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Animated Response
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 17/02/2012
» Animation is an engaging and enjoyable format to work with and can involve everything from stop motion and traditional cell drawing to computer generation and even newer cutting-edge media technologies. It's also a great vehicle to advance young people's understanding of storytelling and the sequencing of ideas, giving them an outlet for their creative energy while honing their technical skills and their ability to work in close collaboration with others.
Rekinding Friendships
Life, Published on 17/02/2012
» Number 1 Gallery presents The Human Clay, an exhibition that brings Australian artist Diane Mantzaris and Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket together for the first time in 18 years.
When worlds collide
Life, Plalai Faifa, Published on 17/02/2012
» A few years ago I happened on a series of releases on DVD of an ancient US science-fiction television programme called Tales of Tomorrow. It was broadcast during 1951-2, when memories of World War II and the horrific revelations of its final years were still quite fresh. They gave rise to a widely felt pessimism about human nature that was apparent in the movies of the post-war years _ shadowy American film noir culminating in Robert Aldrich's apocalyptic, still-terrifying Kiss Me Deadly, French existentialist parables like Wages of Fear, and many of the Japanese classics made during the period.
Zoological wonder
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/02/2012
» There's only one giraffe in all of Jakarta, we're informed early in Postcards from the Zoo. "I like the form, the presence, the elegance. It looks like a centaur, the half-horse half-man," says Edwin, the director of the Indonesian film. "A giraffe always moves as if in slow-motion. It's so nice to make a composition out of it."
Co-authoring, not performing
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/02/2012
» Tim Crouch went into acting with questions and uncertainty, rather than in hopes of achieving personal fame. When he decided to enrol at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, he said it was because he didn't think he knew what an actor was. And ultimately he felt that the training he got there didn't "show me what an actor is, only what he is not". He gradually came to the realisation that he had become an actor with a dead-end job _ acting _ and that taking part in conventional drama productions was preventing him from "authoring his creativity", as he puts it.
Delving into the past
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 16/02/2012
» Bhawan Ruangsilp, a history lecturer at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Arts, finds the past intriguing. But her fascination is not limited only to Thai history. The 40-year-old historian is an expert in the history of Asian and European relations. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Chulalongkorn's Faculty of Arts, with a major in German language and minor in history, and pursued her graduate studies, majoring in German history, at Tubingen University in Germany. She later received a doctorate degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands for her study of the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie _ VOC), which conducted brisk trade in the Court of Ayutthaya during 1604-1765. Her research offers new perspectives of the Kingdom of Siam through different evidence.
Unplugged but uninspiring
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 16/02/2012
» What do bands at the top of their careers do? Well, there are many paths they can choose to embark on. They can drink themselves stupid, fight paternity lawsuits, continue to churn out a solid body of work, buy sport cars, or turn into poetic messiahs. With all that money and fame, they can pretty much fulfil all their wishes.
Steadily Forward
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/02/2012
» Before ushering the Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) into its 10th year, Nut Nualpang, founder of Saosoong Theatre and this year's festival programme director, strapped the regular members of the Bangkok Theatre Network (BTN), comprising a handful of small professional theatre companies, onto the operating table. Not only did they come under the knives of fellow artists and audience members, these theatre practitioners also got to spill their guts in a series of informal talks called kheun khiang (literally "getting on the chopping block").
Setting trends
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 15/02/2012
» As P&G's global director for trends and innovation, Vassiliki Petrou jested that her job makes her a trendsetter. "It's like having 'secret information' and I can do my shopping ahead of others to prepare myself for next year's fashion and beauty trends," she said, knowing what will be coming in 2013.
Time to get Toofaced
Life, Noko, Published on 15/02/2012
» When make-up artists can't find satisfying tools to do their job, the discontentment may turn into a desire to develop their own products, and so we have Shu Uemura, Bobbi Brown and Laura Mercier to thank for arming us with some good stuff to make us look pretty.