THE SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL VILLAGE
Despite not being officially opened, the village was already a bustling hive of activity. There were horses trotting about, performers (both kids and adults) going through rehearsals, crew testing lighting, sound and projection and F&B staff setting up the food booths, Festival cafe and bar. The area is coming alive and it’s going to get [...]
Champ Magazine: Stussy International Tribe Editorial
Shot by director and photographer Matthew Williams from Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio, the spread features Pigalle founder and Pain O choKolat co-founder Stephane Ashpool, owner and founder of Parisian club Le Pompon Charaf Tajer and British stylist Tom Guinness of French fashion magazine L’Officiel Hommes. Issue 5 of Champ Magazine will hit select newsstands and retailers in the [...]
THE CARIBOU RESTO & BAR BRANDING
In-your-face simple, yet effective, branding by Maxime Brunelle. I’d like to have this in my home bar counter. If I had one to begin with. Check out THE SOURCE.
MANILA: SECRET FRESH
Secret Fresh was born from a passion for collecting. What was once a childhood pastime had become a hub for mining new talent in the cross pollinating fields of graffiti, comics, film, animation, music, architecture, fine art and design. This commitment has grown to facilitate and showcase further this thriving field through its gallery. Located in [...]
KIDULT VS. MARC JACOBS VS. KIDULT
If you still don’t know. To make the story short, Kidult tags store fronts as a means to express frustration against consumerism. He happens to tag that of Marc Jacobs’ Soho storefront which prompted the latter to come up with a rather witty retaliation: selling the former’s idea as a cheaper shirt. Can I say [...]
SINGAPORE: HENNESSY ARTISTRY ft. DJ LEAD & MC SEEBSTYLE | 18th May Fri
THE HENNESSY ARTISTRY FT. DJ Lead and MC Seebstyle FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012 The Hennessy Artistry party is back this time with DJ LEAD (Japan) and MC Seebstyle (Italy) at the Butter Factory! DJ Lead was introduced to Hip-Hop in 1993 by his cousin, also a DJ, sparking a passion and his career as a [...]
FRUITY SKULLS BY DMITRI TSYKALOV
Paris-based Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov has carved and crafted many things, from wood to meat. But some of his latest creations are deathly skulls from life-nourishing fruit and vegetables. This guy is quite something. Check out THE SOURCE.
BEIJING: BRING ME THE HEAD OF…
Istanbul-born artist Serkan Ozkaya encourages you to play with your food as part of his conceptual piece “Bring Me The Head Of…,” in which diners consume an edible, teddy-bear-shaped head. He has previously taken the work to restaurants in Istanbul, Shanghai, and New York. For its Beijing debut at Capital M, the head takes the [...]
NORTH KOREA AS STOLEN BY JR
French social activist, public artist and photographer, JR, has captured North Korea via Instagram. North Korean authorities strongly disapprove of picture taking in public, so this series of snaps is rather impressive, and makes an interesting use of the popular iPhone lens. Check out THE SOURCE.
JAKARTA: AFTERMATH (A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION)
Aftermath: Indonesia in the Midst of Catastrophes is a solo photography exhibition and an audio-visual presentation showcasing the renowned work of photojournalist Kemal Jufri – known especially for receiving multiple awards, with the most prestige award received in the Press Photo 2011. This is launching today. Check out THE SOURCE.
INSTAGRAM SOCIALMATIC CAMERA
It had to happen sooner or later. Italian-based ADR Studio have created a prototype for the world’s first Instagram photo camera, armed with a duffle bag worth of features, including 16 GB mass storage; Wifi and Bluetooth; an Internal printer to make your Instagram photos real; and paper cartridge with Instagram Paper Sheets. Genius! Well, at least, we [...]
BARON MAGAZINE
Baron Magazine occupies an unclaimed space between pornography and art, with a focus on taking the offensive out of sex by attributing a light-heartedness to the less glamourised aspects of the erotic. Dazed Digital speaks to Jonathan Baron, co-founder of Studio Baron and editor-in-chief of Baron Magazine, ‘The Erotic Paperback Magazine’, about the relevance and [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: WE LOVE TECHNO
We Love Techno’ is the lovechild of ZOUK KL residents, XU & Terence C. The pair promises to bring everyone on a journey, drawing influence from the likes of GUI BORATTO, PAUL KARLBRENNER, SVEN VATH, LAURENT GARNIER, TRENTEMOLLER, LUCIANO, CARL CRAIG, BOYS NOIZE, CARL COX & more. Check out THE SOURCE.
CATHLEEN NAUNDORF: HAUTE COUTURE
Shooting large format, Naundorf releases Haute Couture: The Polaroids of Cathleen Naundorf, a book collecting five years worth of her work with the world’s most extravagant and expressive fashion – and all the narratives inspired by it. Check out THE SOURCE.
HONG KONG: THE UNDERGROUND COMPILATION 5
That might be because it’s that time of year again when we at The Underground are delighted to release what is now our FIFTH compilation CD. Again we’ve got some of the very best that is there to be heard from the rich vein of talent that is local music scene, and it’s a fascinating mix [...]
SKIN DEEP: THE GREAT WALL OF VAGINA
Artist Jamie McCartney’s Hay Hill gallery expo celebrates the female body and looks closer at how beauty is defined in today’s society. Jamie McCartney’s new exhibition, SKIN DEEP, leads a legion of lady-parts to Mayfair’s Hay Hill Gallery. Launching a bold assault on perfection, the artist presents a one-hundred strong display of plaster cast vaginas [...]
THE FOLDING OF A KNOWN WORLD
Currently on display at Galleria Patricia Armocida in Milan, Italy, “The Folding of a Known World” is a seamless collaboration among three distinct American talents: Swoon, Monica Canilao and Dennis McNett. McNett’s ferocious animal characters usually occupy a blank page, while Swoon’s surreal, cut-out portraits adapt to whatever context they are pasted into. When joined with the found-object dream [...]
HONG KONG: ART HK12
In just a few days the fifth edition of the Hong Kong Art Fair, ART HK12, will be landing upon us at the Hong Kong Convention Center located in Wanchai’s picturesque and glorious Victoria Harbour. This year, as i’ve learned from my interview with Fair Director, Magnus Renfrew, there will be over 260 Galleries around [...]
HO RYON LEE’S DOUBLE EXPOSURE PAINTINGS
Double exposures are often used in photography as a way to simulate movement and mood. But these paintings make me feel like a dirty old man and make my eye bounce from the edges to the center and back to the edges again. Does their perfectly painted beauty seem to initially hide their pervy upskirt tease factor? [...]
SINGAPORE: YOGA MOVEMENT
We’re not for the young But for the youthful at heart We’re for the big & the small For the short & the tall We’re for the weekend warriors The after work & over worked We’re for the yoga rookies And the all-star levitating super yogi Our belief is YOUR belief in YOUR practice Take [...]
BONDI HIPSTERS ON VINTAGE FASHION
We are Dom and Adrian and we love vintage fashion. We have even got some of our own underground fashion ideas about how to revive vintage classics in 2011. —Them hipsters from Bondi Check out THE SOURCE.
THE GETAWAY (1972)
Doc McCoy has been granted parole. The catch is that corrupt Sheriff Beynon expects a small favor from McCoy for his generosity: Robbing another bank! Beynon does not really intend to let McCoy walk away after the heist and neither does co-robber Rudy Butler but they are not alone in their thoughts, especially Doc McCoy [...]
HANOI: EVERYONE’S A DJ
For those who don’t know, Cama is one of the leading, innovation collectives in Hanoi pushing the art and music scene forward for the last 6+ years. So we’re super excited when they asked us to come play at their space ATK. We would love to see you and your Hanoian friends dancing up a [...]
ROLLERBALL
(1975) An American dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison, who adapted his own short story “Roller Ball Murder”, which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine. Check out THE SOURCE.
