La Bandita

La Bandita in Tuscany - if PF starts having more readers, I'll have to remove this link!!

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Place Vendôme

Hints of past grandeur.
(Photo: Marcel Bovis)

Fall in Paris

Fall is coming.

(photo: Alfred Stieglitz)

The Big Easy

Unlike any other city in the United States, New Orleans is a refuge from the visual, moral and social aggressiveness of America’s best friends: “textbook middle class” standards & corporate consumption.
New Orleans is poor, wild, hot, haunted, free, proud; nicknamed the third world of the US, it houses the most extreme people, the freaks, the hard-core liberals, the music junkies, and generally all those who chose the road less traveled. The Beat generation was here, shooting in the garden district. Any local will tell you the city is haunted, and not just by the ghosts of Faulkner, Tennessee Williams or Anne Rice.
You can drive in decrepit neighborhoods where people still live as in 1950 and end in the best bar you could imagine, better than a nightmare experience by David Lynch, the music, the light, the pool table, the whole thing will blow your mind. Every street corner is a visual experience.
I lived in New Orleans from 1998 to 2000 and it remains one of my most moving memories. This is my first trip back.
(art by Banksy in New Orleans)

Eucalyptus

I know a small, secluded beach on the Presqu'ile de Giens made of a thick bed of algae and eucalyptus leaves.

Spring on the Golfe du Morbihan

The poppies were out.
My nephew Côme went fishing.
(photo Patrick Messina)

Espace de l'Art Concret in Mouans Sartoux

This has long been my favorite small museum. The permanent collection contains modern and contemporary art, donated by Gottfried Honegger and Aurelie Nemours. Special exhibitions are always interesting and well displayed considering the proportions of this adorable small castle, the Chateau de Mouans.

The Espace was created with the intention of "educating the eyes" of a large public (including children) to contemporary art. Gilles Clement designed the gardens and landscapes surrounding the Chateau de Mouans.