ephemeral images from my parisphere
[and other oblique spheres...]
Friday, December 19, 2008
joyeux jolly jolly
don't brown-bag your holidays just because the economy is in free-fall, the air is toxic, the oceans are emptying out, the rainforests denuded, and the world's general health rapidly failing, soon to be on life-support if there is still a universal clinic standing...no matter how desperate and dire the straits are, let's hope that there is still love to be made, pâtisseries to be eaten, unmurky water to drink, pockets of adequate air to intake, and most of all, tolerant friends to make it a little more bearable... to one and all...enjoy a most exuberant and transcendent season [while we can!] and gently push all those delusions into the new year! still, make merry and much happiness always...
Thanks, Adam...I am not familiar with the Daleks, but I have heard of Dr. Who...is it a movie, too? It was a cool sight though...dozens and dozens of wrapped christmas trees clogging the street behind the BHV waiting patiently to be brought in to decorate the store!
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Week 35: the death of an English clown
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100 years ago this week: Week 35Looking back a century can sometimes take
you even further into the past. The death of one of the best known clowns
in Fran...
elefancentric copenhagen
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Oddly, elephant sightings are more frequent than you would think in the
cool nordic climes of Copenhagen!
There are moving, breathing ones in their own "h...
"Célestins"
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The “Caserne des Célestins” is where you find the headquarters of the
“Garde Républicaine”. Passing by the other day, I was struck by the
extraordinary d...
Art for heart's sake
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Art is a haven because it is the best humans can do.
It heals the soul because it is an act of gratuitous love.
The best of human endeavour consoles...
once a home...
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they perch on sites worth so many millions
above spanish banks and the burrard inlet -
these three modest pseudo-mansions of the
last century now looking...
Sonneveld House
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*Sonneveld House *
oil and pencil on beechwood panel;
30 x 22.5 cm
*Sonneveld House (E. view)*
oil and pencil on beechwood panel;
22.5 x 30 cm
the air is still blue
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I had borrowed a book, “the air is blue – Insights on art & architecture:
LUIS BARRAGAN REVISITED” and kept it for months, going through it randomly
at the...
les petites assiettes
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[speaking of plates, mine has been rather full this summer, therefore have
been a little distracted from posting regularly...but I will make more of
an eff...
Delight and Liberty*
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Whenever I return to France, the first day of my Paris Love-Fest is always
a little out of this world. If the skies are clear I will spot the Eiffel
Tower ...
2 comments:
Merry Christmas to you too - they look a little like the Daleks from Dr Who!
Thanks, Adam...I am not familiar with the Daleks, but I have heard of Dr. Who...is it a movie, too?
It was a cool sight though...dozens and dozens of wrapped christmas trees clogging the street behind the BHV waiting patiently to be brought in to decorate the store!
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