Here is my video for July. I take you through a popular area in Seoul near Ewha University. It's been a very hot summer out here in Korea, so getting some good street food when the cool night air starts to settle is much needed.
Enjoy!
July Video from Mark Ratto on Vimeo.
...get Lost my friends.
7.30.2012
7.03.2012
Wedding Video
Here's some advice: hire a talented videoagrapher for your wedding. It's not about price or equipment with these kinds of things. It's about talent.
With that being said, our wedding video is super good.
http://vimeo.com/inhousegoods
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...get Lost my friends.
With that being said, our wedding video is super good.
Elysabeth & Mark's Wedding 06022012 from inhousegoods on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/inhousegoods
http://www.facebook.com/inhousegoods
...get Lost my friends.
6.25.2012
May Video
On June 2nd, I experienced incredible love. The kind of love that only comes around, well, once in a lifetime.
Elysabeth and I had a wedding in a backyard. Her backyard, in fact. The home her family has lived in for almost 15 years stands at over 120 years old. Sits on an acre lot. And provides the perfect setting for an occasion.
We returned to the states from Seoul for just over a month to prep. But, it's funny, no matter how much you prep for a wedding, there really is no telling how it'll turn out.
To be honest, our expectations were high. Shoot, Elysabeth's mom and aunt had been working quite diligently for over six months prior while we were still abroad. And in our month back, we worked overtime to get all the details squared away. So, with that in mind, we expected the shindig to run pretty smooth.
It did, of course, run smooth. The weather was Southern California perfection. The food was great. The dance party stayed bumpin'. And all aspects seemed to work out.
But at the end of the night, we didn't talk about any of that. All we kept saying was, "There was so much love out there tonight."
It is a powerful thing when over 320 people make a trip (some came from Australia, Canada, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee, New York..all over the place) to your backyard and express their love. Elysabeth and I were overwhelmed at the amount of smiling faces, huge hugs and sincere sentences of love we received.
We understand that this was to celebrate our marriage, but we can't help but feel like it was about so much more.
The video below recaps the month and shows a time-lapse clip of the actual wedding. Enjoy...
...get Lost my friends.
Elysabeth and I had a wedding in a backyard. Her backyard, in fact. The home her family has lived in for almost 15 years stands at over 120 years old. Sits on an acre lot. And provides the perfect setting for an occasion.
We returned to the states from Seoul for just over a month to prep. But, it's funny, no matter how much you prep for a wedding, there really is no telling how it'll turn out.
To be honest, our expectations were high. Shoot, Elysabeth's mom and aunt had been working quite diligently for over six months prior while we were still abroad. And in our month back, we worked overtime to get all the details squared away. So, with that in mind, we expected the shindig to run pretty smooth.
It did, of course, run smooth. The weather was Southern California perfection. The food was great. The dance party stayed bumpin'. And all aspects seemed to work out.
But at the end of the night, we didn't talk about any of that. All we kept saying was, "There was so much love out there tonight."
It is a powerful thing when over 320 people make a trip (some came from Australia, Canada, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee, New York..all over the place) to your backyard and express their love. Elysabeth and I were overwhelmed at the amount of smiling faces, huge hugs and sincere sentences of love we received.
We understand that this was to celebrate our marriage, but we can't help but feel like it was about so much more.
The video below recaps the month and shows a time-lapse clip of the actual wedding. Enjoy...
May Video & Wedding Prep from Mark Ratto on Vimeo.
...get Lost my friends.
6.20.2012
Making a Bed
Today, I made a bed. Generally, like anybody, this task produces a little grumble. It is quite annoying trying to pull each corner without the opposite corner flying up and ruining everything. This task has plagued me since I was young.
Today, I made a bed much the same way. I started at one corner, lifted the mattress and slipped the elastic corner of the sheet right into place. The next step would be at the diagonally opposite corner, naturally. But when I started heading over to that way, a beautiful woman walked into the room and took hold of that sheet. She promptly lifted the mattress, and slipped the sheet in. Perfection. That woman is my wife. We got married three weeks ago and in that moment, as she smirked and walked to the next corner, I understood.
Today, I made the best bed possible.
...get Lost my friends.
Today, I made a bed much the same way. I started at one corner, lifted the mattress and slipped the elastic corner of the sheet right into place. The next step would be at the diagonally opposite corner, naturally. But when I started heading over to that way, a beautiful woman walked into the room and took hold of that sheet. She promptly lifted the mattress, and slipped the sheet in. Perfection. That woman is my wife. We got married three weeks ago and in that moment, as she smirked and walked to the next corner, I understood.
Today, I made the best bed possible.
...get Lost my friends.
5.23.2012
Biking to Busan
The Korean peninsula consists of two countries, North and South Korea. Seoul, South Korea's capital, is located about 150 miles south of the border between the two estranged countries.
Thus making Seoul the biggest city in the Northern part of South Korea. The country's second biggest city resides in the southern most part of South Korea, named Busan.
With that thrilling geography lesson behind us, I can get to the point...
I RODE MY BIKE ACROSS KOREA!!!!
The video below tells about the journey.
...get Lost my friends.
Thus making Seoul the biggest city in the Northern part of South Korea. The country's second biggest city resides in the southern most part of South Korea, named Busan.
With that thrilling geography lesson behind us, I can get to the point...
I RODE MY BIKE ACROSS KOREA!!!!
The video below tells about the journey.
...get Lost my friends.
5.04.2012
One Paragraph for April
So, my April skipped on by while I sprinted behind it, trying to catch up. The gist of last month can be summed up by the fact that I was in the midst of transitioning out of my 3 part-time jobs, signing a contract for a new job (P.E. teacher at English Speaking Highschool in Seoul), wrapping up 4 free-lance articles, sending my fiance off to America to plan for our wedding on June 2nd, getting ripped (muscle wise) for my beachside honeymoon in Mexico and a three-day 250-mile bike ride across South Korea. And in the middle of that still enjoying life amongst the wonderful people in Seoul. Needless to say, it was busy, but oh-so-good. I will never have another time like that, I presume, and because of that, May stands to be all-the-better as I joined my fiance in the states for wedding prep. Moral of the story, life can hop, skip, rush, jump, breeze and/or fly on by, but that's the only way I would want it.
...get Lost my friends.
(PS-Bike trip video to come soon)
4.02.2012
Video for March
This is not my video, it is our video. By 'our', I mean the people that officially make me look cool. It's been a tough job, but they have stuck with it. And now I can legitimately say I belong to a photo club.
I know, that is obnoxiously cool, but hey, it feels so good when you say it.
The video below is something we made in about 3 hours while posted up in a really unique cafe near Insadong in Seoul, Korea. One of the best aspects of Korea is the cafe culture. We bought maybe 10 bucks worth of coffee and they let us occupy a whole corner of the place for way too long without any fuss from the workers.
The people in the video, by order of appearance, are Joanne Chun, me, Hannah Yoon, Michael Holmes, Lee Ann Baughn and Elysabeth Hahm.
Enjoy!
...get Lost my friends.
I know, that is obnoxiously cool, but hey, it feels so good when you say it.
The video below is something we made in about 3 hours while posted up in a really unique cafe near Insadong in Seoul, Korea. One of the best aspects of Korea is the cafe culture. We bought maybe 10 bucks worth of coffee and they let us occupy a whole corner of the place for way too long without any fuss from the workers.
The people in the video, by order of appearance, are Joanne Chun, me, Hannah Yoon, Michael Holmes, Lee Ann Baughn and Elysabeth Hahm.
Enjoy!
...get Lost my friends.
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