Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

2008 meltdown

The wall street equivalence of doomsday is here.
Dark clouds strewing across Wall Street as news of the collapses of financial giants follow in tandem, with no end in sight (started by the subprime led credit crunch). News of bankers sobbing over their starbucks coffee after the Lehman Brothers filed for bankrupcy protection came swiftly, and this may just be the start of the [...]

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Singapore Biennale at City Hall 2008

I escaped Wednesday by burrowing into ‘wonder’, which is the theme of the Singapore Biennale 2008.
These are my favourites from the City Hall exhibit site, enjoy:
 

 
The overwhelming weight of history and abandonement of the past is found in the video installation piece ‘Emerald’, which is the site of an old Thai hotel, well past its heyday.  Accelerating [...]