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The first time I saw one of Dan Wong’s illustrations, I did a double-take. While the 36-year-old Nanyang Technological University (NTU) grad produces a large amount of commercial artwork and illustrations for a wide range of commercial clients, his fine art pieces are very graphic. These works are usually very busy, cluttered with people, animals and sometimes even mythological creatures interacting in a specific setting – which itself could range from a classroom to Mount Olympus. Look closely and you’ll see couples having sex, screaming at or killing each other, and dozens of other things even stranger and more unique. Each work is compelling but grotesque. If I had to suggest a comparison, I’d say Dan’s work read to me like a mash-up of Chapman Brothers, Robert Crumb and Milo Manara. The works are beautiful, while busy – and they have a very specific point of view. Each one is a clear commentary on a social or political issue. Given the nature of Dan’s fine art pieces, … [Read more...] about Creative Capital: The Singaporean artist drawing wild reactions for his strange illustrations

Landing in South Korea after a trip to her native China on Wednesday, rapper Meng Jia of K-pop group Miss A shared an observation on Twitter: "Almost all Chinese women want an alien boyfriend." To be more precise, the man they and others in East Asia want is from Planet K-drama: Do Min Joon, the ageless professor from outer space played by Kim Soo Hyun in the South Korean television phenomenon My Love From The Star. He is a guy who has superhuman powers but is more perfect than Superman because he has his priorities right. He wants to protect only one person - the woman in his life, played by Gianna Jun. My Love From The Star, a romantic fantasy created by writer Park Ji Eun (My Husband Got A Family, 2012), has been trending in East Asia after its debut in December last year. In China, the show has more than one billion views on video websites such as iQiyi.com and PPS, and Kim Soo Hyun is one of the top searches on Baidu, the country's equivalent of Google, say reports on news … [Read more...] about Ugly-hot Korean hunks

Would you pay up to $16 every month to read new bestsellers on your tablet or smartphone? StarHub yesterday launched a subscription-based e-book service in partnership with Russian-origin Bookmate. This comes two months after the local telco suspended Booktique, its online store which sold e-books individually to consumers. Rather than paying separately to download and read each e-book, Bookmate users pay a tiered fee to get online and offline access to up to 500,000 titles, mostly in English as well as in eight other languages, such as Russian and Bahasa Indonesia. A premium $15.98 monthly fee (or $14 for existing StarHub Hub ID users) lets readers download and read every book, such as the 2005 bestseller Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt. A standard fee of $9.98 ($8 for Hub ID users) will not grant access to the above, though popular novels, such as this year's Man Booker- shortlisted We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, are … [Read more...] about Read new bestsellers for $16 a month