The grandchildren athered at Mum and Dad's for their 40th anniversary celebrations, April 2009
kiwibopha in phnom penh
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Friday, August 21, 2009
please chack out this awesom photo taken by a young emerging photographer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbyfleur/3841641828/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbyfleur/3841641828/in/photostream/
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I thought these pictures would be great as background to a horror movie.. which is what the traffice feels like here these days altho we dont need to focus on that here....
anyway I may be crazy but I like these pics...
anyway I may be crazy but I like these pics...
oh my pics have loaded out of order (... kate- help!).. anyway these gas pipes are at the 798 art area in beijing. people who know feel it has become a very commercialised area and say the artists have moved on...
yes you are right.. that is a chinese thingy cover and \i am in beijing.. my first time in china despite living in asia almost ten years!
the imperial palace.. at least there were images of flowers but it didnt make up for the lack of gardens throughout, for me anyways... there was a chinese garden at the end which was intereresting...
my fav piece of art in the 798 area was this.. I think becasue it reminds me so much of the man in the \nigel brown/ paintings
yes you are right.. that is a chinese thingy cover and \i am in beijing.. my first time in china despite living in asia almost ten years!
the imperial palace.. at least there were images of flowers but it didnt make up for the lack of gardens throughout, for me anyways... there was a chinese garden at the end which was intereresting...
my fav piece of art in the 798 area was this.. I think becasue it reminds me so much of the man in the \nigel brown/ paintings
Monday, November 10, 2008
this was the police building on street 51.
It was sooo gorgeous
(both pics are from there)
the steel is carefully removed from the buildings which are destroyed. Around the edges of town you can find piles of twisted steel with people sitting all day all day all day striaghtening it all out .. presumably to go into the next building...
sometimes, when the mekong and tonle sap rivers hit their zenith, you really do feel like just driving off the road, across the verge, down the stinky stairs to the river and just all the way down to Vietnam... well I do anyways.,.. every year I feel like driving down the vast beautiful warm brown road to Vietnam.. especially when...
... yeah I really feel like going off the rails and down the Brown river Road...especially when I go past this space...behind me is the Cambodiana Hotel, and in front of me is a space where there really ought not to be a space. not if we love our buildings as we oughta, not if we value the collective sense of space and place we have among our older buildings. It went down almost overnight and the only thing which distinguishes it now is these vans for rent.. I will drag out the picture of the old building for you
and yep that is the kite mueum.. being covered in that building-making stuff which they peel plastic offa, rendeirng the original sort of wrapped.... in plastic.. something in that.
.. ooh a door.. a bit like finding a bottle titled Drink Me...
what oh what is thru the magic door?
...replete with graffiti...
on a recent visit to Siem Reap for work we went to eat food at night close to Angkor, which you can do without buying a ticket, as you are not going into any of the temples.. anyway looking back from the entrance to the grand and awesome causeway to the Angor Wat, this was the sky we had to feast on, as well as bbq chicken and rice, and bread ... YUMMO
aw so pwuddy
I really LOVE this building
designed by the legendary Van Molyvann
who is a god
really
and I have always threatened to fall down and kiss his shoes should I ever find myself in the same room.. so moved was I by 60s architecture, of which he is the only living remnant... (that i know of).. I did find myself in the same room twice rfecently and did manage to hold myself back.
thankfully
every year they put these curtains for Water Festival
gorgeous
(and yeah I get that the pics are average.. in my defense I was driivng alone at the time... surrounded by the motoing millions)
this building is round the corner from our house. First I saw this other photo like this but from Japan on a photoblog and I LOVED it, and always imagined doing it to this restaurant. then they upgraded the restaurant. So it is definitely not as cool a photo as it woulda been if I had just taken the shot instead of thinking about it for 3yrs each time I drove past it....
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