Arvo has made the doll from the anime film Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence using Lego! In the film, special officers of Public Security Section 9 are investigating a cyborg corporation after its gynoids killed eight people. The gynoids are androids made in the form of young women and used as sex dolls.
Ladies, before you head out to the beach, learn how to make your own lettuce bikini. Yes, why wear that bikini you bought when you can wear something more natural aye? All you need is real lettuce, thread and ribbon. And don't forget to check out the Lettuce Ladies in their own sexy lettuce bikinis.
(Thanks Linghan)
Members of Quilters of South Carolina have created one-of-a-kind bras for an exhibition to promote breast cancer awareness. The exhibition consists of fifty unique, entertaining, humorous and beautiful bras. I like the nursing bra the most.
Watch this live re-enactment of the Super Mario game (video above) by some clever Japanese folks for a variety show. It is so cool that even President Obama had to make an appearance in it!
(Thanks Mr Big)
Dude emailed The Sun with a fake news story about a woman who spotted her husband’s car parked outside another woman’s house using Google Street View. Guess what? The Sun took the bait and published the story! From Idiot Forever:
I also got lucky because The Sun is a bunch of fools. The picture I sent wasn’t even a street view. I don’t even know if the picture was of an apartment building. It could be a commercial building for all I know. I just zoomed into London (because that’s the biggest city I know) and picked Victoria Street (because Victoria Beckham is attractive). Then I looked for some parked cars. I guess The Sun didn’t include the Street View picture in their story because they knew it wasn’t a Street View Picture at all and they just wanted to write a fun juicy story.
If you're in Tokyo, you should pay a visit to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation's Terminator Exhibition - Battle or Coexistence? Robots and Our Future. The exhibition displays the artwork and costumes used during the filming of the Terminator movies. Pics of the robots here.
(via Nerdcore)
Transform your computer into the ultimate karaoke machine with the Lucky Voice Party Box. Plug the portable effects box into your computer and you're ready to throw karaoke parties at home. Comes with a designer pink microphone and free one month subscription to 6,000 plus songs. I want one!
Learn photography in its very simplest form with the paint can pinhole camera. It acts like any normal pinhole camera and is easy to use. Just load a sheet of photographic paper and expose it! Includes magnetic shutter plus complete user guide.
iri5 says of his Ghost in the Machine Flickr photoset, "In this series I showcase a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette. Also included are portraits made from old film and reels. The idea comes from a philosopher's description of how your spirit lives in your body."
You've seen the Fail Whale on Twitter during periods of downtime. The most loved error message in the world has been created as a sculpture in the past. Now here's someone who has made the Twitter Fail Whale in Lego!
Reader miso sent me these scanned pages from a Japanese magazine that teaches you the correct position to look under a girl's short skirt when walking up the stairs. May prove useful for some of you perverts out there. Bigger image here.
(Thanks miso)
Don't forget to join the 1 billion people on Earth and switch off your lights as part of Earth Hour tonight from 8.30 to 9.30pm. Me? I would take a step further. I will switch off everything, the lights, computer, TV and aircon for the night and most likely will have to sleep naked.
Go download and read TorrentBoy now, a new book about a boy named Wesley, who’s on a quest to save the world while battling armoured leeches, rhino monsters and an entire world of zombies. The author MCM says, "It’s BitTorrent philosophy, but very abstracted."
James Bridle has become the first person to publish a book containing two years worth of his Twitter archives! He has a good reason for doing it: "When Twitter is inevitably replaced by something else, I don’t want to lose all those incidentals, the casual asides, the remarks and responses. That’s all really. This seems like a nice way to do it."
Brian's Toys is selling a complete set of classic Star Wars figurines from A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi. There is a total of 85 figures in the set and these figures will cost you a cool US $3,499.99.
Now you can fight viruses and malicious spyware with these super duper soaps. Digital Soaps are soaps that are handmade to look like Nintendo, Xbox and Playstation hand controllers. More designs here.
The end is near! The end is near! The end is near! Just what we need - an apocalyptic cardboard robot that looks a little bit like Wall-E. LuvataciousSkull says, "Photos of a robot created by me, Larry West, of a cardboard robot I made with a sign that says 'The End Is Near'.
Ivan found a table on the sidewalk, took it home and converted it into a Super Mario coffee table using a cork board, push pins, paint and vinyl plumbing pipes.
(via BoingBoing)
Comic artists from Marvel reinterpret Wolverine in styles reminiscent of Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and other renowned names in the world of fine art. The Wolverine fine art series will be featured on several Marvel titles in April. More here.
Metafilter has a list of all the First Person Shooter games that you can download for free! Games such as Free Doom, Starsiege: Tribes, CodeRED: Alien Arena and Red Alert: A Path Beyond. I'm going to download some of them and play them during the weekend.
This made in Japan shower cap will make you look stupid in the shower but it can also make your hair grow back. Just put the cap on when you bath, pour warm water into the giant hole at the top of the cap. It then captures steam which opens and cleans your scalp pores.
(via Tokyomango)
Dude makes an amazing R2D2 casemod from a garbage can! It has a webcam, speakers, LEDs that glow, slot-in DVD player, etc but best of all, it costs only US$150 to make. Ok. I want one!
(via Engadget)
If Sydney based conceptual artist Dean Christ has his way, the future of warfare will see a bunch of hyper-aggressive and high-tech cyborg insect weapons establish a new world order. His Ubyka Army are 100% real insects and bat retrofitted with die-cast metal scale military munitions platforms and enamel paint.
So horrifyingly entertaining, the Remote Control Zombie will make you barricade yourself in the basement of an abandoned farmhouse! Use the 2" long brain-shaped remote to control the movements of the zombie. Oh, it can also groan.
Asian Drill Pop posts classic Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indian LP covers, posters and film stills. Lots of gems there but some are not safe for work.
(Thanks steeleloh)
You can always count on these Homer Simpson motivational posters to give you some motivation in your life. rtcrooks says, "I think we can all take in a bit of knowledge from one of television's greatest father figures, Homer Simpson. Any way you look at it, there is no way to stay on the air for 20+ seasons without providing some serious enrichment to the lives of viewers."
How much water do you use? Here's a handy chart that gives you some examples of how much water is used in some of your daily activities, so that you can begin calculate your water footprint and try to reduce your gallons.
Softwear by Microsoft is a clothing line that taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives. With retro logos, classic photos, and geek-chic iconography, these t-shirts showcase the DOS days of the software company that now connects over a billion people.
Watch this amazing clip (video above) from Thibaut Niels's upcoming Half-Life inspired short film "What's in the Box?". I can't wait!
Pacific Environments Architects made this ultra cool off-the-wall functioning restaurant for a TV ad. Access to the Yellow Treehouse restaurant is via a 60m tree-top walkway. It can accommodate 18 seated people and waiting staff in relative comfort and comes complete with a bar!
(Thanks Sir Thomas)
Polish artist Zbigniew Libera's You Can Shave The Baby doll (scroll down to middle of the page) is just too strange. Check out all the hair coming out from the different parts of the baby's body! Shaver not included.
(Thanks andyviper21)
When you are stressed, just grab it! The Super Large Stress-Reliever for Guys looks like a female's breast, is soft to touch, highly detailed (check out the nipple!) and will keep your hands busy. There's even a machine in Japan that allows you to claw some of these boobs!
Toy-A-Day is a year long project by Joe in which he will try to design, construct and post a new paper toy from a basic template each day for one year. All his paper toys are free to download! His latest creation is Luigi from Super Mario Bros.
(Thanks Lord Kimbo)
Dude used the Legos from his Taj Mahal piece to make a silicon mold for his brick shaped gummy candies! He says, "To make the gummies the only essential ingredient is unflavored gelatin. For flavor I used flavored gelatin (Jello) plus Vitamin C to bump up the pucker power."
The adorable Dollar Teddy Bear is sewn entirely out of genuine U.S. dollar bills and comes with a zipper for stuffing. I think it makes a great gift for anyone who loves money! Just don't forget to stuff it with your crushed dollar bills.
(Thanks pinkdior)
Here's how iPhone owners with no friends can get messages. Just stick one of these Cell Stickies on your iPhone! Fiona Carswell who designs this says, "For people who go to great lengths to see what they want to see, Cell Stickies is a small booklet of plastic sheets with ego-stroking text messages printed on them."
(via Gizmodo)
Be prepared to be blown away by the winners of CGSociety's CG CHALLENGE XXIII. The theme for this challenge is steampunk! Check out the winners in the various categories. All the videos and images are stunning! I especially like 'Steamnocchio' by Fabricio Moraes which is a steampunk recreation of Pinocchio.
Ronald posts 40 plus robot illustrations on his blog. He writes, "These showcase are a different types of Robots Illustration where some of them are cool modernistic and some are cute. Check out these cool illustrations made by some of the most talented graphic artists ever lived."
Don't you just hate it when you wear out that expensive pair of shoes and it rains? Well, with Shuellas, you don't have to curse the heavens for ruining your shoes anymore. When it rains, just take the Shuellas out and slip them over your shows and fasten via the velcro straps. Comes in three attractive colours.
Canon hired renowned fashion photographer Geoff Ang to take a photograph using the new Canon EOS 5D MKII then blow it up to a huge billboard measuring 9.3m tall and 5.8m. The billboard is Singapore's largest enlargement from a 35mm full-frame digital camera. You can view it at Parco Bugis Junction until 31 March.
diablo2003 says, "While watching The original Star Wars, I realized that talk of money is thrown around quite a lot but you never actually see it (other than Han flipping the bartender a coin after shooting Greedo). I thought it would be cool to design a piece of Imperial currency as I saw it. I designed it mostly after American money but used some European influences as well."
(via Boing Boing)
In June 2008, writer director Paul Herbert created a sci-fi/horror short film series called "Is Anyone Out There?". The above video is from episode 4. He goes to London, finds out there's no one there and loses all hope. You can watch all 10 episodes from Season 1 here. Paul is renaming his series to Evacuation and here's a teaser for the new season.
Listen to Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Harrison Ford (Han Solo) and Alec Guinness (Obi Wan) in these rare interviews given to radio stations as part of the marketing campaign for the first Star Wars movie in 1978.
I featured Naomi's wonderful Pacman cupcakes before. Recently, she made a wedding cake based on her original Pacman cupcake design for her friend. A total of 80 cupcakes were used to form the Pacman wedding cake. I bet the newly weds must have met through playing Pacman.
There are no games inside this Sony Playstation Portable, only sour candy. I was told that these candy tins shaped like the PSP is an official licensed product from Sony. Not sure if the candy is as good as the real PSP though.
(Thanks Jackie)
Illustrator Barnaby Ward is posting new pages from his hauntingly visual book every week. According to Publishers Weekly review on Amazon, Sixteen Miles to Merricks and Other Works is "eerie, strange and at its best when wordless".
(Thanks Scott)
These figurines of various Ultramen on crosses are really morbid. If you wanna kill an Ultraman why put him on a cross? Just strange. Makes you wonder who really died for our sins.
(Thanks rodyeo)
Remember last year's Yahoo! Mobile Developer Awards, a competition for students from leading Singapore tertiary institutes to build mobile widgets for global corporate brands? Above is a picture of me and the team that eventually won it, Team Simple from NTU. This year, our friends in Indonesia will be getting their own Yahoo! Mobile Developer Awards. All developers in Indonesia who are interested to find out more about the competition can join the Yahoo! Kopi Darat – Yahoo! Developer Networking session tomorrow. Go RSVP now!
Previously: Yahoo! Mobile Developer Awards Party at Zouk
If you're a graphic designer who's out on an interview to land that desired job, then I think you should wear this cleverly designed Photoshop necktie. I'm sure your future employers will be impressed.
(Thanks GeekGod)
Hwa Young Jung on her cute Flickr photoset English Things: "If you're English these are things you might have grown up with and therefore you feel is insignificant but they are new and fascinating to me."
"In case of Vampire, snap here." antony8627 snapped photos (here, here and here) of really clever advertising boards promoting HBO's True Blood, a series that details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small northern Louisiana town.
Obama candy has hit Singapore! Betshopboy found this at a local provision store. The Obama Blackcurrant Juicy Gummy Candy tastes soft and sweet, apparently made in Korea, has the US Presidential seal and it's even halal!
Japanese toy maker company Tomy has announced the completion of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, the first animated feature to be co-produced in Japan and China. Watch the video above. The Romance of The Three Kingdoms is a TV animated version of the Chinese classic saga. The whole series has 52 episodes, each 25 minutes long, costs 650 million yen to make and took a staggering 4 years to complete.
Add this to your list of must-have items for 2009. Adamo by Dell is Dell's flagship in a line of products created to disrupt the personal computing space with the combination of new design, aesthetics, personalization choices and sought-after technologies. Dell calls Adamo the world's thinnest laptop but I'm sure the Macbook Air has something to say about that.
Features in brief: A chassis milled from a single piece of aluminum featuring precision detailing and a scalloped backlit keyboard, striking high definition edge-to-edge glass display, fully connected with WiFi, Bluetooth and optional integrated mobile broadband and full complement of connectivity ports with no compromises, and cool, quiet and robust solid state drives.
The Adamo comes in an artful packaging in which the product arrives "floating" in a clear box with minimal clutter. You have a choice of Onyx and Pearl colors and two versions, Admire (1.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB memory, 128GB solid state drive) and Desire (1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 4GB memory, 128GB3 solid state drive, mobile broadband).
gdgt live has an in-depth coverage of the iPhone 3.0 preview event. In summary, the new iPhone 3.0 will make a lot of iPhone owners very happy with in-app purchase, peer-to-peer connectivity, accessories, embeddable maps, push notifications, cut/copy/paste/undo, landscape keyboarding, MMS, new app (Voice Memos), CalDAV / ICS subs, stock enhancements, search and Spotlight and more. iPhone 3.0 ships this summer for free.
Reader Boywonder was reading my blog early this morning and sent me a screenshot of it. Close-up here. He writes, "Dude, your Google ad below your Twitter balloon also thinks that you should go mate with some nice Thai women." Ok. Miss Thailand Ummarapas Jullakasian, here I come!
Students from the Meteotek team of IES La Bisbal tied a $120 camera to a weather balloon and successfully sent it to the edge of space! The camera snapped stunning pics of Earth. You can view all the photos of their project on their Flickr site here.
Simon McDonald made these bad-ass Boba Fett helmet and armour using Lego! One forearm piece has a gun that fires Lego Technic darts and the other uses a red LED from an Exo-Force set to create a laser. Pure Lego genius, I tell you.
(Thanks Simon)
Dude talks about his amazing Apple collection liquidation sale: "My wife needs medical care; and we don't have health insurance. As we all know, desperate times call for desperate measures. So I'm forced to liquidate my absolutely amazing Collection of Apple Memorabilia! Take a look around, see what you like, and email me to discuss your needs."
Boot in 60 seconds is the end product of a project involving 30 bootleggers with 60 seconds each. The next person remixes the previous track and no one gets to hear the whole thing until every track is complete.
(via Nerdcore)
Dude buys a camera from eBay, finds 1100 photos in it and realises that it must have been stolen. So he goes to an internet forum to ask for help to track down the owner. Amazing story, with a happy ending. Remember to read all 5 pages of the thread. There is hope for the human race after all! From Australian Photography Forum:
Few weeks ago I bought digital camera on Internet auction. When it came by post I found memory card inside (Camera was sold without) which is containing more than 1100 pictures taken over North Africa, West Asia and Europe. Camera was probably lost or stolen in Krakow, Poland during short stay in this city in end of September 2008.(via Mefi)
Now I'm looking for somebody who:
-know people from pictures
-was in Egypt, Turkey (Istanbul, Gallipoli) , Greece, Swiss, Germany, UK (London), Czech (Prague), Wien, Bucarest, Slovakia, and finally Poland during September 2008
-organize travel tours to ANZAC Cove in Gallipoli and sightseeing over all Europe from Australia
I guess that girl which lost this camera lives in Australia because photo with Australian flag close to ANZAC memorial in Turkey. On one picture I'm trying to read name of girl (label attached to her bag) - its probably Cox Miller
American tourists Mike Rigby, his wife and four friends were shocked when the bill came after their meal at Newton Food Centre. They had to pay nearly $500 for prawns, crabs, baby squid, beer, rice and buns. That's $30 for a prawn!
Back in 2007, I had a meal there and we had to pay $20 for a prawn. Imagine the shock on my face. 20 bucks for a farkin prawn?! Oh well, it looks like daylight robbery still occurs in Newton Food Centre. betshopboy says it best when he replied to me on Twitter. Thanks to him now I know prawns also got inflation. Damn those seafood sellers at Newton! Damn them!
Update (from my Twitter): Ah those bastards selling the $30 prawns are at this Newton stall, 43 Tanglin Best Seafood. Best my ass!
Stall No 43 at Newton Hawker Centre has been suspended. About time!
Previously: Beware of $80 prawns at Newton
The Lenovo Pocket Yoga may just be a concept design for now but if you ask me, I think those people in Lenovo should release this right away if they are looking to compete with the Sony Vaio P in the ultra portable PC space. The Lenovo Pocket Yoga is shaped like a large wallet and just like the Sony Vaio P, you can easily put it into your back pocket. If you love the stylish look of the Sony Vaio P, then I'm sure you can easily fall in love with the Lenovo Pocket Yoga which seems like it was designed for fashionistas.
The Pocket Yoga is covered with wallet leather - yes, leather! - and has a 360-degree soft hinge design that allows it to be used used as a laptop or a tablet notebook! That's not all. The elegant belt which wraps around the whole body doubles up as a mouse! No details yet, if and when Lenova will sell this beauty - they've had it developed two years ago! - but I'm sure there is already a long queue waiting to get their hands on it. Me included. More pics of the Lenovo Pocket Yoga here.
No, these are not done by me. I can't bare to! But for those of you who are into ripping apart your computers, these disassembly pics of the Sony Vaio P are just the thing that will make your day.
Previously:
Sony Vaio P Pocket style PC: A Review
Sony Vaio P is in da house!
Sony Vaio P: A Video Demo
Sony launches VAIO P, new pocket style PC
Sam throws a paper airplane (video above) from the 31st floor of a building in Manhattan's financial district and captures the plane's flight on video until it lands on a road. Beautiful!
Dude creates an awesome periodic table using characters from video games. He writes: "I tried to give room first to characters who are primarily and originally video game characters, but not always. Batman for example, is first a comic book character, but there were some pretty kickass Batman games, the one for NES in particular."
All twelve animals (Boar, Bull, Chicken, Dragon, Horse, Monkey, Mouse, Rabbit, Sheep, Snake and Tiger) from the Chinese horoscope as cute and compact MP3 players! Each Chinese Horoscope MP3 Player has 2 GB of memory and can play music up to 5 hours. I really like the Dragon. I'm biased.
Want a perfect boiled egg? Just put your BeepEgg in the pan together with your eggs. It will beep and play various melodies to indicate different levels of hardness. If you want soft eggs, remove them from the pan when you hear ‘Killing Me Softly’. For medium it’s ‘I Wish I was a Hen’ and for hard boiled you’ll hear the ominous tune from Carmina Burana.
Thanks to the folks from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, you can now make your own squid and set it free! This is mine. Cute isn't he? His name is Squidoo. He weighs only 1kg now and the latest is that he has just swam passed an emperor penguin.
Vaniel has scanned some pages from Ron Miller's fantasy novel Silk and Steel. The highlight of Ron's novel has to be pages 96 and 97 which were reserved for the description of Bronwyn's body. That's right! Two full pages! Bronwyn is the lead female character in Silk and Steel. Vaniel says, "I mean, one or two of those descriptions are vaguely interesting to put emphasis on some particular body part. Two pages worth, however, is absurd and ridiculous, especially as much of it makes no sense at all, and made me wonder if I'd fallen asleep while reading it and dreamed it up it was so bad." You should also read the next four pages here. Ouch. My eyes!
Anyone got some pre-1965 paper money? Do help out this dude aye. He needs some old moolah so that he can use them when he goes time traveling. From Craigslist:
I have come into the possession of my great grandfathers life work, among being a decorated aeronautical engineer it would appear he dabbled in the lesser accepted sciences. i have almost finished building his masterpiece a 1952 nash rambler time machine. unfortunately my grandfather didn't live long enough to find an energy source with high enough density to fuel his machine, but i believe i have the problem solved.(Thanks Mr Big)
serious offers only, i would like to exchange paper money for paper money printed before 1965 (for OBVIOUS reasons!).
I love Japanese fashion and I love Japanese models even more! Watch this video of the 8th Tokyo Girls Collection, one of Japan's biggest fashion show with the aim of promoting real Japanese clothes to the world. The show's website in Japanese lists all the models that took part in the show including links to their personal blogs! Enjoy!
Yanny is the fifth and the last pick for my Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day series of blog posts, joining Random Sunday, Zhou, Hafi and Lee Shuxian, all featured in my blog this week.
Yanny has been drawing since she was young, starting with her living room walls, doodling little crude sketches of a charred Little Mermaid, stickmen family portraits with curly hair, houses that grew legs and reliving her fantasy of Snoopy being her pet dog on paper.
She like comics especially, ever since rummaging through her brother's old stack of Bookworm comics. For a period of time all she did was stay at home and draw comics of little kid gangs and their adventures all day long and showing them to her buddies on weekends.
Art to her that time was something she considered as a hobby, something that she does to make up for a lack of a social life until polytechnic education year one, when her graphic design teacher said she should try her luck and submit some of her works to Noise Singapore. She says, "I never thought of really showing my drawings to other people because I kept thinking they'd never be good enough. But nevertheless, I figure maybe I might get something out of it. Since then a lot of things happened, my works were given media attention, but my art being selected by NAC and exhibited at Toyko was my proudest moment."
Yanny hopes to be a book illustrator one day or maybe a comic book artist. You can view her work here and here.
The Noise Singapore Festival Showcase is now on till 29 March at LevelOne@Far East Plaza. Go check it out!
Previously:
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Lee Shuxian
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Zhou
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Hafi
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Random Sunday
Launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase
Hugh Jackman makes an appearance on a Japanese TV show as part of the promotion for his movie Australia. Watch him (video above) as he makes his crazy entrance and then after shaking people's hands, he twists a guy's tits and gets his own balls grabbed in the process. Now we all know he has two balls. More clips from the show here.
With the UV Check Mirror, you can touch up your make-up and check the current UV level at the same time to best prepare for a day out under the sun. One side is a regular mirror while the reverse side features a four point scale UV rays indicator.
Girls love bad boys so if you are a goody two shoes and are in need of some bad boy makeover then the Ultimate Bad Boy Bag has everything you need to corrupt yourself - stuff like handcuffs, moustache, tattoos, cigarettes and er, disco ball? Good luck.
Joonsoo Kim designs a new concept umbrella that will have you do a minor work out when it rains. His Cloud Umbrella uses a mechanical stick pump system and a couple of inflatable clouds or balloons. When it rains, quickly pump the Cloud Umbrella to inflate it and off you go.
What's more fun than drawing doodles? Drawing them on your bra, of course! The Doodle Bra allows girls to design and create their own fashions over and over again for the price of a single bra. Each Doodle Bra package comes with Doodle Bra, stencils, idea booklet and special Doodle Bra markers.
Imagine pandas reciting haikus, twirling paw for paw in ballet shoes to the tunes of the Beatles. Welcome to the fantastical world of fine art painter Lee Shuxian, my Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day!
Currently studying film in her 3rd year at NTU Art, Design and Media, Shuxian has already showcased her works in sizeable art exhibitions at prominent venues like *Scape Youth Park and Ngee Ann City. She has also co-organized and exhibited in a group event entitled “Will You Be So Close” at Chinatown’s Forth Gallery in April 2008. While not painting or making films, she plays bass for her band, The Lentor Incident.
Shuxian’s creations run like the thoughts of a full-time daydreamer, and curl up like a cat on a rainy afternoon. She is heavily inspired by artists such as Gustav Klimt, Jenny Saville and Audrey Kawasaki; and it shows. Yet every piece of work which jumps out of her imagination evokes a quality that is all her own.
Preferring oil portraits of female subjects, Shuxian buries an untold story behind every canvas. Each character seems to leave the trace of a faint smell, a trailing whisper or the cautious caress of warm skin. It is awkward. It almost feels like you are laying eyes upon a stranger’s most vulnerable, most intimate moments. They stare right back at you, their gazes piercing, making you feel guilty and intrigued at the same time. Check out Shuxian's work here, here and here.
The Noise Singapore Festival Showcase is now on till 29 March at LevelOne@Far East Plaza. Don't forget to check it out!
Previously:
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Zhou
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Hafi
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Random Sunday
Launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase
Singapore's largest IT, digital and consumer electronics exhibition is here once again but before you visit IT Show 2009 at Suntec, here are the scanned price lists and brochures of the various products that are for sale at the exhibition. You can also check out a preview here.
A Sony PS3 Playstation 3 and its controller gets microwaved by Dovetastic into the biggest, baddest gaming system on the planet. PS3 fanboys aren't happy of course to see their favourite gaming console being fried, so in order not to anger Xbox 360 fans, Dovetastic will not be microwaving an Xbox 360. Phew.
Someone is selling this one of a kind Nintendo Wii on eBay hand-crafted with 20,000 Swarovski crystals that capture the epic battle of Mario and Bowser. The Crystal Wii was created to commemorate the release of the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Starting bid is at US$4k.
(Thanks GeekGod)
Come July, people in Tokyo can live in relative comfort knowing that a 59 feet tall Gundam will stand tall to protect them against potential invaders. The giant Gundam is built to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series. And guess what? Its head can move!
Tiny Pineapple on his unique collection of nurse books: "One day, my sister, Jenny, mentioned that she had started to accumulate quite a few nurse books… and that’s all it took. From that moment on, whenever someone came across a nurse book, they would buy it and give it to her."
(Thanks gongbyte)
Burger King's new Whopper Bar offers Whoppers, Double Whoppers and other specialty burgers with 22 different toppings to choose from. Pics of the first Whopper Bar at the Universal CityWalk in Orlando here. BK plans to open 6 more Whopper Bars around the world by the end of 2009 including right here in Singapore! I can't wait.
Video shows how over 2000 human voices from 71 countries were recorded via internet, and then assembled to sing the song Daisy Bells written in 1892. The voice recordings were collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.
My pick for today's Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day is Zhou! Come on guys and girls, give her some love! Zhou, currently taking a diploma in Visual Communication, is a young artist exploring the fields of graphic design, illustration and photography. Her unusual family background has groomed her into an artist with peculiar and extraordinary thoughts - which are then turned into images on the paper. With a strong curiosity towards ancient history and culture, she often fuses art of different origins together to create her own style.
Above: Burn money burn by Zhou. She says, "In Singapore, people burn papers every 15th day of the lunar month using these little incinerators (there are bigger ones though). More people burn papers during the 7th lunar month, which is also the hungry ghost festival month. People make paper money, paper cars, paper cigarettes, and paper soft drinks etc, and it is believed that by burning these paper stuff, the spirits in hell will receive them. It is a Chinese tradition, but it's really causing quite some air pollution."
Top: Packed like sardines by Zhou. She says, "For my 20 page illustrated book, inspired by nursery rhymes ... about fish."
Zhou's art is inspired by oriental art from China and Japan, and are filled with details that combine historical traditions with the art of maximalism. She feels that youths nowadays are forgetting their roots as the world is getting more globalised, and she hopes to reach out to these people by spicing up traditional art with her own touch. Oh, and she also secretly wants to be a superhero! You can check out all her work here, here and here.
The Noise Singapore Festival Showcase is now on till 29 March at LevelOne@Far East Plaza. Check it out!
Previously:
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Hafi
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Random Sunday
Launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase
Watch this interview (video above) given by David Widjaja's family to the Indonesian news and tell me if you don't find his death a little odd. Thanks to reader Fadri for giving me the English subs for the video.
In summary, both the father and brother strongly believe that David would not kill himself and that he wasn't stressed because his scholarship was terminated, adding that the family can afford to pay for his studies. They also said that they were not allowed to view his body immediately and when they did, they could only view his head and neck - the rest of the body was covered in plastic. Both of them were also unhappy that they were unable to meet with Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk whom the local media says was stabbed by David before he jumped down to kill himself.
Now, the latest news is that Indonesia has asked Singapore to speed up the investigation into David's death. This comes after another person in NTU was found dead. NTU project officer Zhou Zheng was found hanged in his NTU campus apartment. Zhou also studied at the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering where David studied and both apparently were from the same lab in S2-B3a-06. Coincident? I don't think so. David's father has this to say, "We sense that many strange things have occurred here. What is the motive behind all this?”
One person who claims to be David's close friend left a comment in a Straits Times forum. Excerpts here:
1. Lok Tat Seng: Dean of Student of NTU gathered all Indonesian students in International Student Center on evening after incident and he just said there was witness on the spot who saw David's body lying on the ground, dead. Dean did not said that witness saw David jumped from balcony. And that is, according to him, all he has saw.You can also read other interesting comments found in my previous post about David Widjaja here.
2. The only official statement from police is: David was found dead at the crime scene, they did not mention whether he commited suicide.
They also just mention 'The professor was believed to be stabbed'. The police did not say that 'the professor was stabbed'. Where this assumption come from? Why they did not say about it?
3. I and some Indonesian students gather tonight, 3 March 2009, at 8 pm, at International Student Center and talked to David's parent. They have seen his body. There was NO WOUND whatsoever on his wrists and police also has confirmed it. I assumed that his parent would not lie it means that all media news about 'David slashed his wrist' was FAKE.
I'm on the cover of every woman's favourite magazine! The cover says: "Super IZ strips for an exclusive" and "I do not have girlie fingers". That's right! Grab the magazine while it's still hot in the stands. Ha! You can make your own magazine cover here.
(Thanks Jenny via Twitter)
A one eyed film maker and an unemployed engineer wants to create history with the Eyeborg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to embed a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. The eye will then go into Rob's eye socket and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before.
Download popular and acclaimed science fiction and fantasy books for free at Suvudu Free Library by Random House. The first five titles in the library are His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik, Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Settling Accounts: Return Engagement by Harry Turtledove, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson and Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt.
A Star Wars All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) toy as a pet? You bet! Nick says, "We have a new pet. He's got the Empire in him that one. His name is ATilla." Flickr photoset of his pet AT-AT here.
My Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day for today is Hafi! She is currently in Singapore Polytechnic pursuing a course in Creative Media Design until April 2009, and her interest in illustration grew during her three years in polytechnic. Realising that it is one of her strengths, she always incorporates illustrations into her design works and solutions so that her illustrations are part of something useful and not just merely misinterpreted as artworks, because she believes art may not serve any purpose, but design does.
Above: Baggage by Hafi: "I want to buy a bag but I do not know which one I wish to buy."
Top: People by Hafi: "I drew some people I randomly surveyed."
Hafi is inspired by nursery rhymes, children's books, babar the elephant, playmobil, geometric patterns, dick bruna, kitsch items, pretty prints and random thoughts she had when she was 2-8 years old. During her free time, she draws and talks to fruits. Yes, fruits! You can view her artwork here or here.
The Noise Singapore Festival Showcase is now on till 29 March at LevelOne@Far East Plaza. Check it out!
Previously:
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Random Sunday
Launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase
My blog post about the launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase 2009 has been picked up by Palm Beach Post, a major daily newspaper in Florida. You can read it here.
Linghan sends me this photo that she took in Kuala Lumpur recently and wonders if I sell juices in Mid Valley Megamall. No, I don't! I'm busy with work and blogging. Where got time to sell tropical fruits in KL?
Thanks to the Iceman Photo Scan, an innovative project which records the complete photographic documentation of the body of the Iceman mummy, you can now view the mummy in high resolution from a total body image down to millimetric detail! Don't forget to check out his tattoos.
Dude builds a solar death ray that actually works. His powerful powerful Mark II has successfully zapped a total of 44 items from a Gundam toy to a Darth Vader mask. You can join in the fun too by suggesting to him other items that you would like the solar death ray to burn, cook and melt.
Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster showcases rare and recently discovered erotic artwork by Joe Shuster. Created in the early 1950s, Shuster illustrated these images for an obscure series of magazines called "Nights of Horror," published under the counter until they were banned in the US. Author Craig Yoe is blogging about his book here and you can read a sample of it here.
2.5 lbs of carrots, plastic chess figures from 4 complete game sets, 3 lbs of large Gummi Bears, 18 large hotdogs, 78 plastic letters and numbers, 3.5 lbs of grapes, 20 golf balls and 3.5 lbs of dog food! The Quattro advanced flushing system by St. Thomas Creations can flush almost anything down the toilet alright. Watch the video above. Now, if only someone would design an advance piping and sewage system to prevent all those stuff from clogging!
Samsung marketeers took 24 256GB Samsung MLC solid state drives and put them in RAID to build the world's most powerful consumer computer. Watch the video above to see how they did it and what the results were. It's pure awesomeness! Samsung, you're always welcome to build one for me. Thanks.
Starting today, I'll be choosing five Noise Singapore 2009 artists from the Art and Design category and I will feature each artist and his/her work here. Now into its 4th year, Noise Singapore is a platform for young people to express themselves creatively through the arts. Today's Noise Singapore Artist of the Day is Random Sunday!
Random Sunday is a collective brand of t-shirts that were created by David Stevanov and Gian Jonathan on March 2008. Both of them are finishing their courses in Lasalle College of the Arts (David) and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Jonathan). The name came after Jonathan suggested that it would be cool to have a name of the days and shortly "random" was added in because of the creators' tendency to talk random nonsense and ideas. In fact, the initiative to form Random Sunday was born in one of these "random" conversations.
Above: Random Sunday's machine like no other: "A visual representation for Sony Vaio to show the complexity and capability of the machine's performance."
Random Sunday's designs were mainly inspired by their childhood dreams and beautiful memories of how the mighty Power Rangers could save the world without the help of any Dragon Balls and still refusing to accept the fact that Doraemon came to Nobita's house, not theirs. Hopefully by sharing these stories, others who see their artworks would be able to enjoy and relive their own wonderful memories.
Above: Random Sunday's Crane Machine: "A platform to reach and select fresh and new talents is our interpretation of Noise. Derived from this, we chose a crane machine to be the visual represent the whole idea. Instead of the dolls or other prizes, the crane machine contains a fresh and young talents as the prizes, it serves as a platform where the professional, future employer and public to notice and select them to enter the industries."
Recently, Random Sunday won the inaugural The Future Talent Awards by FutureBrand, Singapore. They also won the 1st prize in My Noise Tee Design Competition and were selected to be a part of the Noise Singapore Design Team. They are also featured in Noise Magazine 2009. You can view more artwork from Random Sunday here and here.
The Noise Singapore Festival Showcase is now on till 29 March at LevelOne@Far East Plaza. Check it out!
Previously: Launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase
The folks from Glamour left two disposable cameras on park benches in New York City to find out what would happen: "Good afternoon! I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up."
(Thanks maybelle)
What if humans are wiped out and millions of years later, a race of intelligent aliens come digging on Earth? Together with the fossil remains of man, they will also find these modern fossils of classic Nintendo controllers, GameBoys, iPods and other electronic items that are made from actual archaic technology that was once cutting-edge.
(Thanks primus)
Keep all your precious wine in style with the underground wine cellar by Spiral Cellars. The company will dig a hole right in your kitchen or anywhere you want, and then install a watertight, pre-cast cylindrical system that's sunk into the ground. The cellar can store up to 1600 bottles. Just imagine the faces of your guests when you show them where you keep your wine.
Darth Vader, Chewbacca and Yoda like you have never seen them before! Anna, who makes little mice for a living, has turned 14 of the most popular characters in Star Wars into rodents! These cute mice may not rule the galaxy far, far away but they are now for sale on her Etsy site. Collect them all and may the mice be with you.
(Thanks GeekGod)
Lisa makes cute cupcakes that look like mini hamburgers. She says, "These are vanilla cuppies with a chocolate cuppie in between, green coconut for the lettuce and frosting for the mustard and ketchup! I used a bit of fresh orange juice to brush the tops so the sesame seeds would stick!" Another pic of her hamburger cupcakes here. Yummy!
Air Asia is running the only competition in the blogosphere that will rock your world into the skies! From Air Asia:
So YOU wanna be a pilot? Simple. What do you have to do? Blog. What? Thats it? Yes, you're reading it right. Blog.(Thanks Marilyn/via Twitter)
We hope you're putting your hands in the air because the blog will be giving the opportunity to 10 individuals to live their dreams in the sky. Blog and be a pilot. Simple rules right?
Now, who wants to be a pilot raise your hands in the air right now! Or rather send in your blog entries from 1 April 2009 to 15 May 2009 and change your life right here. Tell us why you deserve 1 of the 10 spots and get a chance to fill up your occupation as a pilot.
Sabrina, Pris and I were at K Box one night and Sabrina thought it would be a good idea to film us singing. So here's me on the mic belting out I Dream (video above) with Pris doing the harmonising. You can watch a video of Pris and Sabrina singing The Power of Love here. Enjoy! Oh btw, the three of us are now available for singing engagements. Please write in to request for rates and availability.
I've just uploaded all the photos taken at the launch of Noise Singapore Festival Showcase held on Thursday at Far East Plaza. You can view all 52 photos here or via the slideshow.
Noise Singapore is an annual festival by the National Arts Council giving young artists here a platform to showcase their works. This year, nearly 2000 young talents uploaded some 11,000 works of art, design, music and photography to the festival.
1,700 of these works have been carefully selected by a curatorial team comprising of 16 professionals in their respective fields, such as Rai (of the popular music duo Jack and Rai), famed photojournalist Bryan Van Der Beek, and The Straits Times music writer Eddino Abdul Hadi and are currently featured at the showcase exhibition at LevelOne@Far East Plaza until 29 March 2009.
Besides the works on display at the showcase, there will also be a three-night concert at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre on 6 – 8 March 2009 and a weekend platform at *scape on 21 & 22 March where the Noise Singapore aspiring musicians get to perform alongside established bands from the region. So if you're interested to see how creative and talented our youths are, do check out the festival showcase and the night concert this weekend!
Also read:
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Hafi
Noise Singapore 2009 Artist of the Day: Random Sunday
I don't know why would anyone want to create an imaginary affair and let their partners know. Maybe to create jealousy, etc. God knows. But if you are in that group, you can thank the Traces of an Imaginary Affair kit. With the tools in the kit, you can now have fake marks on the body, such as bite marks, carpet burns, bondage marks, love bites, scratches and bruises.
Scanwiches has scans of sandwiches for education and delight. I love the idea of the blog but I do hope that this doesn't start a new trend where everyone tries to wedge their sandwiches into their scanners.
(via Mefi)
Puncolle: Voice Actresses' Legendary Punk Songs Collection is a compilation album featuring punk rock songs sung by popular Japanese anime voice artists. Hear samples of them singing Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), Smells Like Teen Spirit and more. God, have mercy on us please.
Update: All the songs are here! (Thanks Joey)
Rorschach has a blog! For those of you who don't know, Rorschach is the comic book vigilante created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons for their acclaimed 1986 DC Comics miniseries the Watchmen which has now been made into a movie. In his latest entry, he talks about people lining up for the midnight screening of Watchmen at Times Square.
Urban Retro sells really cool Star Wars t-shirts like this special edition Addict Star Wars Outline Series Sandtrooper White T-Shirt with 2 colour print illustration of Sandtrooper from the original Star Wars Trilogy.
Craig goes around Melbourne pasting notices on poles, postal boxes, walls, etc. Here he tells us that he has invented a time machine and warns people not to stand on this spot when he materialises. Either he's an extremely lonely person with too much time on his hand or he's just crazy.
Every Wednesday through Friday and also on weekends, two life-sized juvenile dinosaur puppets will roam the halls of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. These puppets - a 14-foot Tyrannosaurus rex and a 9-foot Triceratops - are the creation of Australian company ERTH. Check out the video above and another one here. These dinosaurs are really, really scary! I would have run away too if I saw one and didn't know that it's just a puppet.
Kris Kuksi creates art that is simply out of this world. His amazing sculptures, paintings and drawings "speak of a timelessness – potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep."
Lizz spent the day researching the McFlurries of the world so we don’t have to. Bless her! Her list doesn't include my current favourite, the Cadbury Blackforest McFlurry that is available in McDonalds stores in Singapore now but still, looking at it makes me want to go to McDonalds and get myself a McFlurry.
Forget the Rubik's Cube, here is the ultimate puzzle to solve. This mind-blowing dodecahedral "Petaminx" twisty puzzle was all hand-cast and hand-assembled. Something tells me that I won't be trying this out anytime soon. Heck, I can't even solve a Rubik's Cube.
Urban Camouflage makes suits that are inspired by the ghillie suit, a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble heavy foliage and usually worn by the military. Wearing a suit from Urban Camouflage, allows you to camouflage yourself and your identity in stores, shopping malls and other urban space.
Sony launched its highly anticipated Vaio P series early this year. I'm lucky enough to get my hands on a test unit, model VGN-P15G to see how good it really is. The Sony Vaio P VGN-P15G runs on 1.60 GHz Intel Atom Processor, has 2GB DDR2 SDRAM and 64GB flash memory as its hard disk. It is powered by Windows Vista Home Premium edition.
The Vaio P was engineered as a PC that goes places. Its small, slim (19.8mm profile) and lightweight (594g) design allows you to effortlessly grab it with one hand. You can fit it into the back pocket of your jeans and if you like hanging out in cafes, the Vaio P will sit pretty on those cafe tables. The Vaio P looks great thanks to its unique size, glossy coating and magnesium body which was designed to scatter heat throughout the computer.
Looks aside, the Vaio P aims to be a serious computer. Its 8" wide (1600 x 768) WUXGA high-resolution LCD display shows really bright and crisp images. Its notebook-sized isolation keyboard is compact but not cramped. You need some time to get used to it but once you do, typing on it is fast and easy.
It takes 1 minute 45 secs to start the Vaio P, the Vista operating system, and all programs that start automatically. Its Instant Mode which can be activated by pressing the Xross Media Bar button, fare much better. Instant Mode takes about 20 seconds to startup. You can only use it for web surfing, video playback, listening to music and looking at your photos but still, it is a great feature to have especially when you do not want to boot Windows Vista. Another feature I like is the Window arrangement button. One push and all the application windows that are currently open on the desktop are neatly organised.
My biggest disappointment with the Vaio P is surprisingly, its video playback quality. On my test unit, video is choppy and doesn't play smoothly. This is evident even when I play YouTube videos in full screen. I reckon this is a fault with the test unit because I tried out another set when I was recording a video demo with Sony's Richardson Lau and on his Vaio P, the videos seemed to work fine. Battery life on my test unit is also poor. After a full charge, the battery will last about 1 hour 45 minutes.
Other features you get on the Vaio P are the built-in Wireless LAN, built-in Bluetooth, Memory Stick Duo slot, SD Memory Card slot, built-in Motion Eye Camera and stick pointer. The Vaio P is priced at $1,699 for the VGN-P15G model. You can watch a video of the Vaio P in action above and view my photos of the Vaio P here.
Previously:
Sony launches VAIO P, new pocket style PC
Sony Vaio P: A Video Demo
Sony Vaio P is in da house!
Last Friday, I attended the opening show of Sleepless Town the pop musical at the Drama Centre Theatre. I had watched one of the rehearsals before so it was really cool and exciting to finally be able to watch the real thing. Sleepless Town did not disappoint and I enjoyed it so here are 5 reasons why all of you should go watch Sleepless Town too.
1) Colourful Superheroes! There's the Incredible Bulk, the very gay Flying Fox and his sidekick Sparrowman and not forgetting the villains, One Ball-less, One Tit-less and Black Azira.
2) Julia Abueva! Definitely the star of the musical with her amazing singing. Julia plays Nora, the young girl who was sent to Sleepless Town to find the "retired" superheroes and convince them to join her fight against Black Azira. I still can't believe she's only 13! I can see her doing something like Disney's High School Musical. She's really that good.
3) Chua Enlai! Everyone's favourite dude from Channel 5's Heartland Getaways plays several roles in the musical but my favourite has to be his portrayal of Amy Winehouse. He's so sexy as Amy that I wouldn't mind asking him out for a date! Man, those legs!!!
4) Benjamin Lee aka Mr Miyagi! No, he's not playing any of the spandex wearing superheroes or villains but he did help Mark Richmond write the musical. And that only means one thing. All the vulgarities and sexual content has to be Miyagi's idea.
5) And the last reason why you should go watch Sleepless town is... the programme booklet! Why? Because the booklet has my photos taken at the Sleepless Town rehearsal, making it a must grab! Besides the booklet, you can also view the photos on the TV displays outside the theatre.
Sleepless Town the musical is now on at the Drama Centre Theatre till 14 March. Go watch it!
Previously:
Sleepless Town the Musical: Exclusive Videos of the Rehearsal!
Sleepless Town the Musical: Exclusive Pics of the Rehearsal!
Ed Ulbrich from Digital Domain has executive-produced Academy Award-winning visual effects for movies such as Titanic, What Dreams May Come, Fight Club, Zodiac, Adaptation, as well as music videos and more than 500 commercials. Here (video above) he explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt's face for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Damn you Japanese company 4woods! Now every guy wants to have his own A.I doll (not safe for work). Each life-size love doll is made of silicon and you can choose its skin colour, makeup and other options. Also comes with accessories like a hair wig, camisole, panty and of course that all important instruction handbook. Now, how do I order one?
A mysterious group claims to have found the cure for cancer! No idea who these folks are or why they are so secretive but the only evidence they have is a bunch of photos on their Flickr. You can also follow them on Twitter. I smell a hoax.
The best thing since Fire and submarines? You bet! This Batman hoodie is a full blown image of Batman screen printed on a full zip-up black hoodie. It looks so scary that I think it might even scare away the Joker.
(via Gizmodo)
Advertisement from the August 1930 issue of Physical Culture says: "My free book tells you how I guarantee to improve the shape of your nose by remolding the cartilage and fleshy parts, quickly, safely, and painlessly, or refund your money. The very fine, precise adjustments which only my new patented Model 25 Nose Shaper possesses, make results satisfactory and lasting." Nowadays we have the HanaHana and CoCo.
Kids, it's time to get your colour pencils out and have fun colouring all 16 pages of this Star Wars Spoofs Colouring Book. There's Yoda, Count Dooku, R2D2, Anakin, Han Solo and more.
(Thanks haikebop)
Those guys at Abandoned But Not Forgotten found themselves what was thought to be an abandoned school: "This trip left me with nothing but more questions. We had noticed two things that threw me off. First a subtle observation that the exterior water fountains were all very high. This could not have been an elementary school... Second, we found a few strands of barbed wire hanging from the school wall in one place."
Carlos Alberto is a highly skilled carpenter. No woodwork projects are too difficult for him to handle, not even a wooden Vespa that you can even ride on! Pictures of the construction of his wooden Vespa here. It's a beauty!
Check out Djill's incredible Flickr photoset of walls, panels, cracks, peels, patches, eradications, decorations, tags, graffiti, murals, marks and doors to nowhere.
(Thanks Mark)
News.com.au takes a look at some of the most terrifying plane landings ever! Lots of really shocking videos there including this clip (above) that was taken near the Princess Juliana airport at St Maarten, Caribbean. See how low the plane lands. Crikey! It's just above their heads! Also worth watching is our very own SIA plane doing a sideways landing at Zurich airport, Switzerland.
He was a maths genius who enjoyed computer gaming but on Monday morning, Nanyang Technological University student, David Hartanto Widjaja went crazy and stabbed his professor before slitting his own wrists and jumping down to his death. And you thought such things can never happen in Singapore schools.
So what could have made a student kill his teacher? Stress? Pressure? Too much computer gaming? Or simply madness? I tell you, things are just getting weirder here after the Merlion got hit by a lighting. Here are some blog reactions from students of NTU.
Candice thinks that stress could have been a factor and is glad that we are not allowed to own guns in Singapore. From the sunny side of things:
I'm guessing he most likely couldn't take the stress from FYP or the prof was pushing him too hard or a combination of factors. But perhaps, something like that was bound to happen anyway; sooner or later considering the crazy workload we have here what with projects and projects and assignments.Littlemisspent meanwhile wonders how insignificant we all are, even even in a campus like NTU. From A Little Misspent:
A person dies and it creates a mild sensation, not enough though to remove us from our daily routine. We all walk around, carrying our secrets to lunch, our private miseries to tutorials and silent heartaches to lectures, not any wiser of the invisible burdens that weigh down the person next to us. The incident has not made me secretly fear the knives or other potentially harmful objects that other students may be carrying. Rather, I wonder of the number of times I may have passed David Hartono Wijaja and been totally oblivious of his existence.Terry gives us a personal account of when he heard the news in campus. From teddy-risation:
I remembered that our supposedly two-hour-long lecture ended early today - shortly an hour after it started. Mingyun, Marianne, Cho Yee and I had McDonalds and Subway for breakfast at around 9.45am. We chatted a little and headed for the library at around 10.30am, the time the incident occured. A couple of minutes into our studying schedule, Cho Yee informed us that there was a fatal stabbing incident on campus that just happened. The police and paramedics were there too, as another friend sent a mass SMS around.And lastly, Re remembers David Widjaja aka Ming Ming as a keen player of World of Warcraft. From Livin A Life:
Knowing him as a keen gamer, his friends had never imagined that Ming Ming would do such an act, attacking his final year project supervisor and committing suicide. A friend of mine noticed a slight change in Ming Ming about a week ago, when somehow he stopped getting into contacts with his friends, he didn't go to the details, but I'm guessing things like MSN chat and all
Now you can get as much music as you want with the revolutionary new digital music offering from Nokia. Called Comes With Music, it is now live in Singapore after it was launched together with the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic last Friday. Nokia first announced Comes With Music in 2007 and it went live in the UK last year. Singapore is the first market in Asia where Comes With Music is available.
The Nokia Comes With Music & Nokia 5800 Launch in Singapore was held at Velvet Underground and it was hosted by 987fm's funny men, The Muttons. Here's a clip of them together with Nokia's Vlasta Berka talking about Comes With Music.
With the Nokia Comes With Music device, everyone in Singapore will now be able to enjoy unlimited downloads of million of free tracks from Nokia’s online music store. The best part is that you can get to keep all the downloaded songs, even after the service period is over. This is a great way to try new music risk free without having to pay for single tracks or albums. There is an an estimated four million tracks on the local Nokia Music Store catalogue, comprising a diverse range of major and independent labels carrying both international and local content across all genres. Comes With Music is widely supported by international labels such as, EMI Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music, as well as Asian independent labels such as Ocean Butterflies and Rock Records.
Nokia also launched its latest in XpressMusic range of devices, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic at the event on Friday. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a Comes With Music device. Key features of the phone are the person centric user interface with visualized contacts that makes it easy to share media and communicate with friends, the one-touch Media Bar drop down menu gives you an easy access to your favourite media, a high resolution 3.2 inch display, stereo speakers with surround sound, stylus and finger touch support for text input and user interface control, and 3G, SHSDPA and WLAN for powerful connections. Here's a short clip of the Nokia Comes With Music in action on the Nokia 5800.
The Nokia 5800 in red and blue is now available in Singapore at the recommended retail price of S$798. The silver-black version will be sold from mid-March onwards.
To view high resolution pics of the Nokia 5800 and other photos taken at the launch of the Nokia Comes With Music & Nokia 5800 including shots of the All-American Rejects, a popular rock band from the US who flew into Singapore specially for the launch, and pics of the people queuing up to buy the Nokia 5800 at only 58 cents, click here.
Update: Nokia Singapore responds to my question about the problems faced by the North America model of the 8500: "We have learned that some Nokia 5800 XpressMusic devices are having issues with 3G performance. This is a very isolated problem concerning only the North American market and is not specific to any other region or country. We are currently investigating the matter further to find a quick remedy to the situation."
Some pics taken at the Carling Cup Final 2009 screening and party held by the Singapore Spurs Supporter's Club last night at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. Yes, we lost but I still had a great time there with the 150 odd local Spurs supporters. We sang, cheered and shouted. We booed at the Manchester United players and vented our anger at some of our own players for missing a pass, shooting into the air and not closing down the opponents. In all, it was a brilliant night and it could have been sweeter if we had won the game but oh well, there's always next year! Special thanks to Navin for the invite and reserving the seats and to those folks at the Spurs Supporter's Club and all the Spurs fans in Singapore, we are really the best football fans in the world!
Previously: Spurs win Carling Cup 2008!
Tom redraws classic video game characters. He writes, "I wanted to practice inking so I decided I would redraw a bunch of video game characters from my past that I'm familiar with" This is his version of Ken and Ryu from Street Fighter.
(via Mefi)
Next time you need to know the time, just ask your R2D2. The Star Wars R2D2 Projection Alarm Clock projects time on your wall when the alarm sounds or when you press its demo button. It also plays genuine R2D2 sounds.
To honour the memory of one of Britain's favourite television presenters, Tony Hart, fans created hundreds of tiny plasticine figures in the shape of Morph, an animated plasticine character that appeared with Tony in his several TV shows. You can watch The Amazing Adventures of Morph here.
(Thanks Sir Thomas)
Amy Crehore's latest art show Dreamgirls and Ukes, combines music and art in a cool way featuring an assortment of antique ukuleles painted with motifs from her art. There are also oil paintings that have girls, ukuleles, lions, big flying insects, a tortoise, cats, monkeys and pierrots. More on her blog.
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