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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2024 19:39:45 GMT
No doubt our Paris correspondent will keep us appraised, indeed I was just reading about the posters produced in art deco style. No examples though,
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Post by htmb on Mar 4, 2024 20:33:49 GMT
The posters that were just revealed to the public about two hours ago? Those posters?
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2024 21:08:06 GMT
The posters that were just revealed to the public about two hours ago? Those posters? I don’t know. They weren’t shown in the news item I read. I’d certainly like to see them if you can point the way.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2024 21:23:14 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2024 21:33:29 GMT
They aren’t art deco. More cartoon like.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 4, 2024 21:39:03 GMT
The art deco posters are not the official ones, just pretty things that sell for 14.99€
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Post by htmb on Mar 4, 2024 21:40:30 GMT
That’s the French interpretation of art deco.
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Post by lugg on Mar 6, 2024 20:15:16 GMT
I searched this out as now I am thinking about it as I watch GBM which is all about the Paris Olympics. Not long now, I am looking forward to the opening ceremony on the Seine
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 6, 2024 22:29:51 GMT
I shall watch the opening ceremony, not sure about the actual events tho.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 15, 2024 9:10:14 GMT
It is open season for the racists in France about the decision of Macron to have mrs Nakamura sing at the opening of the Olympics. I don’t like her voice nor her attitude and I don’t understand her French but that is not the point. She is French and Malian and the racists don’t want a black singing.
People like Marion Maréchal ex Le Pen is unfortunately intelligent enough to wrap it under patriotism, a disguise for the fascists. Beurk.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 26, 2024 18:02:32 GMT
Some people think that they are special.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 26, 2024 18:10:01 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 17, 2024 4:36:09 GMT
So, today marks 100 days before the beginning of the Paris 2024 games. The Olympic torch is beginning its journey from Athens to Marseille on the historic tall mast ship Belem.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 17, 2024 6:58:30 GMT
What a lovely picture.
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Post by bjd on Apr 17, 2024 8:47:20 GMT
That's the ship I'm booked to sail on for a few days in June. They will drop off the flame in Marseille before that.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 17, 2024 9:48:54 GMT
Envy.....
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 7, 2024 16:29:34 GMT
Passed by Place de la Concorde today. It is the location for "urban sports" -- freestyle BMX, skateboard (street and bowl), breakdance and 3x3 basketball (the most practiced sport in the world, they say). It is one of the few places that will have nonstop sports during the entire duration of the Olympics.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2024 10:40:37 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2024 17:14:48 GMT
This should be required reading. The goals and execution of this project are admirable. Of course the article belongs here, but it could easily have fit into many of the threads on the Saving the World board, since it addresses so many ecological concerns.
Something that really stands out is so many of these solutions were already known, but undoubtedly there was no funding before for them to be put into operation on a grand scale. Is the public able to tour the village before it's put into use?
I am curious about ventilation in the apartments. One reason apartment dwellers often need airconditioning is because there is no natural air flow in their apartments.
I'm also curious about how some of the major innovations like geothermal heating and cooling might be retrofitted into existing apartment and office buildings.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 15, 2024 10:05:43 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jul 15, 2024 11:26:07 GMT
Very exciting to have this happening right outside your windows!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 16, 2024 2:01:12 GMT
Lucky boy! Thanks for the great pictures. From the light in the photos, it would appear to be early morning. Is that correct?
Today someone posted the video of the torch arriving in Marseille from Greece -- over two months ago! Sorry to ask dumb questions, but is the torch being carried on foot from point to point?
It was an utter thrill to see Marseille in dramatic drone footage -- a place I'd love to see in real life again.
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Post by bjd on Jul 16, 2024 6:35:10 GMT
is the torch being carried on foot from point to point? I believe so but not usually very far at a time. They wanted a lot of participants, not just athletes.
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Post by breeze on Jul 16, 2024 12:24:14 GMT
Not always carried on foot.
Heading to a restaurant in Mayenne on the day the flame was coming from Laval to Mayenne, we found the center of town blocked off. We discovered a lot of new streets.
Long after lunch we were driving toward Laval on a narrow, twisting, dipping, and rising country road when a convoy of motorcycles came toward us with flashing blue lights. The first riders signaled to us to slow down. In the middle of the convoy was a car with words including "Olympique" on the front. The flame! The car was followed by a police van and even more motorcycles. My husband figured they were keeping the flame out of the rain.
I don't know why they needed such a huge convoy for the flame and why they didn't take the fast road from Laval to Mayenne.
That was our second minor thrill near Mayenne that trip. The first was in May when we and Prince Albert of Monaco were both in Mayenne the same day. Turns out he is also Duc de Mayenne. Who knew? How does a title like that even exist these days? He was visiting the chateau and we were conveniently across the street at the Laverie du Chateau, doing our laundry. We didn't meet.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 16, 2024 12:43:54 GMT
Kerouac -Thank you for being home just when the Flame arrived below your apartment!
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Post by bjd on Jul 16, 2024 13:33:34 GMT
I'm not sure that the flame needs to be kept out of the rain. When it left Bayonne it was pouring rain but the runners wore plastic raincoats and carried it.
Perhaps the Olympique convoy was taking an alternate route to meet the flame since they can't drive as slowly as people move it?
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 16, 2024 13:42:40 GMT
The torch uses a propane/butane mix and has gone out but due to wind rather than rain. There are back ups carried in vehicles on the route also lit from the original flame.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 16, 2024 14:45:45 GMT
I'm going to start asking more dumb questions! Thanks to all for the answers -- bunches of stuff I never even thought of.
Breeze -- you're in France?! Hooray for you & what a great story. Re: convoy, Kerouac's pictures include mostly extraneous -- sponsors & security -- convoy as well. I love the name of your laundromat. I'm sure Al would have come over to say hi & maybe help fluff and fold if he'd known you were there.
Alternate routes and backup torches make sense.
Another dumb question (& yes, I have access to google): what is the original flame & what makes it original?
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 16, 2024 17:25:57 GMT
Original Games at Mount Olympia in 776 BC. Sacred fire lit. In 1928 the idea was started again. Now lit every two years, it is not a constant fire/flame but using a parabolic mirror - "A group of women representing the Vestal Virgins (usually 11 in number) perform a celebration at the Temple of Hera, during which a fire is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. The fire is used to light the first torch of the Olympic Torch Relay." It is original because of the place it is lit. More detail - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flame#:~:text=The%20idea%20for%20the%20Olympic,of%20the%20sanctuary%20of%20Hestia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 16, 2024 19:37:44 GMT
They came through my neighbourhood at 08:15 because the flame started its day at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena. Each carrier in Paris had the flame for 200 metres and about 4 minutes. That's because each gas capsule lasts 8 minutess. At that time of morning there weren(t many people but the crowds were huge later.
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