Bali Seminyak Shopping
Sugarcane Blues Memorial to a Vanishing Past: Seminyak, Bali
Out of all the mediums in art my favourite must be those of photographic works and especially those in black and white. I think it is the starkness of the image and the manner of light capture.
Date: July 13th, 2006 |
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Sugarcane Blues: Seminyak, Bali
I adore going to exhibitions and especially those of the photographic medium. There is an excellent one at Rio Helmi Photo Gallery in Seminyak on until the July 17th.
Date: June 16th, 2006 |
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Paul Ropp: Seminyak Bali
Seminyak has a seemingly endless array of clothes shops. They all cater to an international audience looking for trendy, sexy, cool clothing to wear in Bali and also to take home and wear. Bali Style can mean anything, from ultra smart to slob. Waifer thin materials are often used. One of the eye catching places in Paul Ropp, located about 150 meters up from Bintang on Jl. Seminyak.
Date: March 15th, 2006 |
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Upstairs in Bintang supermarket in Seminyak Bali
Living in Seminyak I am lucky to have Bintang supermarket so close. I am some what used to Home Depot and Jerry’s (2 US stores) that sell good stuff and bend over backwards to keep customers. Upstairs in Bintang has all kinds of home repair stuff, hammers, plugs, bulbs, hinges etc. Its cheap stuff, but the cost is low. The Balinese staff are all nice.
Date: February 23rd, 2006 |
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Jl. Kunti: A handy Seminyak street
Jl. Kunti is a handy little street. I have documented a few of the places down there, from clothes, furniture, surf wear, deli, spa, restaurant, art shop. Jl. Kunti connects Jl. Seminyak with the Sunset Rd, which is the fast track to Kuta. If you come back to Bali in 5 years, Jl. Kunti will be entirely developed and the Sunset Rd will probably called ‘Sunset Strip’. With places like Buddha’s Belly opening, the Sunset Rd is ripe for development and the nightlife scene will probably develop there.
Date: February 8th, 2006 |
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Police Raids Crackdown on Pirate DVDs
DVD shops are everywhere in Bali, literally. There always seems to be a new shop opening up every day selling pirated copies of the latest movies and music to suit all tastes, and, tourists are buying up big.
Date: June 28th, 2006 |
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Periplus bookstore : Made’s Warung Seminyak
A great place to shop for Bali books is Periplus bookstore, located inside Made’s Warung Seminyak. Once you get into the garden of the restaurant, you will see Periplus on the right side. The bookstore stocks the hole range of famous Bali books, including, Our Hotel in Bali, Island of Bali, A Patch of Paradise. It flicked through Our Hotel in Bali, by Louise Koke, and was amazed that a book written about 1936 Bali, seemed like it could be about today, with stories and photos of Kuta Beach, building a small hotel out of bamboo and attending Balinese festivals.
Date: May 8th, 2006 |
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Dalle Art Shop: Shells in everything
Just up from Bintang supermarket on Jl. Dhyana Pura in Seminyak is a shop called Dalle Art Shop. In the window they have multi-colored wind chimes, and I stopped in to see what else was going on. The family who owns this are Muslims from Sulawesi. As the sign out front says ‘Special Selling Sea Shell’. A lot of things contained shells, not only the chimes.
Date: March 7th, 2006 |
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Bintang supermarket in Seminyak bali
Bintang supermarket is where Seminyak expats get most of the bare essentials, toilet paper, milk, shampoo etc. They don’t sell bullets, but apart from that, you can get most of what you need in one swoop. There’s a man on the door with a metal detector. Every time I walk through he scans my bag, the thing goes ‘beep’ and he says ‘Okay ya’, waving me through. “Do you want to look in the bag?” I say. Inside staff work under ceiling fans and spned a lot of time sorting and re-stocking shelves. In the west this is dine at night, here they do it during the day.
Date: February 11th, 2006 |
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Alami’s Furniture & Art Shop: Jl. Kunti Seminyak
Alami’s Furniture & Art Shop isn’t one of the fancier places on Jl. Kunti, in Seminyak. Its open to the street, the furniture is sitting there without decoration and the staff seems half interested. The thing I like about Alami’s is they have some decent western style furniture. I looked at a sofa (2,350,000rp) and a big bed (2,850,000rp) which looked cool.
Date: February 7th, 2006 |
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