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Happy to serve evil
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 10/07/2015
» Since 2010, these Tictac-shaped, overall-outfitted creatures have burst onto the animation landscape to globally become one of the most loved and recognisable characters in 3D. The Minions came as a side serving to the main plot in Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 but in this prequel spin off, it's a lot of heady fun to see what they've been up to before becoming the haplessly devoted henchmen to Gru.
Pinch of literary spice
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 01/06/2015
» For the first time in India, local language authors such as Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi have become marquee names in terms of sales, eclipsing even mainstream Western writers on the market. Books using local, vernacular language are edgy and have a huge following among young readers.
Amateur Pursuits
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 07/11/2013
» For Gen-Xers and the whole crew born before them, the internet obviously wasn't an available platform for broadcasting self-indulgent thoughts, nor was mediocre smartphone photography a tool for publicising their lives the way it is for today's young generation. Nevertheless, people who weren't literary luminaries or sought-after artists still expressed themselves, and did so through fanzines _ "zines" for short.
Degrees of Fame
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 01/02/2013
» Can you learn to be a star? Perhaps, or at least that's what a lot of young people believe, for it has been biologically embedded in our instinct to want the easiest and most entertaining job that also comes with fame and money.
Read, and thou shall find
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/11/2012
» We are living in an age where humans are swamped with more printed words than ever before, whether from Facebook, Twitter, text messages or email. And yet those words are fleeting. Poetry, with its slow-sinking gravity, can be really important at a time when so much fast language is being spewed. It can serve as a way to slow things down and let people appreciate every syllable, vowel, thought and sentence.
Rendered speechless
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 17/10/2012
» The name Nipan Oranniwesna should ring a bell for those who prefer art that doesn't necessarily look like art as we know it. By that thinking, you will be greeted by mundane everyday objects: wooden planks, rice or whatever that is so easy to dismiss.