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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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Pages of time
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 27/04/2015
» Grisana Eimeamkamol wants to import a culture to Thailand.
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Drawing upon days past
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 22/10/2014
» In her current solo exhibition "Days Of (Endless) Meaninglessness" at 100 Tonson Gallery, Phaptawan Suwannakudt draws on the emotions she experienced during a visit home last December to create five triptychs and a video. She looks at Thailand, her home, with nostalgia as an emigrant and unease as a citizen. Here, she is at once an insider and an outsider.
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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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Going for Gold
Muse, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/10/2014
» 'I remember the exact moment. It was in 2004. Hurricane Charlie swept through our town. I remember the only channel we had was NBC. We were sitting there watching the Athens Games. I remember that exact moment. I was watching this girl, Carly Patterson, and she won the Olympic All-Around Champion medal. I was like 'Man, that chick is 16 and she's a gold medallist'. That's the ultimate dream of any athlete — to compete in the greatest stage in the world. And I knew I wanted to go there one day but I had no idea how. BMX wasn't in the Olympics in 2004," says Amanda Carr. She was only 14 years old then.
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Imitation, fantasy, flattery
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 28/05/2014
» Somewhere in Thailand stands a replica of the Trevi Fountain. Somewhere else in Thailand, Rodin’s The Thinker sits pondering his epic poem in front of the Gates of Hell.
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Holding on to the past
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 19/06/2014
» At 5.05am on the 15th of May, 2020, the National Treasure Bank was broken into. The burglar was found unconscious and transported to the nearest hospital.
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Nature-inspired products for the home
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 21/02/2014
» A local enterprise that started out manufacturing commercial plastics has evolved into Qualy Design, a firm that has embraced tree-hugging principles to make a range of imaginative products for the home, from a shoe-horn that resembles a sexy, high-heeled vinyl boot and an umbrella rack that was clearly inspired by the spatial arrangement of the roots of a water lotus to attractive chopping boards, one decorated with a lettuce print, another with an image suggesting the marbling — layers of fat — found in cuts of raw meat.
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Baring it all
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 26/02/2014
» Talking about sex is awkward — for teenagers, for parents, for teachers. When teenagers need guidance, conversations about sex-related topics are frequently dodged. Sex education in Thailand over the past decades is usually allocated only a few hours per semester as part of a physical education class, and even then consists only of a theoretical component, which hardly answers some of the more frequently asked questions among teens, such as "Why does my penis appear black or darker than my skin tone?", "Is it weird to not last as long as people do in pornos?" or "What is premenstrual syndrome and how do you deal with it?".
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Multiple perspectives
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 26/02/2014
» ‘Knowledge is Everything”, so claims the title of the exhibition by Liam Morgan and Jan Krogsgaard at Speedy Grandma Gallery.
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