Dear Internet,
Been super busy with life.. haven’t had much time online..
Been acclimating myself to home life and working again. It gets harder and hard to go back to a shop after traveling for a while. Don’t misunderstand me, I love being in a studio, but I hate the rigors of actually working during normal 11- 9 business hours.
In a perfect world, Id get paid to travel and live life.. but alas, We don’t live in perfect world, and I’m very fortunate to have lived the life I have thus far, and have been to the places I have been too. This fact isn’t over looked or unknown to myself. I’m a lucky mofo.. but this is the reality I created for myself, and I have given up A LOT of things to be able to live life this way. Im SO lucky to be in a great shop that understands and allows me to travel like I do, and have an amazing woman behind me that also understands this and has many of the same drives and passions as myself. Who knows where I would be now If it wasnt for those two grounding things in my life!
SO in lieu of an actual update, Im just going to update with more pics from Prague. I LOVE that city!!!!
Here is just a funny face with a mouthful of pipe hahah
this is taken from the St. Charles bridge over looking the Vltava river, looking from the castle side back into old town.
This amazing Rose window is carved from stone and is but one of the beautiful art pieces in the St. Vitus Cathedral in the castle walls in Prague. It was consecrated in 925 AD, made larger in 1344 and was finished in 1929, almost 600 years later!! it has such a diverse architectual style encompassing all of the many artistic styles throught the century. Alfons Mucha (from Prague) painted this window .
Im such a fan of Muchas work. i left the file big so you can see how awesome this thing truly is!!
Under the rose window, the architects who finished the cathedral added themselves to the design underthe rose window… isnt that some crazy shit!
This was just a rad statue I found, where it is good luck to touch a certain body part on this guy.. can you guess which part?
This is the window where the second defenestration ( someone gets thrown out of a window) occurred in Prague in 1618 I think, where two Catholics were thrown out the window because of some beef with the protestants I think, and that started the 30 year war in Prague .. Religion always seems to fuck things up.. no?
Here is the St Charles bridge which has 30 statues which mean all kinds of things. I just remember is was a lot of saints , and one saint who was a bishop who was thrown off the bridge and drowned because he pissed off the king. Ive got a picture of that statue as well as most of the other ones.
Here is a view of the bridge from afar. INXS filmed the ‘tear us apart’ video on here. Watching that video not only takes me back to my youth, but also seeing Prague in the video…. just takes me back. I am SO in love with that city.. I WILL live there at some point in my life.. and then probably be so over it and hate it and all the tourists , and then move.. to Berlin.. hahahah 
This was cool ..The John Lennon Wall. 
John Lennon was a hero to the pacifist youth of Central and Eastern Europe during the totalitarian era. Prior to 1989 when communism ruled, western pop songs were banned by Communist authorities, and especially Lennon’s songs, because they were praising freedom that didn’t exist in former Czechoslovakia. Some musicians were even put into jail for playing his music!
When John Lennon was murdered in 1980 he became a hero to some of the youngsters and his picture was painted on this wall, along with graffiti defying the authorities. The Communist police tried repeatedly to remove the portrait and messages of peace but they couldn’t manage to keep the wall clean. The day after it was full of poems and flowers and paintings of Lennon. Even the installation of surveillance cameras and the posting of an overnight guard couldn’t stop the opinions from being expressed.
I will end with a pic of me shirtless at the Ossuary – just another one of my shirtless around the world pics to add to the collection 
Next time I will write about Poland and Auschwitz next time… Budapest after that and then CROATIA and then…Mexico city. Whew, Ive had a busy couple months! Im tired just thinking about writing .. much less actually going those places!
ok..more later!
praise hell
-R
