- LocoRoco - fun with blobs -

- LocoRoco -



There is this new PSP game on the market soon called LocoRoco. It is absolutely ridiculously cute I'm telling you. These little squishy LocoRocos bounce around making funny noises and meet their funny, equally blobby friends. At times they would be struck by lightning and split into many tinier LocoRocos and at other times they would be sent down a cascading chute of fun or be blown astray wobblingly by a wind-yielding thing named Chuppa. It is like stressballs in a game! Or like those squishy cushions that u touch and go 'ohhhhh'. Ah! The graphics are great and the music is quirkily funky. I'm so getting a PSP just for this game!

You HAVE to go to the website because you get to play around with LocoRoco and it's so, so much fun!!! I'm going crayyyyyzee!

- LocoRocogo -

You know why I put this up!! It's hilarious!!

- LocoRoco in play -


Some may throw up at this but that's okay!

Cirque du Soleil's Varekai - Aerial Straps

Hmm, I'm almost tempted to go to Varekai now...

- fruit and veges -

fruit and veges
Juice and flesh of beetroot, oranges, passionfruit, kiwifruit and tomatoes, vinegar (to set colour) on 500gsm Bockingford watercolour paper.


Well here is the fruit and vege painting that I did for a project (Macklin's Painting and Design: Hybridity) last semester. It is made up of juices and pulps of beetroot, oranges, passionfruit, kiwifruit and tomatoes, with vinegar to set the colour. I'll put up the progress pictures up in the next post. 

- hongky -

I just found it amusing~
(Cabramatta Road West)

- kitano - funnies -

- GC Osaka Building - Shigeru Ban (坂茂) - 2000

It's about time that I documented my travels again instead of fucking around all the time.

I was visiting Hector's work area and I recalled this one building I had not found the last time I was in Osaka. This is listed in the Phaidon Atlas so I thought I will pay it a visit this time round.

The GC Osaka office building is located in this relatively quiet street in Chuo-ku. First impression was that it was very reflective, the curtain wall encases the whole structure. It was rather peculiar too because of the huge trellis coming off the side of it.



The steel structure is covered in particle board that has a timber-like finish and is meant to provide for the fire safety and overall finish. Vierendeel trusses on every other floor hold up the whole thing and between the trellis and the building are verandahs where people can wander out of. The fire stairs is attached to the trellis.



I am ambivalent about the building. The timberlike finish looks daggy on close inspection and the trellis sticking off the side is just crass. It was probably made on a tight budget as you can tell from just looking at the materials. I thought I even saw some fake crawlers on the trellis to make it look denser... However the inside of the offices look spacious and bright, so it's not so bad afterall. I wonder how people use the stepped verandahs. Probably as cigarette break hangouts.

-AGD -

Trouble Coming Twice

okay, last one. hehe.

-AGD -

The Ambiguously Gay Duo