Today I'll teach you how to visit a art museum.
Tip 1: Surroundings are very important! I liked the way the Chinese gate entrance juxtaposed against the minimalism grey buildings. Nice contrast.
Step 1: Be clear on which museum you're going to. You don't want to ask about history in a art museum. Better still, take a photo of the signs. Look. It says ART MUSEUM.
Tip 2: Feel free to take photos of the interior, especially when you're never seen anything like it
Like this. Beautiful, edgy, red, and most people aren't keen to try this.
Interior of the first gallery we went into. I know w/ all the lights on the ceiling makes it really distracting and irritating, and everything looks shiny
One of my friends examining artwork hanging off the wall. Actually, it's a rather nice picture of her. I like the lines created by the numerous frames, and although you can't see the expression, it's still real.
Another shot again. This one shows the sculptures on the small posts, and I keep seeing the one which looks like a gun first.
Photo of artwork this time. This is a aerial view of 2 children playing war games. Their expressions seem calm and relaxed, compared to the scenes of battle between them. I guess this one trying to show the way we are numbed to the presence of violence around us, we no longer avoid such topics and talk freely about it, suggesting that our sense of humanity is gradually lost to us.
Superman on the floor. Questions the very essence of our idol worship. Do we follow it blindly, or we seek the idol's character and achievements as something we can emulate? I haven't got to the point of idol worshiping yet, so I'm unable to comment.
A fish with a walking stick, against a black and white background. I didn't know each artwork must tell a story, then I haven't got any idea what this means.
Tip 3: Feel free to take photos of the artwork you like, the artwork itself
Or how they're arranged. Oh, how I wish i could take one of those small pieces back home.
For sheer randomity would also do. This looks like a cassette! I guess I still like my stuff retro.
Another picture of my friends. Photo's focus is on the frames on the wall, which looks like office blocks off Inception
I still wonder what the bar is for.
This is starting to look like a tour of the musuem
I LOVE THIS! Beatuiful, like the way the artist used 9 small pictures in a single frame to tell a story. Plus it's black and white!
I hate you, reflection
This picture. Innocence. Simple. How come I can't draw like this?
Side view again. I love walls too much
*Sigh*
Ha. Satire take of the traditional Chinese 4 beauties. Normal Chinese paintings paint them in beautiful clothes, full colored background, smiling expression, and this pictures just turned everything upside down.
I took the liberty of taking photos, so all four of them are photographed here.
3rd one
4th one
5th one.
More black and white
This was a multimedia art installation by artist (I forgot who). It's amazing how he can show 4 different types of emotions on each side of a room, all just using video.
Another shot, but this one's isn't the best.
3rd floor this time. This is the gallery of traditional Chinese art. This looks more familiar to me
The way the fluorescent lights aligned on the ceiling. Like the rulers on a floorplan.
This dwells alot on religion and guess work, so I'm saying that there's a picture of 24 people on it
The end of a corridor. I wish I can go back, anytime I like
The open wall from the gallery. I should have begun with the outside first.
A pressure gauge. The thing which is out of place here.
Street view from inside.
"Open" concept of the gallery. I can't get enough of these<3
How to be a cow doctor. I am not joking. They also have detailed books explaining and describing various symptoms and ailments.
See? That's the early course on how to be a vet.
Gallery. Wow.
Traditional Playing cards. Wait, they invented printing press so that they could print playing cards? Gee, these people sure like to gamble at any chance.
A ladder scale of being an official. You start from a corner and see how long you need to reach the centre. Looks like a long ride.
More cards again. How do they stand it?
Looks like some version of the ranking game. I'm never touching messy business of politics.
See?
Horse dentistry. I am not joking.
Horse treatment guide
Another page, probably with remedy this time
Acupuncture guide. For horses. I don't even dare to do acupuncture myself.
A mobile exhibition, but this is the open air concept. I think those are worth the climb up.
That's how big it is. I could do a lot of things with a wire frame like that. Like my built in dryer. absolutely no electrical bills involved
Staircase to the top floor. I like the use of natural sunlight for lighting.
The other exhibition. It's amazing how the same materials can portray 2 entire different emotions.
Another picture of my friend again. Sh, don't tell her
The ceiling of the entrance. If my house had a ceiling like that i don't mind climbing to the top everyday just to clean it.
There's where they fit an overhead bridge. I love this building.
That's my picture. I'm the one in green. I still hate my own photos.
The entrance of the building.
Along the pavement..
TJ is in the midst of a construction frenzy, and this one builds to be a condominium.
Strangely enough there don't seem to be trees around like Singapore.
Outside a park.
Along the office blocks.
I took this on the bus ride back to the hotel. That's a really really really bad habit.
A provision shop by the road. Even though it may be very competitive, but at least life is not so hectic.
A nike store. In the middle of an old building. That's where the charm in shopping lies.
A photography studio in the middle of the street. These studios are hard to come by, and it is uncommon to them.
I envy these people.
Who likes buying from an air conditioned shopping mall? This is where shopping comes with a charm.
Just an idea on how sardine packed the buses are.
I was there.. once.
Here is near the music hall.
Very close already
Across the street. People with good memory should realise I'm nowhere near the hotel at all.
This is a restaurant. I'm eating their stuff for dinner.
The vine overgrown gate. Nasty.
The music hall against the backdrop of tall office buildings.
A closer view again
Directly outside this time.
Jaywalking at its best.
No, this is a municipal office.
British style.. The only city in the world with such diverse architecture styles.
Me (again-.-) and a friend wearing black.
Awesome entrance
Right.. And I was told it was safe to jaywalk.
Just behind the hall. Russian style. You can essentially see European Architecture here. There's British, Russian, French, German...
Last picture already! Outside the music hall this time. I still look fat. I don't like photographs of myself. Explains the extreme lack of them on my facebook page.
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