Comments on: Cooler Than Us: Tibetan Nomads

By: Steph

Steph — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:30:08 +0000

I KNEW you guys would do something on this.

This is amazing.

By: Larissa

Larissa — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:48:20 +0000

“At night, right before bed, we howl into the dark to remind would-be thieves, wolves and local hungry ghosts to stay away from our herds.”

I can relate. Some nights, I do the same thing in my neighborhood. It seems to work quite well.

By: tyhiliet

tyhiliet — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:37:55 +0000

I would so kill for those boots. Thanks for the share . Some point int the near future I Will re visit this page to replicate said boots.

much love

By: Kale Kip

Kale Kip — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:49:18 +0000

Here is the style I was talking about: http://www.axelmenges.de/buch/GypsyArchitecture.pdf

This is what happens when gypsies actually have the money to build big houses. When they don’t, they use their creativity (and an old Lada) to get the job done.

By: Bean

Bean — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:20:56 +0000

I love you guys. <3

By: beesknees

beesknees — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:22:04 +0000

I recently read Namma: A Tibetan Love Story. It gives a fascinating first-hand account of Tibetan life from a Western womans experience.

By: Skerror

Skerror — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:43:25 +0000

@Kale Kip: “They also happened to have stolen my camera, so I can’t upload any pictures. But if anybody on this site has the opportunity, go there!” — That might be the best travel pitch I’ve ever heard :)

This guy looks like he’s about to bitch-slap Luke Skywalker’s hover-car in half.

By: Kale Kip

Kale Kip — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:08:28 +0000

A couple of years ago I was hiking through Bulgaria. Near the North border with Romania and Serbia there’s basically an area where nobody wants to live because there’s hardly a functioning economy. During the Bosnian war 14 years ago, large groups of gypsies fled into that area and managed to establish a sort of permanent residence there, because nobody drove them out.
So what you can see there in the local ghetto’s is a revival of a gypsy culture that has been under permanent attack for centuries.

There’s houses with windows made out of car parts, horses living on top floors while families are living below, half trailers sticking out of houses as balconies, horse carts made of car wrecks, kids rushing down hills on the weirdest constructions made of old bikes and again car parts (Lada is their favorite brand).
Everything is covered in ornamental fringes and filth, the smell of burning plastic is omnipresent and when night falls, some sort of rubbery smog fills the muddy streets. And seriously, these guys make everything out of brass. They also happened to have stolen my camera, so I can’t upload any pictures. But if anybody on this site has the opportunity, go there!

By: Vivacious G

Vivacious G — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:36:45 +0000

Fantastic shot.

By: Ragdoll

Ragdoll — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:14:21 +0000

There were some movies that I have seen lately that remind me of this, such as Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (2004) and Mongol (2007) with Tananobu Asano, where I discovered the beauty of Mongolian Muslim dress.