Do you miss the Chinese New Year festivities? It seems like a long time ago, but the Year of the Tiger is only one month old today… and that’s how long it took me to upload my Chinese Paper Cut Stereogram.
Well, better late than never, so here’s a belated Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Can you mention ‘pluralistic ignorance’, ‘cognitive dissonance’ and ‘confirmation bias’ all in one paragraph and still end up with a perfectly readable text that would make sense to, say, a Secondary School student?
The authors of the Welcome Trust’s Big Picture issue on Health and Climate Change can. While discussing why we don’t take quick action […]
On Saturday, 8 March, I will be giving a talk at the NUS Museum, as part of their NUS Arts Festival 2008.
Apart from the art of Ng Eng Teng, I will be talking about mosquitoes, how their world differs from ours, and what it takes to appreciate art (hint: there will be a fair amount […]
Monday’s Straits Times featured an article on eco-coffins (access restricted… here’s a free abridged version). It reported on a new trend to use caskets made from chipboard or even paper rather than the traditional timber coffins. Given that Singapore goes through 16,000 coffins a year, that sounds like a great way to save some trees.
What […]
About a month ago, this rooster appeared in our estate. When I first noticed him, he was happily pecking away in the grass, upsetting the Mynas. Nobody I know knows where he came from, or whom he belongs to. But he looks healthy and he’s not at all bothered by people, so he’s likely to […]
About two months ago, shortly after setting up ArtBioCom, I had my name cards printed in a neighbourhood shop nearby. While I was waiting for my order to be processed, an auntie sitting next to the counter – I don’t think she was working there, just the resident kaypoh – picked up the test print […]
Welcome to art.hropod, my new, first and only blog!
It has been more than three months since I left the Singapore Science Centre to give myself more time to focus on developing my art. The idea was that I would have generally more time – since I wasn’t “working” any more – to pursue my various […]
