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Swiss sights, sounds a moss-see
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/03/2015
» If a visit to the famed "valley of the watchmakers" in Switzerland's Vallee de Joux is a bit out of your league, Audemars Piguet's installation in the Collector's Lounge at this year's Art Basel Hong Kong was a decent stand-in, bringing springtime at its factory to you.
All grown up
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 26/03/2015
» Growing up is one trait that never seems to fail in the world of fashion. HRH Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana has been designing fashion collections for about a decade now and if last Thursday's presentation of her 2015 spring/summer collection is anything to go by, it's not a lie to say that she keeps getting better with age.
Tied to a Sino past
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/05/2015
» The unavoidable and never-failing icebreaker -- do you have any Chinese blood? -- will always have its place in Thai society. Yet it's also something of an empty question, believes Singaporean author Jeffery Sng: "By the time Phibunsongkhram changed the country's name to Thailand, the Thais were already so mixed that it was hard to find anyone 100% Thai."
Curating cultural creativity
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/03/2015
» It's a continuous run on the treadmill for art collectors and design devotees when the art fair season kicks off in January. March is undoubtedly a peak period, with exhibitions going on every weekend. The most prominent one in Asia, Art Basel Hong Kong, something of a high-end art supermarket, wrapped up on Tuesday. The fair saw over 3,000 artists around the world touch down at the gateway to Asia for the third year to beguile the moneyed and style-savvy art connoisseurs.
Roy: A film to test the patience
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/02/2015
» As a movie that takes forever to start and forever to end, glaciers move faster than Roy. Coined as a "romantic thriller", this work of 147 minutes by debut director Vikramjit Singh is anything but and should instead be called a patience tester. Regardless, there's some good in this eye-candy fest too, making it a specimen of what could fit into both the dos and don'ts at film school.
Tale as old as time
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 03/03/2015
» It brings an emotional tear to eye when cartoons can capture the heart-wrenching trials of humanity, but when humans can come across convincingly as cartoons, the result is undeniable glee. Disney's Broadway spectacular, Beauty And The Beast, which is showing in Thailand for the very first time, brings the 1991 Oscar-winning classic of the same name to life.
TV Thrones tomes good company
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 09/03/2015
» With the premiere date for the fifth season of Game Of Thrones only a month away, now is a good time for fans to refresh their memories of what has happened so far.
Dazzling, dreamlike Cinderella
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 13/03/2015
» Good old storytelling and a bit of magic is what Disney does best (and should stick to). Let's all just sit back and be dreamy-eyed for a change — everything the Mouse House has churned out with a try-hard dark twist was terribly bland and forgettable (ahem, Alice In Wonderland) — or, in Maleficent's case, like watching an hour-long advertisement for Angelina Jolie.
Across the universe
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/01/2015
» Tunlaya Dunnvatanachit on the beautiful, but dark, bubble known as the world.
A night on the canvas
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 28/01/2015
» Entering the industrial loft on the sixth floor of Piman49 feels very much like visiting a friend's apartment in Brooklyn. The uniform traits are a given — bare cement walls, bare bricks, floor-to-ceiling glass windows and black metal netting fencing. Although the thump of hip hop blaring from behind walls might be expected, what you actually get when stepping into Paintbar Bangkok is a quiet sense of calm. It'll likely be a very different kind of night out here, because while visitors' senses slowly decrease from drinking, what's left at the end of it all will be a painting, or at least, an attempt at one.