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July 13th, 2006
10:04 am - Burial Mounds
I'm not one for graveyard tourism except in Paris. But who wouldn't smoke dope on Morrison's grave or wear lipstick and leave your kiss on Wilde's? Oh yeah, there was also the visit to The National Museum of Funeral History in Houston, which left me wondering what might my fantasy coffin be? And I suppose I'd visit the pyramids if I were to go to Egypt though rumor has it Queen Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple is where it's at. Ok...so maybe I'm into graveyard tourism.
An ancient tradish of the ancient Silla dynasty of Korea is mounds. Come to find out that even today many people are buried under small mounds. Their individual mound is often clustered together with others on their family's very own burial mountain. That usually includes the family in the very extended sense of the word. Korea is 75% mountain so they have a lot to choose from.
However, the mounds I have a few images of are bigger than most because, you guessed it...they were royalty. These can be found downtown in the once capitol city of Gyeongju. This site is called Daereungwon Nodong and Noseo-dong Tumuli but it is unclear to me if they know exactly who is buried in what mound. The one excavated mound that you could enter called its resident The King of the Flying Horses because he had horses with wings engraved on his royal accessories. The mounds were well built layers of gravel, large stones that were all about the size of one's head, and soil and grass. As you can see, the meticulous pathways and gardening bring together the very best aesthetic elements of The Wizard of Oz and the Teletubbies.
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Current Music: Candyman, The Carrie Nations
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July 12th, 2006
08:08 am - Vision Quest
For those who are curious about what happened to The Vision outfit made by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bearbait, below are some pics from a few of Torsten's and my recent Korean shooting sessions. Thankfully, our video came out much better than our stills, but these will give some idea of what we were up to. There are a few pics from a couple Karaoke sessions, and some brief action at an indoor gaming facility. For Karaoke, we had two Korean Scarlet Witches; thanks to Stephanie and Joo-Mee for helping out. We also had Sir Steed, one of the New Men; an accelerated evolutionary played by Seong-Whan, and a mystery guest...errr. I think he is kind of a jovial version of Leatherface.
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