The flaneur knows that an interesting street can be an art gallery, a library, a classroom. Even the representation of a street on television has possibilities for children whose overprotective parents won’t let them walk down the real thing. So here’s a tip of the hat to Sesame Street on its 40th birthday!
When I heard a snippet of this Sesame Street alphabet lesson last spring (in an NPR interview with bass Samuel Ramey) , I couldn’t get it out of my head. Nothing else I heard that day was as dramatic, funny or profound. Guess I work in the cube farm equivalent of the FAA’s sterile cockpit. Maybe I should get a cape.
![Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, Rainy Day (La Place de l’Europe, temps de pluie). 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]](http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gustave_caillebotte_paris_street_rainy_day_1877_wiki.jpg "gustave_caillebotte_paris_street_rainy_day")
The legendary Kiki of Montparnasse posed for Man Ray’s 
![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
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i didn’t watch this program ever but there are some program like this that i used to watch when i was a child and i really influenced by those and i appreciate you.(i suddenly find your site and i read your posts and i love the paintings.)