Accidental Tourist - Bricks, bricks & more bricks! "The Art of the Brick" Exhibition at Singapore ArtScience Museum

What can a humble brick do?

Well, from the looks of what was displayed at the "The Art of the Brick" Exhibition at Singapore ArtScience Museum, a humble brick can certainly do wonders. I went there frankly because my son is crazy about Lego bricks and he basically pestered non-stop the minute he knew about the exhibition coming to Singapore. So armed with my trusty Nikon P7000, the entire family set off to see the exhibition on its 1st day of opening on 17 November 2012.

'Marvelous' is certainly a word that comes to mind when viewing the exhibition of sculptures made from the humble brick. Another word will be "WTW?" (aka "What in the World?" more a phase I know but with abbreviations, I can cheat ;)) - human torsos, gigantic skulls etc all conjured out with thought provoking ideas of what we are, who we are and what do we want to become.

Finish off the exhibition with a ginormous 6m long Dinosaur (T Rex no less) and you know you have entered a world that you can only exclaim "Wow!" at the end. My best take-away was from my son, who basically summed in all by saying "I want to be able to do this with my Lego bricks!"

Till the next time, onto the world & beyond! 

The artist Nathan Sawaya 

Thought provoking pieces

The Think-er & the Kneel-er 

Accidental Tourist - i Light Marina Bay 2012

The 2nd edition of i Light @ Marina Bay is now happening until 1 April 2012. I went to the inaugural 2010 iLight as well (blog entry here). 


This year's light installations span a wide area starting from Merlion Park with a loop down to The Promontory @ Marina Bay and down to The Marina Bay Sands before ending the journey at the Float @ Marina Bay.  


I went down with a group of photo enthusiasts I met online from SPIN (aka Singapore Photography Interest Network) https://www.facebook.com/groups/Singapore.SPIN/. 


Fortunately, contrary to normal Singapore weather, that night was quite cool (albeit still the normal humidity levels) and it was an overall pleasant walk that ended at 11p.m. - perfect timing as the light installations switch off at that time.  


Here's a few photos to mark this little excursion: 

Till the next time, onto the world and beyond! 

[my other entry at JPG.mag http://jpgmag.com/stories/18663]

Accidental Tourist – iLight @ Marina Bay

For those not in Singapore, we are in the middle of our first Light Art Festival called “iLight” (more information on this unique event at www.marina-bay.sg/ilightmarinabay). It is filled with light installations around the Marina Bay area. I went down last Saturday on opening night of 15 October 2010 with some pals from the photography class to capture the opening night scenes. I only managed to canvas the Promontory Sidewalk area that evening & will be planning for a follow-up shoot either this week or the next for the remaining light installations at the Esplanade section.

Till the next trip out, onto the world & beyond!

Accidental Tourist – Morning Shoot at Marina Bay area using only 50mm lens

Recently did a morning shoot at the Marina Bay area. It was actually quite a long walk from the Marina Bay MRT – initially wanted to head down to the Promontory but ended up at the MBS side. I willed myself to only use my 50mm for that morning so here are some of the shots….

2 photos of the view from Marina Bay Sands side – in both photos, I used 2 different post processing tools like inverted negative & fake tilt shift. For the 1^st time, the effects of the post processing looks nice to me… what do you think?

Testing of portrait framing - something about the bumboat meeting the reflection of Raffles City Tower in the horizon looked appealing to me :)

Till the next trip out, onto the world & beyond!

Accidental Tourist- Singapore City Skyline photos

Was down at the Esplanade the other day & decided to try some long exposure photos using my recently acquired wide angle lens. Read the “PhotoCaddy” app in my iPhone that indicated that night photography needs a tripod, long exposure times of at least 20 secs and above at shutter priority mode so that’s exactly what I did. The route that I took started from the Merlion before getting on the bridge to Esplanade before heading down Helix Bridge to Marina Bay Sands before stopping for a drink at Fullerton Bay Hotel.

Singapore city skyline from Esplanade

Helix bridge with a huge crowd & the national flag reflected on Marina Bay Sands (MBS)

Pool bar (Lantern) on top of Fullerton Bay Hotel (with the MBS on the background)

If you have a chance, do take that same way around & see what you can find!

Onto the world & beyond!