Paris Art Fair

Lots of good and bad, but hey, people are making art!!!! an most important thing . . .

Christmas sur les Champs

These light orbs are decorating the fountains on the Champs Elysee, the rest of the decorations on the Champs are not so nice, the went Pierre Cardin all over the place, not so jolie.   

Fair rain

There was no rain forecast for the day. Unfortunately as always. the weather men lied. 

Polock

Cool band from Barcelona

Paris Rock en Seine

Death in Vegas - so cool and completely music and light based. 

At the foot of the tree covered hill is where the four stages of the festival are placed, all surrounding it

Seasick Steve, very much american rock. He was a real tramp as he left home at 13.

CSS - the girl is nuts - but great energy

Yesterday was the first of the three day music festival of Rock en Seine. It is at Parc de Saint-Cloud technically just out side of Paris ( just across the Seine). I have discovered three new bands which are fantastic, seen a few more already I liked, and watched a megaband, who put on a great show, but I just wasn't that interested. Respectively Seasick Steve, Herman Düne, Death in Vegas, the Kills, CSS, Kid Cudi, and the Foo Fighters (blah). Overall a great day, except for the bit of rain which constantly threatened and only made good on the threat after Seasick Steve and Death in Vegas (which was the last show of the night)

Point Éphémère

Williamsburg Brooklyn take note. You could use a space like this on the East River.

J'adore les nuages

/-)

On the way to work this morning

 

Walking to work this morning (at 5:30) it was not only dark , but completely empty. I have never seen St. Michel empty. This is the equivalent of union square being quiet with not a soul to be seen at 5 am. I thought I was maybe walking through someone's dream sequence/disaster film,/alien invasion/body snatcher/parallel universe set. It was quite cool, but made me keep looking over my shoulder.

At the Flea

 

Here is a downlight which is used to curb light pollution, very nice.  And then there were a couple of these bizarre buildings which I am assuming had to be built like this as the received the air rights, but not the land rights? Weird...Haussman wouldn't be proud.

The Archives Nationale

It was nice to be able to go into the archives and see what the place was like. Typically the archives are closed to the public but as it is a holiday they opened them up so folks could walk through, look at the gardens and enjoy. They are building a new modern archives just outside of Paris, and once that is open this archive will hold only ancient records. There is also a rumor that the government might sell the building (a hotel particulier) to become a hotel. Hmmm. It would be a beautiful place to stay.