Photos from Korea :D!

about 100 new pictures, 5 new sets in my flickr stream!

>Pictures of my Korean House<

it’s around 70 years old now. Garden infested with weeds, spiders, stray cats…has it all.

>YeonHeeDong<

a small town where I grew up with lots of wires hanging in the air and new constructions eating up small houses

>Yonsei Park<

a park/ hiking area inside a university campus

>Hong Dae<

an artsy fartsy neighborhood in Korea

>InSaDong<

a street infested with old traditional Korean things

Greetings~from Korea

Granny

second day in Korea, visited my grandma & my aunt whom I haven’t seen for two years.:)))))

my brother with a face

granma was a very prettay lady

with my cousins & siblings when we were puny

Gruyère, Switzerland

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Travel photo numero uno. I’m at the JFK airport, with my labtop testing the integrated webcam. It’s surprisingly difficult to use a labtop in JFK. There are almost no outlets you can use. I found one by the window. You can see my flight behind me!:) I rode on that tiny Swiss air plane. Also, there is no free wifi as far as I’ve observed. Yes. I paid for the wifi, because I had two hours to kill.

Oh, I was happy to see a big Alexander Calder mobile by the terminal 4 check in area. Didn’t know we had that.

Summer

I am packing! I shall pack until the morning, then go take care of some stuff at school, leave to the airport by 3 pm, get on plane, fall asleep and wake up in Geneva!

Hopefully, I don’t fall asleep before 3pm. I have fallen asleep & missed a flight before, so I am kind of worried. I DID miss my final exam for my history class last Friday…(haha, passed the class without the final! sweeeet)

So maybe I should sleep afterall, but then I’ll never have enough time to pack everything & check everything. If only I had the ability to fall asleep and wake up before noon.

Anywaysss, expect pictures from Switzerland, Korea & Europe for the next two months, happy summer, oh joy you’re finally here.

Coney Island, 6/28/09

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Passing Time

(frog: Nat Geo April 09)

5am, thinking…

Today, I read something by David Smith regarding materials and eventually using them.

This is a direct quote from Theoris of Modern Art by H. B. Chipp:

“I cannot conceive a work and buy material for it. I can find or discover a part. To buy new material – I need a truckload before I can work on one. To look at it every day – to let it soften 0 to let it break up in segments, planes, lines, etc. – wrap itself in hazy shapes. Nothing is so impersonal, hard and cold as straight rolling-mill stock. If it is standing or kicking around, it becomes personal and fits into visionary use. With possession and acquaintance, a fluidity develops which was not there the day it was unloaded from Ryerson’s truck…” (David Smith)

I find this true. I have a habit of picking stuff up or buying materials that I don’t need. There are stuff in my closet that I don’t know why I have. Like that brass pipe I couldn’t resist buying at Home Depot or those nuts and screws I collected out of a broken printer. A bundle of strings that I never use for sewing purposes…fake styrofoam acorns…wires…wood blocks…all of it would horrify my mom. Although I only occasionally do this now, I used to pick through trash cans and keep whatever looks a bit odd or obscure. I kept them in places where my mom wouldn’t find them. Then, after awhile after obtaining such objects, you get familiar with it. Only then can you mold it around in your head and really use its potentials. It’s kind of similar with ideas or visual imageries when you paint. I take joy in discovering new objects and dissecting it visually, but I cannot manipulate such forms freely without having spent some time with it. When something, material or idea, becomes familiar to me, when I develop some acquaintance to it, I can then work with it, not just use it. This got me to thinking, maybe I shouldn’t clean up my room? Maybe I should have stuff lying around my room so I can make friends with them. I even got to thinking maybe I should cover my bed with canvas and sleep on it. This might give me some rashes though…Regardless, I now have another excuse I can give my mom about my room. I am personalizing these things, that’s all.

I stumped my toe a couple of hours ago and I rolled it up in toilet paper because it was bleeding alot. Now I’m afraid to unravel it and find a zombie toe…

Caught on camera!

finally! I got you eyebrow cat! Why must you frown at me all the timess??!!

Photos from a sunny Sunday

I went to the South Street Seaport in Manhattan last Sunday. The weather was gorgeous.

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