Pictures from this weekend’s paint mixing and painting of Tit Yai’s mud house on our land.
|
Loading...
Ashram is an alternative living community in Nakhon Nayok Thailand – most of the buildings were made with natural materials using cob, abobe, straw bale techniques. Yui and I visited Ashram over the last weekend of February to attend a mud house workshop.
 Chopped and stir-fried lotus stalks with jasmine rice and coffee
Tom and I love this video! (thanks Daring Fireball for the link).  Made of silver and adorned with jewels, the heart of Buddha is filled with sesame oil before being installed in the Buddha image at Wat Tawai in Chiang Mai I attended the installation of Buddha’s heart at Wat Tawai in Chiang Mai last wednesday - it is a rare ceremony that only happens in the North-west part of Thailand, home to the Lanna people. More pictures and video on this amazing event later in the week. Friends and guests from all over the world came to our land in late January to help us build a natural straw bale and mud house for Tit Yai, an Issan man who is partially paralyzed. We were fortunate to have teachers from baandin.org and Michel Spaan from Holland along with children and teachers from the Sri Sangwan Khon Kaen School for children with disabilities and many local Issan people help us make this house. Thanks everyone – we could not have done it without you! I posted pictures in an earlier post so please check them out if you have not already. My Funny Valentine from James Quilty on Vimeo. Picture gallery of Tom and Shampoo and art from my Mom and Yui – with Chet Baker’s version of the famous song  In our garden pond - multiple iphotos with Autostitch and Aperture 3 When I’m back in the U.S. the only thing I look forward to seeing when I watch the Superbowl is the ads, but in Thailand the station carrying it live (on monday morning ) strips out the ads. For some people like my Dad that is a dream come true, but for me I miss the best parts – so thank you Youtube for having all the ads posted for me (but with no Superbowl to have to sit through). And the above ad that appeared during the game (congrats Saints!) is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time (maybe because I see a little of myself in it). No, no need for a crib yet – if that is what you were thinking – but we are working on it. |
 Jis a scenic artist and filmmaker who lives part time in Ohio and Khon Kaen. He first came to Thailand in 1972 as a child and returned in 2004 with the Phuket Project to aid in the Tsunami relief effort. Yuiis a doctor in Khon Kaen. She has studied in the U.S. and Great Britiain but is happiest on a bike riding around Thailand with the Khon Kaen Mountain Bike Team Tom and Shampooare English Cocker Spaniels who live in Khon Kaen, but often travel to other planets in a spaceship they designed and fight alongside Hanuman against all evil. They also like swimming and sleeping. 
 |
|
Copyright © 2010 Notes From Thailand.net - All Rights Reserved |
|
