Random Photos for the Month of June 2008, The best of my EuroTrip, and The Coronation of Napoleon

Here are the photos for the month of June. Most of the pictures from my Europe trip are on my Facebook so I'll post the best picture from each place that I've visited as a summation.


Golden Flow... sometimes I wonder if people who create names really think about whether or not it has other connotations to it. Then there's the phrase that goes after it doesn't help with regards as to what the Golden Flow product is if it's "the taste we grew up on"




I can't believe the dog is still here from the last time I posted about it! The price from when I took it back in April was $7.99 and now they raised it a dollar to $8.99 -_-







So this was pretty interesting when I spotted it. There seems to be four cameras hoisted on the roof of the chevy cobalt - anyone who has any sort of photography or film background please feel free to fill me in on this contraption lol









Three of the Four Waterfalls in NYC, "Presented by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with New York City." This is Olafur Eliason's art project and I'll acknowledge his creativity but I don't really find it all that fascinating aside from being pointless. Neither do I think it's really worth the four months that it'll be here (June 26th - October 13th).



I had to get my Mercedes Benz brakes fixed so the tune-up shop is the Ray Catena in Edison, NJ. They have free fast internet, a fridge for cold soda, juice, and water as well as two different types of sandwiches and wraps. The picture on the right you can see that they have bagels in the morning for those who have appointments in the morning. Everytime I go I have to be Asian and grab all that my two hands can fit lol. Usually its like two sandwiches and two bottles of water haha. I guess when you get a luxury car you also get treated luxuriously.

------------- The Best of EuroTrip 2008 -------------

London's Buckingham Palace.








The Vatican in Rome









Florence Cathedral, otherwise known as Basilica di Santa Maria Del Fiore






The Gondola ride in Venice








The Milan Cathedral








The insanely clean waters of Switzerland








The Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The Peeing boy in Brussels, Belgium











The Clog making factory in Holland








The Diamond Factory (Coster Diamonds) in Amsterstam which houses the diamond encrusted tennis racquet and ball.

------------- The Coronation of Napoleon -------------

The above picture is a painting done by Jacques-Louis David done at the request of Napoleon. Some quick tidbits about the photo. This was the first of two that Jacques-Louis David did. The second painting was exactly the same except some minor differences to which I'll show at the end of the post. The obvious difference is easy to point out so I'll leave that for you to catch it.

Towards the background the woman in the middle of the row that looks important - that is Napoleon's mother. Story has it that her and Napoleon got into an argument beforehand and she never showed up for the actual event and Napoleon had asked David to paint her in. In the row above Napoleon's mother, and to her right (our left) there's a guy that looks like he's taking notes during the ceremony. That's Jacques-Louis David and in front of him are his three daughters.

There was something about this painting when I first saw it at Versailles that captured me and won my heart. So at the gift shop when I came across the puzzle it was just something I had to have. So I bought it but i haven't opened it up yet till just now lol.

The picture below was taken at Versailles, the second of the Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David done about nine years later after the first one.