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the dirt with booksactually
The good kids from BooksActually, Karen and Kenny, have just grown bigger, with their second store, Polymath & Crust, which specializes in non-fiction; both nature and science. Between running two bookstores and managing a crazy cat (Hi Cake, how are you? No my finger isn’t food.), the kids managed to find time to get dirty on blankanvas.
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The Advertising Slut
trouble maker
Great tagline. Great choice of cast. Designed by HanTang Communications Group for Quzhou Seezo Trading. Strangely enough, granted the work, an awful name for a design house.
The Artist
your meat is mine
I adore Leon’s style and I have been particularly interested in illustrations of his style of late. Another tattoo artist of similar style and technique to know would be Québécois tattoist Yann Travaille as Thang Dynasty highlighted. I’ll stop here and let his works do the talking.
The Bitch
impossibly gracious
My words cut, because, ironically, I’m blunt. If you catch me on a bad day, between the lack of coffee and a I-want-this-yesterday request, I will sing a song that kills with bullets for lyrics. The Angry fires back with his or her arm of bullets (I like these, they’re entertaining), the Frightened dodges, and the Dumb comes back for another round through the chest.
The Design Diva
what is your label
This flyer I’ve spotted in one of the stores at Haji Lane yesterday came as a nice surprise. For once, a recruitment campaign from an education brand that doesn’t look like communism with nicer shoes.
The Digital Strategist
tweet revenge
Bold, daring, and Frost-sharp, Hedirman Supian of TODAY hammers down the last nail of reality about Twitter with this article published yesterday, on TODAY.
The Dirt
the dirt with linda locke
Many of today’s top creative dogs in the Advertising industry, including Tay Guan Hin and Curt Detweiler, have worked under Linda Locke to a certain degree. Her intimidating, no-nonsense leadership led many to one single conclusion: Linda Locke is the second coming of Lady Macbeth – an assessment I’m forced to experience within minutes.
The Fashionista
yohji yamamoto officer’s coat at 45% off
Undeniably understated. Undeniably sensual. Undeniably affordable, at a whopping forty-fucking-five percent off from farfetch.com.
The Geek
hyperwords
Oh gosh why haven’t I discover this Firefox plug-in any sooner?! Hyperwords is a programme that makes you sound smart, almost immediately by means of combining right-clicks and links to create the brain you never had.
The Kollector
rotterdam goodie bag tweetaway
A picture paints a thousand words and I pray it will for blankanvas’ Rotterdam goodie bag tweetaway. I have a habit of collecting collaterals from each city I visit, for each piece is a representative of the culture I otherwise will not experience in my own country.
In my recent visit to Rotterdam, I’ve collected a bagful of interesting nuggets of culture from several museums and quaint fashion stores, which I’d herewith like to each with 7 blankettes.
The Lesbian
judging law
It has been fun being a guest judge, and it was pleasantly enjoyable and extremely entertaining – the skits the contestants were involved in were fab although I haven’t got a fucking clue what shuffling meant. I can’t say I remember all of them – they began to look alike after 60 seconds but one particular contestant did manage to break through the clutter and capture my attention.
The Lonely Travellor
eating potatoes
For 3 days in Rotterdam, my ignorant, culturally deprived, narrow-minded soul was in the company of these rich, culturally evolved beings. I struggled badly with my mediocre command of the language, Mandarin, while they sang poetry effortlessly. I will have you know that for the first time ever, I was truly ashamed by how disgustingly handicapped I was, of my own mother tongue.
The Narcissist
there is always something by pat law
A little overdue to be honest, but time has been an increasingly rare luxury to date. My landing page has been stripped to its bare minimum, without any unnecessary visual fluff one might find in a typical self-proclaimed social media expert’s website.
The Oddball
10 things you didn’t know about orgasm
The presentation by the author of New York Times bestseller, Bonk. The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach, was the most satisfying intellectual romp I’ve ever had online. Both Science and Sex Education should be taught this way in my country. Absolutely hilarious. I wish I could come just by brushing my teeth!
The Photographer
month of photography asia 2009
Already in its 7th edition, the annual photography festival organised by Phish Communications returns from 17 June to 19 July 2009 with a generous collection of seven exhibitions and 1 video projection, peppered with several public and fringe programmes over 5 venues.
The Rest
personal library kit
Bookworms with heaps of books that go missing after they’re loaned out will appreciate this personal library kit.
The Social Whore
singapore goes yeezy deezy weezy
A whopping one hundred and fifty sneaker freakers got together Saturday night at Nike Wisma Atria to ballot for one of the 50 sizzling pairs of Nike Air Yeezy sneakers. Queues were formed hours before the event commenced.
