June 2010
13 posts
When In Rome: Go To Venice.
Took way too long to get this post up. But anyway, I went to Venice last week to visit Sarah Kark! Venice is really beautiful and totally bizarre. There are no cars in the city, everything is serviced by a network of canals and footpaths. The architecture was a refreshing change from Rome because it incorporates many eastern influences, specifically Istanbul, the former Constantinople which at...
May 2010
9 posts
When In Rome: Go To The Popes House
Religion, is one of those touchy topics that we tend to compartmentalize in order to avoid conflict. That said I won’t go into much detail on my impressions of the Vatican save for these few things:
-The Church has spent a lot of money on art made of the most expensive materials by the most expensive artists.
-The Church is really good at building AWE inspiring spaces. Especially...
When In Rome: Go To Tivoli.
We went on a great day trip last weekend to the Village of Tivoli about 30 miles outside of Rome. It’s located on the edge of a plateau below which, you can see the Italian country side rolling for miles and miles. While there we visited the Villa D’Este, a beautiful estate that was at one time Catholic property (no surprise there as most everything in Italy at some point). The main...
When In Rome: Go To A Protest.
The Italians sure like to demonstrate. This is probably the third protest I’ve seen while here, but the first that I had my camera for. We were coming back from Ostia Antica when I spotted these fine folks on the steps of the Ministry of Education. From what I could ascertain the Ministry was trying to cut public school funding. Apparently lack of money for public education isn’t...
When In Rome: Sample The Local Cuisine.
Suppli. Here’s the dope: Deep fried rice balls stuffed with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. It costs .6 Euro at the pizzeria around the corner. Are you serious? Can I get this in the States?
When In Rome: Visit Ostia Antica.
While in Italy our main focus is creating short documentary pieces. We are primarily filming at the ruins of Ostia Antica. Ostia was an ancient port city of Rome, situated at the mouth of the Tiber river. It handled a majority of the import/exports for the empire.
It’s an often made comparison, but the parallels between Ancient Rome and modern America are striking. In my...
When In Rome: Blog about it for all your friends...
Whats up everyone? For those of you who are unaware I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Rome three days after graduation. We are making documentary film shorts for the American Institute of Roman Culture. Its been a crazy two weeks so far. Life is slowing down a little now and at the urging of Pat Marshall I have created this blog as an outlet for pictures of all my favorite memories. I...
