ishot - Art Garden 2011

Photos from Art Garden held at SAM. Enjoy!

Rocking solar powered mechanical flowers, leaves and rabbits

Sitting baby art elephant with colorful stickers

Urban topography created using modular toy train tracks

Color paper fruits in market

Animal dolls decorated with crayons on the tree of love

Enormous three-tiered cake for kids to decorate

Kids dropping colored chips to form a huge picture

Playroom in rainbow colors and shapes

Walter checking out his namesake comic

Animated film screenings in chapel

Caught on camera!

Extreme Ironing

This is such a cool sport!! Gosh, let us forget about boring afternoons at home ironing clothes… instead, let us do something adventurous!!

Grab your ironing board, grab a few shirts, walk to a location (e.g. peak of difficult mountains, in a canoe, in the woods, underwater, whilst snowboarding and parachuting, on public spaces...wherever you see fit) and practice some... extreme ironing!

Started over a decade ago by UK knitwear factory worker Phil Shaw, it requires four simple criteria: a man, an iron, an ironing board, and a crazy natural environment that makes people think, holy crap I can't believe he's ironing on that thing! Shaw calls extreme ironing "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt."

(I couldn't believe my eyes!!) Check out below photos:

ishot - Night Festival 2011

Photos from the recent Night Festival and Night Lights 2011 held at SAM, SMU and NM. Enjoy =)

A Dozen of Those, 12 bright red helium balloons each held by a faceless brown figure sitting on a brown border.

Marco Polo, puppet play between Chinese and Italian puppeteers to bring about the story of Marco Polo trip to China.

The Shape of a Dream, a theatrical and imaginary tale of pilgrims on a journey

Clockwise from top left: Mundo Fado (singing Portuguese genre of music), Eva Quartet (singing folk songs from Bulgaria), Tango (singer has a very powerful and wonderful voice and the tango music is superb), Black Sea Fire (rock music from Europe)

Highlight of the night: Corazon de Angeles in Paradise (Heart of Angels) which celebrates the matrimony of a Groom and Bride from two different cultures. Fantastic acrobatics and performances!

Top: The Cloud (cosmic clouds grower bigger by the second). Bottom: Lyrical Perspective (facade distorts cum 'dances' according to music.

Clockwise from top left: Curiosities (luminous jellyfishes in SAM courtyard), Green Invaders (inspired by the game space invaders?), Reactive Wall (a sound reactive installation where the images will spurt out faster or grow bigger as one shouts or make noise louder)

Clockwise from top left: Parking Mad (a row of parked Volvo cars with flashing lights from their windows), Lampounettes, The Fish Tree