Andre The Giant Gets A Singapore Visa

It took 3 years of haggling with *SCAPE, but the enigmatic face of Shepard Fairey’s Andre The Giant is looking down on Singapore for the first time from the wall at Youth Park, until March 2010 (barring acts of God and vandals).
It’s an awesomely long wall, and installation is still ongoing, but in the next [...]

Heading To Pung Gol

Back in the olden days, graphic designers manually adjusted kerning, which is the space between letters.
Kerning, done properly, is close to Godliness to some people. To others it’s invisible.
Basically the principle is this… if you take a word like “Kerning” as an example, some of the letters (the K and the r) have big gaps [...]

The Winner’s Guide To Buffets

When I first arrived in Singapore a billion years ago it was a nation of buffet kings (& queens).
I think pigging out has gone out of fashion now, or at least I seem to get a lot less invitations to participate. But it’s the season for eating out, and if it’s your thing then you’re [...]

If Raffles Had A Spraycan

Who knew Street Art meets Singapore Nostalgia could be so retro-edgy?
These are from a stencil and freehand live graffiti showcase by slacsatu and clogtwo from ZincNite Crew for the National Heritage Board’s I Heart Museums roadshow.
I think ZNC are tha bomb, and their work around Youth Park bleeps like a beacon of life in an [...]

Co-working Creatives In Dubai

Getting self-referential for a minute, I’ve talked here before about the tyranny of expensive space here in Singapore for startup creatives and also about the co-working space The Change You Want To See, in Williamsburg, NYC.
I know I go on about it a bit, but it’s a pet subject of mine. I was reading something [...]

Makan Inc

I watched Food Inc last week. If you haven’t seen it then I’d recommend vegetarianism the day you do.
After I’d wiped the really grizzly bits out of my eyes, an image that remained was a big camera pullback on one of those vast American hypermarts as the voiceover explained that although consumers think they have [...]

Another Roadside Attraction

pic by creativespark – an ongoing series of experiments with the camera in my phone

Roadside Attraction

pic by creativespark – an ongoing series of experiments with the camera in my phone

International Day of Climate Action (the late-nite government remix)

A few days ago I mentioned the 350 Event happening in Singapore tomorrow. Well, since then it’s been through the government approval mechanism. I’ve got no idea why people accuse us of being a tight, screwed-down, soulless nation, really I don’t.
Anyway, here it is again with the edits:

It seems aerial photography is our new thing. [...]

International Day of Climate Action (Singapore)

It seems aerial photography is our new thing. We had Pink Dot a while ago, and now it’s time to let the top of your head shine to support climate change.
It happens on Saturday 24 October and it sounds like a fun day out.
Starting at 8am at the Padang, the organisers are hoping hundreds will [...]