Queen + Banana Guns + Cowd Surfing

As if each of those weren't awesome enough by themselves.

Juggling is easy. Juggling tricks can be well.. tricky. Juggling to music by Queen in tightass jeans and a goofy hat and perfectly synchronising everything to the music is..

Joo Koon

Mr. Ong after the Jurong Point show: "eh go Joo Koon le never go before. Some more we come so far liao"
Mr. Ong after taking the photo: "eh art photo sia. Clubsnap ftw."

Artist Series

It seems over the years the words "Artist Series" has pretty much (d)evolved from a small collection of envelope pushing versions of the normal product into a pseudo intellectual catchphrase that corporations throw around to automatically generate hype within the 15-30 age group.

Case in point, Gibson Artist Series Guitars

Sure, number 2 actually looks pretty. The rest is mediocre at best (ugly). Dear Multi-million Dollar Money Guzzling Focus Grouping Corporations and your Uncreative Marketting Shindigs, how long more are you going to do this "make our product a template for half-baked artists to doodle on" fad/trend before you realise it's looking hella dumb (& ugly).

Nike done did it now EVERY sneaker company's got "Artist Series".

Mountain Dew threw some money at a few starving ILLUSTRATORS and pulled the same act, which means F&N's gonna do the same crap soon.

Every "Urban Vinyl" toy's been sent to random people who can paint nonsense an all white version of their 6 inches of cute. Then throw a freakin exhibition at a boutique that sells a series of Tshirts designed by the same artists at a premium.

Now every bag company, Apple product case manufacturer perfume maker's jumpin in.

Oh right we all just want to earn a quick hipster buck. My bad.

Here, know what, I'll help you out. 

Mc Donald's got them plain white cups they use when you too cheap to pay for mineral water. Get some underground graffiti artists to doodle on it in your Red-Yellow colour scheme. Instant street cred.

7-11 y'all gotta work out an Artist Series of Eco-Friendly Tote Bags. Now not only are you in with the hip crowd, you're going green too. 2 bandwagons at once. Oh wait set up a website where we can "custom" (really just choose colours for) our own design. 3 bandwagons. Don't forget to set up a pop-up shop right outside your own stores selling it. 4 bandwagons. That's a new world record.

Oh and if you're wondering what to do after that's done, you can either do Series #2 or just collaborate with everyone else and their mother and you're the new Head Porter.

Dots and Circles

and now I present to you a series of 3 abstract photographs inspired by the Oasis gig :p

The series of abstact formations reflects the photographer's apparent lack of technical image capturing ability. A subtle jibe at how civilian journalism though useful, often lacks the ability to capture the full story. The same way a picture of a woman hitting her child belies her underlying love for the kid. 

It is coincidentally also "open to your own interpretation" and aims to "evoke the viewer to question and to think".

Really though I just wish someone out there looooooooves the 3rd picture (which looks better large). Stage lights can be Awesome.

VOTE FOR CHANGE!

If you ain't voted for the colourway yet, go Pimp My Stride and VOTE on the right! I'm bustin out the paints soon!

Don't Look Back In Anger

From a whole month ago, the Oasis gig was great!

I don't know if it's because coming at the tail end of a whole string of concerts they had alot to match up to, or just me going in with expectations, or maybe they really didn't give it they all, but it wasn't a super gig. Still, it was massively enjoyable to actually see the boys in the (very distant) flesh belting out the tunes that got me through.. well.. most everything really.

Maybe it was because it was a tour for their new material (which I tried and though it isn't bad, I just can'tget behind. Sorry) and I think most everyone there was there for their old songs >.<

The Brits really turned up in full force to support their homeboys. Like maybe 50% the people there was British. The rest was a cool mix of everything else really. Hipsters, music people, expats, people with good jobs, broke ass kids (me), at one point we were standing beside this one dude who looked like a 80's rocker and hippie had a kid, put him in a nice red jacket and never introduced him to the idea of a haircut. He sang every LINE of every song. When I don't know what they were playing I'd ask him haha. After the concert we found out he came down from KL just for this. He didn't look like he had enough money to go home. I think he also mentioned be plays in a band called Bittersweet.

Yeah you get one more song free.

Don't Look Back In Anger cos you know you wanna hear the Indoor Stadium say "Soo Sally can wait~". I swear after the video half way through the song a they sent a wheelchair to the middle of the standing crowd and Noel (dude singing) said "somebody's got a stroke" or something to that effect and than continued playing. Kinda spoiled the main song I went to hear, but super funny.

Only in Japan

Truly ridiculous.

Cool as it is, it's sad that we have the money to build this and there are people still starving and 

uneducated. Humanity ftw.

What Is It?

Sand!

Pimp My Stride!

I bought me a sneaker. No hype. No flamboyant packaging. Just a sneaker. Leaner silhouette for leaner times.

I do want to add a little something to make it pop a little though. There's 3 things I could do to the sneaker. I could paint the swoosh, paint the stripe and switch up the laces. Anything else would be too must trouble and going over the top.

So firing up photoshop and messing with the colours, I came up with a few colourways! 

And here's where you come in. Check which colours you think would work out the best and VOTE!  On the right.

The safest bet would be to just add a redstripe to it. Air Jordan 1 colours! (AJ1)

Blue/red/white (America!)

Electric Green/Fire Red (Christmas)

Mustard/Blue (Lightning!)

Everything together! (Rainbow) I really like this from a sneaker fan's standpoint, but I really wondering if it'll be too crazy for someone my age. Or I could just screw everything and roll with it.

Also not to be forgotten, a little offbeat but I like it alot too, "inspired" by another iconic Air Jordan sneaker, Electric Green/Purple (Grape!)

Pimp My Stride! Vote!

We're Not Impressed By Locals Anymore

because the next time you see a BMX Rider you'll be asking him to do Backflips off tree trunks.