Posted in business, photography, signs, stuff, visual art on Jun 28th, 2009
Saw this iconic image above when driving down Monivong Boulevard, and whipped out my trusty phonecam.
Which led to the development of this spoof ad: ‘Proh Kouch’ deodorant. Why?
‘Cause if we’re gonna dole out embarrassment, guys could do to improve their hygiene too.
Tags: cambodia,advertising,billboard,hygiene
Posted in current events, hip hop, music, news on Jun 27th, 2009
Prach Ly makes the cover of Khmer Celeb for his new album, ‘Memoirs of An Invisible War.’
“it will be released in June [the Khmer version] and in July for the English version.”
More: http://www.khmerceleb.org/index
Tags: cambodia,hiphop,music,khmer
Posted in current events, more stuff, music, stuff on Jun 25th, 2009
“Rebuilding The Rights of Statues” is my favorite People’s-Republic-of-China-approved “post-punk” band.
No, seriously. Great sounds, they’ve obviously schooled themselves with some great influences. http://wiki.rockinchina.com/index.php?title=Re-TROS
Fun to listen to. And they are OK’d by a ’socialist’ country as a cultural export, served up on a platter for us by Penhville’s business community: Chinese House, Asialife Guide and [...]