November 2009

Buy Nothing to Quit Shopping

November 30, 2009

Like most mortal urbanites, I look forward to the Coke-inspired version of Christmas with all its Santa Clauses, reindeers and other (RED)-coloured iconographies. Two days ago, the infamous Black Friday kicked off Christmas shopping season 2009. With it, a pledge to infect worshippers of the Shopaholics series with Consumer Fever.  In the name of the Father Christmas, the Sons of [...]

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Pop Art with CanvasPop

November 24, 2009

With a voracious hegemonic mandate of achieving seamless-ness, Social Media has been extending its tentacles into every nook and cranny of the real economy. Virtual exchanges of gifts and grattitude are great. Online communications, fabulous. But it is after all, still the five senses that govern our innate affinities in the offline world.

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The Artist known as Leon

November 19, 2009

It has been said that his tattoo-works evoke a slight Tim Burtonesque quality. But to compare this reknowned artist-tattoist to anyone, no matter how legendary, would do Leon Lam-Hien‘s art gross injustice.

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