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bubboi

Meet Bubboi!
My new creation.

do u love good music?

do u enjoy lazing around on the beach, while listening to good music?

do u have bubbly, happy thoughts?

Stay tuned for the lazy adventures of Bubboi

posted by audaciousjoy @ 5:32 PM

Beyond comprehension

As a species, we have waged some interesting campaigns in our attempts to defy things in the universe.

In fact, to make everything a little more engaging, we have gone about defying things in an alphabetical order.



Aging.

We tried to defy Aging.

We failed.





Babies.

We tried to defy Breeding.

Look at China and India.

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Once bitten, twice shy.
perhaps we should say goodbye...
Before the third unfortunate try?


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And then C [for comprehension!] came up.
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Comprehension!

Everything we've done since "C" in the history of humanity has been a resounding, collective scream of "FINALLY!"





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Yes.

Humans defy comprehension.

Proof :

Harajuku
Shopping.
Shibuya.
Shopping for lots of shoes.
Elaborate Hairstyles.
George W. Bush.
Dick Chaney shooting an old man in the face with a hunting rifle.


I've certainly missed out on some exciting items on this list. Please feel free to include more human antics that prove, without a doubt, that we are a very very strange species.

posted by audaciousjoy @ 4:04 PM

Fashion : The irony of imagery

The models in these photographs are fully clothed, and probably have much larger swaths of flesh covered compared to your average Vogue print ad.

What do you see?



A family.



A man.



A sense of humour.

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Works by Anna Maltz

posted by audaciousjoy @ 12:02 AM

Time for some reminders

I invited Winnie the Pooh over for tea, so that he could remind me of some simple but important things :

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”


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If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

posted by audaciousjoy @ 10:36 PM

a massage from the left

The Achievements of Capitalism :

1. The curtain wall
2. Artificial rain
3. Rockefeller Center
4. Canals
5. Mystification

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle. Increased abundance and prosperity are tied to growing "productivity." A hierarchy of functionaries interposes itself between the people and the leadership. The good of the private corporation is seen as prior to the public good. The world market system tightens control in the capitalist countries and terrorizes the Third World. All things are manipulated to these ends. The King of Jordan sits at his ham radio, inviting strangers to the palace.

I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened to you since my last visit?" Azalea tells me what happened to her. She has covered a sofa, and written a novel. Jack has behaved badly. Roger has lost his job (replaced by an electric eye). Gigi's children are in the hospital being detoxified, all three. Azalea herself is dying of love.

I stroke her buttocks, which are perfection, if you can have perfection, under the capitalistic system. "It is better to marry than to burn," St. Paul says, but St. Paul is largely discredited now, for the toughness of his views does not accord with the experience of advanced industrial societies. I smoke a cigar, to disoblige the cat.

Meanwhile Marta is getting angry. "Rupert," she says, "you are no better than a damn dawg! A plain dawg has more sensibility than you, when it comes to a woman's heart!" I try to explain that it is not my fault but capitalism's. She will have none of it. "I stand behind the capitalistic system," Martha says. "It has given us everything we have -- the streets, the parks, the great avenues and boulevards, the promenades and malls -- and other things, too, that I can't think of right now." But what has the market been doing? I scan the list of the fifteen Most Loved Stocks:

Occident Pet 983,100 28 5/8 + 3 ¾
Natomas 912,300 58 3/8 + 18 ½

What chagrin! Why wasn't I into Natomas, as into a fine garment, that will win you social credit when you wear it to the ball? I am not rich again this morning! I put my head between Marta's breasts, to hide my shame.

--- Donald Barthelme : the rise of capitalism

posted by audaciousjoy @ 1:14 AM

Love. Pancakes.

Girl:
I wish I hadn't eaten those pancakes for breakfast. I feel sick. Thanks a lot.

Guy:
"Thanks a lot"? All you wanted to do this morning was eat pancakes!

Girl:
What? I just wanted oatmeal. You are the one who woke up and said, "Yay! Let's make pancakes!" You are the one who wanted them!

Guy:
That's because last night you said you wanted pancakes!

Girl:
Oh. I was drunk.

--Houston & B


Overheard by: alison

posted by audaciousjoy @ 12:00 PM

Fucking Around with Freedom

Consider these 2 stories. Which is closer to yours?

You wake up everyday and work from Monday to Friday, and often, Saturday too. If you finish work early, you and your partner go to your parents’ place for dinner and see your child for a few hours. If you work late, you buy a packet of char kway teow from the hawker centre but eat it at home because it’s too warm to eat there. You’re not crazy about the job but you know that if you keep at it, you can afford a car in 3 years’ time, and in 5 years’ time, buy a condo close to the primary school you want to send your kid to. Your conversations with people are either for the purpose of networking, work, or for familial obligations you cannot avoid. On weekends, you play golf with your friends at your country club or watch a movie with your partner. Once a year, you go on a ten day vacation to New York, London, or Paris, and when your children are big enough, Disneyland.

Alternatively, you wake up and you have no idea what is going to happen today, tomorrow, 6 months or a year later. Ironically, because of this uncertainty, all possibilities exist for you. You can be the Prime Minister of Singapore, you can make a movie, you can cook a meal you have never cooked before, eat at a place you have never eaten before, you can color your hair red, you can skip instead of walk, you can volunteer at the school you have always wanted to volunteer at, you can write a book, or you can have a baby even though you don’t have a maid. You have conversations with people who set your heart palpitating and your mind on fire. Your weekday is not so different from your weekend because everyday you are thinking, creating, and more important, imagining.

Most of us recognize the first story and its pursuit of the 5 Cs of “cash, condo, car, country club, credit card.” It is the Plan, which imposes a conclusion on you, and you work in order to make all the pieces fit. A bus stop advertisement I saw recently said it best: "We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth."

A Dream, on the other hand, carries you on its wings to worlds that your heart and mind have never known.

---- Colin Goh & Joyceln Woo Yen Yen, "Paved with Good Intentions"
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The words in red describe my life right now.

The words in orange, sketch the little joys and triumphs I have accumulated by living the life of a freelancer.

posted by audaciousjoy @ 12:15 AM

Too Tedious lah, ooi~

To:
Jacen, director of ZOU PENG, from Hosaywood
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Good Ol' Jacen!

How have you been? It was with high expectations that I logged on to hosaywood.com to watch your latest independant Internet film. Perhaps my expectations were too high.... Zou Peng, your first film with girls, was disappointing.

The casting was intriguing for 60 seconds, but the lack of shot variety (close-ups, pans, dollies etc.) and character development, exposed either a lack of resources, or imagination...
(Or...horror of horrors...BOTH?????)

The cinematography of Zou Peng can be described in 5 words: Wide Shot plus Looooooong takes.
(I decided against throwing "American Idol" Simon-ish adjectives in there.)

With wide shots, you need visually engaging actors and attention-grabbing/retaining visual stimuli. Zou Peng's characters were merely sitting around blabbering! Most of the delivery was natural, but plain water having a bland taste is also very natural.

As an Internet film, Zou Peng uses computer screens as its main presentation medium. A variety of close-ups and extreme-close-ups would have, in the context of PC screening, served the director's vision more appropriately, and delivered the character's emotions more effectively.

Speaking of story and emotions.....the long takes in Zou Peng are not justified. This is because, instead of emotional arcs that provide plot payoffs and cathartic epiphanies after our invested attention, we are subjected to muddling meandering conversation. ARGH!

Jacen, "Tak Giu" showed us your potential but "Zou Peng" showed us your inexperience.

There is a Chinese saying: the deeper the affection, the more intense the criticism.

We really, REALLY love your gungho, can-do, just-do-it independant filmmaker spirit, and your uniquely Singaporean sense of wit.

We love you and hope you will shoot better films! We NEED you to shoot better films because we film buffs aren't doing it. Instead of going out there to shoot and edit and craft stories ourselves (with our knowledge), we film buffoons are sitting on our fat asses typing out critiques with "act cheem" English words.

SO WE NEED YOU!

Please understand that my honest critique is attached with brimming hopes of another, much more polished hosaywood production.

You can definitely do better than this, man!

Go for it, because I certainly look forward to it.

Cheers!

posted by audaciousjoy @ 3:25 AM