I've not the faintest idea what this is -- or used to be -- but I found it to be oddly beautiful.
It's tantalizingly almost-reminiscent of some things. What is it they remind me of? Slabs of meat? Some amorphous deep sea monster floating in the quiet waters of the Mariana Trench? Plastinated human carcases in those "Mysteries of the body" exhibits (visiting one of them kept me from eating meat for days afterward)?
I'd like to say "a perfectly-timed" shot, but of course luck plays a not-insignificant role in these. The eye is way faster than the camera. The smart phone camera, anyway.
Some impressive foliage in and around DeokSuGung, one of the smallest of the five Joseon dynasty palaces in Seoul. To think that I used to walk down that path by the stone wall all the time all those years ago, when as a child I attended DeokSu Elementary School (named after the palace) before immigrating to the US..!
Just as I found them.
It's true -- the universe does organize itself!
Taken at 3:42 PM on November 5, 2026, local time.
An image of two unrelated boundaries spontaneously matching up; building and sky, and sunlight and shadow -- an example of the universe organizing by itself, which stands in direct opposition to the accepted opinion on entropy (that the degree of overall disorder in the universe can only increase, because any initial state of order and complexity in any system in the universe can only wear down and become randomized over time).
But I guess it could also be seen as support for the conventional view, as it makes disparate elements like the edge of a building and a shadow on trees line up so that they can be described with a single line, which is not unlike simplifying a fraction, like, say, from 216786/325179 to 2/3.
Never drink and internet, I always say.
This is my keyboard.
It's English/Korean convertible. Or should I maybe say, QWERTY-to-KaNaDa convertible. Roman alphabet characters at the upper left corner of each key, the Hangeul/한글 characters at the lower right corner. You switch between languages by pressing the "alt" key.
I learned to type in middle school typing class all those years ago (do they still have those? it's been a long ride since then). And once I mastered typing in English, I found myself automatically transliterating Korean words and sentences into English spelling and mentally typing them out in my head, using a personal system which I now know to be close to the Revised Romanization system for Korean-to-English transliteration, rather than the McCune-Reischauer system (although now I personally am of the opinion that the MR system is actually the superior of the two). For example "사랑해요", or "I love you", would be spelled out as "sa-rang-hae-yo". Mind you, I was doing this in my head constantly. I came to be pretty good at this mental trick, but maybe a little too good -- now and then I would find myself mixing up the two languages and hitting the wrong keys here and there. Which was a bit annoying but not really serious. Fast forward a few decades, I move to Korea and have to learn to type Korean in earnest. Actual Korean language sentences using the Hangeul alphabet, not Roman alphabet characters like I used to do; it's entirely different from the Qwerty system and all the muscle memory I'd built up for English words is now confusing me! And although I'm still not all that proficient at typing in Korean, I now find myself mixing up three entirely different ways to type two entirely different languages. If I were to spell out "I love you" the English way using the Korean keyboard, it would come out like this: ㅑㅣㅐㅍㄷ ㅛㅐㅕ, which is gobbledygook in both languages. Does anything like this happen to other people who are bi- or multilingual? I'm curious to know.
I can't believe this wonderful image from the past summer was overlooked. Correcting that mistake now.
Again, in the HongDae neighborhood. Compared to the last time I checked out the scene (2024 -- check the sidebar or the labels below for the keyword), this time it looked to me like there was way less gore and more games and anime. No zombies at all that I saw (unless the girl in #3 and #4 is playing a "seductive zombie"... does her makeup look sort of deadite-ish?). I found myself wishing there were more horror and darkness themes -- there were some, but many of them passed by quickly and I didn't get a chance to shoot them in the surging crowd... ah well, at least there were still a bunch of cute girls in scanty attire posing for the crowd.
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