A massive organ (pipe) at the Church of Our Savior in Copenhagen, ornately carved in wood, covered with vines and flowers and cherubim and various other human and animal and botanical figures. The whole thing is positioned atop two bas relief elephants.
When your organ is so massive you need not just one but two elephants to hold it up
The tag described this piece perhaps not inaccurately, but imprecisely, as a Hebrew Bible, though it is clearly a chumash with haftarot. The text above the beginning of Vayikra is from Melachim.
A page from a hand-calligraphed Hebrew manuscript showing the end of the haftarah for Pekudei (ending with Kings 8:11) and the beginning of Vayikra. Between the two, taking up most of the page, is a large illustration featuring a variety of animals and botanical motifs and geometric patterns formed out of tiny Hebrew letters
A close-up of the same page
I visited the Royal Library in Copenhagen and saw this beautiful Hebrew manuscript (ca. 13??—my photo of the tag is too blurry to tell). Look at the amazing micrography for the beginning of Vayikra.
A massive organ (pipe) at the Church of Our Savior in Copenhagen, ornately carved in wood, covered with vines and flowers and cherubim and various other human and animal and botanical figures. The whole thing is positioned atop two bas relief elephants.
When your organ is so massive you need not just one but two elephants to hold it up
Massive altarpiece in a church: marble columns, carved angels, cherubim, golden rays radiating from a golden circle in which yud-hey-vav-hey is written.
Close-up of the tetragrammaton
This feels pretty weird in a church, tbh
Massive altarpiece in a church: marble columns, carved angels, cherubim, golden rays radiating from a golden circle in which yud-hey-vav-hey is written.
Close-up of the tetragrammaton
This feels pretty weird in a church, tbh
Very large 7-branched candelabra in front of a very ornate, very Christian altarpiece at Aarhus Cathedral
Oh hey, I found the menorah
A fresco of a man with a long beard and mustache wearing a tasseled hat and a multicolored tunic. He is wielding a sword in his left hand. There is also a halbard angled across his body but he is not holding it. Because he only has one hand and that hand is holding the sword; his right arm ends in a stump. He is also missing his left leg, which has been replaced by a wooden peg. None of that is even the weird part yet: his neck is long (like really long, as long as his legs) and curved back from his body to form a sort of C shape above his shoulders.
Weird Medieval Guy from Aarhus Cathedral
A neon sign reading “OWLS AND JUICE” There might be more to the sign but it’s blocked by pillars
Seems like a weird business model but I’m intrigued
Watching Danish news on the ferry today and the poor anchor is interviewing John Bolton and just seems at a loss for words as Bolton tries to explain Trump. “It sounds…uh, kind of alien, to not pay attention when you are the president,” she says.
A neon sign reading “OWLS AND JUICE” There might be more to the sign but it’s blocked by pillars
Seems like a weird business model but I’m intrigued
Watching Danish news on the ferry today and the poor anchor is interviewing John Bolton and just seems at a loss for words as Bolton tries to explain Trump. “It sounds…uh, kind of alien, to not pay attention when you are the president,” she says.
A sign on the end of a library bookshelf that reads: Faglitteratur. There’s a poster hanging below that reads: Hvor Finder Jeg Emnet? Led det rigtige sted
Found a whole section just for me at the Aarhus library
A sign on the end of a library bookshelf that reads: Faglitteratur. There’s a poster hanging below that reads: Hvor Finder Jeg Emnet? Led det rigtige sted
Found a whole section just for me at the Aarhus library
A packet of salmiak flavored Fisherman’s Friend Menthol Flavour Pastilles.
Danish supermarkets have shown me a whole world of wonders. Who knew that this existed?
Looking out above the sinks through the window in a washroom toward a view of tundra and snow-covered mountains
Looking out above the sinks through the window in a washroom toward a view of tundra and snow-covered mountains
Definitely a contender for best public washroom I’ve ever used. Certainly the most scenic.
Orange tabby enjoying some indoor sunshine
Big long-haired gray tabby outside on cobblestones
Solid cat day today in Reykjavík. The first was in our hotel, and I’m told his name in Mango. The second was being very well fed by scraps tossed from the window of a sandwich shop.
Looking out a cafe window through a cracked pane of glass across a parking lot at rainy Reykjavík harbor. There’s some sort of tall industrial-looking ship in the middle distance, and steep snowy mountains in the far distance on the other side of the bay
Moody scene today in Reykjavík
Looking out a cafe window through a cracked pane of glass across a parking lot at rainy Reykjavík harbor. There’s some sort of tall industrial-looking ship in the middle distance, and steep snowy mountains in the far distance on the other side of the bay
Moody scene today in Reykjavík
Grey tabby affectionately rubbing against my legs
I met a cat in Reykjavik today so this trip is already going great
Icelandair is sending me emails giving me tips for an easy transfer at Keflavik to make my connecting flight to Copenhagen, suggesting I proceed directly to the departure gate when my flight lands. That’s going to be a long three days at the airport.
Icelandair is sending me emails giving me tips for an easy transfer at Keflavik to make my connecting flight to Copenhagen, suggesting I proceed directly to the departure gate when my flight lands. That’s going to be a long three days at the airport.
This is actually a correct take but nobody is ready for it
You’d also need to have some pretty strange ideas about cookware to describe the entire northern third of the country as a panhandle
This has to just be AI associating “country with distinctive shape” with “shaped like a boot”, right? I refuse to believe that any human person has looked at the outline of Serbia and associated it with footwear
Multiple choice question that says “Identify the country of territory shown by this geographic outline” above the not notably footwear-shaped silhouette of Serbia
A popup reading: “Explanation. Serbia's distinctive boot-like shape features a narrow northern panhandle where Vojvodina extends toward Hungary, and a wider southern body that tapers toward Kosovo. The country's silhouette is quite recognizable due to its irregular borders carved by centuries of Balkan history and the meandering Danube River along its northern edge.”
Imagine the foot that fits “Serbia’s distinctive boot-like shape”
This is also the only way to make sense of much of internet leftism. The aesthetics part, not the reading part. But maybe also the reading part.
The only way I can make any sense of some of the Booktok/stagram discourse I’ve seen lately is by assuming that most of those people don’t actually like to read. It’s all just aesthetics.
For reference:
FUN=museums, libraries, galleries, cafes, gardens, boats, public transit, historic architecture, pastry, modern architecture, walking around, shopping for stationery
NOT FUN=things that are loud, things that are fast, eating treyf, shopping for things that aren’t stationery