Just a couple of 'mericans walkin' down the street in Angelholm, Sweden.
(L - R) Liqiao, Katie, Marcy, Trevor and Michael.
18 June 2008
Cool Kids in Angelholm
Just a couple of 'mericans walkin' down the street in Angelholm, Sweden.
(L - R) Liqiao, Katie, Marcy, Trevor and Michael.
13 June 2008
BMW 1-series
OK. I'm a sucker for nice cars. I didn't think I was until I started driving BMWs. What can I say? They are very fun to drive. When I got to Copenhagen, they had rented all the Toyota Yaris (which I had a reservation for) and they upgraded me to a BMW 1-series hatchback. I want this car. A small hatchback that handles amazingly and is really, really fast. Oh, and it gets about 55 miles to the gallon.
Alright, I'll stop talking about the car now. I'm not that shallow.
Alright, I'll stop talking about the car now. I'm not that shallow.
St. Petri, Klippan
Here are a couple of images of the church that I flew all the way to Sweden to study. I will try and write more soon because as I said in the previous post, with the lack of internet connections, I am playing a little bit of catch up. I wanted to put at least some architecture up first though.
The chapel was designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, a somewhat famous Swedish architect who is pretty much unknown outside of Sweden. It was completed in 1966 when Lewerentz was in his 70s and is his last major work (I believe).
I apologize for the image quality of this panorama. I just bought a new camera (the Canon Rebel XT, which I am so far happy with) and didn't quite know how to use it the first day. Hence, the blown out sky.
Anyway, the church is amazing in a quiet, subtle way. Comprised almost completely of brick with minimal openings it is dark, cavernous and not a little mysterious. I will try and explain as best as I can in the next few weeks.
Here is a picture of the main space which slopes slightly down towards the east and the main alter.
This is simply a cool little light fixture I found in the passage way that leads to from the sacristy and offices to the main space.
The chapel was designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, a somewhat famous Swedish architect who is pretty much unknown outside of Sweden. It was completed in 1966 when Lewerentz was in his 70s and is his last major work (I believe).
I apologize for the image quality of this panorama. I just bought a new camera (the Canon Rebel XT, which I am so far happy with) and didn't quite know how to use it the first day. Hence, the blown out sky.
Anyway, the church is amazing in a quiet, subtle way. Comprised almost completely of brick with minimal openings it is dark, cavernous and not a little mysterious. I will try and explain as best as I can in the next few weeks.
Here is a picture of the main space which slopes slightly down towards the east and the main alter.
This is simply a cool little light fixture I found in the passage way that leads to from the sacristy and offices to the main space.
So I am in Sweden, a country with little to no internet
I arrived in Copenhagen about a week ago and I sure thought that I would be able to update these posts pretty frequently. Boy I was wrong. The countryside and area of Sweden we are staying in, Klippan Commun (which I assume is a rough sort of county designation) is spectacularly beautiful. When we pulled onto the farm where we are renting a house, I literally gasped with wonder. We are in such a bucolic picturesque setting that it is nearly impossible to describe. Here's a picture of the house we are (actually "were" but that's a story for another post). The family owns about 1,000 acres of farm land and we are staying in what once was a old mill (one of seven on the property).
As you can see, completely perfect in so many ways. However, I have also come to learn that we are staying in the equivalent of hicks-ville, Sweden. Think the farmlands of Iowa or Nebraska. Actually, it really pretty much looks like Wisconsin, except the architecture is much better and well kept and everyone drives new Volvos. This has the side-effect such that we have no internet or phone for miles and there is no one around besides older people who still work on the farms and teenagers who haven't been allowed to leave for the bigger cities yet. Very strange and in many ways confining. It is a magical place to vacation but not such a great place to get work done or meet people. Oh well. It's Sweden for Chrissake. How much complaining can I really do?
As you can see, completely perfect in so many ways. However, I have also come to learn that we are staying in the equivalent of hicks-ville, Sweden. Think the farmlands of Iowa or Nebraska. Actually, it really pretty much looks like Wisconsin, except the architecture is much better and well kept and everyone drives new Volvos. This has the side-effect such that we have no internet or phone for miles and there is no one around besides older people who still work on the farms and teenagers who haven't been allowed to leave for the bigger cities yet. Very strange and in many ways confining. It is a magical place to vacation but not such a great place to get work done or meet people. Oh well. It's Sweden for Chrissake. How much complaining can I really do?
