X-Radiation

Today I paid a visit to R&H in Mumbai India. They also have a shop in Hyderbad and another in Malaysia. The interior design of the Mumbai office is a sweet set up. The cubicles are designed like villages with about eight artists in each pod.

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Arrived in Mumbai this morning. R.K. Chand picked me up at the airport with his driver Vishnu. Chand is a Co-Founder of CG Tantra, a successful web portal for the Indian computer graphics community. CG Tantra is one my sponsors for the Indian portion of this trip so we’ll be spending some time together over the next few days. Check out the web site at http://www.cgtantra.com

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My friend Carly occasionaly passes through Bangkok so he stashed a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label at the Big Mango bar down the street from Nana. Stephen and I stopped in after dinner and hung out for a while on Carly’s bottle. It was a nice low-key scene and the hostesses were friendly and helpful. It was really cool to have a drink from my friend’s bottle on a random Thursday in Bangkok while he was still in California.

Security at Bangkok airport confiscated my torch style cigar lighter. I guess only regular BIC’s are aloud on the plane, but it’s been in my bag since San Francisco and nobody else caught it. Score 1 for Bangkok Security Theater.

After the presentation I hung out with Stephen from Massive Software. He took me out for a very nice Thai dinner then we wandered around Nana Plaza and Soi Cowbow. Above is a fine example of some of the street food in Thailand. Yummy crunch frogs, various insects and fried larvae. 

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I’m in Thailand less than 24 hours. The hotel is nice. We had some audio problems during the presentation but kept moving forward. Tomorrow I need to catch a flight to Mumbai.

This is my name on Chinese chop, a gift from my friends in Singapore.

The crazy schedule continues. I left Singapore this morning and arrived in Bangkok around 11am. I have a presentation at 3pm then catch a flight at 8:30 am tomorrow bound for Mumbai.

Last night I presented my presentation at the Digital Media Deisgn Center at Nanyang Polytechnic. YT Lee hosted the event, produced by Keolnmesse. I met another Denny who helped with the technical issues in the audiorium as well as Albert from the school. Mark Chavez was there. Marc is currently setting up the animation program at NTU but went to school at UCLA with Doug Chiang and worked at Dreamworks back on Prince of Egypt. (more…)