Photos from Toulouse June 30, 2007
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(1) A park in Toulouse. I love how people pack the benches, just to be outside and enjoy the sunshine. (2) A church in Toulouse. It’s probably famous. I like the row of support pillars right down the middle of the church - it creates a much more oppressive feeling than in churches like Notre Dame with flying buttresses. (3) I want a riverside park like this to hang out in. (4) Scratch that, I want my backyard to look like this park. (5) Look at the combination of wood and bricks and the warping of the wood. You can tell this building is ancient. (6) One of the many picturesque streets in Toulouse (7) My God, baked Camembert and fig is good (8) The town center in Toulouse (9) Three French fans of Beauty and the Geek
Your thoughts?Photos from Venice May 4, 2007
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(1) The Grand Canal, (2) a side canal, (3,4,5) Venice at night, (6) Arriving at the Piazza San Marco, (7) Basilica di San Marco, (8) Palazzo Ducale, (9, 10) Piazza San Marco, (11) Traffic light in Venice, (12) I am not sure what this sign means
Your thoughts?Florence photos April 30, 2007
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The Duomo took my breath away when I first saw it. It towers over the city and the ornate details of all the different shades of marble are like nothing I’d ever seen. I can’t even imagine the time, and money, and talent that it must have taken to build
I spent most of my day at the Basilica de San Croce. It holds Michelangelo’s tomb, Galileo’s tomb (which is pretty elegant – I wonder how long after his death it took for him to be really celebrated), and Machiavelli’s tomb, among others. There are still frescoes inside from centuries ago as well as a stunning art collection.
The Piazza della Signorina is most famous for Neptune’s fountain and Michelangelo’s David (the original now being inside the Uffizi for safekeeping), but there is also the Signorina’s statuary. Some of the statues are from the second century AD – nearly ten times as old as the United States. And they’re just standing out in the open. I spent a while just standing in the middle of the square imagining what it was like to be there hundreds of years ago. I saw some children playing on the steps of the Basilica de San Marco and realized that five hundred years ago, there were probably other children doing the exact same thing.
The Ponte Vecchio, with its famous overhanging shops. Originally lined with noisy butcher shops, the Medicis had them replaced with silver and gold smiths who, to this day, sell extraordinarily beautiful and extraordinarily expensive jewelry to passersby. If I lived here, I would still be rowing.
I like this photo. It’s got potential if I retouch it a bit. I would have preferred to take it from another angle, but access to the cemetary was restricted.
Sunset from the Piazzale Michelangelo.
Your thoughts?Beauty and the Geek in New York: Behind the scenes (day 3) February 1, 2007
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We wrapped up last week’s trip with a visit to the Keith Ablow show. It was neat wandering around inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, even if the bathrooms weren’t as nice as I expected. Seriously, having seen the lobby, I expected better.
The green room for the Keith Ablow show
Haha Scooter!
Haha Nate!
Haha Jennylee!
I’m getting beautified
Nate’s getting prettified
The male contingent backstage at the Keith Ablow show. Nate eats babies.
Beauty and the Geek in New York: Behind the scenes (day 2) January 31, 2007
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While Day 1 was a little slow, Day 2 picked up with Scooter, Megan, Jennylee, and I on the WPIX morning news. Nate and Cecille headed off to TRL, and I think the girls had a radio show that afternoon. I spent the afternoon buying a new coat because the jacket I brought from California was not cutting it in the -10 degree weather. By the end of my visit, the mid twenties felt warm.
There was a brief moment when we considered watching last week’s episode in our hotel room, but we decided a cast party at McFadden’s Saloon would be a much better option.
There’s plenty of room for dancing, as long as you’re creative!
Beauty and the Geek in Times Square!
