the2ndrule Issue 46
the2ndrule
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February 2004 email edition
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web edition: http://the2ndrule.com
Contents
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0. Edit
1. Orion [Terry Teo]
2. Digital Compassion Documentary (Part 2) [Koh Beng Liang]
3. The Train [Gaston Ng]
4. Instant Cafe Radio Episode 23 [Koh Beng Liang]
5. Panoremix: Seoul Track [Shannon Low]
6. Seoul Graffiti [Shannon Low]
7. Turkey [Terry Teo]
8. Untitled [Stephen Black]
9. Sneaker Pimps Singapore [Excelsior Entertainment x the2ndrule]
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Chinese New Year
The pigeons were absent this year. Perhaps they were down with flu? It made the grounds outside the temple quieter, for no longer were there screams of chasing kids, eager with exerting all their forms of childish domination. Seems that was the theme of the past twelve months. Taught by parental greed, these same children drool at the living room blackjack table.
But waiting with patient desperation outside the gates of the palace, just as his father waited for his turn at power, is the ultimate white horse, naked but for the sunglasses protecting his irises from the unrelenting day, never likely to receive his grandfather's red packet.
Otherwise we have never seen before a white man in the forbidden city, but imagine a Jesuit monk standing in the sacred emperor's court, teaching the counting of days and moons and eclipses and stars.
Yet they could never invent a Chinese spelling bee, for <i>that</i> would be true lunacy.
We're always looking for new work to publish. If you've got any writing, graphics, music, animation or video you'd like to get featured in the2ndrule, do get in touch with us. Please send your comments, suggestions and contributions to: editor@the2ndrule.com
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2ndrule team : Koh Beng Liang, Shannon Low, Benety Goh, Russell Chan, Jason Tong, Alfian Bin Sa'at
Contributors : Terry Teo, Gaston Ng, Stephen Black
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Orion
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To escape as light, you need only obey
some simple rules:
Forget time, which only slows
at high speed.
Hold only to what gravity
cannot pull down.
Only know that when you arrive,
the rest will be made known.
Across the sky, only
a boy and his belt.
I'm walking home.
- Terry Teo
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the2ndrule digital travels 1
http://www.kurtwenner.com/gallery.htm
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Digital Compassion Documentary (Part 2)
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Another short documentary from the instant compassion series. Enjoy!
Click to play:
http://the2ndrule.com/beng/december.mov
- Koh Beng Liang
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the2ndrule digital travels 2
http://www.care.org
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The Train
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you always see it in movies
the train puffing as it arrives
panting during transition
and huffing as it pounds off
with a train,
there's always a horizon
the vertical horizon of railway tracks
clear intent both its boon and bane
you always see it in movies
a girl; a boy; deliberating; not aware of
the invisible edge in a train station
that will drop through regret into remorse.
would you rather be the one leaving
or the one sending off?
what does your choice echo?
hurryupdecide before the train in my poem leaves
you always see it in movies
one(one half) of the two(one) stepping in
a step into the train
a step onto your heart.
the acceleration is the 'agonising'
in 'agonising speed'
the dreaded pick up
the cacophonous percussion of gears and pistons
doom... doom... doomDoomDoomDOOMDOOMDOOM
DOOM.
when the train finally leaves sight
is there relief
(or is it respite?)
arrivals, departures; all are part of transit.
so would you like to huff, puff, or pant
- Gaston Ng
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the2ndrule digital travels 3
http://www.zinestesia.net
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Instant Cafe Radio Episode 23
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Don't rush the good stuff
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue46/instantcafe.html
Playlist:
National Anthem - Thailand
The Odd Couple - The Antheme
Muppets - Sesame Street (jungle remix)
Jack Jones - I'll never fall in love again (The Andy Smith one channel re-edit)
Don Air - Besame Mucho
Muppets - Mah Na Mah Na
Ella Fitzgerald - Hotta Chocolatta
Dani Siciliano - Come as you are
Open Door - Breathe
Hair - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Barbie Dolls
Stereo Action Unlimited - Hi-Fi Trumpet (Boys from Brazil mix)
Gorillaz - Latin Simone (featuring Ibrahim Ferrer)
Letta Mbulu - What's wrong with groovin
Da Lata - Golden (Bugz in the Attic Remix)
Chow Hsuan - The Wandering Songstress (Pathe 100 remix)
- Selection and mix by Koh Beng Liang
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the2ndrule digital travels 4
http://www.urbanmedium.com
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Panoremix: Seoul Track
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Nothing like a bit of Seoul to put you in the mood.
Click to view...
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue46/seoultrack2r.html
- Shannon Low
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the2ndrule digital travels 5
Superpanorama: http://www.mediavr.com/tropfest.htm
More at: http://www.mediavr.com/blog
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Seoul Graffiti
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Graffiti from the Goryeo Kingdom
Click to view...
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue46/seoulgraff.html
- Photos by Shannon Low
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the2ndrule digital travels 6
Witness :: Photography by James Nachtwey
http://www.jamesnachtwey.com
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Turkey
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I've not visited this site in two years. The land
is wordy and overgrown, strewn with broken poetry.
Stray commas dot the hills. Here, I once built
with rhymes taller than truth, and fell
through the roof of my mouth into a furnace.
The world's center is just like any kingdom: it refuses
to out-burn its splendour. but no longer on parade
as architect, I limp around with a spade
to bury one thing, then uncover then next. This must go:
the saddled skull that never controlled
these faultless limbs - until we learn to write, or stab,
or hold. I'll dig with hands fuelled not by dream,
but restoration. Dusting myself clean as an egg
will hatch no metaphor, because silence breaks
on the east. Sometimes, not always, the value of jade is measured
in calligraphy, just when the sphinx's beauty
becomes her riddle. And its good enough
that men may part before a murmuring sea.
If there is a center to knotted histories,
it unravels patiently, from kingdom into myth.
In all attempts to flee, to row, to bail out dirty water,
I pour oceans into my boat.
Turkey is the dream; this is real, the conclusions missed.
Untraceable city. The torn veil. This.
- Terry Teo
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the2ndrule digital travels 7
Japan: Land of a 1000 Wonders
"As soon as Nakamura (Matsushita president) became president he gave each of the company's top 400 company executives an Internet-equipped mobile phone and said all reports to him had to be done by mobile e-mail. Nakamura had taught himself how to type e-mail rapidly with only one thumb, Japanese high-school-girl-style ... The result has been faster communications and decision making."
- Forbes Global, January 12 2004
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Untitled
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Before me,
cheap fried pork,
on the greasy counter of a noisy shack in an alley
off a quiet side street
very near her room,
by eveningbusy Koenji station
in Octobercold Tokyo.
I've no idea where I am.
Koko wa doko;
watashi wa dare?
On tv:
jokes, scripted kisses and tears that are not tears;
families and lovers that everyone hopes for.
Some guy next to me coughs into his comic book
and lights another one.
Neon bleeds the rainy window
and I remember her birthday present.
- Stephen Black
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the2ndrule digital travels 8
http://www.space-invaders.com
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Sneaker Pimps Singapore
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Excelsior Entertainment, Royal Elastics & the2ndrule presents:
http://the2ndrule.com/issues/issue46/sneakerpic.jpg
Sneaker Pimps Singapore
Sneaker Pimps is an exhibition of up to 400 rare, limited edition, vintage, sample, artist collaborated/customized and celebrity signed sneakers from all over the world representing the most amazing collection of sneakers on display.
Sneaker Pimps is visiting Singapore in March and is shaping up to be the biggest sneaker exhibition to date with sneakers being customized live at the event by some of Singapore's best graffiti artists, loads of prize giveaways and a display of the most rare/limited sneakers in the world.
Sneaker Pimps is the first and only international touring sneaker exhibition in the world, working with all the major footwear companies i.e. Royal Elastics, K-Swiss, Nike, Puma, Converse, Adidas, Sole Technology, DVS etc, Sneaker collectors/customization experts and artists i.e. SBTG, Dr. Romanelli, Isabelle, David White, Atmos, Tim Tsui, Eric Kot, Dave Dennis, VERY, Serum, Invisible:Man, Operational Art Core and many more.
Sneaker Pimps is presented by Excelsior Entertainment, Royal Elastics Footwear and the2ndrule with additional support from Heineken, Montana, Freshnessmag.com & Moxie Union.
http://freshnessmag.com/content/features/files/0204/sneaker_pimps/
Space 21
26th March, Friday 7pm till 9:30pm OPENING NIGHT (VIP only)
27th & 28th March, Saturday/Sunday - 11am till 5pm GENERAL VIEWING
SPACE 21
21 Tanjong Pagar Rd #03-01, Singapore 088444
(entrance at lobby on Murray Street; take lift to level 3)
For further information, contact pfahey@excelsiorent.com
- Excelsior Entertainment x the2ndrule
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See you again soon!
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Orion (c) 2003 Terry Teo
Digital Compassion Documentary (Part 2) (c) 2004 Koh Beng Liang
The Train (c) 2003 Gaston Ng
Instant Cafe Radio Episode 23 (c) 2004 Koh Beng Liang
Panoremix: Seoul Track (c) 2004 Shannon Low
Seoul Graffiti (c) 2003 Shannon Low
Turkey (c) 2003 Terry Teo
Untitled (c) 2003 Stephen Black
