{"id":1919,"date":"2013-05-12T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2015-01-25T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T16:48:40","slug":"unexpected-objects-and-sights-in-paris-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2013\/05\/unexpected-objects-and-sights-in-paris-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected objects and sights in Paris in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

For various reasons, I visited Paris three times in 2013. I didn’t feel like blogging about it, because there’s not much I can say about Paris that people wouldn’t already know, and I\u00a0blogged<\/a> about it during my first visit there. But as I go through old travel photos in my computer and delete some, I will share a few interesting observations from my trips.<\/p>\n

When I first visited Paris, I still had a journalist card, which was very useful in entering museums. Last year, without a journalist card, I visited only those that offered something for free or were super interesting.<\/p>\n

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Still, museums are interesting not only as storage rooms for art and historical artifacts, but also as spaces where people interact. Here a tourist is trying to get a fancy angle of a juggler.<\/p>\n

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An exhibition of Art Spiegelman’s work (he is famous for the Holocaust-themed cartoon, Mouse) revealed that Spiegelman also created this kind of art:<\/p>\n

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As I was visiting before the presidential election, I saw this creepy poster for Sarkozy. Someone painted over his eyes so that he looks like a giant tower, surveying the sea to see if no immigrants are coming by boat.<\/p>\n

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A travel agency advertises its services using racist-essentialist dolls:<\/p>\n

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A chocolate store advertises its goodies with a very queer Santa:<\/p>\n

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The Eiffel tower vanishes into fog:<\/p>\n

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A collection of bears from Berlin arrived to represent each country. Here’s one for Luxembourg:<\/p>\n

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The last time I was there, there was a demonstration against the marriage equality law, which would allow homosexuals to marry. People were distributing leaflets about it, and I even saw two elderly men fist-fighting on the subway about it, one shouting at the other “I saw you went to that demonstration!” It was very unexpected that France is so polarized about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For various reasons, I visited Paris three times in 2013. I didn’t feel like blogging about it, because there’s not much I can say about Paris that people wouldn’t already know, and I\u00a0 about it during my first visit there. But as I go through old travel photos in my computer and delete some, I will share a few interesting … <\/p>\n

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