an analysis of Louvre art (with pictures)

Thematic trends of the Louvre:

Pointing
He went that way.
No, over that way.
He ran up. Straight up.*note: pointing no longer visible.

People shot through with arrows (and looking unimpressed)

Arrows? How passe!Honestly, more arrows?*Yawn* Let me know when you've finished with the whole arrows thing?

Egyptian Rulers
apologies for the upcoming pun...

Also of note:
This sculpture of Athena(?) depicts the goddess of the hunt with two classic objects of a hunt:
The Deer

and the remote controlAlso, there's a zombie monk...

The End
Fin

The early adventures of the evil-ninja-pirate LeChat

A series of photos depicting the adventures of the evil-ninja-pirate LeChat in Europe...

LeChat emerges from where he stowed away. Warm and snuggly though it was, he looks on to new territories to terrorise.

After hours of wenching, pillaging and meowing to be let inside, LeChat ponders modern art in Paris.


LeChat grows restless having merely conquered Paris. He waits for his train to Germany and to conquer his destiny.


After Munich falls to his stealthy swashbuckling, LeChat tries to make sense out of a German computer game.


MORE TO COME
in
THE ADVENTURES OF THE EVIL-NINJA-PIRATE LeCHAT!

Yay! Photos!

Today is our final day in Paris. We're currently at the train station and we're going to be jumping on a train to Munich in just under an hour.

I think this photo sums up our Paris experience quite nicely. It's all about the crepes.

Since my last post we've done a whole bunch of touristy stuff. My favourites were the Pompidou Centre and the cemetary in Montmartre.

I think Dan's favourite moment may have been at the fromager! We walked away with one very stinky cheese and one that is not stinky at all.

Apart from that we've seen the Louvre, the Moulin Rouge and Notre Dame.

We also experienced our first scam, exeuted professionally by a couple of guys from Senegal at Sacre Coeur. We've survived just fine, but now have two friendship bands instead of 10 Euro.

We've decided against visiting the Eiffel Tower, although we have seen it from a distance. Instead we shall remember Paris in our own way... mostly for the crepes.

For more photos, please visit my Facebook site.

A word from Daniel

I've retreated a bit into myself since arriving in Paris. Whilst I can see there's a lot to love about Paris - like the ubiquitous cafés, the metro, the sheer sense of being "urban" - I'm finding it hard to feel at ease.
I'm not horrible at making myself understood, but the inability to speak the language fluently makes me very hesitant to interact with people... And this is not a case of me jumping on the French-are-Rude bandwagon. Most people we've interacted with have been lovely, though the sensation of being prey is a bit wearying.
I'm going to try to get over this, though I suspect it'll take more time than we have. It feels a bit like the alienated feeling I had when I was first at high school, first started uni and first started at my work. I suppose I should put myself in more of these out-of-my-comfort-zone situations, so I can get better at adapting.
Sorry to be all negative, but what's the point of a blog if you can't get a little emo?

On the bright side: Crepes. If Sydney had as many and as good crepe houses, I'd be in heaven every day.

edit: I got over it... :D

Bonjour!

We've made it into Paris safe and sound.

Let me pick up where we left off last time...

The rest of Abu Dhabi airport was fascinating. They were really into large candy. There were chuppa chups the size of my head, massive mentos - and giant tubs of Tang lining the walls of the Duty Free shops!

Our plane was delayed by 2 hours by intense and creepy fog, so we showed up in Paris around 9 am. Then we took an hour-long bus ride from the airport into Paris-Opera where we are staying. Obviously our room wasn't ready, so we stashed our bags and headed out for a wander.

We had our first awkard language moment upon trying to order our meal, but our communication skills have since improved (somewhat) allowing me to shop successfully! But, I'm still deperately trying to produce those glottal sounds from my 'r's.

Our long wander ended up taking us by foot to Notre Dame and for a peek at the outside of the Louvre. We'll probably head back that way tomorrow with our cameras (we didn't have them at first because it was almost impossible to get our luggage sorted!)

The hotel room is pretty tiny, but it has everything we need (incuding a bath - woo hoo!)... and... wait for it... French doors!

The only annyoying thing about the hotel is that they seem to be destroying the place inside out, chiselling away at the roof noisily.

Thanks for listening - I'm going to go back to being jet lagged. I might try to get some uni work done without any of the daytime distractions... like the awesomeness of Paris.

Reporting from Abu Dhabi

Jas:

One long flight down, one to go. We're knackered but powering on through.

I've already done the touristy thing of taking a photo in a prohibited area, so you'll have to wait for the airport photo later when I'm less likely to be caught!

Too tired to write more. Will blog again from Paris.

Dan:

Hi all.

My future posts will probably be actual posts by me, rather than addenda to a very tired Jas' writer's block incidents.

Well, the flight was long, but pretty cool. I had a minor nerdgasm on seeing the cool display/entertainment setup stuck to the back of each seat. Lots of movies, tv show episodes and *games*! Though that excitement simmered down when I realised the games were of the asteroids/ space invaders/ tetris ilk. That and a chat program... all of the excitement of online chatting, without the messy business of actually being online. I guess if Jas and I had an argument and weren't speaking to each other, it would be a way to communicate. I was tempted to log on to see if there was anyone lonely enough on the flight to log on to that and sit there waiting, but realised I'd be that person if I did so. Close call.

I did watch lots of stuff, and not sleep enough and I have the nasty feeling that's going to catch up with me (and Jas too) in the near future.

Lastly, before I run away to stare at camel souvenirs, the system had an option where you could look at the feed of either the nose camera or a downwards-pointing camera, and see the beautiful Australian landscape, followed by 10 hours of night-time, which got a little bit same-same.

We flew right over Sri Lanka, so I was hoping to see some explosions or something, but no cigar.

Alright, I'll put Jas back on now (and apparently pretend this is like a phone conversation)

ciao!

Jas:

Well, for a moment I thought the writer's block had lifted. Then I realised that the only other story I have is when I forgot to lock the toilet door on the plane and someone tried to barge their way in... but no one wants to hear the gory details. Catch you soon!


Dan:

You did what? Why didn't you tell me on the plane so I could mock you??!!?


Jas:

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