Sunday, July 25, 2010

hongdae | heat

had an afternoon of walking with desma a new teacher at LCI. she wanted to see a little bit of hongdae and i happened to be going there for the open art fair anyways.

what was most interesting was walking into the festival there. i had no recollection of hearing about the seoul international  'create and art park' festival. it involved suspended dancing, world/prog music, belly dancing, interpretive dancing and some live body painting. really very interesting to walk in on.

it would be hard to actually re-tell how this day went. i just remember walking around hazily because of the heat. it was almost as if i drifted through this entire day:



one of the big inner-road crossings of hongdae
around this point you need to ask yourself what kinda of drink you need, the answer should always be... one that's in a pouch sir.
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 while enjoying your pouch drink, feel free to walk anywhere through the artists markets on the weekends and observe the latest trendz


 in the evening catch some suspended dancing-lazer show extravaganza


 some suspended Yoga


what progressive art fest wouldn't have a prog-rock line-up along with performance pieces

and what would the whole thing be if you didn't have an interpretive dance while being body painted?

and get washed clean by water

and then we saw "it" just as we were walking to the subway. not as extravagant as i was hoping given its name, but korea is a very conservative country. we were shocked to even find this.

unfortunately our side visit to condomania cost us a subway ride (doh!) so we had to finagle the bus system. congrats to me for being able to read hangul and get us home without having to pay for a 30,000W taxi.


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