Gaming Culture (Photos & Books)

North African and Middle Eastern refugees in the Balkans in the World Press Photos. Worst had to be the Syrian father fixed on the dead young daughter lying across his knees. In that group there were injured children in makeshift hospital wards and in another series children sleeping in tents in the forests. 

            The others viewing avoided any possible sharing of reactions. There was nothing to be said of course.

Exiting the basement portion of the show, unexpectedly there was more on ground level by the escalator, lesser sport and quirky matter. Something else too that had not been noticed earlier near the gift shop.

The vending machine by the girls at the desk was not in fact drink or nibbles. Wrapped mystery purchases rather in some kind of series, all of a size, $19 each.

Unusual. How did that work? Key in the code for the particular item… 

Blind Man’s Bluff or Pin the Tail on the Donkey. You would unpack the surprise present to yourself on the bus home.

Young  Kenny operated Books Actually out at hipsterville Tiong Bahru, where they had tried to get World Heritage listing for the earliest of the housing towers. Kenny had become a local celebrity, photographed numerous times in the Life! section of the newspaper. 

Crammed with all the titles like a candy store BA; this venture was set to tease book-buyers in a whole new way. 

Innovation was the mantra in Singapore. Automation. Robotics. Staying ahead of the curve.

The jaded reading public needed to have their interest piqued; colourful cover product only gained so much traction. 

 

 

National Gallery Singapore, 2017

The old 2G phone bought in Jogja will be inoperable here from April. (A couple of weeks ago Nancy Ong was good enough to gift her mother's old Lenovo.) Needless to say, no camera on the slim-fit Nokia. A couple of young Malay girls manning the gifts at the National Art Museum on Bras Basah Road obliged.
Wrapped mystery purchases in some kind of series all of a size @ $19 ea. Key in the code and one was yours, courtesy of Books Actually. Young Kenny operated BA out at newly emerging hipsterville Tiong Bahru, a minor celebrity himself who has been photographed in the Life! section of the newspaper a number of times. (Doppleganger of our Readings Marko Rubbo down in Melbourne, who bought books in the States unsighted by the crate-load. Or did some years ago.)
Innovation the mantra here in Singapura. Robotics. Staying ahead of the curve. Adapt or you're dead.