>
>*gg* When I speak french, the french either laugh or look at me with
>overbearing smiles. Which, btw., is quite nice considering the
>alternatives....
>
>Anyways, it came through as Dutch to me ;)
Offer to teach them a little Danish. Then laugh. Or get some coaching
from half-Danish friends of ours who were raised in Paris.
>Hmm, I live in a *small* but *expensive* apartment in the 12th. My
>kitchen does, with very little inconvenience, double as my darkroom.
>My shower cabin works wonders for hanging drying films...
>
That sounds about right for starters. There's a guest bathroom where
we only need to block light coming in through a skylight and under the
door.
>
>I'll give you the addresses when I come home to look it up. One is
>central, close to Chatelet (walking-distance), the other is near
>Bastille.
Great locations both! I have a friend who lives near Bastille and
knows a bunch of cartoonists and artists there. She works for RFI and
Arte and loves all graphic arts and might remind you of the Little
Mermaid.
>We went through a few exhibits, ohh, 2-3 weeks ago, and I think this
>was among them. One of the advantages of Paris is the seemingly
>endless supply of cultural experiences..
>
I miss that in Texas. We did get a Pecos Bill ballet, though, that was
quite good, choreographed by an Aussie. The great cities are addictive
and you tend to grow in them. In lesser places, unless you keep
yourself busy and learning, your mind tends to shrivel. I'm already
like a mummified kumqat.
>Easy: I do not make money with my pictures any more, so if anyone
>asks: I am just a danish touris taking vacation-snapshots. Also, me
>being an associal arrogant bastard, I tend not to like taking
>pictures with people much. Which helps on the problem (but doesn't
>elliminate it altogether, since it extends to "things which can be
>identified as belonging to someone"). Reponse Photo (an excellent
>French photo magazine) seems to have a lawyer on retainer for dealing
>with these issues, as well as answering questions from readers
>regarding this legislative curiousity.
>
>And really, I travel a lot and take most of my pictures outside of
>France anyways...(see other thread for bickering about travelling
>with cameras).
>
>Cheers,
>
>--thomas
I read about those airline horrors. Somebody needs to start a campaign
against "Le droit a l'image." It is nothing less than a privatization
of censorship along the same lines as British libel law, only more
frivolous and arbitrary, an open attack on intellectual and artistic
work as such. Only enarques could have disgorged such intellectual
puke and baked it into a law.
I suggest a name for the putative campaign: "Droit de regard" (a
double entendre on regard -- "Right to inspect, check" / "Right to
look"). The tagline would be: "On ne privatise pas la lumiere" ("Light
will not be privatised").
Best,
Phil
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(The fledgling Zuikomaniac formerly known as Humbert Humbert)
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