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China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse 
The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time? 
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names) 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
Nazi Fashion in China 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
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The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
The Best Place to Eat and Poop, Together! 
Philadelphia CheeseSteak Ice Cream 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
Those Creepy Japanese Videos, Finally Explained 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
The New iOS Game From the Creators of AsiaObscura 
Red Onion-Flavored Red Wine 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
A Huge New Horde of Hand-drawn Indian Movie Posters 
Gorgeously Gory Paintings in a Burmese Temple 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
On Horse Meat Sashimi 
Another Diana Pose at the Taj Mahal 
Sweet gruesome statue asking for donations - Why Chinese People Eat Fried Worms
Inspector Black Cat: China’s Gore-Soaked Answer to Tom & Jerry 
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai 
Soy Sauce Kit Kats (and other awesome flavors) 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
The Eko Nugroho Flower Suit Lives On 
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters
Tag Archives: Sandalwood
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
Great New Indian Sidewalk Movie Posters
First, does anyone know where in Bangalore, or perhaps India, I can get cardboard mailing tubes for posters? They just don't seem to be available. What is this nonsense!!! Second, if you missed these posts about the grand outsider Ramachandraiah sidewalk posters, see them now! Batch 1: Original sidewalk posters for Harry Potter, Tintin and more Batch 2: More real ...
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
The Great Poster Contest
So yesterday I got up to some dark nonsense... I ordered 600 more Bangalore sidewalk posters. You know, like these.... But not any of those. Chronologically, the movie's leads were Buster, Louise, Glenn, Lloyd, Hayao, Johnny. Hint: might be directors. Hint: four are Americans. Hint: If you know my taste in film, ...
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
A Huge New Horde of Hand-drawn Indian Movie Posters
I hadn't seen Ramachandraiah for far too long. He's the movie poster artist. Some locals curse him as a ruin on this garden city. I hail him as an urban beautifying legend. - See his first batch of posters here. - His posters for my favorite movies: Suspiria, Wild at Heart, M, The Third Man, and ...
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
The Amazing Indian Amazing Spider-Man Poster
My Bangalore pal Hannah just came across this new Ramachandraiah movie poster... Absolutely gorgeous -- I love it!
Sweet Movies and Wild Books
A Brief Aside on Dr Rajkumar, the James Bond of Southern India
Alone in the hotel, drinking Kingfisher and watching old Karanataka films. In 1981's Keralida Simha, an honest cop has to break up a party of riotous and drugged out delinquents. And it's something akin to poetry. I don't know much about Kannada cinema -- it's called Sandalwood -- but the cop with the sweet mustache ...
Our Weird Projects, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
A Sweet New Batch of Indian Movie Posters
I just got some lo-res photos of the new batch of 20" by 30" hand-drawn litho-printed Sandalwood/Kannada movie posters, and they're fantastic! (If you missed reading about Raju, who draws a new movie poster every three hours, and the 1901 litho machine they're printed on, go now!) I have 100 of each of these, ...
Our Weird Projects, Sweet Movies and Wild Books
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters
Ramachandraiah prints movie posters for a living. He's done it ever since 1971, when he bought an ancient lithograph press. He keeps it in a factory north of Bangalore, far from the English town where it was built 111 years ago. Most movie posters here are lavish. They're digitally-printed, full-color, and reach up to 30 ...