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- November 11th, 2009
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Ummm …. can someone explain this to me?
Any idea what’s going on? Is this some Buddhist / Animist / Hindu convergence that I’m not supposed to ask questions about?
- November 10th, 2009
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A few more press mentions
The Japanese one is from DACO, a Bangkok-based Japanese-language publication and the English one is from A DAY BULLETIN, a Thai/English language weekly rag. A DAY got the date of the opening wrong, bu…
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- November 5th, 2009
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Press is starting to come in
Stuff is coming together nicely for the show, the art has been proofed and is being printed, I did a TV interview which should be out soon (I’ll post the link when I get it), and I had two press…
- October 10th, 2009
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2922 to be shown in Bangkok, Nov 10th
Been busy lately with a bunch of new projects, I’ll announce them here as they start to come together … the first one will be my showing of the 2922 series in Bangkok, done with Eat Me res…
- September 5th, 2009
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Tokyo trip in Thai Yoga Journal
I wrote an article about my trip to Tokyo for the Thai version of Yoga Journal, click the thumbnails below to see the full version of the pages. Photographs are mine too.
- August 3rd, 2009
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Bangkok Radio For Men
Last night I was a guest on Bangkok Radio For Men, a weekly Thai radio program for gay audiences. Originally I was invited to talk about the differences between gay society in Bangkok and San Francisc…
- June 29th, 2009
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Monsoons
The monsoon season officially starts next Wednesday, but it seems to have hit nice and early this year …. my 21st floor balcony makes for great storm watching, shot these around 5-6pm today.
- June 23rd, 2009
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Lolita
I wonder if Nabokov is rolling over in his grave knowing that his book as spawned a Tokyo fashion craze …. or perhaps he’s ecstatic over it.
- June 20th, 2009
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Drunk
Apparently this is pretty common in Tokyo …. people getting plastered before rushing to take the last train home, and then passing out before they reach their destination.
- June 2nd, 2009
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Supermarkets
I love visiting supermarkets in other countries, checking out which import products are popular, looking at the prepared food, watching the type of stuff that people buy. Restaurant food is pretty…
- June 1st, 2009
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Heading home
So I’m heading home to Bangkok today, after having spent the last month in Tokyo. My life here has really been idllic, I’ve been able to sleep in until 5:30 ever day, practice yoga with a…
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Smoking
I forget what the laws are governing cigarette advertising in USA are, but they must be pretty strict as I don’t remember seeing much. In Thailand, smoking is banned in bars and restaurants (and…
- May 31st, 2009
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Tokyo Fashion
Tokyo fashion is a bit like what we have in Bangkok, there is this (apparent) anything-goes attitude and a abundance of subgroups wearing all sorts of strange things. It’s common to see people (…
- May 28th, 2009
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Friday Vocabulary Test
So it’s no secret that I love vocabulary (in any language), and that I think a study of a country’s culture is impossible without really understanding their language. In Thai, when asking…
- May 27th, 2009
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My shoebox home
Tokyo rents are probably pretty much on-par with NYC rents; I rented a furnished (nothing fancy) studio (efficieny) apartment at Komagome station (Yamanote Line) for 105,000 Yen (~1,200 USD, 40,000 TH…
- May 26th, 2009
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Yes, I am here … in Tokyo
I don’t know why I haven’t blogged yet. There’s tons that I want to say, and I have loads of time. Odd really … I think I’m starting a trend here now tho.
- May 7th, 2009
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Teeming Tokyo
According to Wikipedia, Tokyo is mach-zehnder“the world’s most populous metropolitan area with 35 million people” and Bangkok officially only has 8 million people but is estimated to…
- April 13th, 2009
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This mess in Bangkok ….
So when I read about a bus being set on fire up the street from me, I had to go check it out (from the safety of my roof at a zoom lens). I took these while listening to gun fire and the Muslim call t…
- April 11th, 2009
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Speaking Asian
Back in the states, I used to tell my Asian friends that they were “speaking asian” when they would do things like forget to pluralize nouns (I ate three apple) or conjugate verbs incorrectly (I…
- April 10th, 2009
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Tokyo
On my way back from the USA, I spent five days in Tokyo, which I think is about as close to another planet as I will get to in this lifetime. I’ve spent time in places like India and Nepal and it’…
- April 2nd, 2009
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Copy Cops
So Bangkok is known for fake Gucci, Rolexes, car parts, movies and now cops. These fake cops have been turning up at major intersections lately, I’m guessing that they will maybe get people to s…
