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
No comments:
Post a Comment