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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Told you they’d be worth the wait. : )

More pictures and a much-belated post soon…

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Painfully early this morning, we hopped a ferry across the Korea Strait to Fukuoka, Japan. My eyes were only open for half the trip or so, but man was it ever worth it.
Seeing as how we’ve only got 27 or so hours in Japan, we didn’t do much research, but thanks to Hollywood our […]

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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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