field trip to nam june paik art center lead to a nighttime walk along the han river from one family mart to the next, carrying a boom box playing extinct korean bird noises from the 1980s and seting off fireworks.
met another artist that is trying to launch his own satellite into the atmosphere--as a controllable shooting star. i would like to see everyone looking up at once.
i went to sit and of course picked the broken chair and someone said "so you are going to be that person that holds up the broken chair all night." so one day, i think i will.
seoul was hazy
and hot today. it's buddha's birthday.
the other day when i went exploring dongdaemun market i stopped at a paris croissant cafe and managed to order a coffee-shaved-ice thing as large as my head.
ufo pastries, bread with a very long hotdog inside.
you can buy wonderful fireworks here in 7-11 that shoot out a burst of light every few seconds before they die. i need to go get some more.
there are lots of tiny areas of land that are used to grow food. land next to the highways, in between roads.
the market is an amazing place. here in the grocery stores there are people shouting and shouting--like this talking watermelon truck, and at the markets men are carrying huge loads on their backs--or loaded onto motorcycles--they move around huge amounts of material at once. this place is so full of objects.
there are alos elections going on. i got off a bus somewhere and there was a long line of people in blue suits wearing white gloves and sashes with the candidate's face in it.
i heard the current mayor swam across the river to prove the water was safe.
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