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Landy Painting Day

James Quilty — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:29:36 +0000

Pictures from this weekend’s paint mixing and painting of Tit Yai’s mud house on our land.

Ashram – Nakhon Nayok

James Quilty — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:29:38 +0000

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.

Today’s Breakfast – fresh from our land

James Quilty — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:52:39 +0000

Chopped and stir-fried lotus stalks with jasmine rice and coffee

Slo-mo snacks

Tom & Shampoo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:21:35 +0000

Tom and I love this video!

(thanks Daring Fireball for the link).

More pictures from installing Buddha’s heart at Wat Tawai

James Quilty — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:24:43 +0000

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What Buddha’s heart looks like

James Quilty — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:57:33 +0000

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 Hay Bale Mud House Weekend video

James Quilty — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:33:52 +0000

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 [...]

Tom & Shampoo’s Valentine

James Quilty — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:57:25 +0000

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

Sow Shampoo

James Quilty — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:28:42 +0000

In our garden pond - multiple iphotos with Autostitch and Aperture 3

Missed the Superbowl – but saw this

James Quilty — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:54:24 +0000

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 [...]

Local Color – folk recipe for mixing paint

James Quilty — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:07:39 +0000

To paint our bamboo and mud walled bathroom on our land outside of Khon Kaen we asked the local Issan people to help make the colors. Yui and I found shells at a nearby lake that we ground up into a silver dust and other natural colors were added to condensed milk and nuts to [...]

Pictures from our Hay Bale Mud House Weekend

James Quilty — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:39:47 +0000

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A mixture of sand, clay, rice grain, straw and cow dung

Great little bike ride story

James Quilty — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:53:27 +0000

Making Bua Loi – Floating Lotus Dessert – at Sri Sangwan School

James Quilty — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:27:14 +0000

Another of our Thai dessert cooking classes for the kids at the Sri Sangwan School for children with disabilities. The Bua Loi has a kinda Gummi Bear texture and is made with natural ingredients – fruit for flavor and flowers for coloring. Music is both a Thai and Jazz version of the children’s classic “If [...]

Phuket Tsunami volunteers helping Haiti Relief

Dave Bresci — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:17:20 +0000

Hello everybody,

As some of you may know, I spent some time a few years back volunteering with the relief effort in Khao Lak, Thailand after the December 26th tsunami. Among the many remarkable people I met during my stay was Tammy Babcock, a Canadian native with the heart of a lion and the mouth of [...]

Tom: Chicken Killer / Lunch Provider

James Quilty — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:09:47 +0000

Tom may seem a mild mannered english cocker spaniel, but he has a dark side – he is a serial killer, of chicken. With at least 4-5 confirmed dead, Tom has left a murderous trail over the length of Thailand. If only we could catch him in the act, and if only we weren’t so [...]

A Finished Mud House

Yui — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:35:34 +0000

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This weekend friends and neighbors from Khon Kaen came to help me paint the mud house that will become our bathroom on Landy (what J and I are calling the land we bought). Thanks to everyone for all the hard work and thank you Ajan None, my teacher, who came from Nakhon Naryok to assist us [...]

Bangkok Opera and Siam Philharmonic Orchestra

James Quilty — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:07 +0000

DEATH OF THAÏS: Bangkok Opera from Somtow Sucharitkul on Vimeo.

The conductor of the Siam Philharmonic Orchestra, Somtow Sucharitkul, is posting videos of operas and symphonies performed in Bangkok – it’s a good reminder of the rich variety of culture a great city has – all great cities. Today I am in Cleveland, Ohio, known for a loosing football [...]

Daily Show on Tiger Woods and a Fox News host’s anti-Buddhism comment

James Quilty — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:04:34 +0000

11 of the Craziest Thai TV Ads

James Quilty — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:27:24 +0000

Thank you again 2Bangkok.com – the most awesome website on Thailand ever – for finding this story from the new CNNgo.com website by Greg Jorgensen on Thailand’s TV ads. I always find the commercials in Thailand to be the best part of watching TV – really high production values and very entertaining. But many are [...]