We're all in the gutter...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 Posted by Eric
... but some of us are looking at the stars" I thought of this quote by Oscar Wilde when I saw this carved
... but some of us are looking at the stars" I thought of this quote by Oscar Wilde when I saw this carved
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July 24, 2007 11:50:00 PM GMT+02:00
I have a bookmark with that quote on the bulletin board in my office.
July 25, 2007 12:14:00 AM GMT+02:00
I think its a fish, no?
July 25, 2007 12:20:00 AM GMT+02:00
Everything is made beautiful by the French. Even the downspout. Eric, check out my "Johnnysarc". Has more than just Paris because we have been traveling in France so much.
July 25, 2007 12:22:00 AM GMT+02:00
Anonyme, I think you're right...
July 25, 2007 12:39:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh, I thought it was a frog. Great find!
July 25, 2007 12:45:00 AM GMT+02:00
Good find.
Oscar Wilde ...Paris....many associations. My favourites:
On his death bed he is purported to have said : "Either that wallpaper goes or I do."
Cheap Paris hotels are STILL renowned for their dubious taste in wallpaper.
And whatever DID happen to the large, errrrr "appendage" that was part of his sculptural sarcophagus out at Père la Chaise? Rumour has it, it became a paper weight on the desk of one of the cemetery's custodians!
July 25, 2007 3:49:00 AM GMT+02:00
I don't think Home Depot sells those......
July 25, 2007 5:03:00 AM GMT+02:00
There's something fishy about that drain spot. It's neat!
July 25, 2007 5:26:00 AM GMT+02:00
Great eye, Eric! Also, I applaud Sally's comments re: Oscar Wilde cheap wallpaper reference. So true!
July 25, 2007 10:33:00 AM GMT+02:00
Beautiful. Beauty in the detail, indeed. And thanks for yesterday's - the Place des Vosges is just stunning. I spent a day there once- just taking it all in, plus the little streets around.
Sally - love that quote!
July 25, 2007 11:12:00 AM GMT+02:00
I'm almost sure it's a dolfin.
They were represented like monsters in a period (XVIII century) in which people didn't know them very well and were convinced they WERE the monsters of the sea !
I'll check...
And because I've seen TWO DAYS IN PARIS yesterday night, I highly recommand this movie to the lovers of Paris.
EMSI
blog : Les-voyages-demsi.blogspot.com
July 25, 2007 2:43:00 PM GMT+02:00
Fabulous. When I get to work, I'll print this to hang on my office wall, with the beaux arts pulley on the canal mechanism. You're exactly right: a little effort can transform the mundane to beauty.
July 25, 2007 3:16:00 PM GMT+02:00
Sally - I read that story about the Oscar Wilde's tomb and its missing "appendages" having converted into paperweights used in the cemetery's office in a story on the Pere Lachaise Cemetery published in an issue of the Smithonian Magazine sometime in the mid- to late 1970's.
emsi - My French brother told me about Two Days in Paris. Did you see it in France, or in the U.S.? I think that it's not been released in the U.S., but I am not sure.
Eric - Great photo of a really cool architectural detail. I rediscovered the Ile Saint-Louis this past spring, it's really a lovely part of Paris.
July 25, 2007 3:46:00 PM GMT+02:00
L'île St Louis est probablement l'une des parties les plus belles de Paris. Veuillez nous montrer plus d'images de cette petite île.
July 25, 2007 3:47:00 PM GMT+02:00
Wow, that's just wonderful! I wonder if I can convince my father to do something like this to his rain spout. ...eh, probably not.
July 25, 2007 4:06:00 PM GMT+02:00
More than worth it -- this is gorgeous enlarged. This shot is a prime example of why we find Paris such a satisfying place to spend a week each spring simply walking -- we've done this for three years now and can't imagine exhausting the surprises, the quotidian beauty. Yes, you've got the Louvre, the Orsay, but the art and the artful is spread through every street of the city. Love it!
July 25, 2007 5:23:00 PM GMT+02:00
And thank you materfamilias for the word quotidian: another instance of an every day thing rendered beautiful.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
July 25, 2007 6:40:00 PM GMT+02:00
Emsi--
I hadn't even heard of "2 days in Paris" until I read your comment, but I looked it up and noticed it was written/directed by Julie Delpy. If you haven't seen "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" you really must. They both star Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, who meet by chance on a train from Eastern Europe. The first film chronicles a less-than-24-hour span of time they spend wandering through Vienna and talking about life. In the second film (released 7 years later, I believe) they meet again years later, not having seen each other since their first encounter, and they spend a day wandering through Paris. Terrific movies, definitely worth seeing. :)
Eric--
I love how you manage to find the tiny little things that make such a difference. "It's all in the details"...
July 25, 2007 7:42:00 PM GMT+02:00
C'est la deuxieme fois que tu la sors ta quote pourrie d'Oscar Wilde ! tu connais que celle la ???
July 25, 2007 9:00:00 PM GMT+02:00
Gold leaf on a downpipe! Only in Paris and truly beautiful. Eric, that little fish has a bill rather like a duck so I can understand your confusion. He does seem to have quite a mouthful.
July 25, 2007 9:19:00 PM GMT+02:00
It really is beautiful, but then everything on l'Ile Saint Louis is beautiful.
July 25, 2007 9:58:00 PM GMT+02:00
Every time I think of Ile Saint Louis, I think of Berthillon ice cream. Not a bad association.
July 25, 2007 10:15:00 PM GMT+02:00
Absolutely gorgeous! I have been on vacation for a week & a half and have been going through PDP withdrawals - glad to be back!
July 25, 2007 10:59:00 PM GMT+02:00
How elegant is that? Lovely.
July 25, 2007 11:19:00 PM GMT+02:00
Only in Europe do you find such beauty.
July 25, 2007 11:40:00 PM GMT+02:00
Eric, this is the first time I've looked at one of your photos and thought "I know that place!"
I wandered on the Ile Saint Louis during my (unfortunately) only trip to Paris and also photographed the dolphins on the waterspouts of the Hotel de Lausun.
Thank you for the reminder of those wonderful days.
July 26, 2007 1:02:00 AM GMT+02:00
Ile St Louis???? How about "Thelma" and those earrings??? Or that wonderful shop with the Foie de Canard Entier????? La Petite Scierie??
July 26, 2007 6:52:00 PM GMT+02:00
Merci mille fois!
August 22, 2007 1:42:00 PM GMT+02:00
Only in Paris could something like this look antique but ornate and beautiful.
x
Just a girl
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