hey darrin...those images are gorgeous... did you intend making pseudo-pilgrimages to buddhist sites when you were in korea?
i was a sucker for such things when i went to japan years back. it was a trip seeing all the things i learned in my asian art history classes before my eyes. like everyone says...i was struck by how 'aesthetic' everything was and the juxtaposition of things...
if anything, i felt like i was in a Hayao Miyazaki film...
TODAI-JI, Nara, Japan - my favorite of the one's Aya and i went to see. it was huge (akin to gothic cathedrals).
Osaka, Nara, Kyoto - a bunch of things from the region i visited.
Yeah - we were interested in hitting some of the more visually dramatic sites of Korea to videotape with the idea of blue screening our characters in later or faking establishment shots.
thanks for the kind words and warm welcome, mr. martin!
your images are really dope...i have the suspicious feeling that being in korea is quite similar to being in japan...all nuclear messes aside, of course.
I don't know. I could make large generalizations like....
There are probably some big people differences. The Japanese are a taller people with an infatuation for technology that probably doubles that of Koreans....and that's saying a lot since every Korean kid has a cell phone that gets 150 cable channels...just kidding (kind of). From things I've read and heard about...the Japanese see the Koreans as inferior and the Koreans are highly suspect of the Japanese. It was only 60 years ago that the Japanese were burning down Korea's national treasures and controlling their people. Attitudes are always left over.
On the day to day there is a lot of getting along...I'm sure.
yes...true...all the deepseeded historical/cultural messes that color all their relationships insidiously rear their ugly heads in many ways...
i often wondered how people felt about me when i was there...being a flip darky in japan, so to speak. i had family members tortured/killed during the war....
on a superficial level, your pics evoke a kind of discovery i felt when i was in japan...gaijins abound...
i was a sucker for such things when i went to japan years back. it was a trip seeing all the things i learned in my asian art history classes before my eyes. like everyone says...i was struck by how 'aesthetic' everything was and the juxtaposition of things...
if anything, i felt like i was in a Hayao Miyazaki film...
TODAI-JI, Nara, Japan - my favorite of the one's Aya and i went to see. it was huge (akin to gothic cathedrals).
Osaka, Nara, Kyoto - a bunch of things from the region i visited.
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Yeah - we were interested in hitting some of the more visually dramatic sites of Korea to videotape with the idea of blue screening our characters in later or faking establishment shots.
Nice pics from Japan - thanks for sharing!
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your images are really dope...i have the suspicious feeling that being in korea is quite similar to being in japan...all nuclear messes aside, of course.
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There are probably some big people differences. The Japanese are a taller people with an infatuation for technology that probably doubles that of Koreans....and that's saying a lot since every Korean kid has a cell phone that gets 150 cable channels...just kidding (kind of). From things I've read and heard about...the Japanese see the Koreans as inferior and the Koreans are highly suspect of the Japanese. It was only 60 years ago that the Japanese were burning down Korea's national treasures and controlling their people. Attitudes are always left over.
On the day to day there is a lot of getting along...I'm sure.
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i often wondered how people felt about me when i was there...being a flip darky in japan, so to speak. i had family members tortured/killed during the war....
on a superficial level, your pics evoke a kind of discovery i felt when i was in japan...gaijins abound...
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