“A wild and free movement, street art appears without asking permission. Many have taken to photographing it. These photographers need a guide to help them identify what they see. This pocket atlas is aimed at these enthusiasts, a companion for discovering street art in the Paris region and identifying more than a hundred artists, particularly by the techniques used (painting, drawing, chalk, markers, mosaics, collages, stencils, etc.).” Éditeurs du Sud

The Cine-Tourist

 

The Cine-Tourist is a website about connections between maps and films, and about local cinema (also about early French and English cinema, and sometimes about photographs, and sometimes just about the Nouvelle Vague).

The Cine-Tourist only writes about places that he knows, and since he doesn't travel much this site is chiefly about films made in Paris, Geneva and London.

"Paris's beloved booksellers secure victory to stay put during this summer's Olympics"

Last night while sipping pints and eating delicious snacks (arancini, olives...) at E L Ruddy, designwallah and I reviewed the history of this site and made tentative plans to experiment with it a bit. Some of the general themes (not always captured with tags) were: photography (of various stripes); psychogeography; books; and all things parisienne (we travelled there twice during the blog's early days).

So, for today's experiment, here's something close to my bookish heart - Les bouquinistes. 

©Benh LIEU SONG, 2007, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

Article on Lonely Planet about the averted crisis with some wonderful historical photographs.

History on Wikipedia.

"Buenos Aires, quatorze janvier 1984"

Photograph by designwallah  

Taken at the exhibition "L'univers de Borges" at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1992. Jorge Luis Borges.

Cafe, Paris, 1959

Saul Leiter here and here

See Paris in 8 minutes

Claude Lelouch - C'était un rendez-vous (1976)

“It makes Bullitt look like a cartoon” - Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear, BBC)



The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning (05:30hrs), accompanied by sounds of a high-revving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car (a Ferrari 275 GTB) exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch. Well-known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, centre lines are crossed, the car runs on a pavement to avoid a refuse lorry. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper, judging from the relative positions of other cars, the visible headlight beam and the final shot when the car is parked in front of kerbstones on Montmartre, with the famous Cathedral Sacré Cœur behind, and out of shot. Here, the driver gets out and embraces a young blonde woman as bells ring in the background, with the famous backdrop of Paris.

from Wiki

Condoms for your Vélib - [act up-paris]

[act up-paris, 1er décembre] Et Toi Tu Fais Quoi Pour Te Protéger Du Sida?

Photo by William Hamon on Flickr

Lesamici Book Club:

Vélib'

Originally uploaded to Flickr by louistib

The Sunday New York Times Finding Liberté on Two Wheels

We'll always have Paris. We didn't have it, we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

"It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?" - Josephine Baker