Sunday, December 26, 2010

Dérive




Top to bottom: Jardin du Luxembourg in the snow, Marie du Ve lit up with Xmas lights, and Rue Clovis. For a while I thought there might be some hidden Frankish history in the central valley of California, but Clovis, CA is not named after Clovis, but after Clovis Cole.

Heine, Truffaut



In Montmarte Cemetary.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

French Xmas





Assorted French Xmas goods, from top to bottom: salmon eggs, chestnut creme, chocolate sardines, goose fat.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Paris Snow





It's been lightly and pleasantly snowing here, just enough to give things the proper joyeux Noël feeling.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Sapience


Owl and serpent mosaic in the entryway to the Département d'Études Cognitives, ENS.

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Le Panthéon



It snowed all day yesterday but today was perfectly clear and sunny. I've worked out my morning commute so that I can check out what's playing at La Filmotheque and then walk by the Panthéon.

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Pergamonmuseum




The Pergamonmuseum is Berlin's massive museum of ancient art and architecture. The only thing that would make it more impressive would be if it itself was taken apart, shipped to some distant country and, like the Pergamon Altar, enclosed in an even more enormous museum.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Currywurst usw.



Back in Berlin for the first time since 1999. Ate currywurst and pommes at Curry Mitte, tafelspitz at the Brecht Museum Kellerrestaurant, and a list of stuff too long to name at the Schwarzwaldstube in Mitte. Hat super geschmeckt.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Therme Vals




Peter Zumthor's thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland. The baths had different themes: an outdoor bath that was covered in fog, a "fire" bath that was very hot, an "ice" bath that was very cold, a bath full of flower petals, a high-ceilinged cave room that had very weird acoustics, usw. The night swimming one evening was accompanied by two guys banging on gongs and other percussion instruments.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Glacier Express




The Glacier Express runs between Zermatt and St. Moritz. The train serves an enormous lunch.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Zermatt



Some houses in Zermatt, Switzerland in the evening and again early in the morning, before sunrise. The Matterhorn is near Zermatt.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Top Curry Centre


The Top Curry Centre in Pimlico has a poster in the window showing a young Diana Spencer running past the Top Curry Centre.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Harrier and Jaguar






Fiona Banner's Harrier and Jaguar in Tate Britain. Paintings can't compete with fighter-bombers.