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Lee Xian Jie
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Xian Jie happens to be a photographer and a typographer, as well as a layoutographer. Okay, there isn’t such a thing. But he likes redesigning stuff, and being in Ngee Ann Polytechnic Mass Comm. makes life very very busy for him.
June 25, 2008
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The Straits Times announced today on its front page a redesign, due in six days. Trajan be goneThe disgusting Trajan “Movie-look” masthead is going to be replaced by a slab-serif typeface, and shortened to “Straits Times”. Hopefully the redesign has lots of bright colors unlike the unexciting pastels they use now.One step backwards, many steps ...
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This is an excerpt of the research paper called Media Consumption in Singapore: The Gen X and Gen Y Singaporean. It was written by Kaiwen, Jabez and I for our Media Research Methods module at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic School of Film & Media Studies last year. It investigates which medium Generation X and Generation ...
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Rain fell earlier tonight. It’s still cold, damp, and lonely outside. Yet where life resides, light follows, and warmth. It’s these splashes of color, of hope, that keeps everyone going amid the gloomiest of times. These were shot on the fly with my mum’s new Canon PowerShot G9. The G9 is lightweight and is designed ...
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The kidsThe Sunday School kids at Palelai Buddhist Temple attended a three-day meditation retreat about a month back with Ajahn Keng. I was there with my Documentary Productions team to shoot some footage of them - these are the photographs from that night. The kids asked about everything - questioning the precepts, things that go ...
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Quick update: I’m up rushing a research paper on youths and film regulations in Singapore. Finding: Higher film ratings (ie. M18, R21) lead to greater numbers of youths downloading films illegally. Also, the more ‘cuts’ are made to films, the more curious youths are. When they are curious, they say they will purchase the film ...
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I wrote the following for npTribune’s latest issue:Our education system strangles creativity and squanders talent. We want innovation and we want it badly. But every child here has b …
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Gothere.sg is the best. It beats all the other local map/directory websites like Street Directory, and is way better than SLA’s or Rednano’s. Try the bus/MRT/taxi options. It even allows you to estimate your taxi charges to the last cent and offers detours to avoid ERP and congested expressways.via Techgoondu.Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: …
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You’re invited! See our Facebook page.Posted in Quick Update
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Malcolm Gladwell writes in the Guardian about pure genius versus hard work:In the early 90s, the psychologist K Anders Ericsson and two colleagues set up shop at Berlin’s elite Academy of Music. With the help of the academy’s professors, they divided the school’s violinists into three groups. The first group were the stars, the students ...
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Transportation is expensive, with bus and train fares climbing steadily, but polytechnic students are still paying adult prices up to 89 percent more than what their pre-university counterparts pay.Three years ago, a Ngee Ann student created an online petition calling for a fare reduction. More than 27,500 signatures have been collected since, but nothing has ...
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