Ok, it’s really not that hard to grok.

(photos from Ram 2)

So I decided to split this blog into two, I’ll keep personal and photo related stuff here on blog.luke.org and then all language-related stuff will be moved to goldenland.luke.org. The email subscriptions are totally separate, if you want to receive emails when there are new posts to the language blog, you will need to head over there and subscribe now.

I’ve been sorting through some of my film from the last year, and figured that I would post these two photos from something that might turn into a project. I usually am juggling a bunch of different ideas all at once, hoping that one will eventually turn into something interesting enough to actually make a project out of.

These two photos were shot outside of Bangkok, where the population is 99% Thai, 99% brown-skinned, and yet the ads use white people to sell their products, services, lifestyles.

Click the image to download the high-res version.

“I think art works best in people’s memories. For me, it’s not just the act of going to see it on the wall. I’m not saying it’s bad to do that, although very often it can be disappointing, you know? But in the memory, with all the things you’ve heard about it, all the stories, art becomes this great, rich, flexible, thing.”

- Urs Fischer

Of course, it would be nice if they were in parks instead of growing out of the side of a the 4th floor of a soon to be demolished building.

I wonder if Nabokov is rolling over in his grave knowing that his book as spawned a Tokyo fashion craze …. or perhaps he’s ecstatic over it.

So when I read about a bus being set on fire up the street from me, I had to go check it out (from the safety of my roof at a zoom lens). I took these while listening to gun fire and the Muslim call to prayer that was happening at the same time. I think it’s rather ironic (and probably very politically incorrect of me to say this) that we have fighting caused by a Budhists happening at the same time that Muslims were going to pray. (I guess it’s also ironic that the government is able to kill Muslims in the south, but can’t keep our airport open. )

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/30100432/Protesters-set-fire-to-buses-tires-at-Si-Ayutthaya

Anyway, I’m fine …. staying around my apartment. My only real danger is dying of malnutrition, as I don’t have much more than potato chips in the house. Hopefully the pizza guy can make it through later.

Just finished my exams p.s.

Photos of Tokyo …. all themed around the color yellow.

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