tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73505934140756910912024-03-05T18:39:40.554-08:00t h e s p o o l a r t i s tunraveling the works and journeys of someone out to conquer the world, either through a spool of thread, a roll of canvas, a click of a camera or by a mere lucid connection of two dots...the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-21293695891275912932014-12-21T00:46:00.001-08:002014-12-21T00:47:50.789-08:00Christmas Cheers!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Our annual family Christmas and New Year greeting cards shoot!the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com1siem reap8.4071681636010744 105.46875-21.981507836398926 64.160156 38.795844163601075 146.777344tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-46143329386511285352014-09-09T10:03:00.000-07:002014-09-15T04:54:39.276-07:00ROOM SERVICE - The Real Exhibition<br />
A CASE OF CENSORSHIP<br />
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As my new exhibition at the InterContinental Hotel Phnom Penh's Insider Gallery from Sept 11 - October 11 was unfortunately censored by the management,apparently due to political issues, I took the liberty of posting up the real deal of what the exhibition is about which I didn't think was political at all. This does not directly attack the hotels or the institutions but more so a historical and personal presentation of the role of hotels in shaping Cambodia...<br />
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ROOM SERVICE<br />
offers a glimpse of the inner facets of hotels in Cambodia, a country whose histories - both ancient and recent, brought in the need and the opportunity for hotels to find its home here or, as a cliche goes: provide a home away from home. Hotels however, have become more of a home. They have, for better or worse, become a voluntary canvas for which history painted its rich hues. It has become a framework for the past to unfold that led to the reality where we now stand.<br />
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Using old hotel linen, bed sheets, doors, room service and restaurant menus as canvas, the artist gets deeper into the intimate history of each hotel which in turn become the underlying tone of the abstract artworks. Before even the work progresses, questions are thrown: “Which famous or infamous guest sleep here? With who? How are they beneath their persona and beneath the sheets? What are their secrets? Who flipped these pages? What did they eat? How much did they spend? What kind of people were they? Did they leave a tip?” As humans, we are all bewildered by politics and celebrities and the lives of others together with the status they carry around. Hotels perhaps, are our easiest or only link to the lives of others that mesmerize ours.<br />
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Because for every president, secretary of state or prime minister who came to change the fate of this nation through pacts, agreements and international by-laws, a hotel is there to provide a secure setting for its realization. For every poet, historian, musician, author or artist who wandered and found truth through the kingdom’s breadth and breath, there is always a hotel that gave them a place to rest their weary souls. For every single traveller that has yet to rediscover Cambodia’s rich cultural fabric of interwoven histories, there is a hotel of every budget, every taste, every deed, and every colour which await for a new layer of history to happen.<br />
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“THE BIRTH OF A GLOBAL CHILD”<br />
THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL<br />
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A graphic design of the Dead Kennedys song “Holiday in Cambodia” released in 1980 featured a sign of the Holiday Inn Hotel overlapped into the song title - simply denoting how an American hotel chain’s existence in then war-ravaged Cambodia can simply be pure irony. <br />
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That was why the opening of the InterContinental (a higher brand segment from the Holiday Inn hotel family) on March 27, 1997 in Phnom Penh seemed like a joke. But it came. <br />
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The first international hotel brand to open in the kingdom, it was also the tallest building in Cambodia at that time, and its arrival heralded the dawn of a new age for the opening of the country’s doors wider for the world to enter. With it also came something that rocked the nation with awe for the first time - HBO, electronic key cards, an indoor car park and yes, hotel uniforms without the bowtie (according to their original press kits)! <br />
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It was said that if an InterContinental can thrive in Cambodia, anything can. <br />
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ARTIST’S NOTE:<br />
Still skeptical about moving to Siem Reap 10 years ago, I got the go-signal to come when my wife, who was working for the global reservations of the InterContinental Hotels Group then, found out that there was an InterContinental Hotel in Phnom Penh - a sign that it’s not all that bad here as what guidebooks say. We made the big move and six months later, our son was born in Cambodia - swaddled in an InterContinental Hotel bath towel in the middle of Kantha Bopha Hospital. I have found my perfect metaphor.<br />
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“The Birth of a Global Child”</div>
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100 cm x 150 cm<br />
InterContinental fitted sheet<br />
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97 cm x 175 cm<br />
InterContinental fitted sheet<br />
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InterContinental fitted sheet<br />
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“SECRETS OF GRAND NATURE”<br />
RAFFLES GRAND HOTEL D’ANGKOR<br />
In 2004, 292 employees of the Grand Hotel d’Angkor as well as the Raffles Hotel Le Royal organized a union strike after demands were not met. The big issue? The 10% service charge and tips were allegedly not given to employees of the hotel. After a series of controversial sacking of union members who protested, and with growing public support through boycotts of the diplomatic community as well as enraged customers, the management finally gave in. This was the first time the local staff found their voice and unveiled a reality hidden from the grand halls of an establishment of hospitality. It paved way for a standardization in bigger hotels of awarding the service charge and tips back to the very people that were the glue who held the day-to-day operations of the hotel together. <br />
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During the wedding of two former Grand Hotel employees who are also starting their own wedding and event management company, we had a mini-reunion of other former employees who have now made it big on their own. One owned a jazz bar, the other one owned a boutique hotel. A former bellboy and waiter also now owns an empire of restaurants and bars in Siem Reap. This for me represented a new generation of brave and innovative Cambodian entrepreneurs reshaping the country - trained in the confines of Cambodia’s many hotels.<br />
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So be careful - that waitress who served you might be the future owner of a Four Seasons opening in the corner.<br />
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“Secrets Hidden”</div>
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63 cm x 111 cm<br />
Raffles fitted sheet and old chandelier<br />
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Raffles fitted sheet, menu and old <br />
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Nothing can fully symbolize the delicate relationship between the kingdoms of Cambodia and Thailand more than the Sofitel Phokeetra Hotels, two hotels in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap that have, for their histories, become part of the two nations’ embedded drama. Although Thai-owned, these hotels have become ingrained in the Cambodian psyche and culture. It started when the Sofitel Phokeetra Angkor hosted the filming of Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider film in 2000 (the first film to be shot in Cambodia since Lord Jim in 1964) - catapulting the kingdom into a global pop travel icon. </div>
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Khmer and Thai diplomacy was in an all time high until 2003 when a rumour erupted about a Thai actress’ statement on Angkor Wat. The Royal Thai Embassy was burned by an angry mob of protesters in the capital and $47 million worth of property owned by Thais went into flames - including the Royal Phnom Penh Hotel, owned by the same group as Sofitel Angkor. Several years later, the site of the razed Royal Phnom Penh Hotel gave way to a shiny new $50 million development christened as the Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeetra. <br />
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The rise and fall of the relationship between Thailand and Cambodia clearly defines the inseparable truth that both not only share borders but also blood, history and heritage - more than they would both care to admit.<br />
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When I was hired as the official photographer at Sofitel Phokeetra Angkor for the visit of Princess Maha Chakri Srindhorn, thoughts of the anti-Thai protests in 2003 came rushing to my mind. There were hundreds of guards stationed in every block of town, helicopters hovered endlessly and security was even tighter than Bill Clinton’s visit. But as she arrived in the lobby and all heads bowed, both Thais and Khmer in equal respect, the borders were once again blurred. She took her camera out and took pictures of us taking pictures of her.<br />
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“Blood Brothers”</div>
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81 cm x 160 cm<br />
Sofitel fitted sheet and hanuman mask<br />
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Sofitel fitted sheet and Aor Tronum<br />
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As the capital’s oldest existing hotel, Raffles Hotel Le Royal is in itself entrenched as a major thread in Cambodia’s historical fabric. Not only it has hosted high profile visitors in the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy, Charlie Chaplin and recently, US President Barack Obama (the first incumbent US President to ever set foot in Cambodian soil) but the hotel itself also has become a refuge to the last remaining foreign journalists covering the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge in 1975, as featured on Sydney Schanberg’s film memoir - The Killing Fields.</div>
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Importantly, Hotel Le Royal became an artistic catapult which nurtured and inspired artists like Svay Ken - the father of modern Cambodian art. Working as a waiter for the Hotel Le Royal all his life, Svay Ken, upon retirement, spent the remaining years of his life painting his memories and life stories in thousands of canvasses until he passed away in 2008. In one interview, he recalled being inspired by the paintings of the Elephant Bar when he was a waiter, attributing his interest in art to his workplace.<br />
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Artistically, Raffles Hotel Le Royal also became my personal refuge when they invited me to exhibit my work for the first time in Phnom Penh in 2010. This is only my 2nd exhibition in the capital which coincidentally is in another hotel.<br />
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Raffles fitted sheet on stretched denim<br />
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“PROMISE OF THE STARS”</div>
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The story of the original owners of Hotel de la Paix is one that is yet to reach its final chapter. Opened in 1957, the art deco style hotel was owned by Dap Chhoun and his wife Chan Oudumsak. Dap Chhoun, since the 1940's has been an influential military ally and governor of Siem Reap to then Prince Sihanouk. But caught in the middle of the growing conflict in Vietnam and all over Indochina, Dap Chhoun met his tragic end in 1959 when a growing rumour of him establishing Siem Reap as a separate US-backed country from Cambodia became more apparent. As he was taken from his wife on that fateful night, he promised her that they would meet again in another world. </div>
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Chan Oudumsak, his widow who was once one of the wealthiest people in the country, now lives in squalor, awaiting the day the husband promised her. <br />
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Sadly, the hotel itself also met its end in 2013, when the Hyatt Group took over the property, changed the identity and renamed the once illustrious Hotel de la Paix into the Park Hyatt Siem Reap.<br />
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ARTIST’S NOTE:<br />
After moving to Cambodia and still working for Angkor Century Hotel, Hotel de la Paix was one of the first hotels who expressed interest in my work. After doing a couple of design work for them, the stage was set and I eventually quit my job and opened my own design studio which I run until now. I was also invited to exhibit my show in Hotel de la Paix’s Arts Lounge in February 2009 and several years later, I came onboard as a creative consultant for the hotel.<br />
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“A HOME FOR THE KING”<br />
AMANSARA<br />
Built in 1962 by the French architect Mondet for Prince Norodom Sihanouk as his residence in Siem Reap, Amansara was a paragon of the high style and elegance which was a benchmark for a new, modern Cambodia. Known then as the Villa Princierie before reincarnating as Villa Sokha and Villa Apsara, it was the playground for the royal family and their high profile guests - from President Charles de Gaulle to Peter O'Toole. When Jacqueline Kennedy quipped that her biggest dream is to see Angkor Wat, she used this place as her base.<br />
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Adrian Zecha, founder of Aman Resorts, stayed here as a journalist for Time Magazine in the sixties, ingraining on him the sense of cultural value the villa had when he got it in and reopened it as Amansara in 2002. Now, the 24-room private resort still retains its spot as the preferred base for Angkor for those who can afford it - from hollywood celebrities, presidents, kings, billionaires, dictators and everyone you see daily in the headlines. <br />
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I was lucky enough to land several projects with Amansara in its early days which eventually led to work with other Aman Resorts globally. But every once in a while, I still get surprised for getting unique opportunities like designing a wine label for a certain billionaire guest or creating a specialized colouring book for Zahara and Maddox Jolie-Pitt.<br />
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“He Who Owns the Forest Rules the Trees”<br />
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Amansara dining room table linen<br />
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“INTERSECTIONS”<br />
THE 1961 ART HOTEL<br />
My own venture in the world of hotel business was in a whirr of remarkable ups and downs. <br />
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1961 first opened up as a contemporary art gallery in Siem Reap in a sixties style villa we originally rented out as a home. Having been encouraged by artists we housed during exhibitions, we slowly opened a couple of rooms and opened up to the public which was initially a success until we maxed out our space and opened 13 rooms which was fun for the first 2 years but exhausted us beyond that. <br />
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More than waking up at 4 am to prepare breakfast for guests catching sunrise in the temples or waiting for late night guest arrivals from midnight flights, the most rewarding part of the deal was playing host to Cambodia’s finest local and international artists and even those who simply are in the beginning of their careers - in the cusp of change, in the sprouts of greatness. The gallery and hotel was our stage, our dynamic intersections. Not even a trip advisor review calling me ‘weird, wacko and a hoax’ could dampen my spirit.<br />
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Providing a little home for the kingdom’s new generation of artists, musicians, poets, performers and cultural bearers is in itself an opportunity to be part for a new history to thrive, more than the joy of a glowing Trip Advisor rating could ever bring. <br />
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Now, the art gallery still stands but the hotel is no longer there. The rooms have been converted into a coworking lab and atelier spaces for designers, artists and a new generation of like-minded spirits, this time with a new business partner who happened to be one of our first guests at the hotel.<br />
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ARTIST’S NOTE:<br />
My personal professional advice for those planning to open their own boutique hotel business? DON’T open a boutique hotel business!<br />
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“Intersections”<br />
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“Dancers at Dawn”<br />
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1961 Hotel bed linen</div>
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SOKHA HOTEL GROUP</div>
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One of Cambodia’s largest and wealthiest corporations started out as a small rubber tire business in Prey Veng province from a young Khmer man of Vietnamese descent who began his venture with a measly $100 budget. But empires are built by opportunities... </div>
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After selling petroleum to the new Cambodian government and later on the UNTAC, his business grew into an empire that oiled the nation into a dizzying pace. Oil turned into garment factories and garment factories turned into mega builders of roads, dams and bridges as well as Cambodia’s biggest hotel chain - Sokha Hotels, which coincidentally is now the gatekeeper of all of the kingdom’s world heritage temples. Cambodia is perhaps the only country in the world whose millennium-year old heritage sites are run and managed by a hotel chain. <br />
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A new empire now holds the key to the old empire. <br />
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So next time you head to Angkor Wat and pay for a $20 day pass, remember that this multi-million venture (imagine 2.5 million tourists each year paying $20 each!) all started out with rubber tires in a dusty street in Prey Veng.<br />
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I seriously want to quit my job as an artist and start my own rubber tire company. <br />
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“The New Empire”</div>
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*Historical details in the literature were either personally experienced by me or from online resources and comparative reporting of The Cambodia Daily, The Phnom Penh Post, Time Magazine and Wikipedia </div>
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the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-30946048064503682702014-06-03T10:16:00.000-07:002014-09-09T10:17:21.673-07:001961 - a metamorphosis<div dir="ltr">
She has come of age... soon she will reveal her new wings and take in the skies to soar higher and further. Excited for this to reopen soon...</div>
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the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-45943302901744702012014-03-10T07:48:00.001-07:002014-03-10T07:56:53.790-07:00ArtDeli 2<p dir=ltr>Finally after almost 2 years since we boarded up the ArtDeli after property prices at the Alley West (an alley we named!) soared to an all time high, we found a new home to the pop-up shop which has always held a unique spot in our hearts... We opened the new ArtDeli with my own solo exhibition (the day after my birthday) at a smaller but still quirky corner at a small hidden alley which we christened the Alley of Ghosts!</p>
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<p dir=ltr>This new property is the sister property of 1961 and is our new baby which we are slated to open in mid January 2014.</p>
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Chanel, who was heavily pregnant went into labor around 9pm, right after we had dinner at Sokha Hotel's Takezono restaurant. We were making our way into Pub Street for the new year festivities when we got the call from Grannie who decided to stay at home. Chanel gave birth to her first puppy!</p>
<p dir=ltr>We immediately made our way home and helped out Chanel. Having no experience in pet pregnancy, I had a baptism by fire when I assisted her bring out 4 more puppies which was difficult for her as she was only doting on the firstborn. Several amiotic sacs and umbilical cords later, the delivery was complete. 3 females and 2 males. </p>
<p dir=ltr>By midnight, the fireworks erupted as we welcomed the 5 pug puppies... Gucci, Pucci, Hermes, Dolce and Gabbana!<br><br></p>
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<p dir=ltr>So I have let an entire year gone by without posting anything on my blog. It's not about running out of bloggable ideas and adventures anymore but more so running out of time and running out of drive. </p>
<p dir=ltr>2014 was an incredible year of changes (we moved out of 1961 to a lovely new wooden house just right across the river), of partnerships and investments (partnered up with my Beijing-based buddy Kurt with 1961 and a new property called Meru), new family additions (we got ourselves 2 adorable pugs and i became an uncle for the first time when my younger sister gave birth to Howard Kian), of new adventures (amanpuri, but tugging along Freedom for the first time!) and of new aspirations coming true (our prayers of upgrading our ancient computers and DSLR cameras were finally answered)!</p>
<p dir=ltr>I had breakfast with a princess and a prince. We did our 2nd art festival. We're opening a 2nd hotel. Had our first high school reunion after 17 years. Dealt with our first robbery problem in 1961. My son did his first construction project ever- a luxury liner boat made out of wood. Taught photography to a former US senator. My wife fell in love with baking and gave us an addiction to her wonders-from-the-oven. Hosted actresses and rockstars in our home...</p>
<p dir=ltr>So like any other year, living in a wondefully crazy country like Cambodia gives you moments that deserve to be kept in a glass menagerie of memories, each day fleeting with unsurmountable challenges and joys that seem to coexist with no logic but work in perfect harmony.</p>
<p dir=ltr>So why haven't I blogged for a year?</p>
<p dir=ltr>I got so busy living and enjoying my life instead of writing about it...</p>
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So I am finally coming "home" after almost 4 years, my longest absence from home country. I must admit I have gone quite distant from my feeling of longing for the Philippines.<br />
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I vowed not to return after a long time after the traumatizing experience I had during the Ketsana typhoon and flooding which turned Manila overnight into an Asian apocalyptic version of Kevin Costner's 90's hollywood flop Water World. From my last trips to Davao, Cebu, Boracay, Iloilo, Batangas and Manila, storms and water followed me incessantly and it even came all the way here to Cambodia where it flooded for the first time due to Ketsana reaching its borders.<br />
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I still recall hanging on to my dear life traversing the sea from Samal Island to the Davao City wharf with a small speed boat in the middle of a deluge at 3 am just so I can make it to my 5am flight to Cebu. I was living the set of The Perfect Storm and it was probably only my tongue that didn't get the lashing of the rain and sea water coming from all sides. I arrived at the Davao International Airport looking like a wet puppy, shaking from the cold and from the experience.<br />
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Then came Boracay and Batangas which were suppose to be perfect postcards of a thousand glorious summers. Coming there on September is probably a very bad idea, especially if you're there for work - shooting resorts and the destinations for a brochure. The search for the perfect sky and light is like looking for a lost 1000 peso bill in Divisoria.<br />
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Then the perfect coincidence of Typhoon Ketsana lashing its watery might to Manila on the same day I was flying out back to Cambodia. I was happily going about with my last minute shopping in Glorietta, but after an hour, I discovered that all its mall entrances were blocked with water and there were no taxis in sight. The underpasses were filled with water as well and I didn't happen to bring my scuba gear with me, so technically, I swam over to dry land to find a taxi to bring me to get my luggage in San Antonio Village where I was staying. Imagine my surprise when the guards at the village entrance told us the taxi couldn't go in anymore because the water level inside is already more than a meter high! So I had to fetch my 80-kilo luggage (3 bags - I know, this deserves another post!) on my own, in the middle of the waist deep water whose current is enough to make the Niagara Falls blush. Thankfully, my heavy luggage kept me anchored until I traversed the 1 kilometer journey safely - twice!<br />
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But of course, finding a taxi, getting your luggage and surviving the raging water is one thing. Getting to the airport is another.<br />
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As Manila's busy streets were instantly turned into rivers, we got stuck on the road for 8 hours. My flight was at 230pm so by 5pm, it was clear that it's impossible for me to beg Thai Airways to wait for me. At 8pm, I finally managed to find a hotel room (probably the last one) in Makati's red light district after Manila residents scrambled to find shelter in hotels.<br />
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I have stayed and lived in Manila for almost 5 years but this is probably the worst troubles I've ever seen the city tackle.<br />
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Now, this is my first time to go back after that, but even if I still picked the same month when the sunshine takes cover from the wrath of typhoons back home, I am still positively excited about it, considering how resilient my country has been, and how my fellow Filipinos who, even through the face of near cataclysmic events that come their way almost every day (typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, protests, bad fashion from moms of millionaire boxers, bad presidents, etc), everybody still lives their lives with a big smile on their faces.<br />
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And that alone is enough to make me go back.<br />
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And of course, there's also the Pastillas de Leche donut at Go Nuts Donuts. the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-51958437635690006012012-07-23T11:01:00.000-07:002012-07-23T11:01:00.308-07:00the fire within<div style="text-align: justify;">
After more than 4 years, I am actually going back to creating my own work. My entire life for the past couple of years have been spent opening up boutiques, galleries, the hotel and helping out artists in any way possible and balancing family life - so that leaves the remaining 3-4 hours of my day sleeping. Yes, I am still human after all.</div>
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So when I got an invitation to do a one man exhibition in Luang Prabang, Laos, I said yes and there came the push that I needed after all these years. My last major show was in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games and I thought I have been more complacent about developing myself further as an artist. So this Laos exhibition in November is truly another great reason for me to drown myself in my own universe with an exhibition entitled THE FIRE WITHIN.</div>
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The Fire Within is primarily a commentary on subjugation,
censorship, and the human tendency to reignite the flame of freedom that has
long thought been extinguished. Using original photographs taken from all over
Asia and placed as puzzles on hundreds of match boxes, the works represent the
faces of everyday people and their poetic representations confronted by their
daily march towards happiness, their journeys towards it or the utter lack of
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Meant to be opened and tinkered with, these matchboxes also
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These works can either be placed as installations on walls,
tables, floors and a variety of other available indoor surfaces.</div>
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Above are the smaller sample pieces of the photography-based
installations from the series. I am currently working on larger works and incorporating details on each match so the viewer can break down the image and be introduced into smaller stories encompassing each part.</div>
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More sleepless nights to come...</div>
<br />the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-67153351637730023642012-07-22T11:19:00.000-07:002012-07-22T11:19:00.228-07:00spoolartist blog on the Phnom Penh Post!So surprised to pick up a copy of the Phnom Penh Post's 7Days and see my blog featured on its pages alongside other bloggers in Siem Reap!<br />
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Click <a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072057539/7Days-Your-premier-lifestyle-guide/siem-ream-blogging.html" target="_blank">here</a> for the link<br />
<br />the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-48663254436219909682012-07-21T10:29:00.002-07:002012-07-21T10:29:52.727-07:00missin' him<div style="text-align: justify;">
I must admit, I miss this little fella. It's been 4 days since we sent him back home to the Philippines for a 2-month school break but somehow, the house has been eerily quiet. </div>
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Sure, I fight a lot with my six year old. We argue about proper train tracks placement, we play tug-of-war with the ipad, he's my biggest competition with our stash of chocolates on the fridge, and he is just growing faster than I could bear to accept. </div>
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But he sure rocks our world in any way possible, and it ain't a parade without him around...</div>
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September is way too long...</div>the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-24656179664874753062012-07-17T13:39:00.000-07:002012-07-17T13:39:00.073-07:00shipping news<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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The 20 slides / 20 seconds per slide format is a breeze, exactly like the Nerd Nite formats where I was a speaker twice here in Cambodia. The only drawback is that there isn't enough time to expound on your thoughts and ideas. Since I will be speaking about the Angkor Art Explo which we hosted last year as well as the forthcoming Poetry Festival in November, the time limit is equally a challenge and an interesting opportunity to be as concise as you can be...</div>
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The Pecha Kucha Night will be making its comeback (the last leg was 2008) this Monday, July 9th, 6:30pm at the Nest Rooftop Lounge in Sukhumvit Soi 11.</div>the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-85466165670862021552012-06-28T13:28:00.000-07:002012-06-28T13:28:00.644-07:00honey i'm home<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<br />the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-60859060592517860332012-06-24T22:07:00.000-07:002012-06-24T22:08:56.630-07:00bangkok invasion!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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So the word is out. Temple town is becoming a hub for great cuisine. Gone are the days of wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am midnight noodle stalls and lifeless burger drones in gasoline stations.</div>
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Siem Reap Staple: ABACUS</div>
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A Siem Reap institution for years, Abacus transferred into an out-of-the-way location after being driven off from their original space by Sivutha Boulevard. The food is marche concept, so expect to find new offerings everyday on a menu written by hand on a black board and carried by their staff from table to table.</div>
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Cheap and cheerful: BBQ LOVER</div>
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A little gem in the hawker stalls by Pub Street, BBQ Lover is a no-frills grill place with a little dash of oomph. The dipping sauces are their secret artillery, so be sure to stock up on them as you nibble along. They are perhaps the only whose staff wear professional kitchen uniforms, so it's like eating on the street but served by a fancy resto.</div>
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The house that flour built: BLUE PUMPKIN</div>
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The Blue Pumpkin's road to success has been a bumpy one, but when they finally hit the right notes after years of perfecting their craft, their combination of great space, lush pastries and inventive ice creams took them from a single cafe years ago into franchise that spans well into the kingdom - Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Battambang. My first few weeks in Cambodia was mostly spent here, over coffee and doodling on my notebook musings and drawings as the enchantment passed me by.</div>
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When east married west and had a love child: KANELL </div>
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Kanell is one of those hidden gems tucked neatly out of the public sight so that only those in the know can truly enjoy its many offerings. The gentrified old Khmer house where the main restaurant sits is a quirky collection of the couple's finds and the garden setting at the back complete with a pool is a lush hideaway in itself. The food is as quirky as the place.<br />
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The couple, who both ran different Michelin-starred kitchens back home in France, managed to fuse Khmer, French, Mediterranean and middle eastern flavours into one cohesive palate, which surprisingly works!<br />
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The accidental pizza: IL FORNO</div>
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If it's Italian you're craving, it couldn't get possibly more Italian than this! Tucked just a breath away from the beat of Pub Street on a little alley called Brick Lane, Il Forno had not happened if not for the airport protests in Bangkok, where the founders were doing a pit stop from Italy to Fiji where they own a resort. Trapped there, they made their way to Siem Reap hoping to catch another flight to connect them eventually to Fiji, but they never left since then. From the brick oven brought piece by piece from Italy, to the rustic interiors and the wine choices, who needs to fly all the way to Tuscany?</div>
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Relaxing respite: RAJA ANGKOR</div>
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From the same owner of BBQ Lover comes Raja Angkor, a couple of levels up from its streetside sister, and with a more varied menu for both Cambodian and Asian favorites. Their biggest draw is their extensive wine list which goes to show that this ain't your regular hawker hole anymore.</div>
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Hotel Hopping: SOKHALAY ANGKOR</div>
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Don't be fooled by its imposing concrete facade. Drive past the main hotel block and inside, you'll be in for a surprise. Sokhalay Angkor is actually an oasis of forest greens, tropical gardens and endless stretches of ponds. In the middle of the complex is probably Cambodia's largest freeform pool and an aptly named restaurant called GREEN. The restaurant is open to the public and the menu is as extensive as the property itself. The salads and the vegetarian fare is great, but if you are a pescetarian, you have an option to try your hands on fishing for the hundreds of mature red snappers swimming around the ponds of the restaurant. If you catch one, the chef can cook it in any manner you fancy your fish.<br />
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All the Happy Flavors of the Earth: THE INDIAN</div>
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If there's one food I can truly eat everyday and not be tired of, it's hands down the daal curry and the garlic naan at The Indian. These don't need any words, explanations, nor any tantalizing lines to define how good they are. Couple it with my obsession with India since I was in high school, then we've got ourselves a dangerous situation. The people behind the Indian opened up another restaurant right in front of Art Deli called Kerala and this poses a really big problem both on my wallet and my waistline.<br />
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For those in search for a dose of classical Cambodian dance and food, head to the Apsara Terrace. Although the food here can use a little more panache, the space and the performances can more than make up for it. Owned by the same team as the Angkor Village Resorts, the theatre is a rich visual dessert to complete any odyssey to temple town.</div>
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<br />the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-70934219560073612452012-06-15T21:05:00.000-07:002012-06-15T21:06:09.660-07:00the princess ate my fish burgersLast week's TEDx Phnom Penh event was such an overload. I shared the same stage with amazing individuals who have in one way or another, been the movers and shakers of the kingdom. There's John Lovejoy who has this incurable sense of wanderlust, bought himself three 60-euro Trabant cars and made an incredible journey with his friends from Hungary to Cambodia. <br />
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Tep Livina used to be a gangster who made a 360 degree turn with his life when he decided to enter school after being shot and badly injured. He came out a valedictorian in one of Cambodia's toughest language schools and soon after established his own learning institution to help Cambodian youth like him.<br />
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Sovathana Nana came from an impoverished family in Kompong Cham, but through sheer audacity and determination, she pushed herself to gain education and is now a rather accomplished counselor, radio presenter and president of a local youth volunteer organization. <br />
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There's also Piroska Bisits Bullen, a public health specialist who taught us how research and data study can lead us to make better decisions!<br />
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I also met and befriended a math wiz who represented Cambodia in the world math olympiad. He wrote 5 books starting when he was just 15 and at 22, is now head of a multi-million dollar company which specializes in gold trade.Saing Darareaksmey is truly a young but fiery dragon.<br />
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But I will always remember her for walking into the TEDx after party, a bit late, because she had to go home after the event to work and answer emails. I just ordered 3 fish mini-burgers at the FCC rooftop and upon seeing her, she came up and asked me where the food was. Told her that the open bar was over a few minutes ago. She let out a big sigh and said "Too bad, I'm starving!"</div>
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<a href="http://smilingalbino.podbean.com/2011/09/04/loven-ramos-on-how-to-take-better-travel-photos/">http://smilingalbino.podbean.com/2011/09/04/loven-ramos-on-how-to-take-better-travel-photos/</a>the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-13980393561972846212012-06-13T02:12:00.003-07:002012-06-13T02:12:47.392-07:00Raffles School InterviewHad a chance to meet young writers and poets from the Raffles Institution in Singapore when they visited Angkor recently. We had some interesting discussion on how it is to be involved in literature in a country like Cambodia where majority of their learned individuals have been purged by a very oppressive regime just a couple of decades ago.<br />
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<br />the spool artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02574208900568702283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7350593414075691091.post-25934724891529103352012-06-06T13:38:00.001-07:002012-06-06T13:38:23.078-07:00new web babyHaving my macbook crash into oblivion last week gave me so much freedom to let loose of my usual twitter and facebook routine and go back to other pursuits that needed a little lovin' too - this blog for one, and then our official website for 1961!<br />
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Created with a new blog-based format by my ex-girlfriend (a.k.a. spoolartist's wife), the new website is more user friendly, updated and packed with goodies from events, new promotions, exhibitions, insights and all possible things that rock our world here.<br />
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So click away on the link: <a href="http://www.the1961.com/" target="_blank">www.the1961.com </a><br />
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