Most North [COPENHAGEN]

I knew it was going to happen the moment I stepped foot on that dock in the Baltic Sea and saw the twenty foot platform. But I hesitated...it's cold...it's real cold!...and we're in the middle of our field trip.......But, there's just something about stripping down to your skivvies, feeling the adrenalin building up inside you, taking a deep breath of the cold Copenhagen air, running to the edge and.....

Most northern point of the world that I have been to in my life.

Copenhagen, Denmark.

October. 41 degrees. You only live once. DIVE IN.

Experiencing Architecture [FALLEN LEAVES]

Say what you want about Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin and its ridiculous undulating zig zags and complete ignorance for its urban context. It is Daniel Libeskind theories on EXPERIENCE that I, and this post, are interested in. I tend to agree with Libeskind when he says, "What is important is the experience you get from it. The interpretation is open." ['it' being the architecture]. Many don't think about how architecture and built spaces can affect you being there, your feelings at that time, and the collective memory you take away with you. That is, until you are hit with a truly experiential space. Libeskind manages to do this not only once, but numerous time through out his Jewish Museum in Berlin. Easily, the most memorable of these experiential spaces was with in one of Daniel's "Memory Voids" which was occupied by a truly experiential art exhibit, Menashe Kadishman's "Fallen Leaves"...

=Birra alla Blog [LONDON PRIDE]=

A weekend trip to Rome with my good friend and former roommate, Corey [who's visiting from the States] and my two other Italian counterparts, Logan and Geo, brought me to this post's 'Birra all Blog'. Fuller's London Pride is a dark red 'bitter' that we found on tap in Rome of all places, and at the suggestion of the waitress we gave it a try. I thoroughly enjoyed this beer and would consider comparing it the more commonly known dark 'bitter', Killian's Red. Even if you look past the numerous awards London Pride has won worldwide... you can't look past the words of known beer crit and writer, Stephen Cox, who said, "A pint of London Pride gives the sensation of angels dancing on the tongue." Stephen, I'm not sure about any ethereal dance parties, but a delicious beer none the less! Try a pint!