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It's time to talk about mental illness
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 31/03/2015
» My family has a history of mental illness. My father has eight siblings. His elder sister and youngest brother were sick for a long time. They were not diagnosed or treated until much later in their lives. My aunt, now 61, lives with bipolar disorder. She is on medication. She works and she travels. She is strong. Years ago, she taught my brother and I to speak Mandarin. Years from now, she will teach my nephews and nieces to add and subtract. Now, some days are good. She gets up. Other days, she says she feels hopeless even in her sleep. We don't talk about it very much, almost not at all.
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In the steps of the house
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 06/04/2015
» Eames Demetrios did not know that his grandparents, Charles and Bernice "Ray" Alexandra Eames, were special people to the rest of the world, until he learned about their house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, in an art history class in college.
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The ideal man
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 15/04/2015
» There are certain ideals, Krit Chantranet says, that are universal. Getting a good education. Going to a good university. Getting a good job and doing a good job. Making money. Finding love. Having a loving family. Being healthy. That's the perfect life.
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Clash of the beasts
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 11/03/2015
» A title of a work of art works as a cue, a reference, a connection, an analogy. Yuree Kensaku named her most recent work When The Elephants Fight, The Grass Gets Trampled. She thinks in symbols. She has a feeling for idioms. When she thought of the painting, she thought in language. She thought of how to best represent it.
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What I don't know now
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 20/01/2015
» I've had more than a week to think about Charlie Hebdo, and I need more time.
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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.
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Illustrating the ideal
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 10/02/2015
» As a child, Tatchamapan Chanchamrassang, aka Pomme Chan, was a nerd, she says. She used to read manga comics and then she starting making up her own stories and drawing her own manga. She loved Ai Yazawa's Nana.
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Bond 'roids up
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 13/02/2015
» Free calls. Free internet. For everyone. Forever. Samuel L. Jackson is Valentine — villainous internet billionaire in a sideways baseball cap with a distinct lisp, an aim to save the planet from global warming and a hot accomplice named Gazelle with large blades built into her Pistorius-style prosthetic legs — offers the world. Who could say no?
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The universal struggle for equality
Life, Pimrapee Thungkasemvathana, Published on 24/02/2015
» Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina of Pussy Riot lie in a hole in the ground, wearing OMON riot police uniforms. They are slowly buried alive. Dirt fills the orifices in their faces. They can't breathe. In the music video of I Can't Breathe, released last week and shot in one long take, the Russian feminist punk rock group opted for emotion rather than anger. The group has chosen a new cause.
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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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