Portraits at the Légion d'Honneur Museum
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 7/13/2010 01:22:00 PM.
Labels: exhibitions, MUSEUMS, photography, Royalist stuff, Sarkozyland
Vive la France
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, July 3, 2010 at 7/03/2010 10:30:00 PM.
"Together deconstruct the future"
Labels: Art, exhibitions, photography, Sarkozyland
"And we call this thing a WINDOW"
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 6/20/2010 11:58:00 PM.
"It's quite staggeringly popular in France I tell you. Fine craftsmanship here. Keeps the wind outside."
"Also, if a bird crashes in it, it usually lands on this stone border so that the lady of the house may pick it up and serve it for supper..."
Labels: news from the weird, people, photography, Sarkozyland
You've Got Mail...maybe
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 4/07/2010 05:57:00 PM.
Sometimes you're just amazed at how well the postal service does not work. The package I recieved was inside a "bag". Who would send me a plastic bag? Then the mystery got solved upon opening the bag and finding a badly damaged box inside... Be careful when ordering your books on Amazon...
Labels: Sarkozyland, whatever
No Sarkozy Day
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, March 1, 2010 at 3/01/2010 03:42:00 PM.
Spring Time - Strike Time
4 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 3/18/2009 11:09:00 AM.
Well, actually this year, the strikes have started early. The strike at my university has been going on for 6 weeks during this semester. And there is no end in sight. But with the good sunny weather coming up in the next weeks, lots of Frenchmen will do once again what they know how to do best: take a day off work to march the streets and show their anger.
What will they be angry about this year you may ask? (It's almost like forecasting the coming trends in the fashion industry before Paris Fashion Week). Well the anger is mainly directed at president Sarkozy and the bad economy. So why not put the economy for a whole day to halt and march the streets? Because that's really what we need right now.
Anyway, I support the people who were manifesting their anger in my street last morning, because most of them are without a roof above their heads or have no jobs because of their legal papers. So a couple of years ago they took over an empty bank building right next to the old Stock Exchange next door to my street and put up a squat. Amazingly, they still live in that building, which is now known as the "Ministère de la Crise du Logement".
The manifestants in front of the 'Social Club' and my next-door supermarket. Apparently they were denied access to my street (where the police headquarters of the arrondissement is) because the policecars need to circulate and my street dates back to the 17th century, so it is quite narrow to keep a group under control.
Labels: Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), Politics, Sarkozyland
Terror Shopping can be fun too
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 12/20/2008 12:45:00 PM.
After the bomb threats earlier this week and a series of packets of explosives having been found in the toilets of the Printemps department store in one of the main shopping areas of Paris, the police is now present all around the area, with a 1500 additional men on patrol and even this neat little mobile police headquarter that got set up right in front of Galeries Lafayette Maison.How very reassuring to see we can jump in there at any moment
and tell them about that old lady that bit us while we were trying to buy our xmas presents...
Labels: celebrations, Sarkozyland, shopping
SARKOBAMA revealed
13 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 12/03/2008 09:08:00 PM.
After all this excitement on the mysterious Sarkobama ads that spread all over town, the answer cam to Paris this morning as posters in the metro finally announced that Greenpeace was behind this viral campaign. And all just to tell Sarko to reduce greenhouse emissions in Europe up to 30 percent till 2020? You could have called the Elysée, that would have been cheaper!
Labels: drunk politicians, Obamalicious, Politics, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland
More SARKOBAMA in PARIS
6 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, December 1, 2008 at 12/01/2008 04:22:00 PM.
Yet more Sarkobama posters, found next to the old stock exchange in my area.
These here can be found on the sidewalk at the Printemps department store.
Quite the treat for Christmas this year!
These found on a corner behind the opera building, next to Lafayette Maison.
Anyone got any info on this campaign?
These here can be found on the sidewalk at the Printemps department store.
Quite the treat for Christmas this year!
These found on a corner behind the opera building, next to Lafayette Maison.
Anyone got any info on this campaign?
Labels: drunk politicians, Obamalicious, Politics, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland
SARKOBAMA
8 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, November 28, 2008 at 11/28/2008 05:35:00 PM.
On the night between November 26th and 27th, some mysterious group pasted numerous hundreds of posters in some streets of Paris, depicting the colorful face of Sarkozy in the now mythical Obama campaign style. The posters have different slogans ranging from "Producing a clean ecological source of energy" to "Create one million fixed jobs", followed by a big "Yes we can!"
No activist group has yet claimed responsibility for this widespread and well orchestrated action, but judging by the amount of money spent on such a campaign, it can't be the secret art project of some students over at the Beaux-Arts...
Interstingly the areas the posters can be found (the pictures here are taken next to my apartment in the second arrondissement) are all strong voters of the political left, such as the Marais, Bastille, Republique and other parts of the city.
Labels: drunk politicians, Obamalicious, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), Politics, SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland, street art
SARKOZY and his obsession with pens
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 10/30/2008 07:39:00 PM.
We all remember when Sarko took that shiny pen after signing Romanian official documents some time ago. Well now it seems his pen collection got even bigger, as he keeps sneaking away more of them wherever he goes.
Now he even asks his wife to explain to Shimon Peres in Israel that he wants to have his pen too.
German chancellor Merkel was wise enough to offer him a shiny box with a shiny pen inside.
German chancellor Merkel was wise enough to offer him a shiny box with a shiny pen inside.
Why does he need all those pens of foreign heads of state? Is there some sick voodoo scheme behind all this?
Labels: SARKONOMICS, Sarkozyland
The vague-human-rights-concept people*s fear
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 4/08/2008 06:19:00 PM.
Yesterday the Mayor of paris unveiled this huge banner on city hall, just in time to in-your-face the Beijing olympic flame. Chinese officials the called the planned ceremony in front of city hall off in in last minute. In your face! In your face!
"Paris defends the human rights everywhere in the world"
Even on Notre Dame, the flag for "Reportes without Borders" was flying high as the flame passed by.
And let*s not forget the Eiffel Tower.
Check out Reporters without Borders!
Labels: Monuments, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), Sarkozyland
"It*s on, it*s off" -The Olympic Flame*s Chaotic Day in Paris.
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on at 4/08/2008 12:34:00 AM.
"Ah, let the light of that olympic flame enlighten my spirit!"
Well yes, but don*t get too close to it!
Not because you might get burned, but you just might get beaten and arrested...
Obviously everyone knows about the global protesting of the olympics in Beijing, so I won*t go into details on all things free-Tibet style. We know the story, now get the pictures.
I just got out of my last class at the Louvre, when I got a phonecall from my mom.
"Don*t go out into the streets, it*s dangerous outside with all those protesters, don*t get into trouble!"
Obviously I had to go check that one out a bit closer, and half an hour later my friend and me were waiting for that "Olympic spirit" to pass by on Place de la Concorde.
Activists had promised a day of "spectacular" protests despite the high-level security surrounding the torch, whose passage Sunday across London was disrupted several times by protestors. Paris police had vowed to secure a perimeter of some 200 metres around the flame.
The torchbearers were protected by a cordon of 65 motorcycle police, 100 jogging firemen, another 100 police on roller blades and nearly 50 vehicles with more than 200 riot police and almost a hundred cars, police busses, bikes and so on. A stunning array of security for such a ridiculously small thing as a burning flame.
And especially ridiculous if you keep in mind that we got a smoking ban in Paris now ;)Moments after the Olympic torch set off from the Eiffel Tower earlier, protests forced the organisers to extinguish the torch, and place the flame on the accompanying bus for safety.
The torchbearers were forced on and off the bus at least four times until organisers finally cut short the relay, skipping a planned ceremony at Paris city hall because the situation got out of control as some Paris city officials from the green party were waving pro-Tibet banners out of the windows.
Paris's Socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoe planned to unfurl a giant banner over city hall in defence of human rights.A large number of depuies at the National Assembly also interrupted their work and went onto the steps of the Assembly building, manifesting themselves with big Tibet banners as well.
Ah, we all love miles and miles of anti-riot barriers!
The rollerblades patrol on duty
You come see flame!
This is where fun always happens in Paris: Place de la Concorde! From the guillotine to the Beijing olymplic flame!
He was definitely up to something...
No, this is not the olympic flame
Say, those fountains were on a few minutes ago. Are we a bit afraid of some water next to an open flame?
Hei-ho hei-ho! Off to work we go!
Now here comes trouble!
The olympic...flame... somewhere....
well this was the opening sequence of anti-riot vans...
well this was the opening sequence of anti-riot vans...
...followed by anti-riot officers on foot sealing off the perimeter
Oh here you can spot the relay runner in white, waiting for the previous runner to be brought here.
Tibet flags start to rise next to the National Assembly...
and more anti-riot police guarding "suspicious people"
...somewhere here possibly a flame?
AHAH! The flame! You have to look closely to spot it
...the flame*s surrounding wall of security
...and more security...
...and more security...
...still more security driving by...
...still the security driving by...
and now we all RUN!
more security running... almost bumping into us...
ok now that*s it! let*s go home!
Oh some enthousiasts following the flame...
and making a final run to follow the spirit of the Olympics... or maybe they*re just anti-riot police fanatics...
Labels: celebrations, drunk politicians, Paris street stuff (NOT a TOILET), Sarkozyland
