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Good movies would be nice

my movie is not good, but made in Bangkok

I try to stop smoking and I live in Bangkok,

where is it possible to find some solutions like special filters and patch ?

I guess some special shops exists, but where, a cigar shop ? Could I find this in pharmacies ?

If you have stopped to smoke in Thailand, what is your experience about that ?

yes it's fun ! I think it's possible to go only to have a drink, without riding the waves

it's soi 26, close to avenue Rama IV (not far from the Big C), there is a "wave machine" at Flow House, it was during the Kolours Sundays carnival

I've just uploaded my 20 best pictures for Songkran 2013/2556 in Bangkok

to see the other pictures, you can click on the button Next at the top right of the picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooka-medias/8647461526/in/set-72157632469349340

Is it the same draw for "thai government lottery" and "thai red cross lottery" ?

the tickets are similar and have the same link behind : www.glo.or.th

but the amounts are differents, 1st prize win 3 million for the red cross, while it's 2 millions for the thai government one

I am confused...

also if I have the 2 tickets "attached" and I win the 1st prize, do I need to share with another people ? It seem there are several tickets with the same numbers... also confused...

why the people would pay 3,5 or 10 bahts to get the results while they are displayed for free on Internet ? It works because most of the thais don't have Internet at home ?

maybe you have noticed the chicken is often not well cooked in Thailand, and this is a factor of contamination, and it's the same problem for eggs...

I will be hard to eat in the next days, because there are chicken and eggs everywhere in the thai food...

I hope it's not a bird flu caught from a chicken :

Yesterday I've eaten a pad thai chicken in a little restaurant soi 38 (Sukhumvit, Bangkok), located far on the right in the soi 38 but I don't know the name of the restaurant

the chicken was all grey, the taste was really awful !

I've wanted to eject that from my mouth, but the owner was looking at me, and I was a bit dissapointed about "lose their face" concept...

so I've eaten just one piece of chicken, and sorted out the other piece of chicken on the side of the plate...

4 hours later I've been sick like hell, 45 minutes over the toilets, I was more than 20 hours ago, and I still feel weird...

I hope it's just a little food intoxication and not a bird flu (that I suppose would take 3-5 days to really appear... but maybe there are some precursor symtoms like that ?)

By the way, it's now the time to stop pad thai "chicken" for pad thai "prawns"... for a while

I've played the thai red cross lottery the 1st of february, but I cannot find the results... where I can find that ?

You seem to be lacking 3 crucial characteristics for someone setting off on a creative adventure :

1 self criticism

...

the point number 1 is exactly what is missing to you

looking the people from the rooftop doesn't mean you are higher, so please go down from the rooftop...

However, I admrred your photographs. You have an enviable eye and understanding of staging, for lack of a better term. I'd rather pay to see your work in a gallery than your film in a cinema.

thank you very much, I appreciate your comment

yes I did not made a popular movie, it was a choice from the start, if I had chosen as a first actress a beautiful thai women with big boobs I'm sure I would have "not 728 youtube views as actually" but probably 5000 views yet...

my photographies are more popular than my movie, I will reach 100,000 views on flickr in few days (I've started flickr 10 months ago), I plan to work more with models girls soon

no feedback for the movie ?

is it really so bad ?

Really enjoyed your flicker site, very nice. Looking forward when you come out with more.

Thanks

thank you :-)

about the movie, feel free to post comments (even if you don't like...)

for those who don't know me I'm also a photographer in Bangkok

and I've released :

444 pictures in 2012 :

78 pictures so far in 2013 :

all my pictures are here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooka-medias/

I've just finished my first short movie "Bad Skill" (made in Bangkok)

it's not technically perfect, but the 2nd episode will be better

I've just uploaded the 21 pictures I've taken yesterday at Phrom Phong :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooka-medias/

if you like my pics you can add me on facebook : ooka medias

Plus how did you 'take' the photo as the Monk cares not that you are there.

I do a bit of street photography in Bangkok too, and I would say every people react differently, to my opinion there are 3 cases :

1 - people that don't want to be on a photo, they can turn the head in opposite direction or avoid being in front of the camera walking behind you (common case)

2 - people that don't care, sometimes they look at you for one second and after they watch another things (this is the right time to shot the picture)

3 - people that enjoy to be in front of the camera, they look at you and sometimes young people do a "V" with the fingers (not interresting because not a candid bahaviour, not natural)

so the more interresting case is the number 2, before or after looking at your lens. With a special function : I shot 3 pictures each time I press the button, so sometimes in the 3 pictures : one is the good. What I do sometimes is to sit or stand up at the same place for a while with an interresting background, and I'm waiting something happen. If I stay 20 minutes at a place I shot easily 100 pictures, and usually 2 or 3 or 4 pictures are good to keep.

This is an example of place where I stayed more than 30 minutes to get only one good picture :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooka-medias/7396278474/in/photostream

some people like mototaxi was looking at me often, probably asking them why I stay here while they don't see something interresting for a photo. lol

If you are interrested by the street photography, there is one photographer at Bangkok who work mainly on that subject :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seua_yai/

Very well done!

thank you, I will try to do another sessions soon

Photo session with thai girls (soft) :

http://bit.ly/MeU4sn

feedback welcome

...as many as 500,000 Thai dogs per year are transported to Vietnam and Southern China, where they are butchered for dog meat...

The implication being that nobody in Thailand would eat a dog. Hmmm...

When I was in Phuket, I've bought a grilled chicken stick, it was smelling really awful, exactly the same smell as a dirty wet dog... I've trown it in a litter...

I cannot tell at 100% it was dog meat, but i'm almost sure it was not chicken, the appearance was not like chicken...

Thank you David, I've appreciated your comment

Since you seem to like to see some thai people, I've selected few of the best shots I've found on flickr :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooka-medias/galleries/

I plan to shot more people soon, I should have a lot of pictures of beautiful girls the next monday or thuesday

Hi ookla

While I don't live in Bangkok, I do live in Thailand and also do photography.

First, I looked at your work on Flickr. Some nice images with good technical quality. What was missing though, was anything involving models - or at least any that I saw. You indicated that you had worked with some amateur models in Europe. If you have images of them, you might need them for my suggestions below.

I have 3 models on flickr, but not mixed them into a single set, one of them has a set called Lydia sexy shot, but only 2 photos on 11 are visible for non flickr members (or not disabled safesearch), Else I have another pictures of models that I have to upload soon

I am curious about why you seem to limit yourself to amateur models? You can get good images with amateurs but they will generally take more coaching than an experienced model and so you can get more shooting done with an experienced model.

yes I think you're right, maybe I think that every girl can be a model, but for some specific shots only an experienced model can do that well

but I would like to do the girl next door, no make up or almost, something natural, for exemple reading a book in a park and some basic ideas,

maybe after I can try something more complex, more fashion

else I would like to thank you cdnvic and you for your support

Please look elsewhere. Thailand doesn't need more "amatuer photographers" running around with their first entry level DSLR trying to pay a few baht to capture the local women nude like a monkey in the zoo..

I didn't know about the prices, I made a mistake, I have done a simple math relation with a seller in a shop, arround 60 bahts/hour, I have thought that 500 bahts/hour would be correct, but I did not know for prices about modeling in Thailand, and we are more arround 1000 to 5000 bahts per hour, but for some more beautiful girls than I've targeted (I was focusing more on the girl next door...)

If some falang consider some girls as monkeys, I'm one of the most defensive for the girls, so I think if you would known me better you would not say that sentence, I'm a bit agree with you in some cases with some photographers

Genericnic thank you for your reply, I will answer as soon as I wake up, now it is 6am and I really need to sleep, I answer very soon