iOne Digital Art Contest
You don’t have to be lucky!
Winning is all about skill & creativity!
If you’re a student, register now and win big, big prizes!
Hurry contest closes on 30th September 2010.

1st Prize: Apple iMac MC413 ($1639) x 1 prize,
2nd Prize: Apple MacBook MC516 ($1059) x 1 prize,
3rd Prize: Apple iPod Touch 8GB ($199) x 3 prizes,
4th Prize: Apple iPod Shuffle 2GB ($59) x 5 prizes,
5th Consolation Prize: $20 Voucher x 10 prizes,
6th Consolation Prize: $10 Voucher x 10 prizes.

Art Contest Theme & Guidelines
· Contestant must submit entry form & an original artwork that incorporates the Apple logo with a signoff iOne logo that says “designed for iOne” that should be placed on the bottom-right of artwork. The Apple logo must be incorporated creatively into either an original illustration background or a copyright released photograph. All logos are available upon our Facebook: www.facebook.com/iOneDigitalArtContest or www.ione2u.com/contest.

· Contestants can feature the logo in creative ways and don’t have to use the original format in terms of color or size as long as it is instantly recognizable as Apple logo.

· Contestants must also include as headline/title the phrase “It’s a MacWorld” into the artwork. It can be in any font or size. And below artwork with “Designed for iOne” as it will be available in Facebook: www.facebook.com/iOneDigitalArtContest or www.ione2u.com/contest.

· The entry will be judged on two factors; creativity & skill level of computer-based image manipulation software.

How to enter the contest
· Contestants must come personally to any of the listed iOne outlets to register themselves by filling up the entry form.

· Qualified contestants will be given a participation code which they must include with their entry when they submit to any of the iOne outlets.

· The closing date for submission is 5 pm, 30th September 2010. All submissions of entry form after this dateline is automatically disqualified.

· Contestants must submit personally, to any of the participating outlets, their entry in the following format.;

o A4 envelop with their name and registration code written in the front containing:

- A4 color print of their artwork

- A jpeg file A3 size /300 dpi format burnt on a CD or DVD

· The judges will decide on the winning entry and winner list shall be published in Raksmey Kampuchea Daily & Koh Santepheap Daily newspapers in Cambodia on the 19th of October 2010. Prize Ceremony will be conducted on 22nd October 2010, 2:00PM @ iOne Canadia, Canadia Tower.

· Judges consist of panel from iOne Co., Ltd. and media representatives. Shortlisted entries will be published on www.ione2u.com/contest or Facebook: www.facebook.com/iOneDigitalArtContest. and comments/feedback from fans/viewers of Facebook shall be taken into account in determining the winning entry.

Rules & Regulations
· Only students from high schools and universities in Cambodia are eligible to enter the contest. They can be from either public or private schools.

· Students must bring along a copy of their school Identity card when they register themselves.

· All entries that do not follow the basic entry requirements will be automatically disqualified.

· All submissions must be strictly original artwork created by the registered participants themselves. The judges reserve the right to request shortlisted candidates to prove originality and authenticity of their work through on the spot demonstration if they are selected. Shortlisted candidates who fail to reproduce/demonstrate their work as prove of authenticity will be automatically disqualified.

· Each contestant is only allowed to submit one entry only.

· Judges decision on the winners will be final and will not entertain any claims of submission or correspondence.

· By entering and submitting artwork for the contest; contestants automatically agree to allow iOne Co., Ltd. to use their artworks in any form, both printed and electronic in any reproduction and in any period of time.

· Contestants who submit artwork with copyright protected images will be automatically disqualified. Submissions, which depict politically or culturally sensitive messages, pornography, showing other commercial logos.

· Families & relatives of iOne’s staff are prohibited from participating in the contest.

Where: Prize Ceremony will be conducted on 22nd October 2010, 2:00PM @ iOne Canadia, Canadia Tower.
When: Sunday at 00:00 – 30 September 2010 at 17:00

The last chance to see the CSP before France, before September, before the return of the Space Commander. Note Khmer-friendly start time of 7.30 pm – bring your Khmer friends to hear the old Ros Serey Sothea and Pen Ron songs sung like the old times!

Where: Equinox, St 278, Phnom Penh
When: When: July 31st, 2010 – 19:30 – 23:30

Free of Charge, given by our Singaporean partner, topic: Activities you can do with your child to enhance his Literacy, Maths, Science and other developmental areas. Call now to book the limited place at Sovana Mall. The event is on the ground floor of Sovana on July 31st.

Bring to you by Cambridge Child Development Centre, franchised from Singapore.

Where: Sovana Mall, Phnom Penh
When: July 31st, 2010 · 02:00 – 05:00

Come shrug goodbye, and witness drama of who will win Patrick Falby’s Vespa. One raffle ticket for $2, three for $5. (Please, no jokes asking whether the kid comes with it).

Patrick Falby is a foreign correspondent with global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), who is leaving Cambodia after some years in the Kingdom. Details of who’s going here.

Where: Magnolia Restaurant, 55, St Pasteur (51) at corner of 242, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Time: Friday, July 30th, 2010 · 18:00 – 22:00

Sa Sa Art Gallery is honored to present the duet Farmers & Freshies, an exhibition of portraiture by two of Cambodia’s young emerging artists Nov Cheanick (1989) and Ouk Sochivy (1986).

In Cambodia, portraits are commonly commissioned by people seeking their representative likeness, or even an enhancement or perfection of their likeness. “Realism” is the expected and respected result, whether in the form of photography or painting. Nov Cheanick’s Farmers and Ouk Sochivy’s Freshies offer a dramatically different take on the purpose and potential diversity of portraiture. The artist’s similarities begin and end with their practice of painting uncommissioned, anonymous portraits as a means of personal expression. It is their differences however – both in artistic gesture and their choice of representative community – that stimulate a synergetic conversation beyond art and towards contemporary Cambodian society.

Nov grew up in rural Battambang province, where he lives today, and where he finds the subjects for his paintings: subsistent rice farmers, both men and women, young and old. Ouk is an urbanite. Born, raised, and living in Phnom Penh, her subjects depict a new identity in the Khmer culture: Freshies – the winners and followers of increasingly common beauty and talent contests for youth.
Nov differentiates himself from his subjects – his outlook of a bright future is connected to having finished high school and continuing his art education, while he connects the farmer’s struggle and poverty in part to their absence of formal education. It is not only a lack of education of course that sidelines farmers from their once respected position in Khmer society and culture. Although they remain one of Cambodia’s most valuable populations and resources today, they struggle from loose and changing law and land titles, land grabbing, rarity of irrigation systems or machinery or storage, and an expanding national economy that lures them to urban areas, to name but a few circumstances.

Like the farmer’s precarious, nature-dependent livelihoods, Nov’s process is also mercurial. He considers his black ink paintings on paper an emotional process -the reactive moment when the water and ink meet is a metaphor for our reaction to unpredictable circumstances in life. Removing his subjects from their original context and titling them by number only further extends this metaphor to the audience – as we “meet” these blurred and anonymous faces, we can only meet our own associations and emotions.

Although Ouk’s subjects are also unnamed, she identifies closely with the community she paints. The Freshie Boys and Girls contest was first sponsored by a telephone company a decade ago and has since contributed to a new breed of Cambodian youth modeled after the contest categories: beauty and fashion sense inspired by globalised trends from neighboring Asian metropolises like Hong Kong and Seoul, interpersonal skills, formal education, and performing or artistic skills.

Ouk’s process is not only that of a painter, but equally a stylist. She pairs elements from magazines, snapshots, and often her own details as she decides what backdrop, clothing and accessories, hair-style, make-up, and pose her characters will take. The resulting flat, colorful oil paintings on canvas recall both playful, child-like renderings of stylish grown-ups while they offer a window to the new role model of many Cambodian youth today.

Sa Sa Art Gallery #7, St 360, Phnom Penh • 097 7320 555 • www.sasaart.info

Artist profiles:
NOV Cheanick
Born: 1989, Battambang
Lives and works: Battambang
Group Exhibitions
2009
Cambodia: The Memory Workshop
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre
Phnom Penh

OUK Sochivy
Born: 1984, Phnom Penh
Lives and works: Phnom Penh
Solo Exhibitions
2009
To Be Continued
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre
Phnom Penh
Group Exhibitions
2009
Forever Until Now: Contemporary Art from
Cambodia
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

10 years of quicky color comics. Free booze. Artist talk August 24. (Preview @ Chaktomuk Aug 07 – 11.)

When: 18 August · 18:00 – 21:00
Where: Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Female Burmese artist Khin Zaw Latt (born 1980) won the first prize at Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards 2008.

After several exhibitions in her home country and residencies in India, Nepal and Malaysia, we are proud to host Khin Zaw Latt’s first exhibition in Cambodia.

After the opening be our guest in our cinema for THE BURMESE HARP by Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 116mins, 1956). This film, magnificently shot in black and white, remains one of Japanese cinema’s most overwhelming antiwar statements.

We are following the actions of a young Japanese officer separated from his battalion in Burma and his silence transformation from warrior to Buddhist monk.

Where: New Meta House – Cambodian German Cultural Center, #37 Sothearos Blvd. opposite of Buildbright / Phnom Penh centre
When: Wednesday Jul. 28, 18:00

The New Zealand Herald News has it. Tashi Wheeler, a former commissioning editor with Lonely Planet, writes:

Siem Reap is a gorgeous town to spend time in, but sight-wise it really is all about Angkor Wat. Heading out in a boat to some of the further-flung temples such as Banteay Srei and the river of a thousand lingas at Kbal Spean will take you out of Siem Reap. Although there isn’t much in the way of village life around there.

A Bostonian blogger has a review on film documentary Enemies of the People.

I want to recommend the film for a few specific reasons. First, the documentary was made by a Cambodian about a Cambodian. Too many documentaries about atrocities in the developing world feature a white foreigner showing up to Find Truth and Bring Justice (cough ahem cough). This one is different though – although a foreigner contributed to the filming and production, the story is entirely told by Sambat.

Enemies of the People trailer

The award-winning documentary Enemies of the People will be showing at Meta House’s new location on Sothearos Blvd this week.

Screenings are scheduled for 6:30 and 8:30 PM on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with filmmakers Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath in attendance to take questions.

“One of the most GRIPPING and MOVING film I’ve seen. STUNNING,” says Andrew Marr, BBC Radio.

Blogger Steve Goodman writes “Bernie Krisher is a first-class jerk (in my opinion). He’s the publisher of the Cambodia Daily and the chairman of the board of Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.”

Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is an American managed hospital that trains doctors and provides free healthcare for many poor and disadvantaged Cambodians and for employees of the Cambodia Daily newspaper that is published by the hospital’s board chairman, Bernard Krisher.

The hospital does a lot of good work, but it has some very serious problems, chief among them (in my experience).