Comments | stevejosephson: angels

stevejosephson

angels

Jun 18, 2009 22:38

Père Lachaise Cemetery. Love to see this place by candlelight.

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HEAVENLY SCULPTING!!! waynefromlorain June 18 2009, 21:58:18 UTC

Very nice photos. France is amazing. Even the cemetarys have priceless works of art. Those sculpted Angels look incredibly life like. They tell a story just by looking at them.

Is this the cemetary where Jim Morrison is buried? I know that it is in Paris somewhere. Thanks for the tour.

Re: HEAVENLY SCULPTING!!! stevejosephson June 18 2009, 22:03:40 UTC

Indeed it is - Morrison's grave is in section 6, and has been heavily vandalized. There used to be a sculpture of the Lizard King but it's apparently been stolen, again.

Great city Paris. The coffee houses alone are worth the airfare.

anonymous June 19 2009, 02:08:51 UTC

You need to hit the catacombs... It is a real reminder of what a pandemic can be.

Frank

stevejosephson June 22 2009, 02:02:47 UTC

You mean these?

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greenlandgem June 20 2009, 04:37:23 UTC

That is insanely beautiful. I've been to Paris three times but I've never been to one of the cemeteries or the catacombs.... I will have to on my next visit. I find sculptures absolutely mesmerising - that something so lifelike can be carved out of stone just astounds me. I am so wildly unartistic that most of the arts amaze me but for some reason, sculptures just leave me speechless.

Definitely on my to-do list next time I'm in Europe.

greenlandgem June 20 2009, 04:38:15 UTC

It has just occured to me that this may be because I'm a geo. Dang, why does my geoness seem to infiltrate every aspect of my life? Grr.

OUTBACK CARTOONS!!! waynefromlorain June 21 2009, 23:54:23 UTC

I think that you are very artistic Meghan. I enjoyed your outback Christmas cartoons. I laughed about the one where the drunk in the Santa suit is trying to call the Dingo and you were standing by with the blurb "IDIOT" over your figure. This is very imaginative.

stevejosephson June 22 2009, 01:53:00 UTC

You guys see with better eyes. Everywhere I look I see human history - old roads, ancient trash, and the like. Farther back than that, all I see are dirt and rocks. Had I ten lives, I'd spend one doing geology. Course I'd spend another as a 16th century Japanese gardener, but still.

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