Lovely photographs of the 9th Edition by guest photographer Christopher Oon are here >
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.273465045997687&type=1
And a peek at what went on during ALL I WANT -
Last but not the least, a big thank you to all of you wonderful people who turned up, you have been an absolute riot! -
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Sunday, 21 August 2011
SPORE Art Salon, 9th Edition!
In the month of AUGUST, we are proud to present you a mish mash of artistic wonders! Doors open 7pm at ECHOLoft, a local short film screening will commence at 7:30PM... life drawing sessions, a stage play, poetry reading, an acoustic trio n then some!
SPORE Art Salon is a non-profit opportunity created for visual artists to meet, mingle, inspire, and share with performing artists. During the event, we alternate between drawing sessions with live models, and performances from musicians, contortionists, poets, dancers, actors and more. We also feature works of, and demonstrations by visual artists, individually or collaboratively.
For those who are new to the art salon, our event is modeled after world famous Giles Larrain's Art Salon in NYC, with a distinctly Singaporean twist and flavour!
There is a minimum donation of $15/person at the door, and proceeds will benefit ECHOLoft and our featured artists. There will be alcoholic drinks for sale, and a small spread of 'tapas'! Come meet, mingle and inspire with fellow creatives of various disciplines. Guests are encouraged to participate in the life drawing sessions in between performances, so, bring your charcoal, pastels, paints, drawing pad, ipad...... you are also welcomed to take the stage at the end of the evening during our 'open mic'!
ECHOLoft is situated at 268A South Bridge Road
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FEATURED VISUAL ARTIST:
JOW ZHI WEI (film maker)
http://jowzhiwei.wordpress
Born in Singapore, Jow Zhi Wei graduated with first-class honours from The Puttnam School of Film, Lasalle in 2010. He believes in making films that deeply examine the human condition through compassionate, intimate observation of behaviour, discovering the cycles of life and death, the fragility of relationships and the emotional isolation that characters feel in urban spaces.
During his two year study at the school, he wrote and directed two short films. His first, Outing, was selected for competition at the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain. His graduation work, Waiting, had its international premiere at the 15th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. It also received the award for ‘Best Script’ at the 2nd Singapore Short Film Awards 2011, and a ‘Jury Special Mention’ for both ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Performance’.
Both his films have screened at the National Museum of Singapore’s Cinematheque programme, the Singapore Short Cuts, a showcase of outstanding short films from Singaporean filmmakers.
Collectively, they have screened in over 20 countries.
He is an alumnus of the Golden Horse Film Academy in Taiwan, organized by illustrious Taiwanese filmmaker, Hou Hsiao-hsien and is due to pursue his studies at Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France.
'WAITING' will be screened at 7:30PM.
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FEATURED PERFORMING ARTISTS:
BECCA D'BUS (host)
Eugene Tan is an artist who works in performance, garments and drag. Till recently, Eugene was based in Boston, MA, where he worked he directed A Street Theater Named Desire, a guerrilla AIDS activist performance troupe that did work in gay cruising areas in the middle of the night, he also created Come As You Are: Celebrate Queer Sex!, a performance series that looked at queer sexual values 40 years after Stonewall, versions of Come As You Are were seen in 13 cities across the US, from major gay capitals like San Francisco to cities such as Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As an artist in research at the Berwick Research Institute in 2005, Eugene started an exploration of garments as performing objects, this, he has continued this work with costume design for plays, and also in the creation of Becca D’Bus, his drag persona. Eugene is currently a theater reviewer for The Flying Inkpot.
ALL I WANT - a stage play by Ren Robles
“What are you looking for in a partner?” Watch Vince and Amy try to answer this age-old question that has plagued single people all over the world in the charming romantic comedy ALL I WANT. A lighthearted romp through the perils of singledom and the quest to find The One, this one-act play is written and directed by playwright Ren Robles. ALL I WANT stars Jason Miller as Vince and Crista Leopardi as Amy, two old friends who stumble, bumble, and fumble their way to finding out just what they’re looking for.
REN ROBLES (Playwright and Director) finished with a degree in Psychology but pursues his passions in theatre as a veteran of Repertory Philippines Children’s Theatre as well as the Asian premiere of the stage version of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL directed by Chari Arespacochaga for Ateneo Blue Repertory in Manila.
JASON MILLER (Vince; Ba. Musical Theatre at CQUniversity) has played Lennox and understudy for Banquo and Malcolm in MACBETH: THE CONTEMPORARY ROCK OPERA (2009), directed by Beth Child at Cremorne Theatre, QPAC.
CRISTA LEOPARDI (Amy; BS in Dance Management) is mostly a dancer but proudly credits roles in CHILDREN OF EDEN (Ensemble), BEND (an Original staging), and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (Winnie).
ACE BIGCAS is Stage Manager for this production.
The Russian Dolls (acoustic trio)
Fuelled with the passion for music, Sarah E., Fauzo, and Ed came together in the spirit of this one mutual love, to try a hand at a new collaboration. The results weren't surprising... not yet anyway! But are increasingly entertaining, sparked off by the great chemistry within this unexpected trio! Let The Russian Dolls bring you a night of entertainment and laughter!
Stephanie Dogfoot (performance poet)
http://stephdogfoot.wordpr
Stephanie is a performance poet who toys with ideas about identity, foreignness, (not) growing up and river snails. She won the Annual Singapore Poetry Slam in 2010, and represented Singapore in the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam on Reunion Island that same year where she competed against poets from countries like Botswana, India and Madagascar and bridged geographical, cultural and language barriers with a universal ode to hawker food. She was also runner-up in the Vancouver Queer Slam 2008.
Stephanie is in back in Singapore for the moment but is more often found in London where she performs poetry and hosts spoken word events in various spaces around the city (especially squatted buildings) and sometimes finds the time to study law. She recently came to the conclusion that lawyers and poets are more similar than they would like to think because both are in the business of arranging words to change people’s feelings. Stephanie is inspired by things in the world (but especially Singapore) that make her enraged, being righteously enraged, then laughing at them. Her work has been described as ‘spiritual lyrics for the human journey’ (some guy named Sky) and "um...a bit chim. A bit embarrassing for our family. But nice." (her sister).
Monday, 15 August 2011
Dr Sketchy Singapore PIN-UP featuring Violet Jade Grey
Bump!
This is going to be awesome, we know it! Becca D'Bus, host and co-organiser of SPORE Art Salon, is producing a series of monthly Dr Sketchy cabaret life-drawing sessions. And you 'art monkeys' will not want to miss this!
For more information, visit http://drsketchysingapore.blogspot.com
Monday, 25 July 2011
SPORE Art Salon, 8th Edition...!
The month of May had been, for us, a bittersweet one, as some good friends in the organising committee - most of you would know who - were scheduled to leave Singapore for another project in Italy the day after the 7th Edition! We however had an absolutely grand time that night, and if you missed it... here are the beautiful photographs shot by our guest photographer > https://www.facebook.com/m
For those who are new to the art salon, our event is modeled after world famous Giles Larrain's Art Salon in NYC, with a distinctly Singaporean twist and flavour!
SPORE Art Salon is a non-profit opportunity created for visual artists to meet, mingle, inspire, and share with performing artists. During the event, we alternate between drawing sessions with live models, and performances from musicians, contortionists, poets, dancers, actors and more. We also feature works of, and demonstrations by visual artists, individually or collaboratively.
In this month of JULY ... Event tickets at the door are $15 donation/person, proceeds benefit The Pigeonhole, so they may continue to host non-commercial/profitable events. There will be alcoholic drinks for sale, and you are also encouraged to try the food at Pigeonhole. There will be mini live drawing sessions and guests are encouraged to participate - bring your paper, pens, pencils, charcoal, pastels...!
FEATURED PERFORMING ARTISTS:
NG YI-SHENG (featured model)
SUZANNE SUBHA CHEW (Laughter yoga artist)
http://mylaughingjourney.b
Suzanne zests for continuous learning and upgrading herself has motivated her to sign up for the Certified Laughter Yoga teacher (CLYT) course. She was trained under the world renowned guru Dr. Madan Kataria and had successfully obtained a certificate on the course in January 2010 conducted in Bombay, India. She is convinced, upon completion of the CLYT course, that the world could go HOHO-HAHAHA !!! and enjoyed the cheapest way to a healthy and happy living with little and best no medication. It can also be said that laughter is the best medicine to a stressless life.
JURANE (musician)
21-year-old Jurane Solano has been singing since the age of 4 in her native country, the Philippines where she spent a part of her childhood. “Growing up, music has always been a huge part of my life, and I think it always will be.” When she migrated to Singapore, she joined and won a few singing competitions, spurring her to purse her passion in the performing arts. Her latest achievements include being the central female character in a musical ‘Paul the Musical’ staged in NUS University Cultural Centre (2009) and also lead actress in the musical ’13:34’ staged in Singapore EXPO (2010) to sold-out.
ZUNI (poet)
Metaphorically speaking, Zuni is part-lion (not lioness), part-flying whale, part-fastest mealworm in the world. Literally speaking, she is a young woman who sang before she spoke, told stories before she learnt to read, speaks with respectful intent to people and objects and is grateful to her pillows for listening to her early compositions which were altogether incomprehensible, violent and vulgar. It is most shameful that she did not discover poetry slams until she turned 19, but throughout her life she has always tried to put words in a hear-worthy order. She tells stories through spoken word or music and she does not compose fiction; everything she writes has either happened, is happening or will. There is a peace sign in her signature and it is easy to forge.
As a poet, she has stuck her toes into Blu Jazz poetry slams and Open Mics at TAPAC. As a musician, she’s performed originals at post-museum and other places with a feminist-male/partner-in-c
FEATURED VISUAL ARTIST:
MELISSA TAN
http://www.wix.com/melissa
Melissa is interested in the idea of the push and pull of opposites. Elements and processes that are seemingly contrasting, and discovering the harmony of the in between, that gives her work its balance. Lately, she has been exploring materials, and learning to manipulate them differently. Merging them with other mediums, allows her to incorporate fragility that harmonizes into organic forms, translating a certain dialogue between the materials to inspire a certain ethereality of the work.
The theme for her recent work is on the transience of reality. Inspired by accidental mark makings, the uncontrollability of change and the constant act of trying to control. Merging the accidental marks with her own renderings, make it difficult to differentiate the two processes, however, the delicate line works that harmonizes the piece, aims to elicit the fragile beauty of the ephemeral.
PHOTOGRAPHS ARE HERE !!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.258323964178462&type=1
Monday, 27 June 2011
SPORE Art Salon, 7th Edition!
Hello, Salonists!!!
We had a blast in May, meeting lots of new faces, and catching up with old friends who are so enthusiastic coming out every month to support this community! Photographs are here if you missed us!
https://www.facebook.com/m
...For the month of June we are excited to present you with the 7th edition of the SPORE Art Salon, and a great line up of visual and performing artists, storytelling and music!
For those who are new to the art salon, our event is modeled after world famous Giles Larrain's Art Salon in NYC, with a distinctly Singaporean twist and flavour!
SPORE Art Salon is a non-profit opportunity created for visual artists to meet, mingle, inspire, and share with performing artists. During the event, we alternate between drawing sessions with live models, and performances from musicians, contortionists, poets, dancers, actors and more. We also feature works of, and demonstrations by visual artists, individually or collaboratively.
For more info on how you can be involved ... drop us a note at SPOREARTSALON@GMAIL.COM !
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SPORE Art Salon 7th Edition June 27th
GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER:
CHRISTOPHER OON [ http://christopheroon.daportfolio.com/
To view his beautiful, beautiful photographs of the 7th Edition... head on over HERE, right now!
FEATURED PERFORMING ARTISTS:
BECCA D'BUS (host)
Eugene Tan is an artist who works in performance, garments and drag. Till recently, Eugene was based in Boston, MA, where he worked he directed A Street Theater Named Desire, a guerrilla AIDS activist performance troupe that did work in gay cruising areas in the middle of the night, he also created Come As You Are: Celebrate Queer Sex!, a performance series that looked at queer sexual values 40 years after Stonewall, versions of Come As You Are were seen in 13 cities across the US, from major gay capitals like San Francisco to cities such as Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As an artist in research at the Berwick Research Institute in 2005, Eugene started an exploration of garments as performing objects, this, he has continued this work with costume design for plays, and also in the creation of Becca D’Bus, his drag persona. Eugene is currently a theater reviewer for The Flying Inkpot.
THABANI NTULI (featured model)
Born in South Africa, Kwazulu Natal. Began early training as an avid gymnast competing through various levels to attain regional and provincial colours. Trained in Johannesburg with Martin Schonberg under the Youth Company, Ballet Theatre Afrikan Too. Joined the neoclassical /ballet company Ballet theatre Afrikan as an apprentice before becoming a company member. Travelled South Africa extensively with the company in their seasons, joined the South African Ballet Theatre as a member of the senior corps de ballet performing in ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle and contemporary works such as Rock A Tutu and Kopano. Choreographed works for the company "money money money ". Currently dancing and singing in Singapore's "The Lion King."
ELINA LIM
Elina just recently returned from Melbourne and Pittsburgh after studying theatre. She does a bit of this and a bit of that, including poking at the accordion and loving flamingos with a fervor few can compete with. She also does story telling. Which she will be doing for this coming Arts Salon. She's looking to create new work in theatre in Singapore, but we suggest listening to her stories first.
MARLA BENDINI
Marla Bendini is a visual and performance artist in Singapore. Born Ong Boon Kok, Bendini Junior in 1986, “Marla Bendini” was created in 2007, an ongoing process of the identity as the “art form”. Her multi-displinary & highly personal works have become her signature, expressing ideas about transgenderism, gender binaries and the dysfunction of social and cultural structures, particularly with her personal physical body as an articulation tool. As of 2011, she is developing Surrogate, investigating the socio-physio- psychological imprints of her art on subjects and audiences.
MADAME ZOE KITTY & the GURU WENDELL
Live musical accompaniment by MASTER JOHNNY KIM
This fun loving and melodious duo will guide you through the touching, comical, and fantastic world of Musical Theater. Hailing from Scotland and the Philippines, the Guru Wendell and Madame Zoe Kitty, are a truly international collaboration, brought together by their mutual love for art and self-expression. When these intrepid pals are not singing and dancing through the streets of S'pore, they enjoy contorting themselves in yoga class and supporting local, avant garde, experimental black box theater productions! This is a performance you will be talking about for ages!
MILANI
Milani describes herself as an "immigrant poet", having studied and worked in five different countries. Born in a small town in East Java, Indonesia, Milani moved to Singapore at 7. She was fascinated (read: obsessed) with the events in Indonesia during the Asian financial crisis. From then on, she woke up, closed the door momentarily on boys, clubbing and other hedonistic activities, to concentrate on analysing political history of her birth country for some years. Following a terrific week at the Ubud Writers and Readers festival in Bali, she became inspired to interpret and express herself through poetry and fiction. Milani has performed at the Ubud Writers and Readers festival, poetry slam and open-mic events in Singapore. Besides writing, Milani shares a love for colours, forests, drama, music and archetypes.
FEATURED VISUAL ARTIST:
ALEXIS NOAKES [ http://www.alexisnoakes.com/ ]Alexis Noakes was born in Stockholm, Sweden where he held his first few exhibitions at Aras Gallery Stockholm after entering St. Gorans art high school, where he first discovered his passion for drawing and painting. His love for art and his hunger for experience led him to Singapore where his now perusing his BA in LASALLE College of the Arts.
His art revolves a lot around the human body and bodily shapes which are constantly changing, twisting and growing inside a surreal space with a labyrinth of doors and stairs leading everywhere yet nowhere. Placing a foot in between representational and abstraction, his works strives to question the way we look at ourselves in a highly modern society.
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We had a blast in May, meeting lots of new faces, and catching up with old friends who are so enthusiastic coming out every month to support this community! Photographs are here if you missed us!
https://www.facebook.com/m
...For the month of June we are excited to present you with the 7th edition of the SPORE Art Salon, and a great line up of visual and performing artists, storytelling and music!
For those who are new to the art salon, our event is modeled after world famous Giles Larrain's Art Salon in NYC, with a distinctly Singaporean twist and flavour!
SPORE Art Salon is a non-profit opportunity created for visual artists to meet, mingle, inspire, and share with performing artists. During the event, we alternate between drawing sessions with live models, and performances from musicians, contortionists, poets, dancers, actors and more. We also feature works of, and demonstrations by visual artists, individually or collaboratively.
For more info on how you can be involved ... drop us a note at SPOREARTSALON@GMAIL.COM !
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SPORE Art Salon 7th Edition June 27th
GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER:
CHRISTOPHER OON [ http://christopheroon.daportfolio.com/
To view his beautiful, beautiful photographs of the 7th Edition... head on over HERE, right now!
FEATURED PERFORMING ARTISTS:
BECCA D'BUS (host)
Eugene Tan is an artist who works in performance, garments and drag. Till recently, Eugene was based in Boston, MA, where he worked he directed A Street Theater Named Desire, a guerrilla AIDS activist performance troupe that did work in gay cruising areas in the middle of the night, he also created Come As You Are: Celebrate Queer Sex!, a performance series that looked at queer sexual values 40 years after Stonewall, versions of Come As You Are were seen in 13 cities across the US, from major gay capitals like San Francisco to cities such as Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As an artist in research at the Berwick Research Institute in 2005, Eugene started an exploration of garments as performing objects, this, he has continued this work with costume design for plays, and also in the creation of Becca D’Bus, his drag persona. Eugene is currently a theater reviewer for The Flying Inkpot.
THABANI NTULI (featured model)
Born in South Africa, Kwazulu Natal. Began early training as an avid gymnast competing through various levels to attain regional and provincial colours. Trained in Johannesburg with Martin Schonberg under the Youth Company, Ballet Theatre Afrikan Too. Joined the neoclassical /ballet company Ballet theatre Afrikan as an apprentice before becoming a company member. Travelled South Africa extensively with the company in their seasons, joined the South African Ballet Theatre as a member of the senior corps de ballet performing in ballets such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle and contemporary works such as Rock A Tutu and Kopano. Choreographed works for the company "money money money ". Currently dancing and singing in Singapore's "The Lion King."
ELINA LIM
Elina just recently returned from Melbourne and Pittsburgh after studying theatre. She does a bit of this and a bit of that, including poking at the accordion and loving flamingos with a fervor few can compete with. She also does story telling. Which she will be doing for this coming Arts Salon. She's looking to create new work in theatre in Singapore, but we suggest listening to her stories first.
MARLA BENDINI
Marla Bendini is a visual and performance artist in Singapore. Born Ong Boon Kok, Bendini Junior in 1986, “Marla Bendini” was created in 2007, an ongoing process of the identity as the “art form”. Her multi-displinary & highly personal works have become her signature, expressing ideas about transgenderism, gender binaries and the dysfunction of social and cultural structures, particularly with her personal physical body as an articulation tool. As of 2011, she is developing Surrogate, investigating the socio-physio- psychological imprints of her art on subjects and audiences.
MADAME ZOE KITTY & the GURU WENDELL
Live musical accompaniment by MASTER JOHNNY KIM
This fun loving and melodious duo will guide you through the touching, comical, and fantastic world of Musical Theater. Hailing from Scotland and the Philippines, the Guru Wendell and Madame Zoe Kitty, are a truly international collaboration, brought together by their mutual love for art and self-expression. When these intrepid pals are not singing and dancing through the streets of S'pore, they enjoy contorting themselves in yoga class and supporting local, avant garde, experimental black box theater productions! This is a performance you will be talking about for ages!
MILANI
Milani describes herself as an "immigrant poet", having studied and worked in five different countries. Born in a small town in East Java, Indonesia, Milani moved to Singapore at 7. She was fascinated (read: obsessed) with the events in Indonesia during the Asian financial crisis. From then on, she woke up, closed the door momentarily on boys, clubbing and other hedonistic activities, to concentrate on analysing political history of her birth country for some years. Following a terrific week at the Ubud Writers and Readers festival in Bali, she became inspired to interpret and express herself through poetry and fiction. Milani has performed at the Ubud Writers and Readers festival, poetry slam and open-mic events in Singapore. Besides writing, Milani shares a love for colours, forests, drama, music and archetypes.
FEATURED VISUAL ARTIST:
ALEXIS NOAKES [ http://www.alexisnoakes.com/ ]Alexis Noakes was born in Stockholm, Sweden where he held his first few exhibitions at Aras Gallery Stockholm after entering St. Gorans art high school, where he first discovered his passion for drawing and painting. His love for art and his hunger for experience led him to Singapore where his now perusing his BA in LASALLE College of the Arts.
His art revolves a lot around the human body and bodily shapes which are constantly changing, twisting and growing inside a surreal space with a labyrinth of doors and stairs leading everywhere yet nowhere. Placing a foot in between representational and abstraction, his works strives to question the way we look at ourselves in a highly modern society.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Monday, 30 May 2011
SPORE Art Salon, 6th Edition
Hello Salonistas,
the SPORE Art Salon is kicking into high gear. Each month brings new faces and new surprises. Continue to check this page as we continue to update the performance line-up for May 30th. Looking forward to seeing you at our next event...Minimum Donation is $15 CASH for the event, proceeds to benefit the ECHO Music Sponsorship Program for disadvantaged kids.
There will be models posing between performances and you are encouraged to take part in these mini live drawing sessions.
FEATURED PERFORMING ARTISTS:
BILL LEARY JAZZ TRIO: Bill Leary is a master jazz musician, who aims to educate and entertain people with his music. He will remove some of the mystery and myths about jazz music, and make it accessible to all listeners. Many times people are turned off by jazz because they don't truly understand the art form. Allow Bill to be your tour guide through this organic and ever-changing art form.
BEN CHOW: Benjamin spends most of his time slouched over a desk in a dark cobweb infested basement. He survives on rats and the occasional snake while crafting short little horror stories that often don't scare people as much as he would like. However, during those rare moments when Benjamin does crawl out from beneath the woodwork, he has been known to sing, loudly and annoyingly, and sometimes even tap dance. Benjamin sightings have been few and far between, but he has been recorded to have been seen at Blue Jazz, during their monthly poetry slams, at TAPAC (the Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre), during their fortnightly Open Mics, and every now and then in one or two really off-off-OFF Broadway musicals. Nowadays, Benjamin is spending more and more time masquerading as a Student of Lasalle's BA (Hons) Acting Programme, while secretly using the basement there for his dark and mysterious purposes. It's more spacious. And they have a great theatre. Go figure.
MIRIAM NASH: Miriam Nash is a British poet, currently sneaking around Singapore. She has performed her poetry in London, Chicago and Singapore, at the Esplanade, the Arts House, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Young Chicago Authors and too many bars and cafés to count. She appears regularly at Word Forward’s Blu Jaz SLAMs and her work has been featured on 938LIVE. She coordinated England’s first national youth poetry SLAM and regularly runs workshops in schools. Her first book of poems will be published this year by flipped eye publishing.
NOLUYANDA MQULWANA: Is an engaging and passionate choreographer and dancer from South Africa. She brings a genuine and heartfelt authenticity to all her projects. She is looking forward to inspiring the art salon with her sensitivity and strength...a performance that MUST be seen!
FEATURED VISUAL ARTIST:
AVA TAN: This talented artist was born in Shan Dong province of China where she came to experience painting through the master Ma Yan Hong and later came to love painting as she continued to fervently pursue numerous summer programs in Beijing before enrolling at the local art high school. Her current work explores an inward turning world that appears incongruent from the workings of a sensing body. Through a voyueristic glass that is turned upon the human self and its various participants, it is at once a sympathetic and disparate view of an amorphous body image when the lines between performance and reality are blurred in the eyes of others as they are turned in upon oneself.
Photos here!
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