What I*ve been reading these days - Special Fashion Edition
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 3/31/2008 08:55:00 PM.
As you may have noticed, a lot of new arrivals from the mag front. Indeed, the Candy Kennedy fashion magazine collection has found a new home in my library. Thanks to you Candy and Brad! (send me a camel back from Dubai puhleez ;)The first 2 lines are Candy mags, the 3rd line is my actual reading line:
New York -the book
New York -the mag (thanks Erik baby!)
The edifice complex -trying to get it started soon
Performance -a need for Louvre class and brains
Vice -just for the morbidly curious
L*Officiel Dior -the entire collections from 1st to last
Labels: Magazines and books
INSULTING ME? FUCK OFF YOU POOR MORONS!
2 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on at 3/31/2008 04:14:00 PM.
I love Paris.
But more than regularly I get the impression the people inside Paris are idiots of the most insulting order!
I*m not talking about that well known fact that the french in polupar culture are refered to as being rude and snooty (we all know that).
I*m talking about that kind of people who look a t me in the streets in a more than demeaning way and point at me and laugh at me and even regularly insult me. Those people make Paris a living hell.
Especially on weekends, I am more than fed up to walk the streets alone in the evenings, not by fear of getting mugged or agressed, but because I already know that I will get to hear any possible kind of jokes and insults on my persona by some less than human assholes who dress like a pile of shit. Actually shit is a much too good word to describe them, because even my shit smells better and is of a more pleasant aesthetic value than theirs. There! I*ve said it!
Let me explain myself, to those of you who know me, you know that I dont dress like the average boring person you find on the streets, that kinda people that you dont even see because they*re not worth looking at because they got nothing interesting of a look going on whatsoever.
Yes I wear skinny pants and lots of black and I have funny hair that has actual resemblance to a toilet brush. But thats not a reason to insult me with your regular collection of idiotic stereotypes and jokes on my looks.
You think you*re so clever and original?
"Ooh, say are you a boy or a girl?"
"Oooh its Tokyo Hotel!"
"Oooh you take it up the ass, you fag!"
You really think I*ve never heard that stuff before? Do something creative! Get a life you morons!
Interestingly enough, the insults come from a various array of people.
I don*t mind the group of silly little fat prepubescent teenage girls who laugh at me in a hysterical way, because they are already doomed with their looks.
But I regularly get insulted in the worst way and pointed at by those who come from the suburbs of Paris. You know that kinda wannabe gangsta rappa yo-yo foshizzlemahnizzle groups who drive their cars with the windows down, blasting some stereotypical rap songs around to show that they arrived. Now ok, they are usually from second generation immigrant communities out in the suburbs, where moral values are not the same as anywhere else, and so I don*t mean to be racist at all with this, but those are usually the kinda guys who insult me in the worst possible ways by reciting the complete collection of gay-bashing slang.
...Why do you guys who are already a minority need to insult another minority? To feel all high and mighty in front of your friends in that car of yours as you drive by me and flip me off after having had a good laugh? Oh sure I would do the same thing (insert sarcasm here).
Best of all is when I got laughed at and pointed at by a group of CRS idiots in front of the entrance to the ministry of culture (I write culture without a capital "c", because really I wonder where that culture went). Aren*t those guys from the special anti-riot forces supposed to represent their country in a more respectable way? What a good image of inspiration for this country*s youth they are indeed.
Oh and BTW where is the law against discrimination? Especially for people who are supposed to represent law and order in this, the birthplace of human rights? Homophobia still rules?
I love it! Makes me feel so alive!
Oh and I absolutely LOOOOVE the fact that stupid tourists make fun of me and insult me.
2 ugly looking idiots in standardized boring tourist clothes who were standing behind me at a red light on a pedestrian crossing started to make fun of me in their language (some slavic tongue, maybe russian), looking at me and talking to me by obviously bashing me with some insults. So I started insulting them in my own mothertongue.
I always try not to respond but sometimes I just can*t help it and lower myself to their level of intellectual incapacity.
How dare you assholes come to this city as tourists and start insulting the people who live here?
Look at you! You wear stuff that I wouldn*t even touch with gloves.
The feces which I produce every morning has more style and class than the look you will have during your entire life, so in the words of dear president Sarkozy:
"Fuck off you poor moron!" ("Casse-toi pauvre con!")
But more than regularly I get the impression the people inside Paris are idiots of the most insulting order!
I*m not talking about that well known fact that the french in polupar culture are refered to as being rude and snooty (we all know that).
I*m talking about that kind of people who look a t me in the streets in a more than demeaning way and point at me and laugh at me and even regularly insult me. Those people make Paris a living hell.
Especially on weekends, I am more than fed up to walk the streets alone in the evenings, not by fear of getting mugged or agressed, but because I already know that I will get to hear any possible kind of jokes and insults on my persona by some less than human assholes who dress like a pile of shit. Actually shit is a much too good word to describe them, because even my shit smells better and is of a more pleasant aesthetic value than theirs. There! I*ve said it!
Let me explain myself, to those of you who know me, you know that I dont dress like the average boring person you find on the streets, that kinda people that you dont even see because they*re not worth looking at because they got nothing interesting of a look going on whatsoever.
Yes I wear skinny pants and lots of black and I have funny hair that has actual resemblance to a toilet brush. But thats not a reason to insult me with your regular collection of idiotic stereotypes and jokes on my looks.
You think you*re so clever and original?
"Ooh, say are you a boy or a girl?"
"Oooh its Tokyo Hotel!"
"Oooh you take it up the ass, you fag!"
You really think I*ve never heard that stuff before? Do something creative! Get a life you morons!
Interestingly enough, the insults come from a various array of people.
I don*t mind the group of silly little fat prepubescent teenage girls who laugh at me in a hysterical way, because they are already doomed with their looks.
But I regularly get insulted in the worst way and pointed at by those who come from the suburbs of Paris. You know that kinda wannabe gangsta rappa yo-yo foshizzlemahnizzle groups who drive their cars with the windows down, blasting some stereotypical rap songs around to show that they arrived. Now ok, they are usually from second generation immigrant communities out in the suburbs, where moral values are not the same as anywhere else, and so I don*t mean to be racist at all with this, but those are usually the kinda guys who insult me in the worst possible ways by reciting the complete collection of gay-bashing slang.
...Why do you guys who are already a minority need to insult another minority? To feel all high and mighty in front of your friends in that car of yours as you drive by me and flip me off after having had a good laugh? Oh sure I would do the same thing (insert sarcasm here).
Best of all is when I got laughed at and pointed at by a group of CRS idiots in front of the entrance to the ministry of culture (I write culture without a capital "c", because really I wonder where that culture went). Aren*t those guys from the special anti-riot forces supposed to represent their country in a more respectable way? What a good image of inspiration for this country*s youth they are indeed.
Oh and BTW where is the law against discrimination? Especially for people who are supposed to represent law and order in this, the birthplace of human rights? Homophobia still rules?
I love it! Makes me feel so alive!
Oh and I absolutely LOOOOVE the fact that stupid tourists make fun of me and insult me.
2 ugly looking idiots in standardized boring tourist clothes who were standing behind me at a red light on a pedestrian crossing started to make fun of me in their language (some slavic tongue, maybe russian), looking at me and talking to me by obviously bashing me with some insults. So I started insulting them in my own mothertongue.
I always try not to respond but sometimes I just can*t help it and lower myself to their level of intellectual incapacity.
How dare you assholes come to this city as tourists and start insulting the people who live here?
Look at you! You wear stuff that I wouldn*t even touch with gloves.
The feces which I produce every morning has more style and class than the look you will have during your entire life, so in the words of dear president Sarkozy:
"Fuck off you poor moron!" ("Casse-toi pauvre con!")
Labels: angry blogposts, I hate ugly people, Insulting me, people, people I hate, Politics, Sarkozyland
Haussmann of the 20th century
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 3/27/2008 03:42:00 PM.
Robert Moses in 1959 by Arnold NewmanRobert Moses (1888-1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although he never held elected office, Moses was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.
Moses's projects were considered by many to be necessary for the region's development. During the height of his powers, New York City participated in the construction of two huge World's Fairs: one in 1939 and the other in 1964. Moses was also in large part responsible for the United Nations' decision to headquarter in Manhattan as opposed to Philadelphia. His supporters believe he made the city viable for the 21st century by building an infrastructure that most people wanted and that has endured.
However, his works remain extremely controversial. His critics claim that he preferred automobiles to people, that he displaced hundreds of thousands of residents in New York City, uprooted traditional neighborhoods by building expressways through them, contributed to the ruin of the South Bronx and the amusement parks of Coney Island, caused the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants Major League baseball teams, and precipitated the decline of public transport through disinvestment and neglect.
Moses's projects were considered by many to be necessary for the region's development. During the height of his powers, New York City participated in the construction of two huge World's Fairs: one in 1939 and the other in 1964. Moses was also in large part responsible for the United Nations' decision to headquarter in Manhattan as opposed to Philadelphia. His supporters believe he made the city viable for the 21st century by building an infrastructure that most people wanted and that has endured.
However, his works remain extremely controversial. His critics claim that he preferred automobiles to people, that he displaced hundreds of thousands of residents in New York City, uprooted traditional neighborhoods by building expressways through them, contributed to the ruin of the South Bronx and the amusement parks of Coney Island, caused the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants Major League baseball teams, and precipitated the decline of public transport through disinvestment and neglect.
Labels: New York, photography, Politics
Sarko and Liz!
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 3/26/2008 01:38:00 PM.
Sarkozy is visiting dear old Queen Liz today.
Lots of receptions and official bling-bling ceremonies that should make a nice backdrop for the next episode of the Sarkozy Soap Opera!
Lots of receptions and official bling-bling ceremonies that should make a nice backdrop for the next episode of the Sarkozy Soap Opera!
Labels: Queen, Royalist stuff, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland
TOILETS of PARIS
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 3/23/2008 02:20:00 AM.
In a dumpster next to Notre-Dame des Victoires
Paris IIe
look, even a baby potty seat!
Labels: TOILETS of PARIS
BUZZ on PARIS 2e
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 3/18/2008 01:22:00 PM.
PARIS 2e is growing and growing (like a candytree getting off of the Atkins diet) and gets more fanatic followers day by day.
Next thing you know we get published in an article on Paris Popcorn, the Paris blog of dear actress and soap-star friend Nirit (blog and me, we love you!). ...and maybe even magazine-ified on the east-coast of the US. Lets see how that thing evolves.
Labels: "The Internets", Art, people
This is the internet. Not a live picture obviously. Nor does it have live traffic updates. But its one of the first visual images of what our connected internetted global community looks like.There may still be work to be done, since you cannot possibly spot the exact location of the whereabouts of this blog*s exact location at the moment. But technology evolves and soon you can say "OMG that*s my blog there! Damn I left the lights on in the kitchen again!"
Oh and here is the color chart for the above map:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
More info; go to 'The Opte Project'
Labels: "The Internets", Maps
Confluences - the World in Pop-Up Mode
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on at 3/18/2008 01:15:00 AM.
I came across this fascinating global mapping project and its enormous collection of samplings from everywhere.
Visit Degree Confluence Project and check out their fascinating world maps with pop-up images.
The official statement of the site says " The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures, along with a narrative describing the adventures it took to get there are then posted on the web site. This creates an organized sampling of the world."
Visit Degree Confluence Project and check out their fascinating world maps with pop-up images.
The World. Each little colored dot is a pop-up picture with a story behind.
Labels: Maps, photography, travel
It*s a SPIDER MAN!
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 3/15/2008 07:48:00 PM.
The Tuileries Gardens is playing host to a rather unusual 8 legged guest, one of the famous monumental spiders of Louise Bourgeois. The "Maman" sculpture from 1999 is a public part of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition hosted at the Pompidou Center, currently on loan from a NY private collection.
You can*t miss her, if you enter the gardens from the museums side, she sits on the left side of the Grand Carré (fountain) and fits in well with the surrounding trees. You might not even be able to discern her at first view, so take a good look.
Bourgeois chose to show this piece in the Tuileries, fond of all her memories of these gardens during her studies at the Ecole du Louvre and as a conference guide at the museum.
Bourgeois chose to show this piece in the Tuileries, fond of all her memories of these gardens during her studies at the Ecole du Louvre and as a conference guide at the museum.
Oh and if you wanna see more open-air Bourgeois works, there is a permanent display of her bronze "Welcoming Hands" from 1996 at the right side of the Grand Bassin on the Concorde entrance.
Labels: Art, exhibitions, gardens, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
ANGELINA*S Chocolate... some would kill for it!
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 3/13/2008 11:21:00 PM.
Another great afternoon in a somewhat rainy Paris, with dear Nirit, wandering around the Tuileries and stopping by at Angelina*s, my favorite Belle Epoque tea-room.
Angelina*s opened in 1903, under the family*s name of "Rumpelmayer" and quickly became the chic place for Paris gourmets.
The Rumpelmayers were a great family of Austrian pastry-cooks. Their sweetmeats were such as success that Antoine, the father, opened this first shop for making and selling pastries in Germany in Baden-Baden. Then following high society which, in winter, frequented the French Riviera, he set up a shop in Menton and in Aix-lex-Bains in the French Alps.
The Paris tea-room, beneath the Rue de Rivoli arcades at number 226, was founded by his son. It was renamed Angelina in honour of his wife and was soon frequented by the elite of customers having good taste who built its reputation. The famous fashion designer Coco Chanel and the writer Marcel Proust used to take their 5 o'clock tea there. King George V of Britain had his own engraved glasses there. Today, artists such as Catherine Deneuve, Britney Spears (please no! but then again, she must be getting fat somewhere, right?) are regular customers.
One should come as soon as it opens while the tea-room is still quiet and almost empty. The unchanging ballet of waiters then begins. The setting has remained almost identical for nearly a hundred years. Only a few Art Déco chandeliers were added around 1930. In the afternoons, the waiting lines can get quite long (usually, you can get a table easier if there*s only 2 of you).
Today, the tea-room still holds a few private events. Cocktail parties, birthday parties and society evenings are sometimes held there. Jean-Paul Gautier and Karl Lagerfeld have followed Mademoiselle Chanel*s example. Angelina's saw numerous new fashion designers making their debuts such as Herve Leger, Torrente and Michel Klein. So as not to disturb customers too much, the fashion parades take place in the morning. A few tables are removed from the restaurant and the models can present themselves to the public.
Hot chocolate and "Mont-Blanc" (gaaaahhh, Mont-Blanc! mmmmh) pastries are the two most popular delicacies and the ones which are ordered the most. Although this palace has become a veritable institution, it still keeps its recipes secret. The thick, frothy beverage is served in a hot-chocolate pot, accompanied by a jug of whipped cream to complement it.
The Mont-Blanc pastry comes from the Italian Alps. It consists of meringue, whipped cream and sweet chestnut cream. Many other pastries here will delight gastronomes such as the fragilité made of macaroon pastry, almond sponge cake and pistachio butter-cream, the Colombien, made of coffee ganache or the Opéra which is another refined chocolate and coffee cake.
Oh, and people-observing is always fun...
Labels: FASHION, like buttah, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
BALENCIAGA VINTAGE - SS 1960
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 3/12/2008 04:03:00 PM.
What a difference, if you compare this haute couture fashion show from 1960 to the Dior and CHANEL extravaganzas from January 2008.
More on Cristobal Balenciaga.
More on Cristobal Balenciaga.
Labels: FASHION, fashion week paris
Labels: FASHION, fashion week paris, Karl
New York Transit Maps
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 3/11/2008 10:33:00 PM.
From Marie-Antoinette to Louise Bourgeois
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on at 3/11/2008 09:56:00 PM.
The upcoming major exhibitions in Paris seem to have a certain logic. 2 of them, the most conveyed ones, deal with 2 great woman personalities.
The Grand Palais is hosting "Marie-Antoinette" from March 15th to June 30th, a major event, tracing back the life of one of the last queens of France, and giving a better insight in her private life, from her childhood at Schönbrunn up to her last moments at the guillotine.
The Centre Pompidou will be presenting the first extensive retrospective showcasing Louise Bourgeois' work since the exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1995. This retrospective has been organised with the London Tate Modern.
What I*ve been reading these days
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 3/10/2008 08:47:00 PM.
NYM finally
Andy obviously
Magazine regularly
Tmag fashionably
Citizen K financially
L*Officiel religiously
Russian/soviet Theater possibly
The Edifice Complex architecturally
Texas Map closely
Labels: Magazines and books
More fun pics from a short discovery trip around Paris, to see the other side of this tourist-beaten traveller*s checks magnet!
Starbucks in the early morning
does anyone still wear shoes in this town?
hmm...the superdome of Paris?
a perfect view of the city of London with its Big Ben tower
smiley face!
the restaurant at Pompidou center
and its terrace
Alpi on the escalator...aww Paris=Love
stalking people from far away
another face
dog
waiting
stolen bike?
whose blue stockings?
ah yes!
Rue de Rivoli on a Sunday
Tuileries
red light
crossing
biking
hiding
drinking
Starbucks in the early morning
does anyone still wear shoes in this town?
hmm...the superdome of Paris?
a perfect view of the city of London with its Big Ben tower
smiley face!
the restaurant at Pompidou center
and its terrace
Alpi on the escalator...aww Paris=Love
stalking people from far away
another face
dog
waiting
stolen bike?
whose blue stockings?
ah yes!
Rue de Rivoli on a Sunday
Tuileries
red light
crossing
biking
hiding
drinking
Labels: gardens, Monuments, MUSEUMS, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), people, photography
