workweek....

nother fairly boring standard couple'o'days.... again, a bit of fairly nice work to show for it, so it's all good.... supper on monday was a bit of a quest, wanted to have a picnic in the newly gorgeous weather... walked all the way up pigalle to get food, presumably on the way to sacre-couer for the but were to stop at an ever-present boulangerie for bread... and there weren't any up there! paris disappoints.... er whatever, maybe we have an overly idealistic view living near a main street plus a market street.... so back to studio and spread out over the main tables... hehe. pickles here are good. nother studio picture, a little ipoddish, but not too ugly. tuesday was a good day :) woke up REALLY early with a good/crazy idea that just needed to be written down... i can write with no lights, kinda cool (or it just doesn't get dark in our apartment). but had to get up and go skating - wonderful skate, again, i need to go more often.... out to gare lazaar and back across the town on grands boulevards out to oberkampf... and back... not that far on blades, leisurely fun with nearly empty streets. i had no clue of the time when i started out, at the far point of the skate there was a bank board saying 5:59.... rather bizarre how lit up the city is... it could have been any time from 2 until sunrise, i honestly couldn't tell... 6 seems about the time for a city to be waking up though, rush hours started in chicago by then, but the streets were quite empty. lots of storyboard work for studio after that, started a productive-ish day. fun to wake up early, i might try to more often. 

lazy weekend

or really productive, not too much to write about though. appreciated being able to lay in bed/sit on futon and work and not go outside much.... got some stuff done for studio, got good sleeps in... and stuff :) watched a movie sunday night, chinese-wierd, subtitled in french.... hmm in a really cool movie theater, 2 levels of balconies, all brutal black concrete and comfy seats. they did have a concession stand, but there were also vending machines, which i thought was sort of funny.... don't really want to serve you that much.... 

RIOTS!!!

friday was another studio day.... but tony and i cut out early, hoping to catch a glimpse of radical political action of the french sort.... we were slightly out of luck, but it was a nice walk, anyway. walking by the louvre we did watch a large group of students walk past some warily watching police clustered... but it was peaceful, and quiet. travel to les invalides, the golden dome, but we missed the boat on the riots there..... several people hadn't though, as shown by this street of battered cars. very odd though, other then one severe key-ing, the cars were intact, just a polite little rap on the windshield was enough action for the rioters apparently. Over to the latin quatier and we saw more evidence of the disturbance, huge manned metal police barricades with grenadiers flocked around. there was an unpleasant light mist most of the day, could be what kept people at home. so it goes, and possibly for the better.

i have an umbrella now that keeps me from the rain. it makes me feel old, but i kind of like it..... it's very fun to open, cheap 'brella' from a roman street vendor, but so it goes. kind of a pain to carry around if you're not sure it'll rain, but....

People came to see me!!!!

or... i got to run and catch and tag along while they were here... it was good to see family though - Tim and Becky, my mom's cousins.... makes them second cousins, or aunt'n'uncleish cousins, or something.... and Dan and Sara. kind of caught them last minute, forgetting about a cell phone (it's been nice not to have one and i've simply forgotten about bringing it with me) but i still was able to wink out their restaurants from all the streets of Paris.... wee... we had half-planned to go to the Musee d'Orsay, but the taxis didn't oblige. Ended up walking the Champs E'leysee, kind of fun. Gave Dan my camera for amusement, he snapped this picture so I'm in it! in front of an ubiquitous newstand on the Champs Eleysee, with Tim's jacket... walked to the Opera from there, fun to be a tour guide and just know where everything is... everyone should come visit me so i can have that feeling more ;) it was a fun night, and very good to change company for awhile... 

And life goes on in Paris....

Image from my project I've been working on resonably intensely here... well that and catching up, and making all sorts of wonderful links on del.icio.us.... for research purposes. if you want to catch a drift of what geeky me thinks is interesting, click on some of them over there.... fun stuff, all that i think is worth looking at anyway... and that standpoint thing, oh timewasters. has inspired some thought, so a worthy thing. Was pretty unParisien tuesday and wednesday... simple meals, lots and lots of time in studio. It doesn't come across in the image, but it was originally a charcoal drawing (that i still have), photographed and messed with in photoshop.... not the charcoal is pretty much gone, maybe 10% transparency.... the tones now come from 0110001111 binary code in white over the black background, kind of challenging, turned out even better then i expected, yay creativity and expertise with programs.... has much to do with my project, i might describe it here at some point, i might be just sick of it to refrain for awhile ;) and just post happy images created.