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20080412

Somchais Thailand will be stored here 2006-2008, all new

posts and pictures can be found at brand new blog Connemara Skies

THANKS FOR VISITING!!

20080409

Dubsocial People 3

by veerachit.com

Nice portrait of well known musician Gapi that we invited

to play on March 22nd at our event dubsocial

20080408

Cuirt Literary Festival 2008

This yearly festival has previously brought in big names like

Irvine Welsh and Ben Okri, this year will take place in Galway

from 22nd to 27th april. Writers talk about their work, programme pdf here

....Rally in the Streets

An Introduction to SHUJI TERAYAMA:
SHUJI TERAYAMA is a multi-disciplinary artist; novelist, poet, photographer, theatre director, visual artist, including film director. His works was extensively shown in public during 1960-1984. In the 60s, he found the theatre group TENJOU SAJIKI, which the name was from the Japanese title of the film THE CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945) by MARCEL CARNE, his admired French film director. The style of terayama’s theatre works is avant-garde. He oftens mix traditional Japanese culture with unconventional stage design, costume design. Also his use of vivid lighting design was to increase the unusal atmosphere reflecting the traditional Japanese culture on the brink of Western civilization.

See his movies at dubsocial Bangkok 26th/27th april in association with Filmvirus

Son of Rambow trailer

Relive your youth, if you grew up watching American movies on grainy jumpy VHS,
you'd like this

20080329

Left the building..

So, I've moved back to Ireland now. It calls
into question the whole idea of reporting
from SE Asia on this blog, so I will probably
be starting a new page which can be accessed
from here when set up. You can still expect interesting
fixes of art and design stuff, but with a european
slant instead! Shane..

20080324

Checksant, Gapi, Shane
Photo by Fuse

20080321

Some Sketches and Photos from the Holidays

Sunset Beach on Ko Kradan, 17th March

The famous Andaman water, looking toward Ko Muk

My Kayak on Kradan

With a Thai family, we went on a day trip

Pot and Glass, Muslim Restaurant, Trang Town,Drawn by a local 12 year old. See-its easy!

Gate, Ko Kradan

Elderly Man eating dinner, Ko Tun Restaurant, Krabi Town

View from Chao Fah, Krabi Town

Longtail Boat, Andaman

Krabi Town, Trang Town,Ko Kradan, Andaman Sea

20080314

And for my 200th Post..Me!

I'm off to the beach for a few days! See you on the other side

Photo by Prae

Next DubSocial-Mar 22nd 8pm

A major contribution by some big local names-we are grateful for
their time and effort put into their upcoming performances at this not
for profit gig. Free entry to the public. Support Thai arts..here

20080312

Podbean in Bangkok

CODE designer and all round cultured one Prae Piromya takes podcasts by storm in this brand new source for Thai issues that matter nationally and internationally. Check it out

The most recent guest podcaster talks about Burmese immigrants in Thailand.

"This podcast will host various kinds of talks, ranging from art&design to politics and society. Many thanks to my co-hosts for each podcast, and to podbean.com for providing an easy platform for podcasting (A+++). "