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Buddha at the Musée Guimet, many Sculptures from Angkor, Cambodia

January 2013

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The Queen Jayarājadevī is represented in the likeness of the Mahāyāna Buddhist Goddess Prajñāpāramitā or Tārā.

Prajñāpāramitā signifies "the Perfection of Transcendent Wisdom"...

All photos taken at the Musée Guimet.

Bayon Temple, Giant Heads of Buddha at Angkor, Travels in Cambodia

Above photo taken at Musée Guimet, Paris. Second photo taken at Bayon Temple, Angkor, Cambodia. January 2013

We spent a couple days in Phnom Penh, a very busy hot city with many scooters... and then a bus ride and exciting fast boat packed with locals across Tonle Sap Lake to Siem Reap, the town near Angkor Wat, Cambodia. read more, more photos>>

Buddha... and his many incarnations...

January 2013

Buddha... and his many incarnations...

below protected by Nāga, the Serpent King... in the Bayon style.

In Buddhist mythology, the Serpent is a spirit or deity of great power, often associated with water

who fights often on the side of good.

many of these representations come from the height

of the Khmer Empire's (Twelfth to thirteenth centuries) artistic creativity at Angkor Wat, Cambodia

All photos taken at Musée Guimet, Paris.

Rue Ramponeau, Belleville, Paris... my secret spot...

January 2013

the old makes way for the new? Just steps away from another graffiti art spot, Rue Dénoyez (kweejibo stories, August 2012)

Mural at Place Ivor Stravinsky off of Beaubourg Centre Georges Pompidou

Ssshh! What's my secret?

January 2013

Welcome to year of the Serpent, the creature of mystery and wisdom... Mural at Place Ivor Stravinsky off of Beaubourg Centre Georges Pompidou... more photos>>

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Chez Vero Restaurant, 33 Rue Ramponeau, Belleville, Paris!

January 2013, first week

Chez Vero, my favorite Italian-Georgian-French cuisine

just a few doors down at 33 Rue Ramponeau,

lovely hilly Belleville Quarter, in Paris!

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This quartier is the center of the Courtille, famous in the eighteenth century for its cabarets and nightlife... and inexpensive bad wine... read more, more photos>>

Rue Ramponeau, out with old...in with the new

January 2013, first week

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Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and dissident, supporter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, kweejibo stories, December 2012

in film Never Sorry by Alison Klayman, 2011, now showing in Paris, at Beaubourg, across from Centre Georges Pompidou

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"There is no outdoor sport as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship..."

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"Document the Process"

On April 3, 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested jailed for 81 days. He is filmed on the day of his release, June 22, 2011, returning to his home at night and being bombarded by reporters. He looks almost ashamed at having to refuse to talk to them. The refusal is part of the conditions of his release, as well as desisting from blogging and other forms of activism against Communist dictatorship.

However, months later, Ai Weiwei is back to blogging on the subject of China's politics...

Clean : Director Olivier Assayas, 2004 France

with Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Tricky,

Jeanne Balibar, Beatrice Dalle, Dave Roback

film review and culture-pop-culture

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I appreciate the effort of Director Olivier Assayas to make any tribute to music of the late 80's and 90's... the particular rock of Pixies and P.J.Harvey, the evolution of rap hip hop trip hop pop and the fusion of all to rock with Tricky and Massive Attack and others to make a list that reaches long. read more >>

Tricky, Nearly god

or just embodiment of the spirit of trip-hop?

kweejibo stories, December 2012

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In his second album Nearly God, 1996, he refers somewhat ironically to the interview in which he was asked "So how does it feel to be god... well, nearly God". He was twenty-seven years old at the time. read more>>

kweejibo stories, December 2012

Dalí... Painting : Nuclear Physics versus Mysticism and Religion

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"It is very important for an artist to have a developed sense of his place in the cosmos, I am more important as a cosmic genius than as a painter." read morehttp://madeinoaklandkweejibo7.blogspot.fr/

l'Ascension du Christ, Pietà

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