Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts

22 May 2008

Paris is no Stranger to Controversy

"Be young and shutup"

Forty years ago one warm May, French students and workers took to the streets in protest!

Simply, students were sick of the conservative majority and being put down by the older generations.

Eventually things got pretty violent and as always, the police got REALLY violent and this lent some sympathy to the students.

And then since history repeats itself, France's government collapsed for the neuf-centième time, and a new one was put in place.

More or less exciting than the French Revolution!

So how will you celebrate?

Will you lock yourself up in your Parisian flat with your twin and newly befriended American for a little incestuous menage-a-trois and old timey movie references?


Or maybe center your advertising campaign for your high-end avant-garde couture line around it since, as Vice magazine says, "it went from funny to verboten to fashionable because it went from funny to verboten".

For example this:
Became this:


Either way,

"Je me souviens"
"I remember"

(Which is the slogan for Quebec, but hey, it works here too)

21 May 2008

Allons a la "yard sale"



Cory Kennedy loves yard sales a lot. From hosting her own, to co-hosting with a certain nightlife photographer, and even to travel across the Atlantic for one, she loves a good deal / making money off of selling her schtuff.

Highlights:

--The kids who did not speak English and got all confused
--Nu-rave style still going strong! ( bleh )
--The vendor complaining about twelve year olds having Jeremy Scott bags and then the camera cutting to Cory Kennedy ( booya! )
--An appearance by Uffie ( once via a POSTER and once via FOREAL )
--The camera girl teaching a French girl how to properly ask for a lighter and then denying her

How many euros would you bring to a yard sale like this?

Usually I can just bring ten bucks to my local yard sale and be able to buy most anything.

Of course, those yard sales do not have Kid Robot toys, Hot Chip vinyls, and neon sunglasses. But they do have tons of Disney items.

For a glimpse at what most of the yard sales I have been to look like go here:

http://www.yardsalebloodbath.com/

Now that yard sale season is in full swing, GO GO GO!

In other related news, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie are on the View right now! How fun.