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A different take
Life, Published on 05/10/2021
» For self-taught photographer Patchara Aunsangchan, life is full of unexpected twists. Three years ago, he bought Siamese fighting fish, or bettas, and posted photos on social media. However, he did not expect the photographs to change his life.
Evocative hymn to Thai rice
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/01/2015
» This is the film you simply have to see this weekend. Uruphong Raksasad's Pleng Khong Kao (The Songs Of Rice) is a lyrical poetry of image and sound, as beautiful as 19th-century pastoral paintings and as evocative as murmured hymns. In a compact 75 minutes, we see muddied beasts stomping the paddies and whirring tractors aglow with nocturnal eyes; we hear the chanting for the Rice Goddess and rhythmic windpipe numbers for the harvest dance. We even marvel, unlikely as it seems, at a zonk-out sci-fi rendition of a northeastern rocket festival, ablaze with fire and sparks and songs and joy.
Books as friends
Life, Published on 17/03/2014
» Born and raised in a self-sufficient environment, Salisa Salyakamtorn is the director of Agri-nature Foundation in Mab-ueang in Bang Bung, Chon Buri. Amid the current political crisis where more than a million farmers are still awaiting payment from the government’s rice-pledging scheme, the 32-year-old wishes the farmers would become self-sustainable and financially independent.
Terrorist or informer?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/11/2012
» I first heard the term as a child when my parents took me to see the John Ford movie, The Informer. Victor McLaglen played Gypo Nolan who, for 50, betrays his fugitive friend to the British. McLaglen and hangers on soon drink down the reward and he regrets his act, but it's too late.
Artist at large
Life, Ploenpote Atthakor, Published on 06/07/2012
» Panya Vijinthanasarn has been wowing people recently with a gigantic al fresco installation of his called Sukhothai Land Art.