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Noir Portraits from the Bangkok Night

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Noir Portraits from the Bangkok Night written by Chris Coles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "Bangkok Night" refers to the huge, colorful and boisterous Night Entertainment Spectacle that takes place each and every night in the city of Bangkok, sprawling across miles and miles of this huge modern Metropolis, and catering to millions of people of every background, ethnicity and income level from all over Thailand, Asia and the World. Among the many things that I have always found interesting while spending time in the Bangkok Night is the vast variety of people and faces that one encounters just wandering about through any random selection of night venues drawn from the tens of thousands of Bangkok cafes, restaurants, music clubs, executive clubs, bars, KTV's, Hostess bars, discos, pool halls, After Hours clubs and street markets. During a night out in Bangkok, one can cross paths and interact with people from many countries, speaking many languages, of every ethnicity, age, skintone, professional level, attitude, religion, philosophy, point of view and destiny. In addition to the tasty food, multiple overlapping music tracks, vibrant colors and infinite variety of faces....the relaxed and friendly ambiance...the neon intensity....the density of hundreds of thousands of people moving about in close quarters, lit up, excited and eager, the fragrant smoke from ten thousands of street stalls drifting through the warm tropical air. But in addition to being an actual place with actual people, the Bangkok Night is also, in my view, an Idea. a kind of Metaphor for the World in general and the State of Humanity in our Present Era. The portraits in this book reflect this point of view and are a mixture of actual people I have encountered wandering around in the Bangkok Night as well as actual people I have imagined wandering around in the Bangkok Night and entirely imaginary people who I imagine would be at home in the Bangkok Night.

Navigating the Bangkok Noir

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789814346498
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Navigating the Bangkok Noir written by Chris Coles and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangkok, also known as Krung Thep of the City of Angels, is an almost-perfect setting for noir fiction, films, music and paintings, and the artistic movement known as Bangkok Noir. This title provides a vibrant, visual celebration of Bangkok's notoriously colourful nightlife.

Bangkok Noir in New York

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781795051590
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Noir in New York written by Chris Coles and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My 1st Exhibition in New York back in February, 2006, 20 small paintings from my Bangkok Night series. Part of a group show at an art gallery in New York's Chelsea Art District. Just me dipping a tentative toe in the giant New York Art Gallery Ocean. But it got a nice crowd, they seemed to enjoy the paintings and to savour their taste of Noir straight off the streets of the Bangkok Night.

Bangkok Noir in Pattaya

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781796957389
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Noir in Pattaya written by Chris Coles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My very 1st Exhibition in Thailand opened in December 2009, at a wonderful gallery in the upscale Pratamnak District of Pattaya owned by Liam Ayudhkij, an Irishman who came to Thailand as a 21 year old backpacker and somehow managed to create a multi-million dollar business called PCS which employed over 25,000 people in Thailand. Liam loved art and used his fortune to became one of the largest collectors of modern art in Thailand, often using his Pratamnak gallery to showcase some of his huge and very valuable collection. My show at Liam's Gallery featured almost one hundred of my paintings from the Bangkok Night, spread across the gallery's 4 spacious floors. The Opening Night was also a launch party for the Bangkok author Christopher G. Moore's two latest books, each one featuring one of my paintings on the cover. A novel titled "The Corruptionist" and a descriptive book of his Calvino Series titled, "The Vincent Calvino Reader's Guide."Opening Night was lovely. A warm breeze off the Gulf of Thaiand, an appreciative crowd. My debut on the Thai Art Scene......

Bangkok Noir at Check Inn 99

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797943114
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Noir at Check Inn 99 written by Chris Coles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Check Inn 99 on Lower Sukhumvit was born as a hostess bar/cabaret venue/brothel (complete with "Short Time" rooms upstairs) serving mainly the Vietnam War Expat Crowd (including celebrity visitors like Bob Hope) and then, after the Vietnam War wound down, the Scandanavian Sex Tourist Crowd (including most of the SAS pilots who flew in and out of Bangkok). The location was perfect, a block or two from Soi Nana, the Nana Hotel and Nana Plaza, the epicenter of the Bangkok Nights Expat Sex Tourism Scene.Then in the early 2000's, a new owner, Chris Catto-Smith, turned what was once an amiably seedy commercial sex nitespot, into a comfortable hangout kind of live music venue. The same old rattan furniture, the same old kitchen, bar and restrooms only instead of hostesses, now a Filipino Band called Music of the Heart.The lived-in casual ambiance, the House Band and Lower Sukhumvit location made Check Inn 99 a perfect spot for staging various cabaret and other events, among them gatherings of the Bangkok Expat authors, poets, artists and musicians known as the Bangkok Noir Movement who put on three Bangkok Noir evenings. One on April 17th, 2013. Another on January, 2014 and a third evening on January 8th, 2015.This book mainly covers my own participation as an Artist who has used (and uses) the abundance of Noir material to be found in the Bangkok Night as the setting and background for my paintings.

Bangkok Beat

Author : Kevin Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692396452
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Beat written by Kevin Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangkok Beat is a compilation of short stories, interviews, literature reviews and author profiles, plus the previously unpublished history and pictures of the iconic Bangkok cabaret nightclub, Checkinn99 located on Sukhumvit Road. In reading Bangkok Beat you will get up close with many well-known and not so well-known expats and characters staying in Thailand and Southeast Asia. You'll also find a section of noir poems by John Gartland, in which the author depicts life in the city's dark zone. Between the covers of Bangkok Beat you will get to know: champion male and female Muay Thai boxers, a surfing historian, a legendary mamasan, Chris Coles - noted expressionist artist of the Bangkok night, and a gold chain snatching ladyboy. You'll also encounter the inside of Baccara Bar on Soi Cowboy, an Australian front man for a Khmer band, a smiling waitress named Mook, a spirit house for a Hollywood screenwriter and producer, and the biographer for Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix. Plus world class musicians including Jason Mraz. In addition you'll find interviews and profiles of many well known novelists living in and writing about Thailand and Southeast Asia. (Contains 54 black and white photographs.) This book of non-fiction is ably assisted with an introduction by Bangkok pulp fiction author, James A. Newman, a short story by T Hunt Locke titled The Beauty of Isaan and a chapter of noir verse written by the poet noir, John Gartland. Many of the 54 black and white photographs found in Bangkok Beat were taken by professional photographers Eric Nelson, Alasdair McLeod, and Jonathan van Smit. There are a variety of interesting tales chronicled in words and pictures in Bangkok Beat.

German Expressionism and the Bangkok Night

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797613727
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book German Expressionism and the Bangkok Night written by Chris Coles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Expressionists often used Early 1900 Berlin's degenerate nightlife and multiplicity of noir characters as the setting for their gritty, colorful vision of a distorted humanity drowning in a universe of alientation, dysfunctionality, bad intention and misplaced desire. When I first came to experience the vast, colorful and almost infinite universe of the Bangkok Night......one of the largest ongoing nightlife spectacles ever staged by humans in the history of the world, with millions of participants from Thailand, Asia and every country on earth.......Sellers, Buyers, Consumers, Enablers, Protectors, Managers, Support Staff, Owners, Grifters, Gangsters, Conmen and Profiteers.....billions of investment and revenue.....I immediately saw a similarity with some of those powerful images of early 1900's Berlin Nightlife created by the German Expressionists.A visual setting with a similar multiplicity of characters, only updated to early 2000's with Mass Tourism, ATM machines, Erectile Dysfunction Drugs, hi-rise hotels, spicy food, amplified music, complex lighting and a powerful blend of Southeast Asian style, traditions, people and stuff.If Re-Incarnation is Real, as many Southeast Asians believe, the German Expresisonists would all be here, in the Bangkok Night, taking in this unique human spectacle and using it to make their paintings.

Nordic Noir

Author : Sébastien Van Malleghem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789791092265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Noir written by Sébastien Van Malleghem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Angkor Tears

Author : Steven W. Palmer
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Angkor Tears written by Steven W. Palmer and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambodia, a country with so many shadows in its past. Now, there are new shadows. Someone is killing children and leaving no clues. It’s enough to draw journalist Dave Bell back to Cambodia after a plea from an old friend. Bell puts together an unlikely team of allies. Together they begin to unravel the terrifying mystery. But can they find the truth lurking in the shadows, and stop the monster from killing again? NOTE: this book contains adult content and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

The Night Before First Grade

Author : Natasha Wing
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101636580
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Night Before First Grade written by Natasha Wing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the night before the Big Day—first grade. Penny is excited to start the year with her best friend right beside her in the same classroom. This humorous take on Clement C. Moore's classic tale has a perfect twist ending that will surprise readers—as well as the “heroine” of the story—and help all about-to-be first-graders through their own back-to-school jitters.

Bangkok Noir

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher : Asia Document Bureau Limited
ISBN 13 : 9786167503042
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok Noir written by Christopher G. Moore and published by Asia Document Bureau Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twelve seasoned and internationally known--Thai and Western--writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian metropolis"--Page 4 of cover.

Different Drummers

Author : Kevin Cummings
Publisher : Frog in the Mirror Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692197677
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Different Drummers written by Kevin Cummings and published by Frog in the Mirror Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different Drummers is a collection of interviews, literary reviews, poems, and short stories, with an emphasis on the interesting expatriates, music venues, and literature of Bangkok, Thailand and the region. There is an extensive chapter of noir and existential angst poetry by English poet, John Gartland. Subtitled Bangkok Beat Redux, the book is a second compendium of characters who have followed the beat of a different drum. The 31 Chapter book follows the critical success of Bangkok Beat released in 2015. Interviews and profiles include Colin Cotterill, Christopher G. Moore, John Burdett, Osborne, Joe Cummings, Kevin Wood, Tim Hallinan, Jim Algie, Peter Klashorst, Doug Stanhope, J.D. Villines and Hugh Gallagher among others. Readers will find the further history of the iconic Bangkok nightclub, Checkinn99. The extensive interview with John Gartland along with over 50 of his topical noir poems, including Bangkok Air, makes Different Drummers a unique reading experience to be enjoyed by anyone who has ever been to Southeast Asia or follows their own creative path.

Phnom Penh Noir

Author : Christopher G. Moore
Publisher : Asia Document Bureau Limited
ISBN 13 : 9786167503158
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Phnom Penh Noir written by Christopher G. Moore and published by Asia Document Bureau Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many noir anthologies have inspired writers and publishers around the world to gather novelists to set noir stories in a city. When it comes to noir, not all cities are equal. The history of genocide and dislocation sets Phnom Penh apart from other places. What other city in modern times was emptied of all of his people at gun point, a city abandoned and left as a ghost town? The authors of Phnom Penh Noir take you inside the lives of Cambodians who carry that legacy of that fateful day on 17th April 1975 when the Khmer Rouge arrived and forced the population to evacuate to the countryside. The Khmer Rouge experiment resulted in radical transformation of a society that left a bloody trail, one that left almost no family untouched, and hovers close to the surface in these stories. In Phnom Penh Noir, the stories, lyrics, and cover photograph have joined legendary creative talents like Roland Joffe, James Grady and John Burdett along with a young generation of Cambodians. The noir tales unfold through multiple points of view and enrich the reading experience. Truth, mortality, regret, betrayal, and loss play out in these stories, poetry and lyrics. The authors and publishers will contribute twenty percent of their earnings from this book to selected charity organizations in Cambodia. Official website: www.phnompenhnoir.com

Very Thai

Author : Philip Cornwel-Smith
Publisher : River Books Press Dist A C
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Very Thai written by Philip Cornwel-Smith and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering insight into contemporary Thai folk culture delves beyond the traditional Thai icons to reveal the casual, everyday expressions of Thainess that so delight and puzzle. From floral truck bolts and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and

One Night in Bangkok in Singapore

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795619486
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book One Night in Bangkok in Singapore written by Chris Coles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blinding neon and shady denizens of the Bangkok night are captured vividly in American painter Chris Coles' watercolor renditions of the lurid and colorful world of the Thai capital's notorious nightlife. Heavily distorted lines and strong, clashing colors dominate in these paintings which portray a chaotic, edgy noir world of colliding intention and misplaced desire, lives out of balance, sexual compulsion, alienation and disassociation, echoing the German Expressionist paintings from Berlin in the early 1900's as well as the Paris nightlife paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and the early Picasso. Organized into twinkling street scenes, situational encounters and mesmerizing portraits of the girls, the boys, the kathoeys (ladyboys) and their clients, Chris Coles shows us how the Bangkok night isn't "only a sordid money-machine servicing the low-end of humanity," but "an authentic and unique setting in the ongoing cultural history of mankind."

Colors of the Night

Author : Chris Coles
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781797478807
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Colors of the Night written by Chris Coles and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My 1st Exhibition in Bangkok opened in April 2011, at the lovely, stylish Koi Gallery in the trendy Upper Sukhumvit District.The evening also served as the Book Launch Party for my first book of paintings titled, "Navigating the Bangkok Noir" which had just been published by the Marshall Cavandish company in Singapore.Opening Night was packed. An upscale Bangkok crowd of Expats, Hi-So's and art people as I made my debut on the fantastic stage of the Bangkok Night.

The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

Author :
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616957751
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers written by and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more. This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season. Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccolò Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes’s one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess of Wilborough’s stolen diamonds. These and other adventures in this delectable volume will whisk readers away to Christmases around the globe, from a Korean War POW camp to a Copenhagen refugee squat, from a palatial hotel in 1920s Bombay to a crumbling mansion in Havana. Includes Stories By (In Order of Appearance): Helene Tursten, Mick Herron, Martin Limón, Timothy Hallinan, Teresa Dovalpage, Mette Ivie Harrison, Colin Cotterill, Ed Lin, Stuart Neville, Tod Goldberg, Henry Chang, James R. Benn, Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis, Sujata Massey, Gary Corby, Cara Black, Stephanie Barron and a Foreword and story by Peter Lovesey.