Thursday, January 8, 2009

[KyiMayKaung] 4 New Entries: Keep those beautiful old coats and clothes -- Bill Cunningham from New York Times --

Keep those beautiful old coats and clothes -- Bill Cunningham from New York Times --

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/04/fashion/20090104-street-feature/index.html?th&emc=th

Only problem -- closet space.

I still have old coat from 20 years ago and it works fine --

one quilted coat I gave away and one (picked from garbage!) -- a good black wool long coat worth about $100, that was too small for me -- I gave both of these to refugees/visitors/interns from Burma.

All a problem of knowing what to throw away and what to keep.

I will never throw away re-cycled wearable art that I make myself from heirloom clothes and linen.

Kyi May Kaung

Another memoir on Oprah Show found to be (partially) made up --

http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=f458c2c8-0d4f-4dc7-8cba-15e465c2201a&p=1

Why was it marketed as a memoir?

Why did he not write it as a novel (fiction)?

Oprah Show and book and film etc audiences also want "memoirs."

Sensationalism is the culprit.

I can think of several examples from the Burmese survivor/media world.

Kyi May Kaung

"My skull" will be up at Cranial Vault -- in Feb.

February 2009
February 4 through February 27

Cranial Vault www.cranialvault.org

at Space 7-10 Kefa Cafe

963 Bonifant St. (near corner of Georgia Av. in Silver Spring, MD) a few blocks uphill from Silver Spring Metro.

Kyi May Kaung

Good non-conformist blog - how to travel on a shoestring etc.

http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/about-chris/

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