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[Megell]

Well yah... i migt have ro post rhis at any point. \so if it ends... I might finish it later...


Anyways, in in londAN! its great... but it kindA smells like irish.

the flight over ws okay, though \i missed my conntning flight at amsterdam... and well. I had to walk the restof th way. (lol, caught another plane.)

well.. the weather here is rainy... an cold... and rainy... did i mention rainy?

but i love it.

anyways... i'll bemeeting the rest ofmy tourtomorrow. till then. and mabymy next post...

[Megell]

ps. ths keyoard suxs...

[Moose]

haha sounds like you're doing fine over there! don't forget to go on the 100's of tour buses going around! so much stuff to do there when i went

[CoreTechs]

London sucks! Dublin and Belfast are much better.
And you can't go wrong in an authentic Irish pub.

[Caseyweederman]

Sweet! Take lots of pictures, post them here.

[Jacaloogawooga]

Yea or you could ask Santa.

[Caseyweederman]

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[Megell]

Alright time for another megell update.

Well I just left france and have arrived in our hotel at sweeden. the hotel here is sex in a can. Literally. Its a prison themed hotel so I feel right at home.

Well `nough about that. I` just gotta say, france wasn`t what I expected. The mona lisa to be honest was perhaps one of the most overrated pieces of art in the world. I`m seriously dissapointed.

However, the rest of the leuve was amazin. (insert exclamation mark here. this damn sweedish one doesn`t have that character.)

Anyways. Wish you were all here.


Megell...

Ps. not really actually... but I bet it made u feel better.

[Caseyweederman]

I'm not feeling the whole "better" thing.
You wish I was in Sweden? But that's where you are!

I jest. I jest.
Did you bring a camera? Start uploading pics, man!

[Mizukage]

how can you say that about the mona lisa? of course, it makes sense that a godless heathen such as yourself wouldn't understand.

[Megell]

Mitz, honestly... Have you ever seen anything asides from a photograph of it?

Its, to tell the truth a big drag, it lacks many intresting features that many other pieces of art do. The detial isn't that great, and not to mention that the whole thing tends to be a little... small.

The thing is, its the history of the painting that makes it intresting. Not the painting itself. For starters if you don't know, it was the first image to use blurred lines, and stacked paint. But also it also broke all the standard conventions... and in some ways still does... by using raised eyes that make it appear as if the piece of art is looking at you no matter which point in the room you are at.

Its seriously creepy if you ask me....

But asides from that, later paintings all made use of these intresting tools to better make the canvis stick out. Further more, it only became really famous after it was stolen... twice I believe.

Anyways. Thats the painting.

Its kinda lame if you ask me.

And the other pieces of art in the same room were much more intresting. I mean, overall the mona lisa lacked in comparison to the rembrant on the other wall!




Okay, onto the updates. I'm seriously begginning to dispise this tour. No joke. I'm having my usual social difficulties... the same depressing stuff that I always manage to pull. (damned introverted personality around new people.) And the traveling times... oh, don't get me started on those.

But still, the cities are nice, its werid seeing the effile tower and stuff up close and personal. But other then that the whole landscape is rather nice. I wish I could come back here sometime by myself.

Hey, I'm contemplaiting dumping the tour group after venice anyways. Their just kinda irksome... (and I think they think the same about me. Though publically were good. T_T )

Anyways, we just crossed through the town of verona, yep... the one featured in romeo and juiliet. Apparently a couple lived in this city with the same names. And they had a similar history... so the town in a act of tourism attempted to set up a bunch of ''tourist attractions'' to draw people in...

I'll leave the judgements up to you guys.

Anyways. Later people, I'll be heading into venice tomorrow. Wish me luck.

[Caseyweederman]

The Mona Lisa actually has a lot more eye tricks. I mean dozens. It's the most intricate painting and there hasn't been anything like it since or before. And what's that, you say? It was the first to use many different painting techniques? Doesn't that tell you something? This thing is so groundshaking that people are still trying to emulate it? Huh.

But if you look at it and just see a painting, your loss.

[Megell]

I didn't say it wasn't good. All I said was that it wasn't all that it was really cracked up to be... (and there aren't dozzens of eye tricks... theres about 5 ones according to the book I got and the guild.) its intresting and a good painting, don't get me wrong... but if I could of walked out of the musuim with any piece of art I definatly would have not taken that one. Its earth shattering in its self...

however asthetically pleasing.

Not so much.