More pulp classic action for you: this time by Uth Roeun, artist behind the comic adaptations of Tum Teav and Torn Chey, formerly of the Ministry of Education, now running the Association of Cambodian Artist Friends which is trying to hang on to its workshop located just below the ...
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(Crying from Remorse by Sor Sornose. Cambodia Rocks!)
So why follow the literary scene in Cambodia? Cool discoveries like these. The above image is by Hul Sophon, who has worked in illustration both before and after the years of war. In addition to his primary work on covers he does many ...
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Posted in photography, visual art on Nov 8th, 2007
Here's prolific photographer Vandy Rattana at Sala Arts taking some pictures at the opening of 'Flow'. Tonight he has his own show at New Art Gallery, 'Chess'.
More about Khmer Chess? Click for rules and computer game. Link
More art stuff? Try 'What's On'.
Tags:photo,photograpy,cambodia,khmer
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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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Jason Rosette, the muscle behind Cambofest has set up a new video portal: CAMBOTUBE.
I highly recommend Dean's 'Moto Cambodia'/Commute video.
Puts the podracing scenes in Star Wars to shame. http://www.cambotube.com/play.php?vid=93
Tags:video,cinema,cambodia,khmer
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