We spend enough time taking pictures of large objects at close range (and taking pictures of very large objects at medium range) that I had been considering picking up another fisheye for a while. That’s how I justified it to myself, anyway. Here’s Invalides through the eyes of a salmon, if salmon could breathe air …
At the beginning of the period of lunacy that we otherwise referred to as December 2014, the Purrito and I went to see the Jeff Koons exhibit at Pompidou Centre (the Purrito was supposed to be working on a post entitled Pompidon’t (given that the hold period for the name has expired, I’m shamelessly appropriating …
Prior to the current sudden invasion of tourists (spending Christmas and New Year in a hotel is popular. Who knew?), we went to Versailles, which was both good and bad; the good came from the fact that, due to it being the weekend before Christmas, it was essentially empty, while the bad came from the …
We returned to the Louvre last night. This time, I brought my camera.
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In an attempt to fulfill a core curriculum requirement, among the classes I took my first semester of college was art history. Through some toxic combination of arrogance, distraction, anger, and laziness, I managed to completely blow the first exam, to the point at which numerically, I was not going to be able to pass …
The final days of August marks the end of peak tourist season and a relative return to normalcy, or so we have been told. Indeed, as the month has waned in this final week, we’ve noticed a marked decrease in the amount of ambient English and a return of the business and professional crowds, both …
I went wandering around this weekend and found The Statue. Being a half-assed student of random information, I knew that this district, La Défense, is so named due to an old statue there commemorating the defense of the city. As you’ll no doubt note, the half-assed part is indeed true, given that I’m not giving …
Fezzik In Paris 