Ideometric

Digital Artwork 2000 – 2006

amftkrm — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:48:04 +0000

These are mostly old works from high school and college. Most were done in Photoshop, and some are painted with a Wacom tablet.

Summer in Korea, 2007

amftkrm — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:47:08 +0000

A huge batch of 60+ pictures from my time in Korea attending Yonsei University’s International Institute, summer of 2007.

Perhaps this wasn’t the most tasteful thing to do by the DMZ. Couldn’t resist.

End of the road – Vancouver out the window on my way back to Los Angeles.

Pima Air Museum

amftkrm — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:14:10 +0000

I’m a bit of a military geek, and many many years ago I visited the Pima Air & Space museum in Arizona. It’s right next to Davis Monthan AFB, which is where old planes are mothballed and left out in the desert. Check out the Google satellite photo below and scroll around to see what’s out there.

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You could get philosophical and critically reflect on these rusting implements of global hegemony, evidence of a massive military industrial complex run wild, but I’m going to ask for a pardon and just enjoy their aesthetic value, while imagining the stories of the ordinary people that actually built and used them.

AH-1 Cobra (Wiki links if you want to geek out with me).

SR-71 Blackbird

B-58 Hustler

Boeing YC-14 Prototype

C-124 Globemaster II

This is a support vehicle for the BGM-109 ground launched cruise missile launcher (i.e. intermediate range nuclear missile).

Street Texture & Composition – Korea

amftkrm — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:04:51 +0000

Shots of things that caught my eye on the street. Textures, spontaneous compositions, shapes, colors, etc. Sounds trite, but I like finding beauty in the gritty ephemera of the city, the patina that builds up (only to be torn down or covered over, ad infinitum). I’ll be adding more examples to this post later.

Korean Ghost Towns

amftkrm — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:23:46 +0000

Seoul is a city under constant development and re-development. Sometimes you wake up to find your favorite local restaurant has gone out of business, and a couple days later something brand new has replaced it with a completely new interior.

Sometimes this happens to neighborhoods as well. Walking through the eastern part of central Seoul, around Sinseol Dong, you find a lot of small industrial looking workshops, and old two and three story residential buildings that are being torn down to make way for the giant apartment blocks you see throughout the rest of the city. These neighborhoods are eerily quiet, strewn with the debris of what looks like a hasty and unhappy departure. Things that might have been tucked away in a junk drawer are strewn randomly in the street. There’s a strange smell, like a storage closet that’s been closed for too long was just opened. Graffiti on the wall echoes the anger of residents who moved, or were moved, from the places they called home. The scrawled messages cursing the police charge the atmosphere despite the stillness; a silent, futile shout that makes me think of the huge gap between rich and poor, powerful and powerless, that exists so blatantly in Korea.

Below are photos from around the parts of Sinseol-dong I’m referring to, as well as a few photos of redevelopment around other parts of Seoul.