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...sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road, can find all manner of contemporary bric-a-brac?like stuffed toys, plastic bugs, crayons, dolls and Lego bricks?interwoven with Swarovski crystal, Venetian glass and semiprecious stones. Of the pieces on display, Manoonphol cites...
...sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road, can find all manner of contemporary bric-a-brac - like stuffed toys, plastic bugs, crayons, dolls and Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine...
...usual income of $400 million to $500 million per year. The city has lost an estimated $1.5 million a day in tourism revenues since Katrina, and only a quarter of the 3,400 restaurants are open. Moody's has lowered the city's credit rating from investment grade to junk. The latest insult? The nation's flood-insurance program ran out of money for the first time since its founding in 1968, and some insurers temporarily stopped issuing checks...
...certainly the most arcane investments of the year were something called derivative securities. Derivatives -- abstractions of stocks, bonds and futures -- are a huge business ($4.5 trillion in contracts) but pose a danger to world financial markets because of lack of regulation. As such, they are often called the junk bonds...
...everyone’s favorite poststructuralist gender theoretician, Judith Butler, and her old sparring partner, Donna Haraway, to most 1970s horror films and watch them battle it out over a cappuccino after the movie. Nowadays, they’d probably just yawn endlessly like I do at the horror-junk Hollywood churns out. A hypothetical conversation after “Demon Seed” could be: Haraway: “She’s birthing a cyborg, dammit! Its artificiality is deconstructed to expose human volition.” Butler: “You’re such an essentializing...