Denied: Signs of the Times
No Segways
Prague is so overrun with dopey tourists tilting around on Segways that custom signage is necessary:
Who you gonna call? I’m picturing two nerds with proton packs vacuuming up tourists.
Street Art Poland (Krakow, Warsaw)
Poland had some really neat stuff. Some obviously illegal tagging, others clearly commissioned. View and enjoy.
Outside of Krakow
Pacman 2.0 doesn’t run from ghosts, he makes them. (Warsaw)
Sedlec Ossuary
Wut.
Crazy, right? This is a chandelier made of 100% bona fide human femurs and scapulas and such (oh yes I did).
We took a day trip from Prague to the town of Kutna Hora for the primary purpose of visiting the creepy and amazing Sedlec Ossuary. In the 1800s, Catholic monks “artfully” arranged the remains of between 40,000 and 70,000 people in the ossuary. Most of the bones belonged to plague victims who died in the fourteenth and fifteenth century.
Make no bones about it – there were skulls everywhere. My mom used to be an anatomy professor so she was super into it. Honestly, we were too. It was macabre but also beautiful. Take a look: (more…)
Danger Zone
Living on the edge.
Blue Fox Budapest Bar Review
The Blue Fox is a hotel bar. I point this out because hotels are places where all kinds of people go. Including the kinds of people who would order a Cosmopolitan, or a Midori Sour. Which is all to say that from the get-go, hotel bars are a little bit hamstrung by the need to pander to a broad range of clientele used to sucking down syrupy abominations.
Does the Blue Fox succeed in rising above in the face of this adversity? Read on to find out.
Vienna Highlights
We recently spent five lovely days in Vienna. We thought the city was very beautiful and amazingly clean. Below are some of the highlights. We started off, as always, with some nighttime exploring:
Street Art Bratislava
We continue our street art series with some items from the walls in Bratislava.
Do you think this is what the Beatles meant by “Here I stand / head in hand” ?
Review: Spring Water
In which Ian tries the water from the thermal springs in Karlovy Vary:
Making Connections
When we were in Paris, the Pompidou had a Le Corbosier exhibit. One of the things he was big on was the Modulor. Basically it’s some golden ratio driven hooey about how much space a person takes up. Disturbingly, many of his renderings of this concept feature lumpy crab-human hybrids in psychadellic compositions.
Note the powerful psionic waves emanating from the claw. I, for one, welcome our new crab-men overlords
Anonymous Bar Prague
When we heard there was an Anonymous themed bar making solid drinks in Prague, we knew we had to go.