Arty parties and all that jazz...

Waaaah - having now been a Seoulite for a month, I thought I'd seen pretty much everything that Seoul has to offer. Oh, how wrong I was! Thanks to Christie (yet another member of the MIKI crew), we managed to get entry to a MASSIVE VJ competition in the middle of this club. It turned out that the club also houses loads of art studios, and that Christie is friends with one of the artists - Sue - whose work was on show, and so managed to wrangle us entry and free drinks all night. And what an aweeeeeeeesome night it was!

The club itself was EPIC - like FIVE floors, and with an open rooftop looking over the whole city. ...it felt like being back in London!


And it was so surreal having loads of mini art studios tucked away inside too! Now, I don't know anything about art, but I don't need a qualification to know that Sue's work was made of win - look!:


...and, of course, being an arty crowd, there were loads of "cool" (i.e. actually cool, rather than my own faux-cool imitiation XD) people to hang out with from all over the shop! I got chatting to people from Germany, Italy, Japan (one of whom was a RIDICULOUSLY HOT COOL manga artist!), the USA... and even Cambridge! And there were loads of film crews and press photographers snapping away too - one of who insisted on ramming his camera lens into my face whilst we were on the dancefloor - somebody's going to be getting a very dodgey video of my drunken dancing... I just hope the cameraman doesn't YouTube it... o_O

Me with Christie: our key to a legendary night.

Artiste Sue (middle) raves it up with Christie and a girl whose name I can't for the life of me remember!

Me, Lydia, Lydia's boyfriend, Merv and The Girl Who Shall Not Be Named.

But that's not all! Being Sue's privileged guests, we got to go to the rooftop barbeque afterparty too! It's safe to say that by this end of the night, the free drinks had been flowing for long enough to have effect, and it wasn't long before the afterparty soon degenerated into a MASS ROOFTOP WATERFIGHT. Okay, I say "waterFIGHT", but that's clearly an understatement. This wasn't a fight. It was an ANNIHILATION. Hahaha - sure, it was juvenile, but it was FUN, and most of all... it was ACTUALLY QUITE WET. Sadly, jut a little (i.e. A LOT) too wet for photographs... (my camera was prudently/stupidly being stored in a restroom bin whilst the enslaught was going on!) but I'll let you imagine the scene for yourself: I literally looked like I'd taken a shower with my clothes on by the time we cabbed it back to Nakseongdae in the wee hours of the morning. But, it wasn't perspiration. Oh, no: it was Pure. Liquid. FUN. Hey! I was mixing with arty types now - it's the kind of thing they'd do "just for the inspiration", right? XD

Oh, and in other news, we've been invited on a camping trip to the North of Seoul next weekend by one of our friends from Itaewon! :D He's called Boug (nicknamed Jafar for his uncanny resemblance to Aladdin's Jafar when he's in his old man disguise XD), and is Korean, but works in a Canadian sports bar, where Merv has insisted on dragging me more than once to watch the Ashes... apparently he's getting together with some Korean friends of his who live in London, and so asked us to come along too! Suh-weeeeeet! ...it seems that even something as lame as watching the cricket can reap benefits, then! :P