I just read that it will take at least another ten years before Tepco can even start removing the melted cores of Fukushima’s nuclear power plant. It will be several decades until the site can be levelled and milleniums before the radiation will be gone. With this dire information in my head, I started my final darkroom clean up today, where I stumbled across this romantic image. I used it as a christmas-card in 1990.
Hasn’t it got a certain nuclear quality about it?
The consumption of a Singha beer with Rene, the author of the hotel story, brought about the last of my Bangkok stories (for now). We both had some time left in “the big mango” and, talking about all the interesting people we’d met, decided to show some of the cool stuff they do, to a German audience.
It’s time to get used to fact, that Bangkok is not only about ‘go go bars’ and pirated dvd’s these days. There is some true and original creativity out there, and it’s exiting and colourful.
The story was published in “Maxi” magazine.
The decision to use my visa to full capacity and extend my stay in Bangkok until mid March, brought me another two jobs and a lot more fun. For the magazine “Capital” I visited three very stylish boutique hotels and their owners. It made me wonder why most people still prefer to stay at hotel chains.
