Well, finally, I’ve got all the pics from my last two big trips up. Everything I’m planning to post from both my trip to India last winter, and my trip to North America this summer, is up for your browsing pleasure. The only things I might add are a couple of animated gifs of Koko on a swing, and Marvin kicking a tree, if I can figure how to author such animated gifs using a sequence of .JPG files. I know it’s doable, I just need to figure out how. But before that, I want to do some other things, …
Month: July 2004
Kenya.
This is all Charlie’s fault. Just… just go look.
Withnail & I
It seems to be weird movie week here at eclexys. In a fit of curiosity, I watched al three Harry Potter movies, which I guess aren’t exactly weird but it’s weird that I, who had no interest in them before, watched them all in such quick succession. I found them alright, but I am still wondering how it is that the Potter movies and books became such a phenomenon. My neighbour Heather assures me that it’s the quality of the books, and has vowed to get a copy of the first novel into my hands so I can see for …
Fusion Opera?
The Korea Herald claims that the advent of a new genre of fusion opera is upon us. Huh? How is having the recitatives translated into Korean the creation of a new genre? It’s even less creative than I imagined. Now, a full-stage new (classical) music opera, with digital effects onstage, and cool stuff like that, telling a traditional Korean story, that might be a new genre, or at least something like “fusion opera”, but this? This is just The Barber of Seville. It’s enough to make me want to get out my manuscript paper sketchbook and find some Korean kind …
Kevin Kim, Internationally Wanted Blogger
Over at OhMyNews International, you should check out this interview with Kevin Kim, also know as The Big Hairy Hominid. He’s rightly pissed off, and while I’m not personally agitating for anything to happen (I don’t think the actions of foreigners will achieve anything and that this fight for free speech will be ineffective until Koreans themselves are willing to fight for their rights), I do really understand how he feels and I respect him for taking action the way he is. You can check out his website here. Hey, look at the photo from the article! That’s not him …