«Voyez-vous, j’ai beau comprendre la valeur des mots “abstrait” et “concret” dans le dictionnaire, je ne les saisis pas en peinture.» Paul Gauguin.
“See, although I may understand the sense of the words ‘abstract’ and ‘concrete’ in the dictionary, I don’t get them in painting.”
Paris, bassin de la Villette, quai de la Loire, March 2013.
Petit rouge et grand vert.
Small red, big green.
Ponta Delgada, Madeira, March 2013 (click on the link to see only Madeiran images).
The headache perspective.
Ponta Do Sol, Madeira, March 2013
“I want to ride it where I like.”
oXo third.
Some of you maybe remember these previous posts, one at night, the other in the next morning. Actually, it appears… I’m a bit focused on this spot (unfortunately, there wasn’t a couple on the background this time — well it was snowing).
Paris, Belleville, Clok’s serie of Belleville, January 2013 (SLR).
clok_moitie on Flickr & Twitter (colored or underlined words are links).
Casse-briques.
Breakout Deluxe.
Paris, Clok’s serie of Belleville, Buttes-Chaumont, January 2013 (SLR).
Métro.
Paris, Clok’s serie of Belleville, Buttes-Chaumont, January 20th, 2013 (SLR).
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen
Paris, Clok’s serie of Belleville, rue Mélingue, Philippe Hérard, street artist, August 2012 (mobile, I keep emptying my phone with unpublished images).
«Nous ne savons jamais si nous ne sommes pas en train de manquer notre vie.» Marcel Proust.
“We never know if we’re not missing our life.”
I lied yesterday, the world ending is delayed, but I keep emptying my phone.
Paris, les Champs-Élysées, June 2012 (mobile).
«La terrasse, ça fait vacances, alors que le comptoir, ça fait boulot.» Jean-Marie Gourio (Nouvelles Brèves de comptoir).
“Sitting outside makes you feel on holidays, while standing at the bar makes you feel at work.”
In France, as a Latin country, bars are important places of social life. All guys became philosophers, putting the world to rights. Sentences heard here and there in bars were inventoried in a book, Brèves de comptoir. Here is one of these “Bar Talks”.
Today, I would say that holidays went on holiday.
Paris, place des Vosges, December 2012 (mobile).













