Author Archives: Boon.Vong
Lao Roots
Check out my work in Lao Roots Magazine. Based out of San Diego, CA, they provide articles on all sorts of Lao things. Betcha didn’t know there are Lao actors, Lao fashion designers, Lao skateboarders, and oh yeah, Lao artists…:)….REPRAZENT!
Continue readingPhotos: Sugar Bowl – Hawaii vs Georgia
Nice to see the streetcar running in NOLA again. The Hawaii fans had such a huge showing that they could have won the game on spirit alone. When it came to cheering, the Hawaii Warrior dance team really had some moves. Even when the game was well out of reach at 41-3 in favor of UGA, the […]
Continue readingArt: Figure Drawing
Kate 1 (20 minute figure study) 18×24″ Charcoal on Canson Figure drawing from life is a nice change from the way I’m currently creating art, and it’s definitely different from my photography. Walk into any event featuring photographers, and you’ll have others asking you what camera or lens you use, perhaps trying to find a correlation between gear and […]
Continue readingPhotos: Import Fashion – 2007
Drove all the way to Raleigh to hang out at an Import Fashion event. 6 hour drive, but I really like road trips. Gives me time to think (…yes i think too much…) and listen to music. Sorry there aren’t too many photos of the cars, it was ridiculously cold outside. Be sure to check […]
Continue readingPhotos: Alexandra Bounxouei
Got a chance to see Alexandra Bounxouei when she performed in Murfreesboro (Nashville), TN this past weekend. Seems like pages always have to mention it, but she’s Bulgarian/Lao, and is quite popular at the moment. She sings quite well, plays the violin, speaks alot of languages, and also stars in a Thai television show. And seeing how […]
Continue readingArt in progress: Refugees 2
The last piece for Brush Gallery. Don’t know the direction I want to take the final CG composition, but the drawing portion took too long to finish, or rather come to a stopping point. I started the heads before I got sick, it got left empty for awhile, and I spent all of today rendering the rest […]
Continue readingArt: Dancers 2
Update: This drawing took an awful long time to color. I’m hoping that it looks okay when printed out in large format. The title is Dancers 2, but the subject matter features just a few costumes of the many different cultures in the small country of Laos. The second piece for Brush Gallery. Kinda lost my momentum when I got […]
Continue readingArt in progress: Monks 3
Sorry for the lack of updates, still recovering from chickenpox, of all things…that and the usual stuff. This is a preview of one of the art pieces for a gallery in Lowell, MA.
Continue readingPhotos: Speedlight in a Softbox
Learned a thing or two in Miami and got a chance to try it out with my own setup. Thanks to others on the web, it’s quite easy to shoot using a remote speedlight (a flash) in a softbox. Now granted, these shots will never compete for any covers anytime soon, but I think it’s so cool that the technology […]
Continue readingLao Art
What does it mean to be a Lao artist? I don’t know, but I did put some of my random Lao themed artwork in this portfolio: Like I’ve already expressed, growing up Lao in America, you get the best of both cultures. There’s the graceful dances, food, a second language, and the respect you […]
Continue readingPhotos: Boston
…………You know…………there’s more to me than drawings and photos of pretty girls………… I had a chance to finally view Jack Silberman’s very moving film on unexploded bombs in Laos. The film is called Bombies, and everyone should really check it out. What’s that information doing on my page, a journal that supposedly only focuses on my random […]
Continue readingPhotos: Miami
Miami was a fun but really expensive city. Went down there and saw how a professional photographer shot in an environment just made for photos. I was actually more amazed at his story, a model in the 1980’s, turned house music DJ, to photographer. The photos that I took (leeched) off the side should hopefully […]
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