Made 2 new friends and enjoyed 3 attractions in the famous 63 Building in Seoul (yes, it has 63 floors) on Saturday. I took many photos, here are most of them. Sorry if it takes awhile to load.
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| Rogelio, myself, Daniesha, Ademir |
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| 63 Building, Seoul |
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| That's the Han River and the park that parallels the river. |
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| A view of Seoul and the Han River from the top of the 63 Building. |
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| Sky Art Gallery, the highest art gallery in the world, located on the 60th floor of 63 Building. |
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| This exhibit is called Faces or 'ulgool' in Korean. |
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| They had faces of all types, from different artists, and using different media. This one is a HUGE print, I was very impressed by the largeness and variety of prints. |
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| Interesting. |
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| No face, but I like the simple lines. |
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| Loved this one, there was a whole series of this chica and her cigarette. |
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| This artist used all kinds of color and media on these robotic, cyborg girls that had no character, color, or defining features. |
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| But they are smiling...something about disguises, camouflage, public versus private images, self-image, ego. |
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| The cyborg girls in costume. |
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| This was one of my favorites. The colors!!!! |
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| Fantastical. |
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| I liked the color combination in this one, it's another of my favorites. I'm feeling even more inspired to find an art supply store soon. |
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| I know the girl is Asian but she reminds me of Nicki Minaj in her presentation of herself. |
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| There was an elevated room full of mirrors and reflective surfaces. It was a little overwhelming but cool. |
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| My color science: Mango Lhassi yellow always makes me smile. Plus the drawing is lovely. |
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| We watched an excellent 3-D IMAX movie about Tahiti. I'm generally not impressed by 3-D movies (except for Avatar), but this one was so good I now feel the need to go to Tahiti. |
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| After IMAX, we went to Seaworld (an aquarium on the first basement floor of the building). Here is an x-ray image of seahorses. |
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| Not the best picture, but it's a bat fish! |
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| Real seahorses; this aquarium had adorable-themed tanks. |
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| Rock fish, don't see them? Look below. |
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| Yup, that thing in the corner is the fish. Amazing camouflage! |
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| My camera doesn't work well in dark settings, so this is the clearest photo I got in the aquarium. Isn't it amazing?? Haha |
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| Love birds. |
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| I don't remember the name of this fish, but they were transparent. We were all impressed. |
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| Happy at the aquarium. |
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| Usually frogs at the aquarium or zoo are brightly colored (and poisonous), these frogs looked dead. Maybe they're a species of albino frogs. |
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| You could put your fingers in a small tank full of Doctor Fish! They nibble at your fingers and it tickles. At first it freaked me out, but then I enjoyed it. Doctor fish eat dead skin (they're herbivores in their natural setting) and are used for people with certain skin conditions and in some specialty spas. I love hands on exhibits! |
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| I always enjoy looking at octopi; they're one of the most visually interesting sea creatures. |
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| Underwater ballet show...with the fish swimming right by unconcerned. Entertaining. |
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| The dancer was doing moves that vaguely resembled ballet (I'm no ballet expert), but I was more dazzled that she didn't have a breathing apparatus! |
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| Public art on the pillars holding up a large bridge over the Han River. It looked like tiles of African-inspired masks and designs. I love all the public art in Korea. The colors on these tiles are nice. |
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| We saw a lot of people setting off small fireworks next to the river. Looked like fun. |
For my next visit to the 63 Building, the plan is to see the B-Boy performance (what Koreans call break dancing) and set off fireworks. I can't wait, I had such a good time on Saturday. I also took some video I will try to make a small clip of soon. Later gators!
