Exhibition

"Architexture" exhibition at LitUp 2012 Art Festival. 

Photos by Spencer Chen. 

It's very underground looking and dingy. 

Jungle again!

Spencer my friend has a fixation on resin these days.

It may come from a fetish. 

I like resin too. 

The enamel shine is super sexy. 

I'm making a video documentary on Artists called The Jungle in Singapore. 

Not really serious (the video part) but it's very interesting. 

Little by little, people start talking about it. 

About these people, who don't care shit. The Jungle. 

The Art is super setherious tho. That's a stutter. 

It's so serious, it blows my mind. 

This is real fine art. 

I know most people do not take Fine Art seriously as you most would have comments like "don't let it be."

Let the Art be.

Because we get to be a failure.
Nobody is perfect, so we take the shit in ourself and let it be.

So, things like this happen every day. 

And it is just amazing to see how things get made.

I always think back to my Fashion Photo industry moment, when no one taught anything to anyone.
In life, you just learn it yourself, and I was being shouted by Dah Len like every day, and Donald the legendary stylist was like, "look dude..." and Steven Nassimos was like "dude, you should watch this movie called..." and Gavin was like "dude man"every time I got mad-shouted by Dah. They gave me advices every day I met.

But still, none of them knew what they were doing anyways in their profession, so I guess my job was to get shouted, every day.

XiXXX taught me well.

My cheese

I have a legendary quote. 

"You need Bread, Butter and CHEESE, Biatch."

伝説的な言葉があります。

「人にはパンとバターとチーズが必要なのです」

チーズには愛が含まれているそうなので、人には愛が必要であるという言葉です。

必要なのです。キリスト様も人には愛が必要だと言っているから、間違いないでしょう。

です。

「チーズ」という英語はスラングで、女の子が好きな的な、みたいなそういう意味合もあります。

どういう意味かってーと、そうだ、下の写真がチーズだ。

俺のチーズはブルーベリーチーズ。

ネットトラフィックの少ないここなら好き放題なんでもポストできます。

ヌード写真以外は。

これはJILLEに載る予定かもなヤツです。好きに使ってというからさっそく好き勝手やってます。

こんな性格なので、そういう雑誌とかヴォーグとか荘園の表紙とか以外あんまピンとこないので好き勝手撮影してます。イイ写真なのかどうなのか、そういう事はあんま考えていません。必要であるかとかそういう事しか考えません。

アートは必要です。

「JILLEって、あの女の子雑誌？？」

売ってある女性の載った雑誌を全て一応目は通してある僕は、そうナオミちゃんに聞きました。

「そうそう」

そうとか、あれとか、あんなの系という話をさらりとして僕は「やべぇ、３回くらいしか開いた事ねぇや」と思い、とりあえず話を進めた。

その後、本屋に行って、やべぇこんなの撮れネェや（キャピーみたいな）とか思って「まぁ、いいや自分のスタイルで行こう！」とその時、僕は無職片手にカメラを持ちながら友人のソファを移動する芋虫。そんな感じだった。

そんな記憶があります。

そんな感じで１年前にJILLEでナオミちゃんを撮りました。

そして１年ぶりにまた撮りました。

お世話になってます！！

サンドバーグさん！

JILLEさん勝手にお世話になってます。

THank you, JILLE Magazine. 

http://jille.jp/

Model: Naomi Sundberg

Eva Management

http://www.bnm-jp.com/brand_eva/

On Warhol

Andy Warhol just told us to make money. 

It is a hard concept to understand but it worked for that time. 

Now we have to move on, and be ourselves once again.

When Warhol started his career as an "Artist", coming from a commercial illustrator, he did not make any money. 

In fact, all the money he made was spent completely for Art. 

What he was doing was, to let the street kids, which Reed and Cale referred to as "stars lying on the streets" in a song impersonating Warhol, make his Art. 

Stars starred in his movies which he let anyone do anything, and to be themselves. Books were made from conversations between his stars. The Velvet was produced. 

These were all stars "lying on the streets" of New York, be them rich or not. 

A man who speaks of life being almost a prison being sent to jail as soon as you are born, then life as itself being an art, must know what Art is. He understood the harsh reality of survival, perhaps after the Asia trip, where he left his heart. 

He made Art that sold, caught instant attention and put to debate whether or not of its worth. 

The 60's was his time he used all his money he made as the richest illustrator in the world, to create Art. 

He evaded every questions by bringing tape-recorder of his own and giving "uhmms" and "uhhs" followed by simples answers as "Yea" or "No."

When the new decade came along, he had changed his style. 

This was after he got shot three times. 

Andy was scared shit to go out. Ever since, his "underground" Cool was gone. 

His factory changed and his business changed. 

He was already a star. 

A star shining freely, but scared of what the world was made of. 

Every Sunday, he would go to church. 

Interview magazine was going on, but it wasn't really-really his toy. 

He was creating jobs and "things to do" for his crew. 

What more in life?

He was more than just aware of being a Zeitgeist. 

He reflected everyone to the point Reed made a song for him. "I'll be your mirror". 

A true reflection, an artform of life. 

What he did was to reflect the time. 

That time, in the 60's, it was those 'kids' on the street he used to call all of them kids and boys. 

"To Andy, everyone was a kid."

So he reflected them. 

A man full of love cannot live life in peace. 

Drugs, Obetrol, Acid, LSD. All the uppers around, making Art while high. 

There was one moment when everyone was sleeping with anyone they want. 

Then Sedgwick gone, Warhol shot, Girls and Boys aiming all at him. 

Starlette jumping off the window on his theatre opening night.

"You used me" "you're just making money off of me" and he defends "it's not my fault" for their own act. 

America all diseased, Rock-stars sang while Wars made bucks. 

The world was not for looking for new talents. 

America was not for the new rebellious. 

It was power, invention, money and class. 

Warhol had all before asking. He achieved it. 

The legitimization of gays and lesbian through Art, Music and Fashion owed a lot to Warhol. 

And that was all what he was doing in the 60s as the Zeitgeist of the social delinquents. 

So when the 70's came, People had turned their backs to the glam. 

So when the 3 shots came, Warhol himself too, had sunk into the world of glam. 

America was all about making money. 

America was all about being beyond big. 

And so the 70's went, and 80's came. 

Warhol was steady. 

He had known that money cannot change the world. 

His works being too influential and confidential, the world did not let Warhol show more. 

Despite the occultish feavor towards his commercial film, theaters often prohibited his film screening. 

He even depicted what "bad" really meant in a film he produced called "BAD."

So in the 80's, he went back to Fine Art. 

There were less pissing and orgies in studio. 

But more of Basquiat and still the old Capote. 

So make money, not Art, because if you are an Artist in your life, and if working is as hard as living to be yourself, 

Then make money as an Artist as yourself. 

That's what he meant by meaning to die as a "Business Artist."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YyRR8_oaAc&feature=youtu.be

It's quite amazing. 

Me and my buddies were hired by CityNomads, an online-lifestyle-zine, which were hired by Adidas to promote their party. 

We were asked to make art, but in a form of a peep-hole camera viewing thingy. 

Whatever you call, those picture booth thing with holes for your head to go through. 

Why?

We did not ask because I think we were like "we do anything", so as usual, we just spatted our life. 

I'm dying to see all the pictures.

Thanks to club Zouk for letting us enter from the back-side.