Sweet November

SUP Clothing 3rd Collection Launch Party
Haji Lane
25th October 2008
1900hrs to 2200hrs

Where is the current hip place to be now in SG? We believe most of you peeps spend your weekends chilling ala Mediterranean Styled Cafes at Haji Lane right? We’re not talking about coffee/tea or sheesha. We are talking about the local apparel stores along Haji Lane and last 2 weeks ago, SUP CLOTHING launched their 3rd Collection for this year. Kudos!

ShowStars.Inc were there at 1800hrs to set up RuxtA’s set for the event. X’Statix and Freaky Z are among the acts for that night too. Atmosphere was amazingly rather quiet with not much passer-by and customers. Day turned to dusk and slowly invited guest that mainly consists of family friends, friends of friends and more friends and of course SUP Clothing loyal supporters walked to the store and hang around.

HOMEY t-shirt was the main attire for the SUP Crew Members and Performers, and this Gem is given free for those who are the first 20th customer for the launch. Quoting the back of the t-shirt exact words “This piece of apparel is for those who truly supported us since day one. Sup would like to thank all of you by throwing a party for this occasion”. True beauty, Real Homies are worthy of wearing it.

Party started abit late due to our Host; Mr. Freaky Z overslept and was late for the launch. While waiting for the host, RuxtA tuned up our ears while the guests help themselves to the Green Teas, Booze, Underage Chic’s, I mean Cakes and more booze and not forgetting the well recognized SUP Cookie in every SUP Launch.

Shino from X’Statix had no idea what to be said to the crowd as he mentioned he was not much of a speaker hence he invited Irfan.XS and Dilly of G.O.D. to do a friendly 16 bars back to back as RuxtA loops a beat. More music was spun until Mr. Freaky Z appears at the location. (His 10 minutes was longer than we expected. LOL!)

Hosting was a normal thing for him, quickly he warm the crowd with some jokes here and there. Promotes SUP and announces the 10% discount they’ll be having for one hour later.

X’Statix started off the performance forgetting which tracks goes first and what’s next, they just go with the flow of the set. Pretty unplanned block party like. Some tracks were left wide blank and RuxtA skretch his hands away not aware that they wanted to switch to the next track. Impromptu and interesting at the same time. Set was fine, until if you guys realize there was a thump sound on the speaker. The sound went flat and the power amp goes leak. Making SK (Peepshow Lead/Soundman) and RuxtA both skretching their head. One of the cable got wet due to the wet ground as it was showering the morning before. Hence X’Statix perform their last song with a flat sound, the song mend to be a pump one. A cover of Dead Prez – Hip Hop (Drum & Bass Remix). Sad.

Mr. Freaky Z performs his singles, doing his comical way, entertaining the crowds at his best. Should we say that’s his last performances as a Single man. Haha. His performance ended at the right time for the bargain. SUP announces their 10% discount for the new designs and 20% for the previous apparels. Immediately the store was barge in with customers, supporters and window shoppers and not forgetting Homeys. Most went out happily with their newly bought threads.

The night went back like every normal Saturday, music playing low in the background, transforming the party mood to a chilled out mood. Most went to enjoy sheesha and booze. Us, yeah we still partying. Snapping pictures and enjoying the moment.

The event went successfully special we might add. Most memorable event that happen in Haji Lane this year. Thanks to all Homeys that were there to help out. You’re real Homeys. We’re sure there’ll be more to come for SUP Clothing and in Haji Lane in the near future.

ShowStars.Inc
SUP barang Baik!

Singapore Biennale 2008
Central Singapore
11th Sept – 16th Nov 08
Admission Fee: $10 (City Hall / South Beach Development)

Organized by the National Arts Council of Singapore, Singapore Biennale 2008 returns to town since 11th September 2007. It aims to encourage Singaporean Artist and local Singaporeans to engage with the international art world.

International Artist collaborated and presented their pieces of various art forms in this event. Over more than 60 artists from Asia, Middle East, Europe and Americans are featured.

They chose the Central of Singapore for their main Exhibition venue. Picking 3 main profound locations from the busy town, there are City Hall, South Beach Development and Marina Bay. No doubt these locations has their own design and history.

ShowStars.Inc went to City Hall to start if off. It’s amazing how they converted the Supreme Court building into a huge exhibition space for visual arts. Exhibitions were located on level 3 and 4 of the building. There are many visuals and unique art pieces that got us mesmerized and awed but they are also some visuals that are pretty difficult to be deciphered. There is a children section too where Singaporean kids and students showed their “arty –farty” talents. It’s a thumb up for City Hall exhibitions for old and young.

We walked over to Raffles Shopping Center to check out the art for the public. With 2 coloured huge filter panel for public to view the real image within the image seen was cool. However, it was a sunny day and only half of the image could be seen clearly while the other half was shimmered.

Over at South Beach Development, the gallery was held there for one reason. Most of the visuals and exhibits were related to war, racism, natural habitat and history related. With the architecture of an old Army camp, this place suit well for those art pieces. Though there wasn’t anything much to see compared to City Hall, we appreciated the “old school” feeling of it all.

Singapore Biennale has once again put our little red dot recognize in the Map of the World of Arts.

From left: (1) Maggots by Pham, Ngoc Duong (Vietnam) (2) Evolutional Mythology - Glass bottles, H2S03, bottle gourds by Han, Jong-Gun (Korea)

Singapore Map by Pimkanchanapong, Wit (Thailand). In picture, RuxtA wrote two sticky notes and sticked them on his training ground and house. :)

From top left to bottom right: (1) Exhibition continues signboard, (2) Raw Canvas by Jane Lee (Singapore), (3) RuxtA watching Me Vs The Angkots by Rizki R. Utama (Indonesia), (4) A room of light

From left: (1) A potrait that is actually a map (2) RuxtA mesmerized by the Think of One Thing - Glass, Water, Resin, Plastic, Enamel Paint, Salt, GAC 100 by Mariele Neudecker (Germany)

A huge time bomb

A room with beautiful galleria of photos

Photographs by Desiree Dolron (Netherlands)

Fantasmas (Phantoms) by Issac Montoya (Spain). This is one of the public art displayed at Raffles City Shopping Centre. Image reflected another different image as you looked thro the red or purple filter.

South Beach Development

From top left: (1) Teh Tarik by Chai Hiang Cheo (Singapore), (2) Felice Varini Project "Drill Hall" by Felice Varini (Switzerland), (3 & 4) The Dancer by Truong Tan (Vietnam), (5) One of the few wall photo on Private Moon by Leonid Tishkov (Russia), (6) The Private Moon hung up on the huge tree (7) "Mirror imaged" salon (8) Swing made of white neon tubes and motor by Su-Mei Tse (Luxembourg)

Playground - A Playful Photo Exhibition
Post Museum Showroom – 107 + 109 Rowell Road
7th November 08 – Opening Night
1930hrs – 2200hrs

ShowStars.Inc headed down to Rowell Road for the photo exhibition. Despite the long dark alley was a “disturbing” sight in the cab for RuxtA, still the final destination was worth it.

Showroom was packed with enthusiast lomographers and photographers alike. The heat of the room could be felt as we stood outside waiting for RuxtA to finish his smokes. Most came down with their favourite Lomo cameras, some with unique vintage and bizarre cameras ever seen. FYI, RuxtA *hirata* is among the lomographers who came with his Lomo Fisheye2 and Yashica Electro 35 while Narayumi is stuck with her Canon 400D. :D

Place was filled with colourful and creative exhibits, all by Film. We came and were mesmerized by how beautiful an image produced by film can be and how each gallery piece tells us a story of each own. The efforts that were put in were fully appreciated. There were 4 theme exhibitions, My Playmates, Playthings, Playroom & Playtime. And creative individual exhibitions. Some of RuxtA’s shots were selected in the gallery.

Thanks to Jimmy *ymmij*, to show and share abit of the story behind each exhibition. He’s the guy behind LomotionSG, along with Cindy *cyanwater* and the rest of the LomotionSG members, not forgetting Uncle Mike from Triple D photo lab. This event was a success by the efforts of Lomo enthusiast.

We’ve received the winners for the Individual and Themes exhibitions.

Winners of Individual Panel

sumlom+LARA : snell's window

butterflykisses : Oblivious, the playground for imagination!

thycursed+norya : journey of nature in film

ratnor+tikkles+invisibl3+kenshi85+LARA+sumlom+jaevus+toydoll+asfeexiated:HeadShots Projexx

Winners of Main Panel

bearbear

claydote

joey

scapetist

butterflykisses

Congratulations to all the winners. They’ll be playing with their new toy cameras soon. ShowStars.Inc hope to see more of LomotionSG & Film format photo exhibition in near future.

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