This South Korean artist has almost no web presence outside of this portfolio page: https://facezero.artstation.comand Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/seongjin_kim The WLBOTT Ministry of Truth and Beauty wanted to post some of their haunting images here to preserve their Internet presence and help spread their vision. All images were liberated from FaceZero’s portfolio page https://facezero.artstation.com
[We have UC#2 to thank/blame for today’s BLOTT] Time is precious. We all have a finite amount of this cherished gift that has been bestowed upon us. We should make the most of this treasure by doing good works, alleviating suffering, and…. when we need a moment of respite…. With great trepidation and against our […]
A few days ago we were talking about aqueducts and the very cool engineering associated with them. There are also some incredible aqueduct tunnels. Tunnels Aqueducts sometimes run for some or all of their path through tunnels constructed underground. A version of this common in North Africa and Central Asia that has vertical wells at […]
While Spousal Unit and I were on a Three Initial Company (TIC) business trip to Taiwan, we took an enchanting trip across the country’s interior that included Taroko Gorge, Sun Moon Lake, and the hillside fruit orchards amidst the central mountains. After all those years, I remember the song that became fixed in my mind […]
Spousal Unit and I had an opportunity to spend a few months in Taiwan in the late ’80 while working for a large Three Initial Company. Taiwan is a country of great natural beauty, intense industry, an strong work ethic, and friendly people with good humor. They have a complicated and diverse opinion of their […]
UC#3 [wrt Sapphire/WLBOTT World Tour] Combining the microbus, I offer the following limerick: The WLBOTT vagabonds traveled via microbus and slept in a yurtThey would set up their temporary dwelling and sleep on the dirtWhen ready to leave, they would pack up the yurt and moveA painted peace sign and flowers on the bus set […]
UC#1 Hi, all, I agree, a yurt is an ideal solution. Perhaps we can incorporate it with a VW microbus, sort of a yurt-on-wheels. UC#3, Alas, I never made it to any Stans. In fact, I only made it to three former USSR countries, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. UC#4 So… a combination yurt/WLBOTT/Mountain Sapphire Tour […]
What better way to keep up with world events than to read a variety of international on-line papers. Headlines from Around the World: Japan Sky News / Japan Japan Times India The India Express The Hindustan Times Hong Kong South China Morning Post Indonesia The Jakarta Post United Kingdom The Telegraph Colombia El Tiempo Latino […]
As part of his studies, UC#2 was reading The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion” by William Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon “This hard-hitting collection overturns common ideas about religion. Arnal and McCutcheon argue that ‘religion’ has no independent existence but is rather the unstable creation of political and economic forces. These […]
The Korea–Russia Friendship Bridge is a rail bridge over the Tumen River. It was commissioned in 1959 as a replacement for a temporary wooden bridge. Located immediately downstream from the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint, the bridge is the sole crossing point on the 17 km long North Korea–Russia border. Planks are laid between the tracks making […]