Harold's Cubicle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.