Scene pigeons 300
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}Ku837nKrCFA{/youtube} Pigeons under siege by a group of children near Paris’s Gare Montparnasse. Favorite
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Scene tuileries 300
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}Si6vb7fO_tY{/youtube} A wintery evening scene in Paris’s Tuileries Garden. Favorite
Scene monumenta boltanski
{youtubejw width=”300″ height=”220″}bkxtMDkwEh8{/youtubejw} French artist Christian Boltanski was given carte blanche to create an installation for the biannual exhibition “Monumenta” in Paris’s Grand Palais. The title of the show, all about absent people, is called “Personnes.” Favorite
Scene cour carree 300
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}7gYtk2oRdGk{/youtube} One couple takes a self-portrait and another shares a kiss while the music plays in the Louvre’s beautifully lit Cour Carrée on a winter evening. Favorite
Scene jours de fêtes 300
{youtubejw width=”300″ height=”200″}ort9gP6DMTE{/youtubejw} Paris’s Grand Palais has been turned into an indoor amusement park called Jours de Fêtes through Jan. 1, 2010. Favorite
Scene bd bonne nouvelle2
{youtubejw width=”335″}yMzY9eF4YNg{/youtubejw} Paris’s new public toilets (officially known as “automated public conveniences”) are handsomer than their bunker-like predecessors and are free, wheelchair-accessible and supposedly self-cleaning and hygienic (a close look at the video might make you think otherwise!). Favorite
Scene mk2
{youtubejw width=”300″ height=”220″}zvLI2_jnJIk{/youtubejw} Movie-goers can travel across the Canal de l’Ourcq in Paris in the little boat “Zéro de Conduite” (after director Jean Vigo’s 1933 film) between two MK2 cinemas, one on the Quai de Seine and the other on … Read More
Scene institut du monde arabe
{youtubejw width=”300″ height=”210″}meqhXo5r8Vc{/youtubejw} One of the best views of Paris is from the terrace of the Institut du Monde Arabe, seen here at dusk on a Sunday evening. Favorite
Scene passerelle
{youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}rlwsx7Ml6dg{/youtube} A Sunday afternoon on the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, a pedestrian bridge running from the Musée d’Orsay to the Tuileries Garden in Paris. Favorite
Photoquai2
PHOTOS ON THE QUAY “Man in a Sola Hat, Bombay, 1985,” by Sooni Taraporevala. Here’s a great idea for a day when the fall weather is fine: go to the Musée du Quai Branly and cross over to the quay … Read More