Moove Media 3D Art For F1 Singapore Grand Prix 2019

Merlion Wayfarer was impressed at a recent visit to a bus workshop where she saw luminous decorations of an F1 car placed atop buses.

In the artpiece, Moove Media deployed lighting technology - LumiWerkz - for Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix’s Out-of-Home (OOH) campaign, the first-ever in a 3D OOH campaign. Using this innovative lighting technology, five Singapore Formula 1 3D cars had their intricate body designs illuminated to recreate the captivating night race visual experience. 

LumiWerkz is a spray-on paint that uses an electroluminescent coating system. The special paint produces light and can be turned on and off by reacting to an electrical charge, allowing for pulsating light effects. It can be applied to any surface and 3D object and looks like regular paint when not charged. LumiWerkz meets the highest automotive basecoat standards and has demonstrated its ability to weather the elements.

"We are thrilled to be the first to showcase an innovative spray paint lighting technology in a 3D OOH campaign for Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix 2019. We see the immense possibilities of such lighting technology amplifying the 3D OOH experience so that it becomes even more visually impactful at all hours of the day."

--- Jayne Kwek, CEO of Moove Media ---

Before LumiWerkz technology, LED lights were used to light up 3D props. With such technology adapted to OOH, Moove can now offer advertisers the ability to illuminate a 3D execution, which will turn heads and create a lasting impression on consumers.

In all, Moove Media took six weeks to produce the F1 car models and install them on five bus services - 7, 10, 123, 174 and 502. These buses ply the Orchard Road vicinity from now until 1 September 2019.

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Qantas Australian Rugby 7s Players Join SportCares Youths In A Cultural Sporting Exchange

Four members of the Qantas Australian Men’s Rugby Sevens team, who arrived yesterday for this weekend’s Singapore Sevens, took time out of their training schedule this afternoon to participate in a unique sporting cultural exchange with 13 local youth from the SportCares Foundation at The Float @ Marina Bay.

A warm welcome from the personable and friendly Simon Smith to all the SportCares youths...

Nick Malouf, James Stannard, Charlie Taylor and Henry Hutchison, four key members of the Australian national rugby seven’s team that is currently placed 6th in the HSBC Sevens World Series, introduced the basics of their sport to the group of 14 to 19 year-olds. The players shared ball passing technique, demonstrated how to form a scrum, and explained what a line-out was. 

In return, the teenagers taught the players the essence of the game of chapteh – a traditional game popular in Southeast Asia where one, or a team, tries to keep a weighted shuttlecock in the air for as long as possible.

"We are delighted to be working with SportCares today, which gave our Rugby Sevens players an opportunity to share their love and passion for the game and also learn about chapteh from such a motivated group  of young Singaporeans."

--- Benjamin Tan, Senior Vice President (Asia and Papua New Guinea) for Qantas ---

"The session today was an invaluable experience for our SportCares youth to learn not just about rugby from the very best professional athletes in the world, but life values such as teamwork and integrity that are largely associated with the sport."

--- Kerk Kim Por, Director, SportCares Foundation ---

"It was also great for the youth to take on the leadership role to teach these athletes a thing or two about our local culture through the sport of chapteh, which they can take back home to Australia."

--- Kerk Kim Por, Director, SportCares Foundation ---

"It was really enjoyable! The four of us came down here not knowing what to expect, and the kids really put on a show and taught us some tricks of their own local game. There’s also a few natural athletes out there – some pretty quick kids, some good hand-eye skills. With a little more training, they can definitely forces to be reckoned with."

--- Henry Hutchison, Australian Rugby 7s Team ---

Under the experienced guidance of ice-cream master, Uncle Chieng,
Nick tries his hand at making an ice cream wafer...


Nick deep in concentration...


Nothing beats a cold dessert in sunny Singapore...


"I had a wonderful time today, it was my first time trying rugby. I play a lot of football and so am used to running around a big pitch like this, but it is very different with rugby as you have to use your hands as well as your feet and there is restriction in terms of where you can pass the ball to. Thank you Qantas and SportCares for organising this, as for me, it is always great to learn something new, especially when it is to do with sport!"

--- Dinie Irfan, SportCares Xerox United Football Team ---

Distributing giftpacks to remember the encounter...

Qantas has been the Official Airline of the Australian Rugby Union for over 25 years and naming rights partner of the Australian Men’s and Women’s sevens teams since 2012 This weekend, Singapore will once again host the only stop of the HSBC Sevens World Series in South-East Asia at the Singapore Sports Hub. Refer to www.singapore7s.sg for details.

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Tanjong Pagar Railway Station - Revisiting On Good Friday

Tanjong Pagar
South, Singapore
April 2015

Following an agreement between the governments of Malaysia and Singapore on 24 May 2010, railway operations at the Tanjong Pagar (Singapore) Railway Station ceased from 1 July 2011. It was gazetted in the same year as a national monument in recognition of its architectural and social significance.

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) announced in February 2015 that the station would be open to the public on all public holidays, starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year. During Good Friday, more than 6,000 people visited Tanjong Pagar Railway Station yesterday when it opened its doors to the public. Merlion Wayfarer was one of them.

The signboards for the old food outlets are still around...

By the back gate and in from the side entrance, that's another way of entering the station...

Back In Time

Singapore was envisioned to be the starting and ending point of a rail network which would stretch West to Calais in France, North to Hankou in China and onwards to the Trans-Siberian network. This gave impetus to create a main railway station worthy of its role as a gateway to Asia.

Opened on 2 May 1932 by then Governor of Singapore,Sir Cecil Clementi, the Tanjong Pagar (Singapore) Railway Station is a fine example of Modern Architecture with Neo-Classical and Art-Deco influences and, an integration of public art and local design motifs.

The Waiting Hall

The Station's key feature is the 21.6 m high vaulted space above the main waiting hall (equivalent to 3 storeys), creating an airy interior suitable for Singapore's tropical climate. Inside the main public hall, the walls bear panels with scenes depicting economic activities that were historically significant in Malaya: rice planting, rubber tapping, shipping activities, bullock cart transport, copra (coconut) growing and tin mining. These panels and the original floor slabs were manufactured locally, using rubber to deaden noise.

On The Tracks...

As the day's visitors retraced the path of yesteryear's passengers, the tracks and platform was a hive of activity...

Enter the platform through these grilled iron gates.

In the afternoon sun, the patterns on these diamond-shaped grilles 

cast a flickering shadow on the ceiling as the visitors pass by...

The original tracks are there, interlaced with the gravel that helped
absorbed the noise and vibration of the train...

Exhibiting curiousity over the fixtures, 

many shutter bugs angle themselves to create unique angles for photos...

But then, maybe some are just waiting for some to shoot them...

Kids zipping by on their scooters with supervising parents afar, 
oblivious to the danger posed to incoming people in front of them...

Sometimes, the best position may be just to sit and watch all the action in front of you...

The station is left just as it is, with its weeds, darkened walls, and cracks on the floor

- unspoilt in its classic originality...

 

Spacious platforms now empty except for these visitors...

The passport clearing booths in the immigration section...

The office of the Ministry of Tourism & Culture (Malay: Kementerian Pelancongan)...

The Station can now be rented for private functions...

The next opening date...

The Exterior...

On the exterior of its front facade stand four reliefs of white marble representing the four sources of wealth of Singapore and Malaya - Agriculture, Commerce, Transport and Industry. They are works by Rudolfo Nolli.

Named after the then recently formed Federated Malay States in 1896 and founded five years after the formation of the federation, the company acquired various railways that were developed separately in various parts of Malaya, and oversaw the largest expansion and integration of the colonies' rail network encompassing the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States (except Trengganu) and the Straits Settlements, with lines spanning from Singapore to the south to Padang Besar (near the border with Siam) to the north.

Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR), the name of the railway operator running this line...

The family of snails that did not survive the recent spate of hot weather...

The front facade of the railway station amidst the bright blue sky 

reflected off a car bonnet, with a Remembering LKY ribbon...

Amidst the glory of the past, life goes on...

Sources

• "6,000 people visit ex-railway station" (04 April 2015) by Carolyn KHEW. AsiaOne. Retrieved from http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/6000-people-visit-ex-railway-station.
    
• "Brief History of Railways in Singapore" (2011), Urban Redevelopment Authority. Retrieved from http://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.
    
• "Federated Malay States Railways". Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Malay_States_Railways (12 April 2015).
    
• "Former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station pulls in the crowds" (03 April 2015) by Carolyn KHEW. Straits Times. Retrieved from http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/former-tanjong-pagar-railway-station-pulls-the-crowds-20#1.
    
• "Tanjong Pagar railway station", Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjong_Pagar_railway_station (12 April 2015).
  
  

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