James G Paris
@parigot37
Off-center Francophile, aka pretentious, Pan-Euro-snob. Profoundly superficial. Gentle as a lamb, my Other Half has the claws.
Notorious border crosser but I've got France in my Face on a regular basis. Translator & ardent scribbler. Learning Chinese just to be on the safe side. No likes, no viral, no followers. It's OK with me.
You dont have to be a wealthy country to build human spaces. Perhaps even the opposite is true. In any case, different buildings create different people.@DamonZumbroegel
Escuela primaria en Diébédo, Burkina Faso. Diseñada por Francis Kere, Premio Pritzer 2022.
But how in the world do i get up to where yhos photo was taken?
Art Nouveau building, the Immeuble Félix Potin in Paris, was built in 1904.
“But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,” As You Like It — William Shakespeare Complete Works Second Edition by William Shakespeare
Have NO clue if this us true, nor the little nugget I read somewhere that Pavarotti couldn't read music -- he memorised everything and let the music carry him. So, experts, did he want to be a goalie?
I had no idea Pavarotti trained to be a goalkeeper before singing opera and used to look like this 👀
Wisdom and tactics from Africa. The guy is sharp.
The obvious trap that anti-GMO campaigners keep falling into is to base their argument around science instead of economics. That's a surefire way of losing the debate and making yourself look like some kind of Pastor Chris conspiracy kook. Look, I come from a family where if you…
so much depends upon a red brick pile glazed with dust and dirt beneath the white Ferris wheel
Your reminder that the great Goethe, author of one of our most fundamental texts (which few ppl read) advised cultivating the habit of looking at least one beautiful thing a day, or your soul would slowly, invisibly rot. And Faust is focking hilarious, too, which is saying…
Simplement la beauté
Petain is getting a late-date rehabilitation these days. I'm not in his camp but the hero of WWI knew what he was talking about militarily. German occupation was a horrorshow for the country, one more nail in the coffin of European culture.
As Petain groaned more than once, they simply didnt have enough men or matériel to defend the country. Unenviable position for a country prone to give lectures.
It's freaking godawful to watch an American scold tell the rest of the world how to live, what secrets to keep, when to fall in love. You guys should clean up your house and stop going on global goosechases led by angry mob moms. I live here and can tell you this isn't going to…
"I'm not a man. I was in fact a 39-year old woman when I banged my 15-year old student, and it's defamatory to say it was statutory rape because the age of consent was 15 at the time" is one hell of a line of defense. This will be a Streisand-effect lawsuit that will highlight…
This is what they call High on your own supply and every artist must have it. That last line where he confesses even he doesn't know how he does it is performative humility. Artists have to be a bit shameless.
'The Dancing Lesson.' (c1893) When this picture was first exhibited, an art critic approached Whistler and asked if the public understood the way he worked. 'They would never understand. It's much too high, too great. I am compelled to never reveal secrets even to myself.'
Amazing that in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption, both tourists and natives simply stand there and watch as the wave approaches.
Footage of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami, which kiIIed over 200,000 people
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created around 1568.
Coming to Paris soon....
A French TV producer travels to Algeria and is shocked to find women completely veiled, allowed to see through only one eye.
Interned at Argeles in '40, he survived, became a Resistant and after the war a lumberjack, a master potter, singer in operetta, and mayor of a small town for 40 years. Damn. François Solano died at 103 yesterday.
Il est mort hier. À 103 ans. Il en fallait autant pour qui fut Républicain espagnol, interné à Argelès, légionnaire, prisonnier en 1940, maquisard, libérateur d'Auxerre, mais aussi bûcheron, chanteur d’opérette, maître-potier et maire de Moutiers pendant 30 ans ! François Solano
I find modern replicas of ancient houses to be fascinating. The Villa Kerylos in France was based on the townhouses of ancient Delos.
My personal fav tweet of the day.
Andrew Tate is what you'd get if Axe body spray gained consciousness.
I believe it is derisively called Hitting on Somebody. Piropos in Mexico, altho i think this is Spain. Also known as Real Life when men and women are still engaged.
Guy has crush on cashier