# chang (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover chang. Page: Feed: --- ## [Little-known mainland beaches: 14 of my favorites in Thailand (Part II)](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/little-known-mainland-beaches-14-600) _2026-08-20 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ The second part in a series sharing some fantastic coastal spots off the tourism radar. ## [Island Wrap #100: A milestone in curating news and other media from Thailand's wonderful islands and coastal areas](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/island-wrap-100-a-milestone-in-curating) _2026-08-06 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ A free monthly spin around the most intriguing and consequential news and other media from Thailand's islands and coastal areas. ## [Little-known mainland beaches: 14 of my favorites in Thailand (Part I)](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/little-known-mainland-beaches-14) _2026-07-23 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ Plunge your feet into the sand and soothe your bones on these sedate beaches lying far beyond the usual foreign tourism radar. ## [Island Wrap #99: Ko Samui wins big in luxury awards, cobras and rough seas in Phuket, removing a ghost net at Ko Kra, and more](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/island-wrap-99-ko-samui-wins-big) _2026-07-01 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ A free monthly spin around the most intriguing and consequential news and other media from Thailand's islands and coastal areas. ## [Ghost resorts and gorgeous beaches in the islands off southeast Ko Chang](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/ghost-resorts-and-gorgeous-beaches) _2026-06-21 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ A local boat trip to some of the small nearby islands makes for one of the more enjoyable day tripping options out of Elephant Island. ## [Island Wrap #98: Visa-free stay reduced from 60 to 30 days, Ko Phangan and Ko Samui boom with foreign investment, Ko Libong rallies to restore its dugong habitat, and more](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/island-wrap-98-visa-free-stay-reduced) _2026-06-04 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ A free monthly spin around the most intriguing and consequential news and other media from Thailand's islands and coastal areas. ## [Ko Lidi: The highlight of an unexpectedly fabulous trip to Pak Bara](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/ko-lidi-the-highlight-of-an-unexpectedly) _2026-05-24 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ Bringing the right attitude and skipping the nearby tourism mainstay revealed a warmth from locals that I'd not yet encountered in this Thai Andaman pier town. ## [On Relationships](https://www.candychang.com/on-rel/) _2026-05-07 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ Share your anxieties, hopes, horrors, and pleasures around relationships in this quick installation I made at the Dublin branch library in metro Columbus, Ohio. Many responses will be included in a permanent public artwork installed in the area next year. This was inspired by the pains of our age, particularly ## [Island Wrap #97: Thailand's fuel crisis deepens, Land Bridge conflicts with World Heritage bid, more 'best beaches' awarded, and more](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/island-wrap-97-thailands-fuel-crisis) _2026-05-05 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ A free monthly spin around the most intriguing and consequential news and other media from Thailand's islands and coastal areas. ## [Ko Racha Yai: Getting to know one of Phuket province's prettiest islands](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/ko-racha-yai-getting-to-know-one) _2026-04-20 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ It's well worth staying overnight to slow down into the natural beauty. ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/V1YYohxaYsR3) _2026-04-20 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Island Wrap #96: Thailand grapples with its 'worst energy crisis in history', and more](https://thaiislandquest.substack.com/p/island-wrap-96-thailand-grapples) _2026-04-05 · David Luekens · Thai Island Quest_ A free monthly spin around the most intriguing and consequential news and other media from Thailand's islands and coastal areas. ## [Midnight Radio: Bodies Without Organs](https://www.candychang.com/midnight-radio-bodies-without-organs/) _2026-02-16 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ I made a Midnight Radio episode with James! I offered some songs for him to mix together in his land of reverb. He asks guests this one question and here's my answer: Do you believe in god or any spiritual dimension to the universe? Yes. Watching Carl Sagan& ## [Humans in a Thousand Years](https://www.candychang.com/humans-in-1-000-years/) _2026-02-15 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ Making Bodies Without Organs "Communities of humans would be separated into a number of regions and isolated from one another completely… The fewer of you there were, the more plantlike you became, and in the end, the majority of the individuals who remained lapsed into dormancy. You know, ## [Manicure](https://www.candychang.com/manicure/) _2026-02-15 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ ## [Bodies Without Organs](https://www.candychang.com/bodies-without-organs/) _2025-12-05 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ “When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.” —Antonin Artaud “This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the ## [Naoshima](https://www.candychang.com/naoshima/) _2025-02-27 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ Momentary collage in the Benesse House Park Lounge on Naoshima island. Postcard of Relatum-Silence by Lee Ufan, green tea wrapper, Naoshima guide fragments, Hiroshi Sugimoto table (glass over Japanese horse chestnut tree). ## [Tokyo](https://www.candychang.com/tokyo/) _2025-02-27 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ Momentary collage in a tea room in Tokyo. Rice cracker wrapper, vintage magazines, wood table. Made to the sounds of James's latest free mix The Red Curtain , an ode to David Lynch and a shadowed slinky space where I do my best thinking. ## [A Time of Babble](https://www.candychang.com/a-time-of-babble/) _2025-02-25 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ "In his book about the future (in this case, now our past), Stanislaw Lem said that from the end of the 1980s, it was shown to be a technical necessity to give the machines periods of rest during which, free from 'programming instructions,' they could fall to ## [Electric Shadows](https://www.candychang.com/electric-shadows/) _2025-02-16 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ I dreamt that James and I were in a sinister world where people were throwing homunculi at me—little men the size of spiders. If I chanted, "This is not real. This is not real..." and focused on mundane details like a bureau of drawers, I could ## [Preposterous But Strangely Compelling](https://www.candychang.com/prepo/) _2025-01-12 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ I watched a British thriller called The Suspect based on a headline describing it as “preposterous but strangely compelling.” It was, and I enjoyed Aidan Turner sustaining intense confusion on his face. The Lazarus Project and The Capture are much better British thrillers, but I started thinking “ ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/b6CkPD2IQcXV) _2025-01-12 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [The Epitaph Series](https://www.candychang.com/epitaph/) _2024-12-01 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ Since ancient times, carving text into clay and stone has been a way to commemorate events, preserve beliefs, and memorialize the dead. In her Epitaph series, Chang applies the same reverence to handwritten reflections from visitors to her installations. Building up extensive layers of paper and gesso on canvas, ## [Ugolino](https://www.candychang.com/ugolino/) _2024-10-16 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ When I feel stress, I think of Ugolino who was locked in a tower with his sons and grandsons, forced to choose between starvation and cannibalism, and then I remember things aren’t so bad.  ## [Deconstruction](https://www.candychang.com/deconstruction/) _2024-10-14 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ If the condo is on fire, I would grab the pouch of handwritten notes: James’s atomic specks, Mom’s balanced strokes, Dad’s whipping cursive. Their souls feel implanted in these lines, whether it's Agong’s thoughts on world religions or Mom’ ## [The Glyph Series](https://www.candychang.com/glyph/) _2024-10-01 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ Mylar, ink, and pencil on canvas 40 x 30 in | 101.6 x 76.2 cm 2023 ## [The Static Series](https://www.candychang.com/static/) _2024-09-24 · Candy Chang · Candy Chang_ The Chinese chop or seal has been used for thousands of years and is still used as an official form of signature. Chang's Static series is informed by the enduring use of seals and the calligraphic discipline of replicating venerated texts as an act of mastery. She creates