By bluerasberry on 2016-07-16
Sometimes I do not find time to journal all the things that I wish I could record to remember. Here are some scatted notes and thoughts – I felt exhausted in Milan. I had been consuming maximum culture. Fabian paces himself and kept up his energy. We stayed in a bnb in a cheap neighborhood. […]
Posted in Italy, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-16
Since visiting Italy and seeing Ancient Greek art, Roman art, and Renaissance art I have been thinking about gay art. Classical artwork contains a lot of nude imagery, and so does Renaissance artwork. Western culture since classical times has avoided discussing sexuality, and consequently, there has been a disconnect between high art and the values […]
Posted in art, gay stuff, Italy | Tagged Caravaggio, Saint Sebastian
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
I was in Venice on Thursday 16 June. The city flooded unexpectedly, disrupting regular activities, and I imagined that that day was the last day for Venice to exist. I have heard that in contemporary times, people imagine the apocalypse and end of things more commonly than people in other times. The end of Venice […]
Posted in Italy | Tagged disaster, Venice
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On Wednesday 15 June we went to Venice. Venice is a city of waterways, but it is also a regular boring city on the water. All tourists go to the island part of Venice, but there is another part of Venice on the Italian mainland. I learned this because there is a trainstop there. I […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Venice
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On 10 June when we arrived at our apartment in Florence our host presented us with a map and some visiting suggestions. Among other things, he recommended that he have dinner at Santo Spirito, which is a plaza where people hang out at night and there are also restaurants there. We decided to go there […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Florence
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On the evening of Thursday 3 June Fabian and I began a vacation to Italy. Wikimania is in Northern Italy later in the month, so I had planned to go to Italy for that. Both of us arranged our work for a pause and talked about what we wanted to do, and we agreed that […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Rome