Children’s movies have changed so much from when I was one myself. The simple 2D animation have been replaced with 3D characters and settings. You can even watch entire movies with 3D glasses in select cinemas! Disney certainly has come along way since the Aladdin/Little Mermaid era, with stories that are not the traditional children’s [...]

I have already brought up

“Hancock is well known for evolving his absurdist narrative of the battle between good and evil executed across a wide variety of media that includes painting, collage, sculpture, print and the performing arts. The artist’s densely layered works incorporate text, drawing, collaged paper, plastic, felt, fur and paint to create a collision of symbols and [...]

Igor Stravinsky was born on this day, in 1882.

One of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of the century, he was a composer of great stylistic diversity, first gaining international acclaim with his three ballet commissions (The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring). He also published a number of books throughout his career, almost [...]

The concept of prefabricated housing has been around for a number of years now. It is an attractive idea: get your house - Ikea-style! However, it has never really taken off because the prices are certainly not Ikea-esque. Plus, many such models are done by architects with a propensity to use copious amounts of glass. [...]

I recently undertook a project that involves illustration. Because I have not sketched in years (the extent of my sketches needed for my work includes just boxes and arrows), it took me a while to find that flow again. For inspiration, I looked up the stash of bookmarks I have on illustrators, collected along the [...]

I often visited museums when I was young as part of educational field trips. Like every other 10-year-old boy, my mind was more preoccupied with pranks than history. However, there were sections of the museum where I was afraid and would remain silent and obedient - such as the section on Malay customs including ‘bersunat’ [...]

I really do not know much about Jessica Eaton’s work, other than the fact that this series looks absolutely smashing! It just goes on to show that experimentation, abstraction and randomness can be compositionally compelling, especially when viewing her body of work in the whole and relating it to subjects that we can easily discern [...]

It is no secret that scale can create powerful drama. One of the installation projects I created in school was based around repetition and scale. Banal items of everyday life, when grouped in the thousands, compels our reconsideration of their relevance around our lives. Much in the same manner, Ron Mueck’s hyper-realistic sculptures amplifies human [...]

As I age, I find myself getting increasingly more interested in history. I didn’t grow up in Vancouver, so the only history I know of it is through textbooks. However, textbooks do not offer personal accounts, of which I am even more interested in. Living life, especially through years before I was even born, through [...]