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feolindo,
yes, I agree!
Thanks for posting- i like your work.
I've been living and painting/illustrating here for 4.5 years, one thing I miss is mixing (no pun
) /hanging out with other artists- as I live far from the "city". It’s been a good/weird experience as the local people i meet (i live in the country sticks, on a tourist island) dont really get their head around "art", until they saw there was some cash to be made from it.
If I can, I try to spend some time in Bali where there is a large expat/local art community, which I can feed off to a certain extent.
Are there any good Bangkok/Thailand (not to miss) art websites/links?
Anybody else out there.. ?
come on... dont by shy.
hellohello
Thanks for your comments. Is there a place I can see some of your work?
I don't know of any "not to miss" sites. Don't even know of any "you might wanna check it out if you're bored on a sunday afternoon" websites of Thai origin and art related. Doesn't mean they don't exist. It is strange being a western artist in thailand. If there's one thing I miss its the museums. i can't say how many times in the past i'd just hop into the car and go to the Met to recharge my batteries. Understandably no Met here. Little chance I'll be showing here either (at least for now) as the gallery owners I've tried to deal with have shown themselves to be a curious and slippery lot. Not that they're saints in the states but, "the devil you know etc..".
That said I love it here. The upside way outways the down and once in a while i run into someone I can talk art with which is always a great thing. If you are going to be in bkk sometime and would like to hook up send me a PM ahead of time and we'll have a coffee.
ciao
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I have been living/working here for almost 2 years. Love the city and the thai people. Much as I appreciate photography and talking with my photograher friends I thought maybe this forum could use a bit of balance toward the "arts" side of things so here's a link to my recent work. Since I don't use the net to sell work its one of those free geocities sites so you'll get ads down the side but they can be closed if you wish.
Enjoy
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from Blade Runner:
"I want more life, f**ker!"
from The Godfather:
"Leave the gun. Take the canolies."
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anyone know of any examples of art deco architecture in bangkok? Old hotels, houses etc...
thanks
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My non-imm O visa expired in May. Since then I've been doing the monthly border schlep, exiting/re-entering as a tourist. In order to avoid the monthly in/out ritual (which I see the government has taken steps to do away with anyway) I am going back to the ussa at the end of this month where I was planning to apply for a new non-imm O. Does it matter that my original one expired some months ago? By that I mean that since they have issued me a non-imm O in the past will any visa application now simply be looked upon as a belated request for an extension of that original visa? and how would that effect the application process and/or requirements?
note: my original visa was issued no questions asked by a friendly consulate in the states which, I am told, is no longer so friendly. Even if I could find a different friendly consulate would their ability to accomodate me be limited by the fact that I was previously issued a non-imm O?
Thanks
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RING-RING, RING-RING...
..." Hello, could I speak to the head of Visa Applications please ...! "
How helpful. You really should be hurrying back to class though. Run along now....
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Does anyone know the name of the woman who works at the Thai consulate in Denver, USA? She handles visa applications. I had it written down somewhere but I've lost it.
Thanks
feolindo
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I'm coming to Bangkok for an extended stay (up to a year) in June. I'm going to need to have at least some of my mail forwarded to me in Thailand. Here (US) when I'm traveling, I can have stuff forwarded to whatever local Post Office I wish care of "general delivery" and pick it up no problem. I've done this in Europe too. Can I do the same thing there? Do they allow this? and if so, is there a good chance it'll be there when I go to collect it?
Thanks for any help.
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First off, I could not figure out exactly where to post this question so if this is not the appropriate forum perhaps someone could suggest a better one.
That said, I'm an artist who is coming to Thailand next month. I'm going to be there at least a few months and want to do some painting while I'm there.
2 questions -
first: is such an activity frowned upon? (I work in oil paint using an easel, usually from photographs but sometimes I'll paint outdoors)
second - will there be a problem getting my art supplies into the country?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Thank you everyone.
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I'm planning on coming to Thailand in about a month. I'm not going for work just for pleasure. I want to stay longer than the 30 days allowed American tourists who arrive with just a passport. A friend who has been to Bangkok many times suggested a multi-entry non-immigrant visa. Seemed straightforward enough. However, I downloaded the application from the Thai Embassy website and there is a line right at the top stating " Non-immigrant visa applicant must submit an invitation letterproofs from persons/institutions concerned stating the purpose of visit and length of stay."
I am not going at the invitation of a company or person. I am a self-sustaining person who is not going there for business. I just want to spend some time in Thailand - maybe up to a year or more - relaxing, seeing the region.
So the question is this... Are they likely to deny me a multiple-entry non-immigrant visa based on the fact that I do not have an invitation from a person or institution?
If so, is there another type of visa I simply don't know about that would be more appropriate?
Thanks for any help.
) /hanging out with other artists- as I live far from the "city". 
...and The Arts
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Hi,
thanks for taking the time to view some of my work. Hopper has been a huge influence on me no doubt about that. Someone in an earlier post mentioned Balthus too and I'd have to say that he has also been a very important artist to me. Though some of his work is enormous, the iconography is fearless and he never let more narrow minded people influence the direction of his work.
Myself, I paint on a small canvas most of the time for a number of reasons. Primarily because I want to promote the intimate relationship between viewer and work. When i go to a museum the works that leave the most lasting impression on me are the ones where i have to get up pretty close and study them. This means that while i'm looking at the piece I'm the ONLY one who is looking at the piece because i'm right up against it. For however brief a period of time its just me and Rembrandt (or me and whoever) connecting one to one across a span of hundreds of years. My relationship to the piece and by extension to the artist is one of a conversation. Whereas if I'm standing in front of a pollock with 200 other people my relationship to the work is not the same. It's less like a conversation and more like a lecture. There's little if any emotional connection and that, for me, is what its all about. A painting is like a venus flytrap. Pulls you and, if its done well, doesn't ever really let you go.
The Las Vegas work, while extremely gratifying, was a once in a lifetime thing. I saw it again in a TV program on the History channel here in bkk about 6 weeks ago. As proud as I am of my connection to such a work I don't have the same sense of investment in it that i do to some of my simplest, smallest pieces. Both because of the scale and because the imagery was not of my choosing.
take care,
feo