Weird contraptions.

This musical machine is like New Age on auto pilot. Ping pong balls are randomly catapulted onto some kind of xylophone. This surely makes it a one hit wonder. You'd probably get bored of it fast, but you'd impress a hell lot of bunnies too.
Jeff Lieberman :: Quartet 2008

Quartet 2008 by Jeff Lieberman, Dan Paluska from Heloisa Sartorato on Vimeo.

Sinking deeper in the weird, this very strange ferrofluid is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a magnetic field. Sachiko Kodama has experimented this fluid through Scultpures in Motion, in the most unbelievable organic and hypnotic shapes.

Sachiko Kodama &Yakushi Miyajima :: Morpho Towers

Kid, I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.

Qualities of a pencil:

"First quality: now and then, we have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

Second quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.

Third quality: what really matters in a pencil is not the wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Fourth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action."

Gaki no tsukai - 5 Rangers

Known as the 5 Rangers, this Japanese comedy is a series of 13 episodes, about 6min each. @aletbahaya recommended to watch all episodes to get the humor, and indeed, you MUST watch all episodes. Also if you are into fashion/costumes, this is for you.
Give yourself an hour to watch them all, bend your mind like the Japanese would, and allow yourself to have a good giggle. Seems that the actors are longtime comedians and well known to the country.
Gaki No Tsukai aka 5 Rangers :: Episode 01



Gaki No Tsukai aka 5 Rangers :: Episode 02



All of them seem to have a hard time keeping a straight face in all episodes, their costumes are just TOO MUCH at times. Watch all 13 episodes here:
5 Rangers :: Episode 03
5 Rangers :: Episode 04
5 Rangers :: Episode 05
5 Rangers :: Episode 06
5 Rangers :: Episode 07
5 Rangers :: Episode 08
5 Rangers :: Episode 09
5 Rangers :: Episode 10
5 Rangers :: Episode 11
5 Rangers :: Episode 12
5 Rangers :: Episode 13

Word Up :: 006

« And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims?» "American Pastoral" - Novelist - Philip Roth

Nico Digi - VQ1005

So I've been showing my moody faces at office for the past few months, due to too many irritating reasons. One day OK, one day KO. Lucky me, it's an "all girls" office so they have all been very understanding and supportive of my PMS days. And even if I hide my bad days with a smile on, the girls just know when I am down, for the real.
Last friday, after our french toast teatime, @dramajess took me out for a ciggie break and had a nice little chat. It's nice when people actually take the time to ask you "how you've been doing girl?", or "how was your day?". Too many people tend to forget the importance of that.. as we chatted away, @dramajess pulled out a little (but BIG in meaning) present she got for me :D JOY JOY (as she'd always say)
This tiny Nico Digi - VQ1005 camera, which i had never seen before. You see, @dramajess has always been very supportive of my blog, AND my passion for photography. She knew i had resorted to using a disposable camera until I'd have the "duit" to buy myself a digital one. This present is to inspire me with my passion and through my little down days. This gesture is priceless Jess, extremely thoughtful of you. THANKS A MILLION ON DA ROCK!!!

Look now what I've shot over the past few days. Didn't get a picture of @dramajess that day cause she was sick at home. She's feeling better now and indeed good karma got her back. Future is looking bright for you next month woman :)

Proof that @avril.may.june IS taller than Geisha
day before @samseng.poh's 16th birthday
Teppanyaki and ciggi in staircase like old days
We left @samseng.poh's satria for a wash during lunch, and look how good it looked after the wash!! SPEECHLESS..
@ChoowieRoo at SS2, where your taste bud belongs

You can find out more about this little james bond camera right here: http://www.theclickshop.net/shop/nico-digi/

Gummo :: Cock-a-Doodle-Doo

This movie has got to be one of the most hyperrealistic yet surreal film in my library. It was a VHS tape we bought in 2002. Alas my VHS tape player has literally exploded 3 years ago. Made in 1997, it was written and directed by Harmony Korine who created a collage of vignettes depicting offbeat characters living series of randomness rather than having a linear narrative. It isn't for the soft soul, it is twisted as a pig's tail. In all, it is disturbing yet splendid and very memorable.



The plot itself has very little to say, but the documentary-like cinematography draws us into another universe during the entire film. Gummo exploits a range of issues such as: profanity, animal cruelty, grief, homophobia, sexual abuse, mental illness, violence and much, much more.. such an unusual style, as provocative as it could be, and eccentric in variety. Whether you love the film or hate it, you'll probably find yourself watching the entire thing anyway. Here's Rabbit opening the credit:



"Gummo premiered at the 24th Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 1997. During the screening, numerous people got up and left during the initial cat drowning sequence."

The Cove :: Flipper the dolphin ideology?

The recent documentary The Cove has been one of many teatime talks lately. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. I have not yet seen the documentary, but from the look of the trailer it does seem like a pretty fierce production work .

Documentary :: The Cove

However, I am still feeling very controversial about this documentary. This line made me feel the documentary was exaggeratedly dramatized: "When we first got to the country we had no idea who was following us..do you think they know we're here?...we didn't know if it was the whalers, or the Japanese mafia." This wouldn't happen if you did your homework on who you might piss off in the Japanese fishing business before you get there. From the trailer, it just seems the documentary focuses more about the secretive, the forbidden, the mafia, the drama, the hidden camera perspective which gets any human being hyped about because we all love voyeurism now don't we. The Cove better be full of relevant facts, and from all perspectives.

For your information, mercury is not only found in dolphins, but also in tuna and swordfish, yet we still love our tuna mayo sandwiches, don't we? I guess tunas are just too butt-ugly to make a documentary about. I can't help but commenting on this rather selfish westernized thinking. You have to accept reality and actually respect the cultures of different countries. In India, we all know that cows are sacred and will always be. Have you seen them making movies and protesting about our culture of beef eating? And gawd knows how the reckless slaughtering of many cows would flip your stomach upside down if you saw it for yourself.

Good on the people who actually dig dedicating their lives to riding dolphins and holding on tight to them so the fishermen won't be able to hunt them down. As for the rest who sit home, criticize and rage against a minority of Japanese for having a different culture than yours, I recommend you focus your energy on doing something more productive and actually relevant to the life you are living and directing. Get your own flight ticket to Japan and hunt down the fishermen if you really care. But don't complain if the whole of India comes after you for having that grilled steak while waiting to board your flight at the airport.


The team of "The Cove" better be serious extremist vegetarians.