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Archive for 'Art & Heritage'

Alexander and Napoleon

Another historic love affair: Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte riding away into the sunset:

It's one of the entries in for the Historical Deviants photoshop contest on Worth1000. (Click pic for bigger)

Posted: Sun 21-Sep-08 under Art & Heritage, History

What ever happened to Gilles Tréhin?

Neatorama has a great post about 10 Most Fascinating Savants in the World. One of them is young Frenchman Gilles Tréhin.

Since he was 5, Gilles taught himself to draw three dimensional objects. By 12, he started building a city he called "Urville" (after Dumont d'Urville, a French scientific base in the Antarctic). At first […]

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People, Art & Heritage

RIP Alain Jacquet

Alain Jacquet, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died. He was 69. Jacquet's work often reflected the sensibilities of pop art, which emerged in Britain and the United States in the 1950s and '60s and drew on advertising, comics and other pieces of popular culture.

He also revisited well known […]

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People, Art & Heritage, Created in France

Eric Tabuchi Sees Things Differently

When French photographer Eric Tabuchi looks at the world through his camera he sees things that nobody else sees:

A monument…

Or a mobile home…
Discover the world as seen by Eric Tabuchi

Posted: Wed 03-Sep-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

Getting to Grips with Art

Found on a Russian site: the specialist of Gougeon install the statues by Mailol in the Tuileries in Paris, 1964. (Click for bigger.)

Posted: Tue 02-Sep-08 under Art & Heritage, History, Created in France

Photos by Aldo Sperber

The least you can say about Aldo Sperber's photos is that they are original:

More of the same on his website | Via SwissMiss

Posted: Wed 27-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

Michel Seuphor on the Pont des Arts

Photographed in 1927 by Hungarian born André Kertesz: Belgian born painter Michel Seuphor. Both men became famous once they started exercising their different forms of creativity in Paris. Click picture for bigger, here for more of Kertesz' photos, and here for more of Seuphor's work.

Posted: Mon 25-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, History

Water on Mars?

French Flickr member Olivier Bardeau created a 300's martians photoset, showing the red planet's ocean. Except that the planet isn't Mars, but Earth. He claims that his pictures of the French Riviera are optically filtered and not Photoshopped. Discover many more of his sets here.

Posted: Sat 23-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Country & Travel, Created in France

John Nouanesing's Smile Generators

John Nouanesing is one of those creative minds who never ceases to amaze me — and always makes me smile:

More in his catalogue

Posted: Wed 20-Aug-08 under People, Art & Heritage, Created in France

Eric Lafforgue’s World Class Photos

Eric Lafforgue is a much-traveled French photographer, who stayed two weeks in North Korea earlier this year. From his photoset on Flickr I picked these two pictures out of a series of over 200, showing a policewoman in a traffic-less street, and Kim, a ghostly pale army woman.

"These pictures are not stolen ones, it's just […]

Posted: Sun 17-Aug-08 under People, Art & Heritage, Created in France

Philippe Ramette Surreal Photography

For his artwork, French artist Philippe Ramette likes placing himself (in his trademark black suit) in surreal and improbably scenes. This one above, titled Rational Exploration of the Undersea: The Contact has him underwater!
More of Philippe’s work | More pics at Exporevue (in French) | Via Neatorama

Posted: Sat 16-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

Oktapodi — Award-winning Animation

Gobelins students strike again! A 2007 short from the famous school of digital imaging that has been making its festival rounds and raking in the awards.

Two octopuses help each other in their slapstick escape from the grasps of a stubborn restaurant cook. However, even after overcoming insurmountable odds to reunite, their fight to stay […]

Posted: Fri 15-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

Behind the scenes: magical photography by Denis Darzacq

I've featured photographer (and World Press Photo winner) Denis Darzacq a couple of times here, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that there is a short documentary that shows how he creates his moments of magic.

Documentary film shows French photographer Denis Darzacq working with street dancers in the suburbs of Paris. Together they create […]

Posted: Thu 14-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

Simply Beautiful

I like it when architects create buildings that stand out through their simplicity. This Seeko’o Hotel in Bordeaux, created by Atelier King Kong is a good example.

Find many more photos (inside and outside) here. [Via NotCot]

Posted: Fri 08-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

Paris Steampunk

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Sam van Olffen is an artist in Montpellier, who calls himself a "humanoid of thirty-three who loves ducks, the H-bomb, and cathedrals". He also makes great steampunk art, of which you find many examples on his blog.

Posted: Fri 08-Aug-08 under Art & Heritage, Created in France

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