bye Mark

Student of economics and Brazilian jujitsu amateur - my friend Mark left Paris today, after two years here.  

Before leaving, he agreed to be part of an ongoing portrait series I am working on of Americans in Paris.
 
My vision : him leaping through the air in his fighting gear, the gold dome of Invalides in the distance.  Then he told me there are no jumping moves in Brazilian jujitsu - its all about ground fighting and submission holds.  So...

....so we just enjoyed a sunny yet submission-free Sunday morning - he got out his "big guns" (muscles) and we crossed paths with a band of French girl scouts and a gendarme named Philipe who let me keep shooting even through I didn't have the authorization.  (I bribed him with a Polaroid.)

©2010 MA

 

 

devils in the underground

gentleman farmer

Le potager de Fillé sur Sarthe - the organic garden of the Michelin starred restaurant L'Arpège and the dusty chateau that shares the land.

great review :

http://foodsnobblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/l%E2%80%98arpege-paris/

‘I no longer wanted to be in a daily relationship with the corpse of an animal. I had a moment when I took a roast out into the dining room and the reality struck me that every day I was struggling to have a creative relationship with a corpse, a dead animal. And I could feel inside me the weight and the sadness of the cuisine animale.’
 - Alain Passard, chef l'Arpège and "prophet of la cuisine légumière"

©2010 MA

leche-vitrines

 

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dawn train

5:25 am departure London to Paris

don't watch this video if you get motion sickness easily ; )  
its my first venture into video editing in 15 years  - just playing around with music and my little pocket camera

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cloudbusting

... I'd finally do something I had in mind for years. I'd make a series of cloud pictures. I told Miss O'Keeffe of my ideas. I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in 40 years about photography. Through clouds to put down my philosophy of life— to show that my photographs were not due to subject matter—not to special trees, or faces, or interiors, to special privileges—clouds were there for everyone—no tax as yet on them—free.

-Alfred Steiglitz

for all cloud lovers :
http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

full Steiglitz article:
http://www.jnevins.com/steiglitzclouds

©2010 MA