Tuesday.
Ran 30 minutes on upper Banyeo around Baejan-ro. Near the market I found red brick apartments lining narrow back streets and alleys. They resembled Victorian era working class housing in East London. Similar, perhaps, to Jack the Ripper’s old stomping grounds.
Started listening to the audiobook of The Man In The High Castle on youtube.
visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Lane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel
via wikipedia/public domain
one of the pixel cartoons i made as a logo for a line of sandwiches from eldorado market.
pixel animation:
8-bit music.
a pixel bird circles high in the blue sky. we crane down to find eldo dude shirtless, climbing up the rock face of the Bastille. his tummy grumbles. he keeps climbing. his tummy grumbles again. he says “dude, i’m hungry”
he jumps off the rock face, into the forest, he bounces off a ponderosa, a bear, a cougar, then runs down a trail, passing hikers and mtn. bikers. he reaches eldorado corner market, which is painted yellow and purple. a flag flies high. he jumps on it. he brings it down. fireworks flare up over bear peak. he goes into the market.
different pixel sandwiches appear over the mountains.
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the purple and yellow corner market was demolished in 2012.
bastille:
http://www.mountainproject.com/v/the-bastille—n-face/105744723
made with
http://gifmaker.me
pie wang pies.
domingo, enero 25, 2015
eiger nordwand/ north face of the eiger. bernese alps. switzerland.
via wikipedia
eiger. they say its name comes from the word ogre.
the north face wasn’t climbed until 1938. it was first climbed by Heinrich Harrer. the deadly history of the nordwand chronicled in the great book, The White Spider (1959).
one of its stories dramatized in Nordwand (2008):
-beautiful images, colors, textures.
-see when they drop a dead climber inside a sleeping bag and it disappears in the mist.
the north face used to be a deadly climb in the summer because of the avalanches formed at the white spider snow field. now ueli steck climbs it in the winter. in less than 3 hrs. thanks partly to advances in ice climbing equipment and the stability of the ice and the snow in the cold. plus there are very little changes in the weather during a 3 hour period. the unreliable weather, cold temperatures and changes in condition were main concerns for early climbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ueli_Steck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Harrer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Spider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Kurz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Hinterstoisser
Bodies in the ganges. Saraswati, the mythical river that joins at Allahabad. The source of the ganges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30808745?OCID=fbasia
Laos.
semipermanent documentary. korea. similar to this american life.
Hosts Tiffany Needham and Erik Moynihan
The Expant Life
Episode 1: “The Expat Life” from Semipermanent on Vimeo.
Making the grade
Episode 18: “Making the Grade” from Semipermanent on Vimeo.
more at:
vimeo page:
http://vimeo.com/user14591985
i lived next to an abandoned mine in old superior, colorado. the site above the mine had been deemed too unstable for building houses. it had remained empty since Industrial Mine’s closing at the end of WWII. the area was now eerily empty except for white dead trees, mine dumps, decaying brick walls and mounds made by large rodents. signs on the barbwire enclosing the old mining grounds warned of bubonic plague-carrying prairie dogs. this was in 2008 when the great recession was just starting and the price of gold was about to double. around that time i began mining for gold and looking for treasure.
i bought a cheap metal detector and combed my yard for artifacts. thirty minutes after i had started i came upon a concentration of buried metal. i dug a hole. i found burnt newspaper, deformed toys, melted glass and an oval-shaped object. this darkened object was heavy and made of bronze. it was a little smaller than my palm. i ran my thumb over it and felt two embossed letters: US. i figured it was a relic from the civil war or perhaps the american armies posted on the western frontier. it may have belonged to a veteran, a kevin costner-type character. or maybe it was a keepsake from a participant of little bighorn. the artifact, i later learned, was an army issued plate that went on the ammunition cartridge of union riflemen.
why was it burned and buried with household trash? did it belonged to an unfaithful husband that had ran away? was it a painful reminder of a lost love? would i find the remnants of a soldier if i kept digging?
the clues to the mystery were to remain underground. i stopped my excavation when white dust started rising from hole and i suspected a cancer agent. i covered the site and moved on to search for gold in the mountains.
Charles Marion Russell. The Custer Fight. 1903.
