Towns x Hong Kong from Plastic Bones.
TOWNS, RT has just put out a video of his trip in March to my homeland of Hong Kong!
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TOWNS RT in Hong Kong
Towns x Hong Kong from Plastic Bones.
TOWNS, RT has just put out a video of his trip in March to my homeland of Hong Kong!
Plumber King of Hong Kong
Kui Wong is known as the Plumber King. He has been painting his illegal ads for his plumbing business for decades and has become the most famous living bomber, right up there with the King Of Kowloon, who sadly died in 2007. Below is a short interview with him, by CNNGo.
CNNGo: How long have you been a plumber?
Kui Wong: I’ve been doing this for half a century.
I snuck across the border from China when I was young.
There used to be a lot of factories that needed plumbing work done.
CNNGo: Why did you start painting advertisements everywhere?
Wong: In the beginning I posted my advertisements in newspaper classifieds.
Then I thought, what can I do to make more of an impact? So I made stickers.
That was really common in the past. I used to put them inside lifts,
but people don’t appreciate that anymore.
That’s when I realized I could paint on the walls in different parts of town.
CNNGo: When was that?
Wong: Oh, it was ages ago. I’ve been painting for a very long time.
CNNGo: Your ads are in all sorts of unusual places.
How do you decide where to paint them?
Wong: I drive a motorcycle all over the place.
If I see somewhere interesting, I can just pull over and paint there.
CNNGo: Do you know who the King of Kowloon is?
Wong: (Laughs) I used to see the King of Kowloon walking around
with his bucket of paint. But he’s dead now. A lot of radio advertising
people have asked me if I want to advertise on the radio, but I rejected
their offer because I don’t want to put myself out there too much.
My line of work is not very desirable. I just want to earn enough to
be comfortable. I don’t want to be famous.
Check out our original post on the King Of Kowloon, Hong Kong's most prolific street bomber, who passed away in 2007 HERE.
Many thanks to Invasian Mag for the article!
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Kui Wong: I’ve been doing this for half a century.
I snuck across the border from China when I was young.
There used to be a lot of factories that needed plumbing work done.
Wong: In the beginning I posted my advertisements in newspaper classifieds.
Then I thought, what can I do to make more of an impact? So I made stickers.
That was really common in the past. I used to put them inside lifts,
but people don’t appreciate that anymore.
That’s when I realized I could paint on the walls in different parts of town.
Wong: Oh, it was ages ago. I’ve been painting for a very long time.
How do you decide where to paint them?
Wong: I drive a motorcycle all over the place.
If I see somewhere interesting, I can just pull over and paint there.
Wong: (Laughs) I used to see the King of Kowloon walking around
with his bucket of paint. But he’s dead now. A lot of radio advertising
people have asked me if I want to advertise on the radio, but I rejected
their offer because I don’t want to put myself out there too much.
My line of work is not very desirable. I just want to earn enough to
be comfortable. I don’t want to be famous.
Many thanks to Invasian Mag for the article!
Mad Ceramics
Two great designs in the current Hong Kong Potters Exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Yes, they are both entirely made of ceramic...
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[VIA]AGA 2010 Aquascaping Contest
Here are the results from the AGA Aquascaping Awards 2010
1st Place-
2nd Place:
3rd Place:
other tanks to note:
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1st Place-
432 Litre: Michael G.W. Wong, North Point Hong Kong
2nd Place:
400 Litre: Pasquale Buonpane, Piedimonte Matese CE Italy
3rd Place:
412 Litre: Kam Wong, North Point Hong Kong
other tanks to note:
648 Litre: Yu-Lin Chen, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
870 Litre: Chow Wai Sun, Hong Kong - China
Xeme in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Graff writer & Editor of Invasian Magazine, XEME is still pushing the boundaries of the letterform with his Chinese-character graffiti....
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Kaws Passing Through Show
Most of the time, I'm hating on KAWS cos of his blatant ripping off of iconic charcters, but anyone who builds a massive sculpture outside Hong Kong's Harbour City for a show deserves some respect...
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Art Events Thursday 5th August Onwards
Boy BANG Boy is an exhibition of eight international artists. We are delighted with the works produced and presented ~ we feel the works are delicate, intimate and beautiful and hope we can do them justice. So head along to the opening night ~ Thursday 5th August 2010, from 7PM.East Gallery
Brick Lane
London
Spectre ShowStreetartist from New York
Pure Evil Gallery
Leonard St
London
'Still City'6th - 29th August 2010
Photographs by
POLLY BRADEN, OLLIE HARROP, BILLY MACRAE & COLIN O'BRIEN
Private view
6th August 7 - 9pm
ROOM Gallery
31 Waterson St
London E2
LAVA Collective returns to The Rag Factory as part of Time Out's First Thursdays program. We are using the event to showcase 2 new LAVA artists: Jo Peel and Stik.RAG Factory
Heneage Street
London E1
"Random is Beautiful" a solo art exhibition by KSFriday, August 6th, 2010
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
31 Eastern Street
Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
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