Mad rush time again.

It is the week before Christmas and as can you would imagine things are getting crazy. NOT.

Life is going on as usual. The shops are no busier than they normally are. Here are no more people in the streets than there would be every day. I suspect that on Saturday evening the only reason Icheon will be busy will be because it is Saturday and people will be out doing what they always do on a Saturday evening. No mad rush to buy presents. No stressed workers trying to help frantic shoppers while keeping the isles clear of the rubbish everyone throws down the moment they realize that this it is not what they are looking for.

I love Christmas in Korea

For Heavens Sake! Will…

…someone please kick someone! =D

 

…someone please show me how to do that?

Dosirak

This morning on the way to school I was listening to the BBC News Podcast and one of the segments was about lunch boxes in Japan. Unlike Korea, Japan is very serious about making the food look precise and beautiful. In Korea the presentation is very lose at the best of times. At the worst of times everything is just thrown in to the same pot, literally.

As luck would have it I watched an Eat Your Kimchi clip today about making a Korean lunch box. In the clip the mention that the lunchbox is called Dosirak. My experience with Dosirak is a stupid service which I had to use to get a ringtone on my old LG phone on KT. Not a pleasant memory. Turns out I actually have better experiences of this.

My actual real first experience, without knowing that it was called, was when we went to a restaurant and the people who ordered the item that ZenKimchi describes in this post. They also told me it was their school lunches and how they would take their metal tins and put it on the heaters in the class rooms to heat up their food (if they actually managed to not eat it already). I must say I am currently considering making my own dosirak rather than eat school lunches.

I have also had less pleasant but acceptable experience with the kind that you buy in large numbers to feed a group. The kind that FatManSeoul describes here is pretty close to what I learned to associate with Dosirak.

What I would love to have though is the kind shown in the main photo. For more amazing lunch boxes that I am sure would make even the Japanese envious, have a look at the images on this Google search.

The funny and norty

I had my finger down and was taking a burst. Within a couple of seconds the photos went from her looking directly at me, seeing something, opening her mouth as of to say “Aaah!” and going in to the pout. No idea what was going on, but it made for a nice photo.

 

The artist was talking to her friend, I think, and the model was just sitting like this to make it easier to paint. But, with burst mode again, I managed to get a few shots that on their own did not really tell the whole story. I leave it up to you to create your own story for this shot.

 

Love the people in the background.

 

The model was looking around for something and with my oh so trustworthy burst mode I managed to get this shot of her looking bewildered in my direction. the photo makes it seem like she is thinking: “Hey! What the f*** are you doing?!”
 

 

This photo was just to good to resist. Everyone was staring or at least swinging their heads back.
 

 

The girls does not have a bad butt at all, but what made this photo for me was the towel that seems to be covering … nothing

 

Every man there wanted THAT job. Well, all the men like me who like butts. This particular model had rather large breasts, as you can see. The Korean photographers were crowding to get photos of the big breasted foreign women =D
 

Yes, these two are total perv photos. Like I said in an earlier post, anyone who thinks hat body painting is all art and no erotica is kidding themselves.

 

That is it for the photos from the Daegu International Body Painting Festival. More in my Flickr set.

Holy Model Painting

This might be my favourite image of the whole event. At this early point in the process the model still looked like she was getting a bit of an Hindu/Buddhist design. The fan in the background was positioned in such a way that every so often, if the artist was out of the way, it would turn and make it look like the model had  halo. Took me about 10 minutes of waiting to get this shot.

Consumes be done.

The consume section was finished long before the body painting section. (I did not stay for he body painting results, because I was sun burned and wanted to make sure I would get on a bus back home).

The model in the main photo was done long before any other model, and the way she was positioned made it generally easy to get nice photos of her. This is not my favourite photo of her, but it is one that shows a lot of her costume.

The second photo is the Japanese entry. Looks good, bit not very imaginative, I’d say. The third entry was my favourite. Not very risky, but I still liked it. Here the model was being led to the stage for the public presentation. The last entry was a bit weird, in a good way. The make-up on her eyes forms another set of large open eyes when the model closes hers. More photos on my Flickr set of the event.

Here’s looking at you, Photographer.

Today's post contains a few photos of the models posing at the face painting and consume section. I mentioned before that I preferred this section. The artists in this section seemed to have a clearer understanding of what was supposed to be going on. they weren’t just using models as canvases that happened to be curved.

The first model in here was not only gorgeous, but also a delight to photograph. She would ofen look at the cameras and smile. Every time she did it I would nod my head and mouth “Thank You” at her. I think this helped because every time I cane round their area again she would look at the camera, do little poses and even show me the latest additions :)

The second model was not looking at the camera in that particular shot, but I decided that I preferred that one to the one where se was indeed looking at me.

The last photo was of a model right next to the one in the main photo, who was almost as friendly and pretty darn cute. I will post another photo of her that I took earlier in the day.

Not so booby

In this post I only put a few photos in of the artists at the body painting side. There was a section for face painting and costume design as well. Personally I liked that part more. The body painting people were using the models as if they were canvases and not naked bodies ready to be painted. Only one artist did something on her model that would not look perfectly normal on a flat surface. You can see her in the previous post. More photos in my Flickr set.

Boob Painting in Daegu

I am so far behind in my photos editing and posting, and this post demonstrates just how bad it is.

The Daegu International Body Painting Festival is held in August and only now, in December, am I editing the photos. I took about 600 photos on the day, managed to bring it down to about 250 and ended up posting 80 or so to Flickr. Knowing that I have months of photos to catch up on does not make me all that more willing edit.

The first few photos are of the artists are and the art being created. Yes, I know that in these four I have a lot of boobs, but anyone who says that there is no erotic element to this is lying to themselves. In the photo set I have more photos that are have fewer boobs in them, or you can wait for the 4 I will post tomorrow.