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Film meeting

October 13, 2015 migueldelosandes

We’re inviting people who would like to come and join us for some coffee and talk about film, experiences working on films and perhaps see about working together. We’re certain that we’re not alone in thinking that we all would like to get to know the work of other local filmmakers, talk to them, learn from them, work with them, and strengthen the community.

Stop by and talk about film, and, more importantly, talk about making films and, even more importantly, make films.

I once read a good book On Film-making and while looking for the secret formula to create a great film, the best advise I found in it was (and I’m paraphrasing here) to put the book down, and go make a film because “work is the only real training”.

We will be hosting film talks/film making every week on Saturday afternoons (unless, that is, we’re making a film). We’ll talk about dramatic construction, experimental films, Godard, Michael Bay, whatevs.

Stop by.

5:00 PM | Starbucks | Geumnyeonsan Stn. 금련산역 at Gwangan Beach.

Directions: Exit 3, Geumnyeonsan Station (on the green line), go towards Gwangan Beach. Starbucks is before Sharky’s.

Miguel DeLA

memoria, photography, viajes

The River under the Harvest Moon

October 12, 2015 migueldelosandes

September 27. Chungju to Sangjubo following the Saejae bike path.

Light patterns on my bed.

Budai in the shade. Danhosa temple, Chungju. Apples along the path. Tigers in the grass. Campers by the river.

Flowers encircled by Korean honeybees.

Crow scarecrows at an orchard.

Crossroads.

Carvings on a rock.

Soju for the deities.

A more humane scarecrow.

Red peppers by the road.

A bike station at Hengchun gyocharo.

The mountain pass at Ihwaryeong.

Fishing near Mungyeong Buljeong Station.

Tree and rice paddies.

Waterways.

A more reflective scarecrow.

I near the end of the Saejae bike path. I meet the Nakdong as the Harvest Moon slowly begins to rise in the east.

The Nakdong under the Chuseok moon.

I reach the final weir of my second day at Sangju, eleven kilometers into the Nakdong river bike path and about one hundred kilometers from Chungju.

I meet Elly in Sangju city for pizza and wine, an assortment of snacky snacks.

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The Durian

October 11, 2015 migueldelosandes

I would rather drink a gallon of garlic juice before trying a durian smoothie again.

architecture, memoria, viajes

Largo do Senado

October 10, 2015 migueldelosandes

St. Dominic’s Church

memoria, viajes

Pearl River Delta

October 9, 2015 migueldelosandes

Night view of Av. Almedia Ribeiro from Sofitel.

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Macau

October 8, 2015 migueldelosandes

Photo by Elly. October 2015.

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Saint Andrew of Korea

October 7, 2015 migueldelosandes

A magnetic bracelet with the image of Saint Andrea

Saint Kim Taegon Andrea (1821-1846) was the first Korean-born Catholic priest in Korea and lived in a time when Christians were being persecuted in the region. Kim attended seminar in Macau and studied in the Philippines. He was ordained in Shanghai in 1844. He was beheaded in the Kingdom of Joseon (1392-1897) by the Han River in 1846. Saint Kim Taegon Andrea was canonized in 1984 and is the patron saint of Korea. (wikipedia).

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Cities on the Han

October 6, 2015 migueldelosandes

Saturday, September 26. Seoul to Chunju along the Namhangang bike path.

I take the night Mugunghwa train to Seoul. I arrive at 4:30 am and begin biking south towards the Han. I pass the high walls of the American military base, and the Dragon Hill neighborhood.

I reach the river sometime after 5am.

A Haetae 獬豸near Hangang Bridge.
As I cross the bridge, I hear a siren and look back. A small convoy of emergency vehicles enter the bridge behind me. They drive slowly. I dismount my bike and walk to the edge of the bridge. The water below is an empty field of darkness framed by a constellation of hovering window lights kept on by an army of hardworking Koreans.
From around an island, an emergency response speedboat floats quickly in my direction. It scans the water with a searchlight. They seem to be looking for someone.
I travel east. The sun begins to uncover the city.
Twenty seven bridges cross the Han in Seoul.
Up ahead the unfinished Lotte World Tower rises in the morning haze.
Kilometers beyond the capital, camouflaged creatures meet me at the banks of the Han.
A city on the Han.
Gun emplacements guarding the waterway against possible northern aggression.

Lunch time. A cat and bikers outside a cafe near Paldang Bridge 八堂大橋.
Plenty of small roadkill along the path.
Railroad tunnels turned into bike tunnels.
Camels in the Korean wilderness.
Nationalist trees.
Trees with tiny purple pumpkins.
Jangseung 長承 and Sotdae at Ipobo weir.