Trapeze

More to come!

Educate

Everytime you walk into a class, and you're standing in front, you're presented an opportunity to spread certain ideas and change the world. No other job in the world gives you this opportunity.

Sure it's not easy. Kids come in late, get rowdy, throw verbal tomatoes at you. But that's no excuse for you to not give a shit.

Set ground rules. Speak confidently. Smile. Use a microphone, we won't laugh. Engage the kids. Interact. Build Rapport. Set challenges. Inspire. Do it well, because it is agonising when you read off the slides and no one can hear you. Do it well, because although they might not show it then, they'll appreciate you in time.

Do it well, because although the kids might not remember your ideas, they'll remember your lessons forever.

Move the Crowd

Get your hands up @ 2:54.

Last.

She likes to drown cheap yoyos in swimming pools.

Sometimes it's Just About Choosing the Right Tablecloth

Design Society Conference with the very awesome Winnie. Felt slightly weird since I don't exactly do design much anymore but was still nice to see how some of Singapore's best get to where they are. While it felt slightly odd, it really did make me want to do some design again.

Local design rockstars :Phunk Studio were in session (4 guys @ Left). So was Chong Jin (Green Tee), a lecturer from Temasek Design School that (fortunately) never got the nightmare of teaching me. This was the Q&A session and i really was itching to ask them "What's up with the rolled up jeans?"

Things I've learnt:

-Make mistakes while you still can afford to.
-Sometimes even the best Designers smoke through.
-The Salvation Army is a good source of cheap, chic furniture.
-Do and learn from doing. Even namecards and brochures.
-Find people who you can drink teh tarik and talk cock with.

-Kelley Cheng is cute/funny/cute.
-Most designers like most of us are quite cock up.
-Creativity is more important than budget or time.

-Design can be fun.

This Is All We're Left With

Why'd you cancel your Singaporean gig :(

We Have Loved the Stars Too Fondly to be Fearful of the Night.

Coming Up With Book Names Must Be Tough

(click to see no less than 12 books with the exact same title)

Sorry for the recent slump in posts! Been leading a slower, more laid back lifestyle recently.

All Black Everything

The cool thing about splatter is that there's no right or wrong. Just imagine the paint brush is a samurai sword and start slashing.

I'm going to see how many people believe these are Converse Japan's Collaborations with a fictional ink artist named Takuma Yamamoto.

What If We Saw Gold for What It Is?

"Gold is pretty but virtually useless. Somebody decided it has worth, and everybody accepted this decision. The natives in the Americas thought Europeans were insane because of their lust for such a useless yellow substance."

-Daniel Suelo

Read about The Man Who Lives on Zero Dollars.