05-24-2007: The Unseen

"The significance of family portraits lies in what you don't see."
Says this message on Colors tribute to the Hutu-Tutsi tragedy.

05-13-2007: The Fine Art of Waiting (The Sequel)

Last month, this Alexandre Orion photo from Sao Paulo, Brazil, made me brood over the act of 'waiting' we all go through in life. This witty one from Bernie DeChant (aka Flickr:Razorbern) taken in Salvador, Brazil, puts a smile in the mind about the human side of machines.

05-01-2007: Memory

A simple postcard promoting a play at the Drama Centre in Singapore also reminds us through it's profound title that memory is the most potent of all human remains.

04-26-2007: Flight to the Future

[Originally uploaded by bitmapr]

An image that conjures up a thousand metaphors.

The horizon is wide.
The grass is green.
The energy is right.
The future is bright.
Fly to greater heights.

I can go on and on and on…

04-15-2007: The Power of Listening

There is a reason why we have been given organs proportionately. Two eyes, two ears and one mouth. If only we took the time and effort to utilize it in the right proportions, the world would have been a far better place. So talk less and listen more is the message that came to my mind when I saw this visual collage of different ears from a Bang & Olufsen print ad.

This movie's inner message is also a more profound call to listen.

03-31-2007: Visual Metaphor Extraordinaire

I have been in the Takashimaya mall at Ngee Ann City Towers on Orchard Road many times. But it seems my keen curious eye has missed something that has been lying hidden in plain sight inside the mall.

But Daniel Cheong's curious third eye didn't miss it. A brilliant metaphor for Singapore's favorite pastime - shopping. The P is organically formed in the interior structural evolution of the mall to signify the larger motivations of capitalism - profits.

03-06-2007: Focus

In life, I'm short sighted (for real!) and strive to be far sighted every now and then. Guess most of us are not really visionaries. But the idea is not to lose focus (even if you go blind!!). Now that alone has somehow taken me this far in life.

02-28-2007: Cacophony

Nothing better to capture the cacophony of a long client meeting than this Alan Fletcher sketching.

02-21-2007: Circus of Life

It's a story of world-spanning fantasy. Likewise, our life is also sort of a reality circus.