Bangkok posts

What better way to test the inner creative spirit of Thai students than to bombard them with images of the surreal? On June 16, a warning was sent out; the clowns are coming. Two weeks later and they have arrived and are alive and well, up to all manner of peculiar activities, traipsing around eight of Bangkok’s universities over two months. The experiment begins. First stop for our intrepid colony of clowns is Assumption Univesity (Abac) in Bang Na. A …

Kornkrit Jianpinidnan is a Bangkok-based, internationally renowned photographer, having been part of exhibitions in Tokyo, Barcelona and Brussels. Having grown up in Chiang Rai, he moved to Chiang Mai to study in the faulty of arts at Chiang Mai University. Kornkrit majored in printmaking and quickly came to the decision that Chiang Mai was just too small and limited for his own creativity. “I came to Bangkok in 1998 because there was nothing for me in Chiang Mai,” he says. …

Daryl Scott is the real king of clubs in Bangkok, so who better to sit down with and find out what the perfect recipe for a party in the City of Angels is? Hi Daryl, how are you doing today? I am doing fantastic to say the least! On my computer now shoving flautas down my throat drinking Herradura margaritas at Coyotes Mexican joint! Watching their cute waitresses. How did you come about to be in Bangkok working in the …

If you’ve been anywhere near a party in Bangkok during the past 12 months, then you will have heard DJ Oum’s energetic electro assault. Terrorizing dancefloors at the likes of Astra, Glow and Bed, Oum is one of the main players on the Bangkok DJ circuit. You can’t miss him, thanks to his black-rimmed glasses and shaved head. All HYPED up and with somewhere to go, we caught up with the local superstar to see what makes him tick. Why …

Supermodel Cindy Crawford visited Gaysorn shopping mall in Bangkok last Tuesday to promote a new luxury jewellery collection. “They couldn’t have picked a person that is more of a time freak than me,” said mother-of-two Cindy on her role as an ambassador for the Omega jewellery and watch brand. “I’m able to get a lot more done if I am punctual.” A large group of reporters and members of the general public crowded around the small publicity area on the …