Harrison makes me post things.

He is standing over my shoulder right now watching every word I type. He won't accept my massage tips. Look how much of a complex he has.

More photo thievery

Okay so here are the rest of David Hall's photos (from yesterday) which he has generously let us use for our blog while we gather more of our own pictures. These are from our "alternative" tour with David, a czech native who is CET's sort of cultural attache and unofficial tour-guide. Yesterday he took us to the real parts of prague. This included all of the different outlying quarters and housing areas of Prague left over from the communist era (which he told us quite a lot about) and also different works of art and architecture from Gothic to Art Nouveau to Modernist installation. 

Here you go:

The long, crazy escalators into the metro

Our favorite tram, the 18, which takes us to FAMU every day.

Old Art Noveau Train Station dilapidated from Communist era.

Train over the Vltava

Mind the gap.

Fellow CET FAMU students, walking to the Vltava

The cobble bank of the Vltava

Vltava. Pilsner Urquell Barge across the Vltava

Bridge art. A dog?

The Chilly Vltava

David, our CET wonderguide, and Vanessa, one of the AU graduates.

Makes you want a hanky, non?

Trains so fast.

Me howlin'. Brett shootin'.

The quarters over the bridge. Graffiti tin and sweet people.

McDonald's is only 300 meters away! Never fear!

Staropramen pub. Deliciousness.

Hi hello!

RAWR HELLO.

Old factory

Metro phone booths

Another Metro escalator of confusion.

tiny video shop

Neighborhood where a semi-recent flood wiped out the whole first floor.

(*see the watermarks?*)

The same flooded neighborhood rebuilt, nicknamed "Czech Manhattan" because of its rectangular layout, unusual for Prague and its winding streets.

Don't even mess.

Dark, long, awesome tunnel under a huge rock.

Tunnel shufflin'

Graf-bombs on this huge wall.

Ripped Christ.

My favorite. 

Beautiful church.

Communist built TV-Tower, adorned with an installation of babies crawling up its sides by the infamous controversial czech artist David Cerny

(*whom we might be taking a class from this semester!*)

my first sketch in Prague. David told us about how the TV tower is sometimes referred to as the "huge warning finger of the communist era." 

I tried to reinterpret this idea literally.

Okay, more to come! Hope this is filling!

- H.P. Willis

Stolen Pictures

Ahoj každý!

(Hi everybody!)

It seems like I'm the only one thats posting for now, so I thought until the other Syracuse people start to post their own individual photos, I would take the liberty of sharing with you some photographs which I have re-appropriated from our gracious friend and fellow CET-FAMU participant, David Hall (a junior from Tulane in New Orleans)...

Also, in the post after this, I will transfer some of Brett Dougherty's photos from his blog, while we're in the process of trying to link up his blog feed with this blog...

Dovolit běh!

(Let's go!)

the streets of Prague

one version of our apartment kitchens (like living in an Ikea!)

Albertov Apartments - courtyard

The tram stop right outside of our apartments

Our apartment buildings from a ways back

Snow in the streets of old town Prague

Tour of old town Prague

The Czech Foreign Office (EU)

Old Military Barracks

Brahe/Kepler Memorial Statue

Brett, Emily, Bryan and Rachel before the tour

Narodni Trida Tram Stop

New Prague/Old Prague

Futuristic Trams (SO COMFY)

Inside the tram

St. Vitus' Cathedral!

More St. Vitus' Cathedral

I am moved by my surroundings

Beautiful Gothic Architecture at St. Vitus'

Brian, Me, Emily, and Rachel's backsides.  We're mustered in the Prague Castle courtyard

Prague Castle Courtyard 

(*biggest castle in the world!*)

Guards + Brutal statues at the entrance of Prague Castle

View of snowy, beautiful Prague from castle rampart

Ditto

Knives and Clubs make you want to walk right on through, don't they?

Statue of the first Czech President

(ridiculously ancient) pillar commemorating the Black Plague

(ridiculously ancient) Oil Lamp Shell in old town Prague

Capitalism.

Famous Astronomical Clock (complete with hourly coockoo clock display!)

Blind Accordionist on the Charles Bridge

The FAMU group, frozen into submission.

Old town, super kitsch/wonderful.

Old town

Stairs down from the castle

Seriously, an insane amounts of stairs.

Oh man. I mean, c'mon, we need to vamp up our architecture stateside.

Carl, our tour guide, with his amazingly precise chin-strap beard. It can peel onions.

Brett framing in frame.

Cute kids in the castle courtyard, saying "Yes" to fun.

Gorgeous Statue.

Amazing mozaic at St. Vitus'. Over 1 million pieces of colored tile

St. Vitus' pews, narthex, and altar.

St. Vitus' Czech Crown Jewel Chamber

Pure silver tomb of John The Confessor (Sainted)

Bow!

INCREDIBLE Alfons Mucha stained glass fixture! So modern, it even includes famous french actresses and politicians.

St. Vitus' pews and windows

St. Vitus' from the entryway.

Again, these are borrowed images, and we thank David very much for letting us substitute his shots for now. I apologize that some of them are cut off slightly on the right side, we'll try and fix it soon. The important parts of the images are still there at least for now. Hope you enjoyed!

Dobrou Noc!

- H.P. Willis