Spotted in Carcassone, France. Photo by Paolo666 on Flickr.

Fabien Bastide and his girl friend Coralie had a lot of time and little money, so they embarked on a trip from France to Laos on a budget of 4 euros per day. Their vehicle was a tatty Citroën 2CV.
The journey took one year, one month and 10 days, during which they drove 32,408 [...]

In the Sun: French First Lady Carla Bruni in lacy lingerie – before she became the Next big thing in modeling.

The sexy snaps – including one of her in a floral bodice – were taken in 1989 for clothes giant Next's mail order catalogue. And they show why Carla – now the 41-year-old wife of [...]

A French artist who wants to remain anonymous uses Rubik's cubes to recreate images of the ancient Space Invaders computer game.
On his website he explains: "Nobody knows my face because I appear always hidden. Some say I am a polluter, others that I am an artist. Personally I consider myself an invader!"

Why does he [...]

Today, French actress Vahina Giocante [wiki] turns 28.

In case you're wondering, the name Vahina means "Welcome" in Malagasy.

Nearly melting away under the Paris sun: Obama "a little bit stiff" in wax

It's the compulsory honor for the rich and famous: being displayed in the Musée Grevin in Paris. Here is the faux Barack, together with real (or also fake?) body guards. In the museum he'll join other world leaders, like Nick Sarkozy, Angie [...]

In their latest marketing ploy, French sugar producer Daddy decided to launch round sugar lumps.
The new cylinder-shaped lumps take up 22% more space, so the boxes in which they are sold are nearly a quarter empty. Still, each pack is the same size as the one that contained old fashioned sugar cubes.
How did [...]

The French love to create their own faux anglais words, but do they really expect that true anglophones understand their neologisms?

Photo by lockigewockige on Flickr

I posted this before, but for obvious reasons it makes a little revival on the net:

The idea behind lib dubbing is to get a group of people together and make them dub a song, while filming the entire sequence without a single camera cut. In this case the clip is over 6 minutes long, and [...]

Your (quiet) Monday headlines:

France faces court for hamster neglect
France set to return Maori heads to New Zealand
Hundreds protest in France to defend illegal immigrants
IMF: France Contraction To Slow, With Early 2010 Recovery
Jean Hugel Obituary: Alsatian wine producer
Ile de Re, a little French secret revealed
Radio Links to Go Silent for a Tour De France Test

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Photo by ginalamb on Flickr

For more than thirty years, Jean Luc Mylayne has been photographing the birds of his native France.

The creation of each image is a laborious process which can take months as Mylayne returns to the same location, day after day, waiting for his "actors," the birds, to play their parts before his lens.

"When I [...]

Your Sunday headlines:

Hundreds of thousands celebrate Gay Pride in Paris and Berlin
Student hoax wins magazine's top prize
Teenager jumps to her death from Eiffel Tower, crashing onto roof of packed restaurant 180ft below
Michael was a 'mutant': French press
French fishermen hit back at stars' bid to save bluefin tuna
Is France in a cultural retreat?
Fillon says there is [...]

It's not my cup of tea but true aficionados believe that French tattoo artist Yann Travaille creates "astonishingly refreshing designs", which look like done with crayons, not tattoo ink.

Discover more on his website, which is aptly named Your Meat Is Mine
Via Neatorama