Pass it forward: Fitness Trainer Safran regards personal fitness as a means of inspiration
Take one look at fitness trainer and model Safran Halimi, and immediately you see a product of intensive training, a result of years of diligence, discipline, and motivation to perfect the one part of anyone’s life that they cannot live without: their own body. However, behind the muscle lies a story of inspiration, a journey...
UpToTheSky Festival
UpToTheSky Festival celebrates music, inspiration and everything indie. Come experience an amazing lineup of bands, flea market and independent music videos on December 3rd, at Old School, Mt Sophia. Chill with twelve of the hottest bands in South East Asia such as The Trees & The Wild (ID), White Shoes & The Couples Company...
Bruce Munro | Field of Light, Star Turn
Lighting artist Bruce Munro will unveil a large Field of Light installation at the Holburne Museum, Bath in November this year. He first created a Field of Light at the Brilliant! exhibition at the V&A Museum in London in 2004, and went on to create other versions including a 10-acre display at Long Knoll...
Profiling | Sarah Angold
Sarah Angold Studios comprises of a multidisciplinary team of designers spanning arenas from fashion, product to even vehicles. For London Fashion Week, Sarah Angold also debuted her third jewelry range following the tremendous success of their previous two. Fascination with architecture and mathematical graduation dominates this collection, and is conveyed through the inventive use...
A Legend in Her Own Right
From the 16th to 20th May 2011, CNN’s Hero of the Year 2010, Mrs. Anuradha Koirala, and the director Maiti Nepal, Mr. Bishwo Ram Khadka, were hosted in Singapore by Mrinalini Venkatachalam from UNIFEM Singapore, Aparna Thadani from Prospero World and assistant film producer of The End/Beginning, a film on Mrs. Koirala’s life, Karishma Chanrai,...
The Secret World of Haute Couture: A way of life, not just mere fashion culture
Recently, Singapore had a rare opportunity to take a look into the fashion industry of the world through the Singapore Fashion film Festival (SFFF), a new initiative by organizers Anne-Laure Bouhadef and Huie-Ling Peh to offer locals a never-before-seen outlook on the fashion industry around the world. And while there were many films about several...
So Creative Talk | ActuallyMAG
ActuallyMAG has come a long way since its inception in January this year. What started merely as a simple platform for us to communicate with our customers and friends has steadily grown and expanded into not just a dedicated team of contributors but a wonderful community of contributors and readers alike. In light of...
GIHAWOO DESIGN
Industrial design studio GIHAWOO is comprised of best friends Woo Giha, the product designer, and Ethan Lee, the marketing director. Together, they create a vision of contemporary living that is simultaneously attractive and functional. Based in South Korea, the principle behind GIHAWOO lies in their strict adherence to the notion of the ‘archetype’,...
Profiling | Tze Goh
Born and raised in Singapore, fashion designer Tze Goh is a graduate of Parsons the New School for Design as well as Central Saint Martins, which puts him amongst the ranks of other notable alumni from Alexander Wang to Phoebe Philo. Now based in London, his latest collection for Spring/Summer 2012, which launched during...
Opportune
I’ve been musing about the idea of opportunity. An opportune place. An opportune position. An opportune placement. The chinese description for this is: 天时地利人和. Being at the right place at the right time with the right people. There’s a place to be prepared. To keep pursuing one’s heart, passions and delight. To bravely take a...
A Lesson in Growth | The New FREITAG Factory
Swiss company FREITAG has been all about two things from the word go– Recycling and Recontextualization. Which is why when it came time to move to a new factory 18 years since they were first established in a small apartment in Zurich, the same rules would apply. Situated in Zurich’s pre-hip district Oelikon and...
The 5 Bloodsucker Titles To Take Note Of (If You Haven’t Already)
In 2008, a movie about a normal high school girl who shifts into a new town, meets and falls in love with a vampire, and encounters other vampires both friendly and hostile, was released. Sounds familiar? It probably rings an immediate bell in your head, unless you haven’t been to the movies, watched television, or...
The Affordable Art Fair 2011
Whether you’re a casual art lover or serious collector, there’s now at least 30% more reason for you to pop down to the F1 Pit Building at Marina South this November 18th to 20th. That’s because the Affordable Art Fair (AAF) is returning for the second year, and it promises to be bigger by...
A Closer Look at the 54th Venice Biennale | Welsh artist Erin Rickard
I first met Erin Rickard on the steps of a bridge along the Venice waterfront, in the midst of her public interaction performance. She holds a life-sized poster of her boyfriend in her hand, asking passers-by politely for their assistance in folding the poster into her wallet. Titled ‘I Need You Near Me’, her project...
ActuallyMag’s Guide to the 54th Venice Biennale: Part II
The National Pavilions are said to be one of the four pillars of the Venice Biennale, and continue to be the strongest foundation upon which the international art exhibition is built upon. These pavilions reflect the nature of their individual countries, and yet are able to transcend the boundaries of their societies to discuss wider...
ActuallyMag’s Guide to the 54th Venice Biennale: Part I
Every two years, the international art world falls upon Venice to create an ever-expanding affair that overlaps the streets of the Floating City and the surrounding lagoons. In its 54th run, the title of this year’s Venice Biennale is ILLUMInations. The Venice Biennale features both independent exhibits as well as National Pavilions, where artists...
Debra Franses Bean | ARTbag
Appealing to our inherent voyeuristic tendencies to make a statement that is both sentimental and unconventional, Debra Franses Bean’s project titled ARTbag achieves just that – it elevates the status of a woman’s handbag, a utility of everyday life, into a piece of art, by allowing it to become the representation of a certain idea...
127.Brick Lane | Rick by Brick
When searching for cutting edge labels such as Rick Owens, one does not simply strut to Brick Lane – widely known as one of London’s vintage mecca – yet this is where a small gem of a store is found; an avant garde oasis amidst the array of grandpa sweaters and leather brogues. The...
Breakfast Beauty | The Most Important Meal of the Day, Made Up
Fact: Everybody loves breakfast. Or at least, everybody loves breakfast food. Who isn’t constantly thinking about blueberry pancakes smothered in syrup, or creamy eggs benedict? Or a banana nut muffin and a piping hot latte? If you’re not thinking how MessyMsxi is thinking, you should probably do something about that, pronto. Breakfast styling...
2012 Singapore St Jerome’s Laneway Festival
The adage ‘the bigger the better’ might be kind of an overstatement in most cases. However, there are some exceptions, and ‘music festivals’ hover pretty much near the top of our list. Whether it be line-up, crowds or duration, we can’t help but ask for more. It seems that the organizers of the St...
London Design Festival | Walterworks
Operating under the pseudonym ‘Walterworks’, Belgian Walter Raes, who has been living and working in London since 1989, unveiled his latest immersive installation ‘DUN ROAMIN’ at the Oratory House on the 20th of September during London Fashion Week. He combines elements of interior and fashion design with the surrealist tradition characterized by previous Belgian forerunners...
Reiki l Dance music pimpstress
For more than a decade, Jean Tay aka Reiki has gone to the furthest corners of electronic dance music. From dishing out the earlier sounds of breakbeat to threading through the stripped versions of dubstep, and playing in countless of gigs to getting her hands dirty on advance DJing equipment, the pimpstress of sound has...
Screen Cap | Upcoming movie releases of 2011
There’s always something new to look forward to at the movies, and this year is no exception. ActuallyMAG picks out some titles that we can’t wait to watch on the big screen, from your token Hollywood blockbuster to enigmatic film noir. IN TIME In a future where time is literally money and aging...
SWIMS | Stylish Galoshes
My attention was first caught by the name SWIMS; both having that as a name for shoe brand and the idea of it being unique. Brainchild of Johan R. SWIMS is not a new invention. Galosh, outer shoes worn in inclement weather to protect the inner shoes and keep feet dry that are usually...
