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Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago...

2014-12-01T00:35:00.000+01:00

... Qua mihi supremum tempus in Paris fuit;

Cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui;

Labitur ex oculis nunc quoque gutta meis.

:o(

So, alea jacta est!

My nest has been sold, I've got my terrace near the Vieux Port, in Marseilles and
the following images, taken one year ago, represent nothing but an empty shell.

Yep, last time G@tto definitely closed that door and left
his Paris fief, I named Griset, that day has been kind of
a civil death.

Exactly one year later, G@tto ain't still born to Marseille.

. . .

'Hell and Heaven' - Our Night at Maud's

2013-10-27T00:37:00.000+02:00

... but no Rohmer to be seen.

-October 26-27, 2013

Probably my last party in Griset, sob!

... in exactly one month I'll be in Marseille for good.

[In order to avoid claims for copyright infringement, the original soundtrack: 'Snoop Doggy Dogg-Who Am I,

The Orchard Music', will soon be replaced].

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G@tto recherchait "T3 + Terrasse, Marseille Vieux Port"

2013-10-14T13:33:00.000+02:00

Alerte 'de particulier à particulier' !

... et agences, si nécessaire.

CRITERES :

- T3 + terrasse + cave,

- étage élevé, traversant, ascenseur,

- uniquement quartier sud Vieux Port, entre Opéra et Corderie/Endoume,

Le 'calme' n'est pas de mise, au contraire !

and. . . Got it !

:o)

Walls Got Eyes - DAN23 on Le MUR

2013-10-06T23:39:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 150 - Dan23 - October 6, 2013

DAN23 also participates to the Itinerrance gallery project : 'TOUR PARIS 13', the largest
collective exhibition of Street Art ever made, with over 4,500 m2 of floor, walls and ceiling
space on 10 floors, 36 apartments ranging from 4 to 5 rooms, where sometimes even
furniture becomes a support for urban artists coming from 16 different countries.
A Street Art Project, unconventional, cosmopolitan, open throughout the month of October.

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Le MUR: now starring, Zenoy.

2013-09-07T20:20:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 148 - Zenoy - September 7, 2013

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'Le Mur', by Zezao

2013-08-22T22:00:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - #147 - José Zezao Capela - August 22, 2013

Zezao's Videos

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Two key pieces from my collection [of friends]...

2013-07-31T17:30:00.000+02:00

... a lawyer and an expert in Egyptian antique books and prints - a shooting made the day
after a fab summer eve's 'aperitif' inside my Griset's stronghold.

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Somewhere on Le MUR...

2013-07-18T21:41:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 145 - Charlie Anderson - July 18-2013

Charlie's site

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Egypt: Success of a Summer Revolution!

2013-07-03T23:00:00.000+02:00

Egyptian army ousts Mursi and scraps constitution

President Mohammad Mursi has failed to meet the demands of the Egyptian people,”

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi said in a televised address to the nation. [Al Arabiya]

"It took Egyptians three decades to remove Hosni Mubarak from power and only three
days to topple President Morsi, his successor, and the country's first democratically
elected president. [Al Arabiya]

Egyptian Army announces Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, to be sworn in
as interim president on Thursday. [Al Jazeera]
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Many will call what just happened a 'coup', yet the army
here has expressed the willingness of millions of Egyptians.
The future will tell us how to call this event.
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On the other hand, Egypt will be a great nation...
when Egyptian men learn to respect women.

- In Egypt, it is always the woman’s fault I Bikya News
- Egypt: Epidemic of Sexual Violence | Human Rights Watch
- Where are sexual assaults happening in Egypt? I Harass Map
- Egyptian women fear rising tide of sexual assault as Tahrir crowds grow | Guardian
- Sexual assaults reported in Cairo I CNN
- Press release by 20 rights organizations I One year into Mohamed Morsi’s term:
Manifold abuses and the systematic undermining of the rule of law I EIPR
- From Mubarak to the Muslim Brotherhood: Sexual torture as a weapon I Mosireen
Collective.

[Click and watch the HRW video]

July 3, 2013) -- Egyptian anti-sexual harassment groups confirmed that mobs sexually assaulted and
in some cases raped at least 91 women in Tahrir Square over four days of protests beginning on June
30, 2013 amid a climate of impunity. Human Rights Watch has long documented the problem of sexual
assault in Cairo's streets and particularly at protests. A new video highlights the stories of women who
have been attacked, in some cases as recently as January 2013.

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Mad C[olors]' spread on le MUR as the blue sky over Paris, finally!

2013-06-29T22:30:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 144 - Mad C - June 29, 2013

[Mad C blog]
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59 minutes of India in Paris' cité Griset

2013-06-29T14:00:00.000+02:00

A screening of "VÂYU" [Air], a 1994 movie by Velu Viswanadhan, closes today the exhibition
dedicated to the Indian painter at the Pascaline Mulliez gallery.
(The film will be presented by Pierre Eugène - film critic and PhD in Film Studies at 'Jules Verne University',
Picardy).

Filmography:

2010 - MG Road to Dandi, Crosswinds production
2009 - What happens in heavens, Croswinds production
Retour aux éléments, Méroé Films / ARTE / Centre Pompidou
Pushed, Chorégraphie Padmini Chettur, Crosswinds production
2006 - Inhabit, Chorégraphie Preethi Atreya, Crosswinds production
2005 - Paper Doll, Choreographie Padmini Chettur, Crosswinds production
2004 - Solo, Chorégraphie : Padmini Chettur, Crosswinds production
Tsunami at Cholamandal, Fishermens’ Village, Crosswinds production
2003 - Raja Rani, Crosswinds production
2002 - Ether / Aakaash, Production Viswanadhan / Centre Pompidou
2001 - Des Mains de Calcutta, Crosswinds production
1994 - Air / Vayu, Production Le Jour et la Nuit / ARTE / Centre Pompidou
1988 - Agni / Feu, Production Viswanadhan / Centre Pompidou
1985 - Eau / Ganga, Production Viswanadhan / Centre Pompidou
1976-1982 - Sable, Production Viswanadhan / Centre Pompidou

[All PPG's posts about Viswa].
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Seize [on] Le Mur!

2013-06-13T16:08:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. # 143 - Seize HappyWallMaker - June 13, 2013

SeizeGraff Site

The World vs Monsanto on May 25, 2013

2013-05-25T01:00:00.000+02:00

In Europe, #March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant.
"Even while an official ban on GM crops is still absent in most of the E.U. member states, regions and municipalities have taken
initiative to define themselves as GMO-free zones: in Belgium (entire Wallonia), Finland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK, regional GMO bans are widely in place."

Find out where in the World....Today!

Any questions yet?
Check out the following topics...

- The truth about 'biotech' and Genetically Modified Organisms
- International incidents and ongoing trauma faced by indigenous communities
- Superweeds and the genetic frankenfood freakshow
- Exposing Monsanto's greed

"The World According to Monsanto" - a 2008 Marie-Monique Robin investigation.
Coproduction: ARTE France, Image et Compagnie, Thalia Productions, National Film Board of Canada, WDR.

"With operations in 46 countries, Monsanto has become the world leader in genetically modified organisms
(GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. Since its founding in 1901,
the U.S. multinational has faced trial after trial due to the toxicity of its products. Today, it has reinvented itself
as a "life sciences" company converted to the virtues of sustainable development. Calling on hitherto
unpublished documents and first-hand accounts by victims, scientists and politicians, The World According to
Monsanto pieces together the story of an industrial giant that, thanks in part to lies, collusion with the American
government, pressure tactics and attempted corruption, has become one of the world's leading seed
manufacturers, spreading GM crops worldwide with no real monitoring of their effects on nature or human
health."
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[Previous PPG's post vs Monsanto]

... Demonstrations against the company took place in over fifty countries, on
Saturday. Organisers say two million people took part.

EuroNews: Day Of worldwide protests - #marchagainstmonsanto

[March Against Monsanto - Photos From Around the World - May 25, 2013 - YouTube http://bit.ly/10WqFuv]
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Rain interrupts David Walker's work on Le Mur...

2013-05-24T06:30:00.000+02:00

How strange, on such a perfect spring weather!
The poor fellow is bound to a 2-day's work.

Le M.U.R. # 142 - David Walker - Mai 24-25, 2013 (Credit: Laurence Laux)

... and here we are, on Saturday 25th!

DW on Flickr

Le MUR, from big to bigger!

2013-05-09T22:00:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 141 - Pro 176 - May 9, 2013

Official site

There won't be a summertime this year!

2013-05-01T23:59:00.000+02:00

This is just a hallucination.
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Viswanadhan featured at Pascaline Mulliez Gallery

2013-04-25T01:25:00.002+02:00

The Pascaline Mulliez Gallery
is pleased to present
a selection of works
by the artist
Velu Viswanadhan.

These works cover the period from 1990
to 2004.

Opening on April 25 - until June 29, 2013

[G@ttoGiallo]

Why and how were these works chosen?

I discovered Viswanadhan recently. The artist, however, has been around for quite some time, stopping in Paris in the
1960s, where he was noticed and supported by a major Paris gallery. In 2012, at the Fernand Léger Gallery (Ivry-sur-
Seine), I saw his paintings for the first time, which left me both confused and astonished, a sign that his work was taking
me along paths to places I had never before explored. Among the works shown, one in particular caught my attention,
and it is from this work (dated 2001) that the selection being exhibited here today was constituted. This selection covers
a pivotal period in the development of Viswanadhan’s art.

The background of the paintings of that period is white, while the pigments used come from India. Green, red, yellow
ochre and blue mixed with casein are applied in wide, flat transparent or opaque strokes, organising the painting
geometrically. Through layer after layer of brush strokes, a subtle play of colours slowly appears. Visually, the
sensations are shimmering, almost earthy. Varying transparencies and opacities are irregularly woven into the painting,
inventing endlessly new tonalities and giving off a rare brightness.

Viswanadhan stands over the stretched canvas when he works, a position that he had already adopted as a child,
when he was tracing the signs of tantric rituals in the sand. Large brush strokes infuse the space of his painting with a
rhythm, which the artist regularly brings to a halt at the centre of his work, or almost. This simple act suffices to introduce
an irregular element into the geometric design created by the alternating application of colours. Slowly and regularly, the
strokes follow the same movement, straight and repetitive, while the body moves and revolves around the canvas
placed on the floor or on a table in the artist’s studio.

The selection of works by Velu Viswanadhan proposed here aims to show the point where the achievements of Indian
culture come together with those of contemporary art; a point of precious equilibrium between uniqueness and
contemporaneousness.

Pascaline Mulliez

[Translation Beatrix de Koster, April 2013]
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And on Friday, April 26th

[Trio Polycordes on Fb]

at 8:30 pm...

As part of the exhibition, a concert will be

given by the 'Trio Polycordes':

- Florentino Calvo, mandolin

- Sandrine Chatron, harp

- Jean-Marc Zvellenreuther, guitar

The trio will play some pieces of Félix

Ibarrondo in the occasion of his 70th

anniversary, in the presence of the

composer himself.

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4:45pm: Penek was still working on Le Mur...

2013-04-20T16:30:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 140 - Bartek Swiatecki aka Pener - April 20, 2013

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Latest from Viswanadhan was... at Artcurial

2013-04-15T19:00:00.000+02:00

[Ecoles du Monde]

More than 100 artists, including Enki Bilal, David Lynch, Yan Pei-
Ming, Pierre et Gilles, Tayou, Viswanadhan - present a work of
art made from a brick. These unique works of art will be auctioned
at Artcurial - Briest-Poulain-Tajan - on Monday, April 15, 2013, for
the benefit of charity association 'Ecoles du Monde', founded 15
years ago and chaired by Charles Gassot.

[Artcurial, Paris]

Ecoles du Monde-Vimeo '100 bricks for Madagascar '

... Auction Results: 271,650 €
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Cuddle for all on Le MUR...

2013-04-11T10:54:00.000+02:00

Le M.U.R. - # 139 - Shadee K. - April 11, 2013

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Coltrane featuring on PPG's 'Music Time'

2013-04-05T23:50:00.000+02:00

Eleven fifty on a winterish eve... right time and right place for music.

[Thanks tohansgy1]
John Coltrane - 'Lush Life', 1961

1. Like Someone in Love - 5.00
2. I Love You - 5.33
3. Trane's Slow Blues - 6.05
4. Lush Life - 14.00
5. I Hear a Rhapsody - 6.01

Tracks 1 - 3
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
Earl May - bass
Art Taylor - drums

Tracks 4 & 5
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
Red Garland - piano
Paul Chambers - bass
Donald Byrd - trumpet (track 4)
Louis Hayes - drums (track 4)
Albert Heath - drums (track 5)
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Today's post is: 'En vente T2, 40m2 Paris/Oberkampf'...

2013-04-03T12:00:00.000+02:00

Août 2013: SOUS COMPROMIS.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Paris XI, quartier Oberkampf: 2-pièces d'environ 40m2,
1er étage sur impasse, séjour avec bar-cuisine, chambre
et sdb desservis par un couloir. A rafraîchir.

Petite copropriété sympa, cour commune fleurie, quartier animé: bars, restaurants,
et commerçant: Casino, plusieurs Franprix, Lidl, gastronomie et autres traiteurs.
Pour les fans de produits exotiques, le Chinatown de Belleville n'est pas loin.
M° Parmentier et Ménilmontant à quelques minutes de la cité Griset. Bus ligne 96.
Deux stations Vélib sur Oberkampf et Autolib près de la place du M° Ménilmontant.

L'espace a été réorganisé lors du chantier qui a suivi l'achat, (1989-1990).

Un couloir a été créé pour accéder à la salle de bain sans traverser la chambre.
La cuisine a été transformée et agrandie par un prolongement bar sur estrade,
avec comptoir sur le séjour.

De nombreux rangements ont été réalisés dans l'entrée et la cuisine et une
penderie à portes coulissantes - dont une en miroir, dans la chambre.

Au fil des années la déco a changé, des photos différentes devraient donc
permettre de mieux comprendre l'espace.

L'appartement est exposé au Nord-Est. Chauffage par 2 plinthes chauffantes
sous les 2 fenêtres à double vitrage. Porte massive avec serrure 3 points.
L'accès à l'immeuble est sécurisé par un code principal et un code pour chacun
des deux escaliers. TV [TNT] par câble collectif [Numéricâble].

Ce plan millimétré vous permettra
de connaître les mesures exactes
des différents espaces.
[Cliquer pour l'agrandir].

- GES: C - Classe Energie: E.
- Taxe Foncière: environ 250€/an.
- Charges: environ 150€/trimestre.
- EdF: environ 400€/an.
- Prix à la vente : désormais caché.
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Au niveau du 125, rue Oberkampf, la cité Griset est reconnaissable par la présence
sur la droite de l'immeuble Eiffel.

N'ésitez pas à demander d'autres précisions, si nécessaire, par un message
dans l'espace 'commentaires' du blog ou par *mail.
Les demandes de visite étant déjà nombreuses, vérifiez avant tout que ce bien
correspond vraiment à ce que vous recherchez.

Ce post, régulièrement réactualisé, se base entre autres sur l'annonce passée sur
'Le Bon Coin' :
(T2 Paris Oberkampf Ventes Paris - leboncoin.fr http://bit.ly/12Px53h).

*Contact: indianafelis@gmail.com

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2013 April Fools fave prank...

2013-04-01T19:32:00.001+02:00

Cambridge: Scientists breed rabbits with human ears

They claim major breakthrough in organ production specifically for transplant.

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Henry Oaks / The Telegraph

07:48AM GMT 01 Apr 2013

By introducing human embryonic stem cells at the aural maturation stage
of rabbit foetuses in utero, at 24-days gestation, a team at 'Cambridge
Organ Network' produced six healthy kits.

"We choose rabbits because they breed so fast we'll have all the ears for

human transplant that we need, helping countless accident victims and

those born with defects", said professor Alid Loyas, the organisation's

head scientist.

[Photo REX]

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Easter 2013...

2013-03-31T03:39:00.001+02:00

Austerity and rigor, my brethren!

... and a fine weather for ducks.
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Outrageous: Our Planet Earth is for Sale

2013-03-27T01:23:00.000+01:00

The very sad and shameful spectacle of entire populations
betrayed by their own governments...
When arte-tv shows 'where it hurts', it really hurts.

"This documentary is an investigation on three continents, because the issue of land
grabbing is global. Three continents and three emblematic cases to tell a single story and
the dramatic consequences there may be if nothing is done to protect the interests of small
farmers and developing countries."

- Exploitation of small farmers

The massive sale of agricultural land to multinational companies in Africa and Latin America has caused many

local farmers expropriation: with the arrival of these firms, prices soared. After some attempts to resist, the
farmers in countries such as Ethiopia and Uruguay are now being forced to work in these new farms, earning
paltry wages.

[AgoraVox France]

- The case of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia depends on imports to feed a growing population. To ensure the country's food security, King Abdullah
has ordered the Saudis to go abroad to cultivate land.

[AgoraVox France]

- Ram Karuturi in Ethiopia

The Indian Ram Karuturi is one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs on the planet in the agri-food sector.
By acquiring 300,000 acres of farmland in western Ethiopia, he plans to provide nearly 20% of world rice
production. But the man does not stop there: his company has identified 1 million hectares of fresh land
in Sudan.

[AgoraVox France]

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