Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
Yes, I’ve heard that one already, but seriously, I’ll buy this CD just for its cover!
One more boundary broken, what’s next?
Push Your Ideas!
Currently sitting in Frameworks FCP Suite 3 watching Junfeng and his editor Natalie at work on Sandcastle’s trailer. Can’t wait to work on the film once the edit’s complete!
Stumbled across this great video! Hope it keeps you inspired you for the rest of the week!
SSFA Best Soundtrack Nominees
I just came back from a much needed vacation in Taiwan, and look what great news I received! 3 projects I’ve worked on have been nominated for the Best Soundtrack Award in the 1st Singapore Short Film Awards. The nominees are:
*Dirty Bitch (Foley Artist)
*Threshold (Sound Mixer)
*Newton (Co-Sound Designer/Mixer)
The Karma Of The Tree Sentinel Who Awakes
This award is such a great initiative. Finally an award in Singapore that puts the spotlight on us sound guys! We’re more often than not only heard and not seen. All the other awards have a recipient’s name attached to it, except for Best Soundtrack. I’m assuming it’s awarded collectively to everyone that helped made the film sound good – composers, designers, mixers, location sound recordists etc.
In any case, I’m super thrilled! The Awards Ceremony is going to be held on 31st January 2010. For more information, please visit the Singapore Short Film Awards website here.
10 Party Tricks for the Festive Season
Less than a week to Christmas! Perfect time to learn these science-based party tricks!
Have a good one people!
The Will 《一切从遗嘱开始》
Just completed dialogue editing for Channel U’s latest telemovie ‘The Will’. It stars Taiwanese actors Ah Bu, Johnny Lu and Lin Yu Xuan. The story is about 2 brothers, each with their own money and life problems, who suddenly inherit $5 million from their deceased father. Through the lawyer, they realised they had a half sibling who was one of the inheritors and they have to find him before the inheritance can be released.
Kudos to Michelle Chong, who plays Ah Bu’s ex-wife, for a no holds barred performance that was absolutely hilarious!
The Will will be aired this Sunday, 20 December 2009, 9:30pm on Channel U. Be sure to catch it!
Updates!
Whoa, that was a long hiatus! The good folks at Animagine have been keeping me busy for the 3rd Christmas running! Every year, they hold a student animation competition called NE Mation and it’s now in it’s 4th year! An open call is held for students to pitch ideas for a 1 minute animation clip based on the year’s theme on Total Defence. 10 teams are selected and the students are taught how to animate to realise their ideas!
I just visited the set last Friday and can’t wait to start work on the clips! The students look like they’ve been animating for years – 2D, 3D, stop motion, mixed medium etc. To top it all off, the winning team (voted by the public and some experts) gets to visit a world renowned animation studio, namely Pixar, Studio Ghibli & Dreamworks! I’m waiting for the day they bring the winning sound designer along.
Here’s last year’s winning clip done by YJC students featuring lego animation:
For more information, visit NE Mation IV website here.
I’ve also updated the Animation section under my Works. Check it out here!
Blogging on the go!
Finally got wordpress to work on my bb. I can now blog on the go!
A dear friend of mine bought me a t-shirt with my favourite quote! And the box cover has earned itself a coveted place on my corkboard!
Have a great day peeps!
It’s just so true.
I had to post it up again.
For those who’re new here, I had a personal blog tinglysensation before migrating here. Check it out!
Hooked Clothings on Kanye’s blog!
WAH!!!
Samantha and Alex got Hooked Clothings onto Kanye West’s blog! You go guys!!!
Click the pictures for larger view or go straight to Kanye’s blog!
Congrats guys! HUAT AH!
Asian Film Archive
I’ve decided to put my free time to good use and have volunteered with the Asian Film Archive! I’ll be involved in cleaning out all the dust, mould and whatever surprises left on the old old reels (some nasty examples are in the video).
Only some of you will know this, I have a secret love for doing really mundane brain-dead stuff – like stamping addresses on envelopes, keying in databases etc – so this volunteer work will really give me a chance (at least once every week) to do that!
Before I begin though, I’ll have to go through a basic training course. If you’re interested in volunteering too, please write to Ethan from the Archive at [ethan at asianfilmarchive dot org]. We may just end up in the same training class!
For those with lesser time on your hands, you can do your part by sending your films or recommending films for preservation to the Archive and let the good peeps there do the rest for you.
For more information, please visit the Asian Film Archive website.