Back to Ubin Part 2

The Green Beans at Ubin (photo taken by Lemuel)

Baby Periopthalmodon schlosseri (Giant Mudskipper)! The Green Beans revisited our favourite island yesterday and dug deeper into the beauty of Ubin.
We've got one more Ubin visit, part 3, happening on the 17th of August, Saturday, to finish up our series!

Coming up next is a trip to MacRitchie Reservoir, not just any trip to MacRitchie visit though. Qing will take you to the former Shinto Shrine deep in the forest, which was built by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII.

It would be a great time for all nature and history enthusiasts!

Check it out at this link:
http://joyloh.com/blog/?p=2803

Do join us if you're interested!

Nature's Bucket List in the making

 Underground natural springs, Spiderweb cocooned trees in Pakistan, Blood waterfalls are just the tip of the iceberg.

Dive deeper in this website which captures on camera sights that you might never see at all.

In this new series, we feature the lost, the hidden and the found of nature's wonders.

Do share your experience with us if you have found or encountered any other stunning natural phenomenon or perhaps just the everyday, rose lined sunset.

Now click on the link to discover the 15 things a green bean would do:

http://www.nature-pictures.info/the-15-craziest-things-in-nature-you-wont-believe-actually-exist/

Adrift : A love letter to the mist

Adrift from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

This short film, entitled "Adrift" was shot by Simon Christen and has won a Vimeo Staff Pick nomination.

As said by the photographer, "Adrift is a love letter to the fog of the San Francisco Bay Area" that he chased for two years to "capture the magical interaction between the soft mist, the ridges of California and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. This is where "Adrift" was born."

We hope you enjoy this tranquil interaction between architecture and nature.

Ubin/Chek Jawa Series Part 1

Location 1 by Lemuel Poh and (Film) by Nicholas Goh

 Beyond the tourist front, not too far from mainland lies a hidden world waiting to be discovered.

Last saturday, the Green Beans began their first official venture into the wild at Ubin and Chek Jawa on our brave hors-bicycles.

Aren't photo montages just so conventional nowadays? Catch a slice of the walk in an iridescently euphonic sound montage by Almira (Ubin through sound).

As you listen to chatter and nature, we hope that our voices would go beyond your distant ambience and shatter the image of nature as a sticky unpleasant matter.

About The Green Beans

Who are we? 

The Green Beans is a CAS group initiated by 3 year 5 students from the School of the Arts Singapore; Becky (Visual Arts), Qing (Theatre) and Almira (Music). While CAS (Creativity, Action and Service) is a mandatory component in the IB Diploma Programme, the genesis of The Green Beans was formed primarily on our love for the natural environment and our hopes to share this love with other youths.

What do we do? 

The Green Beans aims to encourage Singaporean youths like ourselves to explore and develop a love for our local, natural green spaces. 

Aside from its therapeutic qualities, we also strongly believe that nature is a great source of inspiration for the arts and the creative process, which is important to us as arts students. 

We believe that immersing ourselves in nature is not only a way of connecting with the world and learning about the ecosystem, or a form of relaxation, but is also what pushes us to pause a little and reflect on the lives that we live. 

Everyone has different experiences with and takeaways from nature, such as environmental conservation, botany, physical and mental wellbeing, nature in the arts and so on. We all have different experiences because we're all different people. What The Green Beans aims to do is to provide the opportunity for these experiences. 

In Singapore, our rich natural green spaces are rapidly being replaced by concrete jungles, and we have seen for ourselves the many youths who unconsciously suffer from a disconnect with nature, as well as the loss felt by the many who have known these green spaces for decades. These spaces hold memories for many Singaporeans, and our greater aim is also to document the green places that we visit. Documentation through any way possible; blog posts, pictures, plant samples, sound montages, and stories. 

Go back to the basics. Treasure the small things in life with The Green Beans.