artlog//bycheryl

I have a lame laptop. But it's okay it is not the end of the world. Plus, it's cheap and (still) functionable! The good side is that I can do whatever I want with it without having to consider taking into account the "side-effects" of hurting it permanently.

I liked acrylic more than any other media. I used to paint on walls with acrylic and pastel with glass beads. Whenever I walk into an art supplies store, I could not help but fall in love with the smell of paint. Painting is one kind of mind liberation. Are there rules? Are there steps? Do we always have to begin with an outline? Are there principles to follow? We always use scrapers and brushes? How about canvas? My answer is, FOLLOW YOUR HEART.

N.B. Didn't mean to paint my eye with the existing color scheme. MY BLACK ACRYLIC WAS GONE. Will refurbish it soon when I got black.

                         

If graffiti is the synonym to mafia, then I guess what we see here in HK is completely sterile. Obviously, the local mafia ain't give a shit to ART. Ironic though, from this very narrow angle, you could already tell the extent of mind liberation among my fellows...

But this is not the end of the world! Here and there, bits and pieces, you find visuals stimulating your eyes around the tattered corner of the street. Not difficult to spot, really. Only because we have developed this visual inertia -- we have been taking things for granted for too long. I noticed that there is still yet another big one (hopefully not busted yet) located somewhere between Fortress Hill and Tin Hau, where big blocks of rocks are situated at the foot of a Tin Hau Temple Road. Such a nice canvas to use. See if I am able to sustain and take more pics during my bus ride in the morning.

ATM, it's time for some rest. I've never had it enuff.

           

I know I know. It's been too much Marie. But I love her. I love sweeties. I love cute girls. I love sweet and cute girls, esp. those have a voice like silk.

So I think Marie Digby has made her debut in JP finally. She was touring around Asia visited KL and SG I bet but not our beloved HONG KONG (duh!). It's getting a lil too boring here since the A-list stars never ever consider Hong Kong as a place to go (unless they're here for action films -- not even the night life here is more appealing).

This song's been looping in my head in the past.... week. ENJOY! Beautiful woman making a beautiful live video w/ her voice and a guitar... I love how the plane kicks in at the end =)

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT! Our Wing Shya is going to be staged in this big, hip event as an ARTIST. Please watch out for his work,  "Prevation: A Manga Story" which will premiere at Chivas Studio this Thursday, September 4, 2008 at Watermark!

PREVATION: A MANGA STORY will continue at OBG www.ooibotos.com September 9 - October 25, 2008.

Chivas Studio - the Home of Exuberant Creativity will present an exuberant blend of the world's finest in design, fashion, art, music, gastronomy and mixology. Chivas Studio Hong Kong will be an exclusive invitation only three-day extravaganza held at the 5-star harbour front Watermark Restaurant from 4 - 6 September '08, gathering eminent global and regional artists who have collaborated with Chivas to present their inspired exclusive creations for Chivas Studio.

If you would like to attend the Chivas Studio please send your name, occupation, phone number and email address to chivasstudio@vipapac.com

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Growing up in this city I find it familiar yet strange.

There are places so familiar yet I have never seen. And the mob. It's everywhere in this town. I rarely stop by to take pictures. I walk and stalk. People can't help turning around to check out a cute girl taking pictures of them =p

The faces... see if you're good enuff to pose for me. Heh. So, so inspired by Mr.Vix. I hope you're alright dude. I know, at the same time when we're iming, I still owe you 6 drinks, an icecream and the godamn press releases. *sob*

                                                                                     

I remember I saw this from DESMA10.

It is still the best class I ever had in college (not only because I obtained an A easily). It was just inspiring. And it was just motivating to have my hands on color projects.

I don't know how to appreciate Kandinsky's style in particular. Indeed, this is very primordial designs when modernism was blossoming.

I started to wonder how was it like to create at that time? Did they just all of a sudden come en mass just within the turn of the century? How did other people feel at that time?

Went to Karen A. Smith's book presentation last week. Quite inspiring as I have been very uneducated about art and art history. Have got the books sitting in my office now so I better squeeze some time to chew on it... would defly make a good source of information for a noob like me. But it was great to have met Karen. She is a very gentle and nice woman. Year 1993, just right after my first visit to BJ. None of us could foresee how things would be like in a decade. To me, the impressions that I got was, it was far from that. But looking at it today we can all tell the booming of our mother nation is vast and intense. Compare to a long evolvement of European history, say from Industrial Revolution to the Wars and to Modernism; we saw the changes, perhaps from a scale of 0 then right to 100 within a decade. I hate to use this adjective, but my guess is people in general have sort of a "distorted" vision of seeing this world. Or at least the world around them. It is not even up to us to discuss whether they are ready for such changes, and there it goes; its already there. Yes, I always tend to look into the human side of each thing. I like psychology. I like to read between lines. I like to guess what do you mean by that. But I hate the quantative way of getting the answers. Numbers just don't seem to make sense to me (not that I am saying I am a total math retard, and in fact, I just been avoiding to admit that I am average, esp. given my multi-talents =p). So basically I guess we can tell bits of this and that via paintings and such. Artists make their statements. And artists are simply no more than laypersons.

Living in a place striving to survive within hundreds and thousands of hungry mobs wouldn't be much of an easy thing. Now, I really wanted to know: what exactly is going on?

So, I have been writing about Wing Shya in the previous posts. Many of you might wonder, who is Wing Shya? And what's so good about Wing Shya? To me and to the many, art is a very subjective matter and, we perceive things in many different ways. I am not trying to persuade you that this is some masterpiece. But personally I think this is a well-done job. I like colors and entertainment.

This project, originally called Angel Mask, is a collaboration between the two artists whom I adore: Tatsuyuki Tanaka and Wing Shya. Tanaka was the key animator for the legendary anime, Akira. On the other hand, Wing, has been sort of a subconcious art mentor to me since I was a teenager (of course, I didn't know this artist back then; his works influenced me to a certain extent, however). All in all, this turns out to be quite a perfect match and, turning a manga into real pictures is just like filming EVA/Akira in Hollywood -- apart from the time taken -- I mean, Wing has put it into reality already. Whilst for the movies, I am looking forward to seeing them in the theatre... soon.

(Keep your fingers crossed... they don't exploit the "Hollywood" style taking away the taste of anime!)

The fruitful result of this project will be again showing in Hong Kong this coming September at OBG -- with much grandiosity -- called PREVATION. Here's a snap preview of the images vs. the manga story board... you like it, or not?

Photo courtesy of CATSUKA

   

The anticipation for the Olympics is not doubt swelling. Apart from the mascots which I rate them as..... mediocre (or on the meanest extreme, fugly); the icons for different sports events certainly deserve some props. Highly loyal to Chinese culture made best to exploit the original Chinese pictogram. Have you even thought of it is such a beauty to WRITE, or, being able to write elegantly? Even though bounded by the squarely formation of Chinese characters; the richness of it, the pictorial basis of it allow great metamorphisis to be executed in the soul of the characters.

The Oriental culture, by any means, is going to rule in the next decade or two. Being CHINOISE, bearing the decendency, tongzhimen, it's about time to EMBRACE YOUR ROOTS. I reckoned that very few people in Hong Kong (including myself)  genuinely love and appreciate our mother nation -- given the stereotypical tyrannies pertainining to a sad history of the society and politics. I contend the segregation of AESTHETIC and POLITICS, even though most of the time things are just slighly more than black-and-white: politicians play along with their "artsy" games, while artists provoke politics and create controversies (yes, have totally overlooked the business/commercial factor here, but screw it!).

So, overlooking any other things but just something purely pleasant to look at... here is a piece by, again, Wing Shya that I think worth sharing: http://www.i-dmagazine.com/worldwide/wing_shya.htm

I been really slacking off a big time! To procrastinate, is to do every single thing but to TAKE A SHOWER AND GO TO BED.
I guess my energy is just excessive nowadays.

You see here, I have never been a mac fan. I like it sleek, I like it stable, but I don't like it asking me to pay so much while the hardware breaks down quite easily. I'd rather afford cheaper machines, abuse them until they die.

What a sadist I am.

I can't tolerate the retardation of iTunes anymore. I'm going back to my lovely winamp with the skin that I loved most. It feels great to "lighten up".

N.B. I didn't draw that, it's chix0r!