11 December 2009

amsterdam

Posted by admin @ 10:30 am    categories: artimagestraveling

Well I already discussed what I did in Amsterdam, but I hadn’t bothered with the photographs. Well, now I have; here are seven.

bell-tower
Some bell tower we ran into while wandering around to the east of the center.

house
We went to the Vondelpark, which was really near our hotel. Despite supposedly being gorgeous in the summer, it was just kind of dreary. Oh: I don’t think I’d mentioned this. It rained the entire time we were there. Dan says the Dutch must be amongst the few people who think the weather is better in London than it is at home.

heads-henri-dono
So, like I mentioned, we went to the Tropenmuseum, the Tropical Museum. We saw some cool stuff, but I photographed the weird things. There was an exhibition of works by Henri Dono; this is one example.

teletubbies
I have no words to explain this.


This is a replica of a woman, in a glass box. We didn’t read the things about the people in the boxes (I think they were just in Dutch, although a lot of the museum was in English, too), so I have no clue who she is or what she’s doing. The parts that are shiny and look over-exposed are glass or plastic. Why are her ear and hand plastic? I don’t know!

dan-in-neuwe-kerk
We went to the New Church, as mentioned. This is Dan. I really like the wooden pulpit behind him. There’s a name for those, right? I forget it, regardless.

door
And here’s a door I liked that I saw there.

And that’s it.

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  1. No I had not seen these photos. what is Vondelpark? that house is beautiful. as is the bell tower. and the unexplainable thing looks like it’s out of some child’s fantasy-or mine. but what about that woman? weird.

    Comment by Karen — 13 December 2009 @ 20:27 pm

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