New Favorite Things

“i just think i’m free” by Danny Abbott.

My new favorite obsession is LOOKBOOK.NU. Also Nerd Boyfriend and We Are Hunted are fine.

I am addicted to attractive blogs. Jeremy Guttman and I spent hours on Skype, fawning over an interior decorating blog.

How terribly and utterly cliche.

In other news, Eddie arrives tomorrow night. I am so excited. I haven’t seen him in many many many months.

I also got photos developed today. I lied when I said I didn’t have a minor tear. I had been saving those films for a year.

Anyway. I’m playing power-cable tag with my neighbour. It’s his turn to charge.

Mamba Pack

I want this.

So very attractive. Herschel would be happy.

[Laptop Backpacks by booq.]

MoDaFe…

So, I get an email yesterday from the program director at The Museum of Contemporary Art, the location of my 3-month art-creation residency  in Seoul which was scheduled to start halfway through May:

Dear Jeremy Neideck,

Hello this is Yunjung Kim, a program manager at  Changdong Art Studio.

I’m very pleased to contact you at Changdong through Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship Program. Here is a good news for you in Korea.

Last week Modafe (Modern Dance Festival http://www.modafe.org/) contacted me and requested for recommending visual artists who can make the art project with modern dancers. So, I showed the images you handed in and they want to co-work with you.

The title of the festival is “Embracing the city of Seoul 2009″ and the project you can participate is “COMP International Residence Program(May 7-30, 2009).” Modafe can provide you as follows:

Accommodation: Studio at Kookmin University from May 1 to May 17, 2009

Open Showcase: On May 30, you can participate in the showcase at Total Museum and be given an artist fee after the showcase.

In advance of starting Changdong residency program, could you come to Korea earlier than May 5?

You can stay at the studio of Modafe till May 17 and after then stay at Changdong Art Studio as the original schedule.

Here I attached the files on Modafe program for your information.

If it is possible to join this festival, please kindly let me know so that I can inform Modafe of it.

Best regards,

Yunjung

Just quietly, I almost wet myself because I was already freaking out about leaving so soon to work for three months on a peice I haven’t had time to think about, let alone plan.  And here I was being asked to create a work in three weeks and perfom at the end of May.  Obviously, I wrote back and said I would be delighted. Oh, and by the way, what exactly was I expected to do – be a visual artist (ahem) or dance?

Hello Jeremy,

I am very happy to hear from you. That sounds great!

Through collaborating with other artists during residency, this project will proceed to the open showcase (May 30,2009).

In the morning you will have research on culture and in the afternoon you will exchange ideas and have a discussion with other artists May 8-29.

Modafe has a big picture on this project but I think the performance depends on the participating artists.

May

• Culture Research
• Art Laboratory in the Studio at Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
• Workshop
• Guerrilla Concert at Kookmin Univ.
• Artist Presentation at Kookmin Univ.
• Open Showcase at Total Museum of Contemporary Art

☞ Morning Session: In this session, artists learn more about Seoul looking around the city. 2 people per group.
☞ Afternoon Session: In this session, artists develop ideas by exchanging thoughts and research on the city with other artists in Art Laboratory for the showcase.

Do you have a cell phone? It’s good for you to contact the program director of Modafe, isn’t it?

For more information, I am sending the revised version of the program from Modafe.

Cheers,

Yunjung

I promptly read the information pack. I am credited in it as a ‘Dancer and Performer’.  That allayed my fears of being branded a visual artist. Also, it seems that my job at this festival will consist of field trips to learn traditional dance, drumming and culture, visiting museums, jimjjilbungs (Korean spas), roaming the markets, eating at attractive cafes, going on bush walks and discovering the ‘hidden’ aspects of life in Seoul.  That’s in the morning. Then, in the afternoon I sit with 9 other artists from around the world, talk about the experience, discuss how we can explore it artistically, and rehearse a piece for a workshop showcase at the festival on the 30th of May.  This is my daily schedule for more than three weeks.

And I will get paid.

Honestly, I’m not sure I will be able to handle it.

My Girls…

Ok, so they technically belong to Nathan, but he is not here, and I have claimed them as my own.

Kate, Noni, Jana, Alice (Terry is a boy, but he is in there somewhere).

Sitting on the beach at night, huddled under a sleeping bag, watching the stars

Sitting in the lounge doing group reading with the Wisdom Oracle.

Jesus jumped at me no less than 4 times in 12 hours.

That means that I’m not getting it apparently.

I also went to the Gym. I am 68% water (8% higher than the maximum average – the trainer was surprised)

I am also 5.1% (3.4kg) fat.

Apparently my hydrating skills might be throwing the reading off, and there is a chance that I am actually a little fatter than that. But one still dreams.

On Friday I will have a regime, and will be on my way to being incredibly good looking.

It think I will get a haircut tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Fiona.

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My Body

My body enjoys a good beating… I don’t know how that happened, but it does.

It somehow makes me feel alive. Which is good, because it means that the next 9 months will go by with me feeling more alive than I ever have.

But I am also aware of the fact that I need to spent the next two months getting incredibly fit. And looking after myself. Maybe a personal trainer is necessary. I need a mean bastard to tell me to do things that I cant do. Cause that’s how it gets done.

Also, I love Kate.

I am going to find some dong dong ju, or macoli today. Because I miss Korea. And there is a games night tonight.

I love Kate. She is a good girl to talk to. And with the lack of a certain boy to babble on to, she makes a welcome substitute. Because I know that Lauren has already heard it all.

ALSO I have decided to go to Woodford. For a day. I know it isn’t the most amazing choice, but it’s better than nothing. And Kate said that her tent loves me. Maybe it does.

New Years Eve… BOO-YA!

Now I need to decide what format my life will take for the next two months, and where I ill go at the end of it. There are several possibilities.

Also. Just a quick thing. Why are certain people so attractive? So VERY attractive. And why do they seem to be interested WHEN WE CANNOT BE TOGETHER?? At least I have identified this, and I am putting a stop to it. Before it gets out of hand. But this time I know that there are possibilities for reciprocation. But that doesn’t ease the fact that it is inappropriate.

Sigh.

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Brothers…

Brothers…, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.

The Toni and Guy Experience Korea.

Come to me, and I will show you the place of free, and amazing hair-styling systems. This is commonly known as the Toni and Guy Academy Apgujeong. A place for professional stylists to be certified as having the ‘Tony and Guy Edge’.

In only 2 and a half hours, you too can look as attractive as us.

The End.

PS. You may or may not be inclined to conclude this event with incredibly bad, microwaved nachos from what appears at first sight to be a Mexican restaurant, followed by the most amazing pancakes, this side of Pancake Manor.