Monday, 28 July 2008
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
day 52
![gordon in the metro](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day52.jpg)
walking through chatelet metro after seeing a sasha waltz work at theatre de la ville.
we saw the 1993 work travelogue 1, and although it's an old work, I thought it would be amazing: like watching an early pina bausch or DV8 work - they can still shatter you. but this didn't.
none of us ever think our works will date, but the impact of fashion is insidious. so it was interesting to see a well known company with a work that, although obviously amazing at the time, was clearly of its time, which was now, just a bit ordinary.
one of the characters in american beauty says that there is nothing worse than being ordinary. but dance is hard - we expect it to be of the moment, but also want it to be timeless: yet another dance dichotomy...
Friday, 16 May 2008
Friday, 9 May 2008
day 41
![metro girls](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day41.jpg)
on the way to chinatown today I sat near this gorgeous girl Oumaima and her beautiful mother Saumia.
![metro girls small](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day41_2.jpg)
they are from algeria and have been here for three years. they love paris, but miss home...
arriving in china town I was suddenly home: the noise, the chaos, the smells - it was so familiar.
I love paris, but when you travel there are always some things you miss: when I'm here, it's asian food...
being here has brought back to my consciousness ideas of colonisation: whether by force or by food?
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
day 32
![metro maddness](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day32.jpg)
today was too cold and wet to be believed. so we went on a tour of the art in the metros. we went to the metro bibliothèque françois mitterrand. the guidebook said it was like a cathedral of glass and steel - except that no one noticed as they were running through the station like their life depended on it...
the train pulling out at arts et métiers...
Labels: metro
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
day 52
![gordon in the metro](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day52.jpg)
walking through chatelet metro after seeing a sasha waltz work at theatre de la ville.
we saw the 1993 work travelogue 1, and although it's an old work, I thought it would be amazing: like watching an early pina bausch or DV8 work - they can still shatter you. but this didn't.
none of us ever think our works will date, but the impact of fashion is insidious. so it was interesting to see a well known company with a work that, although obviously amazing at the time, was clearly of its time, which was now, just a bit ordinary.
one of the characters in american beauty says that there is nothing worse than being ordinary. but dance is hard - we expect it to be of the moment, but also want it to be timeless: yet another dance dichotomy...
Friday, 16 May 2008
Friday, 9 May 2008
day 41
![metro girls](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day41.jpg)
on the way to chinatown today I sat near this gorgeous girl Oumaima and her beautiful mother Saumia.
![metro girls small](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day41_2.jpg)
they are from algeria and have been here for three years. they love paris, but miss home...
arriving in china town I was suddenly home: the noise, the chaos, the smells - it was so familiar.
I love paris, but when you travel there are always some things you miss: when I'm here, it's asian food...
being here has brought back to my consciousness ideas of colonisation: whether by force or by food?
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
day 32
![metro maddness](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day32.jpg)
today was too cold and wet to be believed. so we went on a tour of the art in the metros. we went to the metro bibliothèque françois mitterrand. the guidebook said it was like a cathedral of glass and steel - except that no one noticed as they were running through the station like their life depended on it...
the train pulling out at arts et métiers...
Labels: metro
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
day 41
![metro girls](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day41.jpg)
on the way to chinatown today I sat near this gorgeous girl Oumaima and her beautiful mother Saumia.
![metro girls small](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day41_2.jpg)
they are from algeria and have been here for three years. they love paris, but miss home...
arriving in china town I was suddenly home: the noise, the chaos, the smells - it was so familiar.
I love paris, but when you travel there are always some things you miss: when I'm here, it's asian food...
being here has brought back to my consciousness ideas of colonisation: whether by force or by food?
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
day 32
![metro maddness](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day32.jpg)
today was too cold and wet to be believed. so we went on a tour of the art in the metros. we went to the metro bibliothèque françois mitterrand. the guidebook said it was like a cathedral of glass and steel - except that no one noticed as they were running through the station like their life depended on it...
the train pulling out at arts et métiers...
Labels: metro
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
day 32
![metro maddness](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day32.jpg)
today was too cold and wet to be believed. so we went on a tour of the art in the metros. we went to the metro bibliothèque françois mitterrand. the guidebook said it was like a cathedral of glass and steel - except that no one noticed as they were running through the station like their life depended on it...
![arts et métiers](http://www.dysonindustries.com.au/paris/images/day32_2.jpg)
Labels: metro