Day 060: Austria—beautiful panoramas
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
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Day
60 — Austria—beautiful panoramas
01-October-1971
(Fri.)
TRANSCRIPT
Spent most of the day practicing horn and piano. By
the afternoon I was very frustrated—felt like giving
up (the horn). Not really progressing.
Well, to relax, I went home and wrote to mom and my
brothers. That made me feel good.
I also went to see a movie, Black
Beauty, and old favorite. Really
relaxing.
At night wrote to Anjali.
The last half of the day is what you would call a
therapeutic session.
REFLECTIONS
In 1971, I spend the day practicing, then writing
letters to mom and my brothers to get away from the
frustration of my horn practicing.
Writing
home. As I have
mentioned before, I enjoy writing letters. Today, I
am writing to my mother and brothers. That brings me
some peace and comfort, and a lot of enjoyment. I’m
probably not writing home as much as I should be. We
tend to forget that our parents are always thinking
of us and are probably wondering what we are doing.
So, fellow students, if you’re away from home, write
home more often. Or, SMS text message, mobile phone,
Twitter, Jaiku, or poke your brothers or sisters on
Facebook.
One day, in a new special website that I hope to
develop, I’ll tell you about my mother and my family.
At night, I write Anjali. I look forward to anything
to do with Anjali. I miss her.
Austria-360.at and Panoramas.dk. Today, I
was introduced to two incredible websites. The first
website is
www.Austria-360.at, the
second is
www.panoramas.dk.
The
pictures are drop-dead gorgeous, 360-degree
panoramas of places in Austria and around the
world. An amazing picture is that of the
Vienna
National Library in the
Neue Hofburg, part of the Hofburg Complex. The
photo is © Peter Winkler. The picture quality
combined with the 360-degree rotation was
absolutely
“stunning.” Yes, it
was. The photo above is a screen capture of than
panorama.
Be warned, the pictures are large and require a fast
Internet connection and Quicktime. (See below.)
Austrian
Tourist Board. Austria-360
was developed by the Austrian Tourist Board. Great
job, members of the board! I now want to go back to
Austria.
Panoramas.dk.
Panoramas.dk
covers
world-wide travel, not just Austria. Amazing
panoramas. Here is a 360-degree panorama view of
the
Reading Room of the Austria National
Library is from
this site. (Photo © Peter Winkler) Gorgeous.
If you Google "Austria 360" you will get both of the
above websites.
Dativ.at.
Bernard
Vogl's website,
dativ.at
also is
highly recommended for beautiful 360-degree
panoramas. He has many photos and panoramas of
Vienna. I will be asking his permission to use the
panorama of the Great Gallery in Schönbrunn Palace
below.
These
pictures are so beautiful and the panoramas so
intriguing, that I
will now go
back into my
blog entries and post links to some of these
panoramic views. I may even take a few screen
captures as placeholders, and credit the websites.
Viewing the panoramas require the Quicktime VR player built into Apple’s Quicktime software which is available as a free download for both Mac and PC. If you have an iPod and iTunes, you have Quicktime.
I won’t mind if you spend your time at this site. Please remember to come back and visit me with my plain-old pictures.
You will.
John
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