Art 01 (Aug 08 - Nov 15)

[millionairemind]

Chinese Buyers Waving Paddles Push Art to Records in Hong Kong
By Le-Min Lim

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Christie’s International’s sale of Asian artworks in Hong Kong yesterday might have sent records tumbling amid bidding wars, yet it was the antics of the buyer with Paddle 960 that got people talking.

The bidder was Shanghai-based Wang Wei, who has spent more than 1 billion yuan ($146 million) this year with her stock- investor husband, Liu Yiqian, on a buying spree of Asian paintings as they prepare to open a private museum in the Chinese city next year, said Zhao Xu, executive director of Poly International Auction Co. On the 2009 China rich list run by Hurun Report, Liu ranks No. 176 with a net worth of $740 million. Wang wouldn’t say how much she has spent on artworks this year.

At yesterday’s sale of Asian artworks, Wang frequently waved her paddle to offer an additional HK$1 million in pursuit of the pieces she wanted, often obliterating her opponents. Several times, she just held up her paddle regardless of rival offers until she won the lot. Not in the last five years has the Hong Kong art-auction scene produced buyers of such confidence.

“I just bought those for fun,” Wang commented during a break, declining to elaborate. Slender, with straight shoulder- length hair, and sporting a leopard-print handbag and shoes, Wang spoke into her mobile phone in rapid Shanghai dialect.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... qD3AFNFwhg

[kennynah]

i prefer that these very wealthy people embark on a quest to recover Chinese treasures looted from her during the japanese occupation.... they can hire me to help out

[winston]

Do You Have a Secret? by Alexander Green

Why do we find secrets so fascinating?

We all have them. Yet we hanker to hear more, to be in the know. People everywhere want news that is privileged, unpublished, classified, scandalous, esoteric or personal. Information - above all - that is not generally known.

Marketers know this. That's why newsstands everywhere are papered with magazines offering diet secrets, sex secrets, success secrets, celebrity secrets, fitness secrets. Investment letter copywriters churn out endless marketing based on "secrets of great wealth." My book publisher, John Wiley & Sons, even suggested that I title my latest collection of essays, The Secret of Shelter Island

What is the secret of Shelter Island? Can you keep a confidence? Good. So can I.

Frank Warren can't, however. He's kept almost none of the thousands of secrets he's been told. And that's a good thing.

Six years ago, Warren launched the PostSecret project, an ongoing community art project in which people anonymously mail him a personal secret on a homemade postcard. No restrictions are made on the content of the secret, only that it must be truthful and never have been spoken before.

A lot of us, apparently, can't wait to spill the beans. Warren has received more than 400,000 postcards, each revealing a sender's hope, fear, desire, or epiphany.

Some cards appear as though they were created during an impulsive moment. Others are invested with painstaking detail and look like sacred objects.

Warren displays the best of them on his PostSecret website (updated weekly) and his five PostSecret books. I recently stumbled on his exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore and was taken with it.

What's the big deal about secrets - some heartbreaking, some insightful, some just plain nutty - from anonymous folks? You be the judge. I jotted down a few of my favorites to share with you.

I quickly discovered, however, that typed words on a page don't deliver the emotional wallop of the handwritten cards themselves (this is an art project after all.)

Fortunately, Jen Ross and Kathy Osborne in Graphic Design were up for a last-minute challenge. Below they've created facsimiles of a few of the PostSecrets I found thought-provoking:

I recommend visiting Warren's exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum if you get a chance. It's a soulful experience. Each card is individual and yet, at a deeper level, this community of confessions reveals our connections, even to those whose secrets we may find surprising or appalling.

The voices speaking through them offer you the opportunity to recognize your own secrets, to realize you are not alone.

In his latest PostSecret book, Warren writes, "This project has shown me that art can be like a new tongue that allows us to speak and pray in ways that might otherwise be impossible.

And if we listen, we may come to understand that we are always on a spiritual journey - even when we feel most lost."

Source: Spiritual Wealth

[la papillion]

Was experimenting with flash interface to create some really interesting widgets/sites. Took me some time to figure this out, but things should get easier from here. Thought I'll share with people here since it's been a while since I shared some of my projects.

You can click the link below to view the photos of the recent trip I made in Dec last year

http://www.wix.com/duckula06/Batam-trip?wsess=OYY7Dw1MUHA6TBt%252FaQQsiUmP5y0MxDo%252Bw44QuC7mDNt9CJ3zLd7cpp1GEO0zTBAZwzSsXqmldN5s8Jlg9hAt2Q%253D%253D&wixComputerID=pkIM80rVsnFok3RkVjOxPzrs4nLH2NujIpXk%2BNLnt6Bu%2BAH6MXaARBihUF59dyvb0nswoPlsnC1cnvQvNu9ftw%3D%3D&gu%5Fid=0b3c782c%2D94cd%2D49b5%2D968a%2Db3e61819114c&partner%5Fid=WMGs4POB1ko%2Da&experiment%5Fid=empty&orgDocID=rQtKF%5FqtGpc%2Da

[winston]

Very nice La Pap ! Thanks for sharing !

Take care,
Winston

[kennynah]

Lapap.

very nice indeed....

[la papillion]

Going to do a special project for my up coming wedding this year It stems from a promise made long time ago, started in 2007 but never really found the urge and determination to do it till now. So, I re-started on this again recently.

I'm not really sure what I'm aiming for - just a vague idea. I took a black cardboard, sketched out the 'rose' from the beauty and the beast animation. The original looks like this:



But it's too complicated to do what I intended, so I stripped off the excess and focused straight on the main ideas. Here's my sketch. Man, took me some time to get the look on Belle and the Beast just nice. At present, I've no idea what to do with the borders. I'll just see how the whole thing goes and play by the ear.



I proceeded to use tracing paper to trace out my outline for the rose. I darkened the underside of the tracing paper, thus turning it into a carbon paper. Placing it onto coloured papers, I traced out the outline once again, and re-created a carbon copy of the picture onto the coloured paper. Cut it and paste it up. This is how it looks:



Final effect of the rose before I paste it. Overall effects not too bad. After pasting I will erase the pencil outlines.



Next one will the stalk of the rose. I'll have to do it after I come back from my reservist stint.

** This being a secret project, for those who met me and is going to meet me, pls don't mention it in front of my gf!**

[millionairemind]

Nice. So what's the final plan for this project??

You have an artistic talent . Do share more when you get it finished

[Cheng]

LP! Its very very nice!

[iam802]

A secret project in a public forum

Waiting to see the completed product.