The rains are here!
Well here I am, post monsoon Bali, early monsoon Thailand - and the rainy season hit Miyazaki today. urgh. But now I know why they have umbrella locks in this town - felt like grabbing an umbrella myself!!!
A Tribute to Lempad, and Layers of History #uwrf14
This year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival’s tribute went to I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, the first UWRF tribute to a son of Ubud. It was particularly fitting that the tribute took place in front of one of the temples that Gusi Nyoman Lempad designed…
The rains are here!
Well here I am, post monsoon Bali, early monsoon Thailand - and the rainy season hit Miyazaki today. urgh. But now I know why they have umbrella locks in this town - felt like grabbing an umbrella myself!!!
suvarnabhumi airport: on to Fukuoka
So many people think that to travel constantly for work is glamorous. Yep, all those security checkpoints, the moving goalposts of international safety, the crazy taxi drivers, and in Bangkok all the exercise getting to the waiting lounge. Not to…
Paint those photos!
One day a friend of mine, David Travelian, showed me some simple oil painting techniques which I applied to some photographs I had printed on canvas. It was a big buzz for me, years ago I had tried my hand at painting but turned to photography…
CORRODED COMMUNITIES > CORRUPTED NATION
Indonesia’s heavily institutionalized generation has had enough. Today thousands have promised to take to the streets to protest against the rather spectacularly lame way in which the government, in particular the president, has dealt with two…
KPK-Gate
The repelling but mesmerizing direct TV broadcast of the 5 hour playback session in Indonesia’s constitutional court yesterday afternoon of the wiretap tapes made by the anti-graft commission (KPK) is a historic moment for Indonesian democracy.…
SECTARIAN SABOTAGE ON WWW: Virtual Chaos
Two relatively recent sectarian battles in cyberspace have caught my attention, one because I was affected more or less directly, another because it continues to hit the news. They both involve institutions of faith, and they both involve…
Why Imagemakers of the Future?
Whether the literary figures who crowded the streets of Ubud during the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival like it or not, visual language is becoming a more popular mode of communication of ideation, ideas, and even ideals, than ever before.…
Susi Johnston's review of Memories of the Sacred
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