Art Remakes

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My second day of medical leave means I only had a two-day work week. Yiiikes. That’s 10 hours of lessons that I’ve missed, and that I’ll have to make up for, somehow. In my defence, I did go in to work. I was simply deemed unfit by my Principal when he saw heard me and was told to go home.

So. That’s another afternoon at home of surfing the net while sleeping in between meds.

While blog hopping, I came across this Remake / Photo project by Adobe and Booooooom (yes, that’s SEVEN ‘O’s), where people were invited to remake a famous work of art using photography. The result was breathtaking and ingenious for the most part and I’m in awe of the amount of creativity that was displayed by many of them. Here are some of my favourites:

The Original – Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Piet Mondrian

The Remake by Katie Jackson

The Original – Bedroom in Arles by Van Gogh

The Remake by Joshua Louis Simon

The Original – Vase with 12 Sunflowers by Van Gogh

The Remake by Qi Wei Fong

The Original – Der Arme Poet by Carl Spitzweg

The Remake by Regina Speer

The Original – American Gothic by Grant Wood

The Remake by Jesse John Hunniford

The Original – The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio

The Remake by Stella Vula

The Original – Woman With A Guitar by George Braque

The Remake by Niklas Enhag

The Original – Luncheon on the Grass, by Edouard Manet

The Remake by Gizem Karakas

And in case you were wondering who won…

The Original – The Ship by Salvador Dali

The Remake by Justin Nunnink

You can view the rest of the submissions here.

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Song of the Day, because looking at art makes me feel French. ;)

Fibre de Verre, by Paris Combo

Pinteresting food

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Just two days into work and I’m on medical leave already. Who knew teaching would aggravate an already irritable throat? Hur hur. Anyway, since I can’t project my voice and they don’t make spittoons cute (or small) enough for me to carry around class, I had to pave the way for being the first to go on medical leave this year. *throws confetti*

So what’s a coughing, phlegm-filled girl to do on a Thursday in between sleeping off the meds? Go on Pinterest of course. And look at pictures that inadvertently cause drool to slide down the side of my mouth like a slippery sucker.

I never quite understood how Dia can look at pictures of food all day, but after two straight hours, I get it now. Not only do they make your screen look absolutely delectable, they also give you great ideas for future parties/get-togethers. Here are some easy recipes that I particularly want to try out next time I have friends over:

Cheddar Bay Biscuits (recipe)

Ham and Cheese Sliders (recipe)

Bacon Strip Pancakes (recipe)

Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets (recipe)

Nutella Bread Pudding (recipe)

The rest of the recipes I’ve pinned are here, if you’re interested. :)

(Don’t quite understand how Pinterest works? You can read about it here.)

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Song of the Day, because I’m taking a trip down memory lane back to my secondary school days…

Voices That Care, by Various Artists

Because we’re not Chinese enough

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So my mother suddenly yells out my name and asks for help.

Mum: “You know Chinese, right?”

Me: “Um… I guess?”

Mum: “What should this read?”

*stares at words*

Me: I. Have. NO. IDEA.

Apparently the words fell out while my father was taking this festive scroll out of the store. He can’t read a word of Mandarin (having taken Malay when he was in school) so he just placed them back randomly. My mother’s really bad with Mandarin having failed it all her life, so she couldn’t help. Me? Well, I still believe that B4 I scored during the GCE O Levels was a complete miracle.

So what did I do?

I immediately took a photo and sent it to my friends for visual confirmation (it was wrong, of course; the last two words needed to be swapped so it reads ying chun jie fu), who were tickled that we all didn’t know what it should have read.

What do you expect from a crew who only says four auspicious wishes (gong xi fa cai, xin nian kuai le, nian nian you yu, bu bu gao sheng) whenever we toss the yusheng during Chinese New Year? We fill the rest with English phrases or incoherent ramblings.

Just another typical Peranakan family for you.

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Song of the Day

San Andreas Fault, by Natalie Merchant