lost and found photography by michael joseph
reminded me of the rugged travelers passing colorado.
photographer matt black’s geography of poverty project| rural life in california’s central valley.
kingdom of dust and matt black’s website
online photo magazines:
did di di di dit…
march 2011 | a dog and his nomad master near a gas station in downtown boulder.
waiver to enter the JSA
“The visit to the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom will entail entry into a hostile area and possibility of injury or death as a direct result of enemy action.”
“Although incidents are not anticipated, the United Nations Command, the United States of America, and the Republic of Korea cannot guarantee the safety of visitors and may not be held accountable in the event of a hostile enemy act.”
unc buildings.
rok-ready
no man’s land.
yonder, noth korea.
here be dragons and communists.
war memorial of korea. yongsan, seoul.
anti-aircraft guns. 
galleries with names carved on black marble.
casualties of the korean war.
from south carolina
the memorial and the dragon hill neighborhood.
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north korean high ranking official publicly executed by anti-aircraft gun shot. may 2013.
Foreign Policy: A Story of Paranoia and Gore: Why North Korea Uses Such Brutal Execution Methods
North Korean Famine (Arduous March) 1994-1998.
built in the early 1900s to hold korean nationalists during the japanese occupation of korea. after wwii, the south korean government used the prison until it was shut down in the 1980s. reopened as a museum in the 90s.
high school romance at the prison.
a boy reads a pokemon book, a character created by japanese video game designer satoshi tajiri, in front of a wall of koreans held at the camp during the occupation.
interrogation scenes.
bamboo under the nails torture.
solitary.
angry guard.
an elementary school kid on a field trip chokes a guard mannequin in one the torture chambers.
the former prison lies west of dongnimmun station on the seoul subway line 3.
korea, china, manchuria and the pacific under japanese occupation.
via wikimedia commons.
hennessy road.
occupy movement at the hsbc building
lan kwai fong new year party
barricades and police surround the lan kwai fong area. a stampede in 1993 killed 20 people and forced the government to restrict crowds during new year celebrations.
in the early hours of the new year a line of police officers sweeps the streets of loiterers, revelers and drunks.
some of us hid in the entrances of residential buildings while the police cleared those left on the street.
a man rests near lan kwai fong.
the lucky number 8
“The word for “eight” (八 Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means “prosper” or “wealth” (發 – often paired with “發財” during Chinese New Years, but is used alone or paired with numerous other “compound words” that have a meaning of luck or success, Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for “eight” and “fortune” are also similar, e.g., Cantonese “baat3” and “faat3”. Note as well, this particular symbol matches the mathematical symbol of infinity. While Chinese does have other words for luck, this full understanding of luck that includes the infinity concept marries into a Chinese understanding of this particular word.
There is also a visual resemblance between two digits, “88”, and 囍, the “shuāng xĭ” (“double joy”), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (“xĭ” meaning “joy” or “happiness”).
The number 8 is viewed as such an auspicious number that even being assigned a number with several eights is considered very lucky.”
Numbers in Chinese culture. (2015, April 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:19, April 26, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Numbers_in_Chinese_culture&oldid=657261768
december 2011/january 2012
seoul. itaewon. december 2011.
north boulder. march 2011.
nov 2011
Agosto. Dos mil once. Colorado. Limpiando la casa de Colorado me encuentro con los pequeños monstruos abandonados del Antoco.
En el taller, el hombre amarillo
Un guardia de polvo y silicona en la alfombra
