natural housing บ้านดิน

How to pack a tire

Yui and I are trying this on Landy this week – we want to make a simple tower of packed tires to become a water tower for the bathroom. It is hard work – takes about 15 minutes (if you are really good) to pack a tire with dirt. This is our first try at Earthship construction – maybe our last if this back-breaking work kills us.

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Politics

Thailand in Crisis 5 and 6

More from The Australian Nation University’s excellent series on the aftermath of the Red Shirt crackdown.

Sri Sangwan stories คนพิการ

Sri Sangwan Teacher’s Day

From Last Thursday's celebration for the Teachers at the Sri Sangwan Khon Kaen School for Children with disabilities

Arts & leisure

Stop Motion Pet Food

Made in for a Thai industrial video. I don’t think PETA would like this.

nature

Fast Monsoon

Bangkok Thunderhead Time Lapse June 25, 2010 from Chris Gwynne on Vimeo.

Time Lapse Lightning & Storm shot from his apartment, June 25th 2010. Bangkok, Thailand

The Future

Coming soon to Thailand: Solving History With Olly Steeds

I’m excited this is coming to Asia’s Discovery channel – Yui is a big fan of archaeology documentaries. There was an interview with Olly Steeds in today’s Bangkok Post.

Politics

Thailand in Crisis part four

“This episode includes an interview about history and political protest with Professor Thongchai Winichakul from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and a discussion with Andrew Walker focused on Thailand’s agricultural budgets.”

Great series from Australian National University

Politics

Al Jazeera’s Thailand documentary

Saw some of this on TV this morning and caught the rest on-line. Well-produced post-crackdown documentary by Rahgeh Omaar of Al Jazeera English.

Arts & leisure

Making “Day and Night”

Love me some Pixar animation shorts – can’t wait to see this in front of the new Toy Story.

Tech

Samurai robots invade Thailand and wait for orders.

Looks like they were made by the people behind Disney’s 1979 movie “The Black Hole” – wonder if the food is also cheesy.