Archive for 2007

Cambodia Maps CD

Cambodia Maps on CD Enjoying clicking through Version 1.0 of this compilation, collecting archival maps with a tremendous amount of detail. You can get your copy at Phnom Penh's Jungle Bar, all profits go to education efforts in Kep and Kampot. The author is currently updating the CD with GPS coordinates and ...

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Tattoo You

Tattoo You From the early 1990s onward Stuart Isett has been documenting Cambodian gang youth, first in the USA, then back in Cambodia, for his series 'Cambodian Gangs, Then and Now'. The first USA set hails from the early 1990s, showing the culture of California gang members, most of whom had been ...

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Recycling

Recycling The environmental workers I met when living in Siem Reap weren't your run of the mill vegetarian / natural fiber wearing / politically correct breed you find in Western countries. Nope they smoked, drank, swore like sailors and drove some of the biggest and noisiest motorbikes I'd ever seen. Many are gone ...

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Have Krama, Will Kickbox

Have Krama, Will Kickbox The scarf Tony Jaa wears adds to audience enthusiasm, with many Cambodians asserting 'he's not really Thai' but 'Khmer Surin'. Wearing what looks like an ordinary krama, the martial artist battles through a curiously foreign Sydney to find trafficked elephants in Tom Yung Goong, his second film. ...

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Hands

Hands Student work at the Royal University of Fine Art's South Campus, Phnom Penh. Tags:cambodia,sculpture

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