Don’t Panic Singapore Presents FLEA & SPLASH @ Wave House Sentosa

(organized by one of the creators of FLEA TITAN)


Location: Wave House Sentosa
Time: 4pm – 10pm
Date: 20 & 21 Feb 2010 

Wishing for a day of sea, sun fun and with loads of hot bodies?
Presenting Flea & Splash!

Be prepared to bare your hot bods while shopping at our amazing flea bargains or try riding the waves at Wave House. It’s going to be a day of non stop exhilarating fun. So maybe it’s time to hit the gym people?

There are going to be awesome finds and crazy bargains at our flea. So stock up the cash and release it fast at our flea market.

As a reward to all our loyal flea goers, participate in our games segment cos we are giving away up to 40 hours free wave house rides to anyone game enough!

Event starts at 4pm, so bring your sun block or umbrella because temperatures will be rising with the hot weather and hot bodies roaming the place.

Party with us at Wave House feat DJ Dave Does & TWO FACE

We are bringing the fun from the clubs to the flea with our powerhouse DJs.

This time we are bringing in from The Butter Factory, Fash resident hottie, DJ Dave Does to kick start the event at 4pm. So pounce hard to electro beats with us at The Wave House.
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Followed up would be Flea titan regular DJ TWO FACE (Linda and Grace)! Watch as they dance with their bikinis as they spin their crazy tunes till late.
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It’s going to be 2 days of exciting flea bargains and crazy dancing. Y’ALL READY?

Marketing partner: Freemansland
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If you are interested in renting a stall, the rates are as follow:
1 day - Area 1 & 3 ($45)/ Area 2 ($55)/ Area 4 ($60)
2 days - Area 1 & 3 ($80)/ Area 2 ($100)/ Area 4 ($110)


PLEASE BRING YOUR STOOLS : ) AREA 1 & 3 ONLY TABLES ARE PROVIDED AREA 2 & 4 COMES WITH SOFA OR BAMBOO SOFA : )

* ADDED VALUE: 2 FREE DRINKS FOR EACH STALL

* PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL PARTICIPATING VENDORS, TRANSPORTATION FROM SILOSO BEACH CAR PARK -TO WAVE HOUSE WILL BE PROVIDED ( THE CREWS WILL ASSIST YOU IN TRANSPORTING YOUR GOODIES & RACKS FROM THE SILOSO BEACH PARKING LOTS TO WAVE HOUSE WITH VANS)



To register, e-mail the following to lynn@dontpaniconline.com or call us at 90942155:

* Name:
* Email:
* Contact Number: (Belonging to person in-charge of the stall)
* Number of stalls you’d like to book:
* Which day you’d like to book:

Once your stall is confirmed and collection of payment is open, we will
inform you of the account number and payment MUST be made within 2 days upon notification.

You may have heard about Natalie Dylan, the 22-year-old student from San Diego who is publicly auctioning her virginity to pay for her a masters degree in family and marriage therapy. Apparently 10,000 men have entered the bidding, which recently hit £2.5million. Not a bad sum and what’s more Nathalie, who has a degree in women’s studies, insists that she is not demeaning herself at all.

Now a string of public figures are following suit. In an unexpected, but inspiring wave of altruism, politicians, celebrity chefs and pop stars are auctioning their most prized possessions for the future of the world.

Bono auctions his bottom

Bono cares so much about world poverty that he has decided to auction his bottom. The U2 frontman hopes to raise $422,000,000,000.00, which he will use to wipe out third world debt completely. “I know it seems like a lot,” said the singer, “but I think it’s worth it. Some cynics in the press have been saying that I’m old and that my bottom isn’t all that. But just ask my personal trainer Gabriel. He’ll tell you. Plus I’m a popstar.”

THIS IS WHY YOU ARE FAT! CHECK OUT THE LINK!

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

Chris Scarborough specialises in reinterpreting Japanese pop culture in a kind of manic way that echoes Shintaro Kago (minus some of the porn). He alternates between photography and illustration, creating realistic characters with freakish bugged eyes, or chaotic balls of debris in place of heads. I caught up with him between prep for his Washington & LA shows.

Why the clouds and clusters?

I began making the cloud/explosions as a way of exploring some of the imagery in older classic western cartoons, like when you see the cartoon cat and mouse get into a fight and this dust cloud erupts and all you would see are feet and arms sticking out.

I was also noticing a similarity between the anthropomorphisation of inanimate objects such as trees, teapots etc in these older cartoons and the belief in Kami (spirits within objects) in the Japanese Shinto religion. I was interested in how these two cultures treated a similar idea in different ways, one through comedy, and the other through religion. I was interested in exploring what a Kami for war or violence might look like.

Your grandfather was involved with the development of early ballistics photography. Has this got anything to do with the prevalence of war and guns in some of your images?

Yes and no. A lot of my work has to do with my life but it is often in the background. My grandfather got me started making photographs and has given me several of his cameras over the years which I still use today. So he has been a tremendous influence on me, but there aren’t any direct references in the images of war that point to his career as of yet.

With both your drawings and photography, you magnify and distort ‘cuteness’ - particularly the Japanese, ‘kawaii’ sense of this. Why so?

A lot of what I do is based on the context of images. With the portraits of people I was interested in taking this specific type of idealised cartoon imagery that is very commonplace in Japan and applying this slightly ignorant western art historical interpretation of it. How would Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres interpret Japanese pop culture if he were to come across it? Most likely he would try and render it, to make it real. And so I wanted to see how the viewer would interpret these idealisations from another culture when mapped onto real people, or rendered as if they were sitting in front of me.

You’ve published more drawings than photography lately - are you consciously leaning more towards this medium?

I usually just go in whatever direction I think the idea calls for. Lately I have been making more drawings; it just felt more appropriate for what I was working on at the moment. There’s always an ebb and flow between the mediums for me and I’ll often swing back and forth, sometimes further in one direction, but it just depends on what I think will work best for what I’m trying to accomplish.

See more of Chris’ work at www.scarboy.net

Erik Johansson is a man operating on the furthest and sharpest edge of reality. He creates manipulated images that shock with their casual juxtaposition of the mundane and the otherworldly, for which he has already gained universal acclaim at the tender age of 23. We interrupted his tennis watching for a few words.

You know in Blade where down a back alley, behind a nondescript door there is a vampire rave where everyone is going crazy to some Chemical Brothers tune and blood spurts from the ceiling? Well that sort of stuff happens all the time, you lot just have your heads shoved too deep in your London Lites to see it. This is the first in a regular series where we go where few dare to tread in order to bring the braying masses (you) reports from the un-trodden nooks and crannies of culture. Expect reports on mole-men, underground rivers, hidden railway lines, drugs that release death chemicals in your mind and guerrilla croquet. For this first instalment we decided to investigate the phenomenon that is the flash mob.

My first mistake was to get the work experience to call up the Tate Modern to inquire as to the details – time, exact location, whether we were allowed to take photos or no… that sort of thing.

“Sorry, we’re not exactly sure what you’re talking about,” said the Tate press girl. “There are no discos or raves planned to take place in the Turbine Hall this week, or at anytime in the near future.”

Hmmmm… slightly naïve of me. No one asks permission to organise a flash mob. No one informs the venue or the authorities, they just happen – clandestine gatherings of like minded souls, which invariably get moved on not long after they have begun.

Flash Mob comes in many forms. On the website (http://flashmob.co.uk/), which is a kind of hub for all things mobby, you can find zombie flash mobs in San Francisco, mass outdoor exercise classes in Manchester, mass pillow fights in public squares and a bunch of other stuff. This particular flash mob was organised by Mobile Clubbing. The website (www.mobile-clubbing.com) explains some simple rules:

1. Arrive at location at given time.

2. Start dancing to your personal stereo (ipod/walkman/diskman) to the music of your choice.

3. Use the whole space. Spread out. This will prevent us from being moved on.

4. Don’t worry clubbers you will be one of many.

I was a little bit suspicious of this last claim, especially as me and the intern had probably ruined it for everyone. Chances were the police and security would disperse the rave before it even started. But even if the press girl had been too dozy to tell security, I wasn’t convinced anyone would come.

I arrived a little late at around 19.05 and stumbled into Turbine Hall where around a thousand people were raving… in absolute silence. All the balconies were crowded with onlookers and every now and again a cry would go up from the ravers which would grow into a roar.

My photographer, Ben Miller, arrived a few minutes later with a spare ipod. I slipped it on and headed into the crowd. The centre of the mob was dense with people dancing and skipping around Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth crack. On the edges people used the free space to express themselves a little more. No one was talking and everyone had massive grins on their faces. All you had to do was catch someone’s eye and both of you would burst out laughing.

Sweaty, jerking teenagers rubbed shoulders with office types in suits, new rave kids and cyber-hippies with fluero trousers and peroxide dreadlocks. I was forced to settle for the Kooks, Rihanna and the new 50 Cent album, which is shit – Ben is a talented photographer but has an unfortunate taste in music. But despite that I really enjoyed Mobile Clubbing.

After a while me and Ben got tired and thirsty and went off for some dinner and a glass of water in the café on the second floor. Every now and then another roar went up from out in the Turbine Hall. When we had finished an hour later the rave was still going – but only the stragglers were left. The scene was vaguely like that of the last hours of Raindance in SE1 Club, except that the gurning faces were the exception and not the rule.

Tim Bret-Day does these fleshy Last-Super-type images, antiquated but polished. He was shooting an Agent Provocateur campaign when he found him.

Hey there Tim, what’s keeping you busy at the moment?

At the moment we are working on agent provocateur’s luxury range Soiree, and an album cover for the singer Amarie from Def Jam records. 

What’s with all the decadence man?

I suppose I have a sexually addictive personality if I’m honest! I think it’s something that goes through history so has boundless reference. I like repressed sexuality in people and see it as a challenge.

Which of your photographs has pride of place on the mantelpiece?

A signed picture of Stephen Gerrard and Jamie Carragher lifting the European cup in Istanbul! The best night of my life!

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Meet Tavi Gevinson, the new darling of the fashion industry. This Chicago native is currently gracing the cover of Pop Magazine, and has a full four-page spread in the second-ever edition of Love Magazine. Her fashion blog Style Rookie has caught the eyes of the fashion elite, and with her endless flow of clever trend observations, designer gots-to-haves and daily outfit updates, Tavi has managed to make herself the freshest newcomer to the glamorous world of fashion. Oh yeah, and she is 13 years old.

Tavi – or The New Girl in Town as she is also known as – has only just entered her teen years, but already dresses and writes like an eccentric grandma. Her style has earned her standing applause from the world’s fashion editors, who have referred to her as “the new frontline of fashion”. Others, like the writers of New York Magazine’s fashion blog, have questioned her age and place in an adult world, and the fact that her father did not fully know about her blogging until she asked permission to be featured in the newspaper.

The line between originality and buffoonery is a fine one, ask Russel Brand. Let’s use this season’s fashion weeks as an example. They call it ‘Prêt-a-porter’. It’s supposed to mean ‘ready-to-wear’. But is it? Really?

Just how far removed are these ‘clothes’ from their original function? We don’t want to put limits on the artist’s imagination, but sometimes it just feels like it is for all the wrong reasons! The question springs to mind; are they actually trying to torture us? Are Jacobs and Pough sniggering to each other from behind the runway saying “Let’s see how far the bitch makes it in those fuckers before breaking both legs!”

Enough talk, you can see it for yourself here. Here are our top 10 favourites - hot off the catwalk!

10. At number 10 is the latest creation from Lie Sang Bong as seen in the Paris Spring/Summer 2010 show! We’re not exactly sure what the inspiration behind such a technical headpiece was, perhaps IKEA!

9. Some very antisocial headwear by Gareth Pugh. No offence to this spectacular collection, but greeting someone with an air kiss wearing this could take their eye out!

8. It is all about shoes at number 8. These lovely slippers are organic and made with nothing but real hair! It is good to know that Marc Jacobs is so conscientious about recycling.

7. If you are after some real foot torture then look no further than our number 7 with this design from the latest Aminaka Wilmont S/S 2009 collection. Inspired by the ancient Chinese tradition of crippling women with corset style bandages around their feet.

6. If you are looking for a real head-over-heels experience, these lovely Nina Ricci’s at number 6 will guarantee you a red-carpet-worthy entrance that no one will forget in a hurry.

5. Pair those shoes at number 6 with this latest Victor & Rolf creation and you might finally nail your dream career at the Circus of Horrors.

4. Yet to make a real impact with ease there is, naturally, nothing like a pair of bunny ears aka Louis Vuitton A/W 2009/2010! If it’s good enough for Madge…

3. London Fashion Week S/S 2010 - VFS Ones to Watch - The concept for this, which was conjured up from the mind of Marko Mitanovski himself, included huge antlers made from real hair. This is a top fashion accessory in the current economic climate; it grows straight out of your head for free!

2. This year, however, it is not just all about NY/London/Paris and Milan. Fellow designers in Hong Kong are catching up. The mummy look will be all the talk for this coming summer.

1.5 Now… keep your panties on; there is an off-category contestant from menswear. A very on trend one-shoulder take on the Borat classic - the mankini meets the Flintstones in hot pink. Ronaldo will be crying tears of jealousy as all the eyes drift in your direction with this design by Jeremy Scott

1. So heres the moment you’ve all been waiting for, our finalist! Alexander McQueen needs no introduction. A heavyweight in foot-torture, he’s inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now these are worth breaking both your legs for!

By Maria Pankova

It is time for everyone’s favourite anorexic toy to celebrate 50 years in the spotlight. Barbie has been in the top spots of feminist organisations’ black lists for decades now, with millions of young girls around the world wanting to grow up just like the ageless bimbo with the oddly proportioned body. To celebrate, here’s Don’t Panic’s 2009 Anniversary Barbie & Ken campaign ad.

By Hanne Christiansen

Pound for pound some of the bounciest tunes around spew out of the electronic apparatus of the TEED brigade. As they prepared to headline a deluxe evenings at Cargo we caught up with frontman Lando for some snappy, crunchy chatstravaganza.

Given a choice of absolutely everything, what would you like to see become extinct?

At this particular point in time, headaches on sunny days. But more generally mobile phones and airplanes.   

What characteristics do you share with dinosaurs?

A deep love for rummaging around in the undergrowth, listening religiously to disco, and giving good evils.

Teed

Considering the amount of time you must spend travelling for tours etc - what are your homes from homes?

Beaches with record shops ideally, but we’ve yet to find one of those. In reality backstage and street corners.

What is the most damage you have ever inflicted on someone’s residence?

Advertising legend Jef Richards once proclaimed that “sex sells. But only if you’re selling sex.” I think the last bit of that sentence must have gotten lost somewhere in the annals of history. It stands to reason that so many perverts would be drawn to the photography profession like slobbering flies to shit in hope of palming off a few ‘niche’ coffee table books or pieces of ‘art’ to likeminded porn-hounds. But does that really mean that we, the public, also have to lap it up so enthusiastically? Here’s our list of the top six perv photographers, past and present.

Garry Gross

Gary Gross took this photo of a ten-year-old Brooke Shields in 1981 entitled The Woman In The Child. The resulting controversy effectively killed his career as a photographer, even though he won the judicial case against Brooke and her manager mother Teri three years later.

Ironically, the ‘appropriation artist’ Richard Prince literally took a photo of this image and exhibited it himself. It was later sold at auction by Christie’s for $151,000. His other works at that time were going for around $14,000 each.

“From what the court has seen of his work, he is not a pornographer, but a photographer of extraordinary talent… photographs of his three youthful models contrasted with their sultry, sensual appeal… These are not pornographic shots or ‘nudie pix’ - they have no erotic appeal except to possibly perverse minds.” - Judge Edward Greenfield on Gary Gross’s original photos.

Dov Charney

American Apparel’s ad for socks takes a rather uncoventional approach.

The thirty-something CEO and unoffical photographer of American Apparel has been clocking up media hysteria and column inches with his habit of whipping out his penis in front of reporters for a quick wank and his method of using porn stars and his sexual escapades to pose for his ad campaigns. Charney has been subject to five sexual harassment lawsuits, four of which were dismissed or settled out of court while the fifth is still pending.

Unsurprisingly, people have started telling him that his images are little more than teen porn, to which he replied: “It’s noise, it’s chatter, it’s bullshit, it’s perceptions. I never started making any proper money until I decided to make clothing that was geared towards young adults only and not even consider whether it would fit on a boomer. To meet their sensibility, sexy was job one. Fashion is all about sex and function. You want to look attractive, and attractive is just another way of saying sexy.”

Larry Clark

Larry popped into the public eye with his controversial feature film, KIDS, in 1995. He started out way back in 1973 however, with the release of his book, Tulsa, which depicted local kids misbehaving (read: shooting up, posing with guns and fucking). He wasn’t just a voyeur but an active participant, taking one self-portrait while wearing a tourniquet and looking decidedly messed up, blood running down his arm.

The law eventually caught up with his debauched lifestyle, and he was jailed for drink-driving and shooting someone in the arm.

Having completed his 19-month sentence, he got back to work on Teenage Lust, which focussed on teenage runaways and sexual experience. The title of this piece explains the general tone - They met a girl on acid in Bryant Park at 6 am and took her home.

“I wanted to present the way kids see things, but without all this baggage… I wanted the viewer to feel like you’re there with them - you can be there fucking, smoking dope, having sex…”

Terry Richarson

Terry Richardson’s subtle art of suggestion

Son of innovative sixties’ fashion photographer Bob, Terry Richardson made his sexualised style (in)famous within the pages of Vice Magazine and now regularly works with Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, using world-class models such as Natalya Vodianova. His advertising campaigns with Gucci, Miu Miu and Tommy Hilfiger are super high-profile, yet he still gets away with being jerked off by his models while he photographs them with his Instamatic. 

During his time off he has naked skateboarding contests in his New York studio flat.

“I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms. It should say, ‘Fucking now. The time is ripe. Come on.”

Richard Kern

Kern’s Critics call this ’ artfully artless’

Photographer, occasional pornographer, former-filmmaker and a man once amicably referred to as the ‘Evil Cameraman’, Richard Kern never got too involved in high fashion, but that’s probably because he’s worked with Hustler and Hustler Leg Show - the couture kiss of death. But he’s published a few books, his most recent, Action, was released by Taschen and features more than 200 full-color photographs of young nude women. The book is also accompanied by a DVD of models featured in the book called More Action. Kern also exhibits his work at galleries worldwide.

“I wanted to get to a point where I could have people come over, girls mainly, that drop their clothes when they come into my house, and that’s pretty much what happened. Not to brag, it’s just what I do.”

Rankin

Rankin has also photographed Queen Elizabeth II

Rankin is famous for launching Dazed and Confused magazine in 1991 with Jefferson Hack and going on to publish his own magazines Another and Rank. His ad campaign with Tom Ford at Gucci (left) was pretty much the most scandal-ridden of 2007. People couldn’t really decide if it was super brave or super tacky. It did sell shitloads though.

“I envy [youth’s] innocence and potential.”

Article by Karim Khan

Jiro Bevis has become somewhat of a household name, if you are in your twenties and live in an apartment. He’s done loads of illustrations for magazines, broadsheet magazines, bands, niche-y companies like Six Pack and skate labels like Crème. To find out more we stalked him back to his flat in an estate in Dalston.

His flat is reassuringly, or disconcertingly tidy - depending on your perspective. The walls of his bedroom walls are sparsely decorated with knitted wall hangings of JFK, kitsch mirrors and World Wrestling Federation figures of Hawk and Animal; Gaudy Americana lives on right here. There is also a bookshelf filled with obscure glossies on illustration, an impressive array of vinyl stacked immaculately on shelves. At least he’s polite. “Tea or coffee, guys?”

If popular opinion/slanderous rumour is to be believed, Jiro has been living in a forest of late. Fortunately, he’s decided to emerge from the undergrowth and continue with his unique style of drawings that reflect a certain childishness as much as they do a charming sincerity. Their widespread appeal has snared him work from Parisian record label Kitsune’s Punks Jump Up and the Institubes label (whose crew include Midnight Juggernauts, Surkin and Para One), to council redevelopment schemes.

To explain the scope of Jiro’s work, the Punks Jump Up website that he designed sees a Lichtenstein-style comic drawing brilliantly infused with modern colouring, while the logo he designed for them takes the form of a linear insignia that bypasses the current pop palette for electro’s messy lines and day-glo colours towards something glossier - almost glam rock. Furthermore you get the impression that these two are merely single pies in the veritable creative bakery connected to his fingers.

Indeed Jiro can come across as quite the bona fide businessman, plaid and Vans innocently posturing as suit and tie. Yet Jiro’s discontent with the art scene lies in the fact of it’s own increasing commodification: “It seems that art isn’t being bought anymore simply because it’s liked. It’s bought as an investment… I know a guy who basically knows loads of city boys and sells them mediocre pieces of art and tells them that this or that artist is about to blow up, and they just buy it all. They’re idiots with too much money. There are a lot of artists aiming at that audience now. Don’t get me wrong, I mean, people need to make money, it’s just a rather sad state of affairs.”

Jiro himself started to get noticed through his flyer design for the People Are Germs club nights. “The flyers were a good thing, man - good publicity. The work was with friends and it turned out to be a good platform for me. I’d advise anyone to do these kinds of things. Forget about the money and get seen.”

His next project will involve t-shirts, if he can curb his pernickety tendencies: “I thought it was an easy game, you know? But I’m learning that you have to give [t-shirts] a lot of attention – you need to wash them like 50 times so you don’t get that horrible difference in texture between the t-shirt and the print (taking tips from his favourite label Alakazam). That stuff’s important! I’m trying to start something with my musical friends Pete (Graffiti Island) and Ted (Team Megamix), but I’m really fussy and keep on arguing with them, so it probably won’t ever happen, haha. I want to do pieces from scratch – not just the style I’ve used so far. The other thing is, that whole thing about working in ‘seasons’  - forget it, I hate waiting to be able to do something.”

Jiro’s ambition is unquestionable, but he tries to find a balance between commercial work and his personal work. “I have so many projects right now, I have to refuse some to pursue my personal work. I can’t afford to, but I am! Many artists do just what pays. I mean that’s cool, everyone’s gotta make money - but the people I respect can do what they want. It’s all about getting there.” His mind may be enveloped around the 1950s-80s, but his feet are planted very much in the business of the now. And rather fittingly, Europe seems to have their eyes on Jiro’s blank page.

See more from Jiro here.

P.S. Jiro just told me that he didn’t actually do the Punks Jump Up website image, so apologies from me, and big up the guy who did, it looks great! Maybe we’ll track YOU down next, huh?