Prague · 2008–09

Film from Northern Bohemia

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The Glass FactoryThe kiln where they melt the glassCutting the blown glass to make a stemThe factory floorAnother look at forming the stem baseThe molding of the glass in a wooden moldLot’s of hot stuff moving around......and nobody is wearing any protectionThis woman has bare feet! And thats molten glass she is working with!Blowing the glass into the wooden mold. Each mold is used only for one day.The blow pipes with the glass being carried to the cooling ovenI have no idea what this guy is doing...All the old equipment in the storage room...When the glass reaches the cooling oven you whack it off with a wooden pole......isn’t this expression priceless?Nice chandelier...All the grinders in the factory are belt driven.Grinding of the lines into crystal.Putting the edges on the crystal bowls with a wide grinding wheel.The grinding work room.Jested, looking up from the cable car baseWhoa.The crucifix and the TV tower/restaurant the top of JestedGermany?Poland?This may be the top.But that looks like the Datum to me.The view was unbelievable.Some alpine looking flowers.The scrub brush with the sun and mountains behind it.Looking down at LiberecJested TowerThe Crucifix and Jested Tower.Looking toward the town at the bottom......The town here is on the left.The alpine like brush and hazy sky.Jested tower from the grass....More tower and grassGuess what? another shot of the tower and grass.An alpine like flower.A look at the monument from the parking lot at the top.Some large glacial erratics.Our shadows as we walked back to the cable car.That rock is like 20 feet tall...HUGE glacial erraticGoing down?I didn’t mean for the US flag to pop, but it did... and came out pretty cool.The Liberec town hall.Another shot of the town hall.The group of people that I was hanging out with in northern Bohemia.This house has a ton of potentialA cool iron gate......and another shot......and anotherThe group walking down the street in LiberecI don’t know who this is with the wings on his hat, but he is pretty cool.Going up into the top of town hall.the staircase we had to climb...Looking out one of the windows on the staircase to the towers outside.Jested is in the center... This is the view from the top of town hall.Jested.Jested.A tower on the town hall... look at how blue the sky was.The details on the towers.Jested and the town.Another tower on the Town hall of LiberecThe roof and town behind it.Looking up at one of the towers still higher than us at the town hall.A look across the fields in the distance.Hello! Little people!Almost doesn’t look real.The hotel where we stayed in Liberec.The group coming down the stairs.The mechanism that worked the clock in the town hall.A look into the attic we had to walk thru to get to the top of town hall......and another look......and another...Stained glass windows in the town hallA look at the window head on.The ceiling of town hall... Where I actually laid on the stairs to get the shot.The castle with the sun behind it.... and another shot.It’s much bigger than it seems.The first of many passages we had to walk thru to get to the castle.The lookout tower.The second passage...The third passage...the detail on the railings.The keep.The chapel that’s on sight.I think this leads to the dungeon...Nice hat.HUGE dining room table. Makes me want it.A look at the banquet room in the castle.Beautiful furniture pieces...more furniture.Huge closet.Looking out one of the windows in the castle.The plates are engraved.A look at the courtyard next to the keep.Another passage way?And another passage... I’ve lost count.I have a piece of furniture like this at home!The light coming thru the window in the black kitchen.A look out the window of the kitchen.A final look at the keep.Some saint... I guess...A catapult!The fields where I met the drunk Poles...The fields where I met the drunk Poles...The fields where I met the drunk Poles...The fields where I met the drunk Poles...The fields where I met the drunk Poles...The sunflowers in the field with the Poles.