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Lunchtime life drawing session at work. 90 seconds, done with zen brush app on iPad (using a 1 pixel brush). I like the way the pen bleeds when i stop moving the stylus - it has a bit of a felt marker feel.
A wife should be a life partner and a business partner. Her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa
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"INTER-VIEWS" Photovoice SG first annual show
Photovoice SG launched its inaugural annual exhibition, INTER-VIEWS on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7 PM at The Platform, Level 2, National Museum of Singapore. The exhibition features photographic work from youth on the autism spectrum, the children of ex-inmates, young adults who have experienced psychosis, and persons living with HIV. These are personal perspectives that bring to light the hopes and concerns of persons who need to be more clearly seen and heard.
A talk-back session with the public will be held on April 14, 3.00 to 4.30pm at the Platform on Level 2. Titled “The Heart of Participatory Photography”, this session will explore the photovoice process as a means for personal and cultural documentation. It will feature the perspectives of participating artists, mentor photographers and project partners. A silent auction of the prints will go towards funding future Photovoice SG projects
Photovoice SG is a non-profit community arts organisation that harnesses the power of participatory photography to tell of hidden stories in Singapore.
They design customised participatory photography experiences for local communities to help people find and voice their stories or concerns. Their projects are driven by passionate teams of volunteer mentor photographers and administrators, who believe alongside us that change can happen if we listen. Their community partners include: Students Care Services, ISCOS, Institute of Mental Health and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Photovoice SG is a recipient of National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre’s New Initiative Grant in 2012. Find out more at www.facebook.com/PhotovoiceSG or photovoice.sg.
“Inter-views” will be held at the National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897 From 10 April 2013 to 29 April 2013. Opens daily from 10am to 6pm. Admission is free. For general enquiries, contact admin@photovoice.sg.
Image(s) by Chee Wei Teck
Dedicated to my precious sister Wendy. I love you very much. After a long cold winter, renew your spirit in the country air.
This drawing was done for my elective on the Year One Fine Art Degree course at University of Cumbria. It was done during one of our sessions in the life drawing room with our life model Wilf. I begun by covering the page in charcoal, giving the page a base, to knock back the white and so i could work into it. I used a rubber and the charcaol then to bring back the while using these as hightlights, and adding in more tone using the charcoal for depth. The more i look at this piece, the more i being to like it.
Back in January we had a medical emergency in my residence hall. The official version was that a student had severe alcohol poisoning and had to be transported to the medical center. The unofficial version was that a Nyquil+Beer high went bad. That was probably a very expensive high.
The response was quite impressive, we had a truck from Prescott fire, a police car, a K9 and campus safety.
Death attempts to snip the precious thread of Life.
Statue inside the Asamkirche, Munich, also known as the St Johann Nepomuk Kirche.
Get used to pictures like this because it's starting to look like this is going to be the way it's going to be for ages, maybe years.
During all the time I spent at the coffee shop in town, the time I liked the most was when I'd finally sussed every single piece of bullshit and could just chill, just sitting there, looking around, thinking of interesting stuff, even when I was in a boring conversation. That's how good I got.
I just had a meeting with someone in my living room about doing all sorts of stuff. I knew that it wouldn't go anywhere in advance, but I just couldn't be bothered to cancel it.
Anyway, it was an opportunity to explore my brilliant ideas about everything and think, in full-flight, how the fuck to communicate this shit to people who are in the mainstream, even the people who want to be open minded, but struggle a bit, at times. The main chick had her doubts, but I hit some good points in that meeting and I made her and her mate laugh as well.
We covered the things they tend to cover, with me warning them well in advance that, in the end, it would come to nothing and go our separate ways. And that's exactly what happened.
I've got to think about the future. I could be sitting here like this for a long time. Take away the Middle Ages and the psychosocially disturbing social scene of that coffee shop in town and it's not a million miles different sitting there to being here. I'm still having a fag and a coffee and looking around, thinking and stuff.
But I'm going to have to do something, eventually, partly because I will get bored of this. But I'm not going back to the mainstream ever again. Shit life, boring life. Even the majority of the cooler people I know are, I think, limiting themselves by staying too much in the mainstream, partly because that's one of its primary functions: to limit people. I'd rather stay in bed and limit myself under the duvet. At least I'll be comfy.
I'd do the social thing round here, but most of my mates have got jobs or families and watch a lot of TV and are, like me, getting on with doing their thang. The rest spend a serious amount of time watching the box and I'd be bored if I went to see them and did the same, just like they'd be bored doing what I do, until they really got into it, anyway.
I think I've reached a moment where a lot of things - about my life and environment - make a serious amount of sense. Maybe now it's time to put that into some sort of action. Maybe the conditions aren't right. Maybe I'm not as ready as I think. Dunno, but the Zen Zone I can now tap into is great.
I now know, also, that getting banned from Kidderminster's Caffe-Fucking-Nero, especially in the circumstances, is one of the best achievements of my life, because it means that I'm pretty much everything that the shop it eventually became is not. That's a massive achievement, a really massive achievement.
It's raining. I might go back to bed. I'll probably start reading books again, soon, with a view to doing something in what'll probably be the longer term. At 42, I've still got time, but that age means some of the things I might have considered in the past are out-of-bounds. I'll think around that and something interesting should eventually spring to mind.
Seamour and Marty recently took a pleasant trip to their home town - the Netherlands, and sent me a few pictures for teasing.
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