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DBS Live Fresh
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Linc and Jon getting ready, and myself with the Squirrel Commando on the live fresh tee.
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Terence from The Other Side for helping to put this event together. Also appreciate the support and all who came. Shoutout to 8days, I-S magazine, Artbeat, Navigator, Youth.sg, Farm.sg for the event listings. Special thanks also to our photographers Shawn, Ken & Guobin And of course to DJ Ikuma who played a great set & our sponsor...Tiger Beer. Also thanks to Halcyondf for animating our logo on short notice. Thanks to anyone else we might have left out :P The following event photo set is by Shawn
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This guy obviously had a gd time...
yea party like it's 1999...over and out...]]>MUTANTSTYLE Art Exhibition Pre-prep (Event photos coming soon...)
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shophouse, now called 'The Other Side', an alternative art and gathering space...here are some photos of the pre-prep... Special thanks to Terence (plasticblackspecs@gmail.com) who runs the place for letting us set up a show there...Also, thanks to our sponsor: Tiger Beer
We run through some check list items...
Our Mas Selamat Fake Toys, 4 Horsemen of Visual Opera figures and ERP parody fake toy boxes installation bench...
A Superhero Creative Collective...
Pop culture references...
Some of our prints...
This was fun to paint...
some of our mixed media work....oh yea isn't that such a buzz word..."mixed media"...
After the setup, Terence (The Other Side), Lincoln (Parastasis) & Jonathan (zxerokool) strike a pose...
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8days, IS magazine, Navigator, Art Beat...etc..
special thanks to Terence (The Other Side) for the help with getting the word out....]]>PSFK Conference Singapore, Jeff Staple & a whole bunch of fun...
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poolatwork. Also, we got to meet the man himself Jeff Staple (the guy behind the legendary Nike pidgeon dunk, amongst other cool stuff), who shared some of his insights with us in an exclusive 'creative workshop / show & tell' session hosted by MTV Asia. And now, for some pictures... (all shots courtesy of SiPing a.k.a Pixel Pastry).
The Asian leg of the PSFK conference was held in The Asian Civilization Museum here in Singapore...
The MINI cooper convoy arrives...with PSFK delegates...wicked stuff...
The Italian Job in Singapore?
No Singapore event is complete without the usual mingling and fooood.....
Our artwork was exhibited at Superfamous, the after party...
We also invited our friend DJ Ikuma to spin some mashed up 8-bit electro tunes. The dude rocks. Fellow MutantStyle member Roger was/is still in HK, too bad for him...haha.. he was missing all the fun :P He can comfort himself with some DimSum and HK porridge... :P
The Day Before: A session with Jeff Staple... >
Jeff Staple + an all star cast of superb creatives :P
We were deep in thought and meditation...
After I suggested we have a Singapore 'AWE50ME' group show at Jeff's legendary Reed Space in NYC, Jeff said we had to come up with an interesting way to present the diverse work from the 10 Singaporean creatives/groups present in the room that day...as you can see both myself and Antz are thinking hard....that and who is going to fund our air-tickets if such a thing were to ever materialize...not to mention accomodation and other things, the last time I visited New York (on holiday) I saw and learnt alot but it did not come cheap... :X Which is why I freelance for clients... Gotta fund the artistic shit, unless you're Damien Hirst...and your average auction works sells for a collected $200++ million...
Jeff dropped us some insights and tips to making our 'creative dreams' a reality, and how the artist/designer should also be aware of the business aspect of things, especially when you're working on making your own pet projects happen...etc...
Despite his fame, Jeff was a down to earth guy who has obviously come up a long way through nothing else but hard work, good timing and determination. Jeff mentioned; "when I was starting out there were the same 10 guys above me doing all the cool stuff...I had to bust my ass and worked real hard to get into the circle...", "When I was starting out there were 10 shops, now there are two of such places left...mine and one other..." "In a span of ten years..."
It's a rough world out there...but as my personal philosophy goes; do what you love and if life throws you some punches just wipe the blood off and carry on...either that or re-evaluate your options :X
We met alot of other cool people in-between breaks at the PSFK conference... Rob Campbell from Sunshine / M&C Saatchi was especially funny with his presentation and it was great to converse with him later via email And of course MutantStyle will be working on trying to get our t-shirts sold at Jeff's Reed Space in NYC, but first we gotta make a proper catalogue...
However, one of the most interesting (also hectic) experience we had in relation to the PSFK conference was: The putting together of the AWE50ME book featuring us (MutantStyle) alongside other creative mavericks in the Singapore scene hailing from the AWE50ME network. This project was co-ordinated, planned, art directed, designed and printed in record time...which is somewhat of a miracle, considering we were handling other projects outside of this as well as preparing for our then upcoming art exhibition... All in all this was an AWE50ME experience... ok here are some of the results:
It's a wrap...]]>The Gathering
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For those of you who missed my talk at the pecha kucha event at SMU, here's a little something for fun... Nothing serious just a experiment to see how an iconic event or personality can be applied to a piece of contemporary pop culture such as a toy box or collectible object...
they like to call things reality TV, here at mutantstyle we call this reality product...
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We've been having more than a few meetings and working hard on our upcoming projects and events. We have two upcoming exhibitions lined up before the end of the year and a slate of other projects which we can't really discuss right now.
watch this space...
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