2009plan

NYC destinations

2009-09-29T16:00:00.000-07:00

View NY - 8 day week in a larger map
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French Reading List

2009-09-24T13:10:00.000-07:00

Map of a couple stores (maybe link with other excursions)

scene from
Before Sunset

Top five used books to buy overseas:

1. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
2. Lolita - Vlaadimir Nabokov
3. On the Road - Jack Karuac
4. Ulysses - James Joyce
5. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenience
- Robert Peirsig

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World; Passage to India - E.M. Foster; The Stranger - Albert Camus, Raph Watler Emerson - Invisible man; Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand; To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee; The Divine Comedy Inferno - Dante; The count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas

Vonnegut, Hemmingway -old man sea, Bradbury, Dickens; Homer;Orwel

Amsterdam

2009-09-17T14:54:00.000-07:00

I was thinking of planning Amsterdam like being a director on a movie. You plan out as much as you can before you start. Then once you begin instinct takes over and you do what the situation calls for.

So here are some possible things I have come across:

"Rent A Bicycle - . Routes vary according to length and neighborhood. Amsterdam is set up for cycling. MacBike rents out high-tech, brightly colored bicycles, Frederic rents plain, simple black ones. Prices start at €10 a day (about $12). When you rent your bike, also rent a couple of good locks---bicycle theft is a constant problem."

Amsterdam: The Red Light Tour
"This audio tour look particulary colorful and informative about the red light district. It's just $9 and I could give you a copy as well. We could walk through the Red Light District during the day taking the audio tour. Then at night make a second journey through there.
This is where the ladies of the evening conduct their business. At night, the district is packed with tourists---and those who prey on them---but it's relatively safe as long as you mind your wallet and stick to busy, well-lighted main streets. once the site of 16 different convents and monasteries and now filled with brothels, novelty shops and theaters. Don't take any pictures of the ladies or your camera will likely be promptly tossed into a canal by a very large man."
http://walki-talki.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=31

Vondelpark - Another great place to relax and do some people watching is Vondelpark, Amsterdam’s largest and most famous park. A hippie meeting place in the 60’s and 70’s, it is now frequented by people of all sorts. Street performers, tourists, soccer players, couples and teenagers all gather here on nice days. In-line skates are available for rental at the top end of the park. This is a great way to see the entire park and get some exercise at the same time.

-Dance at the Melkweg

-Amsterdam smoke

"Stroll beside the canals of the Jordaan. Once home base for Rembrandt, this lively neighborhood is now the place to find many of Amsterdam's most interesting shops and galleries. This is also where you'll find Amsterdam's best "brown cafés,"

Check out the art scene. Spui (pronounced "spow") Square has a book market on Fridays and an art market on Sundays where local artists show their work, much of it affordably priced. It's a pretty, peaceful place to relax and browse. Number 34, the oldest house in Amsterdam and one of only two remaining wooden houses in the city (after a series of devastating fires, laws were passed in 1521 outlawing structures made entirely of timber).

Ride the Culture Cruise: The €15 all-day tickets for the Museumboot (Museumboat), which sails to the top tourist spots---the Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank House, the Maritime Museum, and the Central Station---includes a 50% discount on many museum entrance fees, so Museumboot is a good deal if you've decided not to purchase the I AMsterdam card."

Museum of the Moving Image

2009-09-17T12:04:00.000-07:00

Variety New York Screening Series

September 15-December 31, 2009 at Museum of the Moving Image , New York

Museum of the Moving Image offers exclusive access to New York City's most high-profile award-season screening series, featuring the year's top movies and personal appearances by directors, actors, and producers. The series-presented by Variety in partnership with the Museum-includes twenty screenings from September 15 through mid-December. Each screening will be accompanied by a discussion with the key creative talent behind the film.

Featured Works:

Films already confirmed (with dates and talent to be announced) include: Amelia, Broken Embraces, Coraline, 500 Days of Summer, Goodbye Solo, Inglourious Basterds, The Lovely Bones, Nine, The Road, and Up in the Air (pictured).

Program information:

Variety New York Screening Series

Looking for a schedule for the screening series. would really like to see a well known director or actor.

Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
September 15-December 31, 2009 at Museum of the Moving Image , New York

Featured Works:

Program information:

Variety New York Screening Series

Churches

2009-09-15T06:35:00.001-07:00

Look for 1-2 for New York
- NY-

- Paris -

Notre Dame

http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/france/paris/25305/st-etienne-du-mont/attraction-detail.html

Address1 place Ste-Geneviève, 5e, ParisPhone01-43-54-11-79PriceFree admission

Albums in New York

2009-09-14T14:13:00.000-07:00

Looking for 5 record shops in NY city:

Record stores near Mikes:

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Todds
"Don't forget to talk to Todd about his favorite record store by where he lives"

10 albums that sound good in record form (no order):

1. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain, Kind of Blue
2. Charlie Haden - Night and the City, Now is the Hour
3. Astor Piazzola - "Tengo Album"
4. Led Zepplin - 3
5. Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
6. Santana - Abraxis
7. James Taylor - Greatest Hits
8. Sting - GH ... All this time
9. Charlie Brown Christmas Album

Claude Debussy - Claire de Lune; Beethoven 9th Symphony; Mozarts Requim; Ave Maria- Beethoven/others; Velvet Underground- White Light/ White Heat; The Allman Brothers Band- At Filmores East; Billy Joel - Greatest Hits; Van Morrison - Greatest Hits; Al Green - Greatest Hits; U2 - The Joshua Tree

French Food

2009-09-10T18:40:00.000-07:00

Croque madame

Grilled cheese, ham egg on top.

Location list.

2009-09-10T09:45:00.000-07:00

-Paris-
Meseums (pass)
- Sex, Art
Churches
- Notre Dame, 2-3 others (best churches in paris list)
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/travel/07churchboxweb.html
Saint Chapelle
http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/europe/france/paris/25305/st-etienne-du-mont/attraction-detail.html
(This one speciffically)
Basilique du St. Denis
Pantheon
Versailles
Basilique du St. Denis
Markets
small used book shops list
Train Station (one in Amilie and others)
Arc de' Triumph
Jardin Du Luxemburg
EIffle Tower (both nigh and day)
Paris Statue of Liberty
WINE

Shot List

2009-09-09T02:37:00.000-07:00

Found on GettyImages.com

When traveling through a city how to capture and find interesting photo journalism subjects. It was suggested to me to come up with a shot list as a way know what to look for once you arrive.

SHOT LIST

- View from Window
- Find an individual to pose (characters in habitat)
- Use people within shot
- 30 minutes after sunset
- Don't focus on the landmark (see figure A)
- close up of food
- High vantage points
- close up of objects that have character (strange gate)

Video
-Entering exiting places
-Subway
- Walking through train, the trip
-Times sqaure 360
-Talk to each 3 people (3 questions each time)
-Todd music, 2 others in their element

Specific Shots
- Advertising
- Products
- Churches inside and out (landscape)
- Inside of subway (on route to NY)
- Close up at the sex museum (macro of object)
- shops
- markets
- graffiti in subways
- close up of people staying with (macro)
- post card rack
- John bagget shot
- Bring handheld inside dance clubs aka discotheque
-Try to find ugly side (old beggar "piegon" woman)

Each Person in their element:

George

next to suitcases, at school?

Todd-Music

Mike - Movie

Example: Couple holding hands in front of Iffle Tower

Example: landmark reflection

Example: Small part of landmark

"In photography, the golden hour (sometimes known as magic hour, especially in cinematography) is the first and last hour of sunlight during the day,[1] when a specific photographic effect is achieved with the quality of the light." -Wikipedia.org

Notes:

Have subject gather around an object.

The pyramid look (one on top two below supporting in a frame)

Trick Low shutter speed and move camera

Trick Focus one part of shot then slightly move camera

Macro how to:

straight on best way

f/22 the best f-stop for macro

to visualize macro shot pull out magnifying glass or glasses

WHIMS

Scott Kelby_The digital photography book vol 2

Euro Train Possibilites

2009-09-04T16:24:00.000-07:00

http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=ml Map of possibilities View Europe Large in a larger map http://www.squidoo.com/top10hostels top 10 hostels

Euro Train Possibilites

2009-09-02T13:50:00.000-07:00

Other City Possibilities:

Avignon, France

The bridge aside, there is lots to see in the ancient Provençal city of Avignon. As well as being a cultural centre and UNESCO World Heritage site offering marvellous art galleries and the massive Palais des Papes, Avignon is also a centre for gastronomy.

http://www.cntraveller.co.uk/Guides/France/Avignon/Default.aspx?Page=4 Traveller guide

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-483125-avignon_vacations-i;_ylt=Amr7uwvg7oUGzVMopSdejJ_8xmoA yahoo guide

Brussels, Belgium

Amongst Europeans, Brussels is best known as the home of the EU, which, given recent developments, is something of a poisoned chalice. But in fact, the EU neither dominates nor defines Brussels, merely forming one layer of a city that has become, in postwar years at least, a thriving, cosmopolitan metropolis. It's a vibrant and fascinating place, with architecture and museums to rank among the best of Europe's capitals, not to mention a superb restaurant scene and an energetic nightlife. Moreover, most of the key attractions are crowded into a centre that is small enough to be absorbed over a few days

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-191501719-brussels_vacations-i;_ylt=AtxaRPqbyq.W7X72pE2k6Wv8xmoA yahoo guide

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-reviews-2772437-prod-travelguide-action-read-ratings_and_reviews-i;_ylt=AlviEHTADdWdwAxDr.i6pRmXFWoL#80

The Grote Market is truely full of small architectural details that are a joy to seek out and photograph... Good for watching people, testing the taste of the crispy pomme frites with mayonaise, and mussels in herbed wine broth nearby. But if you've come this far, and think this is beautiful, want more, and in a big way, take the train 1 hour west to the small town of Bruges/Brugge. This town, a true amature photographer's paradise, is much like Brussels Grote Market, but SO Much More. Canals with tour boats, a carnival of architectual details, taverns with the best beers in Belguim, as well as delicious foods. Historical and Proud. A 10 in my book.

Munich, Germany

Pending Berlin's full recovery from its long period of division, MUNICH is the German city which most has the air of a capital about it. Even though it has never ruled over a territory any larger than the present-day Land, the grandiose palaces from Bavaria's era as an independent kingdom give it the appearance of a metropolis of great importance. When this is added to a remarkable postwar economic record (courtesy of such hi-tech giants as the car manufacturer BMW, the aerospace company MBB and the electronics group Siemens), and to its hard-won status as the national trendsetter in fashion matters,

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-191501749-munich_vacations-i;_ylt=Aqu.I53pH0gjXWUZd33lqaj8xmoA Yahoo

Stuttgart, Germany

The writer Eduard Mörike had a soft spot for Stuttgart and waxed lyrical in 1853 in his book "Stuttgarter Hutzelmännlein" about beautiful old houses and their oriels, "which stand on corners serenely as towers". Despite bombing raids and extensive devastation during the Second World War Stuttgart is full of architectural gems. The "City between forests and vines", as it was once referred to in an advertising slogan, is in fact well worth seeing and exploring.

http://www.stuttgart.de/item/show/335683 Official Tourism Page

Strasbourg, France

STRASBOURG owes both its name – "the City of the Roads" in German – and its wealth to its position on the west bank of the Rhine, long one of the great natural transport arteries of Europe. Self-styled " le Carrefour de l'Europe " ("Europe's Crossroads"), it certainly lies at the very heart of western Europe, closer to Frankfurt, Zurich and even Milan than to Paris.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-191501741-strasbourg_vacations-i;_ylt=Ah.9EXp3id01YOD92eqOq8b8xmoA yahoo travel

Lyon, France

LYON is physically the second biggest city in France, a result of its uncontrolled urban sprawl. Viewed at high speed from the Autoroute du Soleil, the impression it gives is of a major confluence of rivers and roads, around which only petrochemical industries thrive. In fact, from the sixteenth century right up until the postwar dominance of metalworks and chemicals, silk was the city's main industry,

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-191501736-lyon_vacations-i;_ylt=AsSnkKPS6398ctFf6B7viD38xmoA yahoo travel

Marseilles, France

A city unlike any other, Marseille is a passionate place. Perched by the sea, watched over by Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille seems bathed in and blessed by a light that has shone for 2,600 years. It's a city to enjoy for eternity.

http://www.mytravelguide.com/global/touristinfo.jsp?objectid=17754702&referral_id=YAHOOPI&referral_click_id=CITYGUIDE_Marseilles My travel Guide

Toulouse, France

TOULOUSE , with its beautiful historic centre, is one of the most vibrant and metropolitan provincial cities in France. This is a transformation that has come about since the war, under the guidance of the French state which has poured in money to make Toulouse the think-tank of high-tech industry and a sort of premier trans-national Euroville.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-191501742-toulouse_vacations-i yahoo

2009plan

NYC destinations

French Reading List

Amsterdam

Museum of the Moving Image

Churches

St-Etienne-du-Mont

Albums in New York

French Food

Location list.

Shot List

Euro Train Possibilites

Euro Train Possibilites

Avignon, France

The bridge aside, there is lots to see in the ancient Provençal city of Avignon. As well as being a cultural centre and UNESCO World Heritage site offering marvellous art galleries and the massive Palais des Papes, Avignon is also a centre for gastronomy.

Brussels, Belgium

Munich, Germany

Stuttgart, Germany

Strasbourg, France

Lyon, France

Marseilles, France

Toulouse, France