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may 16 - centre pompidou, conciergerie, and notre dame


outside the centre pompidou, a neat space with an amazing contemporary and modern collection





the courtyard next to it has cool performers and some stores


view from those escalators...





african-influenced piece


usable for desktop wallpaper i thought, maybe...





this piece actually plays with fractals - each version consists of an exact replica, a messed up replica, and a blank replica, of the previous work. quite the mind bender!


peeking


shrooming











man, what a pain this musta been to assemble


scale model of a large installation somewhere in shanghai i think


sometimes the patrons are as fun as the art











run this way with fire licking at your heels!





cathedral under wraps





welcoming doors though


and it was very pretty inside





sigh, just another piece of beautiful tower architecture





whoa, ipad 2?





the conciergerie, where prisoners of the terror were held


notre dame!








i liked how you could get a confessions going on if so inclined








detail


one of these things is not like the others...





always love gargoyles...





this is the view from where we were eating our crepes


and these were some of our crepes





hey hey!


hotel de ville


bald guy in front of the hotel de ville





back near the pompidou





upper level. these finely dressed folk were late for something


























dinner at le pure cafe, near our apartment. the shrimp over amber's risotto still had legs and eyes and stuff





thanks waitress lady!


couldn't figure out how to take a better shot of the moon


goodnight!

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