it's interactive. it's modern. it's art.

a piece by some roman artist titled "guil, the blur" on display now at the museum of contemporary art in rome. the macro. check it out.

radman comes to rome

friday. march 17th. 2006.

uhhh...

So yesterday Jennie, Radman and I were walking around the isola tiberina and on the banks of the tiber I kid you not. Was part of a human bone. actually we found more than one. At this point what do we do but freak out take a picture and run away....

un bar troppo trendy

lunch at the es hotel... spremuta? yes. overpriced? yes. amazing? yes.

do over? yes.

bravissimo

The Staatsoper in Wien, Austria. Home of the weinerschnitzel.

After bitching to the concierge about the fact that they lost our tickets to the previous nights' performace of La Traviatta, yours truly, had a sit down with the hotel manager Gabriella Benz. Not only did she offer us (free) box seats to the Coppelia, the ballet playing that night but she also snuck a bottle of red wine in our room while we were at the ballet. Ms. Benz, thank you for your extremely attentive service, Guil is happy.

where's waldo?

So I realize it has been a while since I last posted. Time has been flying by it seems like just yesterday I was still having trouble ordering a bar of soap from the lady at the soap store, oh wait that was yesterday. OK so the italian hasn't caught on as well as I had hoped but I think I've made some significant strides lately...

Basically here is a rundown of what I've been doing for the past two weeks: Studio. Most people think that students studying abroad rarely ever do any work. Well they clearly aren't thinking with us architecture students in mind. Another reason why it's been so long since I've updated is because when I'm not in studio I'm falling in love over and over with this city. It's amazing, I realize my view must be somewhat skewed as I'm living in one of the best piazzas in rome and I don't really have to worry about any of the day to day issues that romans have to deal with. I'm already going through severe cafe withdrawl, just the thought of starbucks gives me the shakes. Prosciutto, Prosecco, Campari, Mozzarella. Why am I leaving?

This is the life.

say cheese, feta that is...

greece. holy shitake... amazing. does my face look fat in this picture?

The Fresh Hotel in Athens.

The freshest thing to happen since the feta cheese stand next door gave way to a whore house (Yes, that is in fact what that little building next door is.

Greeks are so quirky. Ha.

Take a look at the exciting Fresh bathroom, if it were any fresher, towel heaters would have been needed. In Greece?! C'mon now.

John Pawson-esque minimalism at it's best. This is a hotel folks, an afforable(ish) one! The only shame was that we missed the chocolates on our pillow every day because we were in the room napping everytime they knocked on our door. Sad face.




Yassas!

We're secretly (or not) laughing at the crazy lady in the background.

London Town

Jennie and I at some random club in London. We're sporting every color of the rainbow. I know

wow

We used to have this car. In 1986. ha

me encanta la basura europea. part I

pictures of the two amazing hotels I'm spring breaking in:

The first the Le Meridien in Vienna

















http://vienna.lemeridien.com


The second the Fresh Hotel in Athens, yes that's right it's fresh.



























Fresh. http://freshotel.gr

why we love stanley hallet:

he's not afraid to use students and their new prada jackets to show how forces are distributed through the structure of one of venice's gothic churches.

happy birthday to me.

backtracking a little bit to jan 28th. pit stop:roma. and it was my birthday as well. We went to Coco an amazing little restaurant where all of the attractive romans eat. I discovered the little unmarked door while walking back from the pantheon one day. Hmm I thought to myself wouldn't I look good sitting on those espresso colored leather chairs? I had a great time, the food was great, good people and great eye candy. The walls were filled with pictures of nude people. go europe.

download this.

So some people went up to trastever to play soccer this morning.I say morning but really we all woke up at 1:30 in the afternoon. I chose to stay in and blog for a bit until they come back. We're planning on doing some shopping soon so I didn't want to wear myself out. hehe

last night jennie and I went to this amazingly quaint but very contemporary restuarant called coco. reasonably priced, great food etc... but in the end we had to leave when it got really awkward that the peple in front of us realized we were talking about them. good times.

www.hello.com
www.picasa.com

these are two awesome programs that let people organize and share their pictures. do it!

where I live

Campo di fiore in the late afternoon as the market comes to a close, the second building on the right with the little cafe at the bottom of it is where the apartment is at, and this is the view from our student lounge

studio

So this is our studio. The brick wall at the back is a medieval tower they discovered and restored during a renovation in the '80s. It houses the student lounge and coincidentally is built on top of the spot where the emperor would have sat while watching a play at the ancient roman theater our building is built on top of.

How fitting. he he

photo-adventures

so I live in the centro storico. it's kind of an old area. my apartment is in a building that is at least 300 years old. today the building manager signor cesto came into my room to observe a nice little crack forming in the wall. all i could pick up on was ingeniere strutura problema. the way i see it is if the romans can build monuments that last thousands of years, my quant little building can make it for a couple hundred more. I'm about 2 blocks away for the palazzo farnese now the french embassy, piazza navona and about 4 blocks away from this little building you might have heard of; the pantheon? the only place to get internet here is in studio. fortunately it's very close to where I live; 4 buildings down to be exact in a little building called the palazzo pio.yeah, that's right it's a palazzo. the student lounge, is in a medieval tower. it's ok. many people feel the same pangs of jealousy you're experiencing right now. but brace yourself, it will only get worse as the days go by. in italy the government mandates sales on all clothing at certain times of the year right after the holidays means it's time for the sales to begin. I got here just in time...

routina giornaliera

8:00 Snooze

9:15 Shower and sometimes, shave

9:45 Un cappucino e un corneto per favore
two weeks later, laura, knows how we take our coffee

10:30 Wander through rome, sketching our fingers off
I take some picture, I sketch a little less

11:00 There's a line to get into gucci, where am I?

ora comincia

after two weeks of being in roma I can finally sit down, breathe, and start a blog


normale.