Transpondster
"Don't ever tell anybody anything."
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Otis Redding, killing the standard Try A Little Tenderness, at a late night show in Paris (a city that probably deserves a lot of the credit for this insanely beautiful performance).
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you on a stroll through Montmartre? I love having you vicariously tag along with me in Paris and I’m beginning to feel like you might really have a thing for this city. So I have a hunch you might like this brand new iPhone and iPad application I’ve come across. From the talented team behind the beautiful coffee table book Paris in Color, comes a new digital book combining fine art photography and minimalist video into visual stories of Paris neighborhoods. With every new volume, the Paris Journal will take you on a tour of a different neighbourhood in Paris, down hidden passages, through private gates and into boulangeries that look so good you can almost smell the buttery croissants.
[via messynessychic.com]
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical accident’, an urban enclave so densely populated by squatters that even the law lost its grip on the seven-acre plot crammed with 300 interconnected towers. It turns out we had one just like it right here in Paris. And unlike Kowloon, which was razed to the ground in 1993, our 19th century ‘walled’ citadel still remains standing to this day, just a few streets away from Montmartre. (via The Remains of a Paris ‘Kowloon’ Walled City | Messy Nessy Chic Messy Nessy Chic)
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What I find so intriguing about this story is not so much the discovered painting and the revelation of a love affair between a great Italian painter and the beautiful actress in an enchanting era, but more the story of Mrs. de Florian and why she stayed away from Paris for so long.
What kept her away even after the war? Was she running away from someone or something other than the Nazis? For all those decades, her rent on the elegant apartment in a flourishing city had been faithfully paid, but it was left to freeze in time. (via The Paris Time Capsule Apartment | Messy Nessy Chic Messy Nessy Chic)
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First of all, this is just a great blog (not on tumblr, unfortunately). And second of all, this is a post about an apartment in Paris that was left locked when its tenant left ahead of the Nazi Occupation, until its last occupant died, far away. When they opened the doors, they saw an apartment untouched and undisturbed for 70 years… -
Frances Ha - Official Theatrical Trailer (by IFC Films)
Anybody ever seen ‘Funny Ha Ha’? That’s a great movie. For some reason, though, I’m nervous about this one.
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Slogans and graffiti in the streets:
- The more you consume, the less you live. Commodities are the opium of the people.
- Abolish copyrights: sound structures belong to everyone.
- L’ennui est contre-révolutionnaire. (Boredom is counter-revolutionary.)
- L’imagination prend le pouvoir! (Imagination takes power!)
- Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible. (Be realistic, ask the impossible.)[11]
- Prenez vos désirs pour la réalité. (Take your desires for reality.)
- On achète ton bonheur. Vole-le. (They are buying your happiness. Steal it.)
- Le patron a besoin de toi, tu n’as pas besoin de lui. (The boss needs you, you don’t need him.)
- L’été sera chaud! (Summer will be hot!)
- On ne revendiquera rien, on ne demandera rien. On prendra, on occupera. (We will beg for nothing. We will ask for nothing. We will take, we will occupy.)
- In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
- Sous les pavés, la plage. (Under the paving stones, the beach.)
- Vivre sans temps mort et jouir sans entrave. (Live without wasted time and enjoy without hindrance.)
- Warning: ambitious careerists may now be disguised as “progressives.”
- I love you!!! Oh, say it with paving stones!!![12]
- Under 21? [Picture of a brick] Here is your ballot!
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Juliette Greco
(Source: moicani.fr)
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rue Notre Dame de Lorette, Paris, 2007
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Photo reblogged from cerrytree tumblr
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[via www.paris1914.com and jkottke.tumblr.com]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/2edfd2cd6e544e73a8f51f5686896e29/tumblr_mharcq0Jpx1qeyudjo1_500.jpg)
