tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61607440772292630222024-03-14T05:55:19.037+01:00Angie Arcangioli: ramblings of an artist in ParisAn internet archive of my life for a certain time Parisian Street art, books, writingangie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-13911239402477972952015-10-19T19:23:00.000+02:002016-01-28T18:45:59.345+01:00Dear Blog, I'm leaving you for a new blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been wonderful but now I have to move on. I'm leaving you for Wordpress... Ten years of life together, it had to end sometime. I can't say I love you, I don't think I ever did. Your limitations outweigh your advantages. Call me fickle, I don't care. You, dear blog, can't incorporate into my website, it's your fault if you can't keep up with the times. You know, that branding thing.<br />
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One of my favorite sculptures in Paris. President Gaston Monnerville. Do what you must.<br />
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I can almost feel the block of clay before it was cast into this monolith</div>
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-64759639346058170602015-09-23T11:08:00.000+02:002016-02-17T18:48:58.584+01:00I won the International Prize Michelangelo!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">I am very proud to award you with the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">International Prize Michelangelo - Artists at the Jubilee</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">The </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">Prize</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;"> is for the</span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;"> Artists</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;"> that are worth for their </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">artistic merit</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">I merit the prize, of course I do. Why else would they pick me? They are <u>very proud </u>of me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cardinal Cesi” in Rome, will host the awarding ceremony of the International event ‘<b>’INTERNATIONAL</b> <b>PRIZE MICHELANGELO </b>-<b>Artists at the Jubilee’’</b>. It is an exclusive prize representing the <b>Moses</b><b>sculpture, one of the most important</b> <b>works by Michelangelo Buonarroti.</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Where's rome? Maybe they mean Rome. Is that Mount Vatican or Mt One-Hundred? Where's the the in this sentence?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Palace has hosted important men of culture, including: the New York City Mayor </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bill de Blasio</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, the President of Mexico, </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Enrique Peña Nieto</b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and important Ambassadors from around the world.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">A whole page on the November/December number of the magazine into the column “INTERNATIONAL PRIZE MICHELANGELO - Artists at the JUBILEE”</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">- Conferment of the Michelangelo Award, a sculpture representing Michelangelo's Moses (20 cm/h) on December 10th 2015 at Palazzo Someplace in Rome.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">One of those resin Moses sculptures I can buy at the leaning tower of Pisa? They're going to put me into a column? What about some of those Leaning Tower of Pisa Boxer Shorts?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">- Two copies of the magazine (November/December). N°1 copy of ''The'' catalog.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">- An assignment certificate in a precious celebratory parchment</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">I get an assignment? I wonder if I'll have to take exams. Perhaps they need a content writer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;"><span style="color: blue;">To take part you must send:</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">- 1 Picture of your Artwork</span></span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Copy of the payment</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">Cost of the proposal: </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">330€</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;">Wait a minute, I thought I won?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Please, at the order form pay the requested amount for your choice with a Bank transfer:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">You can also pay via paypal at this address: ..696##!! redacted .<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1151274384">g</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">mail.com</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 13.6pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Sincerely</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'll put this on my to do list. Meanwhile, you can take me off your mailing list unless you want to hire an editor or an English speaking content writer. I'll send you my paypal account and an invoice for editing suggestions to the above.</span></div>
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-71314564494799302422015-09-12T12:51:00.001+02:002015-09-12T12:51:41.523+02:00Sponge Bob Shoefiti in Paris<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hanging from a wire in the fifth arrondissement, is Sponge Bob. He's been there since, like forever. Always smiling.</div>
angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-42628694122720984142015-09-11T09:40:00.001+02:002016-01-28T18:43:15.772+01:00Expat memories of September 11th, 2001<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Where were
you on September 11, 2001?</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Fourteen
years ago we were all somewhere. Some were too young to remember, like when I was little
and my father awoke me to show me the black and white television when the first
astronauts walked on the moon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
planted a flag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The American flag, a
flag from the planet Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I confuse
this man-on-the-moon memory with the night my father awoke me to show the cat
had kittens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She took to the unused
space under the kitchen sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Childhood
memories spark from photographs and can develop through stories parents tell. Or from remembering extraneous events seemingly related.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fact becomes fiction and vice versa. They
become beleifs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">My memories
of September 11<sup>th</sup> 2001 ring crystal in my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I was in my
atelier-gallery in Florence Italy with my ex-husband, a wonderful man and great
painter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had just opened our painting
space after years of street vending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
opened on September 6<sup>th<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those were the days of plenty in the seven
most industrialized countries. Italy was one of them. Our atelier was in
Florence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">A wonderful
couple came into our shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll call it
a shop but it really was our painting atelier, in Florence’s downtown gallery
district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> O</span>n via Ghibellina. Frescoes
arched across the ceiling, terracotta tiles covered the floor, our paintings
lined four walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple told me
they were on a win-win vacation. They loved our paintings, paid for a few and
said they would return to pick up the packed canvases with frames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t have a radio, we listened to
classical music, heads in the clouds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
the shop window, I’d taped a photo of one of my best clients who posed next to
Bill Clinton, plus several photos of myself on NBC, clearly marking our space
as American friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the
touristic district of Florence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made
and sold paintings for the tourism market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We painted poppies by the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Americans were our best clients after the Berlin wall fell and the
Germans counted their marks and after I was interviewed by Matt Laur live from
Florence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">We packed
the paintings, carefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We waited for
them to return. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">A
Florentine woman across the street who held an electrician’s shop came to tell
me what was happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
understand what she was talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had a TV in the back room. It was inconceivable. A movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She drug me across the street and pulled me
to the back room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I saw the
television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">It was
after the second tower had been hit. It was news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I didn’t
react, not immediately. But I got on the telephone to speak with my
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An expat calling home. It took hours
of busy signals before I reached home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My father was stuck in Washington, he could see the smoke off the
pentagon, but he was fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">A crazy bum
on the street walked by the shop. He was a Northern European, with letters
tattooed on his forehead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A vocal,
insane man, tall and someone I’d cross the street to avoid but someone I saw
almost everyday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ranted more than
usual, like there was something in the air. He moved on. Then a American lady
came in the shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">She’d just
arrived in Florence, rented an apartment and was trying to stay awake to knock
jet lag. She’d turned on the television and thought she was watching a
movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Internet wasn’t available. WIFI
wasn’t conceived. She didn’t have cable. After the movie went no where, she
realized she was watching an Italian news channel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She left her apartment and happened into our shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t react. It was all just too weird.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">During that
afternoon it was like traffic stopped in Florence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traffic was insane in Florence. Our shop was up the street from the place were certain guys prayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know what they called the place. It
was a shop like ours. Terracotta floors, four walls but barren. Hundreds
of these guys walked the street, against traffic, the wrong way. Chins in the
air. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I removed
the photos in the window and closed the door. It had an automatic lock, you had
to be buzzed in. The wonderful couple returned. Their smiles gone, bewilderment
and worry filled their eyes. Their win-win vacation over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">That night
a friend of mine told me she went to dinner at her boyfriend’s restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Florentine </span>shop owners, not Italians but nationality is unimportant, dined there,
people who sold leather jackets and bags to tourists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend
told me these people uncorked champagne and told the whole restaurant they would send their children to death
as kamikazes. It was appalling. Remembering is appalling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others told me the American’s deserved it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder what they think now? After the
Charlie Hebdo attacks, after a little girl carried a bomb into a Nigerian
market, while Syria is still happening. Were these people not living it up in
the win-win laic land of plenty? Spitting in the hand that fed them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A news stand window the day after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The front page of every paper from around the world was displayed.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I reacted a
week later after seeing my fellow compatriots walk in single file behind their
tour guides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shoulders hunched. Like
dogs with tails between their legs. Dollars locked in their pockets. Worried
for their family back home and probably unable to conceive that they were away,
partying and incapable to return home. They were stranded in a foreign place
because all flights States-bound were cancelled.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I'm reacting now, fourteen years later.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I can’t
celebrate this day, September 11<sup>th</sup>. But I do stand up for my right
as a laic woman who can speak freely and dress the way she desires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I cannot
fathom the hate for fellow humans on the planet earth. In a solar system. In a
universe surrounded by stars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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--></style><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Ever see a
shoe tree ? </span>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Some people
think Shoefiti, known as shoe tossing or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lancer
de Chausseurs</i> in French, is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a form
of gang communication. See this wikipedia article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing">Shoe tossing</a>. Holy moly, aren’t we paranoid.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Here is an
article I love on shoetrees. <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/29064">Roadside America</a>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Anyone who
loves Street Art, like myself, believes it’s all about the fun, and the
exposure. Tossing athlete's foot spores to the wind is not the
exposure I’m talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Street
artists want exposure, they force it on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In urban environments tagging and Street Art is ubiquitous, so much so,
we don’t see it anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s nearly as
invisible as copy. Like copywriting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Though Street Art is about exposure, I think Shoe Tossing is an intimate gest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have this pair of shoes you love, which
have witnessed great and terrible moments in your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t throw them away because they embody
your experience like certain songs you play until your family tells you they’ll
strangle you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those shoes you love so
much, that you wore until you felt the tarmac on the ball of your foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to memorialize them some how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one will want them, not with your fungus
and that hole the size of a peach stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can’t give them to Goodwill. Can’t toss them in the trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like throwing away a slice of your
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Y</span>ou honor them and toss them
over a wire, on a street near home or work, at night when nobody is
watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night because, no, those are
not your shoes, they just look like a pair you owned.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I threw a
pair of shoes off a ferry into the Mediterranean and over the Ponte Vecchio
bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one knew, until now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember one of those pairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember shopping for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was black roach-killer ankle boots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">It is
believed that Shoe Tossing has folk origins, this <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/osc/osc38.htm">article </a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">states it has to do with “</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ancient ceremony or rite in connection with the transfer of property".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The
techniques of Shoefiti often include shoes with laces and a strong arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helps if you aren’t sloshed or if you can free
climb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazy souls can throw them off
their balconies. Long laces help. But shoefiti isn't relegated to lace-ups. Shoetrees someties have themes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In Paris,
Shoefiti is always visible around rue Mouffetard and in Butte aux Cailles. There is even a Sponge Bob hanging on a wire on rue Monge, but he doesn' count, he's a heel</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Where have
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-38567157153126696542015-06-06T18:50:00.002+02:002016-01-28T18:31:04.737+01:00 Paris Today: Heaven or water <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Graffer's motto:</div>
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Graffers go to Heaven, why do they call these places Heaven spots? </div>
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I went to Honfleur. Lots of art galleries but not many tags. It's so quaint. I was looking for graffiti but didn't find anything until I walked around the port, found this fabulous boat. </div>
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The world really is this guy's canvas. </div>
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-40801008771946715592015-05-29T14:48:00.000+02:002016-01-27T20:03:48.306+01:00Book tone, what is it?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">This is my
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-CA">What is the tone of a book ? </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">After years
of following agent blogs and then spidering out to writer’s blogs I kept<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wondering what is tone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being a painter I should have
understood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tones are light and dark.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They give contrast to your work and without tone a painting is
flat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I grew up
in the time before digital photography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my high school there was a dark room in the art department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used to go there, lock the door and smoke
while we projected black and white negatives on paper then put the paper in a
bath of chemicals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was magic to see
the image appear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took skill to know
just when to remove the photograph and put it in the bath of fixer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To think
we smoked when we did this!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
only when they had to replace a ceiling lamp did they catch us, because the
ashtray was the drop ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put out
the butts and shoved them up through one of the removable ceiling tiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the place didn’t reek. That was also
life before safety-hysteria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s
another story.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">In
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">guide for the
tones</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typically twenty tones from
black to white, but there are more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A black and white
photograph with no tone is either white or black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A well developed black and white photograph has a wide range of distinct
tones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Distinct is the key.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">It didn’t
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I have to
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</span>Just reading it doesn’t help, listening to others advice, well, <b>*</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">cough</span>* I’m still learning.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Tone, in
crafting fiction, was one big elusive word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve read the definition in many
books on crafting fiction , but until yesterday didn’t understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"> <a href="https://davehood59.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/elements-of-fiction-style-and-tone/">David Hood</a> says : </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Tone
is also about the effect the writing has on the reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">" </span>Yeah okay but what does it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">mean</b> ?</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Currently I’m
rewriting my manuscript entitled White Sky of Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rewrite was going well but there was
something missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stakes were
flat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a guy who needs to finish
paintings. Finishing the paintings is the protagonist’s goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what? Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all have work to do, things to finish. The
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">It hit me
that I didn’t understand my villain’s motives, why he wants to destroy my hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat my butt in my chair, brainstormed my
villain, considered giving him more word count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I finished blathering on the page, I reread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dark feeling enveloped me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the whole manuscript shifted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sensation was overwhelming, like a cloak
was drawn over me. I was also overwhelmed because I thought I had to write a whole
different book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put my writing aside
and painted all day, reflected and realized I didn’t have to give my villain
more voice, subtext would do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">This shifting
sensation happens when I am painting, when one brushstroke, even a tiny one,
can change the entire painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
like the painting flickers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Visually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And no, it is not a
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understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may take ten minutes of
staring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Focusing on one of these
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is blackest, the hero is lightest, but to be well rounded characters they should
have nuances of grey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there are
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Paris is full of pollen this Spring. </div>
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The Luxembourg Gardens are always beautiful but this Spring the layers of green are more evident than last year. Last year Spring exploded in one week. The pollen didn't have time to build up. This year, Spring is what we imagine and expect. </div>
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I haven't posted in some time because I'm busy rewriting and planning a
new website where I can encorporate my two blogs. No idea when that will be because in October I have a show and
have to produce 80 paintings. Plus finish this rewrite. <br />
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Luxembourg Gardens is tourist Paris, though locals hang there too. I do. It's in my hood.<br />
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But there is another Paris, a street artist's city. It's grungy and dark. Here is a mural, in the 13th arrondissement, near the Biblioteque François Mitterand. Notice the trees have no leaves. This photo was not today. <br />
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The other side of Paris, the street art scene, is important in the
manuscript I'm rewriting. For the last year I have immersed myself in street art and graffiti. It's exciting stuff, like the manholes on boulevard Saint Michel, where taggers descend into the catacombs -- backpacks full of goodies.<br />
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The working title is White Sky of Paris. See the sky is? In Paris the sky is often white.<br />
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artist once told me he would mix phtalo green with quinadricone red and
add white. It was the perfect color for the Parisian sky. I thought,
yuck, you can't mix those two colors but he was right.<br />
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This is one of my favorite views of Paris<br />
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The sculpture is by Jean Terzieff. It's entitled <i>La Femme aux Pommes</i>. Two apples held apart by naked beauty. The two bad apples represent the opposing forces before WWII. </div>
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The stone building is the Senat but was once the home of Catherine de Medici and was modelled after the Pitti Palace in Florence. The skyscraper is the Montparnasse tower. </div>
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And so is this, the cherry tree blossoms in <a href="http://domaine-de-sceaux.hauts-de-seine.net/">Parc des Sceaux</a> just south of Paris. </div>
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Under the cherry blossoms everyone was there, like the entire city. It was standing room only. There were people dressed up like samurai and others in traditional Japanese kimonos playing instruments I've never seen.</div>
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-78537538681568406922015-03-21T10:10:00.002+01:002015-04-05T19:09:05.937+02:00History of Graffiti: Kilroy Was Here<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Do you
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Kilroy is
mentioned in the Dictionary of American Slang, </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Langensheidt <span style="color: black;">© 1975, as a nonentity that originated with US troops in
WW1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I've not seen Kilroy mentioned in other print dictionaries nor online versions. Oxford holds no entry, Larousse, none, the Winston Dictionary neither. It's typical to ignore graffiti but <u>The World is Our Canvas</u> is a graffers moto and Kilroy Was Here proves it. Kilroy is history. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">There are several websites dedicated to
the urban legend, <a href="http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html">Kilroy was
here</a>-- how it may have originated. That website hosts personal
testimonies. Much evidence suggests Kilroy originated with US troops but one of
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Here is the poem by </span><span class="boldtext"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter Viereck:</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also Ulysses once--that other war <br />
(Is it because we find his scrawl <br />
Today on every privy door <br />
That we forget his ancient role?) <br />
Also was there--he did it for the wages-- <br />
When a Cathay-drunk Genoese set sail. <br />
Whenever "longen folk to goon on pilgrimages," <br />
Kilroy is there; <br />
he tells the Miller's Tale.</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At times he seems a paranoiac king <br />
Who stamps his crest on walls and says, "My own!" <br />
But in the end he fades like a lost tune, <br />
Tossed here and there, whom all the breezes sing. <br />
"Kilroy was here"; these words sound wanly gay, <br />
Haughty yet tired with long marching. <br />
He is Orestes--guilty of what crime?-- <br />
For whom the Furies still are searching; <br />
When they arrive they find their prey <br />
(leaving his name to mock them) went away. <br />
Sometimes he does not flee from them in time: <br />
"Kilroy was--" <br />
(with his blood a dying man <br />
Wrote half the phrase out in Bataan.)</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kilroy, beware. "HOME" is the final trap <br />
That lurks for you in many a wily shape: <br />
In pipe-and-slippers plus a Loyal Hound <br />
Or fooling around, just fooling around. <br />
Kind to the old (their warm Penelope) <br />
But fierce to boys, <br />
thus "home" becomes the sea, <br />
Horribly disguised, where you were always drowned,-- <br />
(How could suburban Crete condone <br />
The yarns you would have V-mailed from the sun?)-- <br />
And folksy fishes sip Icarian tea. <br />
One stab of hopeless wings imprinted your <br />
Exultant Kilroy-signature <br />
Upon sheer sky for all the world to stare: <br />
"I was there! I was there! I was there!"</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God is like Kilroy; He, too, sees it all; <br />
That's how He knows of every sparrow's fall; <br />
That's why we prayed each time the tightropes cracked <br />
On which our loveliest clowns contrived their act <br />
The G. I. Faustus who was everywhere <br />
Strolled home again, "What was it like outside?" <br />
Asked Can't, with his good neighbors Ought and But <br />
And pale Perhaps and grave-eyed Better Not; <br />
For "Kilroy" means: the world is very wide. <br />
He was there, he was there, he was there! <br />
And in the suburbs Can't sat down and cried. </span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The French version of the <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here">Wikipedia article Kilroy
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Normandy. There is a detailed list of uses in popular culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French version states that during the
conference of Potsdam, Stalin asked his assistant “Who is Kilroy?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noteworthy uses in popular culture for 'Kilroy
Was Here' are: Isaac Asimov’s “The Message” (1955), Elia Kazan’s film A Street
Car Named Desire (1951), and in the Manga </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_%28manga%29" title="Prophecy (manga)">Prophecy</a> de <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Tsutsui" title="Tetsuya Tsutsui">Tetsuya
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-39190084521461879932015-03-18T13:27:00.001+01:002015-03-18T13:27:37.306+01:00Op-ed Cartoon for Janet Reid's blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Throw-Up is also called a throwie. It's a graffiti piece quick to paint, usually block lettering or rounded lettering with shadows. Usually they are one step to the right and one to the left. Train cars and delivery trucks are covered with them. Here, the writer risked falling two stories or more onto the stone banks of the Seine. This peice is located close to the Pont Notre-Dame just accros from the Marché au Fleurs on la Cité. <br />
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This is currently one of my favorite throwies in Paris. It can be seen from far. It's up on the back of a <i>bouquiniste</i> -- those book vendors lining the Seine's banks. <br />
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See how high the wall is? I took this photo on a different day. Paris is beautiful, n'est-ce pas?<br />
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Graffiti is one of the four creative mediums in the hip hop movement. Music, especially rap and turntablism are also part of it. I wonder if the graffer was thinking of Jason Derulo when he/she wrote BUBLE BUTT.<br />
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Here's the song. How many moblie phones use that whistle? <br />
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<span lang="FR">This is not Paris today, this is Paris
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<span lang="FR">I didn't have a truck like this one parked on Boulevard Richard Lenoir close to scene of the recent terrorist attack on Paris.</span><br />
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<span lang="FR">The A6 is one of the tarmac belts winding around
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<span lang="FR"><br />Climbing to a heaven spot over speeding traffic, probably at the heart of the night, to bomb the back of a traffic sign has to be risky. I can't imagine the thrill. It doesn't inspire me. But I love the work these anonymous artist do to decorate the A6, an otherwise ugly strip of cement.</span><br />
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I wonder how they access these places and to what extremes they are willing to go. The A6, or any highway, is an extremely dangerous place to stroll along and spray paint. The anti-sound barrier is covered wall-to-wall in throw-ups, kilometers of paint.<br />
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Even the cement pylons in the meridian between the lanes are bombed. Graffers have to cross one of the lanes to get there, I doubt there is an underground passage.<br />
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Why do these people risk their lives to graff these ugly places? I don't know. I've been researching this for over a year. Graffiti in Paris struck me when I moved here. I wasn't used to it. I doubt I ever will be. What makes graffers tick. I've come to beleive that it is freedom of expression at its extreme. <br />
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Just entering Paris there is a ribbon of tiles that is there to beautify. It was surely funded by public money. Taggers left their mark and paste-ups publicize concerts. When it's gridlock drivers have the time to read the small type.<br />
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Even the underpasses burn with graffiti.<br />
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This really is Paris. Can you see the Eiffel tower? That's avenue d' Ivry. <br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-74861501537447834882014-12-09T10:43:00.000+01:002016-01-27T23:22:35.959+01:00History of Graffiti: The origin of the word Graffiti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After hours of researching the origin of graffiti, I found that according to the <a href="http://global%20brittanica/">Global Brittanica</a>, the word graffiti derives from the Italian word <i>sgraffito</i>. <br />
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Because I speak Italian I know that the Global Brittanica gives a bad translation and because I am an artist I know their examples, in part, are lame. Whoever wrote the definition says that in panel painting and illuminated manuscripts the ground was gold leaf. That is not true. For panel painting the ground was, and still is bolo. I'm not sure about illuminated manuscripts but in both cases, sgraffito technique is not involved. The Global Brittanica states that graffito technique was especially used during the middle ages but if you go to Florence or Venice you know that those buildings were decorated during the Renaissance. That's a couple hundred years difference.<br />
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So what is Graffiti? <br />
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Here is a better definition:<br />
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According to the online Italian dictionary <a href="http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/sgraffito/">Treccani</a>, graffito is a type of decoration used in architecture. The graffer (my word from the commonly used French word <i>graffeur</i>) inscribes the wet stucco of a façade to reveal an under-layer. The technique was (yes) used on medieval palaces but mostly done between 1400 and 1500. In the 1700s there was a revival. Following a design, the graffer removed the top layer of stucco and a exposed the colored underlayer.<br />
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Check out <a href="http://artemisiarestauro.blogspot.fr/p/affresco-graffito.html">Artemesia Restauro</a>'s website. This image shows her doing a graffito.<br />
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Graffito is done through using a point to incise a surface - stone, metal, plaster, a wall, a vase, you name it.<br />
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<li>It is a drawing or inscription on a surface or object, more often a wall. In prehistoric times, documents were incised on rocks and clay tablets. It seems banking records were incised on stone, thus the colloquial saying: written in stone. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Paleolithc caves, catacombs, and walls are witness to graffiti.</li>
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In Mesopotamia over 5000 years ago scribes recorded information in stone. Saki Mafundikwa gives a wonderful <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/saki_mafundikwa_ingenuity_and_elegance_in_ancient_african_alphabets">TED talk</a> about ancient African writing.<a class="player-hero__play" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/saki_mafundikwa_ingenuity_and_elegance_in_ancient_african_alphabets#" id="player-hero-play" title="Play player">
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In Pompei, Italy, phallus where commonly exposed outside a house to signify, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Hic habitat felicitas</span> </i></span> happiness lives here.<br />
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See, you did not invent this dick painting. Some anonymous artist over 2000 years ago wrote it in stone.<br />
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Modern day graffiti seems to have all started in the toilet. Here is an excellent article on the Hiphop<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "swiss" ,;">-</span></span></span>Network:<br />
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<a href="http://www.hiphop-network.com/articles/graffitiarticles/criticaltaxonomyofgraff.asp">Looking at the Writing on the Wall: A Critical Review and Taxonomy of Graffiti Texts © copyright 1995 Jane M. Gadsby</a><br />
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According to Gadsby's extensive bilbiography, over sixty years ago men and women wrote on bathroom walls. Could this be the beginning of what we consider graffiti in modern times? She writes that "<span class="copy" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "swiss" ,;"><i>The 1970s were halcyon days of graffiti research</i>". </span></span><br />
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<span class="copy" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "swiss" ,;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She writes that there are nine differen<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "swiss" ,;">t approaches in graffiti writing.</span></span></span> <i><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></i></span></span><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="copy" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "swiss" ,;"><span class="copy" style="font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "geneva" , "swiss" ,;">As
expected, each researcher chooses the approach which lends itself to
fulfilling his/her needs. This has led to a wide array of approaches:
cultural, gendered, linguistic, folkloric, quantitative, aesthetic,
motivational, preventative and popularisation</span></span> </span></span></span></i><br />
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The Treccani dicitonary states that by analogy, graffiti as we know it today, started in NYC in the 1970's. It states also that the film American Graffiti by G. Lucas in 1973, seems to have ignited the explosion. Treccani's definition states that the film refers to the documentary value of prehistoric graffiti, a sign of the past. And it was a revival of taste, fashion, clothing, music of the 1950's.<br />
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<a href="http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/3106">Harvard University</a> hosted a reception for the calligraffiti artist el Seed <br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-79952931452223721672014-12-08T07:00:00.000+01:002016-01-28T18:24:49.708+01:00History of Graffiti - Documentary: Writers 20 ans de Graffiti a Paris <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This 90 minute documentary explains the rise and change of graffiti in Paris starting from the great NYC influence to the newest generation. It's in French.<br />
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Graffiti is a term that derives from the two words, writing and calligraphy.<br />
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Graffers did not say, "Hey, let's go grafffiting." They said they were going writing.<br />
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A tag is a linear drawing of a name or pseudonym. A graffiti is the stylization of letters. A graffiti gives form and volume to the letters. It is personalized.<br />
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Wild style was developed in Paris, then freestyle came along, then throwups.<br />
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According to the photographer, Henry Chaftan, who documented the book <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/Spraycan-art-Henry-Chalfant/dp/050027469X">Spraycan Art</a>, Parisian graffers style was "art school" compared to the energetic New York City graffers. <br />
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Street art fascinates me. I don't condone it or condem it.<br />
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Street art is on the street, not in galleries.<br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-55605729098571818422014-12-05T22:19:00.000+01:002016-01-27T23:18:28.342+01:00ONO’U Festival: International Tahiti Graffiti contest 2015 - applications close 31 Jan 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last year's first prize was 10,000$<br />
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What are you waiting for?<br />
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Haven't sent your application yet?<br />
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If your over 18 years old and younger than 40 you can apply to enter the International Festival of Graffiti in its second annual edition that was held for the first time last year on May 10th and 11th.<br />
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Too bad I'm over the hill and canvas is my wall.<br />
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And competition is, like, overwhelming...<br />
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Here is the link:<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://tahitifestivalgraffiti.com/concours-2015-2/"> ONO'U</a></span><br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-7458314561771593622014-12-04T15:06:00.002+01:002014-12-04T15:06:55.723+01:00The History of Grafitti: Style Wars(1983)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This ninety minute documentary from 1983, thirty-one years ago, about writers in NYC, influenced the entire planet earth.<br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-66801839152136662102014-11-26T09:03:00.001+01:002016-01-27T23:16:55.280+01:00grafitti in china<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Check out this gorgeous plate.<br />
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I would travel to China just to buy a set of these. <br />
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The writer Matthew Nieder was has a wonderful post about the <a href="http://matthewniederhauser.com/research/2011/07/20/meeting-of-styles-changsha-graffiti-gathering/">Meeting of Styles</a> where the banks of the river were allowed to be graffed. <br />
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And<a href="http://www.china-asean-art.com/english/new_show.asp?ArticleID=1365"> here</a> is an article from 2008. Appharently chinese collectors do not consider street art investable. Well twenty years ago in Paris they didn't either. After years of it in your face, things have changed.<br />
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In <a href="http://www.qingdaonese.com/taidong-building-art/">Taidong</a> there is a whole block of graffed buildings, part of an urban project, perhaps something like the mairie of the 13th arrondissemet in Paris. You can see more on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/qingdaossadventures/4444976920/in/set-72157623545865802">Flik</a>r<br />
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All I can say to the Chinese graffers is to keep at it. In twenty years there will be a new generation of rich who will most likely be fighitng over your work.<br />
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Tastes change but urban art is a world wide movement that can't be stopped. </div>
angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-38545619020614297442014-11-24T07:00:00.000+01:002016-01-27T23:15:54.859+01:00W is for writer - Glossary of Grafitti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Writers are graffers or, as described on <a href="http://freegraffitisupplies.blogspot.fr/2012/09/glossary-of-graffiti-r-w-wikipediaorg.html">freegrafittisupplies</a>, a practioner of writing, a graffiti artist.
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Calling a graffer a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grafitti
artist </i>boils my blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a
practioner of writing is not a writer, or a practioner of sculpture is not a
sculptor, painting/painter, illustrating/illustrator, et encore. In France graffeur is commonly used, even on the tube. The French, in general, have embraced grafitti and urban art. Walk around Paris and you'll see that stores are tagging the sidewalks to pub their deals.</div>
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The word graffer is not yet in a dictionary because grafitti
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Tah-booh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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</span>They don’t carry guns, but they carry bombs (of spray paint, paste-ups and more.) Urban writing is invisible by most, it's become so commonplace most people don't even notice it's there. Some consider it vandalism, some of it is. But some of it is pure art with no profit in mind and it is worldwide.</div>
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WRDSMTH works are a combination of pochoir and paste-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assume Wrdsmth is male. He writes that he’s
doing time in Hollywood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrdsmth is a
poet graffer, a writing writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
pochoirs are a monochrome typewriter and the paste-ups are texts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">See his Instagram page here: <a href="http://instagram.com/wrdsmth">WRDSMTH </a>and his fabulous <a href="http://wrdsmthinla.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> page</span></div>
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-28721855332075679442014-11-17T12:00:00.000+01:002014-11-17T13:02:51.541+01:00abandoned metro stations in Paris<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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check out this video: Parisian rave party underground<br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-76972545884292429032014-11-10T08:00:00.000+01:002016-01-27T23:13:53.570+01:00P is for paste-up: glossary of grafitti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What's a paste-up? Usually it's a peice of paper glued to an urban surface with wheat paste or wall paper glue. Paste-ups are considered less offensive to the urban envirnoment because they can be peeled or washed off. <br />
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Here is a video of paste-up interventions done by women in Brazil. They have motive and means.<br />
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If you still don't understand paste-up, here are a helping ear and a mutant in Beaubourg. That's the hood around the Pompidou center.<br />
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This wall is a busy place. Those posters might be advertising for underground Parisian rave party in abandoned metro stations or perhaps the catacombs. We'll see about that next week.</div>
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Need the missing peice of the puzzle to understand what paste-ups are? Here you go.</div>
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Motive and means: thanks <a href="http://www.colindsmith.com/blog/">Colin Smith</a> for that great line. I read it in your story in the comments on Janet Reid's blog. I give you full credit.<br />
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angie Brooksby-Arcangiolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08000615140577512304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160744077229263022.post-46351826728630467612014-11-03T13:29:00.000+01:002016-01-27T23:12:03.287+01:00artistic throwie paris 5th arrondisement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This throwie is on the corner of rue Saint Jacques and rue des Feuillantines. </div>
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To call it a throwie is not quite correct, but how did the artist paint those spots on the wall? Surely with paint filled balloons. Around town there are many walls painted buy this artist. There's one in Saint Germain des Prés, on rue Saint André des Arts.</div>
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But here above the Royal there is also stuck to the wall a mirror mosaic paste-up.</div>
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