It's difficult to find much information on Myung Sook Yoon and the diminutive displays of her work online do little justice to her creations. Also, I've found that many South Korean photographers are poorly represented in the west which is a shame. We'll have to see what we can do about that."The sea accompanied by typhoon or hard rain is dreadful but makes my heart flutter with a new hope.
Sometimes a strong wind shaking my windows makes me sit up all night but with a happy expectation that a new day will come with clear and beautiful scenes newly born after the rain.
Whenever I take pictures, there is not myself, there is only a person who feels cold and hungry.
After the stay in big Jeju Island where I have no acquaintances for about two weeks, I can hear a sound from deep in my heart.
It is my voice of yearning to talk to someone. Yell!
Keep going to and out of the coast in the rain for several consecutive days, I just wait for the rain to stop.
And finally I see the sun coming out, I just feel like running away when I stand in the piercing wind at the rainy coast of Jeju Island in mid winter.
But those that are not frequently seen I want to take.
Time does not exist when I think in which angle I should see the sea, where between the sky and the sea I should put the horizon, etc.
In Seoul, electric cables in the street sometimes remind me of the horizon.
The sea shows a desperate, dark appearance but a hope suddenly comes out of it.
I felt desperate about the fact that I am a woman before.
I also felt bad about myself that I am small, silent and not social.
As time went by, I understood those things have made myself.
Now I found myself enjoying taking landscapes into the photos alone.
The sea is always there, showing its appearances as it is and I see the appearances of the sea the way I want to see it.
This is my relation with the sea.
I become the richest of all in the world when I take the photo of the sea that I wanted after a long waiting.
I am just happy that I have stood before the sea."
Read the full article HERE."When I heard about it – in passing, in a soundbite – I figured it was a US example of the sort of inanely confrontational fantasy scheme Anjem Choudary might issue a press release about if he fancied winding up the tabloids for the 900th time this year. I was wrong. The "Ground Zero mosque" is a genuine proposal, but it's slightly less provocative than its critics' nickname makes it sound. For one thing, it's not at Ground Zero. Also, it isn't a mosque.
Wait, it gets duller. It's not being built by extremists either. Cordoba House, as it's known, is a proposed Islamic cultural centre, which, in addition to a prayer room, will include a basketball court, restaurant, and swimming pool. Its aim is to improve inter-faith relations. It'll probably also have comfy chairs and people who smile at you when you walk in, the monsters."
"Sixes Last" for musician Alias' track from his album Muted was created by 1st Avenue Machine in 2005. Directed my Arvind Palep and produced by Serge Patzak, it's beautifully strange.
"It is about how artificiality is creeping into the modern day world," said director Arvind Palep. "We were looking at a merge between synthetic biology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and what could spawn from them."
