I'm Not Alone

Posted at 12:57 AM

Again I say this because I feel someone is finally sharing my vision of the future theatre.

Wade Robson ftw!

Homage to The Rabbits

Posted at 12:10 AM

When I say this, it is for the pure reason of not feeling left out in the world of the arts. My opinion and idea of theatre has always been different from what people normally visualize. They all see Fame and Glee and Cats as true theatre, and I absolutely do not. I loathe them.

When Wade Robson married designer Amanda Rodriguez, another marriage was consummated: theatre and expression, just like the holy union between jazz and dancing. (more on jazz dancing on another post)

Wade is doing what I wish I could do.

Gastropod House, Espoo, Finland

Posted at 11:07 PM

Named House of the Year 2006, this private, eco-friendly house was birthed from an idea of a spiraling, twining space. I came across this unheralded beauty in a book titled Eco Houses published by Singaporean giant PageOne in MPH, Mid Valley. At first sight, I told myself I would live here when I grow up. I was texting Zane when flipping through this book, and told him I was reading on environmental architecture and he said I was artsy-fartsy. I called him an art fart.

DIGRESSION GRR.

HOUSE KOTILO

OLAVI KOPONEN

Koponen was listening to an interview of a Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki, when he bent a bar of polystyrene around a central column (the fireplace). After winning the competition, he moved the cellular spaces to a separate house beside the main house. He stated that the functional solution is not based on the typology of modernism.

Themes of the everyday and festive, holy and profane, has become the basis of the planning and realization process. The house is form and material-tied, and the house is centrally made up of spatial experiences: the route of light in the house, the rhythms of the day, smells etc. realized the goal of simple and relaxed living.

Koponen finds, in vernacular architecture, the characteristics of cosiness and naturalness sprouting from simplicity. It was evident in his childhood, which he brings to life in his works.

The basic structure is made from wood, with 180 pieces of prefabricated elements for the floor and roof. (Prefabrication in architecture is extremely beneficial to the environment. It reduces carbon and energy output.) The structure is curled around a central concrete pile and are partly supported by steel constructions.

Exterior surfaces are covered by larch shingles (controlled forestry, another nod from Mother Nature) from Krasnojars, Russia, and interior surfaces are of thin, traditional Finnish aspen shingles. The floors of the ground floor are of concrete, and the surroundings have an adequate number of blue-tinted glass.

The whole structure was constructed in the manual, traditional way, without the use of machinery to lessen the impact on the environment. It took 13 months to design and realize the house. Manual construction of the house has ensured its cost to be below the average cost of the other houses of the neighbourhood.

Text and pictures from World Architecture News.

Evil House 3

Posted at 10:42 PM

Not very evil, this one. It is comfortably evil, though. Evil in luxury. Taken from Architecture Now! Houses from the famed Taschen publishing house.

If you look extremely carefully at the heading on this article, you'll see that this house is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Shame on me for giving up entirely on this country.

Unfortunately, this house looks very family-oriented to me, unless I spawn off a multitude of evil minions who are cursed forever to my evil bidding.

Kuala Lumpur...Really? Denial.

I love how I am able to circle this circular area with evil thoughts on my mind, and hide inside the white tunnel, scheming.

I Think I'm Famous

Posted at 4:23 AM

Either that, or I'm just someone very, very important. Important to the economy, that is.

See, I've been getting so many invites that I'm becoming a Nah-I-Don't-Have-Time-For-That kind of person instead of the Oh-I-Wanna-Go! person I used to be.

I've been ignoring so many invites from KLPAC and its ilk. I've missed out on so many de-stressing opportunities. (Theater can be therapy if you just let it.)

I was supposed to go see 65 Days of Static with friends. Wasn't too keen.

Bright side: I'm definitely attending Kings of Convenience on my birthday! O the joy!

NICE

Posted at 8:52 AM

Bon Voyage!

Posted at 7:42 PM

Last night I was at the last reunion dinner of my very extended family. I was in the middle of making eyes with my hot cousin when Jasmine called. I ran to the toilet in my high heels.

Then she told me she was on the plane as we were speaking. For the last few days I knew this moment would come but I put it off to later so I can have a dramatic bawl-off in the privacy of my room.

I told her I deliberately created a post about Summer, and not about her, and would wait until she has officially left Malaysia before posting something about her.

Now that she's officially left do I feel tremendous......I will not put that here.

Before she left I gave her a Diana Wynne Jones book in which I had written a note. It was funny to her. Good.

I will miss you a lot. Find yourself lotsa hot chocolate and hot boys alright?

Love you.

This Is What Happens When You're Happily Single

Posted at 5:05 AM

Taylor Swift keeps coming on stage for all the wrong reasons. She's either accidentally taking other people's awards (whereby the organizers have no choice but to let it be otherwise it'll be embarrassing for both the girl and for them) or getting some life advice from Guru Kanye. There are so many hot girls out there (ellen page...emma watson) brimming with talent, but they don't get the publicity like this piece of shit does.

She actually thinks she's hot enough to dump Taylor Lautner.

Even her nemesis Miley looks better in slut mode.

Yummier than looking at Taylor's stupid deformed cat eyes and fake-ish maggi hair.

Now we look at Taylor being all confused about being on stage: *her assistant pages her to say that she's on stage accepting Beyonce's award and the organizers are upset* Taylor goes (in cowgirl accent) "Oh dang now what?" and Guru Kanye steps in to save the day.

Somewhere in the audience, we have Ellen and Emma smirking away evilly at the Kanye vs. Taylor spectacle.