Metropolitan Museum Roman Greek Art, Rooftop Exhibit, Cathedral of St. John Divine

Okay. As i have already explained in the video intro, this is a video of a collection of many pictures that I took on a trip to New York City. We (my class) primarily visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (the largest cathedral in the world). In the Metropolitan, we were mainly focusing on the new Roman and Greek art section. This was a very interesting section and we saw art such as a statue of Emperor Constantine, a massive Ionic style Column, Roman and Greek amour, LOTS of Greek pottery, and MUCH more.

The next section I showed you in the video was a Medieval and Victorian style art section. I do not know nearly as much about this type of art as I do about Roman and Greek art, but specifically Roman (this was my Latin IV class).

As I said in the video, one of the amazing exhibits that you could see in the Metropolitan was an outdoor exhibit which is on top of the Metropolitan itself. Naturally, I could see the entire New York City skyline from there. These were some of my favorite pictures. This section of my video includes a clip I took while I was at this exhibit. The funny thing about that is, just as my friend and I had finished taking separate video clips, a security guard came up to two girls next to us with a video camera and told them that they could not take video up here. Hahaha. The metal piece of art that you see in the one picture of the rooftop exhibit is, well I don;t really know what it was. All i know is that it was all one piece and I could best describe it as tree roots. I'm not sure though.

Lastly, there are pictures of the amazing Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. As I have already said several times, this is the largest Cathedral in the world. (NOTE : This is the largest CATHEDRAL in the world, not the largest CHURCH. They are two different things.) There is not much to explain about these pictures, they kind of explain themselves. Except for maybe two or three of them. One of the first few pictures that you see is a what appears to be a VERY well lit Cathedral. Yet, why are all the other pictures much darker. Truthfully, I'm not sure. All I could think of is that I did not have the flash on when I took that picture, and apparently when you don't use flash, your camera shutter stays open longer or something, so it took in more light than a flash picture would have, which is what I took all of the other pictures with. This explains why the one object appears to be glowing in one of the last pictures. I am not sure what kind of material it was, but it was a tablet of some sort, and when the flash went off, it reflected all of the light back to the camera, while everything else mostly absorbed it. This made the object look like it was glowing.

Other than that, there is not much to say. Oh, and don't bother asking me what the credits mean, you wouldn't understand if you were not there. Thanks for watching! If you have any questions about anything other than the credits, please let me know, because I know for a fact that I didn't explain some things. Comment, Rate, and Subscribe! Rndmwhitekid

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• 11/5/09