YANGON (AFP) – About 100 monks marched Wednesday in central Myanmar for the first time since the junta’s bloody crackdown on anti-government protests last month, witnesses said.
The monks marched around the town of Pakokku for about 30 minutes chanting Buddhist prayers, town residents said, adding that they did not shout any political slogans.
“These monks were [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Myanmar monks march for first time since crackdown
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Tudors
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Tudors: Epic storytelling
I wanna watch!!!
(yes im a sucker for british history… england and london…hahaha)
and it starrs Jonathan Rhys Myers =)
Imaginary Prison – Blissfully Yours
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Oh yea…i was thinking of this…Imaginary Prisons
Vik Muniz
Brazilian 1961–, worked in United States 1983–
Prisons XIV, the gothic arch, after Piranesi
from the Prisons, after Piranesi series (detail) 2002
Collection of the artist
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
© Vik Muniz
after the lecture on Blissfully yours… applicable to a lot of World Screen aesthetics and life and people in [...]
The power of drawing…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
source of picture: http://www.animwatch.com/Spotlight-MyLittleWorld.php
I am suppose to working on reading and researching BUT…
i was randomly surfing on stuff like anime…which lead me to the above picture and eventually to this website… http://animwatch.animationblogspot.com/
(Randomness…at this very moment…i must say WSAP has def jolt me awake to
everything i see on tv/movies…)
But yea… i was with my cousin at http://www.northmelbourne.mymoviesnow.com.au/
at 334 Queensberry Street [...]
5 diff genres… 5 diff thai films
Posted in Countries, Film on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nang Nak is a romantic tragedy and horror film directed by Nonzee Nimibutr in 1999 through Buddy Film and Video Production Co. in Thailand. It features the life of a devoted ghost wife and the unsuspecting husband.
I must say as much as it was touching it was def eerie…
The film is set in 1996, when [...]
Thailand…Film…Buddism…Religion?
Posted in Countries, POLITICS- World Screen on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Its been a long time since i actually went and had a good look at maps…
Never quite realize how close burma, laos, cambodia, vietnam and thailand really were…Anyways…This is a good website to get reliable links to the history of thailand:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/thailand/resources/thailand-history.html
(includes photos and stuff:))
Thai Cinema (good old wiki)
Post-war years
A poster for the 1970 film, Insee tong, [...]
Blissfully Yours/Sud Sanaeha
Posted in Countries, Film on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hmm, it could be the flu…or my brain in a state of mush that affected my viewing today… i did see the need to create a connecting chart for the rest of the films (like Ten or for 4) but i did for this…haha…
It could be the fact that it was drastically different from any thai film i [...]
All Good Things
Posted in Music on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Back from the last class…
This song represents how im feeling i guess…
Revisiting Spring Summer Autumn Winter Spring
Posted in Film, POLITICS- World Screen on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, i was suppose to be doing some readings but i got distracted by Kim Ki Duk’s film on SBS last night…
This time, sitting on the sofa, alone, watching it, i somehow got something different out of it, maybe because my memory of it was already hazy, or the buddhist elements some how did not [...]
Chinese Martial Arts – Wu Xia – Seven Swords
Posted in Countries, Film on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Chinese martial arts is a very broad termininology, and it includes a enormous variety of martial arts styles originating from China.
Kung fu and wushu are popular terms that have become synonymous with Chinese martial arts.
The terms kung fu (Chinese: 功夫 pinyin: gōngfū) and wushu (traditional Chinese: 武術; simplified Chinese: 武术) have very distinct connotations. Each term can describe different [...]
