Minature Paris created from trash
June 25th 2008 09:09
I had a friend from Europe who visited Sydney; we took her for a movie in Paddington, which is one of Sydney's nicer suburbs. She looked at it and said that it was almost like Paris, but still so far from it. Of course, I've never been to Paris, so I couldn't empathize with her, though I did like the idea of seeing a city that could provoke such a strong reaction.
How much do people love Paris? Well, some French people love it so much that they're willing to recreate it - in the medium of garbage.
That's right - Gerard Brion has spent 15 years meticulously recreating the heart of Paris, complete with a fake Eiffel Tower and an Arc de Triomphe. Best of all, it's in Vaissac, in South France, so visitors to the Mediterranean coast of France can skip the real thing and visit Brion's tribute.
He's made the sculpure garden out of 'old concrete blocks, baby food jars and soup tins.' according to BoingBoing. Now, if he could only make a recreatiion of the other major cities in Europe, perhaps with disposable diapers and old car tires, we could feel good about recycling.
(found on BoingBoing)
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Comment by Anonymous
Paris was a dump 45 years ago and while I'll grant that the French might've taken some steps to clean up their act, I wouldn't hold out much hope. It's all part of their national charm to run their nation like a dump while turning their oversized Gallic noses up at the rest of the world, especially the nation that saved sorry posterior twice from the Germans.
It has nothing to do with being ethnically French at all. The Walloons in Southern Belgium run a spotless part of their nation. And I can never get over how clean and neat Quebec was compared to even our native New England when my wife and I went on our honeymoon 25 years ago.
It was only appropriate that this guy made a little Paris out of trash to represent a much bigger dump--the real city of Paris.