ungrapsable

Oh yeah we started on nude drawings like a week ago.

the left arm looks as though it's dislocated but i assure you it's the camera =]

and the legs too. i suck at photos

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graps

Yay I cleaned my printmaking drawer!

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come to terms

Finally I have come to understand.

However, to not succumb under the circumstances, is to yet follow another set of societies.

So to prevent the following discussions with other enthusiasts, being a hippy is a good thing to do.

Why bother, when we can wait and enjoy?

Then again, we need sustenance. Conformity is the way. But that doesn't mean we have to conform a 100%.

We were born into conformity, sadly. But don't be emo. Be Buddha.

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booms

"WHO'S YOUR ARTIST REFERENCE???"

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he doesn't look anything like that. that's his bang kai form.

a tree

Because we give meaning to the world. Without us, without meaning, there is no world. This is semiotics. Semiotics means, a tree is a tree because we say it is a tree. And how is it reinforced? Simple. It's cause 90% of the people agree they want to call this a tree.



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so where does god come in?

pmr

who did you say i was again?

urgh! essay

...What makes the ideal of commodity fetishism persist and encourage its growth is mass culture. Elites rule the society through the means of leadership and persuasion and not force and bold power as these might bring about resistance. This control over society is commonly referred to as hegemony. The social elites of the capitalist society, namely the capitalists themselves and industrialists, impose and promote ideals that play towards the capitalist movement. These ideals control the thinking of the society and lower classes and influence them. They are usually nothing more than just ideals brought up by the dominant class and are usually ideals of material expression. So that these ideals stick to the society, they represent a common universal interest to all members to the society. They are also represented as the only valid and rational ones. Thus, the people are controlled because they buy into these ideals and have come to take them for granted. As such, they do not question them.

An example of hegemony is employment. While people can primitively live off the land - hunting, gathering and living only on necessities such as food, shelter and water, this is not the case. People work for quite a number of erstwhile luxuries that have been taken for necessities. The idea of employment is hegemonistic because not only do people fail to question it, they actively seek it out. This plays into the hands of the capitalists, who want a source of willing labour. Therefore, mass culture is the culture of the dominant ideals set by the elites of the society for commercial purposes...

busy busy busy

I'm busy busy super busy. Things are starting to get hectic. And the nights are getting later. Should I slack abit, go about at my own pace, knowing that I will eventually finish everything on time? Or should I chiong and finish, and eventually have free time to do EXTRA work, or finish with a lot of spare time? (but burn myself out eventually)

Health's starting to not feel good. Been coughing and having muscle strains (not cramps, thats feminine) rushing here and there for time, waking up later, stressing about the quality of work.

When you just don't know what is expected of you at the table, and you have no idea what others are bringing to the table, you just don't know what to do right. Like should you reprint that edition that you don't like, or go and touch up that statue of David drawing because you feel slightly insecure.

But why am I thinking so competitively. Why can't I just do art for art's sake and learn it naturally and not train ahead?

For grades.

The world is commodified and competitive. In school it's about grades. That's the underlying death.



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happenings 6.2321

Happenings. In random order.

So I went round all over the PMR saying Hey I need pictures for my blog.

not mine.

hi max.

vivian's. i didn't do this not mine. will try it someday though. if i''m brave enough. we'll see. its nice right?

tri-coloured etching is the shit man.

not a print.

alien life form thing.

gallery sitting is boring.

but good money.

not a print either.

the killer.

One more day till Julie gets back. And Oh no..my IIIA essay is still left hanging. No mood to do. 800words. But I have my History essay all nice and done. We'll see.

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KATHMANDOOOOOOO is just next door

selamat hari raya 09

selamat hari raya

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impossible is nothing

So here I am.

I just finished a 1500 word History of the Visual Arts essay and I'm happy.

And going crazy too.


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YOU LIKE ETCHING EH BOY? OH YES YOU DO.
you know i just realised, with etching, the lines are way smoother than what i could do with a pen.
that and editioning but we'll see

next post got pictures. promise

good

OK. So it reverts back to its normal self. Or maybe it just doesn't work on my laptop.

But I'm lazy to upload pictures now. Because I'm doing my history essay and it is mind-boggling.

And no I don't like to copy and paste. I rephrase every damn shit.

That's my vice what's yours?



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can you say firetruck ?
say Ohhhh truck..

test

Trying out posterous. Let's see how it works.

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See and download the full gallery on posterous

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hmmm

I don't know what's wrong with my blogger. Or is it my internet? I cannot upload pictures and stuff. I can only type. So how to show imba sketches? Just kidding.

Maybe it's because I'm using google chrome? Tried with mozilla, didnt work. Internet explorer too. I'm stuck with this =\

OH and for no apparent reason I have a tumblr. I thought I'd try other blogsites other than blogger. Couldn't understand wordpress, as in the cuztomisations. But oh well. We'll see how it goes.

I have a twitter now lol.


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dear me

OK. It's been a very long while since I've posted. It's very hard to post pictures without my phone. Nothing unusual has happened lately. Schoolwork is schoolwork what do you expect, puasa is puasa.

Puasa doesn't seem like puasa anymore.

It doesn't feel like it did and should(?) anymore.

Followed mom to this introduction to Islam class last saturday. I dunno why but I just went. Currently, religion isn't feeling like religion anymore. What is religion? What is worship? How to worship?

There are atheists, and monotheists and polytheists but what about the people out there that acknowledge that there is a god, but don't want to indulge in religion? What of them?

They say disbelievers are thrown into hell. But seriously, who is disbelieving who?

So many questions and NO time. Values change, priorities change. Paths change and minds change.


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sonova

MY PHONE IS DEAD AGAIN. I DON'T KNOW HOW THE FUCK THAT HAPPENED. AGAIN.

I DO NOT HAVE SOME OF YOUR NUMBERS SAVED IN MY SIM CARD.

SO I APOLOGISE BEFOREHAND WHEN I ASK ''..oh and by the way, who's this?"

WALAO EH.

walkabout

Post long overdue. Print stuffs, camping stuffs and some figure-disfigure drawing.


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creep

Happy birthday dear Julie, happy birthday to you.

Her birthday falls on the 08 of 08.

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oh

David. Not finished obviously. That day couldn't focus much. Turned out quite OK. And I hate to do charcoal on NON-charcoal paper. Very irritating. If only I had a charcoal pencil.

But anyway today me jianwei catherine and olivia came to school (on the only day we don't) to do our prints. Lo and behold. The word is out. Please remember to wash your plate ONLY after you finish printing and NOT after every print. Wasted our time man =\

Overall printing is a nice challenging experience (especially if you dont fuck up the sides with your dirty fingers dzaki) and you get to bully jianwei to wipe the press and tear the papers. Kidding uh. I do some of the work too okay.

Why my hand always kena one. I wash and scrub and clean already sure SURE kena.

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.__.

my first drypoint

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happenings

Discussion time!

I don't believe there is anything wrong with my hair. Everyone should just look at it in a deconstructionalist point of view and think of it as just hair. People should not be judged by how they look but how they present themselves when meeting new people. Smile, firm handshake, Hi how are you? Smile and be polite and considerate.

Good example. Metal people. People from Lamb of God, Metallica or Trivium to name a few. Sure they all had their fair share of 'fuck you's and headbanging metal shit. But off stage they are nice people. They talk nicely and are just like you and me, only much much richer and talented.

So about my hair. It's just hair. You want to judge me, judge me by how I speak and how I interact with you. Judge me by my achievements or failures. Of course first impressions count but hey, we're all different. Set our differences aside and try to look for common ground.

And that's it. Don't be so fucking judgemental.


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reopens

bonju



Drawing class. We have to do this same bust next week. 2 weeks for one single drawing? Pressure. Raymond is a fun chap. Gives very good advice and encouragement. Says "just draw what you see. Feel the line and the curve as you draw, feel as if youre the model, how twisted the body is..and you could be the panda, could be the bear, could be some other person it don't matter." Haha. But seriously he's nice. Says to squint abit if you can't see the contrast and the light and dark parts. It really works! Good stuff. I'm not a Geeky Butthole.



"Hello my name is Mr Chandran.."

Then we had a 'meet and greet' session with our new HOD Mr Chandran. Chandransekaran I think. Meh, don't remember. But honestly speaking, he looks like Beast from Xmen, cept with the balding patch on top.


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wah siao eh now digital art is on monday night 7-10. but that means there is no class on tuesday. rejoice or not?

f

Been feeling germy.


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differences

You are the expansive colours of the multiverse.
I favour the Black, the White and everything in between.

It's all about skies, nature and the rustic for you.
And the modern, the straightness for me.

The curve
The straight line

Mellow
Metal

Nerd
Geek


Look at all our differences. But,
13November December January February March April May June 13July
and oh look, that's 8months.


i bet you highlighted this. i love you


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=]
look at everything in a Deconstructivist's point of view

babe

Omg I can't sleep anymore. Cannot be jetlag right.




But anyway, I can draw babes now. Thanks Frank Frazetta!


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school of athens

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credits for the photo danya venice bienalle

what's jamming?

Jammed with the guys today at some jamming place called Stone Jamz. Yeah with the z at the back. It's somewhere off Clarke Quay at the shophouses there. So there was me, Ian, Desmond, Sharmen, Toon and Julie =D Ian and Toon came late. The guitar amps were noisy. The drums..they were passable but still better than my stock Pearl at home. We had a lot of fun man, like singing randomly, Ian doing crazy dancing and it all ended with me and Desmond just jamming it out drums and guitar. Thanks all for coming. We jam again soon.

So this morning I was by myself at Raffles City mac eating big breakfast (it's been a long while) waiting for Shu Anne and her filming people. Supposed to help her with this video thing. Well basically I is the main actor character. They're supposed to do this video about a person with some interesting hobby thing. So art was the hobby la. More than a hobby actually but nevermind. I had to do some crazy shots, like I was supposed to act like I was inspired and then suddenly walk away. So weird. But I had fun so it's ok.

School's starting in two weeks.


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i prefer the big two instead?

You gotta love texas hold 'em.


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thanks fish

fiorentina

What's up with Florence? Let's see if I can recall.

We arrived by train at night, took the taxi to Sette Santi Hostel. Clause (Keng Beng's nephew) didn't realise that in Europe the driver sits on the RIGHT side of the car. So he actually wanted to drive us there, if you catch my drift.

Sette Santi is very nice. I bunked with Wenfeng and Jianwei in this luxuriously spacious hostel room fully equipped with a very nice view and a bathroom sink minus the bathroom. For the 4 days we spent there the sink became our best friend. We had to use a communal bath and toilet. Initially we had this smaller room with 5 bunkbeads AND a working toilet but Rina insisted they changed rooms with us because there were more girls than guys and it made more sense that 6 girls should bunk there rather than 3 guys. But the real reason is that there was a cockroach in her room(which then became our room but no problem for us cause we caught the bugger and killed it). The open window provided not only mosquitoes but instant ventilation and aircon, considering the air in Florence is also cold but not as dry. Breakfast was only limited to cornflakes and bread + jam. The coffee was super bitter.

The last night in the hostel there was a power shortage (not uncommon in europe) but equipped with our torchlights and handphones, we had a good time in moi's hostel room (because it was the most largest and spacious and windiest and it had a sink) playing hard attack and cards and shit. And almost all of us had sore hands from hard attack. Poor poor Rina.

So there is alot to see in Florence, apart from all the frequent visits to the ice cream parlours located almost 5metres apart from each other. The Ufizzi museum was very good, because we got to see tons of stuff like that Creation of Venus (for those non-art people, its that chick that's standing in a clam shell covering her bits with her hands and hair) there was Leonardo and stuff. Basically whatever that was taught in Art History, if you were paying any attention and not sleeping, it's almost all there. I think the best part was Caravaggio. We didn't get to see David in the Academie because we kinda didn't have enough euros.

So apart from that Florence is quite relaxed. Alot of walking and exploring. The food was ok. We kinda got used to the concept that there is very little rice. Only pasta and bread and meat. But on the last day we had this amazing meal at this restaurant just behind the Ufizzi with NO cover charge.

And that's all I can remember about Florence.


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get well soon auntie =]

i don't dota anymore

Slight digression. Will be back with Florence.


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now you know where the holy comes from

part one - rome

abit before i go cut my hair

So after 12+ hours of flying, we finally reached the Leonardo Da Vinci airport(no bullshit) in Rome. The we cabbed to the hotel. First thing, European traffic - very fast, very cramped. Second thing - European bikes - damn nice.

The hotel is very nice. Like some country getaway. We were in some town (can't remember the name) so it was very peaceful and quiet. Shared the room with Izwan from year2 photography. The air was very dry and get this, whenever you stand in the shade, it's very cold but whenever you're out in the sun, it's an oven just like in Singapore.

In Milan we visited the Vatican city - Museum and where the Pope supposedly lives (i dont remember). The museum is where we got to see all the sculptures lined up in one very very huge hallway. Kind of like a supermarket aisle of sculptures. Then we got to so the Sistine Chapel (sixteenchapters) the Michelangelo God Adam thing Raphael Plato and Aristotle thing. An hour of straining your neck up to look at the fantabulous paintings. Paintings of sculptures that are almost 3D. Trust me when you're there you can't differentiate between sculpture and painting. OK now the building where the pope supposedly lives (i googled it) is called St Peter's Basillica and it is HOLY SMOKES. You can't even comprehend how huge it is and how tiny and insignificant you are when you're inside (this can be said with all other large churches and stuff in europe) Jut our luck we had this beams of light surging into the aisles as we entered. No drama needed. It's all there.

Our next stop is the Colosseum and some ruins which I can't remember. Colosseum - nothing much. See the previous pictures in the previous post. It's very very big. Colossal (no pun intended) Like they should turn it into some football field. The ruins however proved to be more interesting. They included the house of some Roman big shot that died years ago. OH wait, that big shot was one of the Roman emperors. Apart from that, walking walking and more walking. In fact this day was the day me and Jianwei missed the early bus and had to travel there on our own. We rendezvous with the main group at the Colosseum.

And that was Rome for you. Didn't even get to see the ACS Roma stadium.