Archive for December 2007
links for 2007-12-31
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One project in particular, starts to transform the rigid structure of an architecture into a dynamic fluid skin using LED-grid choreography — a correlations of space by extending and transforming architectural structures.
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The audio-visual story images of the assasination. Voice by John Moore of Getty Images.
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Mazda has been working consistently on a new form language — unveiling their most extreme ‘sculpture’ yet: the Mazda Furai for the 24h Le Mans challenge. The design features ‘crossed folds’ of steel plates everywhere. Unprecedented. It is maximalism.
The December Literati, The Lips [He] Tastes, The Auburn Neko and The Cheap Joint
Thank you for this bitter knowledge
Guardian angels who left me stranded
It was worth it, feeling abandoned
Makes one hardened but what has happened to love
Someone :) wrote this in Last.fm journal. (Oh yeah, I’m totally stalking her. Not.)
[…]
He gives his thanks, feels abandoned, looks at stars, vanishes into powder, suffers paranoia, bitter disappointment. My eyes close and I see a broken man with his back to Medusa, wanting nothing else but to turn back and look into her Gorgon eyes, over and over and over again, wanting to forget, choosing to throw it all away.
Only he doesn’t.
What has happened to love.
It’s repeated, but only as undertones. Not in the forefront, it isn’t a question burning with curiousity, sung with sparkling passion. It’s delivered with poignant echo, as if the answer, if it exists, isn’t really sought after at this point.
Go, or go ahead and surprise me. Say you’ve lead the way to a mirage.
When you’re on the edge, nothing’ll do the trick anymore.
What do you do when you’ve been lead to a mirage?
You drop your guide. You turn around.[…]
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“Readings” December at Seksan was crowded with Awang Goneng a.k.a Wan A. Hulaimi fans (me included). I enjoyed the littoral sea creature shorts from Dina Zaman (with her parent). Patrick Teoh can-I-say-fuck?-I’ll-say-that-again-FUCK! read the column snippet from The Edge Daily — poking fun at the Malaysian Malaise, and truly, saying what is truth out of principle is such a bitch, niamah! — and talking about leaking rooftops in Putrajaya as I stand nearby a plate of stencil print that parodied the incident:
[Picture of Perdana Putra]
Got a rooftop leak?
Call 1-800-idunno
Ah, the irony.
Sharon Bakar preceded with a reading of an intro out of Awang Goneng’s Growing Up in Trengganu (GUiT) before the author took his seat. As he seat, he spoke of memories and recollections, rhythms and forms, nascent phonetization, and of course the idyllic Trengganu — T[e]rengganu that used to be. I can almost hear the susurration of the monsoon wind as vivid as the flickering DSLR and PS flash of the literati. The recital of the Arabic verses was heart warming and as AG said, it brought tears to the eyes and soul.
Amir Hafizi is the shit. This mofo having an autophilia-cum-autofellatio moment (a quickie, real quick) as he ejaculated to Jackie Chan crotch, lesbian, sex, gym, BMI, obesity, gigolo, prostitution, ass, tits and boo boo kitty fuck. Yes, he’s the Ω Malay α Male. Got to lap up to his shit, non-scatological that is.
Here’s Patrick Teoh, Amir Hafizi and A. Samad Said.
And Irmy Natasya, Liyana Yusof and Jane “Comel” Doe.
The Seksan Literati really love ’em DSLR and PS: Irmy Natasya (Natinski) with her Nikon D40, Liyana Yusof (Dizzyfirefly) with her Nikon Coolpix P5000; and a girl that frequently got molested with Sufian Abas‘s Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro. Oh, that’s all Suf flickr set by the way. Credits to his highly saturated post-processing on Adobe Photoshop CS3. And there’s more! The one with her Canon EOS 350D/Digital Rebel XT and a resident photographer (perhaps) with her Nikon D2X. And Panasonic’s Lumix. And Sony HDR-CX7 too, cool camcorder, might replace my old JVC with that one.
It’s a Seksan’s camera obscura picturesque kodak moment!
In retrospect, I should have bring along my Canon EOS 40D. Those Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 L IS USM lens would make such a good topic of the conversation, if I ever own one.
Click! Click! Click! 6.5 fps baby!
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She got her red lips tasted and the hair dyed red. Good.
What has happened to love.
Sans me. [S]ad.
Go, or go ahead and surprise me. Say you’ve lead the way to a mirage.
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Countdown to New Year 2008
I’m off to “this one simple cheap but surprisingly lovely restaurant at the top of a hill.”
With some company.
Or just one.
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I really need that 3 month bonus so I can buy an Apple MacBook Pro after Steve Jobs’s keynote address at Macworld Expo 2008. Hopefully the new Intel’s Penryn processors [Intel® 45nm high-k (Hi-k) metal gate silicon technology with 45nm architecture] would be ready for the January upgrade.
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UPDATE:
links for 2007-12-29
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The Japanese have been whaling under government-issued scientific permits since the moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced in 1986, planning to kill 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales, also due to kill 50 rare humpback whales.
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Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in a suicide attack — a gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb. Many analysts say attacks like these show the creeping “Talebanisation” of Pakistan.
And I have honoured your request for silence…
…and you’ve washed your hands clean of this.
links for 2007-12-25
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The first ever punk fanzine to come out here is believed to be ‘Huru-Hara’ which was done by Mamat Hitam from Kuala Terengganu in 1986. It was written in Terengganu slang but was never distributed on a large scale, only shared with friends around him.
links for 2007-12-22
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The British Medical Journal: Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. We use only 10% of our brains. Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight. Shaving causes hair to grow back faster or coarser — UNTRUE.
links for 2007-12-19
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Nanosolar, whose backers include Google’s co-founders, is developing a new manufacturing process that “prints” photovoltaic material on aluminum backing, $1-per-watt panel that is cheaper by 80 percent in manufacturing cost for basic module.
