Earth Day/2009...

(Philippe Geluck, Le Chat)

Mac vs PC : a Computer's Fight.

(Peacer)
Written & Directed by Dan Chianelli & Nick Greenlee.

Thank you guys !

Hugest Spiders in the World... are French !

Born in Nantes, France
and created by
Compagnie La Machine
...
(see slideshow)...



(photo Matthew Andrews).

Last seen in Liverpool/08...


(click for more Pink Tentacle pics & video).

... the robot spider will perform in Japan for
the 150th Yokoama Port Opening Anniversary.

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Another french huge spider is...


(photo G@tto)


(photo GMG)

... the fantastic spider sculptures of Louise Bourgeois, here shot in Beaubourg
and in Bilbao (2008).

And that's all, folks ! for the moment.
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A dive in Nice "Vièia Vila" Atmosphere...

The "Old Nice" district lays between the Place Garibaldi (north), the Castle
Hill (east), the Espace Masséna (west) and the coastline (south).

Snake with G@tto along the ruelles du vieux quartier...

















The French Riviera Traveller says : "With its narrow, shadowy streets, cozy
squares, colourful markets, baroque churches and jumble of pastel houses,
Vieux Nice looks and feels much as it must have about two centuries ago.
The sounds are different though, at least at night when music from the bars
and nightclubs fills the air with rhythm.
The bustle of tourists and shoppers is replaced by teams of young clubbers
prowling the streets for the latest hangout. Especially on summer evenings,
the Old Town resembles a vast open-air party".


One more time, the open air market on the Cours Saleya is gone...


... and the hose-man is cleaning the place.









Farewell Nice, farewell the French Riviera...
G@tto's planning to move somewhere,
on the coast, in a few years !

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NCF Nigeria to restore the Agaja coastline.

"The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)
has embarked on an ambitious coastal restoration
project, involving the removal of the wreckage of
a tanker vessel from the ocean around the Agaja
Beach area of Olomo-Meta in the Ojo Local
Government Area of Lagos State.

According to a statement released by the NCF,
the wreck was the result of an explosion that
occurred aboard the tanker sometime in 1997.
Abandoned by the owners of the vessel since
then, the wreckage has constituted an unwarranted boulder around the coastal baseline,
disrupting the natural hydrological flow of the ocean".
(read more)

Look at this well 12 years ago and nowadays to appreciate the coastal progressive

erosion.

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(Bob & Lisa - from Life in Nigeria, first pointed to this).