by Michele Adriaens, 30 Jun 2008 |
Click the image to watch and listen to the Mesopotamia track.
Folk-flavored, alternative rock outfit Nuance finally decided to bang out six songs and two video tracks for the release of their eponymous debut EP. Which is awesome, even more so since we have the opportunity to offer two EPs for you guys to win. So watch this space!
I recently hung around Donald Pan, one of the handsome young fellows from Nuance, and had a beer-fueled conversation about some juiced bits and pieces.
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by Michele Adriaens, 28 Jun 2008 |
THE ART
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Ping B’s project, titled ‘Understanding Felicity upon Catastrophe’, suggests the relationship between the ‘Body’ as a form of ‘Nature’ and ‘Changes (modifications)’ being a form of ‘Culture’, which, as the artist suggests, “do not persist in the realm of co-existence, but emerge as one. One being the factual proposition of a form, creates the mobility of changes and reacting ambivalently.”
“My project targets to explore the approach of the body mutilation issue and ways in which people take charge to deal with their emotions, trying to secure well-being,” Ping explains, and continues. ” The aim is to capture and illustrate the interest of the reverse psychology, experiencing and sharing the doleful lives of this group of people, and also, accepting them for who they are. What went on in my mind, as I observed, is the better opportunity to see a wider pilgrim of possibilities in a variety of vernacular. Relishing in every aspect of the human nature, their endless variety, their individual foibles and peculiar habits, their innocence and their cunning, and their purity and humanity, such love for attention have to unveil, in regards to the scornful realism of the ironical society.”
Click here, here and here to view all the works in the project.
THE ARTIST
24-year old Gan Ping Bing (aka Ping B) graduated mid last year with a First Class Honors Degree in Bachelor of Arts from Loughborough University School of The Arts. She also holds a Diploma in Visual Communication from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
“I’m an out-going individual who prefers nothing more than a SPACE to herself, and music is my sole survivor. I totally indulge with books, and I reckon myself belonging to the ‘Sins of The Ab-norms’.” Ping says.
Spotted! is a digest of fly work by fresh off creatives.
by Michele Adriaens, 27 Jun 2008 |
Powerful images by Austrian photographer Jaqueline Vanek.
by Michele Adriaens, 27 Jun 2008 |
Silent World photography by Michael Kenna.
by Michele Adriaens, 26 Jun 2008 |
The 6th intake graduating class of SIM-RMIT University’s Bachelor of Design, Communication Design (BDCD) will host ‘An “Oddinary” Exhibition’, an international art exhibition which is a culmination of their degree program. This exhibition will showcase the students’ finest creative work, and will also feature an array of guest contributions by international designers.
The organizers explain, “The ‘Oddinary’ Exhibition aims to transcend the ordinary and celebrate the limitless possibilities of creativity, through a gallery of ‘Ordinary’ boxes made ‘Extraordinary’ – the students and guest artists have been invited to lend their creative touches to a simple white box – turning the ordinary into the unusual.”
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by Michele Adriaens, 25 Jun 2008 |
8 hours of writing, 5 permanent markers, 3 baths and 2 showers to clean off. This was part of a campaign to promote writing on designated graffiti walls rather than someone elses property. By For The Love Of Type.
by Michele Adriaens, 25 Jun 2008 |
A Chronology is a beautiful flickr set of self portraits by Jerry Aaron Hazard.
by Michele Adriaens, 24 Jun 2008 |
THE PHOTOGRAPH
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‘He Wooden Move’ is a photograph by 22-year old Low Youjin, showing his friend lying amongst the benches at the old Kallang Stadium. Youjin says that ” he knew it would make a far more interesting photo than your run of the mill architectural or abstract shots. I would like to believe that just about anywhere, we are presented with some really unique perspective of the world around us, provided we take the time to slow down, wait and observe.”
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