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Music, Art and coffee come together
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 07/05/2014
» The GOJA Gallery Cafe has a distinctive vibe. A Lil Wayne, skate park, abandoned building and Steve Aoki mash-up kind of vibe.
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Japanese art utopia
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 15/05/2014
» Naoshima lies midway between Hiroshima and Osaka — a small island town in the Seto Inland Sea, previously neglected and ravaged by severe water pollution from industrial waste in the 70s, revitalised by art in recent years.
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Found in translation
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 14/05/2014
» Korean series Full House has been remade four times in four languages — Filipino, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai. Here, a decade after the original South Korean version was released in 2004, Pirat “Mike” Nitipaisalkul and Sushar “Aom” Manaying have eclipsed Rain and Song Hye-kyo in their stardom.
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When art becomes smart
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 02/04/2014
» In 2011 the royal family of Qatar, the world’s richest nation, bought Cezanne’s The Card Players at more than $250 million (8 billion baht). The purchase marked the highest price ever paid for a piece of art.
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Koh Klang: A world away
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 06/03/2014
» Around this time of the year, many beaches in Krabi start to resemble the photographs of Andreas Gursky — mobbed with tourists. The New York Times recently named the southern province on the Andaman coast one of the “52 places to go in 2014”.
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A symbol of pain isn't enough
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/03/2014
» My knowledge of the Vietnam War traces back the image of the “Napalm Girl”, running down the road naked, screaming, her clothes melted. In the left foreground is another screaming boy. When I think of this photograph, I always imagine the photographer, Nick Ut, standing across from her, camera in hands.
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Turning music into colour
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/03/2014
» “There comes time in life where our passions in doing something we love take control,” says Viranod Buranasiri. He has reached that point in his life, departing from his job as a banker to pick up a camera and a paintbrush.
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Give and let live
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/03/2014
» Picture a motorbike messenger delivering your dying mother, father, sister or lover a heart for transplant. The donated heart must be preserved in a solution at about 4C and can only remain viable for transplant for no more than four hours, though a kidney can last up to 24 hours. And not all dead bodies are viable for organ donation. Only donors who have been declared brain-dead by three doctors, or on life support and with functioning disease-free organs, will be considered. More importantly, the organ must match the body of the recipient.
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Men down the lens
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 21/03/2014
» As a form of mass entertainment, films play a complex role in both influencing public perceptions and opinions, while also reflecting the cultural shifts of society. Consider the state of Thai gay-themed films since the commercial success of Iron Ladies (Satree Lek) in 2000, as well as other homosexual-related movies that have won international prizes or scored at the box office, and the issues of identity, representation and cinema all come together. Recently, Nitchapoom Chaianun's independently produced Pi Chai, My Bromance, about the development of love between a boy and his new brother adopted by the family, filled cinemas despite its limited release.
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The labelling issue
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/03/2014
» The US Food and Drug Administration last month proposed revisions to nutrition labels on products for the first time in two decades as a means of combating obesity and related diseases such as diabetes.
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