by hand.

From Blogger Pictures


From Blogger Pictures


From Blogger Pictures


From Blogger Pictures


Somebody get me a watch like that last one! The article on PingMag, is such a fun read. so readit.

Lastly, since my graduation, I've been getting craftier than ever. I spent a day learning how to braid with 6-strands, and made my own mesh scarf. I'll prob spend another day figuring out how to integrate it into a shirt which I'll have to make myself too. To be continued.

From Blogger Pictures

ps> witness my first eye-bags borne from crafting and not (egads)drafting.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

ROY the lobster

ROY the lobster

Meet Roy, recently murdered in a swift and humane manner. However handsome you were when you captivated me with your huge fanning tail and fierce feelers, our greed got the better of us. Your eyes told me a thousand tales under the sea. In death, you had me confounded about living. Yet, you were tasty.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Dream of the Ladybirds

Dream of the Ladybirds

Inspired by a great illustrator, daniel egnéus.
I pale, but I try.


ps>> EM, this is the painting i was messing up while talking to you on the phone. ;p

Interim

pips

Here's why i hesitate to feature artists that i love. I find it completely difficult to bring myself to post my own work here anymore. Ah well. Here's an inked over painting of a photograph i printed. I probably love ink as much as i love... ice-cream. *slurp*