Spotted! Ringmaster The Toy Maker
THE ART
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Choon Lin not only creates her own toys, she also makes experimental stop-motion animations across various disciplines, including drawing, sculpture and printmaking.
“I am interested in how things are made,” she says, “in particular, the activity of DIY, in which people are involved in a process of putting things or objects together for their own use. People invent their own methods or discover better ways of making things from various instructional guides and resources. A lot of my work comes from an interest in how things are made, fitting of joints, making things work together, and the way materials are manipulated and used.”
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“I made the Extra Value Meal Transformer Toys with the intention of encouraging people to get into the process of making things. The toys are made by cutting and folding. Templates are available for download on the extravaluemeal site. Many things now can be bought conveniently off the shelves, and sometimes we do not even know how they came about. I hope we can all become more than just passive consumers, have more knowledge and control over the things we buy.”
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At the end of the year The Substation Moving Images Programme presents a special screening of all the audience favourites from each month's First Take. Come and watch the most popular films and cast your vote for the MOST favourite of 2008! Featuring: Flyer by Helmi Yusof, The Mitre Spell by Tony Kern, White by Tan Wei Keong, Comma by Ezzam Rahman, Di Manakan Ku Cari Ganti (Where Can I Find a Replacement?) by Shafiq Iskandar, Shut In by Pamela Pang, Electronic, I Love You by Sean Li-Wen Cheong, In Our Own Words by Melinda Tan, Tak Dong Cheng by Suffian Zainuddin. To see the full programme, 
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House will be hosting the Postcard Show II from December 5 to 20. It is an exhibition of postcard sized art and you are invited to submit your artwork. The only criteria is that your artwork must fit into a postcard size, i.e.: 10cm (h) x 18cm (w). Click 
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mavis
oh this reminds me of those old school macdonalds toys, where you had to fix a hamburger puzzle. love it!
Jun 17th, 2008
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