Sep 8th, 2006 by Jinja
How To Learn French Without Really Trying:
at Cinema Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh:
7 pm Friday 8 Sept: Donnie Darko.
6 pm Saturday 9 Sept: The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
6 pm Sunday 10 Sept: Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
7 pm Tuesday 12 Sept: Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
All with English subtitles to boot! Nicola, wish you were here to join us.
Sep 7th, 2006 by Jinja
Bloggers Abroad
Khmerak writes about Malaysian Independence Day, meeting up with other bloggers, and landing back in the thick of Phnom Penh’s traffic. It’s cool to see intra-Southeast Asia connections being made.
And Fulbrighter Mongkol catches up with Beth Kanter in the States.
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/09/social_networki.html
Tags: Cambodia
Sep 6th, 2006 by Jinja
Eastern Europe digs Khmer Comics
At least, I think it’s an Eastern European Language. Maybe it’s from ‘Cornucopia‘.
(Clarifications, anyone? The whole office is stumped.)
Every now and then I get a heap of hits on the Khmer comics page – earlier this year it was Japan, last year, Spanish language sites. In a country where reading isn’t a favored lesiure activity, illustrated stories are a good starting point. You can find comics at just about any newsstand in Phnom Penh. Most are reprints, decades old.
Readers’ advisory: persuse with caution. High degree of unintentional kitsch.
http://del.icio.us/slugdog/khmercomics
Sep 5th, 2006 by Jinja
Architect in Action
A great presentation by Vann Molyvann yesterday (Sept 04 2006) at the French Cultural Centre, in Khmer this time. The return engagement was largely due to there being so many questions at his last talk.
While quite quiet when off the stage, the architect was impassioned in his discussion of what Phnom Penh was, is – and could be.
I’ll revise this post with more details tomorrow, I’m still webbing up some of his stunning pictures.
If you couldn’t go? In the words of Mr. T, ‘I pity the fool.’ What were you thinking?
Tags: Cambodia,architecture
Sep 2nd, 2006 by Jinja
Em Satya: Back in Form
Em Satya, a classic comics artist of the 1980s, still has reprints being sold at news stands today, sans royalties. He continues to work in various areas of illustration.
Due to a stroke, his drawing arm has been paralyzed for the last several years. But with characteristic stoicism, he simply switched arms, and continued to draw. Writer Pal Vannarirak was one of the first to commision a left-handed novel cover.
It’s been fascinating to see him slowly but surely reaching towards his previous level of skill, and now, he may even have surpassed it. Here he proudly shows off his latest color composition.
Postscript: (Sept 11 2006) check out some of his illustrations for the Buddhist Institute‘s Folktales Magazine! (Caution: *big* PDF file of entire volume. http://tinyurl.com/mo7xz)
Jinja
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