Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
MITCH EPSTEIN AT FONDATION CARTIER
Mitch EPSTEIN has spent five years travelling around the US as an "energy tourist", photographing every kind of power station. This might be regarded as somewhat cranky though pretty harmless, but in the mass paranoia of the post-9/11 Bush era, Epstein's journey became the act of an enemy of the state.
He was regularly stopped, searched, followed, run out of town, shouted at and interrogated by state police and the FBI. Simple pictures of electrical power production in the everyday landscape of middle America became an exploration of political and corporate power, a portrait of the American landscape and people defined by an energy-dependent consumer lifestyle. Epstein photographed coal mines, solar arrays, oilfields, half-empty dams, smokestacks, fuel cells, nuclear plants and pipelines, but also many of the things the most energy-profligate nation on earth does with all that power – such as build Las Vegas and golf courses in the desert, send tanks to Iraq, blow the tops off mountains to find coal, make nuclear bombs and electric chairs.
FONDATION CARTIEER
261 Boulevard Raspail
75014 PARIS
Monday, June 27, 2011
A TERRACE FOR SURVIVAL !!
Go straight to :
BARS WITH TERRACES from Le Guide du Parisien
A few suggestion along the way :
- Le SAUT DU LOUP with spectacular views of the Tuileries and the Louvre
107 rue de Rivoli - 75001 PARIS - dial 08 99 78 89 53
- MINI PALAIS , the New Chic Parisian Brasserie with its 8 meter high ceiling and grand colonades
3 avenue Winston Churchill - 75008 PARIS - dial 08 99 78 65 93
- LE RAPHAEL for a roof terrace overlooking all the most impressive Paris monuments ( expensive though)
17 avenue Kléber - 75016 PARIS - dial 01 53 64 32 00
Sunday, June 26, 2011
BAREFOOT CHIC : NORTH ISLAND
Now that William and Kate have put NORTH ISLAND on the map, let’s have an insider’s look.
Hard to get to ? No runway for your own private A380 ? Honey, take the helicopter and no fuss please. Say “Thank You” : it costs an arm : the figures on your Amex ? : 14 950 €. Get it Hon ?
Time to land
Time to ponder
Time to talk
Does that kind of “blue” suit you ? The pool has been constructed so as to respect the rocks and trees around, to fit in perfectly in the scenery. So do you ( fit in the scenery).
Time to reflect
Early morning sunshine, a 675 pages book in hand, a little intellect will not hurt.
North Island privacy.
Time to relax
Chardonnay on the rocks ?
Time to relish
Exquisite and original food in the middle of the jungle .
Time to spa
Massage and aromatics , thanks to Dr Hauschka.
Time to …
No comment …
Time to romance
North-island Sunset, candlelight and the Love of your life.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
WHAT IS INDIA TODAY ?
The answer is tucked between the walls of the CENTRE POMPIDOU seen by 50 artists, French and Indian who give us their very own answer on INDIA today.
PARIS-DELHI-BOMBAY
As you climb towards the sky on the Centre Pompidou escalator, with the spectacular view on the roofs of old Paris, you are met with the deep- throat sounds of Tibetan monks exiled in the North of India. The tone is set.
House of Love by Dayanita Singh. Beautiful black and white photographs by this 50 years old New Delhi artist illustrating one year in her life.
Reveal the Secrets that you Seek – 2011
Disney’s new haunted house ? Nope, kiddo.
Versailles seen through the eyes of Bharti Kher with a serie of old mirrors deliberately hammered down to broken glass covered up with bindis, those coloured spots one sees on the forehead of married Indian women.
Detail
Kitchen department new style at IKEA ? Hey, Buddy, a little culture ans sense, please, for God sake.
Ali Baba by sculptor Subodh Gupta : spectacular installation.
Kader Atia with a video of India today.
PARIS-DELHI-BOMBAY
CENTRE POMPIDOU till September 19th, 2011.
Just as a reminder :
India is that :
New Delhi
INDIA is also :
A sprinkle of colour
A bit of a mess :
A boat station :
Cool and the gang
Cool attitude and day dreaming Indian style
Travelling in colour
India is huge smiles
India is dashing beauty
India and its flamboyant colours
Had not yet decided where to spend your next vacation ? Well, India would be rather tempting, wouldn’t it ?
Let me check for hotels next time around !
