It’s been a bittersweet X-mas. An old friend, erstwhile hippie bon vivant / artist/musician/cosmic raconteur par excellence Shane Sweeney, finally passed away from liver cancer. Am on the road right now, so no pics yet. But here is a letter to him I hope someone reads out at the cremation tomorrow: Dear [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Nat Geo Society trashes copyright
The sad outcome of the photographer Jerry Greenberg vs National Geographic Society case is really giving photographers the chills. Basically, although NGS was supposed to return the copyright of his extensive works with them after publication for initial use, they then used them on a “108 years of NG Magazine” CD compilation and which reportedly [...]
picking up the pieces
Now the whole Suvarnabhumi thing is recent history, and last weekend the Democrat party managed to secure a majority alliance of MP’s that were formerly affiliated to Thaksin’s PPP.It was all suspiciously fast and easy. How doth the wind blow this way and that. But they have yet to form a government, and most educated [...]
IT’S OVER – FOR NOW….
Tuesday morning the 2nd December I went out to to the Supreme Administrative Court of Thailand, way out on the way to Don Mueang airport on the outskirts of Bangkok. Today was the much awaited verdict of the the Constitutional Court, which had to move its venue here because the roads to the proper [...]
Bangkok: Reds vs Yellows
Thailand’s airport authorities (AOT) are not amused. They have been losing around 50 million baht (about US$ 1.4 million) a day over the last four days, and the economic repercussions go much, much further. Yet strangely enough, they left the power on, the air-conditioning going full blast, and even the muted muzak stayed on. Even [...]
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