Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this. God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth.
It’s the work of Sydney-based “creative collective” The Glue Society. The project was commissioned by Eric Romano of Pulse Art, New York for its Miami art fair.
The first thing you notice when you get onto Vietnamese roads is the…Vietnam traffic.
Insanity!
That’s what the traffic was like. And we CROSSED ROADS in this madness. The trick is to not bother waiting for an opening. Just step out onto the road and walk steadily while keeping your eyes trained on the oncoming traffic. And then pray.
Prawns at Ben Thanh market. Check out the chicken drumsticks to the side and compare the size. These prawns kick ass.
More fat prawns and some wriggly things, the likes of which I ate in Yunnan, fried in chilli and tasting a bit like baby unagi.
Flowers! Would you believe they’re all fake? :D
Daddy and Mommy, at the cafe where we had our first Vietnamese beer (333 Bia for teh win!)
Longest bean sprouts EVAH. (Please ignore unsightly eyebags. Flight was at 6.35am. Whimper.)
Raphael physically restrains his zombie cousin from chewing his ear off
Froggies a-waiting for the slaughter (yes, they’re alive)
Face masks are necessary to prevent inhalation of Vietnamese dust. The cuter the face mask the better.
The workshop is operated by war victims of Agent Orange, who suffer from malformed limbs and misshapen extremities
The original Cuchi tunnel opening size. Mom just about managed to fit. It’s mostly boobies that get in the way; most slim-built men and women will be able to enter easily.
This tank was destroyed by a delay mine during the war. Beth, Rachel and Hanna all togged out in BKK clothes :D
Me with ten AK47 rounds. Live rounds, mind you.
Me shooting with the AK47. Fun!
The Cuchi tunnel. It’s about 1.5m tall and 60cm wide, if I’m not wrong. Just enough for me to stoop over and walk bent in half. Many of the taller (and bigger-sized) men (and women) had to crawl. Raph and I made it through all 200+ meters of the tunnel. It’s pitch black in some areas (so I resorted to turning on my camera LCD and shining it in front of us).
Motorboat ride back to the mainland. I never realized how white and pale I am (until I took photos with Bing).
Apparently we’re collecting these shots. We’ve got one similar picture of three of us in Beijing. We shall now take this photo in every country we visit :D
People on the boat. On the right are Robbie and Gareth, from Harvard Business School, whom we met on the trip. Crazy funny American guys :D
For the chemically-inclined - Pig Womb Steamed With Anions. Would you like some Electrons with that? I also like the Five Favors dish. Wonder what kind.
Positively the best crab I’ve eaten in my entire life. The BEST. Crab fried with tamarind. *sniffle* Will I ever get to taste it again?
When the crab was all gone :(
Day three. Floating market.
Mom trying to make round rice crackers. The griddle is a lot heavier than it looks and not as easy to make as we thought :/ Mom’s cracker turned out…more like a rice cracker splat than a round :P
In Vietnam you must wear the Vietnamese hat
Hanna can’t ride a bicycle (!!) so she got to tompang on the motorcycle!
Testing out a hammock during lunch break
Okay this snake is a lot heavier than it looks too :/
Raphael proudly helms our little sampan
As Uncle Hong Leong realizes that rowing the sampan isn’t as easy as it looks (coordinating those two oars in sync isn’t easy!)
On the boat back to the mainland
How do you fry something bristly? :/
I would have taken pictures of the best clams I’ve ever eaten in my life, but I couldn’t, because the minute the plate touched the table, you had to grab clams as fast as you could. Any hesitation and you’d end up with air between your chopsticks :(
Argh I have reposted this three times because my stupid blog had some stupid thing enabled and asdadjhlsdfjhlasdjfhals!
But yes.
I AM SPREEING FOR GELASKINS!
Is this not pretty?? I am buying it for my future Macbook (er, when Dad gives me his Macbook in January because office is buying him a new one :D). They’re selling it at the iShop in Cineleisure too, but when I went to check prices, they cost a whopping $79.00 there. I can get them for US$29.90 from the website; even with the shipping charges added, I can get one for about S$52.50, because it’s buy three get one free!
So help me out here and add on to my order. iPod skin for you? Macbook skin? PC laptop skin? I have one of these on my iPod Nano right now - actually I have two skins, but I’ve been using the same one since July because it’s just too pretty. Denise gifted me the other (she’s the one who introduced me to this nifty pretty site) for my birthday. This is what she gave me! So pretty!
So if you’d like to join the spree, email me with your order (laptop size/iPod model, design name, and corresponding URL) asap. Good for Christmas gifts too! Spree will stay open till I get three more confirmed orders.
