You need 'brass balls to sell real estate'?
Herald Newspaper Real-Estate Ad, 1984 (with cute blonde)
To use an oft-employed phrase, a 'retro' ad.
Mocca Bodybuilder Ad - Guy Selling House
A guy trying to sell his house does it by showing off his pipes. Why are Mocca ads so crass?
Invisible City
A documentary about space and memory and how we stake our claim on spaces, no matter how temporary-from the graffiti on the wall or the tissue paper in a food court.
The official website here:
Style:Nordic
Alvar Aalto at Style:Nordic
Kateha- which, according to the Style:Nordic website, references pile rugs in Arabic. A good, modern substitute for my Berber pile rugs, I think- the latter a look I'm getting rather tired of, unfortunately.
Style:Nordic is a Scandinavian concept store, selling everything from Scandinavian furniture to fashion.
Following up on Shawn's post:The website is up- suitably designer-ish, Flash-based, interactive site. Check out the resident artists- Xin&AnnGee, Sokkuan&Kuanth and the ongoing Le Monde est Nous exhibition.
Other blogs that refer to the new gallery cum bar are:
EeShaun's
and Patlaw's
Modern Tropical Luxe
Designed by one of Singapore's top architectural firms- a practice whose signature modern tropical styles have become synonymous with Singapore's emergent architectural identity. This house displays all the 'classic fingerprints'- the powder rooms overlooking a lush garden, a water feature through the walkway and luxuriously sized bedrooms.For more info:http://www.urbanespaces.com/tropicalluxedetached.html
1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
It's hard to believe that a brand with such a niche, almost deviant message with an ad that references literary works could have almost mainstream appeal.
The Next Neighbourhood-Again
At around the same time that I was touting the virtues of Pasir Panjang, the Sophia/Niven enclave was of particular interest to me as well. The developments in the area, however, turned out uninteresting and commodified, and, like an out-of-favour stock, I stopped backing it.
Recently, however, I'm hearing news of the formation of a creative enclave involving some of the most respectable names in the industry. Taking advantage of its centrality and the curiously undervalued real estate prices could well be a reason. The seeming 'discovery' (and completion) of neglected conservation buildings could be another. Shawn's post referencing a new bar cum art gallery within a restored 1950s Art Deco building and the recent opening of Air's flagship store(in a breakaway from Park Mall's traditional stranglehold on luxury furniture stores) has me convinced once again as to the neighbourhood's potential- in commercial real estate.
Graffiti'd video
To put this in context, the original video can be found here:
graffiti.vidavee.com allows you to apply graffiti on any video. I'm hoping there'll be a wider variety soon.
Avant Garde Geylang
Muccchhh better with the new photos. photo of bald guy from playitasfred.com and photo of guy pointing gun barrel to screen from trexor14 on stockxchng
Avant Garde on Geylang- To the Tune of Scarface
Am not quite sure about the soundtrack. I could have added better photos to it...
Designer Bedsheets
Straits Times' Urban pages today, the nation's self-appointed purveyor of all things hip, did a cover on Designer Bed Sheets today and educated us on the differences between cotton percale, cotton jacquard, cotton sateen and pure linen('cotton percale is made from high quality cotton and is crisp and cool to touch, launders well, lasting and durable, cotton jacquard comes with an alternating matt-sateen pattern in the fabric, cotton sateen made from a finer thread than percale and pure linen for its crispness, coolness and breathability). I'm not familiar with the terms but cotton percale comes closest amongst the options above vis a vis what I'm looking for in my bedsheets. I love Egyptian cotton- and sadly, not all egyptian cotton is the same(don't ask me why- it just doesn't feel the same) and as far as I'm concerned, threadcount does matter.
A neophyte running her fingers through the sheets at Takashimaya's bedlinen section whenever there's a sale, my favourite is Karen Neuberger's. This year, Armani Casa comes close- I love the colours and the coolness of the sheets come close to Karen Neuberger's but I'd take Karen Neuberger's odd spacey blue colours(the brand does have white, but I will not live with two whites) than the fashionably muted tones of Armani's. Karen Neuberger's website looks like it caters more to the Martha Stewart crowd but nothing in my takashimaya finger-running experience beats the cool, crisp, amazingly high threadcount sheets. A salesman ran the threadcount by me- was particularly impressed but I daren't recall it online in case my memory reveals a tendency to exaggerate
I do not understand the deal with Frette other than its particularly inspired marketing point-of-experience(is that a new marketing term?) with boutique hotels and I do tend to remember houses with Frette linens;-)
All white Modern
I like this the best by far. The alternating images of the blindfolded guy and the legs peeping out of the bed- couldn't have asked for a better mashup.
Fengshui'd modern
The soundtrack might be a little corny but I liked the acid-trippy backgrounds that seem to accompany it.
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