Bangkok Aerobics


h1 Posted 6 years, 4 months ago late at night by

I am both surprised and delighted that the internet has somehow managed to remain a mostly text-based medium. I hear people complain that children don’t read like they used to, but honestly, because of the internet, kids are reading more than they ever did before. Still, slowly I am beginning to appreciate videos over the internet. Or IPTV as I heard someone call it.

I’ve been using DTV the past few nights to watch Democracy Now! and whatever makes it onto http://del.icio.us/popular/system:media:video. I also really enjoy the little clips that Davo puts on his blog. So here are two clips of outdoor public aerobics in Bangkok from some afternoon when Bobbo, Abo, and I went for a hungover expedition across town last year. In both clips you can just barely make out Bobbo, thumbs tucked cooly under his backpack straps.



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  1. 1elenamary from United States says:

    i know you can’t mean to equate the internet with a book. i love blogs, read a couple hundred blog entries a day…but it is nothing like a good book.

  2. 2Bobbo from United States says:

    man that was one of the funniest experiences of my life. remember we were chilling by that lake/pond and wondering where the techno music was coming from, then all of a sudden we come upon this horde of thais being led on an aerobics adventure by a woman standing on a stage by the front gate of lumphini park. good times, good times.

  3. 3irasali from United States says:

    now if we could only get that trend started with americans, then we might not have an obesity epidemic.

  4. 4Davo from Australia says:

    Kewl!!! I am so glad to see video on this page. The fact is that a blog can be such a quotidian medium and like home movies they can be a recorded progress of one’s adventures. Trips are such a good opportunity to mesh mediums and share experiences. I can’t wait till I videoblog my days in Japan and Mexico these coming holidays. I wonder how I’m going to handle low bandwidth connections in Mexico

    Anyway, Bangkok outdoor aerobics, right???

  5. 5Newley Purnell » Blog Archive » Public Outdoor Aerobics Classes from United States says:

    [...] If the US wants to get serious about public health, perhaps we should take a page out of Bangkok’s book and start offering free outdoor aerobics classes. [...]



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