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The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
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Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
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Another Abandoned Beijing Amusement Park 
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Tag Archives: Burma
Pretty Pictures
Beautiful Thanaka
It's Woo's birthday today. Whoohoo! She took this dazzling picture in Burma. It reminds me of the Diane Arbus girls from so many years ago... Wish her Happy Birthday at her (way un-updated) blog, TheWooLand Hotel.
Copyright Carelessness, Lost in Translation
Lady Di’s Forgotten Career?
Found in a Yangon, Myanmar sidewalk bookstall.
Lost in Translation
Two Girls, One Cup, Two Feeling
Sorry, the Two Girls One Cup video isn't here. But there's plenty of stomach-churning awesomeness here! Something about this Burmese billboard made me feel a little queasy...
Holy Curiosities
Gorgeously Gory Paintings in a Burmese Temple
Most people visit Ananda Phaya to see the massive gold Buddha. I'm not surprised: it's remarkable. But hidden in a side-alcove, propped up in the ceiling, I couldn't help noticing a series of paintings. Gloriously gore-filled paintings of demons wreaking havoc on mortals: boulders rolling over bloody victims, body parts dangling from coatracks, quartered corpses ...
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The Illegal Mae Sot-Burma Border Crossing
I put this up on YouTube a little while back, but it's definitely worth putting up here: the illegal border crossing at Mae Sot.I shot this from the Thai side of the Thai-Burmese border. To get from Mae Sot to Myawaddy, you cross a bridge, pay a toll, and have your passport confiscated for ...
The Occult
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Myawaddy, Burma)
The Burmese palm reader warned me not to invest, or date women, until April. "You will be very unlucky." And to stay in after 9pm, "unless you go out with a friend." After referencing a chart in a book, he decided selling cars would be a good career. "Do you have any questions ...
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Illegal border crossing between Burma and Thailand
This is incredible -- it's the illegal (but very open) border crossing between Myawaddy, Burma, and Mae Sot, Thailand. I shot this in the shadow of the official border bridge.