Rise To Rust

By this time I’m sure some of you might have heard, read, and watched the latest “heights” in our country’s political climate. IMHO, I think it’s another mindless attempt by some individuals to distract our attention from the petrol price hike issue and the “high profile” murder case.

I mean seriously, sodomy? Is that the best they could come up with? An age old method used by our past premier to silence our voices and hope for a better Malaysia? Some people are just too desperate to stay in power aren’t they? Our beloved country are definitely at its lowest times.

May God help us all.

Here’s an excerpt of a public’s response from Malaysiakini about the matter;

The rakyat continues to suffer under the yoke of all the political battles being fought by individuals and parties who are bent on power, greed and self-interest. Collaboration since the close of the general elections is out while counter-tactics seems to be the preferred mode of attack.

Read more here.

Mo Fiyah!

The video of KokoKaina’s live set at yesterday’s Urbanscapes are up! Here are two of my favorite new songs from her;

Story Of You And Me

Bitter Hearts

Watch her full set at MyTube. Enjoysss!

Orgasmica Spectrumeseum

Today’s KLue Urbanscapes 2008 would’ve been alot smoother if it weren’t for the (damn) hot weather(even after it rained) and over-priced food(RM7 for a hotdog!?(nasib baik sedap)). But we still had a BLAST nevertheless!

The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre in Sentul Park was crowded with people from all walks of life, mostly in their 20’s, looking all colorful and hip and eager to check out the latest local new wave of art, music, film, photography and fashion.

The all-day art event had so many things to offer but all went on at the same time, so some people had trouble making choices. I for one, wanted to see Auburn, KokoKaina and Altimet, but all three played at 6:30PM at three different stages! But since Kokokaina don’t play as much shows as the other two, I chose to watch her set. And my oh my she was awesome! Her 2 cover songs, 4 originals and 3 new songs set really rocked the house! And I managed to film the whole set too!(will upload the videos tomorrow)

There were many cool stuff to check out at the event, but most of the time I just hangout with some old friends and catch up on things. It was like a reunion! Me love Futuna had her first photo exhibition/sale at the ThreadsZoo booth at the Marketplace, and managed to sell off some of her limited edition series art/photowork! Yeay! There’s some more prints left, check ‘em out and place your orders here.

Some of the other good stuff that I managed to catch was Exo Rage(side project of Stixx and Lando of Shock System) at the Bijou Bazaar Acoustic Session at the Lake Side Stage, The Otherside Orchestra and Joe Flizzow at the X Pax Box, Digital Malaya Project at the Gallery, Otam at the Acoustic Livehouse and They Will Kill Us All at the Lawn Stage.

The peeps from RandomAlphabets, who did the KL Freeze and KLX flashmob, was at it again, something like ImprovEverywhere’s ‘Rob!’ at the Yankees Stadium. But today’s “victim” was Adrian Yap, chief editor/big boss of KLue. After the agents involved screamed for “Adrian! Where are you!?” and asked bystanders “Have you seen Adrian?”, in minutes people were somewhat “amused” and some even joined the fun! Yours truly volunteered at the video department. See photos and review soon here.

After a full day of heavy dose of artsy-fartsy galore, we left KLPAC at 11PM and went straight home. It was an EXHAUSTING(and melekit) day indeed but soul-feeding nevertheless. It’s great to see our fresh homegrown art movers and shakers working at a large scale all in one place. I’m sure many who went certainly would like to see more events like these in the future.

Kudos to KLue and everyone involved for making it an awesome “all day creative arts festival”!

Check out the KLue and Urbanscapes official website for photos/videos and review soon.

Sepandai-pandai Tupai Melompat…

Question:

If you’re in a public area i.e. shopping mall, park, theatre, bus stop, etc. and would suddenly smell something “funny”, would you go to the stranger next to you and give him/her your “piece of opinion/advice” about emitting nauseating “gas bomb” in public?

Some call it “The Silent Killer.”

Yes, ew.

But I’m sure we all have experienced it once and I was wondering if any of you did anything other than just holding your breath and leave the “contaminated” area. I never saw anybody who would scold/scream at the guilty/innocent person but just keep it to themselves(and cursing quietly).

We’re really patient people huh?

A Dash Of Tron

Another “creative tag” from Donnie Darko;

1. Cipta satu karektor dengan cara apa sekalipun samada dengan menggunakan Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, 3D atau lukisan tangan dan tuliskan atau karangkan tentang kisah hidup karektor ciptaan anda dengan gaya yg kreatif dan bebas. Dan jgn lupa berikan nama kepada karektor2 ciptaan anda.
2. Jumlah karektor tidak terhad ianya terpulang kepada kemampuan anda.
3. Tag seberapa ramai yg anda mahu dan listkan link anda atau link2 sebelum anda seperti dibawah agar mereka2 yg lain dapat melihat hasil kerja kreative dari anda dan rakan2 anda.

Link:
1. Donology – KeyJay
2. Karipap Daging – Matza

This is Matza. He is from Pearl Island. He likes to eat mashed potato with ketchup. His favorite past time is playing the guitar. Bahna is his girlfriend. They like to fish and sleep. They want to rule the world with their PDAs. OHHH YEEEAHHH BOYIEEE!!!

So now I’d like to tag:
1. Brandon Boyd
2. P Ramlee
3. Steve Aoki