Tag: street art
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![15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part II]](https://shopkeeperstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/31.jpg?w=1024)
15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part II]
Urban Runway The hawker centre in Singapore is noisy and spontaneous and the centre of gravity for much of our routine social action. In this post, I’d like to present 10 scenes of activity in exactly the same place. Far from the glitz and glamour of Marina Bay Sands, this is the ordinary picture of life that most of…
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![15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part I]](https://shopkeeperstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15.jpg?w=1024)
15 minutes in a hawker centre in Singapore [Part I]
Urban Runway While drinking a mug of sugarcane juice, I took out my camera to document the people walking by in the exact same spot. This set of photos captures the mix of the crowd from “suits” to “slippers” to “stylish seniors” on bikes. Welcome to the tropics of Singapore! You can see Part II of the…
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Little Red Dot
Get ready for Singapore! An island, a city, a state, a nation. When the nation was mocked for being a “little red dot” because you can hardly see its territory on the global map, Singaporeans took this mockery in stride and transformed the moniker into a fashionable brand name: “Little Red Dot”. One might even…
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Underground Music
The streets can be a fierce world for buskers who are exposed to the mercy of city police. However, musicians in San Francisco can perform at train stations for free as long as they stay outside the paid zones such as the platforms and trains. You don’t need to pay any rent to use this…
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Bucket Man
Larry Hunt – the “Bucket Man” – has risen as a cultural icon of San Francisco by playing his plastic drums for more than 20 years on the city streets, yet he gets regularly harassed by the police for being a public nuisance because of the ‘noise’ he creates. The police have confiscated his drums,…
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