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A very hairy journey
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/08/2014
» Armed with scissors and a comb, Japanese Jun Kuwabara set out earlier this year to travel the world and, while he's at it, cut the hair of 1,000 people. In a recent interview with Life, the 26-year-old hairdresser took us through the leafy and vibrant Rambuttri in the Khao San area to set up "a temporary salon".
Revisiting truth and integrity
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/08/2014
» At the ending of the 1937 novel Khang Lang Phap (Behind The Painting), author Kularb Saipradit, also known as Sri Burapha, wrote: “I die without the one who loves me, but my heart is fulfilled that there’s someone whom I love.”
Bambi gets sexy
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014
» In more than one way, ongoing performance The Last Schomburgk’s Deer at Crescent Moon Space is starkly raw and honest pornography.
Shantytown saviour
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/04/2014
» Akihiro Tomikawa exudes a faint air of sadness and one’s first impression on meeting him is that melancholy is a semi-permanent state for this self-made Japanese businessman — a sort of default mode. The 45-year-old appears reluctant to talk about his past, not surprisingly, perhaps, for someone who has so many unhappy memories to suppress. As a boy, he was frequently beaten by his stepfather, driving him to seriously consider suicide and to look back on his childhood as a lonely period when his existence was more like that of a waif — a “stray kid”, as he puts it — than a cherished member of a family unit.
A real-life globe-hopper
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/03/2014
» Allan Dransfield would gladly eat leftover pizza on a restaurant table he walks past. He would knock on the door of a total stranger and ask if he could spend the night. He says people tend to overthink when it comes to travelling, and “technically, you can travel for free”.
War of words
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2014
» When the red shirts camped out at Rajamangala Stadium last December to support PM Yingluck Shinawatra, a popular quip among the anti-Thaksin camp was that the football field needed a proper re-turf as those "kwai daeng", or red buffalo, had eaten all the grass.
Butoh is back in bangkok
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/12/2013
» After taking last year off, the International Butoh Festival will return to Bangkok for the eighth time tomorrow. The event is organised by B-Floor Theatre, Butoh Co-op Thailand and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. This year's theme is "Butoh Women" and the festival will feature workshops and performances by several Thai and international artists.
Making a splash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/12/2013
» From traditional paintings and installations that challenged the definition of art, to retrospectives reconnecting us to notable artists, it's been another exciting year for the city's art scene. We asked five critics and curators to choose their event of the year
Art when it alteration finds
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 13/11/2013
» From now until February next year, Singapore has a lot more to offer than Orchard Road, the water-spouting Merlion and crunchy Garret popcorn. The fourth edition of the Singapore Biennale, arguably the biggest art festival in all of Southeast Asia, is now in top gear, and the Bras Basah and Bugis Street areas have been transformed into an artistic hub where visitors, local and foreign, can soak up art in all its possible incarnations.
Chopin at the bit
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/08/2013
» Chanyapong Thongsawang's bio is pretty straightforward: he fell in love with the piano when he was about seven years old, and more than 20 years later the feeling's stronger than ever. When other kids started dozing off at the first strains of classical music, it was the start of a lifelong journey for Chanyapong that has become more and more "extreme" as years have rolled by.