Back on the treadmill
A quick update before I get completely swept away by work. We got back from Paris yesterday evening and it was a fab and muchly needed break. We managed a few exhibitions/museums (Gold of the Incas @ The Pinacotheque, Heinrich Kühn [1] @ The Orangerie, France 1500 @ The Grand Palais), finally did Versailles (including the two exhibitions going on there at the time), went to the top of a sparkling Eiffel Tower in the evening, braved the vast flea market in Saint Ouen (where I might have succumbed to a little thing or two) and finally did a stint of mad general shopping before coming home. Sad to see that a few really good shops have gone (Black Norns near Les Halles and the Gothic Lolita shop near the Bastille), but always lovely to return to some great places like my favourite Absinthe Bar. I also got dragged to another German style Christmas market. This time including Santa on a sleigh dangling from overhead wires along Champs d'Elysée. I kid you not.
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[1] Turn of the century photographer who helped establish photography as a real art form. I was completely unaware of him before and just completely astounded by the exhibition. He was also one of the first people to embrace the early autochrome technology for colour photography. Seeing colour photos of real people from 1907 or so is just eerie.
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[1] Turn of the century photographer who helped establish photography as a real art form. I was completely unaware of him before and just completely astounded by the exhibition. He was also one of the first people to embrace the early autochrome technology for colour photography. Seeing colour photos of real people from 1907 or so is just eerie.