Sharon Chin
@chincarok.bsky.social
Artist living next to mangroves and oil refineries. I write a newsletter called Smoke Signals. Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://smokesignals.sharonchin.com
‘The highest cultural capital isn’t the best Story — it’s experiences that never become content.’ zine.kleinkleinklein.com/p/dashboard-...
Dashboard Culture vs. Camouflage Culture
How the Attention Economy killed Camp, collapsed distance, and left us unable to critique a UFC fight on the White House lawn.
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Singapore is going to kill Pannir Selvam on Wed, 8 Oct 2025. How much art does it take to make Asia a more merciful society? www.eksentrika.com/death-row-li...
Pannir Selvam’s Poetry Book Launched Amid Death Row
Malaysian death row inmate in Singapore, Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, writes poems with ink refills. Titled Death Row Literature: A Collection of Poems, the book offers a rare glimpse into a prisoner’s m...
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Come into my studio, and say it with me: death to the old ways smokesignals.sharonchin.com/studio-diari...
Studio Diaries 02 and 03
Death to the old ways
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Late night dinner with roti tisu and @zedecksiew.bsky.social. He’s studying for his driving test tomorrow
I moonlight as a costume and production designer for film and spend an insane amount of downtime browsing Carousell (kinda like local ebay) Sometimes I buy stuff but alot less than you'd think. I did get this coat!! #costumedesign #clothes
Sharon Chin@chincarok.bsky.social · last yr.Nina Ricci silk jacket www.carousell.com.my/p/c-d7-nina-...
Dressing like Kleya Marki from Andor Season 2 - costume design by Michael Wilkinson
The mood quickly shifted from “Thanks for the PowerPoint” to “Cut the crap.” Scene report from our neighborhood’s meeting with Big Oil smokesignals.sharonchin.com/accumulate-a...
Accumulate, accumulate!
Scene report from a residents' meeting with Big Oil, by Brian Khow. Art by Zedeck Siew
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Visited the town of Batu Arang in Rawang, Selangor, where residents are fighting the development of a mega waste incinerator. The town sits on dense coal deposits and shale rock. Beautiful lakes are actually open-cast mining ponds left behind by British colonizers
this is still the single greatest intro ever made for an animated series, an absolute masterpiece on every level
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last yr.'Batman: The Animated Series' premiered 33 years ago today 🦇
Other than making Tabletop RPG stuff, I also write video game stuff! If you love action hack & slash roguelite, check out Grim Trials! Try the demo and wishlist the game!
Neon Doctrine💜@neondoctrine.games · last yr.Mastering state-of-the-undead-art weapons is essential for surviving the trials that await you in the Afterlife... Our heavy metal roguelite Grim Trials by @rollinggloryjam.bsky.social was featured in the Best Indie Games Fall Showcase! Play the demo now: neondoctrine.games/GrimTrialsDemo
Took some photos of #CreaturesofNearKingdoms in good lighting. This book is still unfolding our destiny, carrying @zedecksiew.bsky.social and I where we need to go... #printmaking
Announcing an artist place-making residency in 3…2..
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · last yr."In a hotel-turned-campus on a reclaimed island in Malaysia, crypto and tech entrepreneurs are building software, chomping down Australian prime ribeye, hitting the gym — and getting schooled in a radical blueprint for creating new sovereign states from scratch." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Post an old person you’re going to turn into
Casey G.@caseyg.bsky.social · last yr.Post an old person you're going to turn into. I'm close.
When I said I was gonna print the 50 animal linocuts from our book #CreaturesofNearKingdoms, Zedeck said he would match my freak and write a new game set in a new world, *spurred* (hehe) by each animal I was printing. He has 9 chapters to my 2 creatures. I gotta hustle 😤 #printmaking
Zedeck Siew@zedecksiew.bsky.social · last yr.🐓NO SPUR BUT YOU, MY BROTHER🐓 "No more eggs snatched from a hen’s belly. No more lives sacrificed in the ring, or at the table. Emancipation for all fowl!" Gamecocks kill their owners, seize their cockfighting pit, take control of a city's criminal underworld. What's next?
Police arrested Magic And Magic went with them For Magic loves the hungry But Magic would not tarry It moves from arm to arm It would not stay with them Magic is afoot It cannot come to harm It rests in an empty palm It spawns in an empty mind But Magic is no instrument Magic is the end
God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot
YouTube video by Buffy Sainte-Marie - Topic
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Short studio notes from Sharon: "Obsessed over the chatter (parts of the print which are 'noise' or accidental marks), but decided that is what proves they are handmade." ❤️❤️❤️
Smoke Signals@sharon.smokesignals.sharonchin.com.ap.brid.gy · last yr.
