March 2017 – pagans we are

The Shamanic Spiritual Life of Jeju Island, South Korea’s Traditional Women Free Divers. Short Documentary: The Youngdeung Gods Visit Jeju Island

Every year the Youngdeung Gods visit Jeju Island, South Korea bringing with them strong spring winds. These deities replenish the sea life as they travel their coarse from village to village along the coast. In Hamdeok Village, the shaman Young Cheol Kim presides over the ceremony, a ritualized banquet at which Jeju Island’s famed women divers…

Scherzando Park, South Korean fashion photographer (interview)

Scherzando Park is part of a new generation of Korean photographers and models that are challenging South Korea’s beauty standards. She prefers emphasizing natural aspects of the Asian form, rather than much sought after Western beauty features. Her photography ranges from gorgeous and mature to playful and humorous. Scherzando recently allowed me to use one…

My experimental mash-up novel, The Photograph of Hye Mi Bae is free today on Kindle (Free is over, but the book is still available)

And now for something different, very, very different: I’ve written an experimental novel, a mash-up actually, something like Jane Slayre–or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or Warlock Holmes. The Photograph of Hye Mi Bae is a mash-up of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and a story I’ve concocted myself about a Korean photographer…