<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346</id><updated>2009-11-11T07:21:22.452+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Avignon in Photos</title><subtitle type='html'>. . . . . . . . . Four seasons in Avignon in the south of France by someone who lives there...   . . . . . . . . . .  Quatre saisons en Provence, essai photo et impressions</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>548</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-6942656672575570050</id><published>2009-11-11T00:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T00:01:01.058+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Artichauts / Artie Shaw</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Coustellet Sunday farmers market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvmCemlpBXI/AAAAAAAAGA0/O6OXO6lVzUE/s1600-h/artichauts.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvmCemlpBXI/AAAAAAAAGA0/O6OXO6lVzUE/s640/artichauts.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402492690273731954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Still at the Sunday farmers market, now focusing on the artichokes Kim in Seattle cleverly noticed a couple of days ago next to my strawberries of November 8th. If you don't already know Kim, do go and have a look at her blog &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" href="http://seattle-daily-photo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Seattle Daily Photo&lt;/a&gt;. I regard her as one of the most talented photographers in the &lt;a href="http://www.citydailyphoto.com/portal/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;City Daily Photo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; web ring. Here's to you Kim!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Toujours au marché paysan de Coustellet, gros plan sur les artichauts que Kim de Seattle avait finement remarqué près de mes fraises d'avant-hier. Si vous ne connaissez pas encore Kim, je vous conseille d'aller jeter un coup d'oeil à son blog &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" href="http://seattle-daily-photo.blogspot.com/"&gt;Seattle Daily Photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;. J'aime beaucoup ce qu'elle fait, je la considère comme l'une des meilleures photographes du réseau &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" href="http://www.citydailyphoto.com/portal/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;City Daily Photo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;. Bien à toi, Kim !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvmCQAUi2rI/AAAAAAAAGAs/9Cqtg_JBPfs/s1600-h/artichokes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvmCQAUi2rI/AAAAAAAAGAs/9Cqtg_JBPfs/s400/artichokes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402492439483308722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;And on a tangent, just a fun piece of information for my English speaking reading friends : the French word for artichoke is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;artichaut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;, which is pronounced pretty much like&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIh6e-U708"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"&gt;Artie Shaw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - (listen to him &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIh6e-U708"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;here in 'Everything is jumping'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 1940). Try as I might, every time I hear his name I can't help but smile : how weird it is to be called artichoke! &lt;/span&gt;Would you choose Cawlie Flower as a stage name? :-)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Et une parenthèse qui prend la tangente : vous avez certainement remarqué mot artichaut (artichoke en anglais) prononcé avec l'accent anglais ressemble furieusement à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Artie Shaw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;, jazzman américain que vous pouvez écouter &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIh6e-U708"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;ici en vidéo dans "Everything is jumping&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; (1940). Vous avez sûrement déjà pensé comme moi que c'est bien drôle de s'appeler artichaut ! Ce qui de fil en aiguille m'amène à cette blague qu'on se racontait quand j'étais petite : "Le pape est mort. Un autre pape est appelé à régner. Araignée ? Quel drôle de nom ! Pourquoi pas libellule ou papillon ? Ha ha ha, rions trois fois et recommençons-la."  Comme quoi l'artichaut mène à tout, de Seattle aux cours d'école en passant par le jazz et le pape...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-6942656672575570050?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/6942656672575570050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=6942656672575570050&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/6942656672575570050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/6942656672575570050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/artichauts-artie-shaw.html' title='Artichauts / Artie Shaw'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvmCemlpBXI/AAAAAAAAGA0/O6OXO6lVzUE/s72-c/artichauts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-2928658077952852168</id><published>2009-11-10T00:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T00:01:01.088+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Portrait with radishes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Svdmu2fa67I/AAAAAAAAGAk/9QZeTHnojKw/s1600-h/radis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Svdmu2fa67I/AAAAAAAAGAk/9QZeTHnojKw/s640/radis.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401899233141517234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Portrait of a farmer behind a mountain of radishes (3 bunches for 2 euros). I'm very happy with both portraits and found myself unable to choose between the two. Can you tell me which one you prefer and why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Portrait paysan derrière une montagne de radis (2 euros les trois bottes). Je suis très contente de ces portraits mais je n'ai pas sû choisir entre les deux. Pouvez-vous me dire lequel vous préférez et pourquoi ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvdmjHL-DxI/AAAAAAAAGAc/gm-OErj4h04/s1600-h/radis2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvdmjHL-DxI/AAAAAAAAGAc/gm-OErj4h04/s640/radis2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401899031464906514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-2928658077952852168?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/2928658077952852168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=2928658077952852168&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/2928658077952852168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/2928658077952852168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/portrait-with-radishes.html' title='Portrait with radishes'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Svdmu2fa67I/AAAAAAAAGAk/9QZeTHnojKw/s72-c/radis.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3253813911303228498</id><published>2009-11-09T01:22:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T01:45:46.854+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Strawberries in November?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Coustellet farmers market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvdhEH_yHYI/AAAAAAAAGAU/p4qmpF1C0u8/s1600-h/maradesbois2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvdhEH_yHYI/AAAAAAAAGAU/p4qmpF1C0u8/s640/maradesbois2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401893001548144002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;No, this isn't an old photo dug out from the stock. It was taken at last week's Sunday farmers' market - local field strawberries! The farmer who was selling them (250 grams baskets for 2.50 euro each) said it was the first time ever that he still had strawberries to sell on November 1st, and not grown in a greenhouse either! Should we blame global warming again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Ces petites mara des bois bien appétissantes ne sortent pas d'une vieille photo d'archive, je les ai trouvées au marché paysan de Coustellet dimanche dernier. Ces barquettes (2,50 euros les 250 grammes) étaient les quatre dernières. L'agriculteur qui les vendait m'a dit que c'était bien la première fois qu'il vendait des fraises de plein champ le 1er novembre. Encore une conséquence du réchauffement climatique ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Svdg4qAVNCI/AAAAAAAAGAM/8KqArn4EdjQ/s1600-h/maramarch%C3%A9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Svdg4qAVNCI/AAAAAAAAGAM/8KqArn4EdjQ/s640/maramarch%C3%A9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401892804518818850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The strawberries (can you see them here?) were really an oddity in a market definitely turned autumny where pumpkins were the main fare and leaves fell like a golden rain at the slightest sweep of a light breeze.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Ces fraises (les voyez-vous ici?) étaient vraiment les intruses dans un marché qui avait pris une couleur radicalement automnale avec les potirons qui tenaient la vedette et des feuilles qui tombaient en rafales dorées à la moindre sollicitation d'Eole.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3253813911303228498?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3253813911303228498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3253813911303228498&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3253813911303228498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3253813911303228498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/strawberries-in-november.html' title='Strawberries in November?'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvdhEH_yHYI/AAAAAAAAGAU/p4qmpF1C0u8/s72-c/maradesbois2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-8611872194250322560</id><published>2009-11-08T00:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T00:01:00.809+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='streets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Place de l&apos;Horloge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Gone !!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Place de l'horloge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNKo5WkvLI/AAAAAAAAGAE/TmuW1WlzYpo/s1600-h/couple.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNKo5WkvLI/AAAAAAAAGAE/TmuW1WlzYpo/s640/couple.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400742444598082738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This weird couple has been a feature of Place de l'horloge for the past 5 or 6 years. You may have noticed them if you visited Avignon's main square - she clinging to the handrail, pushing her pregnant belly over the balcony, he a bald middle-aged man calling out to the world. What are they up to, these two? Two actors calling out to the public to join the show at Le Forum theatre just below. But the big news is - they are no longer there! The balcony is now empty! From what I gathered from the waiter working at the cafe below, the owner of Le Forum sold the place a few months ago and took the couple with him when he moved out. How sad! I liked them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Ce couple étonnant fait partie du paysage de la place de l'horloge depuis 5 ou 6 ans. Vous les aurez sans doute remarqués si vous avez visité la place la plus touristique d'Avignon : elle les traits tirés, cramponnée des deux mains à la rambarde et poussant son ventre de femme enceinte au-dessus du balcon, lui chauve et vieillissant, haranguant les foules avec la main en porte-voix. Qui sont-ils ? Des acteurs appelant le public à se joindre aux spectateurs du théatre Le Forum situé là à gauche. Mais la grande nouvelle, c'est que le couple n'est plus là ! Je viens de découvrir le balcon vide ! C'est le serveur du café-glacier juste en dessous qui m'a renseignée : le propriétaire du Forum a vendu il y a quelque mois et quand il a déménagé, il a emmené ses personnages sous le bras. Ils me manquent, je les aimais beaucoup !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNKenY-NQI/AAAAAAAAF_8/EBCJBFygxB0/s1600-h/couple2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNKenY-NQI/AAAAAAAAF_8/EBCJBFygxB0/s640/couple2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400742267977610498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-8611872194250322560?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/8611872194250322560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=8611872194250322560&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/8611872194250322560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/8611872194250322560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/gone.html' title='Gone !!!'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNKo5WkvLI/AAAAAAAAGAE/TmuW1WlzYpo/s72-c/couple.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3235949601848884653</id><published>2009-11-07T00:01:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T00:01:00.315+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street signs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='streets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rue des teinturiers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Being a girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;"&gt;Rue des Teinturiers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvMuPPEmx1I/AAAAAAAAF_U/gmzhfZZwKm4/s1600-h/female.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvMuPPEmx1I/AAAAAAAAF_U/gmzhfZZwKm4/s640/female.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400711217426122578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In rue des Teinturiers, a veiled Muslim lady passes by a provocative image of Marilyn Monroe in a hip graffiti-style shop window. Culture clash. My first reaction is to see my picture as the perfect opposition between freedom and oppression but thinking a bit more, I wonder whether both are/were victims of stereotypes forced upon them by males?&lt;br /&gt;And then this morning as I embark on some random blog-hopping, I come across Dedene's blog &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://soyezlabienvenuechezmoi.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bienvenue chez moi&lt;/a&gt;. Originally from Oregon, Dedene moved to France in 1989 ("came for work, stayed for love" she says). In her blog she shares tidbits about her life in France. In a &lt;a href="http://soyezlabienvenuechezmoi.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-hasnt-got-any-better.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;post dated October 3rd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, she writes: "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;We get advertising every Monday from a variety of businesses near by us. This booklet came yesterday in the mail. I immediately started to twitch and tick when I saw the cover. Not only is Christmas shopping being promoted from November 2nd in the stores, but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-style: italic;"&gt;this cover is so sexist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;!  (...)  In all of the pictures, the boys are doing the cool expensive stuff (pool tables, scientific experiments, heavy machinery at 153€ 73) and the girls get WHAT???? Babies and kitchen items for 29€ 70!!!!&lt;/span&gt; " (&lt;a href="http://soyezlabienvenuechezmoi.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-hasnt-got-any-better.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;read her full rant here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Wow, that's a blow. Like Dedene, I'm under shock. I knew stereotypes were hard to die but I thought they would be more sneaky. This is so in your face! Echoing my own photo, Dedene's post is a reminder that women's lib is something that still needs fighting for, as much here as elsewhere around the globe. Sigh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;At Christmas, magic for her, technology for him!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvMuX8lOQKI/AAAAAAAAF_c/VRPBjqPb-o4/s1600-h/SuperU+-+noel+sexiste.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvMuX8lOQKI/AAAAAAAAF_c/VRPBjqPb-o4/s400/SuperU+-+noel+sexiste.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400711367081476258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;A Noël, magie pour elle, technologie pour lui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Dans la rue des teinturiers,  en vitrine d'une boutique branchée qui a ouvert il y a quelque mois, un graffiti de Marilyn Monroe dans une pose provocante croise une femme musulmane en foulard. Clash des cultures. Ma première réaction est d'y voir le contraste parfait entre liberté et oppression mais à la réflection ne sont-elles pas toutes les deux victimes de stéréotypes imposés par les hommes ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Et ce matin, alors que je me ballade au hasard des blogs, je tombe sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" href="http://soyezlabienvenuechezmoi.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bienvenue chez moi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;, le blog d'une américaine originaire de l'Oregon et installée en France depuis 1989 ("je suis venue pour travailler, je suis restée par amour" dit-elle).Elle vit dans le Loiret et à la date du &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://soyezlabienvenuechezmoi.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-hasnt-got-any-better.html"&gt;3 octobre&lt;/a&gt;, elle s'insurge contre une brochure publicitaire de Super U qu'elle vient de recevoir dans sa boite aux lettres. Non seulement la pub pour Noël commence dès le 3 octobre, mais la couverture la fait bondir : quel sexisme ! Dans toutes les images, dit-elle, les garçons jouent avec des jouets chers et amusants (tables de billard, expériences scientifiques, technologie de pointe à  153€ 73) et les filles, on leur propose quoi ???? Des poupées et des cuisines à 29€ 70 !!!! "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;  Comme elle, je suis choquée. Je sais que les stéréotypes ont la vie dure mais je les croyais plus sournois. Là c'est tellement direct que c'est indécent. En écho à ma photo du jour, le billet de Dedene est un rappel que la liberté des femmes est encore un combat, ici comme ailleurs dans le monde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3235949601848884653?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3235949601848884653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3235949601848884653&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3235949601848884653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3235949601848884653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/being-girl.html' title='Being a girl'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvMuPPEmx1I/AAAAAAAAF_U/gmzhfZZwKm4/s72-c/female.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3901838880101380512</id><published>2009-11-06T00:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T00:43:08.534+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mont Ventoux'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skywatch Friday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Villeneuve lez Avignon'/><title type='text'>Sealed lips</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Villeneuve lès Avignon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNE5uwDiEI/AAAAAAAAF_s/i3V8ZP0_xyY/s1600-h/cloudy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNE5uwDiEI/AAAAAAAAF_s/i3V8ZP0_xyY/s640/cloudy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400736136740177986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We've had tormented skies over the past couple of days but I don't think I'd ever seen an isolated cloud cut in two like that before. Lips sealed by the slash of an arrow? Are you the kind of person who always sees animals and fairy tale characters in fast moving clouds?&lt;br /&gt;But don't let the sky trick you into not looking below. In the distance on the right is Mount Ventoux, Provence highest mountain at 6295 feet. In front of us the fertile plains of the Rhone and on the left, Fort Saint Andre, Villeneuve lès Avignon's medieval castle. Who said fairy tale?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Nous avons eu des cieux tourmentés ces deux derniers jours mais je ne crois pas avoir jamais vu un nuage isolé ainsi coupé en deux ! Qu'y voyez-vous ? Des lèvres scellées par la trajectoire d'une flèche ? Faites-vous partie de ceux qui voient toutes sortes de personnages fantasmagoriques dans les nuages en marche ?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Mais ne laissez pas le ciel vous distraire; regardez tout de même en bas : à droite le sommet du mont Ventoux, 1909 mètres, et à gauche le Fort Saint André, la forteresse médiévale de Villeneuve les Avignon. Qui a dit conte de fées ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNJVpuZkPI/AAAAAAAAF_0/0UIfZpwgq-8/s1600-h/swftom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 54px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNJVpuZkPI/AAAAAAAAF_0/0UIfZpwgq-8/s400/swftom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400741014473904370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This blog takes part in &lt;a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Skywatch Friday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a growing community of bloggers who look up to the sky every Friday. &lt;a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to view more spectacular skies around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Ce blog participe à &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/"&gt;Skywatch Friday&lt;/a&gt;, une communauté de blogueurs qui lève les yeux au ciel tous les vendredis. &lt;a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cliquez ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pour voir d'autres cieux spectaculaires dans le monde entier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3901838880101380512?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3901838880101380512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3901838880101380512&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3901838880101380512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3901838880101380512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealed-lips.html' title='Sealed lips'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SvNE5uwDiEI/AAAAAAAAF_s/i3V8ZP0_xyY/s72-c/cloudy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-895909379971166967</id><published>2009-11-05T00:01:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T10:17:03.419+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunset'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Rust turned to gold</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;ZI Courtine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9ea-CYhQI/AAAAAAAAF-8/5AC679SN-i0/s1600-h/courtine+5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9ea-CYhQI/AAAAAAAAF-8/5AC679SN-i0/s640/courtine+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399638295663117570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;An antique hoisting crane in some distant outback ghost town? You could think so...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Un antique engin de levage dans une ville fantôme de l'outback? On s'y croirait presque...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9eFACcNYI/AAAAAAAAF-s/NRUMWMmDt0c/s1600-h/courtine+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9eFACcNYI/AAAAAAAAF-s/NRUMWMmDt0c/s640/courtine+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399637918243108226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Heavy machinery rusting to gold in the sunset...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Equipement lourd dont la rouille vire à l'or au coucher du soleil.&lt;/span&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9dhfjdJvI/AAAAAAAAF-c/HRr2YxfUZBw/s1600-h/courtine+7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9dhfjdJvI/AAAAAAAAF-c/HRr2YxfUZBw/s640/courtine+7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399637308227790578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I'm sure that fellow blogger Owen of &lt;a href="http://magiclanternshowen.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Magic Lantern Show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, great lover of rust and abandoned industrial sites, would love this place - check out &lt;a href="http://magiclanternshowen.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-10-15T03%3A53%3A00%2B02%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=12"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;this post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://magiclanternshowen.blogspot.com/2009/09/show-must-go-on.html"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for example. Here's to you Owen ;-)&lt;br /&gt;(Owen is an American who has been living in Paris for many years. He's a gregarious guy with a great sense of humor. His blog is in English but his photos and stories are strongly related to his life in France - if you're interested in all things French, do check it out)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9dhfjdJvI/AAAAAAAAF-c/HRr2YxfUZBw/s1600-h/courtine+7.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Je suis certaine que mon confrère blogueur Owen de &lt;a href="http://magiclanternshowen.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Magic Lantern Show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, grand amateur de rouille et de friches industrielles, adorerait cet endroit. Je lui dédie ce billet.&lt;br /&gt;(Owen est un américain installé à Paris depuis de nombreuses années. Son blog est en anglais mais ses photos et ses histoires se nourrissent de sa vie en France. J'aime son côté chaleureux et son sens de l'humour. Un blog à suivre pour les anglophones amoureux de la France...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-895909379971166967?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/895909379971166967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=895909379971166967&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/895909379971166967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/895909379971166967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/rust-turned-to-gold.html' title='Rust turned to gold'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9ea-CYhQI/AAAAAAAAF-8/5AC679SN-i0/s72-c/courtine+5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-7260933199315376553</id><published>2009-11-04T00:01:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-05T10:19:33.225+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Starry day</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ZI Courtine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9b8tDLBII/AAAAAAAAF-U/CyuWdhjx-MY/s1600-h/vitre2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9b8tDLBII/AAAAAAAAF-U/CyuWdhjx-MY/s640/vitre2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399635576683693186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Starry day. This photo was taken very near yesterday's. It is entirely natural, no post processing apart from some cropping. I personally like it but I wonder if you think it should have gone straight to the bin? Can you guess how it was done? - The answer is in the comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;BTW - artist&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.francoisevadon.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Françoise Vadon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; whose work I showed in my post dated October 23rd&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;a href="http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/parcours-de-lart-4.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt; wrote to me yesterday to tell me how much she enjoyed your multiple comments about her work. Thanks to all of you who contributed! Artists rarely have access to such open feedback from their viewers. She mentioned that the bottom canvas was a self portrait. She also gave me the name of the author of the blue canvas I showed on October 24th (&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/bleu-blue.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Max and the blues&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Marie Paule Bilger&lt;/span&gt;. Thanks Francoise!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Jour étoilé. Cette photo a été prise à proximité de celle d'hier. Elle est naturelle, aucun traitement de l'image à part un recadrage. Moi elle me plaît mais je me demande si vous pensez qu'elle aurait dû aller droit à la poubelle ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; Devinerez-vous comment elle a été prise ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;La réponse est dans les commentaires.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;------------------&lt;br /&gt;PS qui n'a rien à voir : l'artiste &lt;a href="http://www.francoisevadon.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Françoise Vadon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, à laquelle j'avais consacré un billet le 23 octobre (&lt;a href="http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/parcours-de-lart-4.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) a lu avec intérêt vos retours sur son travail. Elle y a répondu en laissant un commentaires à la date du 23 octobre, je recopie ici son message : "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Bonjour à tous,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;J'ai trouvé tous ces posts liés à mon travail très intéressants!!! Pour les références: oui à Hockney, Kahlo, Matisse (qui m'a surtout guidé à mes débuts mais l'influence doit forcément rester...) et surtout à Bonnard, Vuillard, Giotto et aux estampes japonaises!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Côté technique je prépare mes couleurs avec des pigments et un liant,ou j'utilise des acryliques quand je suis trop pressée !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Ce qui me pousse à peindre c'est comment restituer l'espace qui est devant moi, comment le reconstruire. D'ou ce travail sur le vide. Créer du lien entre le vivant (humain, animal, végétal) et l'inanimé. Les objets de mon quotidien (mon atelier est aussi mon lieu de vie) reviennent toujours dans mes toiles comme un rituel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Peindre cet univers intime est pour moi la seule façon que j'ai trouvé de dire l'universel, le rapport des corps au monde, leur fragilité...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Voilà en quelques mots ce que je peux vous dire de mon travail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;En ce qui concerne l'exagération de certaines parties du corps, mais aussi les déformations de la perspective, ceci est fait de façon volontaire pour le décalage, le bizarre...et puis parce que j'en ai envie et que ça fait parler ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Et pour info: le loup caché sous la robe chinoise est un autoportrait !!!"&lt;br /&gt;Françoise Vadon a aussi rendu à la &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/bleu-blue.html"&gt;toile bleue du 24 octobre&lt;/a&gt; le nom de son auteur : &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Marie Paule Bilger&lt;/span&gt;. Merci !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-7260933199315376553?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/7260933199315376553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=7260933199315376553&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7260933199315376553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7260933199315376553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/starry-day.html' title='Starry day'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su9b8tDLBII/AAAAAAAAF-U/CyuWdhjx-MY/s72-c/vitre2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3529887127607688349</id><published>2009-11-03T00:01:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T00:01:01.250+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rhone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Waterline</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ZI Courtine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7ogqzv2hI/AAAAAAAAF-M/8go8l-ZcQ-Y/s1600-h/boat1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7ogqzv2hI/AAAAAAAAF-M/8go8l-ZcQ-Y/s640/boat1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399508651208595986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wrecked yacht lying on the bank of the Rhone river. Did you guess immediately what it was? I assume it sank and was retrieved by the navigation department. It has been stripped of all its deck equipment. A sad sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Epave sur la berge du Rhône.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Avez-vous tout de suite reconnu ce que c'était ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Victime d'une crue ou d'une avarie ? le bateau&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; a dû couler et être retiré du Rhône par le service de la navigation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Il &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;a été nettoyé de son équipement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; et de tout son &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accastillage"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;accastillage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;. Triste spectacle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7oVIWW4uI/AAAAAAAAF-E/YcbxZfiP4Kw/s1600-h/boat3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7oVIWW4uI/AAAAAAAAF-E/YcbxZfiP4Kw/s400/boat3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399508452979958498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7oPW76xmI/AAAAAAAAF98/tYEcpgOKsOk/s1600-h/boat2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7oPW76xmI/AAAAAAAAF98/tYEcpgOKsOk/s400/boat2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399508353816381026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3529887127607688349?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3529887127607688349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3529887127607688349&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3529887127607688349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3529887127607688349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/waterline.html' title='Waterline'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Su7ogqzv2hI/AAAAAAAAF-M/8go8l-ZcQ-Y/s72-c/boat1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-4050612236320479829</id><published>2009-11-01T00:01:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T00:38:13.157+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festival'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theme day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='theatre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Festival d&apos;Avignon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Theme day: doorways</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cloître des Célestins, place des corps saints&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SubUtBNpMUI/AAAAAAAAF8Y/Ly1VoUhmxmg/s1600-h/oct+2009+026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SubUtBNpMUI/AAAAAAAAF8Y/Ly1VoUhmxmg/s640/oct+2009+026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397235073334980930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every first day of the month is theme day for all &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.citydailyphoto.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;City Daily Photo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; bloggers and this month's theme is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Doorways&lt;/span&gt;. We are blessed in Avignon with a large choice of spectacular architecture, I chose to show you the door to the Cloitre des Celestins. Once a cloister, the building was closed for 30 years before finding a new life as a venue for art exhibitions and theatre plays, especially during the Avignon Festival in July. The outdoor stage is quite unique in that two large plane tree are part of the set: the stage was built around them.&lt;br /&gt;To see more doorways around the world  &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.citydailyphoto.com/portal/themes_archive.php?tid=35"&gt;click here to view thumbnails for all participants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Le 1er de chaque mois est journée à thème pour tous les blogueurs du réseau &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.citydailyphoto.com"&gt;City Daily Photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;et le thème de novembre est "doorways", (porte, portail, passage). Nous avons de la chance, Avignon ne manque pas de sites spectaculaires : j'ai choisi l'entrée du Cloître des Célestins, place des corps saints. Ancien cloître fermé au public pendant plus de 30 ans, ce lieu saint s'est reconverti en salle de spectacle et lieu d'exposition, en particulier au moment du festival.  Deux platanes font la particularité de ce lieu. Ils font entièrement parti du décor, en émergeant de la scène.&lt;br /&gt;Pour découvrir d'autres portes du monde entier, &lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.citydailyphoto.com/portal/themes_archive.php?tid=35"&gt;cliquez ici pour voir les photos miniatures de tous les participants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SubUGaWu_pI/AAAAAAAAF8Q/TaSiS8gADKM/s1600-h/doorway.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SubUGaWu_pI/AAAAAAAAF8Q/TaSiS8gADKM/s640/doorway.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397234410069098130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-4050612236320479829?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/4050612236320479829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=4050612236320479829&amp;isPopup=true' title='38 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/4050612236320479829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/4050612236320479829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/11/theme-day-doorways.html' title='Theme day: doorways'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SubUtBNpMUI/AAAAAAAAF8Y/Ly1VoUhmxmg/s72-c/oct+2009+026.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>38</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3415869931286028251</id><published>2009-10-31T00:01:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T00:33:19.421+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reflections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Villeneuve lez Avignon'/><title type='text'>Juliet's prison</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Villeneuve lèz Avignon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SurkSzY0CJI/AAAAAAAAF9s/aAdlc3DHMm8/s1600-h/entrelacs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SurkSzY0CJI/AAAAAAAAF9s/aAdlc3DHMm8/s640/entrelacs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398378115040020626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Romeo may come and murmur sweet words under Juliet's balcony, fancy iron lace will see to proper behaviour. There will be no trespassing or escaping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Roméo peut bien venir murmurer des mots d'amour sous la fenêtre de Juliette, les entrelacs de fer veillent à la bienséance. Il n'y aura ni évasion ni intrusion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SurkHhVz21I/AAAAAAAAF9k/m6svccykklM/s1600-h/julietsprison.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SurkHhVz21I/AAAAAAAAF9k/m6svccykklM/s400/julietsprison.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398377921217026898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;PS - Regarding yesterday's post, my blogging chum Michel Benoit had no trouble recognising the grounds of  &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.clublapalmeraie.com/"&gt;La Palmeraie&lt;/a&gt;, a large private pool and club located on the island of la Barthelasse, just across the Rhone from the pont d'Avignon. The castle you see in the background is Philippe Le Bel tower in Villeneuve lès Avignon. &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.clublapalmeraie.com/"&gt;La Palmeraie&lt;/a&gt; boast three large pools (a huge lap pool, a diving basin and a shallow pool for children), large grassy areas shaded by palm trees, hammocs, a beach volley court and a very nice restaurant. Truly a delightful place to unwind on a hot summer day, all within walking distance of the city centre (just walk across the bridge). However with an entry price of 10 euros per adult and 6 euros per child, this is no cheap place to go for a quick dip with the family. And the water isn't heated at all - a bit too chilly for me in June and September&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;PS - Concernant mon billet d'hier, mon confrère blogueur Michel Benoit a reconnu sans hésiter les jardins de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.clublapalmeraie.com/"&gt;La Palmeraie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;, une grand piscine privée située sur la Barthelasse, juste en face des remparts. Le château qu'on voit au loin est la tour Philippe le Bel  à Villeneuve lès Avignon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.clublapalmeraie.com/"&gt;La Palmeraie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; offre trois immenses piscines (une grand bassin pour faire des longueurs, un bassin de plongeon et un bassin pour enfants), d'agréables pelouses ombragéees de palmiers, des hamacs, un terrain de beach volley et un restaurant avec une très agréable terrasse ombragée - vraiment un endroit agréable pour trouver de la fraîcheur au coeur de l'été. Mais avec un billet d'entrée à 10 euros (6 euros pour les enfants) ça revient cher le plongeon en famille. En plus l'eau n'est pas chauffée du tout - trop fraiche pour moi en juin et en septembre !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3415869931286028251?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3415869931286028251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3415869931286028251&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3415869931286028251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3415869931286028251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/juliets-prison.html' title='Juliet&apos;s prison'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SurkSzY0CJI/AAAAAAAAF9s/aAdlc3DHMm8/s72-c/entrelacs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3822260304420486509</id><published>2009-10-30T00:01:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T16:45:55.680+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Tropical beach resort</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/St9Iqq7wMlI/AAAAAAAAF6c/cmeOEaHqqPk/s1600-h/oct2009+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/St9Iqq7wMlI/AAAAAAAAF6c/cmeOEaHqqPk/s640/oct2009+004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395110776529760850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Blue sky, palm trees and cute thatched roofed beach umbrellas... is this  some tropical beach resort? Yet we are in Avignon. Can my local readers guess where exactly ? Answer tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;Today is a wonderfully calm and sunny day but the weather forecast says this is our last Indian summer day - tomorrow rain is due to take over all of France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Ciel bleu, palmiers et paillotes de plage... sommes-nous sous les tropiques ? Non. L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;'arrière-plan l'atteste,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; nous sommes à Avignon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;. Mes sagaces lecteurs locaux sauront-ils me dire où exactement ? Réponse demain.&lt;br /&gt;Aujourd'hui est une journée d'une douceur ensoleillée délicieuse mais le bulletin nous annonce que c'est le dernier jour de l'été indien et nous promet de la pluie sur toute la France pour demain. Profitons...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3822260304420486509?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3822260304420486509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3822260304420486509&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3822260304420486509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3822260304420486509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/tropical-beach-resort.html' title='Tropical beach resort'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/St9Iqq7wMlI/AAAAAAAAF6c/cmeOEaHqqPk/s72-c/oct2009+004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-175485773430439549</id><published>2009-10-29T07:01:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T09:24:34.790+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Swoosh - Mistral</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ZI Courtine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuYh9fdGoRI/AAAAAAAAF8I/JXmkhDc9ydE/s1600-h/courtine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuYh9fdGoRI/AAAAAAAAF8I/JXmkhDc9ydE/s640/courtine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397038543749423378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mistral is the name of our cold winter wind, swoosh the sound it makes at it rages through the bushes. We're south of the city along the Rhone river bank, the old railroad bridge in the background. I only just learned that swoosh was also the name of the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoosh"&gt;nike emblem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Mistral est le nom de notre vent du nord, swoosh le bruissement qu'il fait en passant dans les hautes herbes. Nous sommes juste au sud de la ville, le long du Rhône, le vieux pont de chemin de fer en arrière-plan.  A propos du mistral, lisez absolument &lt;a href="http://cestpourdire.blogspot.com/2009/10/lumiere.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ici le texte magnifique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; que &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;mon ami blogueur Chri &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;lui a consacré  la semaine dernière.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; Quant à swoosh, ce n'est pas seulement une expression sonore, c'est aussi &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoosh"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ça&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; et ça n'a rien à voir -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; surprenant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuYhX_iPxiI/AAAAAAAAF8A/8nWO37-0eRc/s1600-h/oct+2009+089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuYhX_iPxiI/AAAAAAAAF8A/8nWO37-0eRc/s400/oct+2009+089.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397037899525899810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-175485773430439549?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/175485773430439549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=175485773430439549&amp;isPopup=true' title='36 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/175485773430439549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/175485773430439549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/swoosh.html' title='Swoosh - Mistral'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuYh9fdGoRI/AAAAAAAAF8I/JXmkhDc9ydE/s72-c/courtine.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>36</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-1056897772595319938</id><published>2009-10-28T07:22:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T17:27:25.886+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rhone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Un tricot vert...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rhone river&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuceLPeqqWI/AAAAAAAAF8w/ng2f7mXNAQU/s1600-h/green.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuceLPeqqWI/AAAAAAAAF8w/ng2f7mXNAQU/s640/green.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397315856909379938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yes, yesterdays red cylinders and green cones were spare &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_aid"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;navigational aids&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigational_aid"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ATON&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - lateral markers used for river navigation. Chriscot was first to leave a clue in French, I suspect he knew the answer .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Oui les cylindres rouges et cônes verts d'hier étaient des &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balisage"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;balises&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en réserve. Félicitations à Zuleme et quelques autres; Chriscot a été le premier à laisser un indice, je pense qu'il savait :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Succ5tlyz7I/AAAAAAAAF8g/XapLivGWeE8/s1600-h/pan06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Succ5tlyz7I/AAAAAAAAF8g/XapLivGWeE8/s400/pan06.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397314456243064754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Going downstream along the Rhone, leave anything red and cylinder-shaped to your right (starboard) and leave anything that is green and conical to your left (port). These are international rules consistent with the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Lighthouse_Authorities" title="International Association of Lighthouse Authorities"&gt;IALA A&lt;/a&gt; standard used throughout Europe, Africa and most of Asia.&lt;br /&gt;The interesting bit is that while this is an international maritime standard, it is isn't a worldwide one. In North and South America the rules are reversed, the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Lighthouse_Authorities" title="International Association of Lighthouse Authorities"&gt;IALA B&lt;/a&gt; standard is used: when you &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;return&lt;/span&gt; from the sea, the green ATONs are on your left and the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;red&lt;/span&gt; ones on your &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;right&lt;/span&gt;, that's the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Red Right Returning &lt;/span&gt;rule mentioned by Zuleme in yesterday's comments. This rule in NOT TRUE in France, where the opposite applies.&lt;br /&gt;Few Americans know that their maritime standard is not valid worldwide, few French people know that theirs isn't valid in the USA. Did you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Signalisation fluviale: en descendant le courant, laisser tout ce qui est rouge et cylindrique à droite (tribord) et tout ce qui est vert et conique à gauche (babord).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;A l'inverse quand on vient de la mer, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;tout ce qui est vert, impair et conique à tribord et tout ce qui est rouge, pair et cylindrique à babord. Les marins en ont fait un dicton fort utile : "un tricot vert, deux bas si rouges".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Là où ça devient intéressant c'est que &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;si cette signalisation est internationale, elle n'est pas mondiale&lt;/span&gt;. Notre norme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Lighthouse_Authorities" title="International Association of Lighthouse Authorities"&gt;IALA A&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;s'applique e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;n France, en Europe, en Afrique et dans presque toute l'Asie. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Mais &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;en Amérique du Nord et du Sud, les couleurs sont inversées&lt;/span&gt; et c'est la norme&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Association_of_Lighthouse_Authorities" title="International Association of Lighthouse Authorities"&gt;IALA B&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;qui s'applique : en revenant de la mer vers le port, on laisse les balises rouges à droite, c'est la règle "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;red right returning&lt;/span&gt;" mentionnée par Zuleme hier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Peu d'américains savent que leur norme de balisage maritime ne s'applique pas dans le monde entier. Peu de français savent que la leur ne s'applique pas aux Etats-unis. Le saviez-vous ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-1056897772595319938?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/1056897772595319938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=1056897772595319938&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/1056897772595319938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/1056897772595319938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/un-tricot-vert.html' title='Un tricot vert...'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuceLPeqqWI/AAAAAAAAF8w/ng2f7mXNAQU/s72-c/green.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-8663956987071735753</id><published>2009-10-27T00:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T10:19:04.861+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rhone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Quiz in red and green</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ZI Courtine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/St9GpJQkyHI/AAAAAAAAF6U/i0185RyMWIs/s1600-h/courtine+6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/St9GpJQkyHI/AAAAAAAAF6U/i0185RyMWIs/s640/courtine+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395108551287162994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;More contemporary art? The other day I braved the cold wind and went for a walk along the Rhône river bank. Just south of Avignon in the industrial zone of Courtine I came across these colourful "thingies" - could you tell me what they are? Answer tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Encore de l'art contemporain ? J'ai bravé le mistral violent l'autre jour pour aller marcher au bord du Rhône du côté de la zone industrielle de Courtine et je suis tombée sur ces "machins". Sauriez-vous me dire ce que c'est? Réponse demain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Suld3rThT_I/AAAAAAAAF9c/ualxa187ee0/s1600-h/greenred.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Suld3rThT_I/AAAAAAAAF9c/ualxa187ee0/s640/greenred.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397948839479037938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Suf6IHWFPmI/AAAAAAAAF84/DmZgy9lOkVw/s1600-h/oct+2009+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-8663956987071735753?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/8663956987071735753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=8663956987071735753&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/8663956987071735753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/8663956987071735753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/quiz-in-red-and-green.html' title='Quiz in red and green'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/St9GpJQkyHI/AAAAAAAAF6U/i0185RyMWIs/s72-c/courtine+6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-7478974800951758534</id><published>2009-10-25T23:42:00.016+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T11:12:17.589+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parcours de l&apos;Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Rob Taylor</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rue Carreterie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTVEvLwxkI/AAAAAAAAF7w/TjpttGNi798/s1600-h/RT3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTVEvLwxkI/AAAAAAAAF7w/TjpttGNi798/s640/RT3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396672530858690114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTU8DPo9jI/AAAAAAAAF7o/JGE4iMCjgiw/s1600-h/RT9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTU8DPo9jI/AAAAAAAAF7o/JGE4iMCjgiw/s640/RT9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396672381624841778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Still on the subject of contemporary art (and sorry for those of you who are bored to death with it) I wanted to mention talented young artist Robert Taylor, whose works I saw last Saturday afternoon at &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;L'étendoir&lt;/span&gt; gallery rue Carreterie. Born in the UK in 1968, Rob lives and works in France since 1998.  I had a long chat to him, he told me that as a schoolboy the only two subjects he liked were French and art: they obviously determined the course of his life. Rob produces figurative work as well as abstract : his talent and interest in both demonstrate how unjustified it is to oppose the two. His woodwork (shown above) is made of recycled plywood. A painter and a sculptor, he is now taking interest in a different art form: sculpting with light. I intend to follow his work, I really like what he does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Toujours sur le sujet de l'art contemporain (et désolée pour ceux que cela ennuie à mourir) en marge du Parcours de l'Art je voulais signaler les travaux de Robert Taylor, un jeune artiste né en 1968 en Grande-Bretagne, mais qui vit et travaille en France depuis 1998. J'ai vu son travail à la galerie &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;l'étendoir&lt;/span&gt; rue Carreterie samedi après-midi et j'en ai profité pour parler un bon moment avec lui : il m'a raconté que gamin à l'école il n'y avait que deux matières qui l'intéressaient : le français et l'art. Ces deux passions ont manifestement orienté sa vie.  Rob pratique aussi bien l'art abstrait que figuratif, ce qui montre qu'il est inutile d'opposer ces deux formes d'art.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; Ses oeuvres en bois sont faites de feuilles de contreplaqué de récupération. Sculpteur et peintre, Rob s'intéresse maintenant à une autre forme de création : la sculpture en lumière. J'ai l'intention de suivre son travail, j'aime vraiment ce qu'il fait.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTVclsMQ7I/AAAAAAAAF74/taXZMjox5nE/s1600-h/RT0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTVclsMQ7I/AAAAAAAAF74/taXZMjox5nE/s400/RT0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396672940627215282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-7478974800951758534?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/7478974800951758534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=7478974800951758534&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7478974800951758534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7478974800951758534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/rob-taylor.html' title='Rob Taylor'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuTVEvLwxkI/AAAAAAAAF7w/TjpttGNi798/s72-c/RT3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-7945799579590637556</id><published>2009-10-24T13:00:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T17:12:48.013+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parcours de l&apos;Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Max and the blues</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cloitre St Louis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDSl5VnhCI/AAAAAAAAF7I/WYCpcs3cj1M/s1600-h/bleu2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDSl5VnhCI/AAAAAAAAF7I/WYCpcs3cj1M/s640/bleu2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395543902078338082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art&lt;/span&gt; finishes on October 24th. Last day today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The author of the above piece is unknown to me. There is no reference to it in the event's catalogue and I didn't write it down while visiting the exhibition. Can anyone help identify it? The colour looks very much like &lt;a href="http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=fr&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;q=bleu+klein&amp;amp;btnG=Recherche+d%27images&amp;amp;gbv=2&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq="&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Klein blue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; but funny little horns the size of a little finger pop out of the canvas to come and play with the strong light above. The full piece is in the middle, details on both sides.&lt;br /&gt;Note: the author has now been identified, her name is Marie Paule Bilger (thanks to Françoise Vadon).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; Le &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art&lt;/span&gt; se termine le 24 octobre. Dernier jour aujourd'hui.&lt;br /&gt;L'auteur de cette oeuvre m'est inconnu. Je n'ai pas noté son nom lors de ma visite et l'oeuvre n'est pas  dans le catalogue de l'exposition. Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider à l'identifier ? La couleur ressemble beaucoup au &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=fr&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;q=bleu+klein&amp;amp;btnG=Recherche+d%27images&amp;amp;gbv=2&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq="&gt;bleu Klein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; avec de drôles de cornes qui jaillissent de la toile et viennent jouer avec la lumière très forte qui la surplombe. La toile entière est au milieu, détails sur les côtés.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Note : l'auteure a maintenant été identifiée, il s'agit de Marie Paule Bilger (merci à Françoise Vadon).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDVLP3dBuI/AAAAAAAAF7Q/B2lrg_BFBpE/s1600-h/maxcharvolen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDVLP3dBuI/AAAAAAAAF7Q/B2lrg_BFBpE/s640/maxcharvolen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395546742804252386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Max Charvolen was guest artist of this year's Parcours de l'Art. His works explore the geometry of space. To create this piece he covered the walls, cealing and floor of a tiny storage room in an old house with canvas which he painted. He then tore off the canvas from the walls, cutting along the angles so that the room's volume is now represented flat. The brown shape in the middle is the floor , the black rectangles around it are the walls, one with a door : if you try and put it all up again, can you imagine the room's size and shape? Charvolen was artist in residence in Avignon during the month of July. He applied his canvas strips to a number of architectural details around town : steps, columns, street corners etc. and then painted them and put them flat. He calls them "city tongues" because of their shape - see one example behind the three men on the left. See more of Max Charvolen's work on &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.paris-art.com/marche-art/Transfert%20et%20transfiguration/Charvolen-Max/624.html"&gt;Paris-art.com&lt;/a&gt;. or &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.galeriemartagon.com/"&gt;Galeriemartagon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ledauphine.com/index.jspz?comnumcom=84007&amp;amp;article=204999"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Max Charvolen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; était artiste invité du Parcours de l'Art cette année. Son travail explore la géométrie de l'espace. Pour créer cette oeuvre il a couvert de toile collée le sol, les murs et le plafond d'un cagibi dans une vieille maison, puis il l'a peinte. Ensuite il a arraché la toile en la découpant en suivant les angles, ce qui a mis tous les volumes à plat. La forme brun clair au milieu était le sol; en noir tout autour, les murs dont l'un avec une porte. Si vous essayez mentalement de remonter les murs, pouvez-vous imaginer la pièce en 3D? Max Charvolen a été artiste en résidence à Avignon durant le mois de juillet. Il a appliqué ses toiles sur une variété de détails architecturaux de la ville : escaliers, corniches, recoins, pour créer ce qu'il appelle des "langues de ville" - voir un exemple derrière les trois hommes à gauche. On peut retrouver le travail de Max Charvolen sur &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.paris-art.com/marche-art/Transfert%20et%20transfiguration/Charvolen-Max/624.html"&gt;Paris-art.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; ou &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.galeriemartagon.com/galerie_martagon/Max-Charvolen.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Galeriemartagon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" href="http://www.galeriemartagon.com/"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDVTsp1zqI/AAAAAAAAF7Y/8VmIGEUhfyk/s1600-h/cokeaufrais2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDVTsp1zqI/AAAAAAAAF7Y/8VmIGEUhfyk/s640/cokeaufrais2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395546887970737826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And another thing: you know what I like about contemporary art? It's that it makes you look at everything around you as art. See the photo above? When I saw those little white and red dots floating in the fountain in the centre of St Louis cloister, I figured it was an installation, like a water version a Calder mobile... alas, they were only Coke and mineral water bottles put to cool off for the inauguration buffet. OK I ridiculed myself... or did I? Isn't it lovely?&lt;br /&gt;Your comments about any of these three images are welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Et pour finir, vous savez ce que j'aime dans l'art contemporain? C'est qu'il nous incite à voir tout ce qui nous entoure comme de l'art. Quand je suis arrivée &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;au cloître St Louis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; et que j'ai vu ces bouchons rouges et blancs flottant au gré des courants dans le bassin de la fontaine au centre du cloître, j'ai pensé que c'était une installation, comme une version aquatique d'un mobile de Calder... mais non, ce n'étaient que des bouteilles de Coca et d'eau minérale mises à rafraîchir pour le buffet de l'inauguration. OK je me suis ridiculisée... mais vraiment tant que ça ? C'est beau, non ?&lt;br /&gt;Vos commentaires sur l'une de ces trois images (ou sur les trois !) sont les bienvenues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-7945799579590637556?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/7945799579590637556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=7945799579590637556&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7945799579590637556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7945799579590637556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/bleu-blue.html' title='Max and the blues'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDSl5VnhCI/AAAAAAAAF7I/WYCpcs3cj1M/s72-c/bleu2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-5565503209100772726</id><published>2009-10-23T00:01:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T10:11:29.459+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parcours de l&apos;Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Parcours de l'Art (4)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Cloitre St Louis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDR0S7YbQI/AAAAAAAAF7A/R4bIvAgVX4s/s1600-h/parcours+chat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDR0S7YbQI/AAAAAAAAF7A/R4bIvAgVX4s/s640/parcours+chat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395543049954159874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Drawing with colour. Recreating a space, that of my studio. Doing variations on the same place, the same objects, the same people. Combining motifs, lines, colours. Endlessly. Working on the occupation of space, emptiness, details, the material's sensuality too. Changing our daily environment into a more poetic and stranger universe."&lt;br /&gt;So speaks Françoise VADON (website &lt;a href="http://www.francoisevadon.com/"&gt;www.francoisevadon.com)&lt;/a&gt; whose works are exhibited at Cloitre Saint Louis during the Parcours de l'Art (3-24 October).&lt;br /&gt;I found Vadon's work to be mostly true to her objectives. Her painting may be figurative but it draws us in a world that is definitely her own. Her fascination for the combination of motifs and colours, obvious in her representation of  fabrics, clothing, cushions, carpets etc is reminiscent of Matisse. Her research on composition (unpainted parts of the canvas) is also very interesting. I wouldn't say she's mastered it all but I enjoyed her work. And let's say it, among an avalanche of often disappointing abstract works and installations which make you wonder whether abstract is an easy refuge for those who can't draw and have little to say, it's refreshing to see an artist willing to confront the hard reality of figurative painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;"Dessiner avec la couleur. Recréer un espace, celui de l'atelier. Faire des variations à partir du même lieu, des mêmes objets, des mêmes personnes. Combiner les motifs, les lignes, les coloris. A l'infini. Travailler l'espace, le vide, les détails, la sensualité de la matière. Métamorphoser le quotidien en un univers plus étrange, plus poétique.&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Dixit Françoise VADON (site &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.francoisevadon.com/"&gt;www.francoisevadon.com&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;dont quelques toiles sont exposés au Cloitre St Louis à l'occasion du Parcours de l'Art (3-24 octobre).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Par rapport aux objectifs exprimés du peintre, beaucoup de choses sonnent juste dans son oeuvre: la création d'un monde étrange bien que très ancré dans le figuratif, le travail sur l'espace et le vide (parties non peintes de la toile), le goût pour le graphisme des motifs (vêtements, tapis, coussins) qui fait souvent penser à Matisse. Tout n'est pas abouti mais j'ai été sensible à ce travail. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Et puis soyons francs, face à une avalanche de créations et d'installations si décevantes qu'on se demande si l'abstrait n'est pas le refuge facile de ceux qui ne savent pas dessiner et n'ont pas grand-chose à dire, il est rafraichissant de voir un artiste accepter de se confronter à la cruelle réalité du figuratif.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuB-7kzWr_I/AAAAAAAAF6w/qxhRSeqk6nc/s1600-h/parcours+chine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuB-7kzWr_I/AAAAAAAAF6w/qxhRSeqk6nc/s640/parcours+chine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395451915546308594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ....any opinion on this?&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;avignon parcours de l'art 2009 avignon parcours de l'art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;"&gt;... des avis ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-5565503209100772726?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/5565503209100772726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=5565503209100772726&amp;isPopup=true' title='47 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/5565503209100772726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/5565503209100772726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/parcours-de-lart-4.html' title='Parcours de l&apos;Art (4)'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuDR0S7YbQI/AAAAAAAAF7A/R4bIvAgVX4s/s72-c/parcours+chat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>47</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-3410848952436240636</id><published>2009-10-22T00:01:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T23:40:34.387+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parcours de l&apos;Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>A balancing act</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;"&gt;Cloitre Saint Louis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SturLHlo-nI/AAAAAAAAF6A/mV01C454SuA/s1600-h/lydia+rump.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SturLHlo-nI/AAAAAAAAF6A/mV01C454SuA/s640/lydia+rump.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394093186210134642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Parcours de l'Art : With Caroline Avias's pink plastic bags in the background (see previous post), Lydia Rump's series of pots is a research on balance. Her website: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lydiarump.com/"&gt;www.lydiarump.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuAaHmVlNqI/AAAAAAAAF6o/K-MSF9X6gKk/s1600-h/rump2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SuAaHmVlNqI/AAAAAAAAF6o/K-MSF9X6gKk/s640/rump2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395341071442327202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Parcours de l'Art : Sur fond d'envolée rose (voir billet précédent), la série Equilibre de Lydia Rump. Son site internet: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.lydiarump.com/"&gt;www.lydiarump.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StuvD0QcyLI/AAAAAAAAF6M/EmK3gVjbDjw/s1600-h/oct+2009+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StuvD0QcyLI/AAAAAAAAF6M/EmK3gVjbDjw/s400/oct+2009+022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394097458808408242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rump appears to be exploring the notion of balance but also conducting a research on texture : many of her "pots" are embroidered, some in colour as above, some in white. Talking about balance, would you say you are easily thrown off balance by events or other people or do you see yourself as a fairly steady person?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Lydia Rump semble conduire une recherche sur l'équilibre mais aussi sur les textures : beaucoup de ses "pots" sont rebrodés, soit en couleur comme ici, soit en blanc. A propos d'équilibre, vous sentez-vous facilement déstabilisé(e) par les gens et les événements ou solidement planté sur vos pieds ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-3410848952436240636?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/3410848952436240636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=3410848952436240636&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3410848952436240636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/3410848952436240636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/balancing-act.html' title='A balancing act'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SturLHlo-nI/AAAAAAAAF6A/mV01C454SuA/s72-c/lydia+rump.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-5392558298439775307</id><published>2009-10-20T11:30:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T23:40:17.354+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parcours de l&apos;Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Rose !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulnTfvraI/AAAAAAAAF54/7DhAr0zPVOk/s1600-h/parcours+0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulnTfvraI/AAAAAAAAF54/7DhAr0zPVOk/s640/parcours+0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394087073373203874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.parcoursdelart.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; artist Caroline Avias writes : "Touch, breathe, see, live PINK ! My research into colour explores a variety of sensations, emotions and symbols while expressing a certain feminine sensuality."  She has a great website  &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);" href="http://www.avias.fr/"&gt;www.avias.fr&lt;/a&gt; .The installation above, made of pink plastic bags, is called&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Giverny Givenchy&lt;/span&gt;  -think water lilies, haute couture and expensive perfumes? In the one below, the plastic bags are cut and stapled together into long strips making up a maze that you can walk through. A great way to see "la vie en rose", life in pink. Would you enjoy trying that?&lt;br /&gt;My opinion: if you used green plastic bags, you'd make a perfect "urban jungle" for city kids - a sad reflection on the little access some kids have to real nature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding the first piece yes it's lightheartedly beautiful but I'm actually surprised that anyone can use a large quantity of plastic bags in an artwork and have no environmental message at all. The author appears to only be interested in the visual impact of a pink translucent material but plastic is such a huge source of damage to this planet that when I see a flock of plastic bags flying off I can't help but think of &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/environment/gallery/2008/feb/29/plasticbags.waste/GD6421709%40Mandatory-Credit-Phot-8066.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2008/feb/29/plasticbags.waste&amp;amp;usg=__HfnX0H0QM5NfW5PjhKl8g1PScbU=&amp;amp;h=390&amp;amp;w=594&amp;amp;sz=101&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;start=7&amp;amp;tbnid=ExHDPzn0SOCgOM:&amp;amp;tbnh=89&amp;amp;tbnw=135&amp;amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dplastic%2Bbags%2Bin%2Bthe%2Benvironment%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dfr"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);" href="http://www.parcoursdelart.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; l'artiste Caroline Avias écrit : " Touchez, respirez, voyez, vivez ROSE ! A travers cette recherche colorée, j'explore des sensations, des émotions et des symboliques en mettant en avant une certaine sensualité féminine." - Elle a un excellent site internet : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" href="http://www.avias.fr/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;www.avias.fr&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; L'installation ci-dessus, une envolée de sacs en plastique rose, s'appelle Giverny Givenchy - pensez nymphéas, haute couture et parfums de luxe ? Dans celle ci-dessous, les sacs sont découpés et agrafés en longues bandes qui forment un labyrinthe dans lequel on a le droit de s'aventurer pour voir la vie en rose. Ca vous plairait d'essayer ?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Mon opinion : avec des sacs en plastique vert, on ferait une "jungle urbaine" parfaite pour les petits enfants des villes - triste réflexion sur le peu d'accès que certains enfants ont à la vraie nature.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour ce qui est de la première oeuvre, oui c'est beau et joyeux mais je suis un peu surprise qu'on puisse utiliser une grande quantité de sacs plastique dans une oeuvre d'art sans avoir le moindre message concernant l'environnement. L'auteur apparait ne s'intéresser qu'à l'impact visuel d'un matériau rose, nacré et fluide mais le plastique est un tel fléau pour l'environnement que moi je ne peux pas voir une grande envolée de sacs plastique  sans&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://laterre7nature.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/sac-plastique2.jpg&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://laterre7nature.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/sac-plastiques-termines/&amp;amp;usg=__aBCM4qo25RHqeD8PJAWJxs1rKVk=&amp;amp;h=390&amp;amp;w=594&amp;amp;sz=101&amp;amp;hl=fr&amp;amp;start=1&amp;amp;tbnid=ExHDPzn0SOCgOM:&amp;amp;tbnh=89&amp;amp;tbnw=135&amp;amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsacs%2Bplastiques%2Bdans%2Bla%2Bnature%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Dfr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;penser à ça&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulecOqn2I/AAAAAAAAF5w/6vNjy_wyQto/s1600-h/parcours1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulecOqn2I/AAAAAAAAF5w/6vNjy_wyQto/s640/parcours1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394086921098665826" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulQiDTVFI/AAAAAAAAF5o/rxBFsQLhaGY/s1600-h/parcours2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulQiDTVFI/AAAAAAAAF5o/rxBFsQLhaGY/s400/parcours2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394086682143446098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-5392558298439775307?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/5392558298439775307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=5392558298439775307&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/5392558298439775307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/5392558298439775307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/rose.html' title='Rose !'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StulnTfvraI/AAAAAAAAF54/7DhAr0zPVOk/s72-c/parcours+0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-8156516793666942377</id><published>2009-10-19T00:48:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T23:39:58.846+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Parcours de l&apos;Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Juke box</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: italic;"&gt;Cloitre Saint Louis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StubrgMQz7I/AAAAAAAAF5I/UIUv4wMYGEQ/s1600-h/juke+box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StubrgMQz7I/AAAAAAAAF5I/UIUv4wMYGEQ/s640/juke+box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394076150384349106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Two weeks ago. Was it only two weeks ago that people could dance outdoors wearing just a tee-shirt? I only just downloaded these photos from my camera (too busy with work) and they seem so out of place. A freezing mistral has been blowing for a full week and life without a coat seems unthinkable now...&lt;br /&gt;Let's treat ourselves to a little backtracking: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Juke box&lt;/span&gt; was the name of the show by the &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nourrish.com/"&gt;Nourrish&lt;/a&gt; dance company which marked the official opening of  &lt;a href="http://www.parcoursdelart.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Avignon's annual contemporary art exhibition. With 30 artists and 27 venues, conferences and meetings with the artists, it's a wonderful event. Fortunately it isn't over yet: it runs from 3-24 October so you still have time to go if you're in the region. I'll show you a few of the artists' works in the coming days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Quinze jours. Est-ce seulement il y a quinze jours qu'on pouvait danser dehors en tee-shirt ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; Je viens seulement de sortir ces photos de mon appareil (trop de travail) et tout cela me semble si improbable ! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Un mistral glacial souffle depuis plus d'une semaine et aujourd'hui on n'imagine plus la vie sans manteau.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Alors offrons-nous un petit flashback : le spectacle &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Juke Box&lt;/span&gt; de la compagnie &lt;a href="http://www.nourrish.com/"&gt;Nourrish&lt;/a&gt; a marqué l'inauguration du &lt;a href="http://www.parcoursdelart.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parcours de l'Art&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, un événement annuel d'art contemporain où 30 artistes exposent dans 27 lieux différents. Avec expos, rencontres, conférences, cinéma, le Parcours de l'Art se poursuit du 3 au 24 octobre, vous avez encore le temps d'y aller. Je vous en montrerai quelques images dans les jours qui viennent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StubiIU3G8I/AAAAAAAAF5A/EIVvxCso35M/s1600-h/jukebox+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StubiIU3G8I/AAAAAAAAF5A/EIVvxCso35M/s640/jukebox+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394075989359139778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Juke box: The dancers stayed in the box during times of silence and came out to dance every time the music came on. The concept worked beautifully. Do you dance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Juke box : les danseurs restaient dans la boîte durant les périodes de silence et sortaient danser chaque fois que la musique se mettait en marche.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Le concept fonctionnait très bien.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Vous dansez ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StuiuM0e1MI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/coW_fXegYpU/s1600-h/jukebox+4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StuiuM0e1MI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/coW_fXegYpU/s400/jukebox+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394083893305332930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-8156516793666942377?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/8156516793666942377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=8156516793666942377&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/8156516793666942377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/8156516793666942377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/juke-box.html' title='Juke box'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/StubrgMQz7I/AAAAAAAAF5I/UIUv4wMYGEQ/s72-c/juke+box.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-80214886556709919</id><published>2009-10-17T00:01:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T00:01:01.026+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fruit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Autumn fruit</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SthpO8jh02I/AAAAAAAAF44/y7Hy0vG8Fd4/s1600-h/pommes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SthpO8jh02I/AAAAAAAAF44/y7Hy0vG8Fd4/s640/pommes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393176259270398818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Perhaps it's an effect of my seasonal spleen that I should take an interest in forgotten fruit slowly rotting in a fruit bowl. Autumn, season of late crops, is also a season where the summer bounty's excess returns to the soil, feeding it in preparation for next year's cycle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;C'est sans doute mon spleen automnal qui m'a fait m'intéresser à ces fruits trop longtemps oubliés. Automne, saison humide de récoltes tardives mais aussi de déliquescence où le trop- plein végétal retourne à la terre pour mieux la nourrir...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Stho7wdJ6oI/AAAAAAAAF4o/MhLf84PpQe4/s1600-h/pomme.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Stho7wdJ6oI/AAAAAAAAF4o/MhLf84PpQe4/s640/pomme.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393175929604926082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Do you have a preference for one of those three photos? Can you tell me why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Avez-vous une préférence pour une de ces photos ? Pouvez-vous me dire pourquoi ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Sthoue9S5wI/AAAAAAAAF4g/CdA4r2FxkBc/s1600-h/pommes3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Sthoue9S5wI/AAAAAAAAF4g/CdA4r2FxkBc/s640/pommes3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393175701569595138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-80214886556709919?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/80214886556709919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=80214886556709919&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/80214886556709919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/80214886556709919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/autumn-fruit.html' title='Autumn fruit'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SthpO8jh02I/AAAAAAAAF44/y7Hy0vG8Fd4/s72-c/pommes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-7861178101914971135</id><published>2009-10-15T08:00:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T10:43:28.518+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Faire l'escargot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Sspb_nAs4VI/AAAAAAAAF3A/2Wh92BjVTcU/s1600-h/escargot2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Sspb_nAs4VI/AAAAAAAAF3A/2Wh92BjVTcU/s640/escargot2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389221052464030034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What to do when the weather is so miserable ? Snuggle up inside, shut the door and hang on.&lt;br /&gt;(Last night I turned the central heating on for the first time. This morning the mistral abated a wee bit)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Que faire quand il fait si froid dehors ? Se recroqueviller à l'intérieur, fermer la porte et tenir bon.&lt;br /&gt;(Hier soir j'ai mis du chauffage pour la première fois. Ce matin le mistral a faibli un peu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-7861178101914971135?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/7861178101914971135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=7861178101914971135&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7861178101914971135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/7861178101914971135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/escargot.html' title='Faire l&apos;escargot'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/Sspb_nAs4VI/AAAAAAAAF3A/2Wh92BjVTcU/s72-c/escargot2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-4199126105956986021</id><published>2009-10-14T11:00:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T10:44:39.931+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='palais des Papes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sky'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='view from my window'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='provence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Popes&apos; Palace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autumn'/><title type='text'>Getting darker</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;View from my window&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspcStmIYUI/AAAAAAAAF3I/B9tVGP5Mqws/s1600-h/palais+viewwindow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspcStmIYUI/AAAAAAAAF3I/B9tVGP5Mqws/s640/palais+viewwindow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389221380649148738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Morning view from my window, 7:00 am. Days are getting shorter, mornings are getting darker, the mistral has been blowing for 3 days now with gusts over 100 kms per hour, tearing the leaves from the trees and sending them out and about in mad and dusty swirls. Sitting at my desk I'm feeling cold and miserable. I can't say I'm looking forward to the cold months we have ahead of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Vue depuis ma fenêtre, 7 h du matin. Les jours raccourcissent, les matins deviennent sombres, le mistral souffle en tempête depuis trois jours avec des rafales à plus de 100 km/heure, arrachant les feuilles des platanes et les envoyant promener en violents tourbillons chargés de poussière. Assise à mon bureau, j'ai froid et j'ai le moral dans les chaussettes. C'est sans joie que je vois arriver les longs mois d'hiver que nous avons devant nous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-4199126105956986021?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/4199126105956986021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=4199126105956986021&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/4199126105956986021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/4199126105956986021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/getting-darker.html' title='Getting darker'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspcStmIYUI/AAAAAAAAF3I/B9tVGP5Mqws/s72-c/palais+viewwindow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578502161069698346.post-4433720697211285773</id><published>2009-10-13T00:01:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T11:00:14.523+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='streets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='graffiti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Avignon'/><title type='text'>Sun mandala</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspdG0ToXQI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/glb5Nuimysg/s1600-h/septembre+2009+069.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspdG0ToXQI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/glb5Nuimysg/s640/septembre+2009+069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389222275803798786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Near the Utopia cinema I came across this sun graffiti, which is really a paper cut-out. Do you see it as a positive or slightly menacing figure?&lt;br /&gt;It reminds me of a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mandala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Find &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sentezvousbien.com/Col1.htm"&gt;here some mandalas&lt;/a&gt; that you can color online: accompanied by soft music, this activity is meant to help you relax and focus. Does it work for you?&lt;br /&gt;Post note: thanks to Yvelinoise's remarkable tracking work, we now know that the artist is Ludwigraphic. He works mainly in Paris. You can see more of his work &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigraphik/"&gt;on Flickr here:&lt;/a&gt; You'll find that he pasted the same sun mandala on many other walls such as &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigraphik/1443431761/in/set-72157602231613783/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigraphik/2791065840/in/set-72157602231581713/"&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Près du cinéma Utopia je suis tombée sur ce graffiti-soleil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;, qui est en fait un papier peint et découpé. Le voyez-vous comme une figure amicale ou légèrement menaçante ? Il m'a fait penser à un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);" href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mandala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;. Découvrez &lt;a href="http://www.sentezvousbien.com/Col1.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ici des mandalas à colorier en ligne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - accompagnée d'une musique douce, cette activité est censée vous aider à vous relaxer et à vous recentrer. Cela fonctionne pour vous ? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;PS - grâce au fabuleux travail de détective d'Yvelinoise, nous savons maintenant que l'artiste s'appelle Ludwigraphic et que ses oeuvres apparaissent surtout dans les rues de Paris. Pour lire une interview de l'artiste, &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://vitostreet.ekosystem.org/2009/03/ludwig-interview/"&gt;c'est ici&lt;/a&gt;. Pour d'autres photos de son travail, voir &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigraphik/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ici sur Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;. Vous verrez qu'il a collé le même mandala-soleil sur de nombreux autres murs : voir par exemple &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigraphik/1443431761/in/set-72157602231613783/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt; et &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ludwigraphik/2791065840/in/set-72157602231581713/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;là&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspgbPN3JcI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/SCnYyMgQbZI/s1600-h/mandala.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspgbPN3JcI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/SCnYyMgQbZI/s400/mandala.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389225925159626178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7578502161069698346-4433720697211285773?l=avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/feeds/4433720697211285773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7578502161069698346&amp;postID=4433720697211285773&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/4433720697211285773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7578502161069698346/posts/default/4433720697211285773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avignon-in-photos.blogspot.com/2009/10/sun-mandala.html' title='Sun mandala'/><author><name>Nathalie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16806509041466785588</uri><email>nathalie.avignon@hotmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08416700324562875263'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_up5KYlMU_XQ/SspdG0ToXQI/AAAAAAAAF3Q/glb5Nuimysg/s72-c/septembre+2009+069.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>28</thr:total></entry></feed>