verredeterre

Thanksgiving

2008-12-02T13:47:00.000-08:00

My sister visited. It was great!! I don't have any pictures for some reason (sorry). She camein last week and we hung out alot, we went to an opera and watched some moies together. It was alot of fun. I'm sure she'll put her photos up on facebook, and when I get those I'll edit this post. We also had thanksgiving dinner together, it was nice to have someone here for that.

Sidenote: I heard that Webster won the turkey day game, yay!

This is what happens when I leave them alone

2008-12-02T13:39:00.000-08:00

I think I need to hire a babysitter. Seriously I came home the other day and Kaitlyn was taking this picture of Caitlin. Also when I looked through the photos I saw the top photo, which is a ransom for my scarf. Kaitlyn hid the scarf for a week because she was jealous that no one made a scarf and mailed it to her (people love me and send me things, thats not my fault) hehe. I know she was joking when she took it, but I'm glad to have my scarf back, I was worried she would start mailing it back in pieces or something crazy.

Damn Computer

2008-11-22T07:12:00.000-08:00

So I accidentally downloaded a virus that when I close internet explorer it closes all explorers. So when I try to upload images and after the images are uploaded I close the pop up and it closes the whole blog, therefore it does not save the images, and Ican not post right now because all my posts rely heavily on images. I will put up some good posts as soon as I can fix this......hopefully I can fix it by myself. I blame austria, if they let me watch tv shows for free then I wouldn't have to go to shady websites. In other news today is exactly one month from when I get back. I will be home before you know it. **excitement**

London

2008-11-08T08:00:00.000-08:00

We were in London over halloween and we found out about this club that wont let you in if you're not dressed crazy enough. It was really awesome and we got in for free. Also there was this band that's lead singer was wearing a fully sequined body suit (see secod picture). It was amazing! I asked where she got it and she said someone makes them for her, then I asked if I could borrow it and she said no. I dont think we're the sme size anyway. Also Caitlin Ayer (bottom picture far left) got second place in the apple bobbing contest, she won some cool things, including batman shower foam.

Proof

2008-11-08T07:57:00.000-08:00

Proof that I went to Paris, and ate a pizza while I was there.

Zombies + tunnels = bad idea

2008-11-08T07:46:00.000-08:00

These are photos from the Catacombs in Paris. It was really freaky being around all these bones. The ceiling was low and you were surrounded by bones, I was just glad that I didn't have to stay down there too long. I kept thinking of World War Z, when they talk about the tunnels under Paris and how during the zombie outbreak everyone went down there and then everyone got trapped and infected. I kept feeling like I would walk around a corner and see a zombie, or imagining how their moans would echo off the walls. Pont is, take my advice and during a zombie outbreak dont go into tunnels under anywhere, it was scary enough without any zombies.

Also in case you didn't notice because its not the best picture ever, the bottom one the skulls are in the shape of a heart. I thought it was sweet.

Versailles

2008-10-31T07:57:00.000-07:00

This was definately the highlight of my trip to paris, Jeff Koons at Versaille. I really like that the lobster is hung where another chandelier used to be. I like them hanging next to eachother like equals, it's just so ridiculous. Alot of people were really mad that all this ridiculous stuff was at Versailles, but I dont know if I would've gone if Jeff Koons' pieces weren't there.

Harold's Cubicle

2008-10-31T07:52:00.000-07:00

My mom sent me this photo of one of her co-workers cubicles. Some people did this for hs birthday. I never had sudden urges to be an accountant until I saw this (I guess the office has been tempting me for awhile).

Milan

2008-10-30T14:18:00.000-07:00

Some really awesome gaffiti in Milan. I dont really have anything else to say about it, besides that this was the highlight of my trip.

Guiness Book of Records Day

2008-10-30T13:38:00.000-07:00

One day a year, for the full day, Austrians gather together at the Prater (The permanent carnival) and break world records. It was pretty awesome. This is photo of the Guiness Book of records representative giving a guy the plaque for most people beat boxing at one time. There was also the longest schnitzel and A guy held the line for someone bungee jumping.

interesting

2008-10-30T13:34:00.000-07:00

So Lately I've been looking up artists that work in wax and I found this. I dont really know who it is, but they have a ton of photos of sculptures made out of the wax that covers gouda cheese. I thought it was very resourceful, this one is my favorite because you can really tell it's from the gouda wax. Though there are many other really great ones (including a dinosaur one), http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu/~burkett/WaxArt_files/image002.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu/~burkett/WaxArt.htm&h=323&w=431&sz=10&hl=en&start=5&um=1&usg=__bSi_QonkJxJsbERnVkPA94iTPRk=&tbnid=07NS4cWW82C2pM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwax%2Bart%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

The Jewish Cemetary

2008-09-27T09:20:00.000-07:00

this is the cemetary that I am doing my art project on. The cemetary is in a very bad state of disrepair. As you can see from most of the photos
This is one of the larger tombs that has been broken into probably by a homeless person. They proably wanted to sleep in it, see there is a green mattress thingy.
This is the graves of a more prominent family. The fron of the graves have been smashed in, probably vandalism, I dont think anyone could sleep in that space. Also you can see four holes on the top of the first grave, there used to be some symbol (not sure what) that was made out of brass. During the second world war the nazis came into the graveyard and stole allthe metal symbols off of the graves in order to melt down into amunition.
This isn't the best photo because of all the plants, but there is a wall there. This wall actuallycuts into the graveyard. During world war two the nazis dug out the graves that were here and tried to make some sort of bomb shelter. When they dug everything up they didn't let the jewish community take the bodies,they just came in with a digger and moved all the dirt and bones together to another location. Obviously they mixed everything up, and people could try and claim bones afterwards, but it was kind of pointless. The place where they moved the bones and dirt to was wherever there were other holes (from bombs). Now most of the bones are under Westbahnhoff (the west train station) and the part of the cemetary that they dug up has an apartment building on it.
As you can see the cmetary has not been treated nicely and we are trying to ring awareness to the situation through our art piece. If you know anyone that would like to contribute to this (i.e. donate money) please tell me.

Art Openings

2008-09-27T08:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos from the gallery walk. Again I dont really know the artists, so I'm sorry. But I think they are all very neat.

Sorry about these first two photos, I flipped them and it still loaded them sideways, I don't know why.

Gugging

2008-09-27T06:57:00.000-07:00

The gugging is a museum just outside of Vienna. We went there on a fieldtrip with my art history class. The artists here are mentally insane and therefore the work is really interesting and different. I am a horrible person though and don't remember any of the names of these people, so I'm sorry if you wanted to know more about them. I can tell you about the works a little though.
This person was drawing airplanes. He had a lot of drawings that were regular things that he drew in werd ways. I just really like that he drew them different each time.
This guy would just draw and draw until the page was completly black, then he would rip up the paper. So the onlyfinishd pieces they have by him are little scraps of black paper. I really like that the only things they could display were unfinished pieces.
This guy would draw and write at the same time. It would usually be a made up story bout him with some woman. They are also very large, this is just a small piece of the picture. I couldn't get the whole thing because it's lightly drawn, so you couldn't really see the image from far away.
I dont remember anything special about this guy. I just really like the repetitionof images.

This guy went to different cities and collected things that he found on the street and turned them into dolls. The top left is from Tokyo, top right is from New York, bottom left is Gotenborg, Schweden and bottom right is Phuket Thailand.

Piggy

2008-09-27T06:40:00.000-07:00

This is a giant piggy bank in the Prater. It made oinking noises.

Coin Operated Boy

2008-09-14T06:32:00.000-07:00

This is a street performer in Stephansplatz. When you put a coin in his box he begins to play his violin. It was really great, because he you could tell that he had practiced in order to really look machanized. He had very jerky movements. Also you know when wind up toys that play music start to wind down, and they are still playing the music, but it doesn't sound good because it's too slow? He even got that part down. Point of the story, he is my favorite.

Hundertwasser Haus

2008-09-14T06:04:00.000-07:00

We went to the Hundertwasser Haus, this is a picture of it, and of a model of one of Hundertwasser's villages. It was pretty interesting. He was all about curves, and not flat floors because he felt that's how we were supposed to experience the world, and by walking on flat floors we were depriving our feet of experiences.

Beograd

2008-09-14T05:39:00.000-07:00

I went to belgrade a couple weeks ago to visit vanja. It was a lot of fun, especially since I happened to be there the same time as the beer festival. Nothing too eventfull happened, but here's a lovely photo I took.

My Roommate

2008-09-11T01:12:00.000-07:00

So I know that I was worried about getting a bad roommate, and talked about it quit abit before I left. I had nothing to worry about. This is me and my roommate, Kaitlyn Breen. Not to be confused with Caitlin Ayer (previously pictured). Kaitlyn is really great, I couldn't of picked a better roommate myself. We have a nice relationship, hopefully it stays that way.

ThirstyThursdays

2008-09-11T00:50:00.001-07:00

So there is this school sponsered event called thirst thursdays. All we do is go to a bar that the student council decides. They usually reserve an area for us, and then we drink. Best studnt council event that I've ever been to. If you want to see more pictures, they will be posted on facebook. This is us waiting for the night bus afterwards. From left to right it's Karl, me, Tina, Caitlin and Phill.

Wien Museum 1

2008-09-08T10:20:00.000-07:00

This was a museum that talked about the roman city that was here before vienna. The Romans are pretty awesome, all the running water and everything. This was my favorite picture becuse it shows the artifacts and the current day equivelent. Although, that q-tip looks rather sharp