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April 20 2008
Cyclope. Fixed gear bike shop in Paris.
July 31 2007
Musicotherapie, a short film by 3 French animation students. Pretty out there…
July 27 2007
Tour de farce
Pretty appropriate logo for the doping circus that the Tour de France has become.
Found at fontblog.
April 23 2007
Turning France’s Mont St-Michel into a giant sundial.
April 14 2007
La cabane perchée. French tree-house builders.
March 25 2007
Crazy flash advertising integration for french ISP, Club Internet.
November 29 2006
Wonderful and hypnotic: using recurring elements of French urban life as the focus for animated photo sequences.
November 28 2006
French guerilla promotion for the film Fast Food Nation. The text translates as: Help yourself! You don’t usually ask yourself so many questions.
November 05 2006
Europe got a taste of rolling blackouts yesterday. They were due to increased demand on the grid when temperatures suddenly dropped. update: it actually started with a line being turned off in order to let a cruise ship past.
October 27 2006
The new trains for the Paris region look very appealing.
October 19 2006
Photographs of mobile dance halls (click “les bals”) that move around remote villages in the east of France. They have a particular aesthetic of their own.
July 13 2006
Vintage French TV report on raves from 1994, with some hilarious quotes and comments in there.
June 11 2006
Take all those cheesy Japanese TV series featuring crash helmets, coloured tights and rubber monsters. Move them to France, into the hands of enthusiastic amateurs and you get France Five, defending the Eiffel tower and camembert from the forces of evil.