Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2006
Feeding the Ghosts
I'll be seeing nicely dressed families going to the pagodas for the next few days.
Like just about every culture, Cambodians have a holiday to pay respects to the departed: Pchum Ben. Most offices are giving their staff Tuesday through Monday off; the actual time of observance is ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2006
Coup next door.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog for a news update:
Thai military coup.
via CamNews: http://tinyurl.com/s5jr8
http://tinyurl.com/zawqy
All over the news media shortly.
Damn. Over the last year, I was getting the impression that ASEAN countries were getting into the habit of resolving political differences more and more via institutions rather than ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2006
Starbuckian
San Francisco, Christmas vacation, 2004:
I am walking the slanting streets of San Francisco. No matter where I turn, there is always a coffee shop within my sight. Starbucks coffee, to be precise. Just how much coffee does one city need?
There is room in the market for an upscale coffee ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2006
Feather Weight
is a photo essay and a book on Cambodian boxing by John
Vink, a Belgian photographer based in Phnom Penh.
That and the prospect of free drink lured me to Le Popil, this last Friday (15 Sept).
(Center: Stefan and Delphine: OK,where's the bottle opener? Far right: people check out the book.)
The ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2006
Beer Girls Poster
Media and propaganda went hand-in-hand in much of the 70s and 80s.
We now have a genre of nonprofit art in Cambodia. It's not terribly subtle, as you can see.
Me, I'm just trying to document this wacky stuff before it before it disappears.
Mainstream advertising? Getting better, but often ...
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