Yearly Archives: 2008

The View From My Apartment

180 degree view from the balcony of my apartment.  You can see Yongsan Train Station and iPark Mall on the right.  Right behind that you can see the gold 69 Building (supposedly the tallest building in Seoul).  I love Photoshop… it lets me shoot panos without having to spend $800 on a super wide-angle lens....

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Kor-many or Germ-rea?

Take 1 part German Food (read: mystery meat sausages) and 1 part Korean Food (read: fried rice with Spam like meat) and voila… you have “German” Food in Korea. Tasty, but W-E-I-R-D. Please note: those “carrots” in the fried rice are not vegetables.  That’s the Spam-like meat.  SCARY.

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A Nice Change of Pace

Even the most dedicated of photographers will get sick of shooting Kimchi eventually.  So it was definitely nice to be able to photograph a subject that A) wasn’t fermented in red chili paste and B) could understand the words that were coming out of my mouth.  Here’s my friend Rob’s daughter.  Oooh, mysterious… (And no,...

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This One’s For Jamoo!!

I don’t know what she see’s in this Tae-Yang guy.  Looks like an a$$-clown to me.  Oh well… as captured in Myeongdong at the FUBU store. Edit: Okay, so it turns out it’s not Tae-Yang… it’s some dude named Crown J.  He still looks like a clown though.

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A Fortress…

Yes, banks should look and feel safe.  Too bad I can’t say the same for my Roth IRA.  Good thing I only have 30+ more years to work and save!!

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