"Ton horm" (spring onion) my sister's 2-month old daughter

Pretty much the reason we're home, something to play with - like how I did today.


Sleeping time



























"Don't you want to wake up?"
"No."
























"Alright, I'll stay awake for a bit."















"Oh well, I think it's time to go back to sleep. zzzzzzzzz"

Goodbye OFVM

Alright, the last day of my internship at OFVM today. We finished off another publicity for their new initiative 'Film School' which hopefully useful for them. It's been a good Summer helping out here and there. Thanks to Richard, Geron and Gary for having me (and Mairead) around. I shall miss them all.

'The return to Paris'

It was very nice to visit Paris again after quite a few years. Aside having a wander around they city and sitting in their cafe, we also made our way to Giverny checking out Monet's garden and pond - it was a beautiful day - perfect excursion!








Monet's house















Vernon station, 45min train ride from Paris, where we catched a bus to Giverny village.










The weather was very nice so we decided to spend our time mostly outdoor. No strolling through galleries (for once!), yet a quick walk around The Louvre wasn't missed.







The day (above) does look much better than during my first visit (right, May 2002), doesn't it?

Dayout to Amsterdam

A few hours train ride North from Brussels, there goes the Dutch capital Amsterdam. I had a good time wandering around the lively city, the highlight was a visit to Anne Frank's house where the Jewish family was hiding during WWII.

Since it was a sunny warm day, I spent most of my time there outdoor.





'Almost Venice,' houses by a canal.

















Something very Amsterdam to do, renting a bike cycling around the city. I didn't do that, yet managed to get lost on foot anyway!
















The Van Gogh Mesuem, south of the city, housed an extensive collection of his work; famous ones are 'The Bedroom' and 'Sunflower'.

Oh by the way, as you may have already realised the man having a snooze by his bike is just a prop. :)





A gothic architecture next door to Anne Frank's house.

























'Amsterdam Centraal'












Living by a canal, or actually given the fact that I found this corner while I got lost wandering out my map, it perhaps was their Amstel river.

Atomium, Brussels

Atomium, a monument of the World Fair 1958 reopened in 2005. I missed it when I last visited Brussels in January, this time it was a hit! Cool building, with mini-Europe nearby.

'Feature film production'

Made my presentation yesterday, felt so relieved. All seemed going alright.

My dissertation titled "Feature film production: a combination of traditional and digital technologies" using examples of four films - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977), The Matrix (1999) and The Lord of the Rings (2002), video clip below.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf5o0hh7C7Y

Italy holiday

Returned from holidaying in Italy last night, it was a long journey from Milan > Bologna > Gatwick > Oxford. I had a great break going way for a while, here's the travel tale:

Milan - there was the last day of my holiday, we checked out Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the afternoon after arriving from Venice. After that was making our way to San Siro stadium watching traditional friendly match AC Milan 4 - 1 Juventus, great stuff!










My favorite square, Milan. I had a wonderful cup of icecream there.


Venice - looked spectacular and impressive as much as you see any postcard from there, worth the time in the crowded city. We checked out their musuem and wandered around town, with two-night stay in Murano, a smaller island north of Venice where they make glasses.











































The 'leaning tower of Bologna'



















Roadside corridor, Bologna














Other than Milan and Venice, I was going around quite a bit: Bologna, Modena, Mantova and Verona - the city where Shakespeare's fictional Romeo & Juliet took place, we checked out the famous balcony.

Happy Beijing 2008

Alright, there come the party has started. Beijing has impressed the world immensely with much-anticipated exciting opening ceremony at 08.08.08 at 08:08:08pm (local time). It does sound like the Chinese planned it, eh?!

I must say my most fav Games was Seoul since it was in Asia and it was the first of my memory, and then Sydney come just right after - not that I remember much about the Games, guess it's must have been their habour that stuck in my head!

Wonder who else has hosted before? Here come the history brought to you by the International Olympic Committee:

Athens 1896
Paris 1900
St Louis 1904
London 1908
Stockholm 1912
Antwerp 1920
Paris 1924
Amsterdam 1928
Los Angeles 1932
Berlin 1936
London 1948
Helsinki 1952
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
Rome 1960
Tokyo 1964
Mexico 1968
Munich 1972
Montreal 1976
Moscow 1980
Los Angeles 1984
Seoul 1988
Barcelona 1992
Atlanta 1996
Sydney 2000
Athens 2004

It'd be nice to see Bangkok as a host one day but it's certainly too expensive for us, oh well, you never know - they may like us one day. Cheers.

Summerscreen again...

For the past two days we've been working outdoor helping out on Harry Potter and The Golden Compass tours around Oxford, all went alright - good to see all the kids having a good time, also glad it's all over now.

Check out their news report www.ofvm.org/summerscreen

Time to get back to my summer paper, better make sure I finish up the final draft before I'm off to Italy this Sunday. So looking forward to it! I won't think about the final presentation by the end of August just yet though.

The Touristic London

I had to do a few things near Oxford St so took a walk around there for a while and thought I was in Bangkok. The streets full of tourists everywhere on a hot and humid day.

The shopping street reminded me of Pratunam area in Bangkok, the Westminster area reminded me of around the Thai Great Palace, millions people - it's kinda cool though that you bearly hear people speak English in the middle of London.

Back to my random walk, it was a long walk from Oxfort St, then through Charing Cross to Tafalgar Square then Westminster. If I had a better pair of shoes and more energy, I would have kept walking - but decided I'd be better off next time and hopefully it'll be a little quieter.

Summerscreen 2008

My summer internship obviously contains plenty of designing tasks, a few posters here we put out last week.

A tale of the English summer

before we picked it

more rasberries

rest the 'cases' on our way returning home via

Port Meadow

Ines enjoying her summer walk

my early evening snack

Schmap

Well, I am still yet to figure out what so interesting this Schmap is, except that the name sounds cool enough. Just so you know, the map is on my page here simply because they used a (not-that-good) picture of South Park I took months ago, if you happen to see it on display anyway!

'Flow-Motion'

Hello again! I'm happy to welcome myself back to my own blog, exactly one month since my last post. You can tell how long it took me to 'recover' from the last Semester, yet a saga of dissertation carries on for the Summer.

Here goes a part of it is studying Keanu Reeves, oh no, I meant The Matrix. If you're one of its fans, I'm sure you remember the 'bullet-time' where smart looking The One was fighting with the Policeman through the 'storm' of bullets.

Stills from by Warner Brothers' website http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com - it made the highlight of my study today, the 'Flow-Motion' technique - made by the row of those cameras. I call it 'So Cool'.

Summer in Oxford...

... one nice thing to do, try feeding the swan.

Percy the Penknife

Alright for many of you, I should stay Happy May Day. As an umemployed person Labour Day wasn't really anything special, instead me the poor student having to work days and nights trying to meet deadlines.

Alright, so that tell of today: 3ds max project finished. I really can't believe the nightmare of hours and hours of rendering could be over. Such a painstaking process, poor my cpu. Oh well, at least it's done and my computer does survive it.

Here it goes Percy the Penknife 'in action'.

Visiting a Thai Restaurant in Manchester

Yes yes, what can be more Thai than food. So I can't miss producing a story about it for Brookes TV, not least about publicising Thailand. We visited to a recently opened Thai restaurant in Manchester, just at the shadow of City's Stadium.

Greenlight

Finally, this logo does move and 'bark'!

ไก่ผัดขิง

ว่าจะทำไก่ผัดขิง ปรากฎว่าขิงหมดค่ะ เหลือหน่อยเดียวเอง เลยขนพริกหวาน กะหัวหอมลงกะทะไปแทน หยวนๆ เนอะ

April snow

Not the 'right' time of year to have some snow, eh? Just opposite of the heat we got back home in Thailand now!

Greenlight

Yeah, bearly stay sane after got myself tortured trying to learn basic 3ds max.

Not getting anywhere further than this logo...

The main task is to animate it, apparently it's being rather stubborn!

" 'Charlie's Angels' in Manchester for BrookesTV"

Sorry I know I looked rather grumpy, but the day was awful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFd1V145Bkc

More pictures from the Blenheim Palace

A World largest hedge maze.









Typical UK weather we (wish we) have every day!














Easter eggs.

Filming again: This time at the Blenheim Palace

Pretty much my usual duty these days wearing that headphone.

We enjoyed shooting in the beautiful clear day, though it'd have been nicer if it wasn't that windy. I must admit, filming outdoor for those hours was quite freezing - didn't undermine our joy though.

Thanks for Jana for getting this organised, picking us up at 8 this morning and took this picture. Cheers.

BrookesTV wins "Best Broadcaster 2008"

16 Mar 08: BrookesTV was awarded at "Best Broadcaster 2008" at the NAtional Student Television Association Awards. It was also Highly Commended for: News Programming, and Music Programming.

The title means that BrookesTV will represent the UK at the international student television awards to be held in the United States in October.

BrookesTV is broadcast on SixTV, Oxford's local TV channel, at 8pm each night and throughout the next day. It’s also broadcast online, where you can see the award-winning newsreel.

More info on Brookes' www.brookes.ac.uk/about/news/latest/brookestv and BrookesTV's websites.

Lars and the Real Girl, do watch it if you got time :)

It was a Comedy/Drama. I really enjoyed this movie today, it was a free preview and I didn't expect anything. Yet it ended up being my Sunday treat, no complain that it's such a good one!

For the official trailer, hit play below:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XxILVnt1w

News report: Human Rights Film Festival

Watch the news report at 2:42 of Brookes TV Episode 9.

Thanks to the organisers Anne, Coree, and all my crew, Jana (presenter), Hilary (sound & editing) and Dariusz (camerawork) for helping me make this package.

Studio day making a Brookes TV programme

Today we produced this week Brookes TV programme.

Thanks to all team members Hilary, Jean and Jason; we had it produced in one take, hurrah.