Wed, Apr 13, 2011 – 07:39
On Sunday of the Florence trip, I walked in to town from the youth hostel and went to the Galleria dell’Accademia to see the David sculpture. The wait wasn’t as long as I had expected, but the museum was disappointingly devoid of the quantity of famous art in other museums. The plaster original of “Rape [...]
Saturday was Siena at the suggestion of people at work. At breakfast, I talked with a German engineering student who was making a tour of Europe. He was startlingly happy to be able to speak German with somebody, I guess he was kind of starved for it after being in Italy. After breakfast I packed up and [...]
Wed, Mar 30, 2011 – 22:41
I arrived in Florence Wednesday evening, and after an hour and a half of trying to figure out which bus to take to the outskirts of town, I finally got to my youth hostel and sorted out keys etc. I was ready to flop into bed when the American girl sharing my room showed up [...]
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 – 20:28
Friday I showed up in Germany to visit with my square dance partner and go to a dance weekend at the “western city” in the Harz mountains. He had some things to take care of in the afternoon, so I spent a while visiting with a cat who comes and begs for food at his [...]
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 – 09:52
Here’s my quarter projects in summary: Art History final project: Produce a fake Gothic artifact and write a paper explaining what you have produced. I used RIT’s extensive Cary Collection to photograph real Gothic manuscripts and then photoshop them together. I consider it to be using the medieval philosophy of copying the masters. During my [...]
Career Skills started the week off at 8am on Monday, but was tolerable as Therese was perky and encouraging as usual. She’s going to be having us work on our portfolios, resumes, and the rest of the materials we’ll need for marketing ourselves in the spring. She started off by having us write up a [...]
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 – 14:06
Saturday was the celebration of Luther’s wedding in Wittenberg, so I went to check it out. Once I got there, I realized it would have been a good idea to do research – there were at least two large churches in town, and postcard stands had a distinct lack of poscards with doors on them. [...]
Wed, May 27, 2009 – 09:32
I definitely wasn’t paying attention when I volunteered to report on the photographer Helmut Newton for my photography class. 90% of his work seems to be debatable whether it’s pornography or art, and I try to stay away from artists like that. Nonetheless, the research for my report has been interesting, seeing in what ways [...]
So, yesterday I went to the middle ages market in Roßlau, about 3 km from here. Since ren faires in the US seem to run from 9-5, and the Sterling Ren Faire I went to last year was huge, I wanted to jump up and go early to spend the whole day there. Since Janine [...]
Mon, Apr 27, 2009 – 21:50
I took what was supposed to be a bike tour today, but our tour guide decided that he felt more like walking, so we spent 3 hours listening to our slow-speaking guide explain in rambling detail about the sights of the area while we walked to 3 locations in town. The Georgium house, near the [...]
