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
Port Dickson, Malaysia.
https://smokesignals.sharonchin.com
‘The highest cultural capital isn’t the best Story — it’s experiences that never become content.’
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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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October 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
‘The highest cultural capital isn’t the best Story — it’s experiences that never become content.’
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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?
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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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October 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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...
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Come into my studio, and say it with me: death to the old ways
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Studio Diaries 02 and 03
Death to the old ways
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October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Come into my studio, and say it with me: death to the old ways
smokesignals.sharonchin.com/studio-diari...
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Late night dinner with roti tisu and @zedecksiew.bsky.social. He’s studying for his driving test tomorrow
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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
Sometimes I buy stuff but alot less than you'd think. I did get this coat!!
#costumedesign #clothes
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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
Sometimes I buy stuff but alot less than you'd think. I did get this coat!!
#costumedesign #clothes
Dressing like Kleya Marki from Andor Season 2 - costume design by Michael Wilkinson
September 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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
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Scene report from our neighborhood’s meeting with Big Oil
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Accumulate, accumulate!
Scene report from a residents' meeting with Big Oil, by Brian Khow. Art by Zedeck Siew
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September 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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...
Scene report from our neighborhood’s meeting with Big Oil
smokesignals.sharonchin.com/accumulate-a...
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
The town sits on dense coal deposits and shale rock. Beautiful lakes are actually open-cast mining ponds left behind by British colonizers
September 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
The town sits on dense coal deposits and shale rock. Beautiful lakes are actually open-cast mining ponds left behind by British colonizers
Reposted by Sharon Chin
this is still the single greatest intro ever made for an animated series, an absolute masterpiece on every level
'Batman: The Animated Series' premiered 33 years ago today 🦇
September 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
this is still the single greatest intro ever made for an animated series, an absolute masterpiece on every level
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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!
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
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
September 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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!
Reposted by Sharon Chin
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
#printmaking
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
#printmaking
Announcing an artist place-making residency in 3…2..
"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."
🎁
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🎁
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Broken $100 Billion Dream City Becomes Refuge for Tech Utopians
Balaji Srinivasan wants to design a new kind of nation state, and he’s making a troubled megaproject a testbed for his ideas.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Announcing an artist place-making residency in 3…2..
Post an old person you’re going to turn into
September 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Post an old person you’re going to turn into
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Tanuki summer love, Osaka.
たぬきの夏の恋
たぬきの夏の恋
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Tanuki summer love, Osaka.
たぬきの夏の恋
たぬきの夏の恋
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
He has 9 chapters to my 2 creatures. I gotta hustle 😤
#printmaking
August 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
He has 9 chapters to my 2 creatures. I gotta hustle 😤
#printmaking
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
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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August 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
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
Reposted by Sharon Chin
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."
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"Obsessed over the chatter (parts of the print which are 'noise' or accidental marks), but decided that is what proves they are handmade."
❤️❤️❤️
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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."
❤️❤️❤️
"Obsessed over the chatter (parts of the print which are 'noise' or accidental marks), but decided that is what proves they are handmade."
❤️❤️❤️