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The ghost of pop culture future
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 08/08/2014
» Last month, Thai fans had their first Comic Con experience, when BEC Tero and TrueVisions hosted the Bangkok Comic Con at Paragon Hall, an event local devotees of all things pop culture welcomed with delight.
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The leader's true self
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/11/2014
» 'A few months ago, the [North Korean] Ministry of Interior issued a statement on TV — 'We will remove your existence from the universe'," says Jang Jin-sung, unfazed, over a decade after he fled North Korea in the middle of the day, across the frozen Yalu River and into China.
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Molam's mass movement
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 07/11/2014
» 'Molam can't be tamed," so the old saying goes. The years have certainly proven this true. From now until the end of March next year, the Jim Thompson Art Center presents "Joyful Khaen, Joyful Dance", an exhibition tracing the development of molam from its ritualistic roots in Isan, through its passage as anti-communism propaganda, to its current place in pop culture, where the once rural music is played to the cool or even international crowd of Bangkok.
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Pages of time
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 27/04/2015
» Grisana Eimeamkamol wants to import a culture to Thailand.
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Now, Still Showing
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 27/02/2015
» In 1978, Sutin Wangpaibul lived next to a temple in Thon Buri. He was in Prathom 5, and each Friday he would rush home to complete his homework so he could go to the open-air movies at the temple grounds in the evening.
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Supporting the team
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 17/01/2015
» Jeerapat Yamsri had just returned from Singapore for a family vacation over the New Year holidays with her family, her phone full of photographs of mascots from Universal Studios — close-ups of their feet, Shrek’s butt, a Minion’s goggles, a few pictures of her three children with the gang from Sesame Street.
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More than words
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/11/2014
» In July, the National Library Board of Singapore pulled two books from the children's books shelves. One of them And Tango Makes Three is based on a true story about two male Chinstrap penguins raising a chick in Central Park Zoo. The other, The White Swan Express, mentions a lesbian couple.
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War and peace
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 25/08/2014
» In what Susan Sontag would refer to as the democratisation of the human experience through photography, the exhibition "Something To Talk About" presents moments in the Deep South that have largely been overlooked by news media — moments of peace.
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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.
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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.
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