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Laos Essential Artistry Posting Page
Thursday, August 20, 2009
 This post is serving two purposes. First, for the last week or so it's been very difficult to upload photos to a post, something about the ftp process. What normally should take a second or two, now takes a minute, maybe more, or not even at all. And when everything goes well (transparently) you don't think about what happens if there is a problem, but what boggles the mind with Google, is that there is no one you can contact for help or support. There is a forum where many people have registered their problems with uploading photos to a blogger blog on their own sites, but no response from Google. Makes one feel helpless and don't you think Google should have the resoures to both respond, and fix the problem??? So, anyways, this image took about a minute to upload and what it represents is an idea we're working on at Laos Essential Artistry to start a "Sinhs Across America" movement, or at least recognize Lao women who wear sinhs in public. Not just to temple, but going to work, or to a restaurant or shopping. And we will be actively soliciting photos from women across the United States showing them wearing sinhs out in public. People can remain anonymous, but we want at a minimum the location of where the photo was taken and then we'll place it on a Flickr map that will be accessible to anyone. And then you can click on one of the dots you see and you'll see a photo of sinhs being warn and then if descriptions are given we'll include those. We're doing this because we've found there are a lot of Lao women interested in buying sinhs, especially for wedding/formal events and in communicating with our customers we've found that in some cities Lao women are proud to wear sinhs in public, whereas in a city like Sacramento where we live, Lao women never wear sinhs out in public besides going to one of the two wats we have here in Sacramento. We've talked to many Lao women here in Sacramento and they feel the sinh makes them look "old fashioned," or like a newcomer to America. But you have to wonder why that is because for other ethnic groups like Indians, the women seem so proud to wear their sarees, but for many Lao women it makes them feel self-conscious to wear sinh. We would like to help change that. So the photo of the map you see, is just a static example that we haven't yet linked to our Flickr map (that looks just the same) because we want to get at least a few photos sent to us first by some of our customers to hopefully serve as a catalyst for other women to want to join our new "Sinhs Across America" movement. by: Laos Essential Artistry 
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