July 2011
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Prague Fashion « Andrea's Blog →
The women in Prague are amazingly dressed. On the one hand, they all wear light, organic fabrics, and the dresses they wear are greatly varied. On the other hand, few are so intimidatingly dressed that I find myself incapable of doing something similar. In a way, it’s an inspiring experience.
Those who know me know that I don’t exactly have a handle on high fashion, but it would be wrong to...
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My favorite place on Earth right now
Is a little pub on the corner. We drink beer there every night- and sometimes for lunch too- and the waiter, Paul, is pretty much the best waiter I’ve met anywhere overseas. We sit out on the sidewalk during the day, and in the pub at night. Inside the pub, there is low lighting and there are ample wooden chairs and tables.
Someone comes in and plays piano there at night- last night,...
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Ahoj from PRAHA!
We made it! We are alive! The weather is beautiful, except when we are in our fifth floor dorm— it gets stuffy. All the more reason to be outside exploring and only use it for napping and sleeping. I won’t have steady internet access until we find an ethernet cable (or our next wave of Petersons arrive with one for us). Until then, there is a Starbucks around the corner that is...
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Early successes in monochrome: Texture « Andrea's... →
The great photographer Ansel Adams developed a system in taking great photographs, particularly black and white ones. This eleven-point scale relating to darkness and lightness and how much texture is shown in each realm is a great way to take visually intriguing photos. There ought to be varied levels of texture, and brightness and darkness, but the ideal points on the scale are those where the...
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Tonight Joe and I argued about...
-The word “visceral” and whether it applied more to John Lennon or Paul McCartney.
-Whether the large winged beautiful insect invading our room was a moth or a butterfly.
-The validity of correlation and causation in a study that said a baby survives the womb better if the mother has sex in the meantime.
-Worst of all, whether Ron Weasley is a good character.
Now Joe is snoring...
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Prologue: Photography « Andrea's Blog →
Photography Concepts (for remembering the big ideas)
June 7, 2011
I am taking the month-long lead-up to Prague to familiarize myself with information on photography. This will be an ongoing list form a study guide of reminders while traveling with my Canon EOS Rebel T3, my first DSLR. I truly believe the greatest souvenirs are excellent photographs, and I aim to achieve this over the...
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Rotten Tomatoes is rating Deathly Hallows II as...
We’re only up to 7 or 8 critics, but things are looking good..!
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Hey Beatles friends!
Few Beatles fans nowadays know that John Lennon was in a war comedy in the mid-1960s with Michael Crawford. It’s called “How I Won the War”, and I have never found it at local rental places. Well, we’re in luck- it’s now an instant watcher on Netflix! Go see it while it’s still there!
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9 Days until Prague.
I’m going to live there for a month. A month from this moment, I will have been living in Prague for nearly three weeks!
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Écouter →
I know everyone thinks their own music is the best, but sometimes you just have to share how awesome that music is. I have been honing this station for sometime, and finally, I think I managed to weed out this station’s tendency toward Latin music. I have been going for French/American lounge, jazz, and big band singers. It finally worked with a combination of Madeleine Peyroux, Edith...
