Farang Farang

Chiang Mai has a very tourist-driven night bazaar with all the typical junk tourists buy as souvenirs. It’s cool to see once but there’s not a lot there of real interest. It’s mostly insistent merchants selling things you don’t need but can’t find at home.

One interesting section is an area with artists. This fellow can paint lovely pictures from a photograph. He is not alone in his art, as many artists there can accomplish such feats, in addition to creating realistic copies of masterpiece paintings by such greats as Van Gogh, Renoir and Monet, among others. Copying art is a big deal there but at least it allows artists to do what they like and what they are good at and get some great training by following the styles of some masters.

This video has some really cool Thai dance. Check it out! The music seems a bit repetitive at first but if you listen closely you can hear variations in it, as well as repeating themes.