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 Adam and the Holy Spirits of economic spinning. (more…)
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. (more…)
A highly anticipated event in the world of graphic arts, this year’s Art Factory Winter Show will be held at l’espece beaupaire in Paris from 25 November to 12 December. (more…)
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. (more…)
Known for having a knack for blending the macabre, humour, cynicism and wit with child-like impulse, TimBurton is most famously associated with movies as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as other writing and web projects including The Meclancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories and Stainboy.
From November 22 this year to April 26 2010, engage in a retrospective tracing of Tim Burton’s career as a master storyteller, graphic artist and film producer, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). (more…)
