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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
This is another try at playing only with images. All are from the “bomb” series by the anonymous artist who signs MOR (click on any images to access the flickr galleries). This time I tried a progression (from top to bottom) as in an animation. It’s a work in progress: I may add or change […]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
This is an experiment: I first tried to tell a story with pictures of my first Spring walk in Montreal alleyways. Then I decided to delete all the words and to let the images stand by themselves. Je continue à faire des essais: ici j’ai d’abord essayer de raconter ma première promenade du prinemps dans […]
montreal, Plateau Mont-Royal, pochoir, ruelles, stencil | Comments Off on hé, bon printemps
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I found this bizarre sign on an underground entrance in the middle of Jarry Park, in Montreal. What does it mean? “Don’t use your bike when entering the secret tunnels under the park”? It’s surprising, it’s mysterious, it’s absurd. My first idea was to post this picture and ask urban explorers to explain this mystery. […]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Je n’avais pas prévu de parler ici de L’Homme de Calder, mais je l’ai visité la semaine dernière et hier le billet de Michel Leblanc m’a rappelé la controverse sur le déménagement de la sculpture. I hadn’t planned to talk here about Calder’s Man, but I have visited it last week and yesterday Michel Leblanc’s […]
montreal, sculpture, urbanisme | Comments Off on Stabile Mobile
Monday, October 1st, 2007
In my Montreal neighborhood, I have taken hundreds of pictures of the stencil works of the artist who signs MOR. His work has been – and still is – the highlight of my walks in Plateau Mont-Royal back alleys. I have never met him but he has commented my pictures on flickr. I have not […]
montreal, MOR, Plateau Mont-Royal, pochoir, ruelles, stencil, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »