I live in Seoul now. Korean buildings present themselves as culture signifiers. they are logically built and numbered chronologically, numbers which are painted on the most visible and highest of points. text in the subway is written in helvetica. there are no street names or house numbers; you find an address by context. this is a car culture; pedestrians come second. sidewalks merge with roads and simply become paths, which move the city. always in motion and with self respect.

I am still settling into my new environment and catching up with life; read about a great group show at the Nam June Paik Art Center near Seoul and visited the National Museum of Korea which really got me excited about cartography and typography again. I have been trying to keep up with America by slowly digesting google reader but I am starting to feel a world away from myself.  saw this over @ the screaming females blog the other day:

Noun – Holy Hell from If You Make It on Vimeo.

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