Paris, Part Four

Hotel de Villets [City Hall]

In French it could mean a Cabinet of Avocados or Cabinet of Lawyers.

Paris street art. 

More Paris street art. This was done by Space Invader. You can see more of him and learn more about street art by watching the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop (it was nominated for an Oscar).

Paris, Part Three

Eiffel Tower

Arc de Triomphe 

A skull from the Paris catacombs.

Pompidou Museum

A painting from my favorite artist, Kandinsky.

If you pan horizontally across it the design changes. 

Paris, Part Two

Tea at a mosque. It was really relaxing and afterward we went to Chez Gladines.

Exhibit at the Musee d'Art Moderne

Basquiat painting at the Musee

Roy Lichtenstein paper hat at the SMS exhibit.

Paris, Part One

Some of the photos from Paris were taken by Willy and Cait. I forgot which ones exactly they took, so I'm saying right now that I owe them credit for some of the shots. 

View from below the main Louvre pyramid.

A polytonal/poly-marble bust. 

The Death exhibit at the Louvre.

A stone head from Easter Island.

Hammurabi's Code

Paris, France

I just left Paris yesterday, and I did way more than I had anticipated. We hit: 

• Clignancourt,
• Hotel de Villet,
• Norte Dame,
• Shakespeare & Co.,
• Louvre,
• Pantheon,
• Champs Elysees,
• Arc de Triomphe,
• Musee d'Art Moderne,
• Tokyo Palace,
• Eiffel Tower,
• Luxembourg Garden,
• Pompidou,
• and the Paris Catacombs.

And we did it all by walking. 

The food was amazing too; La's Du Falafel, Chez Gladins, Lebanese, Happy Nouilles, and Falafel again.

I am eternally grateful to my tour guides, Willy and Cait. It is highly doubtful that I would have had as wonderful of an experience without them.  

Photos will go up later today. 

Rome, Day Three

This post is a return to the Vatican with Liz Perry. The photos are also by Liz. 

Rome, Day Two

I want to to thank Gina Iannitelli, Elizabeth Perry, Tra, Jenny Wu and the Emilys for allowing me into their apartment. It was a lot of fun staying with them and sharing a week in Rome. And I couldn't have taken these photos without Gina's camera since I forgot my charger and the battery died. 

St. Peter's Basilica 

Swiss Guard

Castel Sant'Angelo

View of the Vatican from Castel Sant'Angelo.

Pantheon

Piazza Novona

HWS students studying in Rome.

Grace.

Piazza outside the Musei Capitolini.

Art exhibit inside the Vittoriano aka Mussolini's Typewriter.

Translation: 

- The Family is the theatre in which many crimes are committed.

- Because it doesn't have enough emergency exits.

View of Piazza Venezia from the top of the Vittoriano.

The changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Italian Immigration Museum, inside the Vittoriano.

Trevi Fountian

Random Roman street.