Posted in more stuff, photography on Nov 13th, 2007
According to this morning's Cambodia Daily, the PM has asked that these wax figures in the Cambodia Cultural Village be removed. Before the UNTAC soldier and companion graced the cover of the Bayon Pearnik, and many a tourist's photo album, Jinja was there.
http://jinja.apsara.org/travels/culturalvillage
Originally constructed to appeal to the foreign tourist ...
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Painted signboards are still in use in Cambodia today, and during the more austere socialist era of the 1980s, they were one of the more effective tools for public media.
Today they are mainly used by nonprofits and the government. (Businesses use more slick photo billboards.) This particular sign bears the ...
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Posted in more stuff, visual art on Nov 1st, 2007
Well, I can't tell you to go check out this exhibition. But you gotta admit, the pictures are intriguing. Ain't no entry fee.
LINES AND LOST LINES, a collaborative mixed media installation featuring
artists from a diverse background will be on show in The Arts Lounge from
October 8 until November 14.
Four artists, ...
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“Asian Environmental Issues”
Featuring cartoonists from 10 Asian nations, at the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center, from Sept 17 to 29.
More:
http://www.cjcc.jp/en/hottopic/
10cartoonexhibition.html
http://english.people.com.cn/
90001/90782/6264883.html
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/
20070917/107889_2.shtml
Tags:cartoon
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A live demonstration of the other kind of 'Clogging' - Appalachian style - at the 2007 Clogger Summit, by Javier Sola of Khmer Open Source. (You just had to be there.)
Click on the picture for video by Preetam Rai, and cheers to Lux Mean for webbing it up. Extended version: ...
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