Check out the online version of this exhibition of a collection of cultural artifacts from the Western world, mostly American from as early as the mid-1700s, about the yellow peril, i.e. the prejudiced “oriental” view of Asia. You can also support the cause to make this collection a permanent archival collection at NYU, as part […]
Read more "Archivist of the Yellow Peril"When I first heard that kodak was going to stop producing printing paper, I was quite devastated, even though I don’t know how to develop pictures from scratch, or never really owned/used an SLR camera. It’s an art form forever lost to digital technology! Earlier this year, I bought an old school polaroid camera, and […]
Read more "Pseudo Polaroids"I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the method of tilt-shift photography. Here’s an example of a shot taken with the tilt-shift technique. The technique that this is based on involves a special lense that fools around with the image plane to produce a very shallow depth of field. Someone more versed in physics […]
Read more "Tilt-Shift Photography"I came across this artist while researching for work. Masia is a Singaporean Canadian (overly simplified reduction of her cultural and geographical lineage). What’s interesting is that she draws upon “her roots in South East Asia” to feed her sound of hip hop. The sophomore release from artist Masia One titled Pulau, is a collection […]
Read more "Pulau Life"Hentyle brought me to my first dance theatre performance on Friday. From my lenses….it was erm..different. I liked the genre, but didn’t have much of a reaction to the piece. The production was by Moroccan-Flemish choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, titled Myth. It was a physical exploration of archetypal mythological characters, a story telling through dance is as […]
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Tan Shou Chen 