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

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.

2922 is a pick of the week in BKK magazine this week …..

Click the links to download the images in Jpeg format, or here to get it in PDF format.

Click the image to download the high-res version.

Ogilvy and Mather (the advertising firm) invited me to give a talk to their creative dept tomorrow (Wed) about my show and on my thoughts relating to using photography and language as communication tools. I also plan on talking a bit about what art is, what an artist is, etc ….

The poster they put together to advertise the talk is above, a rough translation is as follows:

“A Picture Says Only Some words.
Pictures, Words
Luke Cassidy-Dorion (sic)
A foreigner who speaks Thai will come speak on the subject of words in photographs and photographs that surround words.
The rest just tells the location, time, etc ….”

There is definitely one aspect of the poster that makes me feel like a circus monkey … “yup, time to pull out that white blond guy and make him rattle off some Thai” … that aside, I am looking forward to the talk. It should be interesting to hear what everyone thinks about the work.

Anyway, if you work there, please do come. If you’re interested in something similar at your place of work or university, feel free to contact me.

The week before my opening, I did an interview on a Thai TV program called artscenetv.net about my show … here are the youtube clips.

The Japanese one is from DACO, a Bangkok-based Japanese-language publication and the English one is from A DAY BULLETIN, a Thai/English language weekly rag. A DAY got the date of the opening wrong, but I guess I could have bigger problems. Click the image to see a bigger version if you feel so inclined.

Anyway, I’m heading over to the gallery soon … I’ll post photos and video from the opening in a few days.

Stuff is coming together nicely for the show, the art has been proofed and is being printed, I did a TV interview which should be out soon (I’ll post the link when I get it), and I had two press mentions today. This first link is a scan from the Bangkok Post listing the upcoming gallery shows next week. Their bit about me is rather over-the-top (which of course I like).

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The second mention is on the website of Thai Rath, Thailand’s biggest Thai-language paper. You can either see it here

http://www.thairath.co.th/content/life/44473

or check out the jpg archive if it’s gone already (depends on how soon you read this).

(click either image for the full-sized version)

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