flickering pictures

I know I got back from Asia a month ago, but I’ve finally had a few moments to get my photos together, Photoshop them until they don’t suck, and put them up here for general consumption. Have a look see at the new listings under South Korea and Japan on the photography page.
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As I write this, I’m sitting in one of Pusan’s Internet cafes — or “pishi bangs” — surrounded by twenty-something guys laughing and smoking and blasting the hell out of each other online. We got in this afternoon on the KTX, a blazing fast train something like France’s TGV that can hit 350 km/h. […]

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So it’s been a couple of days since my last post — sorry for that — but all is well and we’re gearing up to head to the port city of Pusan tomorrow morning.
I live in a pretty cosmopolitan city, and as such there are large ethnic and linguistic communities there, but it was pretty […]

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South Korea’s president is not a popular man. He’s not so much George W. Bush unpopular — more like the bastard love child of Joseph Stalin and Richard Nixon unpopular. People here hate him like they hate Mondays, mortgage payments and bumper-to-bumper traffic. And no one seems to know why.

Nevertheless, they’re mad […]

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It was a long, long haul, but it was so worth it.

It took one short flight from Montreal, one busted airplane hydraulics system, a six-hour wait in Detroit, a looong trans-Pacific flight over Manitoba, Yellowknife and Alaska to Tokyo, and a mad scramble through Japanese security to catch a delayed (for our benefit — though […]

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For the next three weeks I’ll be gallivanting around beautiful South Korea — hopefully with a little side trip to Japan — and doing some much-needed backpacking. I likely won’t have Internet access every day, but you can expect occasional updates on where I am and what I’m making of this gorgeous place, as […]

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