Sky scrapers pierced the clouds like titans standing guard. I stood motionless as an ant in awe of mans achievements. Here in Incheon's new city I felt for the first time in my life that I was a mere time traveler from a distant past. Korea, having been a baby to the world, has finally achieved it's man hood and taken rank among the mammoths of industry. There is a vision of the vox populi that has driven this pinnacle city into creation where public conveniences mesh with future ideology. Fascinating bows and oblique beams formed fashionably into architectural miracles. I have never seen such beauty in buildings. It was only fitting that the area be named the world of tomorrow. I strolled into the information hall, both doors automatically parting with a smoothness that tingled my ears. I entered into an enormous lobby like area. Pillars of lights that changed colors fluidly, gave a soothing and tranquil atmosphere. A subtle ambient like music whispered gently to every inch of the first floor. I was directed to a free tour portraying the new architecture that the city would soon give birth to. This tour also included a glimpse of the robots that would soon run the thousands of manual labor positions required for the up keep of these giants. My future lore has been to this point composed of only movies, books, and dreams but only now have I seen first hand what is to come. The first room on the tour was a replica of a standard middle to upper class living quarters that will be implemented when construction finishes. The paintings that cluttered the walls were reminiscent of giant i-pod touches. In the center of the living room sat a table top mainframe or the brain of the house so to speak. From here one could essentially change the mood, pictures, music, scenery, and any other decor. I have placed a video of me operating just one function of the brain that I thought was a lot of fun.
The next room had a 3D TV in it where you sat in the center of a black ring like bubble and watched your favorite characters come to life jumping off the screen and onto your lap or shoulders. If I was to ever lose my mind I'd imagine that watching 3D TV would be spot on to what my day to day hallucinations would be like. I also found out that I can watch a penguin dance on my hand while speaking in Korean for around twenty four hours before getting bored with it. The only way I can think of describing the next room is by comparing what was in the center to the black plateau from 2001 space odyssey except you could walk inside it. Once inside it measured your weight, body heat, health, strength, and pretty much the size and color of your underwear. You told the inanimate lifeless robot what you would like your body to appear like and then it sent data and information to a tread mill next to it and also gave you a schedule of your cardio exercises you would need to commence. The tread mill although being indoor let you walk in a virtually created environment. It greeted you in an affectionate tone by name and even gave the eerie appearance of being capable of small talk. It stuck with the mundane socially retarded conversations such as how are you feeling today? Or it has been awhile since you have done this hike...do you miss the mountains? The machine was trying to make this activity as naturalistic as possible to give you the false comfort of actually thinking you were walking outside. Even though you are truly indoors away from everything that is really human in the world. The kicker to this whole experience is that you are linked online to millions of other joggers and walkers to where you can walk with someone from the other side of the world on a virtually created mountain. Hopefully they will implement this technology into the World of Warcraft massive multiplayer online game so that the hours that they spend walking from quest to quest on their character are actually used exercising. We would have professional gamers that looked like they could have starred in the movie "300". Honestly then gaming wouldn't be as much of a waste of time as working out would be. One quick tangent i promise...I really hate socially retarded people that keep coming up to you after you show them a bit of kindness....they hang around starring at you blankly waiting for you to talk to them. During these times I fantasize about having magic abilities. Only so I could turn those people into dogs and then pat them on the head and say "good dog" and then go back to work. Dogs stare at you for hours on end but they are so cute and the reason why they aren't speaking is because they can't. Back to the Future though, the final room had a white egg looking seat with an LCD touch screen positioned at eye level centered directly in front of you. A camera sat in three different places surrounding your head and it would digitally recreate your face into a virtual environment. The reason being that you can test new hair styles, clothes, accessories, and even tattoos if you'd like. Instead of taking the leap this machine allows you to get an idea of what fashions and styles would look good on you. I just messed around with the facial reconstruction software. People in Korea are obsessed with plastic surgery. I would say about fifty percent of the woman have gotten their eyelids done. Apparently Asians don't have double eyelids like the rest of the women in the world so they get a surgery to have it. You wouldn't notice it until someone tells you about it once and then you see it everywhere. Nose jobs and eye jobs are about as common as churches in Korea. If one were to leap from a plane to kill themselves in South Korea there is a ninety percent chance they will land on a church, in fact I bet there is a fifty percent chance they would be impaled on a cross. If they don't land on a church then they land on a plastic surgeons door step. Anyways with this new nifty little device they can try all the operations they want on their face and body.
I did a couple of virtual reality tours that were really fun and very involved to where you had a hand device that acted similar to the 3D TV. At one point there was a virtual fire and an extinguisher appeared in my hands that I had to use on the fire to help out. It was a lot of fun and you got to use a lot of other cool tools like a fishing rod, a flashlight, and a gun. I took a picture to give you an idea of what I am talking about.
After the tour was over I took a look at a lot of the robots and what their purposes were. It was a lot of fun and they even had insect robots too. I posted pictures below.
At the end of the tour I decided to take the stairs up instead of down to where an exit sign caught my eye. The hallway was dimly lit from the flickering neon like sign. I walked through an almost transparent door that led to a terrace on the roof looking over the entire city. The night covered my body and my pupils enlarged adjusting to the void of light. The wind brushed cold against my face but I took no notice to its ploy to pull me from the moment. I was only operating one sense at that time and I deadened my body in meditation. All around me were those same titan buildings looking down upon me. I stood surrounded. Only at night do they truly show off their true beauty. Florescent greens and blues climbed their sides decoratively. It looked like beams of light were raining down from the clouds. Streams of data being sent from other worlds fell like rain pounding upon the earths surface. Bridges in the distance looked like communication beacons sending people and coded messages to distant planets in dancing rays of light. Then I looked at the spectacle below me, it was as if the cities underbelly had been painted with Christmas lights. They twinkled and shined as if they were an entity of some sort communicating with other light creatures. In this one moment I simply smiled and exhaled knowing the reason why I had traveled again. We rarely escape our instilled realities. We are so consumed with superficial identities that we become them. Then for some reason we stop searching and journeying. In these moments that we throw caution to the wind we are perfect and complete. We are happy like children and filled with laughter that now only whispers within us. Our joys are sharing these moments with each other and with ourselves. I hope my blog gives you that extra nudge to leap and free yourself to do what you want. I hope you find the courage to make the change you've been wanting. I hope you all have good travels and make great friendships. Most of all I wish that you find love and happiness wherever you are. Only when we step back from the rush of our lives do we truly understand what is important. I'm lucky to have everything I have in my life especially my loving parents who are still happily married and the best brother I could have ever imagined. I also have the most amazing girl on earth as a girlfriend. Sorry to get very emotional but I had a dream the other night about my grandmother and it was the first time I actually woke up and cried. My grandma was alive and walking around a farm. I was following her close as a baby duck would its mother. I knew she was getting close to dying and I felt scared and deathly afraid of losing her. We had a giant goose that had characteristics of a grandmother too. It really loved my grandma more than it loved anyone on the farm....it was actually now that I think about it mother goose. She had beautiful grey curly hair and wore glasses that hung on the tip of her bill. She kept on nuzzling her head onto my grandmas side because she loved her so much and she wanted her to be happy in her final moments. The goose kept on helping her if she had trouble walking. Finally I thought it was so amazing and adorable that I asked my grandma if I could take a picture of her doing it. I started crying really bad knowing it was a fleeting moment and that I would never see her again. She just looked at me and smiled warmly....but the goose got very angry when I took the picture. The goose would show up as a stuffed animal bear and my grandmother didn't look the same either, her face was distorted in the picture. I was so consumed with trying to capture the moment on film that I wasn't enjoying every second of it. I think the dream was saying that you can't capture beautiful moments like this, so experience them as fully as possible so that they stay with you forever. I love you all. I hope everyone is doing well.
This was a TV in a balloon that kids could hit like a pinata. It was pretty much indestructible 
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