Paris by night
Monday, July 21, 2008 Posted by Eric
A few days ago I received an email from a regular visitor to PDP (Paul, aka, Nikon101) with a link to a site that I did not know of. As you probably don't either, I thought I'd find the first opportunity I could, to mention it in one of my posts. I confess I had to go back to some of my previous photos to do so (and more precisely when I attended a party on top of the Tour Montparnasse last February). Anyway, ladies and gentlemen in a few seconds you'll be going "wow!" if you click here (and play extensively with your mouse and keyboard!). The week starts again for me and it's going to be a tough one...
July 21, 2008 12:08:00 AM GMT+02:00
Yahoo! 1st AGAIN!
dERMO
July 21, 2008 12:10:00 AM GMT+02:00
And WOW!
dERMO
July 21, 2008 12:30:00 AM GMT+02:00
Eric, that link is so cool. It reminds me of the Alfred Hitchcock movie, Rear Window - without the broken leg. Thanks for sharing something so special.
July 21, 2008 12:33:00 AM GMT+02:00
How did anyone ever manage to get here? That site is consuming. What fun. The jet airplane near the sunset was amazing (although I'm surprised we couldn't see anyone looking out the porthole) not to mention the window on the top left. Woo woo.
July 21, 2008 12:35:00 AM GMT+02:00
Tall Gary, thanks, I missed the plane but not the bare naked lady.
July 21, 2008 1:11:00 AM GMT+02:00
There is a naked lady? uh.. oh.. don't go crashing their server now! ;)
Great photo, Eric! As to Paul /Nikon 101, wouldn't it be cool if we could all sent him a post-card to thank him for that fabulous link?!! I can tell, some of us will be playing there for hours ;)
July 21, 2008 1:17:00 AM GMT+02:00
OMG!!! It's true!!! There really IS a bare naked lady!!!
July 21, 2008 1:18:00 AM GMT+02:00
Thanks, Eric, That was awesome!!!
Your photo is beautiful. Cities by night are always lovely.
July 21, 2008 1:50:00 AM GMT+02:00
Eric this is a beautiful photo! It's also quite maddening in that I can't quite figure out which direction I'm looking! Since this was taken in the 14th, my guess is that the dark patches are part of the Montparnasse cemetery, the large boulevard at the bottom left is Edgar Quinet, and the street cutting across the darkness like a bridge over the Seine is rue Emile Richard. If this is right, I'm way too much of a Paris map geek for my own good.
Thanks to both you and Paul for sharing that amazing Paris at night website! My favorite scenes in the high-rise are: guy shaving, and TV with drying rack.
July 21, 2008 1:51:00 AM GMT+02:00
MOM! Whoops, I turned my WOW upside down. Did somebody say bare naked lady? You're spoofing me, right? Or you're talking about the ET ET ET! Serieuxmently, this is darned tootin cool, Eric. Merci!
July 21, 2008 1:57:00 AM GMT+02:00
Holy mother of Dieu! There is a bare naked lady!
July 21, 2008 2:08:00 AM GMT+02:00
I don't want to say that I told you so, but I told you so! Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly star in REAR Window. Get it? REAR Window.
July 21, 2008 2:28:00 AM GMT+02:00
That is a blast! They don't seem to have much of Paris on Virtual Reality Magazine, and I love the little surprise close-ups your link allows. I like the folks waving back.
July 21, 2008 2:44:00 AM GMT+02:00
Pretty cool, but where's the naked guy?
I've said it before, I'll say it again: your night shots are amazing, Eric.
July 21, 2008 2:45:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oooh, but if you go to the VRMag site linked above and put in something more specific, you get better results, such as the Eiffel Tower from a selection of vantage points.
July 21, 2008 2:49:00 AM GMT+02:00
Monsieur Eric,
Merci beaucoup for the wonderful link. Paris, je t'aime.
July 21, 2008 3:05:00 AM GMT+02:00
That is breathetaking. I have to check this lnk in the morning,, otherwise I will be up all night. Far too much fun.
July 21, 2008 4:05:00 AM GMT+02:00
Ah, the lights of Paris! I, too, am a big fan of the view from Tour Montparnasse (because of the fabulous view and, as you said in the February post, because the view doesn't include Tour Montparnasse itself). I've only just begun to check out the link, but yes, what fun!!
July 21, 2008 4:05:00 AM GMT+02:00
Wow! I wonder if the Bush Administration knows about this? Much easier than tapping phones to invade your privacy!
Wonderful Eric! How does this work?
July 21, 2008 4:06:00 AM GMT+02:00
Thank you for the mention Eric!
July 21, 2008 4:32:00 AM GMT+02:00
Rear Window! Good one David. The overall analogy works well too.
Thanks Nikon.
July 21, 2008 5:15:00 AM GMT+02:00
I'm already saying 'wow!' at this photo...WOW!!
July 21, 2008 5:56:00 AM GMT+02:00
Yes! my NYC roommate has let me use her computer, and what an unbelievable view todays photo brings us.. I used the mouse on one of the windows at the Novotel, (we used to layover there when it was the Nikko) Guess who popped up out of one of the windows, Sarkozy!!LOL.
July 21, 2008 5:57:00 AM GMT+02:00
Wow is right Eric! (I've just closed all my window blinds though no one in this house is presently naked). I guess having no window coverings is 'normal' for Parisians?? Or they don't expect someone hanging out on top of Tour Montparnasse? With a great camera?
Well, this is indeed an incredible image and I do love the airplane. I am puzzled by the one to the right of a 'green' window that looks like someone in a 1950's Ozzie and Harriett show??
July 21, 2008 5:59:00 AM GMT+02:00
Oh an Sacre Coeur! Magnificant!
July 21, 2008 6:17:00 AM GMT+02:00
Louis la Vache ,your blog is great and I am inspired now to cook, but it is your sense of humor on PDP that makes me beg for more.
July 21, 2008 7:16:00 AM GMT+02:00
Definitely WOW! Your photo and the amazing link! It reminds me of the Eiffel Tower website, which has a 360 view from the top with embedded links of the famous sights of Paris.
But I love night scenes like this. And the stories one can imagine from the embeds...
July 21, 2008 7:33:00 AM GMT+02:00
Thank you, Eric. Thank you, Nikon. Like Babooshka, I'll have to save the real surfing for tomorrow. I'm just going to enjoy this photo tonight. Wow.
July 21, 2008 9:14:00 AM GMT+02:00
I love (and admire) the concept. I like the captured moments but I hate the invasion of privacy on that sort of work...
Besides there is no nice looking naked guy!
July 21, 2008 9:37:00 AM GMT+02:00
I repeat what many have said, WOW!! This is an amazing shot, Eric. Thank you so much!! It is just gorgeous!
The other site was very cool as well, but slightly voyeuristic. I don't know what I'd think if I was in one of those pictures!! (or what I would be doing sans clothes walking around my apartment!??)
Anyway, I love your picture, Eric. It is just lovely!
July 21, 2008 9:49:00 AM GMT+02:00
I am not convinced that all of the pictures on the website are actual pictures from those windows. On the photographer's New York picture, two of the insets are exactly the same. Besides that, as someone pointed out, at least one inset photo appears to be from the 1950s. Is this perhaps more artistic than journalistic, so to speak?
July 21, 2008 10:06:00 AM GMT+02:00
Parisian Heart
I think you are right. Have you seen the rest of his work? Unbelievable!
Marvellous!
July 21, 2008 12:26:00 PM GMT+02:00
Stunning, Eric, just stunning. Just like you.
July 21, 2008 1:10:00 PM GMT+02:00
I agree with parisian heart.
Anyways it looks like a pretty game with humour and daily scenes behind the curtains.
Thank you for sharing Eric.
And if you are still cannot find the bare naked lady.... you can locate it here!
July 21, 2008 1:12:00 PM GMT+02:00
I apologize. Locate her not it! ;))
July 21, 2008 2:05:00 PM GMT+02:00
Bright lights, big city! And Thanks to Katie the Paris map geek for putting names to streets and areas in Eric's photo. . .is she right?
I remember facing my kitchen window in SF with its view across all the backyards of the block and the back windows of the houses around the block. Nearly every evening as I was cooking dinner, a couple across the yards would enter their apartment, go in their bedroom, change clothes, walk nude from the shower, etc. The sun glared off our windows at that time of day, but gave full view into their uncurtained ones. And don't even ask me about the neighbor across the street out front whose second floor kitchen was in plane view every morning when she cooked breakfast wearing only her underwear. Ah city life. 8^P
-Kim
Seattle Daily Photo
July 21, 2008 2:54:00 PM GMT+02:00
Lynn "Stunning, Eric, just stunning. Just like you." LOL. That'll be my "quote of the day"!
July 21, 2008 3:11:00 PM GMT+02:00
Gorgeous! I love the glow on the horizon—it reaches so high!
July 21, 2008 4:30:00 PM GMT+02:00
Merci, Eric! Any photo that excludes the affreux, horrible, really-bad-idea-to-build-it-in-the-first-place Tour Montparnasse is a good photo in my book, but this is indeed VERY cool!
July 21, 2008 4:52:00 PM GMT+02:00
I read,
I clicked,
I played and
I said:
"Wow!"
Thank you Eric, this was fun!
July 21, 2008 5:03:00 PM GMT+02:00
I'm a day late, but regarding yesterday's comments about a Paris hangover: It's a Paris high. It lasts a while. The withdrawal comes after a number of weeks. Never a hangover. But always feeling distracted, distressed at the empty place discovered as it's fading away. Love? Paris. Meme chose.
Now I'll look at today's PDP!
July 21, 2008 5:16:00 PM GMT+02:00
The link is a fun game, and a great artistic product using technical wizardry. I like it, almost as much as Michael's link to the Metro photo shoots (but not quite).
Um, checking my photos from the top of Tour Montparnasse, the view on the Hyper-Photo site was not taken from Tour Montparnasse, which is not near the river. This must be from one of the high rise apartment buildings downstream from Tour Eiffel. Nonetheless, it's a great work of art. Checking carefully, the artist even placed the photos behind real windows of the individual buildings. Really well done.
July 21, 2008 6:05:00 PM GMT+02:00
Wait a minute . . . Jeff, you're right, and -- oh no!! -- it does show the hideous tower. Oh well, it's still pretty groovy.
July 21, 2008 7:21:00 PM GMT+02:00
No shape, no personality, no character, but at night with a little bling bling? Even Tour Montparnasse can look good.
July 21, 2008 7:53:00 PM GMT+02:00
Alexa...I understand that not long after Tour Montparnasse was built there was such criticism for its "affreuxedness" (as you mention), that future plans for skyscrapers in the center of the city were scrapped and probably scraped too (as fingernails on chalkboards). What's the old joke TM? The view from the top of Montparnasse is one of the most beautiful in all of Paris because it's the only place in the city that you can't see the Tour Montparnasse. :-)
July 21, 2008 7:55:00 PM GMT+02:00
*...about TM
July 21, 2008 9:14:00 PM GMT+02:00
When you look at the Montparnasse Tower, far from it, yes it is ugly, I agree with you but personally, I don't dislike it, when seen from the ground just beside it and needless to say that I too really enjoyed to be lastly at its top.
Flash back to the 12th of February... So many PDP (good) memories between this day and now!! Reading again the comments, written in February, I am still intriguing by one of your comment Eric at this moment (about your mistaken title for the photo : you were so hard with yourself!). Far too much!!! ;) Or fishing compliments?? No, I don't think so.
July 21, 2008 9:29:00 PM GMT+02:00
The "joke" about not being able to see it when you are there originally was uttered about the Tour Eiffel, not Tour Montparnasse. So, someday?
We have the IDS Building in Minneapolis, which is the classic architecture of the 1970s, with a silhouette similar to Tour Montparnasse. However, the IDS is blue glass and reflects the sky, clouds, and surrounding buildings. It's also right in the downtown center.
July 21, 2008 9:50:00 PM GMT+02:00
I could not find a good set of photos of the Tour Montparnasse, but this might be fun: compare
http://www.ids-center.com/
http://www.photographersdirect.com/stockimages/m/montparnasse_tower.asp
July 21, 2008 10:00:00 PM GMT+02:00
WOW is right, great photo Eric and wild link, too.
Although,I have to agree that I, too, looked and looked and looked for the bare naked guy and, hmmm...., I ask myself: is the link photographer risking his French citizenship for lack of equality of the sexes?
July 21, 2008 10:15:00 PM GMT+02:00
Thank you for this Eric!!!!!!!!!!!
That was a nice surprise! Reaaly breathtaking.. I can only say... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 21, 2008 10:26:00 PM GMT+02:00
Hey Monica...
You are here!!!
July 21, 2008 11:14:00 PM GMT+02:00
Jeff...some things just require time to get beautiful or accepted as beautiful. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the bee holder until it stings you in the eye. I think Benjamin Franklin said that.
July 21, 2008 11:14:00 PM GMT+02:00
Absolutely beautiful!! There is another site very similar all in brown and beige tones which I can't seem to find right now. When I do I'll post a link. The one I am speaking of moves on it's own and has music....anyone familiar with this??
I love the different view of Paris and the Hemingway blog is great!!
July 21, 2008 11:50:00 PM GMT+02:00
Anonyme. "Reading again the comments, written in February, I am still intrigued by one of your comment Eric at this moment (about your mistaken title for the photo : you were so hard with yourself!). Far too much!!! ;) Or fishing compliments?? No, I don't think so."
You're right I was not (not this time LOL!) But I was really ashamed to have mistaken.
July 21, 2008 11:51:00 PM GMT+02:00
I'm having a senior moment. Did somebody already link to Strange Maps: The World As Seen From Paris?
July 21, 2008 11:59:00 PM GMT+02:00
uselaine
That is seriously funny!
Hey everyone...
Eric is online...Fingers ready! New post coming soon!!!
July 22, 2008 12:12:00 AM GMT+02:00
Thank you Eric for answering and even correcting my typos!! Funny lapsus!!! ;)
July 22, 2008 6:56:00 AM GMT+02:00
A dreamy and golden shot, Eric. I hope the week won't be as tough as you anticipated.
The link is glorious fun! I didn't see the naked lady, but as I was clicking away wildly this one guy kept popping up to stare into my monitor. He's dressed in black, alongside a road. Behind him is a car that may be getting fuel? I think he's a spy....
July 22, 2008 9:33:00 PM GMT+02:00
Wow!!! My heart is beating with such a wonderful shot. Oh to be in Paris again for just a moment...
July 24, 2008 11:51:00 AM GMT+02:00
Absolutely gorgeous. Stunning. I want to be in Paris RIGHT NOW!
July 24, 2008 1:13:00 PM GMT+02:00
A wonderful picture indeed.
July 27, 2008 6:21:00 PM GMT+02:00
Wow indeed!!! For you picture and the link. WOW!
July 29, 2008 11:57:00 PM GMT+02:00
awesome picture, im a student and id love to go there for a phd, i was on paris last year, and absolutely fell in love with the city... thnx for sharing, Paris la plus belle ville aux tout le monde ( have no idea if its good grammar... only speak little french)
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