and a nice lake pond thing in the middle of it all... with a weird squating guy also in the picture... he just stayed like that for a while... we didnt really hang out that long to see what was going on but still absolutly gorgious... oh and brendan this is what you guys passed up on ^_^
Thursday, April 17, 2008
view
and once I managed to do just that this is the view of the small city that lies just north of rome, very nice and all, but where we where standing overlooked a high way and that particular spot was littered with bottles and cans and other refuse, still a nice view
other hill
I have a whole set of these but this one came out the best, just every body cursing up this little grassy noll to another hill tope, john olsen is in the forground, and then I had to catch up with them
hill
and here was a nice flat hill top we came to after pedling up hill, taking x number of wrong paths and being reminded that unisex bike seats are filthy filthy lies
ruin
ok now see those arcehs on the botom... look at the one all the way to the left, yeah. we road through this thing which is longer than the picture shows, it was awsome, your in very narow very low vaulted arches and not knowing where your going, awsome
ladies
and the girls where having fun... though a bit winded at this point... and would probably do me bodily harm if they new i posted this one
schweet
and this is us crusing into villa ada, a little blury but not bad for still being on the bike... with no sort of suspension or front breaks (they where there but just squeeked)
fanny pack
and here is roberto, in spandex, with a rainbow coloured fany pack, at the beggining of the bike tour, with brandon cracking up for all the aformentiond reasons
view
and this is the actual sun set a little to the south of st peters this is looking across to trastevere, just a little bit of light still
view of the alter of the hevans
and this is looking twards sain peter from the same church during sunset, very nice
view
and this is the view of the capoline museum from st marys of the alter of the hevans, the marcus arillius statue is just off to the left(the funky copy) but you cant see it really and the lights also had just kicked on
rome
just some random ruins down by largo argentina aka the cat sanctuary, just thought it looked cool
observitory
ok so this sits on one of the hills behind the olympic stadium, it looks very cool but you can't get to it by any means of public transportation... and people who have told me they climed up the hill said it just has a big fence around it and couldnt get in, reagardless it looks very cool
bag
ok so you cant see them but there are flies buzzing around this bag some one left in the court yard... originaly suposed to be a metal gear solid smelly guy joke...
boromini
ok so this is the court yard of st ivo in rome, the original site of the college of rome, the white enclosed dome and lantern are done by boromini, the second bigest heavy hitter of the baroque who impailed himself on a sword and if that didn't tip you off, never really caught a break. however this is one of his master peices and the spiraling lanter can be seen from a good deal of the city... asuming your high up or on an open street
this guy
well not really, this is why they where all flying around and panicy for that first picture... fortunetly no one got pooped on, but it was distracting when some one was trying to give there presentation
dome
and here is another baroque illusionistic dome in the gesu church (mother church of jesuit order IHS, Black pope, those guys) any who the church was originaly bare as that the ihs was big on vows of poverty and not so much the materialistic stuff, however as the high baroque stoped building churches with domes that could be painted, the late baroque fresco artists where comisioned to paint the blank spots in older churches, usualy those of the ihs or similar orders
cipro
ok so this is walking from my apartment to cipro(chee pro) the metro stop that my lazy self usualy takes to school, from the hill you can just make out the dome of st peters over the tree line, so thats how close to the vatican I live, oh and motorini every where
fever
ok so then the next evening I was going to go out and do the exact same thing... but some whre around 5 i started feeling really tierd, and cold, and while i was just about to head out for the evening i got really really really cold, and realized I had a fever... so I spent the next two and a half days in bed, hallucinating and trying to stay hydrated... thus far least productive weekend in rome, this was probably about three weeks ago now and one of the main reasons for the lack of updates. sorry, though i'm feeling much better now
one night
ok so to inventory, three platic manaquin things, one suit caise, some metal rod things, three broken umbrella's and a mirror(the umbrella sticking out of the suitcaise works wonderfuly, was a gift from a friend, and kept me dry while finding the rest of the stuff), i think i only wound up using the broken umbrellas, suitcase and mirror but still a successfull evening...
tag
Its dark so of course the colors are a bit off but still a very nice tag none the less, and hasnt been painted over or scrubed off... though technicaly being in "china town", what is in truth just the area with the most dense imigrant population(mostly indian and south asian) i guess the athorites don't really care even though this is only three blocks from the main train station
this guy
and scouring the streets one night for materials I came acrose some very nice tags/portraits
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
brandon a prelude
and here is but a prelude of the craziness to ensue, the "hat" is actually a purse that appears to made from a wookie, was given to us one night by a man by a dumpster as the three of us split some monitors that where tossed out, needless to say it is now a hat resembling something from the wizard of oz generic bad guy collection housing a harpo marx horn. the get up is the same as most of the garbage/road crew people around the city minus the special colors and insignias that tell you who they work for... and what is this all for you ask. well stay tuned and you'll be sure to find out
roberto
Roberto Manenno, sculpture professor extraordinare, you'll see more of him, a fun guy who takes us on lots of fun little excursions, thats him wearing one of liz's projects on his head while discussing what was to be done with it... not a bad solution... though the final result with fishing line and tea lights looks better... I have a bunch of really blurry ones of him making goofy faces but well like I said blurry
diving board
and here we have the largest surviving equestrian monument that the popes didn't melt down to make their own statues it is of Marcus arilious and is on a diving board for some reason, while an especially heinous copy sits outside where this one used to be, apparently it was made from a digital scan of this, thus explaining its strange proportions
alter of the heavans
ok so this is the view from the expensive cafe attached to the capoline museum, looking back at the Vittorio Emanuel monument and saint Mary's of the alter of the heavens, my favorite church by far... haven't been inside yet but no matter, you'll see why I like it so much in subsequent posts
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
last one
it really stretches for about 5 blocks so its a fairly expansive place, this one i think conveys that sense of distance nicely
more
there are actual trees just growing in the middle of this thing and they made holes in the roof for them too
still at night
it actually is just a really cool place at night... though arguably the fish section smells funky, and there are always some high school punks tagging stuff, though nothing good
market at night
ah the market, home to my easter shinanagins, those crates will show up later but for starters I just made a line out of them and took a picture
skype
ah the wonders that are the almost video phone home of strange discolorations and long delays, actually i had a good five minuets before this image refreshed so plenty of time to take a snap shot
more narccism
my "work" clothing worn for scavenging the streets for materials and other nefarious activities
door
I just really dug this door and the apparent art deco interior only hinted at by the lighting... everything is closed sunday morning
why I dont run when it rains
the foot path along the tiber is my preferred running route, which is not visible in this picture due to the fact that it is currently under water (rather was when this picture was taken), the cobble stone that heads south from this point is terrible to run on but its all concrete if you head north, I usually run till i get to the fourth bridge up from ponte regina margherita that runs to piazza del popolo from the vatican just one south of the lock bridge
tiber
this is what the tiber looks like after it rains, granted the walls keep it from flooding the city but it does flood the paths that run along side of it and the water usualy stays up for a few days
scrible
so this is the very last sol lewitt picture to be posted sorry for no finished picture of the ink piece but cest la vi, this one is all done with tiny marks made with HB pencil lead, wim, the follicly lacking individual in the picture was calling the shots on this one, what happened was after sachi left, I managed to get really really sic and spent a few days in bed so I didn't get to help her finish and I generally did not participate in this piece i think i was there all of two days, and still a little under the weather for one of those, the bummer is that the museum did not if fact, contrary to what was promised, invite us to the opening of the exhibit and has thus far provided very little documentation, a vague reference in an article is all we have so far. but meh. this one does not look as cool as the other and was much less fun to work on so no real need to delve further into it
Sunday, April 6, 2008
tag
a much more interesting, though I still like the other colors tag in trestevera very well done and there will be more to follow
sculpture
this is the very small and very equipment less sculpture studio, and these are most of the characters who usually populate it, roberto, our professor who manages to get us into places for free and insane discounts on other things just managed to get a box of fabric scraps from "the" fabric place in rome a lot of high end fashion stuff is made from their stock, well the rome stuff any way milan is the true fasion capital
balloon
none of the shots of how this came into my possession came out but, I was walking back from school one evening and saw this thing bing tossed about by passing cars in an intersection and thought it was rather cool, and as I was crossing the street it blew into my hands, needless to say it is a very cool balloon, with tire marks on one side even.
pipeorgan
and they added this behemoth, and they where tuning it when we where there making it all the more surreal with strange atonal sounds filling the space and then that gent there rocking out for a bit, I have a video but do ont have the soft wear to post it... working on that one
roman baths
of course they made it into a church, thats what they do and fill it with all the pretty marble inlays too
occulus
not the pantheon but part of the roman baths and actually predates the pantheon with the whole occulus thing
just so you know whats really important
in the same church, and since all of my pictures came out blurry and most of you are not in fact art history majors, and if you are probably do not like the baroque period any way, here is what I couldn't get a good shot of http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/dennis/Visual_Arts/02-Baroque_Bernini_Ecstasy-of-St-Theresa.jpg
bernnini
this is the ceiling of the church where the ecstasy of st Teresa is, one fo the most baroque churches i have been in yet and the pipe organ looks good too
pope's tomb
this is a tomb done by bernini, there is actually a door that this is on top of, which bernini simply used to have a momento mori come through, see all the colored marble? yeah thats the pricey stuff
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