Han River in Seoul
It is a happy picture with a bit of feeling of mystery but it still kind of reminds me of the The Scream by Edvard Munch due to to the rendition of the sky.
Seoul to Kuwait via Dubai
Well my bag, the green one made it onto the plain in Dubai for the final let into Kuwait. Then we waited as there was a problem with the air conditioning on the Kuwait Airways plan. An hour and a half late we took off. And the Kuwait to Dubai flight last week there was also a problem on the Kuwait Airways plane that they had to fix, which delayed us an hour and our bags didn’t make the connection to the Emirates flight to Seoul.
Then it is time to fly into Kuwait.
Apparently the last week it has been sunny in Kuwait and it is only today that it is dusty.
We didn’t dock at a gateway, we had to board a bus to the terminal. Same in Dubai, as there is so much construction going on.
Wireless Coffee Ready Indicator
Friday, August 01, 2008 6:31:46 PM There are zillions of Coffee Bean & Tea Leafs in Seoul. More than Starbucks. And they are not cheap, costing even a bit more than in Kuwait, if you ever thought that possible. This gizmo vibrates and flashes when the order is ready to tell you to go up to get it.
Amateur Music Performance in Insadong
Cute! On the street at the same place I saw the other performances on the weekend. It is kind of like an open mike corner!
Mobile Chicken Delivery
The chickens are moving on the rotisserie. I don’t know if they are still cooking though!
Weekend Performance
Note: Turn your sound level down as the sound in the video is loud.
On Sunday afternoon while walking about I heard drums and came upon this music performanc followed by a play and some music. Fun and entertaining. All in Korean though.
Walk along the river
I took a nice walk along the river last night and took a few photos. Here are some experiments with HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography which blends multiple exposures to get more range of shadows and highlights and can be done subtly or overdone as I did here for effect. The different software gives different looks. The blurring of the person is because they were moving. A bunch of Photoshop work could take that out. And as far as the composition goes, promising but not super I think. It was a fairly random selection of the photos I took. They were shot hand held and auto aligned with the software to see how well it does.
For comparison:
and:
Finally a Sunny Afternoon in Seoul
From Wikipedia:
The DLI (Daehan Life Insurance) 63 Building (63 빌딩 or 육삼 빌딩) is a skyscraper on Yeouido Island, overlooking the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. At 249 meters (817 feet) high, it is the 3rd tallest building in South Korea, the 132nd tallest building worldwide, and is a Korean icon among skyscrapers. 63 refers to the building’s 63 official stories, of which only 60 are above ground level. The top floor nevertheless is considered the 63rd floor. Construction was completed in 1985. At that time, the 63 Building was the tallest building in Asia; it lost this title to the OUB Centre one year later, but remained the tallest building in South Korea until Mok-dong Hyperion I, Tower A surpassed it in 2002.[1]
The lower floors house a large shopping area with approximately 90 stores, an Imax Theater, and an aquarium. A convention center and banquet hall are also housed within the building. The observation deck (known as 63 Golden Tower) on the top floor is a popular place to go to see a good view of Seoul. Special observation elevators are also available; they are equipped with windows to enable their passengers to view the city as they ride up to (or down from) the observation deck. As of August 1, 2005, though, renovations have temporarily closed the 1st Basement floor, meaning that the aquarium and theater are temporarily closed. The observation deck remains open, though through a different entrance than usual.[2][3][4]
The 63 Building was featured as a landmark in the computer games SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4, and featured on the cover of SimCity 3000 Unlimited.
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