tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218994792011-12-14T18:41:39.256-08:00PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1143437624483867622006-03-26T21:28:00.000-08:002006-03-26T21:33:44.500-08:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Here is a Video Clip Shot This Weekend</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">(by my wife)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">At the end Large Colorful Paper Horses</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">are set on Fire by my sister-in -Law , Houng</span></span><br /><embed controller="true" width="320" height="256" src="http://clips1.vimeo.com/video_files/2006/03/26/vimeo.77830.99ac82.mov" autoplay="false"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-114343762448386762?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1142407362781437312006-03-14T23:21:00.000-08:002006-03-14T23:22:42.793-08:00<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >This Is an offering prayer for a recently dead man..<br />His family sends many things to him,<br />by burning them and wishes him well.<br />The ceremony lasted over 12 hours.<br /></span><br /><embed controller="true" width="320" height="256" src="http://clips1.vimeo.com/video_files/2006/03/15/vimeo.74509.mov" autoplay="false"></embed><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-114240736278143731?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1140358770804750472006-02-19T06:17:00.000-08:002006-02-19T06:19:30.816-08:00<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">At the Ethnology Museum, Hanoi <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"> (shot Feb.17,2006)</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Carved by five Giarai Arap villagers in 1998 from tree trunks using adzes, cutlasses and knives. Carvings are of sexually-explicit men and women and pregnant women to symbolize fertility and birth..after the tomb is completed and a ceremony preformed it is abandoned to “fall to pieces” Here are a few close-up pictures that seem to have an inner life to me.</span><br /><iframe src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?nsid=&text=&amp;tags=Giarai&tag_mode=any&amp;user_id=47362321@N00&firstId=&amp;amp;amp;amp;v=1.6&amp;codeV=1.26" frameborder="0" height="500" scrolling="no" width="500"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-114035877080475047?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1140155148264808792006-02-16T21:45:00.000-08:002006-02-16T21:45:48.296-08:00<h3 class="post-title">Making Wine Vietnam Style</h3><br /> <center> <a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Pkastan-MakingWineVietnamStyle756.mov"> <img src="http://blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Pkastan-MakingWineVietnamStyle482.jpeg" border="0" /> </a></center> <center> <a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Pkastan-MakingWineVietnamStyle756.mov">Watch the video</a> </center><div class="blip_description"><p>At the Wine Shop in Nha Trang </p><p>Preparing The Ingredients..Lizard..Snake<br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-114015514826480879?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1139730138475544732006-02-11T23:42:00.000-08:002006-02-11T23:42:18.480-08:00<h3 class="post-title">Buying Clams from the Source_Vietnam</h3><br /> <center> <a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Pkastan-BuyingClamsFromTheSource_Vietnam548.mov"> <img src="http://blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Pkastan-BuyingClamsFromTheSource_Vietnam869.jpg" border="0" /> </a></center> <center> <a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Pkastan-BuyingClamsFromTheSource_Vietnam548.mov">Watch the video</a> </center><div class="blip_description">Outside Vinh ..Central Vietnam BUYING DINNER<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-113973013847554473?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1139579132532098602006-02-10T05:44:00.000-08:002006-02-10T05:45:32.556-08:00<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">After a Hard Morning of Selling ...</span><br /><iframe width="500" height="500" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?nsid=&text=&tags=sleep&tag_mode=any&user_id=99245003@N00&firstId=&v=1.6&codeV=1.26"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-113957913253209860?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1139295621523329852006-02-06T23:00:00.000-08:002006-02-06T23:00:21.536-08:00An afternoon in a small village near Vinh Phoc ,about 30 Km. from Hanoi..after visiting with some local hosts saw a ceremony to help bring wealth,good luck and fertility ..<br />Also see video below "Wild Time in Vietnam"<br /><iframe src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?nsid=&text=&amp;tags=vinhphoc&tag_mode=any&amp;user_id=99245003@N00&firstId=&amp;v=1.6&amp;codeV=1.26" frameborder="0" height="500" scrolling="no" width="500"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-113929562152332985?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1139150341144753282006-02-05T06:39:00.000-08:002006-03-10T10:13:01.853-08:00<h3 class="post-title">Wild Time In Small Town Vietnam</h3><br /> <center> <a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Pkastan-WildTimeInSmallTownVietnam534.mov"> <img <embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DpAAAALLCbzBMsco0Eu_h_wEXxBdGJlrp9LL8RxjppzK3RI_Kc2_udf74atjPjl0d2bncABOxsAgykOlJz7K2MgmJmcYDMUvY1IBhEvAvlZyD0UikLvLI3hjsl36H9idJYXmgoHR4k6a58vkdni5dbRv_aifrFzHDo1mJeM9DIk_e86zA51F01HSx50cpLsiYOr-ZdGAN5n61GoJaR3qWL3NOmaLvGY5DBWiVLftMK8ELuVZJ%26sigh%3DEqRNlFbjnaoYSPcH9QI2LAsg1Mc%26begin%3D0%26len%3D106505%26docid%3D6297480445758609755&thumbnailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer%3Fcontentid%3Da34e63d831cb0f5e%26second%3D5%26itag%3Dw320%26urlcreated%3D1142014042%26sigh%3DgbAWNWPzPfnTLj8e4P467C1ojNk&playerId=6297480445758609755" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL" FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"> </embed></a> </center><div class="blip_description">Shot February 5 2006.. This is a yearly celebration in a small village near Vinh Phoc in Northern Vietnam..For Good Luck. Shot in the Rain..<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21899479-113915034114475328?l=vbvietnam.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>PETER KASTANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13800063794092829627noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21899479.post-1139041883490223812006-02-04T00:17:00.000-08:002006-02-04T00:35:51.566-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/828/2051/1600/bao_T-shirt1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/828/2051/400/bao_T-shirt1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-size:130%;" >Our New " <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">YES</span> " "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> NO</span> "Tshirt is Ready and for Sale..<br />Be the first on your block to own one !!<br />Created and Hand Printed in Hanoi !!!<br />Front has great grining picture and the<br />words for "yes" and "no " in Vietnamese.<br />On the back is "<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Xin Chao</span>" which means "hello" and "goodbye".<br />Save yourself shipping and pick up the shirt at Vietnamese House<br />when you are in Hanoi.<br />$15 each + Shipping<br />We have Kid sizes<br /></span> </div><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><br /><input name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" type="hidden"><br /><input src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - 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