Thursday, June 21, 2007

Paris, France

Tonight is the festival of music, so I will make this short. There is much to celebrate.

For one, I have passed the halfway mark on a paradoxically fast and slow trip. The weekends drag by, but the weeks, well, it's already Thursday. In the meantime I have finished a second essay on the so called "tent phenomenon" of some 550 tents that have been donated to the homeless of Paris. The move has of course brought alot of attention to the subject of homelessness, but form my perspective it introduces interesting juxtapositions against Beaux-arts stone architecture.


There is also something interesting about "urban nomads", entire communities that can pick up and go at the command of a police officer. And, it goes without saying, the idea of urban nomadic communities has also piqued my interest. Entire subcultures, unabashedly setting up camp in the shadows of Notre Dame and the Centre Pompidou.



So as we've crossed the halfway point, we're getting to the point where things are beginning to fall together. I have 3 more essays and, God willing, an interview to conduct before I leave town in 2 short weeks. When I'm back I'll have another 2 or 3 essays to write form the comfort of my own home, as they need little more from me at this point than photo documantation to go along with the text.

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