Be Inspired by Sports Photography

The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) has launched the Inspiring Sporting Singapore Photography Exhibition in support of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Declared open at the Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre, one of the venues of the exhibition this morning by Mr Charles Chong, Chairman, Government Parliamentary Committee for National Development and Environment and Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, the exhibition aims to reach out to members of the public who visit the SSC’s Sports and Recreation Centres (SRCs) and the Public Libraries, and will culminate in a showcase of Singapore’s young athletes who will be participating in the YOG.

For more information, please click here.

I Came to Party

TILT was at City Alive! 2010 as the Official Photographer and we were treated to an exciting show at the tracks in front of the Pit Building. With Space Cowboy (United Kingdom) making his debut appearance in Singapore at the City Alive! 2010, along with other international acts like DJ Sarasa (Japan) and All Area Crew (Japan), it was a real treat for the party-revellers as they partied the night away. Joining these world-class acts are Singapore’s very own DJ Andrew T, DJ Inquisitive and Singapore top B-boys, Radikal Forze to bring the party anthem to the heart of the city.

Organised by the People’s Association (PA) and People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM), City Alive! took place for the third time. With a turnout of about 8,000, what we felt was the feature of the night on 20 February 2010 was the flash mob dance performed by PAYM. With synchronised movement, grooving to the beat of “I Came to Party” by Cinema Bizarre (feat DJ Space Cowboy), it was truly a sight worth waiting for.

View the video below to see the happening party sight!

The collective dance at the Singapore Pit Building (beside Singapore Flyer) kicked off this year’s City Alive! Singapore’s BIGGEST street dance party. In fact, this is probably the largest flash mob dance ever in Singapore!

View the video below to see the media preview flash mob.

To view the photographs taken, click here.

Intense in the Spirit of Sports

Sports in Singapore had always needed a boost. In a sport like Paintball, the support and boost needed is definitely much more. For paintball, the main competition in Singapore is the Singapore Paintball Novice Series (SPNS). Through this platform, the Paintball Association (Singapore) (PBAS) tries to garner as much support and publicity for the sport.

TILT had been very fortunate to be part of this competition since its birth. We witness the spirit of the sportsmen. The intensity and determination of the administrators and sportsmen, the teamwork, grace and gull of the paintballers are definitely worth applauding. All feelings and emotions can be aptly displayed through the photograph taken below during SPNS Leg 1, where we see a paintballer intense in winning at all cost against the backdrop of the SPNS logo.

We feel so much for the photograph and the sport that we had also submitted this photograph for a local competition, YEOS H20 Ultimate Photography Challenge, and we had since been shortlisted as one of the finalist. The photograph is open for voting and if you feel the same way as we do, do cast a vote for us.

The entry is aptly titled, ‘Intensity’.

108 Youths Prepare for SYOG Handball Selection

Media Invite
Handball Federation (Singapore) (HFS) announced today their next step in preparation for the Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010 through a National Handball Selection Trials.

Since March 2009, HFS had recruited 159 youths through their national handball selection trials. A further 32 youths were recruited through the Sports Education Programme (SEP).

From April to July 2009, the youths underwent a series of handball fundamentals training averaging 1 session per week during school days and 2 – 3 sessions per week during school holidays. Each session lasted 3 hours.

HFS will select a final squad of 35 youths from the group of 108 youths to train with the National Head Coach and Assistant Coach. HFS is currently reviewing the curriculum vitae of a few candidates for these 2 positions.

Plans are in progress for the YOG training squad to participate in training tours to Hong Kong or Taiwan in December 2009. The Squad will also participate in the upcoming Singapore Invitational Youth Handball Championship 2010 which will be held from 25 – 28 January 2010 as part of their preparation. In March 2010, the squad will embark on a training tour to either China or Thailand. The final step in their preparation will be to take part in Hongkong Handball Championships 2010 in July next year.

Your journalist and photographer / camera crew are cordially invited to this milestone event.

Date: 26 July 2009, Sunday
Venue: Jurong West Sports Hall, 20, Jurong West Street 93, Singapore 648965

Programme
8.30am – Media registration and arrival of participants
9.00am – SYOG Handball Selection begins
11.00am – Media Interviews with youths
2.00pm – End

For interview requests and further details, please contact

TILT
Tay Ling
Email: tay.ling@tilt.com.sg

Handball Federation (Singapore)
Johnny Ong
Email: johnny@hfs.org.sg

Making Some Noise!

Noise Singapore, an initiative of the National Arts Council, is an arts festival for young people, by young people. Building on various media platforms, Noise Singapore is dedicated to creating noise about the creative talent of young people in Singapore.

During Noise Singapore 2009, TILT covered one of the events, Noise by the Bay, which showcased music by upcoming local bands. Today, we received an email and are pleasantly surprised to hear this from ‘The Lion Story’.

We are a local band called ‘The Lion Story’ and we have been very impressed by the photos taken of our performance during the NOISE Singapore Festival by Tay Ling.
Amin
- THe Lion Story -

To view the photographs taken, you may click on here.

The First Youth Olympic Games

The Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) has produced a brochure to publicise about the First Youth Olympic Games.

In their process of designing the brochure, they realised that they do not have a strong cover photograph which they can use. SYOGOC, then approached TILT and asked if we can assist, out of goodwill, in taking a good brochure cover photograph. Through our communication to them, we understood the requirements which they have and we immediately went about sourcing for talents and venue to take the photograph required. Through our clientele contacts, we managed to contact Republic Polytechnic to assist in this area and within 2 hours, we have the talents and venue secured. Very quickly, we reverted back to SYOGOC and informed them about the art direction as well as the confirmation of talents and venue.

Within 24hours, the photograph was taken and we emailed over to SYOGOC. Below is the response from SYOGOC.

Wow. I really like what I see.

Ellen NG
Senior Executive, Publications
Communications and Public Relations Division
Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee

We are glad we have played a small part in assisting SYOGOC in producing their brochure.

To view the full brochure, please click here.

The Best of Citizen Photojournalism III

TILT submitted 5 entries under the sports photography category for The Best of Citizen Photojounalism III contest. There was an overwhelming total number of entries submitted. In total, there were a total of over 3,000 entries and we are glad to know that 2 of our entries had been shortlisted into the final 49 entries.

The 2 entries are as below. Titled “Down Under” and “Touch Me If You Can“, these 2 photographs were taken recently for Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) and Singapore Sports Council respectively.

For those who are lazy to click on any link, you can view the photographs below. Do vote for us if you think we deserve it.

Down Under

Touch Me If You Can

Recruiting Asian Youth Games Volunteers!

 

The 1st Asian Youth Games Singapore 2009 (AYG) is happening real soon and here at TILT, we are every bit as excited as the rest of Singapore.

The 1st Asian Youth Games Singapore 2009 (AYG), which will be held from 29 June to 7 July 09. More than 1300 young Asian athletes from 45 countries will be coming to Singapore to compete and prepare themselves well before the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. They will compete in 9 sports namely

Athletics

Aquatics

3-on-3 Basketball

Beach Volleyball

Bowling

Football

Sailing

Shooting

Table-Tennis

The games will be played across various Sports Venues in Singapore.

The Singapore AYG Organising Committee is currently recruiting individuals passionate in sports to join them for this inaugural nation-wide event. Your enthusiasm to volunteer plays an important part in the hosting the games.

Brief Information for Volunteers

Volunteers are needed from the period 15 Jun to 7 Jul 2009

They will perform shift work depending on their job function requirements

Volunteers will be matched to Job Functions according to their availability and preferred schedule where possible

Volunteers will contribute to various roles such as Information Service Officer, Access Control Officer, Radio Officer, IT Support Officer, Communications Relations Officer, Catering Officer, Transport Coordinators and Baggage Control Officers

As part of AYG Volunteer Training, all volunteers will be required to undergo online training course (4 modules) and attend a 1-day face-to-face service excellence training over a Saturday. Specialised functional training will take place from late April to May to gear up for the Games.To volunteer, please email to ayg@sportsvolunteer.sg with the details below.
Full Name (as in NRIC):
NRIC:
Date of Birth:
Email Address:

If not, you can do your part just like us, simply publicise it to all others. Any little bit of help will count to make this a success!

We Say “Best of Citizen Photojournalism” Photography Contest

We Say “Best of Citizen Photojournalism” Photography Contest is now open. Enter your photographs from 19 January 2009 to 31 March 2009 and stand a chance to win the below:
Grand prize: Epson Stylus Photo Printer R1800 (or cash equivalent)
First prize: $100 gift certificate to Ritz Camera
Second prize: $50 gift certificate to Ritz Camera
Third prize: Free Photo Book from dotPhoto.com

There are six categories which you can take part in:

News

Environment

Sports

Celebs

Far-out

Winter Sports

As we are preparing and reading through the terms and conditions of the contest, we found to our surprise that one of our sports photograph had been used to show as an example of how the Sports Photography Category pictures can be.

TILT definitely feel honoured our sports photograph had been used. That was a photograph which we had taken for the purpose of public relations of the 1st Youth Olympic Games.

All said and done, we will be submitting entries for the contest and hopefully, we will be able to win the contest in the sports category so as to further affirm our status in this industry.

Do have a read through and join too!

Sticking Together

In this third edition of photoshoot of the 26 National Sports Association (NSAs), which TILT is contracted by Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC), we will be featuring Singapore Hockey Federation.

When we contacted Singapore Hockey Federation, we had mentioned to them that we only needed 5 players. Not only was the Federation very pro-active in helping us find slots which we can come down for training, they actually also specially arranged for the players to come down 1 hour in advance of their training so that we can have their time, their heart and their soul entirely.

When we arrived at Delta Sports Complex, we were treated to a show of teamwork. While we needed 5 players, Singapore Hockey Federation arranged for the whole team of 18 to be there. When we mentioned to the coach, we only needed 5, they each joked about who is more handsome and should go instead. In fact, one of the youths mentioned “I think we need to select those who are handsome. This leaves us with no choice. I am sorry guys, I have to be one of the guys!” and the whole team burst out laughing. The final 5 who were chosen was treated with applause. For the rest who were not chosen, they assisted them in their preparation. Getting the equipment to the field, arranging things and more. This is the kind of team spirit which TILT was treated to by the Singapore Hockey Federation.

Armed with their hockey sticks and smiles, TILT is sure that Singapore Hockey Federation is on the right track in their preparation for the upcoming Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010. (SYOG).

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