it dawned on me

deery-lou.
saturday, november 11 was pepero day. the day in korea where children give each other and their teachers chocolate covered biscuit sticks. and once again i ended up with a desk full of them on friday. even the ddung cafe was getting into the act by having a sale. i stumbled upon their poster one day while walking to work.


unfortunately i didn't make it to the sale. the koreans sure do love their holidays. i actually saw a couple carrying a balloon sculpture that was wrapped around a box of candy while another had giant baskets of candy.

here's how i spent my weekend:
1. the looking for symbolism in nothing show
9 experimental videos/films by artists from america, japan, and korea. the event was put together by a friend of mine, olivia, who also happened to be one of the filmmakers. it was held at stereo underground, which in itself is a pretty cool place. it felt very chill. it reminded me alot of being at the madcat film events in sf. overall the videos/films were pretty good. there were a few that lost my interest quite fast but hey you can't like them all. i hope that olivia plans more events like these. they are definitely needed.

2. westin chosun hotel
somehow through the course of the night i strayed and ended up at the bar in the westin chosun hotel with two koreans. one of which is a police inspector. there was a live band there. well i'm using the term band very loosely. it was actually two women singing cover songs. one of them played the keyboards. they were eastern european. i think maybe from bulgaria or russia. don't know. didn't ask. i tried to click my shoes and wish for home but i guess that only works in the movies. the bar had some beef jerky so it wasn't a total loss.

3.wake up andy warhol
ssamziegil, which is in insadong, has transformed itself into the land of andy warhol. they went all out and covered the entire building in copied warhol art. throughout the complex is some art by warhol and some warhol-style art by korean artist. even the stores got into the act by selling warhol merchandise. apparently there is a basement gallery with some of warhols work but i missed that. oops. i'll get to it next time. check out this article. here's a glimpse of warhol wonderland ssamziegil style.




to see the rest of the images click here.

4. amnesia and memory
amnesia and memory is the current exhibit at artside by chinese artist zhang xiaogang. if you're in insadong you should definitely check it out. the work is quite impressive. it ends on november 20.

5. shopping
bought two more wooden people keychains bringing my total to 4 [i have a plan for them]
a black and white scarf
a long sleeved t-shirt with a warrior on it

6. eating tacos
after my morning arting i headed to gangnam to meet princess. we went to the bookstore then ate burrittos at dos tacos. we got an order of fiesta nachos to share. princess asked for the cheese on the side. when it came out we got a plate of naked chips and then another plate with all of the toppings on the side. hmmmm. there were some real interesting conversations happening in there, too. the best were from two korean-americans who sounded like total frat boys talking about their bitches. i'm so use to koreans speaking korean that its strange to hear them speaking perfect english.

be well…