I spin under the name Tokamak. This is a recording of my first electro set, (1 and a half hour) in Dada Shanghai. Listen and Enjoy. : Tokamak Mix tape 1 .

Tokamak by tokamak_china

A look at the effort gone into the making of a new Coke spot for the Asia Pacific Region. This spot was shot by Jonas Åkerlund, who also director-ed Lady gaga’s “telephone” and “Paparazzi” MTV. This was done when I was @ Wieden + Kennedy. Will place the spot up here later.

Coke TVC behind the scene from dwayne koh on Vimeo.

I have been working on a Coke campaign that consist of a TV spot and print media. Going though quite a bit of iterations. Shown below is a mockup of one of the executions that we will be out soon. The idea is really simple : “Drinking Coke is like taking a roller-coaster ride/journey though Coca-Cola’s Spencerian logo.

Along time since my last post , stumbled on something on my harddrive the other day, time for it to see the light of day. This is the setup we did for the Vans- off the wall stopmotion video that we did a while back >> http://dwaynekoh.com/2009/05/14/vans-off-the-wall-stop-motion-2/

Vans off the wall - behind the scene from dwayne koh on Vimeo.

I have been invited to be a judge of student’s work at this year’s One Show in China. The students were tasked to promote a Campaign by HP called “My computer my stage”. They were tasked with creating content that could potentially be ‘viral’ in nature. Attached below are some entries, Which I found were interesting. Bear in Mind these are kids who have not graduated yet.  OneShowChina

Client:HP MCMS3
Agency:Shanger
Title:Achive your dream
Designer:Ming Liu,David Wang,Ning Ji

OTHER INTERESTING SUBMISSIONS

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI5NzI5NzIw.html
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/61xqRBRdAFg/
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI4OTc4NTI0_rss.html
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI2NTc1OTY0.html

A cool studio that does interactive installation. In collaboration with U2 lighting designer Willie Williams, Jason Bruges Studio designed a system to produce interactive visuals for George Michael’s live shows. The singer wanted movement tracking and generative visuals controlled by his voice and other instruments for a range of songs within the set list.

http://www.jasonbruges.com/projects

Been awhile since the last post. Now all of my video are blocked in china sigh. As some of you may know,  I was doing Vjing duties back in 2002 played at zouk in singapore and also for Dubpistols & Telepop music etc.

but stopped after i found that the technology couldn’t support my ideas that I had at that time. Namely sound reactive visuals on the fly with audio effects, projection mapping and also flash actionscript with realtime interaction..

Enter Resolume Avenue 3.0.

When I saw what it could do and how it addressed all my needs, I made a decision need to get back into it. I recommend you to try it out if you’re interested. So boy’s and girls, i will be playing again after 6years. yeepee, this saturday 14Nov in Shanghai @Anar. add 129 Xingfu Lu, near Fahuazhen Lu, see you there.

While looking at director reels for a Coke project, I came across a Prodigy MV “Smack my bitch up”  by Jonas Akerlund. Check it out. Pretty hardcore. Warning… nudity involved. 18+

Smack my bitch up from dwayne koh on Vimeo.

Thought this was a pretty interesting take on the current state of the internet and where social media is taking it.

Social Media from dwayne koh on Vimeo.

The Converse spring  2010 campaign, here are some behind the scene images.The entire setup was shot at a warehouse somewhere in shanghai.

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