Archive for 21 May, 2008

Blastique Live @ British Council’s Young Design Entrepreneur Award ‘08

May 21, 2008 4:49 pm

THIS SATURDAY @ Central Market Annexe

Pecha Kucha Night, the global design networking/social event that draws creative talents together is back! Come and experience an exhilarating range of speakers and images over the course of an evening.

image copyright Pecha Kucha

Date: Saturday 24th May 2008 | Time: 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Venue: The Annexe Gallery, Central Market Annexe, Jalan Hang Kasturi, Kuala Lumpur
Price: Admission is free | Contact: 03-2031 0339
Website: www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/kuala-lumpur

The line up!
Ridwan Kamil, architect and urban planner, Bandung Indonesia
Creative United Movement (C.U.M.). design collective and fun folks
Munkao, visual artist and bawdy humorist
Simon Keogh, architect and curator, transplanted from Ireland
PopMalaya, tee-shirt designers
Blastique, Producer/DJ/Sonic Artist, providing electronica for the night
Elaine Foster, poet and humble servant to the Freedom Film Festival
Zhin Teng, emerging architect

More about it:

Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) was started in Tokyo, Japan in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture. Presenters will give a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for only 20 seconds - giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds.

The result is a high-energy creative showcase where creative people talk about…creative things! Or some say ‘a happy crossbreed between an elevator pitch and a slide show’.

The brief the presenters are given is no brief! They can talk about any subject of choice, as long as they keep to the time and format. With an audience made up mostly from the creative and design fields, Pecha Kucha Nights are great networking experiences, only more fun. There will be music and beer on hand and simulating conversations to boot! So see you there.

Also, British Council is hosting their third Pecha Kucha Night, bringing together creative minds to talk about equally creative things. Blastique will be spinning and there will be presentations by people like Munkao, Pop Malaya, Creative United Movement, Ridwan Kamil and Simon Keogh. Chekkitout. Definitely something to do and see on a Saturday night.

Server Outage

1:28 pm

Dear all,

Apologies for the outage that happened a couple of days ago. There was a billing issue and my account got temporarily suspended as a result! This unfortunately also took my email addresses off the map. However, everything is back to normal once again.

A new mix is also being uploaded as I type this… :)