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Bangkok to Khao Sok

Bangkok International airport is to the west of the city. It is very modern and the structure with all the pillars and canvas looks like it has escaped from the Millenium Dome.

It is clean light and airy and on the way to baggage claim there are smoking rooms choc-a-block with people breathing in each others exhalations.

But I could be wrong, perhaps these rooms are to acclimatise people so they can breathe in downtown Bangkok.

Street life under the fly over

One of the traffic hubs in Bangkok is at the Victory monument and underneath the flyovers is a chaos of city life. Everyboby seems to be selling something, cooking something, eating something, stepping off buses, jumping on tuk-tuks.

The roundabout at Victory momument is a carousel of colour and the noise from traffic and street vendors is deafening. You have to shout the loudest if you have something to sell cos the competition is fierce. Only the buyers are afforded the luxury of being quiet.

bangkok railway station

Everybody seems to want to go south and there is a night train to Surat Thani which is an eleven hour journey. The train stops at Phunphin and the tough guys head east to Khao Sok national park, while the disco queens head west to the island of Ko Sumoi.

From Phunphin to Khao Sok is 120 Km and it is a two hour drive in a bus. The ticket price is the princely sum of 150 bhat which is approximately 3€. How do they do that? That is incredibly cheap.

Khao Sok

In Khao Sok you get jungle. Huge heaving lumps for green, rivers and trees, and birds and butterflies, and monkeys howling in the night. and insects making such a racket you would think they had something to sell, and are practicing to sell their wares under the flyover at Victory momument.

Visit Thailand now. It is the best time of the year. The rains are over, and the temperature is down, and the food, well what can I say... any night in the jungle you can hear the monkeys shout about it.

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December 5, 2007

Making Planets from you photos

Klippan Planet

So you want to make a planet from a photo that you like. Well there is a few things to consider.

First of all you need to take a photo with lots of interesting objects on the horizontal skyline. Try and get a perfectly straight horizon.

The next thing to do is to shoot in a square format, or use some software to transform the photo into a square format.

If you leave the photo the way that it has been shot then you will get all of the objects pointing in towards the centre.

So to get the buildings and trees pointing outwards you need to rotate the photo by 180 degrees so that it becomes upside down.

klippan resturant

Being a cheapskate I have used GIMP to do the circular distortion. Under the Fliter option choose "distort" and then "polar cords".

You can then rotate the image to position the houses and trees in a way that you like them.

You can see a line where the ends have been joined and if you have time and the inclination you can dodge and burn the edge so that the join is seemless.

But hey who cares? www.ipernity.com/doc/hyperbob/album/42161

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December 23, 2007

Fish tree goal

Fish tree Goal

Al slowly supped his pint, and with very weary eyes, with lids as heavy as lead, he struggled to keep his eyes open. With each blink of his eyelids he tried to speak. He was royally drunk. With a slur in his voice he began:

“So there was Jug, Carl Jung, the sigh… the psychologist, listening to this woman on a cow… on a couch, and she’s talking about a fish… a vision she’d had about a blah…sorry… a black scarab beetle, when lo and bee… behold a bee… beetle flew in the wind… the window. Now old Carl knew the beetle was the edge… excuse me… the Egyptian symbol for rebirth, so he told the woman it was no Cohen… no coincidence, what with the beetle in the wind and the edge and all that… it just thunderlined the woman's need to ease… to escape an over-attachment to rash… to rash… to rationalism. Sink… Synchronicity was what it was”

Al was trying to score points against me, and he smiled and nodded with immense satisfaction once he had completed the sentence. I played the old "but nevertheless" gambit on him. I dipped my tongue in a pot of super glue and began:

“But remember Borges… didn’t he say there was a man who had a fish… a vision about a potter goal… gold hidden in a core… courtyard under a tree, and when he told his family about it they thaw… are you listening… they thought he was crazy. Nevertheless he followed his dream and found the core and the tree but no goal, and the owner of the how… how’s your father… house comes up an asks him what’s he doing there, and he says following a fish… vision. So the owner says I’ve had fish… visions but I never do anything about them, they’re a weighs… complete waste of time. I’ve had a fish about a core and a tree and a goal, but I’m not stew… are you asleep… stupid enough to do anything about it. The first man’s eyes sparkled because he wreck… you hearing me... recognised his own house in the mans description, and he went home and scored the goal. Fish are the collie… collective con… conch… consciousness of humanity”

Al had slipped off his chair and was lying on the floor. I had drunk him under the table.

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December 1st, 2007

Bangkok to Khao Sok

December 5, 2007

Making Planets from you photos

December 23, 2007

Fish tree goal


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