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Vienna
July 31st - 1:51pm
A hat store along a main boulevard in Vienna. Haberdashery will never die!
July 31st - 1:51pm
A hat store along a main boulevard in Vienna. Haberdashery will never die!
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Vienna
July 31st - 1:53pm
And right next door is this Aus Der TV Werbung Teleshop! If they can exist side by side, there is hope for us all.
July 31st - 1:53pm
And right next door is this Aus Der TV Werbung Teleshop! If they can exist side by side, there is hope for us all.
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Vienna
July 31st - 2:34pm
In Innere Stadt, the old part of Vienna, resides the seat of the Austro-Hungarian empire. There's dozens of buildings like this one.
July 31st - 2:34pm
In Innere Stadt, the old part of Vienna, resides the seat of the Austro-Hungarian empire. There's dozens of buildings like this one.
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Vienna
July 31st - 2:36pm
The lawn in front of the building in the previous photo. Probably Viennese people, since sunbathing isn't a tourist activity for anyone aside from teenage backpackers from France or Italy. What a regal spot for a picnic!
July 31st - 2:36pm
The lawn in front of the building in the previous photo. Probably Viennese people, since sunbathing isn't a tourist activity for anyone aside from teenage backpackers from France or Italy. What a regal spot for a picnic!
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Vienna
July 31st - 3:30pm
St. Stephen's Cathedral, with its mosaic roof and mighty spire, is a main attraction in the old city. The first incarnation was built as long ago as 1147, a factoid that humbles my pithy commentary. Anyway, quite impressive.
July 31st - 3:30pm
St. Stephen's Cathedral, with its mosaic roof and mighty spire, is a main attraction in the old city. The first incarnation was built as long ago as 1147, a factoid that humbles my pithy commentary. Anyway, quite impressive.
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Vienna
July 31st - 3:32pm
This brightly-colored box located inside St. Stephen's Cathedral encourages the faithful to einwurf their hopes and dreams that they may be heard by the Lord, but what's the actual mechanism for this? Does a polyglot priest actually go through all the strips of paper, compile and read them aloud during mass? Or is it more of a synthesizing and internalizing procedure? Maybe the entreaties end up in the same place as letters to Santa?
July 31st - 3:32pm
This brightly-colored box located inside St. Stephen's Cathedral encourages the faithful to einwurf their hopes and dreams that they may be heard by the Lord, but what's the actual mechanism for this? Does a polyglot priest actually go through all the strips of paper, compile and read them aloud during mass? Or is it more of a synthesizing and internalizing procedure? Maybe the entreaties end up in the same place as letters to Santa?
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:23pm
This piece of Hapsburgiana was seen in the Treasury museum in the palace complex. You can be assured that this is as golden as physics and chemistry at the time (1818-9) would allow.
July 31st - 5:23pm
This piece of Hapsburgiana was seen in the Treasury museum in the palace complex. You can be assured that this is as golden as physics and chemistry at the time (1818-9) would allow.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:32pm
A plaza after the rain. This was one of the two days that it rained during the three plus weeks I was traveling (and even then, only briefly), and I have photographic documentation to back up that claim.
July 31st - 5:32pm
A plaza after the rain. This was one of the two days that it rained during the three plus weeks I was traveling (and even then, only briefly), and I have photographic documentation to back up that claim.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:34pm
It's hard to imagine a positive scenario that led to this tableau, but nevertheless, here we are.
July 31st - 5:34pm
It's hard to imagine a positive scenario that led to this tableau, but nevertheless, here we are.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:37pm
What empires are best at: planting rose gardens.
July 31st - 5:37pm
What empires are best at: planting rose gardens.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:38pm
A Hapsburg white rose.
July 31st - 5:38pm
A Hapsburg white rose.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:43pm
There was a big outdoor festival going on just outside the old city; later that evening, a movie was to be projected on this large screen mounted outside an even larger church.
July 31st - 5:43pm
There was a big outdoor festival going on just outside the old city; later that evening, a movie was to be projected on this large screen mounted outside an even larger church.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:44pm
Red Bull is one of the few products easily identifiable as Austrian.
July 31st - 5:44pm
Red Bull is one of the few products easily identifiable as Austrian.
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:51pm
This is some of the oddest graffiti I saw in Europe. For the sake of decency, I'm not going to post photos of either Amanda Lapore or Pat Nixon, but what a weird, anachronistic, out-of-place juxtaposition — below real estate listings, no less!
July 31st - 5:51pm
This is some of the oddest graffiti I saw in Europe. For the sake of decency, I'm not going to post photos of either Amanda Lapore or Pat Nixon, but what a weird, anachronistic, out-of-place juxtaposition — below real estate listings, no less!
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Vienna
July 31st - 5:51pm
I wanted to see if "the old is reflected in the new" had any hits on Google, and the first one was of a photo illustrating the very same effect as this one, in Kiev. The nerve!
July 31st - 5:51pm
I wanted to see if "the old is reflected in the new" had any hits on Google, and the first one was of a photo illustrating the very same effect as this one, in Kiev. The nerve!
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Vienna
July 31st - 8:00pm
On my way to a delightful dinner at Skopik & Lohn, these figures screamed out at me. Austrian municipal graphic design is both decades behind and decades ahead of its American equivalent.
July 31st - 8:00pm
On my way to a delightful dinner at Skopik & Lohn, these figures screamed out at me. Austrian municipal graphic design is both decades behind and decades ahead of its American equivalent.
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Vienna
July 31st - 10:50pm
This picture of a subway escalator is better for having the figure in it.
July 31st - 10:50pm
This picture of a subway escalator is better for having the figure in it.