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The force is strong with this one
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 04/05/2015
» In 1997, Atis Ruchirawat translated the script of the original Star Wars trilogy for subbing and dubbing in Thai. He didn't need the script, he said. He could recite the dialogue more or less by heart. He even knows the words Greedo and Jabba the Hutt say in their fictional language, though he does not care to speculate whether Greedo or Han Solo shot first. His scope of interest is boxed in by the film itself — he isn't concerned about the numerous spin-offs of the movies or unsolvable hypotheses.
A journey through used jeans
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 29/04/2015
» 'What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the president drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the president knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."
Philosophy of design
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 23/03/2015
» English designer, sculptor and architect Thomas Heatherwick established the Heatherwick Studio in 1994. He created the Rolling Bridge at Paddington Basin in London, on his own volition. He reinvented the iconic red London bus, down to the fabric for the seats, treating the interior of the bus like an architectural space. Heatherwick then went on to represent his homeland with the design of the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo in 2010 — the Seed Cathedral, a hairy rectangular structure made with 60,000 identical clear acrylic rods, which created a curvaceous geometric interior space holding 250,000 seed samples. Sunlight travelled through the length of each rod, lighting up the space, and cast different hues throughout the day.
Sculpting Complex, Urban Cityscapes
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 04/03/2015
» Rattana Salee and Therdkiat Wangwatchakul walk the streets of Bangkok, recording what they see with a camera, imprinting images in their minds. Their Bangkok is personal, one that transforms frantically on the surface, and even more tumultuously below. "Representing Localities: Memory And Experience" at Thavibu Gallery presents their lives in the city, where urban development is the setting for sober contemplation.
Made in the tropics
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 04/02/2015
» Transcending the cliquishness ever apparent in the Bangkok arts world, curator Linjie Zhou has put together an exuberant group show at HOF Art. "Tropikos" features three home-grown artists and three hailing from Curitiba, Brazil.
Masterly delve into the video age
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 05/12/2014
» It's so meta sitting at House RCA cinema watching how its founders used to get their fix of indie films.
Culture, not commodity
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 02/12/2014
» On Oct 3, the Royal Thai government received a shipping container from the US government, through the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Inside were eight crates, containing 554 archaeological artefacts.
Art that resists the confines of tradition
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 12/11/2014
» 'What do you call a midget fortune teller who has escaped from prison?" asks curator Joyce Toh. "Small medium at large," someone guesses, standing in front of a wall painted with words, photography, performance and mixed-media, all linked to look like electrons circling in an atom.
The girl with stories in her hair
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/09/2014
» When she was 31, Imhathai Suwatthanasilp started collecting hair she lost in the shower, over a period of 31 washes, and wove them separately. After about four months, she weighed down each set of woven hair with small stones dating the day the strands of hair had fallen out. The finished works, The Thirty-First, are like tornadoes, arranged in a row on a light box. They are intricate and fragile but contain within themselves a whirlwind of emotions. Imhathai likens them to blooming flowers.
The escapism artist
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 17/09/2014
» Skyler Chen, 32, lives through pictures, not words. He grew up with dyslexia, a disorder that went undiagnosed until just a few years ago.