WWI facial injury models and drawings at Librairie Alain Brieux

While on my way to have coffee with a friend a few weeks ago, I wandered past Librairie Alain Brieux (48, Rue Jacob, 75006 Paris, www.alainbrieux.com) and had to stop and take a few pictures of their fantastic window display. Check out these amazing World War I facial injury models and drawings.


I wish I'd been able to visit! It was much too early and they were closed. But here's a wonderful blog post with beautiful pictures of the place.

Colorful bunnies in front of a gallery on Boulevard Saint-Germain

These guys look like they might be cousins of this giant bunny I found a while back.

Pixel monster hunting in Paris — part 4

If, in your Paris wanderings, you've perhaps glanced up once or twice, you've probably seen a few pixel art mosaics, usually in the form of little low-res aliens, like something out of a 1980s arcade game. I've always really enjoyed spotting these things, mentally cataloguing my favorites, pointing them out to friends, et cetera, so a couple years ago I started taking pictures of them whenever I happened to notice one... Read more ►

Part 4 of 4. (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

Tree shadows mural on the Hotel de Chevreuse

I was wandering around the Montparnasse neighborhood a couple weeks ago and I happened upon this small hotel with a really neat mural that's reminiscent of the shadows of trees being cast onto a wall. A little Googling reveals that this is the Hotel de Chevreuse, on Rue de Cheuvreuse in the 6th arrondissement.