purple magazine issue 19's supplement (the ryan mcginley purple book) NOT available in singapore

john clang: “I WAS 8 YEARS OLD AND MY BROTHER WAS 6 YEARS OLD. WE WERE PLAYING ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF BRAS BASAH COMPLEX, WHERE OUR AUNT LIVED. UNEXPECTEDLY A STRANGER APPROACHED, HELD MY BROTHER'S HAND AND STARTED WALKING AWAY. MY BROTHER TURNED AROUND, LOOKED AT ME HELPLESSLY WITH HIS LEFT HAND REACHING OUT TO ME, WHILE STILL WALKING WITH THE STRANGER. I FROZE, NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS HAPPENING OR WHAT TO DO. MY MUM WHO HAD JUST RETURNED FROM WORK, REACHED IMMEDIATELY BY YELLING AT THE STRANGER IN A FRANTIC, DESPERATE TONE. THE STRANGER LET GO OF MY BROTHER'S HAND AND RAN AWAY. TWO THINGS STUCK IN MY HEAD. I ALMOST LOST MY BROTHER AND I WASN'T THE CHOSEN ONE.”

being together: family and portraits - photographing with john clang. national museum of singapore, 23 jan - 26 may 2013.

huang zheng (mannequin)

jacob from manchestaah (upfront)

cassie (mannequin)

alexey (looque)

cameron (mannequin)

william (mannequin)

the media development authority (mda) of singapore has allowed cable television providers airing on-demand R21 (R-rated for 21 y-o and above) movies. a welcomed sign of a maturing society, singtel mio tv started offering such movies in october 2012, and starhub has done the same this month.

eleonora (mannequin)

handmade dolls by the illustrator, kuanth. www.kuanth.com

matvey (ave)

vivien (carries)

‘the act of killing’: an entry at the toronto international film festival 2012, is an inventive documentary by british filmmaker joshua oppenheimer about a group of ex-movie theatre gangsters who were employed by the indonesian military in the 1965 coup, to kill alleged communists and ethnic chinese.

now leaders of a right-wing paramilitary organization, they were challenged by the filmmaker to reenact their murders in their own choosing of favourite james dean, john wayne, and hollywood characters. the brilliantly subversive film-within-a-film criterion has werner herzog and errol morris credited as executive producers.

matt king (mannequin)

krystof (carries)

liza (mannequin)

snake by gerald leow

continuing with his themes revolving around western colonialism and its symbols, the work is a recreation of the greek statue, laocoön and his sons, replacing its snake with a cloth printed with quotes from participating writers. front lawn, SAM, through 13 feb 2013.

“Ultimately, luxury is tied up with notions of class – a subject fashion never seems to enjoy addressing openly. Which is the real reason, I think, that those in the fashion industry have such a tough time talking about luxury, let alone defining it.

Which is a shame, because if designers had a greater understanding of all the snobbery and guilt their labels inspire, and the diversity of class and income their labels are meaningful to, they might have something more interesting to offer us than mere luxury.”

- from Some Notes on Luxury by Someone Who Finds the Term Distasteful (Murray Healy), HERO NO. 8 WINTER/SPRING 12/13

article on ehren in jalouse magazine, shot by romain gavras