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One Segment of my Bookshelf
Let me share a small fragment of my life, framed from a shot of a bookshelf in my study.
The drawing is a crosshatch job I did based on a Korean actor playing King Lear. This particular piece got displayed at an exhibit in Jeonju, Korea.
Next to it is a gift I received from a former coworker who had no idea what to give me for a secret Santa gift exchange. Hint: anything edible and chocolate is perfect for me. But I couldn’t tell her that. It’s still a nice coin jar.
Behind these are some books. On the left are some word play books in Korean. Because I love puns and fun drawings, these books are perfect. I should share some of the pages in the future!
Next to them is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in comic book form. But each page is shown twice, once in Korean and the other side in English! I had hoped to use these to help study Korean, but the Korean is all super formal and often antiquated. Meaning it’s not overly helpful for me right now.
*sigh*
But I did read all the English, so I have a decent idea of this Chinese romanticized historical epic. Fun times!
To the right of them are two other comics, V for Vendetta and Watchmen. The latter is overall a better story in my opinion, deconstructing the superhero mythos that we have constructed.
Atop the RotTK are two miscellaneous books, one the Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle, and the other Eerie Tales from Old Korea. The former is a reminder of my midwest upbringing. But it’s also a reminder of the complex and historically unjust relations we have had with the indigenous peoples.
The latter is a book I picked up because it had another dokkaebi story in it. While the other stories are also worth while, I am still interested in compiling as many dokkaebi stories as I can find. I think I’ve found most available in English, so I’m going to have to step up my Korean studies to translate more.
Intermission – Beginnings
I’ve been a bit busy, which is not a good excuse, but it’s also true. That means certain things get put on the back-burner. I should probably try to keep up blogging here with thoughts and ideas, particularly if I want to slowly reorient this blog toward my artwork with a few cultural things on the side.
If you’re not that patient, you can follow me on Instagram or Facebook. I do keep those up much more regularly!
So, for those interested, I got a new job! Which is one of the reasons I’ve been busy. I’ll write about that more another time, mostly once I’ve digested my duties more thoroughly, but for now here is a nice view from the university I’m teaching at.
I friggin’ love the view. But then again, I’m a sucker for green mountains and overlapping buildings.
You can see the Korean President’s house from here!
Testing my vocal chords
Recently, one of my friends and former coworkers asked me to sing at her wedding. So I did! Why anyone would want to ruin a perfectly good wedding with my crooning, I’ll never know, but I enjoy singing, so I couldn’t turn it down.
I often forget how much weight I’ve gained… until I look at myself in photos
I sang Jonathan Coulton’s song, “I’m Your Moon”. Because JoCo is great. Here’s the song, along with an ASL translation to go along with it.
While I’ve been doing those things, I’ve also been working on various projects… at different rates. I’ll post about those tomorrow. I hope.
Until then…
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2015 Imp in Review
Hey all you beautiful people! I took a short break from blogging, but I did a lot more drawing this year. Among other things, I played around with a little character I named Imp. I drew a lot of him during Inktober this year.
It was, as they say, ink-tastic!
I also drew Imp some more in December to celebrate the release of Star Wars.
Come with me! It is the only way!
If you want to check out the rest of them, check out my Instagram account or check out my Facebook page
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Vexing Vexillology – South Dakota
You may or may not know I enjoy maps. I also enjoy flags. Often these are not expressed that often and I tend to concentrate on other things, though you may have noticed a previous post on changing flags during the failed Scottish referendum to depart the United Kingdom. Well, a TED talk on Vexillology excited me on the topic once again:
This got me to thinking, how could I redesign my adopted home state of South Dakota? Continue reading
Happy Mother’s Day
