Tourist guide / turistički vodič
Filip Pobran
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More about Filip
This was not enough? You want to know more about me? OK.
My shoe size is 40.
I don't have favourite colour.
I'm 173 cm tall.
I'm trying to have as more weight as I can.
But seriously, who's Filip?
As I mentioned above, I like history. Perhaps, the ones to blame might be music and grandpa, who used to tell me stories and curiosities from history of Dubrovnik. As he worked at the museum of Franciscan monastery, I often hung out there, so now I can brag that I know almost every stone of the cloister. You don't believe me? I'll show you which pillars were left displaced after the Big earthquake, who has toothache for centuries, where's the spot with the best acoustics...
Middle Ages
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| Bright spirits of "dark" times photo: Paula Podnar |
Of all the stories, I found the older ones with a hint of mystery and ambiguities the most interesting. The stories about the Middle Ages. Rather confusing times, which people often call the dark times. Dark because the knowledge from antiquity seemed irretrievably lost, only to be exchanged for illiteracy and barbarism. As I researched and learned more about the Middle Ages, the era grew ever increasingly interesting. Darknes slowly left the Middle Ages. In 2005 I joined reenactment group Order of the Silver Dragon and it helped me to expand my knowledge about culture and history of medieval Europe. Now I see the medieval times as a sequence of renaissances that today's popular culture forgot.
As I studied Croatian and Ukrainian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanties and Social Studies, on one study tour to Ukraine I met Ukrainan enthusiasts who introduced me to the basics of medieval martial arts. Now I can say that I am learning about Middle Ages with whole my body. And yes. Sometimes it hurts.
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| Fight against Slovakian national BotN team member |
Music
My other love - next to medieval times - is classical music. I think that I might have fallen in love with it even before I was born! How? Well, my parents are music teachers so I had an opportunity to form a taste in music very early. He says: "Renaissance - yummy. Baroque - om nom nom nom nom nom...". So... My music path led me to the organ and organ playing led me to the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz. It was a beautiful path that not only gave me a glimpse into the minds of the people from the renaissance and baroque, but also allowed me to live their feelings, and also to delve into the music archives of Dubrovnik Franciscan monastery, its cataloging and minor restorations.
Addiction
I have to confess to an addiction. An addiction which melded with a decision made in 1987 to shape me into person I am today.
I'm addicted to stories. I read them, listen, watch, tell, play, invent, make, experience, relive...
How did that 1987 decision contribute to make the guide who is sharing this story with you? Well, a blond 4 year old little boy finally decided, after a lot of thinking and weghing the pros and cons, not to grow up. The grown-ups become sluggish, bitter, they don't play, they forget what really matters, they lose imagination...
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| Frodo Baggins |
While getting older, but not growing up, I discovered that story telling and story crafting go hand in hand with the "playing" portion of roleplaying. If you're not familiar with roleplaying, here's a brief crash course: someone (usually reffered to as the game master in the genre) comes up with a sketch of a plot and creates a problem for the story's heroes to solve. The players create the heroes and play them within the story. When the sketch of the plot, the problem and the heroes are brought together, the players and the game master jointly tell and craft the rest of the story. He describes the world as it responds to heroes' decisions and actions and they tell and craft a story together. A story with an unknown ending.
Tourist Guide
In Dubrovnik, in mornings and evenings (sometimes to the night) through the city strolls a soldier in medieval suit of armor. What freak is ready to crawl into a 14 kg tin and walk the city during summer heats? Freak? I prefere the term Filip. Why do I wear armor? Besides looking good in it, I usually guide guests telling stories from medieval and renaissance - the golden age of Dubrovnik. During such trips through time, there is high chance of anomalies to appear. Such anomalies include baroque buildings, technologies from 20th and 21st century, people from 21st century etc. My armor reduces distraction caused by those anomalies to travelers. Of course, there is a matter of security too, because there is always chance that, while guests during night try to illuminate a shallow inscription carved in stone in some alley, some compania di notte of capricious young nobles appear.
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