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In case you don’t already know about it, ART HK 10, Asia’s largest, most prestigious Art fair is coming up from the 27th to the 30th of May. 35,000 people are expected to blow through the fair which features international galleries and their star artists which hail from around the globe.

For the art fair, I came up with an offbeat idea to create a dress in canvas and have a local artist paint on it. This would be the dress that I would wear to the art fair. The concept of the dress came about after I read this social media blog about which talks about the concept of person vs. brand.

http://justinkownacki.blogspot.com/2007/10/are-you-person-or-brand.html

Last night I ventured out to Macau to see Electro-Punk Shock Rocker PEACHES- who has been praised by music legends such as Madonna, Joan Jett and Iggy Pop. Born in Canada, Merrill Beth Nisker quit teaching in her 30’s and decided to move to Berlin to pursue a career in music. She was reincarnated as Peaches- an androgynous songstress with a trashy mullet whose incendiary lyrics make conservatives cringe.

A lot of people have been asking me why they haven’t seen me around in Hong Kong recently. It’s because I’ve been in Thailand exploring the country and creating content for HipThailandGuide.com which is due to launch in the next few weeks.

Last night I participated in the Artwalk- a fantastic yearly  charity event where you buy one ticket and are entitled to entrance to dozens of galleries where there’s an unlimited supply of sponsored wine, finger foods, desserts and nespresso. This year there were 62 galleries involved and donations from the proceeds go to the SoCo foundation.

You don’t need to be particularly cultured to appreciate the joy of walking on a fresh spring night from gallery to gallery sipping wine, enjoying tapas and socializing with friends. Art appreciation also gives you a great excuse to talk to complete strangers and make some new friends in the process!

Rarrrr!!! Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's been a roaring good start for us here at the Hip Network. We've been in Thailand creating our latest and greatest project- HipThailandGuide.com.

Here are a couple of videos we created for HipThailand about two of Koh Samui's hottest beach bars. Nikki Beach is a lifestyle franchise which is located on Lipa Noi beach, on the sunset side of the island and Beach Republic is located conveniently on the chic end of Lamai beach.
 

7am is an ungodly hour to wake up on a Saturday, especially when you’ve only had a few hours of sleep, however I was slotted to attend the Blair Singer seminar on Sales and Leadership and I felt sure that If I skipped it, that I would be missing out on some very valuable information about how to take my business to the next level.

For any of you have been to other American-style NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) self-improvement seminars such as Tony Robbins, you will recognize immediately that the formula used is the same one. Just like at the Tony Robbins seminar, loud Top 40 music was blasting in the auditorium as we walked in. The music is meant to wake you up and create energy in the room and I tell you- at that time hungover on a Saturday morning-you need it!

The Sunseeker in Sai Kung

The other day, a friend of mine who is a filmmaker and producer asked me if I wanted to be filmed for an American TV show. While my days in front of the camera are long gone, I could hardly say no to this project as it's a reality show about travel, food and entrepreneurship (some of my favorite topics) And besides, millions of people in the United States are potentially going to see it and hear about hiphongkong.com! Kewl.

The show, which will air on the ABC network in March, is called the Erik Kaiser show. The star of the show, Erik Kaiser, is a dashing American entrepreneur who reminds me of a younger, fitter Donald Trump, both in his upright capitalist demeanor and in his somewhat feathered hairdo. Erik is the kind of guy who is inspired, driven, whose brain never stops whirring and is constantly calculating how much profit can be made off an idea. He's the type of person who has to keep a notepad by his bed for when he wakes up in the middle of the night with one of those awesome ideas.

Hong Kong is really doing a decent job of setting up arts, design and music events recently. Within the past half-year, there was the Detour Art Exhibit at the former Married Police Headquarters and Sculpture Sunday in Repulse Bay. There was also Rock Raiser and Clockenflap at Cyberport and now there’s a fantastic exhibit in West Kowloon for the Hong Kong Shenzen Biennale of Design and Urbanism.

It’s a bit of a trek to get out to West Kowloon but last Saturday post-punk band The Yours and this German experimental band called A Roller Control were playing live at dusk so I figured it was a great excuse to trek out there and check out what was going on. In addition, it was a stunning afternoon and gave me a good reason to dust off my SLR and get some pics.

When I was in Thailand over the Christmas and New Year holiday, I had a reading by a numerologist who lived in a stunning wood house up on a hilly patch of jungle amidst a forest of coconut trees. The place had view of the sea, a bed hung with mosquito netting, some retro Thai furniture, and a completely open kitchen which was exposed to all the elements. There was a hammock strung up on some trees which allowed you to gaze at the endless Zen view while blissing out.

First came Crackbook- now there’s a new form of addictive social media, Twitter, and I’m becoming a bonafide twaddict. I couldn’t really figure out what the hoopla was all about surrounding till I saw this hilarious video.