ChaoticlyChaotic

Right. So. For those of you still paying attention, I think I'm back for a bit. I took some time to do a bit of thinking, after my Burma project. I thought about a lot of things, and I think I ended up with more questions than answers. But what else is new. Such is life. Along the way I did a lot of candid photo work--driving my friends absolutely batshit crazy along the way, I'm sure. Unfortunately due to bad backup practices I'll have to a bit of digging to recover/re-edit some of the files. Plus watermarking, etc., it'll take me a while to get stuff up and posted. But in the meantime I can share some of the stuff that I worked on along

Alright, last one. For a sort-of explanation, see this. For the previous article, see this. Talking about the entirety of Burman culture is a bit too ambitious for me. I've neither the time, knowledge nor inclination to investigate and exposit about every aspect of their culture--I know enough about it to know that there's a lot to know about it. It does, after all, stem from three or four different major Asian countries and then fell under European cultural dominance for a century or so. In any case, I'm going to touch on the aspects I found interesting and had extensive contact with. I was continually fascinated by the peoples' reaction

For a sort-of explanation, see this. For the previous article, see this. For the next article, see this. The cities in Burma don't have the surrounding suburban sprawl common to much the rest of the world. Instead, there's a hundred feet from the city's inner tangle of roads, then a set of toll booths, and then open highway (if it can be called that). The highway cuts through the open plains on what approximates a straight-line path between major cities. While the cities alone have disparate contrasts, the villages on the outskirts are far worse. Separated by a highway and meters of dense jungle, the villages are hidden out in the plains