Originally opened on the Champs Elysées in 1948,the Terrazza Martini is today a strolling marketing concept, here materialized beneath Le MurOberkampf...
and, by the way, who's Mir Hossein Mousavi ? _________ * June 25th update ... there is a huge green wave on Twitter... but what if Neda's video was really a fake ? No, I don't believe it. *
(truestefq - (Source: www.iranian.com, www.europarl.europa.eu) Invited by European Green Party Deputy Daniel Cohn Bendit, Marjane Satrapi, writer/director of Persepolis and filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (probably best known here for his 2001 film Kandahar and A Moment of Innocence) presented a document to Green Party MPs in the European parliament, claiming to show that defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi had received over 19 million votes in the weekend election. They demand that foreign governments not to recognize the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
the wrong person (Italy), but when the wrong candidate (Iran) cheats to win, it's even worse.
"Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered an investigation into the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad, reversing his earlier decree that the result was fair". Jenny Booth, Times Online.
"The vote of the people is more important than Mousavi or any other person - French news agency AFP reported Mousavi told the crowd". CBS News.
I'm afraid I should have posted this... 3 years ago !
I took these pics in 2006, when the alley's
inhabitants were already suitingthe estate
agency who bought the ground in 2004,
threatening themof expulsion in favour of
a development plan(understand:to destroy
a part of Paris heritage).
"The cobblestones in the passageway come from the Bastille and are
classed of historic value worth preserving".
(Thanks toLeonard Pitt).
A little anecdote here : a goose called Sophie was living here in the 90s. One day she was kidnapped, yes ! but a few days later she was brought
back and from this day on she ended her goosylife, safe, up on a terrace.
1. Eric Fayolle is a plastician artist and has been living and working in Durmar
for seventeen years. 2. Mrs Anna Ferrié is the doyenne of the alley. She came here... seventy years
ago. 3. Stéphane Quatresous owns l'Atelier 154, a furniture workshop made out of
recycled materials from old factories - (bottom of the passageway).
1. Abderrahmane Sissako, film director and producer, works in cité Durmar.
2.The firm PER makes recycled packing paper and has been the Hauquier's
family affair for ages. 3. Dominique Buzzacaro is a turner-embosser and has been working in cité
Durmar for forty three years.
1. Jacques Le Scauff, painter, has been living and working in Durmar since 1980.
2. M. Soymehmet owns Soie de Venise, a clothing workshop in there, since 2003. 3. Bahri Simsek works in a clothing workshop since 2000.
(Thanks to Yanng/Picasa,B&W pics' source - all other pics by G@ttoGiallo).
Cité Durmar- 154, rue Oberkampf Paris XI - M° Ménilmontant. _______ * Visit another Oberkampf alley, the cité du Figuier.