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Image consciousness
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 20/03/2016
» Two weekends, two exhibitions, many weighty issues: Bangkok art lovers are about to see something profound.
‘Nine comedians walk into a bar ...’
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 13/03/2016
» ‘I’m always introduced as a musical genius and a sex symbol, which is fairly accurate,” Earl Okin explains. “Music is what I’m about, I can’t help being a sex symbol. I didn’t choose it, but music I chose.”
Six degrees of Songkran separation
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 12/04/2015
» Songkran officially starts tomorrow, which means it really started on Friday evening or even a little earlier to beat the traffic. There really is nothing like Thailand’s unique new year water festival, so long as you discount coincidentally similar events and traditions in places like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. It’s a chance to let off steam in the hottest month of the year by brushing up against a thousand clammy, clay-covered bodies in Silom Road and stumbling from beer station to beer station in hope of a cold can.
The canvas is his world
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 23/03/2014
» His mouth is a river of phrases and run-on sentences flowing over tongue and teeth. His eyes, below straggly brown curls, bristle with energy and ideas. For Henri Lamy, art is all about the face. So when his palette knife plops white into blue and smears the new shade across the canvas, he leaves an impression of a nose to explain a point.