July in Instagram

Bit late but I've been on holidayz to France. Had a blast - pics coming up soon.  For now, though, here's July in Korea.  If the photos are anything to go by it seems I did nothing much but eat.

I found a micro brewery in my city that does Pilsner and stone baked pizzas. Nom.

A particularly good week of half days I had in which I explored Seoul's Dongmyo Shrine area and stuffed myself at a buffet.

I know it's cheesy and shit but I love the astro turf stuff they sometimes put outside cafes and restaurants. Fake summer in the city, oy.

It rained a bit.  There be a puddle.

Ahhh, Hongdae. You are still the coolest.

I decided this plastic bag vase is totally ingenious.

Proper waygook meal at Kraze Burger.  I know how to live.

Toy model aeroplanes in my fave Cheongju cafe.

A mural in Cheongju's downtown area.

Super, super, super Shabu Shabu.

Breakfast at Dunkin Donuts.

Birdbox art display in Cheongerrs.

A vintage shop near Dongmyo Shrine.

Rain against my window.

One of the extraordinarily funky establishements in Jukjeon's European-style 'Cafe Street', Yongin.

Post-it notes acting as a window blind.

Fireworks topping off the infamous annual Mud Festival at Boryeong beach.

A night out at the GS25 convenience shop.

Delish gamjyetang (pork spine soup).

All pics by meeeee on instagram @tallullahelle.

VLUF Party Video

Yeah, I know I'm like a broken record about all this VLUF party stuff at the moment.  This video is very groovy though, as well as informative, giving the background information behind all the playas that make up the V.L.U.F in VLUF. 

You can catch a glimpse of me in it, furiously grinning for a photographer while sitting on a dirty, vintage sofa.

Which is totes how I roll.  Nahhhht.

April in Instagram

I haven't posted here for so so long.  Here's an update on my life through Instagram.

This is a picture of some flowers I took for Chincha for our monthly Chinchagram competition.  All you need to do is hashtag pictures on Instagram, Tumblr or Twitter with #chinchagram to enter.  We're putting the winners on the website.

One of my own #chinchagram entries, taken outside work.

The view from my boyfriend's rooftop in Cheongju, a city right in the centre of Korea.

A trippy drawing by one of my students,who is clearly a Beatles fan.

The newest coffee shop in my area.  Cute, eh?  They're all like this.

The first spring picture I took this year.  I looked up, saw blossoms, and realised I wasn't fucking freezing anymore.

Pork ramen soup from a local Japanese restaurant.  This costs about £3 and is machesoyo (bloody delicious).

Tree blossoms at night.

Promotional posters I picked up in Japan as wall posters for my boring apartment walls.  It looks so much better now.

A chicken dinner complete with a banana and strawberry salad.  This restaurant was such a good find.  It's ten minutes away from my house and lacks the strip lighting and banging tunes associated with most popular Western-style eateries in Korea.

Spring means seasonal strawberry juice. YUM.

This is a pretty normal sight to see.

Another rooftop view.

It rained and the cherry blossoms fell off the trees, looking pleasingly like confetti.

Follow me on Instagram @tallullahelle.

MiniMix

Finding myself unusually and luxuriously home alone on a Friday night.  I'm meant to be at a leaving party right now (this isn't as big a deal as it sounds; people are constantly leaving Korea) but I couldn't face the trek into Hongdae in the minus degree temperature.

In the midst of curling up like a cat to read a trashy novel, downloading cult classic films (Blue Velvet) and eating copious amounts of cereal, I found this MiniMix by DJ Suit on the blog Daughter of Soho Riots.

It's making me nostalgic for club nights in Cardiff and dancing like this:

Maaaaan, I wish I was still a student.

Q & A

Not so long ago, Lucy from Being of Sound Mind asked me some questions about my life in Korea.  I usually write completely random, sporadic posts about stuff I've seen or, more often lately, stuff that my affiliation with VICE.com points me towards (I'm sorry about the lack of more original posting, I've been so busy with Chincha and other projects and I genuinely do love their articles and videos), so my answers were very different from the type of stuff you normally see on my blog.

I really enjoyed answering them though and I feel like her well-thought out questions were probing, in a positive way.  If you are (for some inexplicable reason) interested in my day-to-day life, or are interested in what it's like to live in Korea (more explicable) then take a look at it here.

There are also pictures of my face on her blog, in case you were wondering what it looks like.

^_^

New

New hair, new shoes, new toes.

The Young Creatives

I've been featured on the above website, which is a 'fledgling project' initiated by innovative student and aspiring journalist Katie Byrne.  It contains lots of interviews with multi-mega-talented under-25's (excluding me, I merely jumped on the bandwagon) and links to their work, condensing them all onto one handy website.  I'm finding it fascinating discovering new talent, the inspirations that feed their work, and the quirky facts that make their personalities come to life.

I especially love reading about the illustrators and seeing all their incredibly intricate drawings.  I think this is because illustration is a talent so out of my reach; I have problems staying inside the lines when I'm colouring in and I always splatter more paint on myself than on the page when doing arty stuff..

Probably safer to stick with the writing then.

My Christmas Jumper

Managed to find the most disgusting Christmas Jumper.  In that 'it's so bad it's good' kind of way. 

Or maybe it's just bad.

It isn't knitted so I've also had a lot of hassle from the Christmas Jumper Purists (aka the Xmas Nazis).

I wrote a guest blog post about it for Clic.  Here tis.