Taylor Binque, Flash

Photographed by H.

Taylor Binque has never been far of arts. He likes to draw, color, collage and design as it came down to the decision to become an interior designer one day. Though most of his inspirations were from fashion, past and present. From the posters on his bedroom wall to the collage of notebook covers. All are fashion. Then, Binque realizes what he truly love is what always inspires him. He begins reading more fashion magazines, sites, blogs and dig in to the root of the industry. For him fashion is not just the bag or the dress. It’s about the story the lines behind. After reading and reading, Binque wonders why don’t be the one who writes those articles. He’s now a journalism and mass communication student, training to become a fashion writer which he can express his passionate dream. He started to blog in 2009 wishing to write “his fashion and style sense.”

Now Binque joins his friends on the venture of Fused Limelight, wishing to try new angles of fashion and styles.

“..If I’m a designer, garage rock and Jackie O. will be on my mood board. I don’t know how to cooperate but surely there’s a way. Because everything can happen in fashion…”

Seesi, Celluloid

Photographed by H.

Like a good chef, film director comes up with thoughtful recipes, use fresh ingredients, carefully bakes it with low-heat and only hopes that audience will love his low-crab menu. But in this huge Hollywood restaurant there are millions of films ready to serve to your table.

Some comes and goes as quick as fast food and tasted as awful as McDonald’s Berger and some are as marvelous as world-class Kobe steak or as lighthearted as they were made by Jamie Oliver.

What food and film have in common is that their quality is judged only by the matter of opinions. As a new film critic enters into this dreadful cyber world with heartless bloggers and sophisticated Rolling Stone authors. I realize that film critique is beyond than giving four and a half stars to Woody Allen’sfilm- loved by philosophical geeks or update daily on Box office for mainstream fashionistas to say they’re the first to watch it. To criticize any motion pictures is never a piece of (Tiramisu) cake.

I am a kind of critic that has more sympathy for people than Perrez Hilton and more trustfully than National Enquirer. Film has brought me to ‘The Age of Enlightenment ‘and is my ultimate dream to be film director. The significant effect of film in pop culture is the central of my universe. And for who I am that impact my thinking process, I would describe myself as “the combination of one cup of feminism; two teaspoons of maverick, one big can of nerd that melted together in the urban pot and served with Mika’s positive attitude on the side- the only different between me and British signer Mika is that I am a heterosexual. I am a fabulous dish to dig in during watching your favorite film.”

Paris, Views

Photographed by H.

Paris Chantaharn is currently studying in pursuit of becoming a journalist. Her inspiration of working in the media can be dated back to when she was in sixth grade. However, at that time she merely paid interest in the area of disc jockey, and ignored the rest. Her sense of journalism developed stronger once her journey to different parts of the world began. In Karachi, she witnessed debris of buildings after the attack of a suicide bomber, but once peace has been put in place she danced along with Urdu music. In Lisbon, she learnt that even in the lowest GDP growth country of Europe but the prosperity of the people was higher than the place she came from. Despite having a beginner knowledge of the Portuguese language but Paris tried to hum along some of the Portuguese tunes. In Jeddah, she was pressured to be in a male dominated country not to mention that foreign media censorships were prevalent. But that did not hinder her from checking out the latest on MTV, though in Arabic.

In every country that she has lived, and in every place that she has visited; Paris has always paid attention to two sides of the coin. While the world awaits on the possible release of Aung Sang Suu Kyi, Paris also has to find views of the Hollywood stars upon the issue. In this section, Paris combines the latest on the headlines with the hottest in the entertainment industry like you have never seen before. It’s not either hard or featured in this section, but you will get them both in one complete package!

Kristoffer, Beats

Photographed by H.

Seasame Street created who I am. Yes, I mean Big Bird, Elmo and Cookie Monster. Strange, but true. It was since birth where my nursery at home was decorated with these characters and my video player had their sing-a-long songs on heavy rotation. Whether it was coincidence of my parents to raised me up on this PBS TV program or not, the pop-culture value has stuck with me ever since. Then at the age of three I hated the typical cartoons, and found comfort on MTV when Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” album was in its prime. With this, at three, it defined my future. I knew I had a gift in mainstream music whether in whatever form I would express it. May sound cliché, but with having parents working in the hotel industry, the staircase in every hotel were always treated as a stage for me. Even back home, I would connect every table and chair together to created my “Pop” concert. My childhood was a musical. My toys were music tapes. My Super bowl was the Grammy Awards. My playground at six was a Michael Jackson concert with 50,000 people. I hated mathematic in school, but I love to calculate record sales, concert tickets and how much a musician would generate by having their song topping the charts. This is not a joke.

Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Clive Davis, New York City, Neon lights, Adam Lambert, Simon Cowell, David Lachapelle and Andy Warhol describes my visual and plays as an inspiration to me. Very color saturated, yet the master in their own mainstream art medium.

There’s this lame question that everyone asked me when I was a child “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and at age 4 or at age 19 I would still repeating my answer “Working in the media industry”. I didn’t want to become a police-officer or a pilot. You know, the sort of occupation needed to be said to look manly. Why? I was fearless in my passion, and being controversial and gain attention even infamously satisfied me.

Time to experience a commercially different personality in this limelight.

Lights and Gaga.

H, Photographer and Arts Director

Photographed by Bus

Because life would suck without imaginations and originalities

There are four main obsessions in his life; music, foods, skyscrapers, and travel. Tanayut Nuritanon, going by the name “H”, is currently finding some inspirations for fulfilling his desire to get rid of what people see as “pointless” and “strange” into a form of individual works.

Started off as a child, H once tried to reach his dream of being an architect. Through the wind of change, he eventually drowned himself in a quicksand of entertaining arts and all forms of designs. With a personal belief that everything is possible and there’s no such thing as “abnormal”, H aims to generate a new idea of “the world of difference”, a form of works that doesn’t have terms like “right” or “wrong” on it, only “appropriate” and “inappropriate” exist.

He’s tired of hearing a sentence like “I don’t get the point of you trying to accomplish this.” He views life as a tool to create and try new things and it should be continuously going on and on.

..Because the definition of subterranean homesick alienn is kinda messed up

..and he means it.

Video Director: Bus

Photographed by H.

My life is always unexpected. I didn't know what I want to be. I didn't know what I want to do. But there's always a thing that pull me to this path. Back in High School, I composed the music, I improvised in jazz band with my trumpet. Berklee is my first one on the list that I want to get in, but I'd done only Five Weeks program over there and pack up come back to my home town. Music is now my hobby. After I met Fused Limelight crews, my future starts to light up. Film maker and photographer is what I born to be. When I pick up my camera, it links with my brain just like "Na' Vi in Avatar" :D, because I know how to do it by my heart. If I said to it to take the best picture, it always be the BEST.

"GET * IT * FUSED"

22 * 6 * 10