...who also happens to be very interested in camouflage. I saw this out the bus window and couldn't resist. I barely had time to click off a shot before the bus took off again.
Related posts: Almost As Soon As I Exited The Subway Station,; Disappearing Trick; Yet Another Vanishing Building; Being Invisible; Another Vanishing Building
EDIT: I've got music playing on the computer, and just now, as I typed "coincidence" in the Labels section, Duran Duran sang "coincidence" in "Ordinary World" :D
The title may be a pathetic attempt at Biblical dignity^, but anyway it's a striking sight.
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It was late afternoon and the warm light of the lowering sun brought out the beauty of the building wonderfully. But getting there meant I first had to run a gantlet of police, all ready in advance for a possible riot as the recent political upheavals had all kinds of protesters/idiots out in force demonstrating for all kinds of causes, some of which had nothing at all to with the government. Fortunately, it was all peaceful and everything was hunky-dory.
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This is an old photo. When I came across it I was fairly certain it must have been posted here -- it's such an obvious candidate; but when I searched under the keyword "heart" just to make sure, it didn't turn up, so I guess it's one of those images that I somehow never got around to posting. So here it is now. And congratulations to whomever painted the heart -- I love you for doing it.
Each neatly ensconced in its own coffin. The empty tomb to the left evidently belongs to a vampire. Ooh..!
A fighter jet folded out of a single sheet of paper after an online instruction video. The video was quite complicated, included some steps that were counter-intuitive and was overall way too fast-paced, and I had to pause it many times so I could follow along. But anyway I finally made it to the end and this was the result. I was totally not expecting it to fly, being so thick and compact and small-winged, not at all like your traditional idea of paper planes -- but you know what, it actually glides. A little. If you throw it real hard. Which is much better anyway than how I'd expected it to perform, which was 'not at all' ^^
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Trying out the newly installed Windows 11 editions of old familiar apps and concluding I'm not so sure about the new versions.
This image is a particular favorite of mine. Not only is the "ray beam" perfectly delineated with hard-looking edges like a laser beam cutting through the mist, but the fortuitous inclusion of an airplane in the shot really makes it seem like some old war footage or maybe a scene from some retro-futuristic dieselpunk science fiction movie (I'm thinking *Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)). The previous post reminded me of it and I wanted to revisit it, but I couldn't remember the posting date, so I looked up a few obvious key words. I was surprised by the negative result, so I searched them again, and again it came up blank. I kept looking up other key words, and eventually I ended up checking the entire archive (that took a while) -- no result!
I had been so certain that this photo would here on this blog somewhere, but the unexpected conclusion is that I never did post it. So here it is at last (with plenty of keywords), "The Searchlight".
I visited SeongSu yesterday. It's known as the "Brooklyn" of Seoul, with lots of old factories and other industrial/commercial buildings converted and gentrified to cafes, galleries and fashion houses largely catering to young people. True to that image, in the central area every lane and alley was filled with well-dressed young crowds (which presented problems for moi, who don't generally like to include people in shots -- I often had to wait long minutes for even a relative lull in the crowd, till I just gave up) merrily chattering away and ambling along to the next hip joint to patronize.
Behind the scenes though, I espied signs of an older community that used to occupy the neighborhood -- it was known as a shoe manufacturing hub of the city. Whether mass-manufactured trainers or expensive hand-crafted boots, there were factories and shops producing them. And squeezed in among the fancy new shops were relicts from those bygone days, having resisted the wave of change -- or been left out of it. And sculptures honoring the old tradition could be found here and there. All in all, it was a somewhat wistful-making trip.
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Yesterday on my way to have dinner I passed by these shoes somebody placed in a schoolyard fence.
Today I happened to pass by the same spot, and yes, they were still there, if somewhat disarranged^
Related post: Errant Wasp
I hadn't eaten all day and as afternoon wore on into evening I felt I "should" eat. So I set out on foot for the restaurant row by the subway station. While on my way there though, my attention was diverted by the sight of the waxing-gibbous Moon, and I took a bunch of shots. And by the time I got to my intended destination I found I wasn't hungry after all. I came back home, had a few cookies and a beer a little while later, and that was it.
Oh, and I tripped and fell on the way back. It was just a "light" fall, and all that happened was bruised knees and a scraped palm, but what the heck, I haven't fallen in many many years. In fact, the last time I remember falling was back in October, 2015, when I fell off my kickboard, faceplanted the sidewalk and broke a tooth.
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