Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Holy crap, a SHORT post!

I figured a deserved respite was in order after those two perilously long entries, therefore this one's gonna be nothing but two quick videos I've taken while here.

This is a performer I saw at Chatuchak Market who was playing a LEAF. Like, seriously, just a regular ol' green leaf. I wish I knew some Thai so I could ask him to show it to the camera for everybody else's sake. Ah well.



Here's an elephant walking in traffic. Check out the tail-light!

6 comments:

jon said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPRT-Ib-bU

"Hey! Here, try to play this! It has a better sound!"

Stefan said...

Hahaha, great minds think alike! I wrote in the summary of the actual Google Video "he's like a real life Riki-Oh!" at the risk of alienating people who'd be like "Ricky Who?".

None of those people are worthy to watch this video anyway :P

Kalia said...

Who rides an elephant to actually get somewhere? Is the dude going to work and his only means of transportation is his trusty pachyderm? Maybe it's more of a "the process" vs "the result" kinda thing. It doesn't matter that he gets where ever he's going extremely slow...it's the whole "joy in the journey" concept...maybe?

Stefan said...

Hey sis, sorry to burst your bubble but the dude wasn't using it solely as a means of transportation. It's primary intent was to get tourists to pay 20 baht to feed it some nutritionless sugar stick crap (I only mention that because the dude's reasoning for you buying this was "Elephant's very hungry!"). I've gotta say though if I had the choice of getting to work in 15 minutes on the SkyTrain or 2 hours on an elephant I'd pick the latter in a heartbeat and even pay handsomely for the privilege.

On a sadder note I thought it would make for an interesting short documentary/expose/whatever to find out where they actually KEEP these elephants when they're not parading 'em up and down the street at night.

cody said...

I don't know what your internet-time situation is like, but if you have a half hour to watch a video, this is a woman named Evelyn Glennie, giving a talk about listening to music; she's a deaf percussionist.

In other news, awesome that you have a site to easily convey your escapades. Also, I would choose the elephant too.

Tom said...

can deaf people hear themselves talk still?

Stefan you should start a band with that guy. Play like an empty milk carton or something.