Something you would kill your time with

http://www.pencilrebel.com/

Some really interesting claymation and some mixed media stuff in this game. Enjoy!

Happy Rong Kong Day!

Left: Kong Yoon Chen a.k.a. Yago
Right: Tan Qiu Rong a.k.a. Sampat

NOTICE:

These rabbits were born on the 23rd of August, 1987.
Wherever you see them around, grab them and kiss hard!

SicKL Open Lab 002: 30 August 2008

Dear friends,

SicKL Open Lab (SOL) is advancing to its second art laboratory session in August! In this season, our friends from Singapore, IRON EGG and KULTURKAMPF will be conducting a few experimentations in music. Moreover, two young local short film directors: Lim Chee Yong and Chua Seng Shen will be joining the fun.
Come out for a night of art instead of watching wasteful fireworks... lah!
Come out to support the true independent spirit in your neighborhood, such as Cheras!

cheers,
Siew Wai

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SicKL Open Lab 002- August 08 Lab

Date: 30 August, 2008 @ 8pm

Venue: Studio in Cheras, KL (SicKL)
75, 3rd Floor
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Telawat 1,
Cheras, 56100 K.L.

(You can take Star line LRT and stop at Cheras Station. SicKL is just a minute walk from the station!)

For driving directions: Yandsen 012-9198031

Admission: By donation

http://emacm. blogspot. com

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MUSIC:

**IRON EGG**

is an electro-acoustic improvisation group based in Singapore featuring Darren Moore (laptop/percussion) , Tim O'Dwyer (saxophone) and Brian O'Reilly (electronics/ visual).

Darren Moore is an Australian musician currently based in Singapore. He is involved in various projects as a drummer and as an experimental laptop artist. He has performed and collaborated with musicians such as Jon Rose, Chris Abrahams, Scott Tinkler, Eugene Pao, Tim O'Dwyer, Will Guthrie, Eric Boeren, Wilbert de Joode, Micheal Vatcher to name a few. He has toured throughout Europe, Australia, South East Asia, Japan and the USA. Currently in Singapore, he leads his own jazz quintet featuring the leading lights of the singapore jazz scene, he also is involved in Iron Egg - an electro/acoustic audio/visual experimental trio featuring Tim O'Dwyer and Brian O'Rielly and performs solo experimental laptop music with percussion. www.myspace. com/darrenmoorem usic

Brian O'Reilly is the creator of various works for moving images/live cinema, electronic/noise music, mixed media assemblage/installa tion, and is a contrabassist, focusing on the integration of electronic treatments and extended playing techniques.

Timothy O'Dwyer: is a composer, saxophonist and educator working between the general areas of music known as jazz, contemporary notated music and improvised music. He has been a member of Elision Contemporary Ensemble since 1994 and was a founding member of the Melbourne cult punk-jazz group bucketrider. Following studies with Evan Parker and composer Richard Barrett in 1995 he has had the privilege of collaborating with many artists that he greatly admires including: John Butcher, Liza Lim, Bobby Previte, KK Null, Chaya Chernowin, and conceptual artists Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, and Katsushige Nakahashi. He is currently programme leader of music and lecturer in jazz at the School of Contemporary Music LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and is a PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology studying the phenomena of identity in improvised music. His current projects include his jazz group The Tim O'Dwyer Trio and the electro-acoustic
project Iron Egg.

**KULTURKAMPF* *

Since 2006, Mark Wong (b. 1982, Singapore) has been developing and refining his own vocabulary for the kazoo, a simple musical instrument traditionally considered a novelty toy. In addition to conventional humming techniques, Wong has germinated blowing, rasping and other vocal scrawlings. Playing off the feedback purity of a no-input mixer, Mark's kazoo becomes the production centre of a certain textural beauty and nervous energy.

myspace.com/ kulturkampf

SHORT FILMS:

**Chua Seng Shen- "A Young Man with No Name" (15 minutes)
**Lim Chee Yong- "My Nostalgia" (19 minutes)

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SicKL OPEN LAB (SOL) is a bi-monthly art laboratory where artists come together to show individual’s work and form new collaboration. SiCKL will provide the environment for artistic expression, improvisation, experimentation, learning and collaboration. In each lab session, we encourage artists from different backgrounds to experiment with each other to create new work. This open platform is free to perform, to exhibit, to experiment and to collaborate. We welcome artists from all disciplines.

Dare to experiment! Surprise us and surprise yourself!
SOL happens on the last Saturday every other month at 8pm.

For inquiries, please contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo. com / 012-6957987
Sow Yee : truely_au@hotmail. com / 012-2661579
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Action React: House Warming Party for Food Not Bomb K.L.

Dear friends,

Yandsen, me and *perhaps Aziz will be jamming as REFLEX REACTION on this Saturday, 23rd August at the new FNBKL base in PJ. Also some wacky eletronic band from Manila playing with ex-MMU student Jazmi! There is a full day list of activities. Come out and have some fun!


Siew Wai

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ACTION REACTION! -an introduction to fnbkl's new space – a day of happenings-community gathering, diy activism, discussion, sharing, skill sharing, exhibition and performances

23rd August 2008, Saturday, 2pm

no14. Jalan Jelawat 8/10, Seksyen 8, Petaling Jaya.



THE (DE)PROGRAMS:

discussion/sharing



1. NO G8 japan holidarity – Yew Hun and Alind – 2.30pm to 4.30pm

The last G8 meeting was being held at Hokkaido Japan and for the first time friends from FNBKL and Kudeta join the massive protest and resist against capitalism, establishment, environment, and globalization. They will share their insight and experience there with vivid and vibrant photographs.



2. sepuluh tahun sebelum merdeka – Fahmi Reza – 4.30pm to 6pm

fahmi reza the director of the award winning film-'the most understanding human rights film' of freedom filmfest 2007 –will share his experience of making the film, the independent screening tour around the country, the present feedback, future plans and other things that he wants to share. http://10tahun.blogspot.com/



3. massa kritikal bike ride – Massa Kritikal – 6pm to 7pm

Massa Kritikal is a 'critical mass' chapter in Kuala Lumpur. They started the movement over here after the first bike parade in July last year. It's an autonomous decentralized movement where people make an effort to build a community of cyclist to ride in every city in the world as a direct action and to campaign for bicycle use in the city.

http://massa-kritikal.blogspot.com/

*whoever who wants to participate in the fun ride to fnbhouse pj from KL on the day of the event, massa kritikal will gather at the annexe central market, KL at 2.30 pm



4. community banner and flag making – Massa Kritikal – 7pm

the gang will invite people to participate in the banner and flag making that will be held at the park in front of the fnbhouse.



screening -7pm to 8pm

1. Tragedi Kg Berembang

-the documentation of wayang kadbod (shadow puppet) performed by the kids of Kg Berembang, telling their story of the tragedy of being evicted from their land and kampung by the city council and developers/corporation to give way to build condominiums.

shot by : Ebrahim Harris,

Edited by: Jimmy Choong

2006

19 minutes



2. A Place Called Chiapas

-documentary about Zapatista movement in Chiapas

92 minutes



accosutic/sound performance - 8pm to 11pm

1. wolf of spunky funggy

http://www.myspace.com/spunkyfunggy

2. D.E.P

http://dullentertainmentprogramme.blogspot.com

3. the garrison

http://www.myspace.com/beatgarrison

4. gangan ensemble (manila and KL)

http://www.gangan-series.blogspot.com/

5. reflex reaction

http://emacm.blogspot.com/

6. aiman of civil disorder and F.R.U

http://www.myspace.com/civildisorder153

7. lai kong

8. ENJOI

our bukit bintang buskers- percussion, didgeridoo, jembe, etc

9. pancaroba



+open mics!! (if we still have time.. should be end before 12pm)



visual/painting/drawing/photo/scratch

1. farhana

2. yew hun

3. abroko

4. poodien

5. melissa lin

6. rahmat haron

7. bebe

8. the mockmeat collective



to other groups, idealist, human rightist, artist ,activist ,tactivist, collectives:

Be impulsive, imaginative, and take this opportunity to bring down whatever you have (propaganda, fliers, zines, posters, old clothes, anything) to the space. Trade, sell, spread, or give it out for free. We welcome anything and everything! We need you!

Then again, if you really wanna, you can always call Poodien at 013 243 7092 or 03 79550941



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THE ELEPHANT AND THE SEA TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Hi guys,

Just to let you know, MY MOVIE will be screening at CINELEISURE CINEPLEXES from August 21, and I am now preselling tickets to ALL STUDENTS at a discounted rate of RM6 each!

I hope some of you will be interested in watching this movie, and if you are and want to buy tickets, please tell me! drop me an email!

This is your chance to help support your lecturer and also watch a highly acclaimed film which won 4 awards!

We have officially begun pre-selling tickets for The Elephant and the Sea! These specially printed limited edition tickets are going for a special rate of RM6 for Students and RM8 for everyone else!

The tickets are valid for ANY screenings from AUGUST 21 to SEPTEMBER 3, 2008, at the CATHAY CINEPLEXES, at the CURVE DAMANSARA.

So here's how you can get the tickets:

1. Tickets can be purchased and PICKED UP at the DA HUANG PICTURES office at SS1, Petaling Jaya. For more information please email us at greenlightpicture@gmail.com

2. You can email us personally, and we can reserve the tickets for you to be picked up. If you are buying in bulk, there is a chance we may be able to deliver it to you.

3. If you would like to purchase tickets but cannot pick them up for some reason, please email us anyway, and we'll help you figure it out!

Sharing is Caring

Someone had once told me that our patch is on the path, the brightness of our future is depends on whether we can share with each others or not.

It is right. A person's knowledge or info may be max gained, for example, 200% per month.

But if we are sharing with 10 person, that would be 200% X 10 person per month. Let's say we have some same experience in this 10 persons, and 5 of them have same the experience with the other 5... in the end we will still get 1000% gaining experience by sharing with others.

You will not step forward - if you are not willing to share it out haha.

Saab Car Overview Video. ( for Car Lovers)


see the video on :-
http://www.saab.com/microsites/aero_x/GLOBAL/en/index2.shtml


HP TVC (hands.)








Ipod shuffle TVC





Samsung TVC



Motorola TVC. Not really the effect but the idea.





Talk Talk



Audi


Puma

Here's something for a greeting

Hola guys. Been quiet in here lately.

Val'd been asking me to share some stuffs in here. As hesitant (and weird) as I feel, here it is.

Something I just finished (or not). Started as a totally different piece, which really sickened me, it ended as something entirely different. Still not as satisfying as it could've been, though =<.






As aforementioned, the final composition was a derivation from a former unfinished work. Nearly upon abandonment, I decided to pick it up and give it a fresh idea. A fresh concept. Composition.

After lotsa tweak and turns, I settled down on this composition. The first few painting sessions was really inspiring and at the very least satisfying. It was a good learning progress. But upon completion it became....dissappointing. Towards the end, my colour senses became dull, and the forms in the piece're all haywire. Ugh.

I guess I was tired. An artblock kicking in really helped me to retire early on the piece; despite it being kinda unfinished. Prolly need to start on a new project to change atmosphere and all.

Concept wise, it's actually a visualization from an original title; formerly titled "busted bastards", now, untitled. The little box thingy is initially inspired by the ever-crackling little kodamas (tree spirits) from Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke.

Technique wise, most of the parts in this painting is painted manually using the default round brush in Photoshop. Different brushes are used occasionally throughout the production. Some extra layers are used for the effects and textures. Nothing of the exceptional, just applied some of your everyday photoshop techniques.

Uhh, don't know what else to say. I guess it's your turn to drop some insights. Be it comments, critique, suggestions or whatever.

That all being said, damn, I need to improve. Ciao.

I Miss You FAians!

Hey peeps how have y'all been? I miss you fun people dearly! :p

Internship has been great so far and I’m enjoying everyday to the fullest! I'm sure you guys have cool new experiences too, so do cherish the moments because I feel it's kinda short. :)

Uh okay back to my main point of this entry... I have some information here just in case you do not know - Film & Animation (FA) Final Year Showcase 2008 is coming!

I bumped into Essa and Benjamin in the KLIA Transit this morning and realized most people do not know about it. So below are the details for the event, note it yea! :)

You may also visit ArtSentral for more information.

P/S:

I will be going for tomorrow’s session with colleagues, hopefully can meet some FAians there! :D

It's Mine!

Something I stumble upon when I was just fooling around with youtube. A Coca-cola ad.

SicKL Open Lab this coming Saturday!

FINALLY, OUR FIRST PROGRAM IS HERE FEATURING THE DARE DEVILS(AND ANGELS) OF ART EXPERIMENTATION!

The SicKL Open Lab (SOL) is launching its first season with new works in poetry, experimental music, video and film on this coming Saturday, 28 June at the Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SicKL).

SOL 0001 kicks off its first program with voice composition by Tham Kar Mun- featuring Tham Kar Mun, Yandsen, Kok Siew Wai and Wong Perng Fei; Malaysia premiere experimental video and film works by Au Sow Yee, Huvy and Wong Fe Lik; and a multidisciplinary performance with poetry and visual arts by Tan Yan Tee, Chen Lin Loong, Law Yee Wan and Looi Yook Tho.

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SicKL Open Lab (SOL) is organized by Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur (SicKL). SicKL has gathered a group of young artists from different disciplines to share ideas and passion in art, and work together to bring new voices to the local art scene. SOL is the outcome of this collective philosophy.

SOL is a monthly art laboratory where artists come together to show individual’s work and form new collaboration. SiCKL will provide the environment for artistic expression, improvisation, experimentation, learning and collaboration. In each lab session, we encourage artists from different backgrounds to experiment with each other to create new work. This open platform is free to perform, to exhibit, to experiment and to collaborate. We welcome artists from all disciplines.

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SOL happens on the last Saturday of every month at 8pm. Please contact us to confirm the dates.

For more information, please contact:
Siew Wai: swsuny@hotmail. com / kokbuffalo@yahoo. com
Sow Yee: truely_au@hotmail. com

www.emacm.blogspot.com

** Next SOL: 26 July 2008 **