Monthly Archives: June 2008

And the race hasn’t even started yet! (Via Reddit)

Found on Pixdaus. Click for bigger.

Lego enthusiast DARKspawn built this French castle on a river, titled (appropriately enough) Château sur la Rivière: In his own words (on Flickr): This project is a culmination of techniques that I used in several separate creations that I built … Continue reading →

Links for Tuesday 24 June 2008: Superchef Alain Ducasse flees France (Times Online) Sarkozy, Zapatero in the dock at Swiss bullfight ‘trial’ (Expatica) Analyze this: Can Sarkozy woo Israel into trusting France? (Jerusalem Post) French minimum wage to rise anew … Continue reading →

Click for bigger French photoshop artist apraxine created this graphic, inspired by Maurits Escher’s 1935 lithograph Hand with Reflecting Sphere [view original]. The remastered version shows a French boules (or pétanque) player, and the sphere has become a boule. It … Continue reading →

According to this story on Reddit this is a French ship from the 1930′s, painted to confuse ennemies and make it difficult to align split screen range finders. The fake bows make it tough to gage the ship’s speed and … Continue reading →

Tender threesome between Nick, Carlita and a bag. But not one of these bags. Nor one of these. Photo credit : Y. BEHRAKIS / REUTERS

Even if you’ve never heard of Yann Tiersen you may know his music — he shot to fame with his score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie. Tiersen turns 38 today, a good excuse to show some of his works. … Continue reading →

Dutch Flickr user Jacco van Giessen posted this gruesome photo of Le Monte reporting Nicolas Sarkozy’s assassination. Click for the gory details. In reality, Sarko is still alive and kicking but, according to the Guardian, the real Le Monde is … Continue reading →

Madame Figaro has a photo series about modern restaurants. This Claude Closky menu is presented as cartoon bubbles, so “the menu tells a story”. Can’t say it wets my appetite…

Links for Monday 23 June 2008: Getting the French to work (BBC talks with Christine Lagarde) Concerns rise in France after Jewish teen is attacked (International Herald Tribune) Immigrants start fire in French deportation centre (Javno) Impaired vision (France returning … Continue reading →

Football Heroes See Red! is the ultimate football stickers collectors’ album. 38 illustrators pay homage to the best teams and players in football with a series of stunning portraits. I picked these of much-missed Zinedine Zidane: More images | Via … Continue reading →

Found on Pixdaus, without further information about the location of this photo and its maker. Click for bigger.

Mir Black is a detergent that claims to keep black fabrics black. This 3D ad is one in a series of three, by TBWA\Paris. Click for bigger. Here’s the second one, and here the third. Via Ads of the World

No American astronaut ever landed on the moon. It was a fake. And the students at SupInfo can prove it: Via The Presurfer