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TV killed the reality star
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/07/2013
» Reality TV has become an indispensable form of entertainment for Thai audiences _ Thailand's Got Talent is still going and the 10th season of the popular Academy Fantasia, which sparked the reality-show craze here, began last week. Over the past decade, there's no doubt we have come to enjoy the novelty of "unexpected" and "unpredictable" turns of events and observe "unrehearsed" human behaviour, as opposed to other TV shows and series.
The fear factor
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/07/2013
» Thasnai Sethaseree's latest art exhibition, "Trans-Structurity", is about fear. But unlike other artists' approach to the subject, which has often involved going deep into their own thoughts and feelings, his set of works is not the projection of his own fear. Instead, the public's sense of dread was the source of this artist's inspiration. He gathered the information about those fears with a combination of research and personal interaction with people.
Snappy days
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 01/07/2013
» It comes as no surprise that Dr Brady Barr _ National Geographic's resident reptile expert _ finds the thousands of crocodilians he has caught so far to be his "comfort zone". To date, he is famed for having landed more than 5,000 crocodiles and alligators.
Visual autobiography
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/06/2013
» It is more fitting to call Chalood Nimsamer's latest exhibition a visual autobiography.
Chinn's up in the kitchen
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/06/2013
» Ask Bobby Chinn to introduce himself and the answer, fired off in a single breath, is: "I'm half-Egyptian, half-Chinese. Born in New Zealand. Educated in England. From San Francisco. Have been living in Vietnam for the last 18 years." A pause, then the punch: "Oh, and I was conceived in Thailand."
Consultancy takes off
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/05/2013
» From childhood and through-out her working career, Atchara Juicharern has always had within her a passion for teaching. She has always loved talking to a large audience, but unlike being a stand-up comedian, she not only wanted to entertain but to inform, and have the audience learn something educational and useful in an enjoyable way. So while it's not what she planned, it probably shouldn't come as a complete surprise that she founded and currently manages AcComm & Image International, a leadership and staff development consulting company.
The thinking person's poet
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/05/2013
» One of the verses in Zakariya Amataya's new book of poetry reads:
Flexing his muscles
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/05/2013
» Being sick is usually a good excuse to stay off work, but for veteran watercolour painter and teacher Kosol Pinkul it's the other way round. Suffering from muscular weakness, far from taking the chance to retire and rest, the 69-year-old artist continued to work and later proved painting can be not only creatively powerful, but physically rehabilitating as well.