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Post by bjd on Mar 2, 2015 7:25:08 GMT
Not quite Woody Allen's Paris . My Parisian daughter and her friends were highly amused in "Midnight in Paris" where the girl working part-time in Clignancourt flea market was living just near the Seine in central Paris.
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Post by htmb on Mar 2, 2015 22:27:05 GMT
The little everyday things - children headed for school; garbage pickup - and the facial expressions captured as people go about their day help make these videos very interesting.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 3, 2015 1:32:05 GMT
bjd, there is a whole series of such films and series where the protagonists live in flats and houses they couldn't possibly afford on their purported jobs. I've never watches "Sex in the City" (also known as "Shopping in the city", but no freelance writer I know here has an apartment like the star's, and that is in Montréal where housing is MUCH cheaper than in NYC or Paris.
But isn't that a bit like "action films" where the hero always finds a parking place?
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Post by tod2 on Mar 3, 2015 5:38:12 GMT
I think that was one of your best Kerouac! Tourists who miss these everyday activities, or should I say, take no notice...miss a lot. That can be entertainment in itself
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Post by lagatta on Mar 3, 2015 12:57:00 GMT
I got up VERY early when in Venice, and it was fun to watch everything being done by boat. The groceries arrive that way, and the trash collected on barges. And of course the buses through the old city districts are boats. I never took a gondola - more money than I spent a day for the couple of days I was there - but taking the vaporetto was great fun.
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Post by mossie on Mar 3, 2015 19:53:48 GMT
Fascinating the way you quickly cut from one scene to another but mostly it just shouts "Paris"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 4:30:04 GMT
Maybe I'll keep feeding the addiction.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 20:10:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 15:36:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 18:24:53 GMT
I promise that the next ones will be shorter.
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Post by htmb on Mar 9, 2015 21:03:18 GMT
It certainly wasn't too long for me!
Thanks so much for including shots of Les Halles. I have wondered how it was progressing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 21:39:17 GMT
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Post by htmb on Mar 9, 2015 21:44:23 GMT
Kerouac, what is the location of your opening shot in the last video?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 21:49:36 GMT
In "9" that's the Parc Martin Luther King in the 17th. All of the cranes in the background are for the construction of the new Palais de Justice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 21:20:27 GMT
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Post by htmb on Mar 12, 2015 21:45:46 GMT
I typically view these videos on my tablet, but happened to be working on my home desktop computer which has a fairly good monitor. The view of videos in this thread and the "Paris: Bright Lights, Fast City" thread (in postcards) is even more outstanding.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2015 21:31:36 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Mar 14, 2015 1:07:38 GMT
I'm beginning to wonder about some of your videography tricks now. Your mother's hair looks fabulous.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2015 6:15:23 GMT
Wow! I am really behind in looking at everything on the forum, so am only now seeing one of these videos for the first time -- #11.
I was absolutely mesmerized, Kerouac. The music, the timing, the subtle effects -- all of it is so well done & so very watchable. What really raises it to the realm of art is the way the viewer is drawn in & completely engaged by the images and their progression, without being emotionally or intellectually manipulated. Really superb control and execution. Deepest admiration!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 4:54:18 GMT
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Post by bjd on Mar 15, 2015 7:26:38 GMT
I can't believe it -- you caught someone picking up after his dog!
It's true that Parisian street are cleaner than those in Toulouse.
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Post by htmb on Mar 15, 2015 10:56:02 GMT
Did you not see that clown!
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Post by tod2 on Mar 15, 2015 11:26:31 GMT
I really enjoyed number 11 - Cite` Universitaire to Jardin du Luxembourg. Probably because I was familiar with a few recognizable sights along the way, not because I knew the route. My mind darts around the minute I recognise something like the fake tree branch wall in Parc Montsouris, the metro in it's deep passage, then suddenly a rough stone wall.....Mmmm, that looks like the wall of the old prison - Hey, now I see the last pissotièr in Paris! They've even painted it again!......Oh what a shame the fountains in Ave de Observetoire are dry as a bone.... what are those gardeners doing in Jardin du Luxembourg?....looks like I might see some wonderful flowers in September...... That was a great walk.
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Post by bjd on Mar 15, 2015 11:43:19 GMT
I saw the clown, htmb, but prefer to ignore them.
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Post by htmb on Mar 15, 2015 12:20:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 15:45:48 GMT
This series is coming to an end soon (I think it will end at #15 while I think of some new format), but I'm glad it amused a few of you. And since #13 is already on hand, I might as well post it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 15:58:35 GMT
Oh what a shame the fountains in Ave de Observetoire are dry as a bone.... what are those gardeners doing in Jardin du Luxembourg?....looks like I might see some wonderful flowers in September...... That was a great walk. About 95% of the fountains of Paris are dry from around November 15 to March 31 as protection from freezing. A few famous ones keep running because the water department staff can look after about a dozen fountains and take quick action, which is something they could not do if there was a sudden freeze with 300 or so fountains running. In the Luxembourg gardens, they have removed a huge lawn and flower beds to totally redo them. I don't know how long it will take, but it should go fast since all they'll do is lay down some sod (and forbid people from walking on it), and all of the flowers arrive pre-grown from the municipal hothouses. YOu can see a couple of photos in the Photo Bank under 'people at work.'
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Post by fumobici on Mar 15, 2015 18:13:26 GMT
These are becoming better and more sophisticated I must say. In the train in the evening with the reflections was a nice visual, a liked both the long shots of Sacre Coeur, the shot from beneath the overhead metro where you pan up to two trains crossing and the gorgeous light you found for the long shot of SC floating above Notre-Dame-de-Lorette . You've got some nice extras in this one too.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 17, 2015 23:24:19 GMT
Sentimental, but I loved the odd man at the end of the last one and how much he loves his little dog.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 4:43:51 GMT
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