Vipoo's Blog: May 2008

Guerrilla Gardeners

Posted by Vipoo at 6:07 AM |

What is Guerrilla Gardeners, here the quote form Slow guide: Sydney website

"They’re illegal, carry out their deeds at night to avoid detection and are active in a growing number of cities around the world. They’re Guerrilla Gardeners. Their crime? Attacking ugly patches of public land with hand-trowels and flowering annuals in covert greening campaigns. Typical targets include roundabouts, verges and other neglected areas, which are beautified with plants."

What a great and fun idea. I love it very much. I hope it happen everywhere in the world. Check out a record of their illicit cultivation around london at www.guerrillagardening.org

Running the Numbers

Posted by Vipoo at 2:26 PM |

A friend of mine forward this website to me and i think it is really interesting and inspired.

Take few minutes of your time this is worth a visit but bound to make you feel guilty!

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?icl=7

Me on other blog

Posted by Vipoo at 6:34 PM |

Recently my work was on a few blogs as my friends kindly help promote my exhibition in melbourne.

The latest one (picture on the left) is on Kevin murray blog: Craft Unbound under subject of Making a meal of ceramics. It is about my new project at 4A gallery in Sydney which will be showing next month. A very exciting project.

The show in Melbourne will be finishing at the end of this month. Better check out this great blogs before it too late!

Other blogs are

Feffakookan by Mel Robson

Musing about mud by Carole Epp

and

Strange Fragments by Shannon Garson

My friend's success

Posted by Vipoo at 3:01 PM |

A couple of my good friends make it big. I am green of envy!

Kirsten Coelho a very dear friend, she is so beautiful both inside and outside, just as pretty as her pots! she made it big by being a cover girl of Ceramic Review magazine in UK with big feature article in it. I am so lucky that i have a few pieces of her work in my collection.

Mel Robson , a good friend and a great talented artist. She made it to Vogue living, a big page article! Nice one. In the article is part of her upcoming solo show Keep Calm and Carry On in July at Jan Manton Art. good luck with show Mel, i am sure it will be a sell out. Unfortunately i don't have any of her work in my collection yet. Got to get my hands on a few of her pieces before she get too famous.

Braille books for the blind

Posted by Vipoo at 5:37 AM |

I love books (as you may see from my previous post) and i am sure the blinds love to read as well. However, they are a bit less fortunate than us because the variety of their books is not as wild as ours.

If you like the idea of provide them more books to read, may i suggest a little donation to the Education Technology for the Blind Center, Thailand. You can ask them to use your donation to make Braille books for blind people.

Here is their detail

Account name: Educational Technology For the blind center

Account number: 123 142 1487

Bank Name: Krung Thai

Branch name: Pakkred

you can call the center at (+61 2) 583 6518

ศูนย์เทคโนโลยีการศึกษาเพื่อคนตาบอด
78/2 ถนนติวานนท์ ตำบลบางตลาด
อ.ปากเกร็ด จ.นนทบุรี 11120
โทรศัพท์ 0-2583-6518

ความช่วยเหลือเป็นสิ่งจำเป็นสำหรับศูนย์เทคโนโลยีการศึกษาไม่ว่าจะเป็นด้านการเงิน การบริจาคเงินซื้อวัสดุอุปกรณ์ในการผลิตหนังสือเบรลล์หรือหนังสือเทป ด้านอาสาสมัคร ศูนย์ฯ ต้องการอาสาสมัครอ่านหนังสือลงเทปคาสเส็ทท์ ทั้งที่บ้านและที่ห้องบันทึกเสียงของศูนย์ และอาสาสมัครพิมพ์หนังสือ (โปรแกรมเวิร์ดทั่วไป) ซึ่งทางศูนย์ฯ จะนำมาแปลงเป็นอักษรเบรลล์อีกครั้ง

Anumotana boon to you all na krap.

Thank for your kindness :)

MAD about books!

Posted by Vipoo at 5:15 PM |

I am an artist but not an art collector. I am a book collector!

i have so many book (Thai Book) that i have not read yet and to day my friends let me borrow more. I am not sure how long would take me to read them all. May be a year or two???

here images of my collection.