Jack Is Not Dull

07/03/2014

Paints a thousand words

These photos are astonishing.

04/01/2014

With a single, unbroken thread! Such amazing skill.

You might remember Kumi Yamash*ta from one of our October posts featuring her extraordinary collection of works with light and shadow. If you recall, Yamash*ta subtly manipulated materials such as paper, fabric and wood to strategically use lighting on them in order to create shadow art instal

17/12/2013

Quite skewed towards Down Under...but worth a note if you are heading there. Check out their recent posts on London and NY too.

The World’s Top Cafes 20131 ReplyLast week we released the top cafes for a variety of cities and regions around the world including Melbourne, Sydney, New York and London. (You can see all the lists here.)We thought it would be cool to list the world’s top cafes, and see how a cafe in one city/regio...

16/12/2013

A new cafe in Tokyo for you to spend your afternoon at...

http://jackisnotdull.com/2013/12/15/new-friends-at-the-roastery/

25/08/2013

Short short trip!

13/03/2013

Lucky you if you live in Tokyo!

Hello all! I am finally awake from my slumber. If you like nice food, you might know of Chubby Hubby. I am a fan of his blog. He eats well, he writes well, his pictures are pretty, and I also reall...

08/12/2012

The one and only...

Alba, in Piedmont, is Italy’s white truffle mecca and main market. My trip to Europe this year had one main intention – The White Truffle Fair in Alba. Each weekend of the month-and-a-h...

08/11/2012

Such a gift these are...

Much like mold, with a crush of garlic, tossed in newly ploughed soil and kissed by burrowing earthworms, a scent so bewildering yet so intoxicating I would gladly wear as a perfume. The aroma of t...

30/10/2012

You've got mail!

Paris is beautiful; what more can I say? Here are some postcards from The City of Love when I skipped through recently. Beginning at Pont Neuf along the River Seine Then down Boulevard du Palais Ne...

19/09/2012

Very tempting...

Urban cycling has taken a stylish turn. From utilitarian city bikes, to mechanically efficient fixies to ultra-compact foldies, clever designing and technological improvements have turned what used...

25/08/2012

Idyllic beaches, glorious sunshine and an unhurried pace of life

Perhaps not so much of a secret anymore, the stretch of beach in south Albania facing the Ionian Coast is a Club Med-ish paradise. Read that there are plans for the resort chain to set up one soon,...

22/08/2012

Lonely Planet's #1 Travel Destination of 2011

Truth be told, when I first met my boyfriend about a year ago and he told me he was from Albania, I was trying hard not to let my face give away my cluelessness about the country. Where? Oh, next &...

19/08/2012

An experimental and experiential tasting bar concept in an intimate and engaging setting. Only the adventurous need apply. [email protected]

08/08/2012

The heart and soul of India

Colonial relics and modern high-rise, mayhem and order, flashy and modest, rich and poor. They all have a place in a city called Mumbai. A city that pulsates to the rhythm of your heart as you dodg...

21/07/2012

Who's got dirty laundry?

Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai is the world’s largest outdoor laundry. Mundane as it may sounds, this is a fascinating industry where Mumbai’s traditional washerfolk (“dhobis”) engage...

01/07/2012

I'm sure I'll be much more prolific in my writing if I work in a place like this!

If the kitchen is your favourite room in the house, then you will be right at home at Kappabashi Dori in Tokyo. Every time I visit, I spend hours eagerly trawling the entire stretch of the street, ...

30/05/2012

Way waaay cool!

When Christian Schallert isn't cooking, dressing, sleeping or eating, his 24 square meter (258 square feet) apartment looks like an empty cube. To use a piec...

14/05/2012

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

~Peter Wright~

Colour, the incorporeal attribute that complements form, texture and motion to shape our everyday world. Colour invigorates, adds dimension and conveys emotions. Under the right pair of hands, colo...

05/05/2012

As victims, we concur.

An article from "The New Atlantis."

03/05/2012

Uoshin means "fish truly"...

While in Tokyo, we asked a couple of new friends made over dinner to recommend a restaurant they would go back to time and again. In a heartbeat, Nogizaka Uoshin. Why? For freshness, good service a...

27/03/2012

When it snows, ain't it thrilling
Though your nose gets a chilling
We'll frolic and play, the Eskimo way...

Snow sports fashion is mind-blowingly awesome; the variety of designs and styles out there are certain to awaken your inner shopaholic. A trip to a few snow sports shops to browse last year very qu...

15/03/2012

It's about time!

Qun Zhong fans rejoice! Since this local establishment shut for business some ten months ago suddenly and without apparent reason, lovers of the restaurant have grieved and despaired. Well fret no ...

04/03/2012

Revel in the memories of our young Singaporean artists...till 9th March at The Arts House

The annual Arts Festival for Social Causes, i-AM Festival is into its fourth year, with a 2012 theme of Many Hearts, Many Hands, expressed through a series of visual art exhibitions, performing art...

27/02/2012

Faces.Culture.Identity.History...Don't Forget to Remember

1st - 9th March @ The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore

Don't Forget to Remember is a multi-artist exhibition that focuses on capturing and preserving transient and intangible memories through tangible visual art, held from 10 AM to 10 PM on the 1st March to 9th March 2012 at The Arts House's Print Gallery. Featuring notable young Singaporean ...

09/02/2012

If you are fretting over February 14, do check this out.

Fresh from the heady arrival of the lunar spring, Jack and friends’ pleasure of the senses is unsatiated with the promise of 14th February! When I was in London several years ago, I bought a b...

04/02/2012

Any picture can speak 1,000 words, but only a select few say something poignant enough to galvanize an entire society. The following photographs screamed so loudly that the entire world stopped to take notice.

31/01/2012

Mother Nature's pièce de résistance

We have long heard of the beauty of Yosemite National Park, and while we were in that part of town, we couldn't possibly give it a miss. The park is a World Heritage Site that spans more than 3000 ...

27/01/2012

Hauntingly good!

Based on 'The Scream' by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, the 1893 painting inspired by the artist's experience:

"I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature."

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22/01/2012

iWant

If you're anything like us, a trip to the Optometrist is a real treat. It's like a Photographer's dreamland! Full of big, beautiful, and fascinating optical gadgets. After all, getting new glasses is like getting a new lens for your brain. (If only our health insurance covered a Canon L lens).

21/01/2012

Design maketh Art, Art becometh Design

Jack and Friends are back at Art Plural Gallery! When we last visited the gallery, we were floored by the four levels of art. Argentinian-French artist, designer, architect and researcher Pablo ...

07/01/2012

So glad we visited

Happy 2012 everyone! I do realise that my previous post was on coffee, so I really shouldn't be posting yet another so soon. But I am so excited about this one I couldn't wait to share it with you....

01/12/2011

Fresh off the press

This place is no longer a secret. In fact it is so well known and popular that I was contemplating for a long while if I should bother to write about it. But call it paying tribute. I love Papa Pal...

24/11/2011

Three cheers for gluttony!

I was excited to bring Jack and two other food-loving pals to Canton-I at ION Orchard. It has been a favourite lunch or dinner haunt for me since I first tried it. With four branches in Malaysia...

19/11/2011

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin

“There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread,...

05/11/2011

Gems not to be missed...

The blue skies on 25 October sang of the night to come. Everywhere I looked, I chanced glimpses of delicious blue hues. The elegant sinews of a blue car hummed with the night’s elegant possibilit...