SARKONOMICS
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 2/26/2008 06:51:00 PM.
or how to be "présidentiable"
lesson 1:
Don*t let ANYONE insult you!
(video with Sarko getting screamed at / "enculé" = fucker, asshole, wanker)
lesson 1:
Don*t let ANYONE insult you!
(video with Sarko getting screamed at / "enculé" = fucker, asshole, wanker)
lesson 2:
Insult people who insult you! Use BIG-BOY words to feel lika someone important and impress your nation.
(video with Sarko insulting a guy who didn*t want to shake his hand ("don*t touch me, you make me dirty") with strong big-boy language ( "casse toi pauvre con" = get lost you poor moron/cunt)
Labels: Politics, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland
PARIS STREET VIEW finally on GOOGLE MAPS?
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 2/25/2008 12:17:00 AM.
How long will we have to wait until Paris is finally google-able on street view?
Reports of Google cars in the streets of Paris became frequent since last October, but so far no news from Google on when the first European cities will finally make their appearance ...
Let*s hope the below picture will soon become a frequent view for our fellow googlers from around the world!
Reports of Google cars in the streets of Paris became frequent since last October, but so far no news from Google on when the first European cities will finally make their appearance ...
Let*s hope the below picture will soon become a frequent view for our fellow googlers from around the world!
Labels: google street view, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), travel
Manhattan
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 2/24/2008 03:36:00 PM.
The much anticipated return of the "Toilets of Paris"!
Found this specimen rue des Bluets in the 11th
unfortunately the most important part was missing, yet I deemed it blogworthy
unfortunately the most important part was missing, yet I deemed it blogworthy
Labels: TOILETS of PARIS
Found this on a laundromat in the 6th arrondissement.
It says
"Even when nothing is happening, something is always happening" (John Cage)
It says
"Even when nothing is happening, something is always happening" (John Cage)
Well it seems like the right place for a happeningLabels: Art, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
HILLARY
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 2/22/2008 02:55:00 AM.
They forgot to put this message into campaign posters...She can*t get her "cranky days"
But still much better than some other peeps projected campaign posters...
Labels: drunk politicians, Politics, propaganda
Evacuate the Louvre! The Germans are comming!
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on at 2/22/2008 12:42:00 AM.
In 1937/38 as WWII was about to break out, Louvre director Jacques Jaujard decided to evacuate the museums collections. Most of the pieces got evacuated except for the biggest ones, which were protected by sand bags in the galleries.
the artwork getting packed into crates and boxes
moving the paintings out of the second floor
evacuating the victory of Samothracy over the stairs
the emptied galeries only bearing the frames
The Grande Galerie, emtied of its masterpieces
Egyptian wing statues covered against possible bombings
The Nazis visiting copies under the occupation
The artworks got sent away, at first to the castle of Chambord, then moved around different castles on numerous occasions in a quite confusing way to keep the German enemy confused.
The emptied museum reopened under the occupation, mostly showing copies of the originals.
The emptied museum reopened under the occupation, mostly showing copies of the originals.
The grand windows protected by sandbags
the artwork getting packed into crates and boxes
moving the paintings out of the second floor
evacuating the victory of Samothracy over the stairs
the emptied galeries only bearing the frames
The Grande Galerie, emtied of its masterpieces
Egyptian wing statues covered against possible bombings
The Nazis visiting copies under the occupation
Zaha Hadid and the lost Louvre
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 2/20/2008 07:15:00 PM.
These are the views of Zaha Hadid*s entry to the competition of creating a new space for the Islamic arts department. Unfortunately Hadid*s entry was not the winner, supposedly because it may have looked too extreme to the more conservative Louvre people, so a more "standardised" design was chosen in the end.The Louvre*s collection of Islamic art is currently displayed on the lower ground floor of the Richelieu wing, in a very cramped and ridiculously small space, but will be transferred to newly created display areas in the Cour Visconti (Denon wing) over the next 5 years.
The Louvre, like the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, holds one of the most important Islamic Art collections in the world. The adjacent Decorative Arts museum owns another 3,000 objects that have not been shown in public for over 20 years. The 2 collections will come together in a two-story, 36,000 square-foot design by Milanese architect Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti, a French architect.
Set to open in 2009, the $67 million project benefited from a $20 million donation from Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal.
Read this NYT article on the Louvre*s new islamic arts wing!
Labels: Architecture Instant Love, design, Louvre, MUSEUMS
The "Great Dictator" opened in New York City in September 1940, to a wider American audience in October and the United Kingdom in December and was released in France in April 1945, shortly after the liberation of Paris.
Labels: Movies and worse, Politics, Talking Pictures
60 minutes of SARKOLOGY
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2/17/2008 03:45:00 PM.
Come and watch a 2007 report on Sarkozy, on CBS*s '60 minutes', and discover the weirder side of everyone*s favorite Carla Bruni husband! See him insult his press secretary and lots of other fun things.
Labels: drunk politicians, Politics, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland, videos
Palais de ChaillotIn the 'before' shot, the 1948 temporary headquarters for the United Nations are visible around the fountain esplanade. It is here that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.
Labels: PARIS - THEN and NOW
Happy buy-me-some-flowers-chocolates-greetingcards day!
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 2/14/2008 01:08:00 PM.
Awwwww ! Don*t we look badly photoshopped?Labels: celebrations, Erik stuff, things that can happen if you stare directly into the sun
BLING BLING SARKOZY
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 2/13/2008 02:43:00 PM.
It*s Sarkoy on official state visit in Romania earlier this week, apparently still as attracted as ever to all things shiny and golden. Watch him drooling with lust on a shiny Romanian pen before he takes it away. Just what is it with this guy and his obsession with the bling?
Labels: drunk politicians, Politics, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland
PARIS - THEN and NOW
2 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 2/12/2008 09:58:00 PM.
This new blog section has been on my mind for a certain time now. I finally found a way to put my huge collection of vintage Paris pictures to a good use. Now you*ll find me in the streets restaging the right angles to make old and new match.
Now obviously Paris hasn*t changed much over the last century, the only differences might be the transportation vehicles and the differently clothed people walking around.
Opéra Garnier
Café de la Paix, Grand Hotel
Notre Dame de l*Assomption, Rue Saint-Honoré
Terrace des Feuillants, Tuileries
Labels: gardens, Monuments, PARIS - THEN and NOW, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), photography
from SKYLINE to BORDERLINE
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 2/11/2008 04:46:00 PM.
It*s a beautiful day for a little stroll through the musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, especially since it boasts one of the best views onto the skyline of Paris and the Tuileries gardens at its feet.
Me in the elevator. It*s shiny, therefore I like it. No elevator music so far though.
The crossing of rue de Rivoli to get to the Tuileries
These old guys come together here every afternoon for a game of pétanque.
I call this the sand bank, because it looks like a huge beach without water
The Défense area with its skyscrapers
Shiny leaning tower of Paris
Busy rue de Rivoli
The musée des Arts Décoratifs is having a little exhibition called "Comix", where cartoon artists are invited to create installations on the theme of a toy selected in the museums collections, mixed with their own creations.
One of my favorites is the stamp wall by Sardon, depicting a bizarre world of little wooden showcases, bearing a certain resemblance to a 19th century curiosity shop.
Even presidents Sarkozy and Bush are honored by a stamp alter-ego
"Mister Scrap Metal" (Monsieur Ferraille) is the creation of artists Winshluss, Cizo and Felder, and is based on the Disney empire. (Noicte the killed Dumbo falling on the ground)
a Monsieur Ferraille boy*s room, with lots of fun stuff, such as the wallpaper with a drunken, druged, ass-showing Mister Ferraille, as well as lotsa fun toys. (Notice the "Goldfish" feasting on a human finger)
Labels: exhibitions, gardens, Monuments, MUSEUMS, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), photography, Sarkozyland
ARTS DECOS PARIS - ceiling de-lights
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on at 2/11/2008 03:43:00 PM.
Labels: design, MUSEUMS, photography
ELLA FOREVER
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2/10/2008 11:41:00 PM.
Ella Fitzgerald 1969 live at Montreux Festival
Labels: Music, Talking Pictures
NEW YORK FUN
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 2/09/2008 02:21:00 PM.
I just love this NY tourism commercial...
...and this little big piece of flash mob performance.
...and this little big piece of flash mob performance.
Labels: New York, Talking Pictures, Theater
Palais de Tokyo à la folie
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 2/07/2008 02:03:00 PM.
I love the old buildings of the Palais de Tokyo constructed for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology of 1937. Its covered in bas-reliefs by Alfred Janniot, and presents a bronze statue by Antoine Bourdelle depicting France, overlooking a big reflecting pool. But the days of glory have passed and the reflecting pool looks like a dump and most of the surrounding piazzas and terraces are now left to the skaters, who call this place 'le dome'. I prefer it that way, it is one of the last places where you can still find peace and quiet, and sit on the enormous terrace café with stunning view onto the Eiffel Tower and the riverfront...
360° view
The reflecting poolLabels: Monuments, MUSEUMS, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET)
PARIS POTPOURRI
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 2/03/2008 10:37:00 PM.
