Burgtheater & the Rathaus (city hall)

Karlsplatz Station by Otto Wagner & view of Vienna

Thursday afternoon..

I had book arts again today. Really tired because yesterday I: went on an adventure to find a Mac store so I could buy an adapter, went to the post office near there, walked all around the Innere Stadt for about 3 hours (beautiful pictures up tonight), met some people at Starbucks, went to a barbeque in Grenzing (a nice area in the hills that overlooks Vienna) & went to Flannagans & 1516 (bars off Karlsplatz).
Today we did Japanese or Stab 4-hole binding, coptic binding & "secret belgium" binding. Pretty cool stuff... I learned how to make the coptic binding I do on my graphic design portfolio much cleaner & precise. This evening: a nap!

...more of the Jewish Memorial (because it's beautiful!)

Books I made in Book Arts class Tuesday!

closed.


and open.

Daytime pictures of my housing

Webster University Vienna & Thomas K Lang Gallery

Thomas K. Lang Gallery
The head of our art department in St. Louis (who is teaching my class here in Vienna) has a gallery in the Webster University Vienna campus named after him.. how funny!

...things around Wien

A model of the Innere Stadt w/ Stephansdom & inside the U-Bahn

sign for a play about Josephine Baker (from East St. Louis)
& gelato!! at Zanoni & Zanoni.. (the guy there made fun of how I said "Tiramisu" )

swimming at the Donau (Sun) & drinking in the park(Mon night)

The Donau(Danube) River... evil swans! & the bridge a bunch of people jumped off of


In "Mozart Park" until midnight.. a beautiful view of this really nice restuarant behind the Albertina.

The Albertina Museum .....Vienna at night!

here's where I live!

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=54%20Donaufelderstrasse%20Vienna%20Austria&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=vl

-go here and if you zoom out you can see where we live in relationship to Vienna. I'm in the 21st district, "Florisdorf." There are 23 municipal districts in Vienna. If you click "get directions" after you go to my address on google maps, you can add "Webster University Vienna" to see where I live in relationship to school or "St. Stephan's Cathedral, Vienna" to see where I live in relationship to the City Center. When I get my computer to work, I will just get the google image and post in on here, so that will be easier, but I can't do it on this dumb PC!

first class in Vienna! sleeeeeppppy!

****I had my first class today in Vienna.. well actually my first summer class ever! The class is "Book Arts" and I had it today (Tuesday), this Thursday, next Tuesday & Next Thursday. It is only a 2 week class, but still for 3 credit hours, so the class is from 9am to 5pm those days with a 45 minute lunch break & little breaks whenever. I'm actually pretty tired! We were learning how to bind books today. I will post what mine look like probably tomorrow! We learned 4 different types today & it's really exciting to me because I got realy interested in book binding when I took papermaking last fall & of course I am interested in book design.

***Yesterday, after I posted the pictures & wrote about the Innere Stadt here at the computer at school, I went with a few Webster St.Louis girls to the Jewish Memorial like I mentioned, also went to H&M, Starbucks & went to drink wine & hang out at "Mozart Park" near Stephansdom. Beautiful! (that's what I keep saying about everything!) & it was open until 12am, which is nice.. a nice evening in the park with wine & friends.. what's better?
***more pics to come tomorrow of swimming at the Donau, of Webster's Vienna 'campus' (which is actually one building) & some pics of the park...

ps. Zach I love you & you should come visit me! now! :)
& sorry I haven't called you more, but I still get confused with the time & am still debating about getting a cell phone here!



examples of handmade books.. not mine.. I will put those up tomorrow!

I already feel like I am getting used to being in Vienna.. like the kind of used to that I don't feel it necessary to go somewhere every second like I'm missing something amazing.. maybe I'm just sleepy!

Innere Stadt!

Innere Stadt /the "City Center" where many of the historical sites are, tons of museums & the imperial palaces of the Hasburgs. The entire area is designated a "Historic District" ... all of the architecture is very old, so the building in the center image above is very controversial. "Haas Hause" is really the only glass and concrete structure of its kind in the Innere Stadt. The statue in the picture next to it is I think of one of the Hasburgs.

Below are images of Stephansdom (St. Stephan's Cathedral), began in 1147 but redone in Gothic style in 1359, which is the heart of the city center and Vienna itself. The image on the left is the organ, the center: inside the church and the right: from the outside. The big image below is of Stephansdom's roof, which is all tile & beautiful! in the sunlight.

Above are images of the Jewish Memorial in the "Judenplatz" (jewish square), which was the jewish ghetto from the 13th to 15th centuries. In the 1990s ruins of a synagogue were unearthed & above where it was found a Holocaust Memorial was built to honor Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust. The rectangular concrete cube is library shelves of books facing inward to signify the amount of knowledge lost due to the Holocaust. Around the base are engraved the naems of places where Austrian Jews were put to death. (We studied this monument in I think my Current Art class at home.. it's very famous.) Next to it is the Jewish Museum. (In the picture above with the wooden door.)

***I actually am at school now & I am headed to the U-bahn stop at Kasiermuhlen to meet a few girls from Webster St. Louis to go there again. They are a few girls that I know but haven't yet seen here in Vienna.

1. a stop down to the U-Bahn, the underground train system

2. a street performer by the palaces that was balancing eggs on a stick on his nose (we thought we was drunk) ...funny little man!

3. Ruins of the old wall that surronded the Innere Stadt

on the left: we thought this looks like the Statue of Liberty, but oops! without clothes? Maybe it's her boyfriend? I will have to do some research on this!

on the right: sort part of the Imperial Palace of the Hasburgs .. that thing is huge I haven't really figure out what is what just yet


on the left: the main Opera of Vienna.. not sure what it's called but you can apparently get standing room only tickets there for 3euro.. something I will have to do before I leave

on the right: my favorite picture so far! Rebecca and me with this creepy fountain in Stodtpark. It's of a Viennese Cardinal (who looks soo mean and angry!) with water spewing out onto a naked little baby/cherub thing... just a little disturbing!

Lunch!

left: Robert & Rebecca had not had a real meal in weeks! So they loved the lasagna & spaghetti! ..they have been living on bologne and apples

middle: a sign with what the dishes look like

right: ahhhhh tap water! (sometimes it isn't even free)

ok.. I guess that is all for now! Auf Wiedersehen!

Later I will put up pics from yesterday at Kaisermuhlen and the Alte Donau!