Sad Tree Friend
6 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 4/28/2009 05:06:00 PM.
Found next to the Baths of Cluny
Doors of Paris
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, April 27, 2009 at 4/27/2009 07:21:00 PM.
27 Rue Saint Sulpice
Paris 6e
Labels: Architecture Instant Love, Paris Doors, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
Cour du Commerce Saint-André
Paris 6e
Labels: Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), street art, urban art
Palais Royal Fashion
3 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 4/26/2009 03:24:00 PM.
Didier Ludot exhibits pieces of his fashion collection regularly in the arcades of the Palais royal. Also don't miss the fashion displays of the ministry of culture, on the corner of Galeries de Valois and d'Orleans. They showcase conteporary designers, usually with theater constumes.
(the last one is Chanel)
Labels: FASHION, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
Rue d'Argout, Paris 2e
Labels: Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), street art, urban art
Bollywood showdown: Michael Jackson versus the Beatles
4 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 4/21/2009 08:18:00 PM.
Sometimes you think you've seen every bad remake or cover song there is, and then life hands you a pure Indian gem.
Whom do you prefer?
This Indian version of Thriller with a Michael Jackson imitation that looks slightly like Little Richard in his heydays?
Or the Indian version of the Beatles; a quatuor not even bearing close enough ressemblance to four guys from Liverpool?
Labels: Music, Talking Pictures, worst music video EVER
Luxembourg Market Morning
6 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 4/18/2009 04:12:00 PM.
A happy Saturday morning stroll over the market square in Luxembourg city, with the statue of Grand-Duke Guillaume watching closely over the happy high-end food shoppers and the neverending ballet of shopping trolleys.
Labels: Luxembourg, shopping
Danger! Low flying Dogcraft!
6 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, April 13, 2009 at 4/13/2009 10:22:00 PM.
My doggie loves to fly.
Labels: Luxembourg
Vintage Soap Remake
5 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 4/09/2009 09:13:00 PM.
They renovated a building on Grands Boulevards, and they renovated the vintage soap ad from 1919 that was on its side facade at the same moment. Now it doesn't look vintage or anything anymore. Does it still have any historic value?
The Cadum baby, somewhat weird spokesperson for the Cadum Soap which was produced at the manufacturies of Courbevoie. According to the museum of advertisement, the ads with the baby were covering numerous walls of Paris around 1919. Around 1940 the Cadum baby loses its place and gets replaced by a pretty young girl. So long baby!
Labels: Ads, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), VINTAGE
Sometimes you really wish it was like a Tomb
6 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 4/08/2009 06:30:00 PM.
We all love the Louvre Pyramid. A big symbolic structure that screams "monument" in all its transparency, or as Robert Venturi would call it, the 'duck'. What more symbolic and majestic than a pyramid?
Well I'd prefer to hang around in a real pyramid sometimes when I see the crowds that press themselves inside this noble glass structure. Isn't a pyramid supposed to be a peaceful and quiet place, where the dead rest and where you could hear a pin drop? Certainly, but today Pei's pyramid was once again hopelessly overstuffed with the tourist crowd. Apparently someone told me they had as much as 80 tourist busses alone, and countless groups of yelling and nasty schoolkids on Easter vacation that should rather be let loose in an empty junkyard than in a place of priceless artwork.
All I wanted to do was attend a harmless conference on museum architecture, and it took me 15 minutes and a try at each entrance gate to finally kwetsch myself inside. But I think my pictures speak for themselves: disoriented tourists en masse and waiting lines at the ticket boots that you would usually find for rock concert tickets.
Well I'd prefer to hang around in a real pyramid sometimes when I see the crowds that press themselves inside this noble glass structure. Isn't a pyramid supposed to be a peaceful and quiet place, where the dead rest and where you could hear a pin drop? Certainly, but today Pei's pyramid was once again hopelessly overstuffed with the tourist crowd. Apparently someone told me they had as much as 80 tourist busses alone, and countless groups of yelling and nasty schoolkids on Easter vacation that should rather be let loose in an empty junkyard than in a place of priceless artwork.
All I wanted to do was attend a harmless conference on museum architecture, and it took me 15 minutes and a try at each entrance gate to finally kwetsch myself inside. But I think my pictures speak for themselves: disoriented tourists en masse and waiting lines at the ticket boots that you would usually find for rock concert tickets.
Labels: Louvre, MUSEUMS, people I hate
The Louvre Pyramid is celebrating 20 years already.
To celebrate this event, the cour Napoléon will be lit every evening until April 10 by a light installation by Jenny Holzer entitled "Xenon for Paris" (initially created for the 2001 Paris Autumn Festival). Holzer has been doing these large scale projections since the late 1970s in New York.
So come down to the Louvre tonight and share a moment of nocturnal Paris magic.
To celebrate this event, the cour Napoléon will be lit every evening until April 10 by a light installation by Jenny Holzer entitled "Xenon for Paris" (initially created for the 2001 Paris Autumn Festival). Holzer has been doing these large scale projections since the late 1970s in New York.
So come down to the Louvre tonight and share a moment of nocturnal Paris magic.
Labels: Art, ART NIGHT, Louvre, MUSEUMS, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), street art
Colorfield Selfportraits
3 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 4/07/2009 03:38:00 PM.
Labels: design, personal drawings + cartoons, photography
