... but G@tto goes South [Sanremo, Nice and Marseilles] !
2010 is World Biodiversity Year, a celebration of nature and life on Earth...
and thanks to Gad Weil and Laurence Médioni, Parisians will enjoy a 2-day
stroll on countryside along the Champs Elysées...
Check out NatureCapitale site and blog...
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A few bites of biodiversity seen from the TGV...
. . . and so on.
Now featured by another artist...
Le Mur #71 - Nice Art - Mai 14/2010
and yet... from May 7 to Aug. 1st, 2010:
"RIMBAUDMANIA", Galerie des Bibliothèques
22 rue Malher, ParisIV
with Nice Art, Pedro Dorian, El Koïko Kid, Zilda...
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PPG's readers already know Phil's fair-trade shop...
[but if you don't, click here or on this post title].
Philippe Casanova, owner of Au-delà des Frontières, specialized
in the import structure of Asian and African handicrafts, opened
his fair-trade shop after a 10-month trip around the world in 2002.
He is a sustainable development consultant, graduated from the
universities of Montpellier, France and Mannheim, Germany.
His first book, Le Bambou, will be available in France tomorrow.
'On bamboo and sustainable development' on the WFTO site.
* This new book on bamboo, handicraft and sustainable development will be released in major
French-speaking countries (
2010 World Fair Trade Day.
Your Agenda :
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Apéro for the book's release,
on May 12, 19:30
Au-delà des Frontières
Showroom - 106 Rue Amelot
Paris XI.
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Le M.U.R. # 70 - Pedrô - May 2-13, 2010
and... from May 7 to Aug. 1st, 2010:
"RIMBAUDMANIA", Galerie des Bibliothèques
22 rue Malher, ParisIV
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Ten days later, two musicians [guitar & berimbau] were performing an interesting
version of Brecht-Weill's 'Alabama Song'.
I regret now I haven't took a little video or at least asked for their names...
I was in a hurry.
Here is a statue proposed by G@tto as an outsider...
[PPG doesn't belong to the CityDailyPhoto community].
Question : who is this guy who pointedly ignores the triumphant attitude
of the 'Genius of the Bastille'?
Who knows the Answer ?
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it's Labor Day, so don't miss
the traditional Paris' "Manif du 1er mai"
recorded by Roswita [click]...
One more statue, on Place de la République... 
[Photo: Roswital
Detail of one of the three statues adorning the base of the Morice brothers' monument
[bronze, 1883] and illustrating the motto 'Liberté Egalité Fraternité'.
Monsieur le Chat, ensconced in the lap of sister Fraternity, is preparing
to start the demonstration.
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We don't want to destroy our house,
our garden or our pets... Do we ?
I won't.
40 years now since mankind has realized the need to respect the planet,
but the journey is still long...
[earthweek1970]
Original broadcast of CBS News Special Report with Walter Cronkite
about the first Earth Day, in 1970. Also known as Earth Week 1970.
* How to go Green with Instructables... click here !
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Plenty of windows are going to light up the April nights...
Le Mur # 69 - Anne Laure Maison [Tableau d'Intimités, Paris] - April 17/2010
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In France, the three main airports in Paris decided to allow inbound flights
to land between 12 and 4 p.m. But no takeoffs were permitted, and other
airports in northern France remained until at least 8 p.m. local time.
(LA Times/Henry Chu from London, 6:33am).
[egillalmar]
The volcanic activity in Eyjafjallajokull, located on the southern
tip of Iceland, started on December 2009, when earthquakes and
ground deformation were recorded in its area by seismic devices.
The April 14 eruption sent volcanic ash as high as 36,000 feet.
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Expected path of cloud...
[BBC]
How an Icelandic Volcano Shut Down Europe's Airspace
[Spieget Intl]
The science behind the many seismic headlines.
[Times Online]
35 top images from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano
over the past few days - April 19, 2010.
[Click to go]
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Nadine Tarbouriech
"Transhumances" at Galerie de la Pointe 
49, rue du Moulin de la Pointe - 75013 Paris 
A terrace links the two galleries allowing common activities...
Today, Erik Nussbicker performance "Le Berger des Cornes" [video]
Gaëlle Sandré, Martin Noël, Bernard Moninot, Erik Nussbicker
"Intercælestis" at Galerie Limitis
49, rue du Moulin de la Pointe - 75013 Paris
and Krzysztof Szalek
at Galerie Pascaline Mulliez
4, cité Griset, 3" étage - 75011 Paris
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... L'Olimpiade: Act II/V, aria "Siam navi all'onde algenti"
performed by Aris Christofellis as Aminta.
"Siam navi all' onde algenti
lasciate in abbandono
impetuosi venti i nostri affetti sono,
ogni diletto è scoglio,
tutta la vita un mar.
Ben qual nocchiero in noi
veglia ragion ma poi
pur dall' ondoso orgoglio
si lascia trasportar."
Recorded in Paris, February 1990.
Vivaldi wrote the Olimpiade in 1734 for the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice.
The libretto for Olimpiade, one of the most famous librettos of the eighteenth
century, was written by Pietro Metastasio in 1733. It has been set to music in
the same year by Antonio Caldara, then by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in 1735
and by Leonardo Leo in 1737, as well as by Vivaldi himself.
The Olimpiade was the first of Vivaldi's operas to be exhumed and reproposed
to the international public in the twentieth century.
Alfredo Casella was responsible for its modern-day revival in 1939, as part of
the Siena Musical Week.
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