Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Pasqua a Roma

first one of the season


mmmm


smart cars apparently do this all the time in the neighbourhood around where we work.

got 30 euros anyone?


sunlight through the church windows

the aliens are here, theyve come for me!!


a harvest ceremony performance solo l'italiano. the women in white represent the 6 vestal virgins

natale di Roma. rome's birthday. it turned 2764 on 21st of april and there was an orchestral concert and a few performances and exhibitions on the history of rome which was cool. an orchestra was performing in the ruins with narrators, videos projected on the walls, it was great. funny though that in performances such as these where 70% of the audience are foreigners, they dont have subtitles?

projection


more hot cross buns! easter is here baby

this is a person dressed up as a statue, posing for money

and we found the statue he was dressed as. he wasnt standing near it!



left my phone in this church and its amazing! there is a place on earth where people feel obliged not to steal!

the churches are just jampacked with decoration, opulance and hours of artists work

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Romadise in summertime


skateboarding by our house

view from the mountain they skateboarded


skating and holding a camera is awkward


at the end of the day they rested. and had prosecco (sparkling wine) and chips by the seaside!


could be in hondeklip baai


windolene!


on a tram


one of the entrances to villa borghese


their gallery of modern art, much better than ours but the works are badly maintained


had to tear ben away from this one


i love it, they had some humour amoungst all the solemn marble statues


this is amazing. i thought it was a real suspended sphere. it blew my mind. four very big mirrors form a box which you step into. the end of the box is filled with about 16 screens with the same video playing on all of them. you step onto a 'suspended platform' and the mirror goes underneath it enhancing this amazing effect like youve just walked into the mainframe computer of the movie eagle eye and youre staring at this huge digital ball of light suspended in the air! anyway it was a amazing and for some historical exhibition in italian of course.


here you can see the end of the box and where the mirrors start on each side of the box




mosaics at the exhibition



villa borghese is beautiful




cute little ponies. the park is huge so theres all sorts of bikes and mini trains to take you around. alex is that you photo bombing my picture!



and we had a picnic on the grass



so cool! she just grew out of the plinth


the tiniest movie theatre


purple tulips out in full bloom



trying to get into the zoo through the back door



this resulted in a scraped knee and powdery white cap


just do it


these cool double bike carriages that you can hire


soccer on dirt


lovers on every park bench. at least they have benches here!



carabineri, scuse me wait, these are the other kind. there is military police and government police, cant remember which is called carabineri...