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![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]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. ![President George H.W. Bush signs into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990 as Justin Dart looks on. [Source: ucp.org]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ada_signing_072690_ucp_2.jpg "ada_signing_072690_ucp_2")
![Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg "shepard_fairey_hope_2008")
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The legendary Kiki of Montparnasse posed for Man Ray’s 
Notre Dame de Paris shimmers on a December night. [Photo by M. Bob] And so do the radiant voices of the Anonymous 4 [Miracles of Compostela: Congaudeant Catholici]
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Noel: Notre Dame de Paris
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December 25, 2009 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
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Giving Thanks: One Reader Is A Miracle
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November 26, 2009 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
All the talk about slow food and slow blogging reminds me of this story from the Left Bank. I published it first in September 2007, near the beginning of this blog. It remains one of the most satisfying pieces of new writing that I’ve done here. I was sad the day it dropped off the [...]
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Imaging Paris: From Mouffe to the Marais
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September 7, 2008 at 9:52pm
by Mark Willis
Rue des Rosiers. [Photo by lodrorigdzin; all rights reserved]
I didn’t realize Friday night that when Alex said he dropped by Café Mouffe, he wasn’t simply humoring my imaginary conceit. He was there, in Paris, and the photos of Café Delmas were shot and posted on his Flickr site that afternoon. I am touched by this [...]
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Imaging Paris: Café Delmas
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September 6, 2008 at 9:44pm
by Mark Willis
Delmas-mouffetard. [Photo by lodrorigdzin; all rights reserved]
Here are two more of Alex’s photos shot yesterday at Café Delmas, the inspiration for Café Mouffe. Of the shot above he writes: “at last, at last, I have a coffee cup shot again. and at Delmas, no less, in honour of the Blind Flaneur.” I do feel [...]
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Where the Mouffe Begins: Delmas
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September 5, 2008 at 8:03pm
by Mark Willis
Alex dropped by Café Mouffe tonight with this photo of the Mouffe’s inspiration, Café Delmas on Place de la Contrascarppe. Many thanks!
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Imaging Paris: Bouquinistes
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August 15, 2008 at 3:28pm
by Mark Willis
[Photos by lodrorigdzin; all rights reserved]
Alex was in Paris last week, and he kindly asked if he could photograph anything in particular for me. He knew I’d love these images of the book stalls on the Seine. The offer was enough to set me loose in the time-space continuum. Perched on a ladder half a [...]
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Imaging Paris: Documenting May 1968
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May 15, 2008 at 6:30pm
by Mark Willis
Protesters march down Boulevard Saint Michel on May 10, 1968. The banner reads: “Sorbonne Teachers Against Repression. [Photo by Serge Hambourg/via Art Knowledge News]
French photojournalist Serge Hambourg documented the turbulent student revolt in Paris in the spring of 1968 for the weekly magazine Le nouvel observateur. His images have been assembled in an exhibition [...]
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Imaging Paris: May 1968
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May 14, 2008 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
Photos de Paris en 68. Montage: yoy’. Musique: Rosa Park -” la revolte gronde.”
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Paris May 1968: Under the Cobblestones, the Beach
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May 13, 2008 at 9:10am
by Mark Willis
Students dig up cobblestones to throw at police. The layer of sand below the stones led to the slogan, “Under the cobblestones, the beach.” [Photo by Serge Hambourg/via NPR]
Sylvia Poggioli has an excellent radio story on NPR, Marking the French Social Revolution of ‘68:
Forty years ago, millions of French workers joined protesting students [...]
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Imaging Paris: Miss Tic’s Wanton Acts
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February 1, 2008 at 12:15am
by Mark Willis
Paris street art by Miss Tic graces a wall near Rue Mouffetard. [Photo by La_Caille]
Miss Tic’s graffiti poem reads, “Les actes gratuits ont-ils un prix?” Ms. Modigliani translates this literally as,”Do gratuitous acts have a price?” The pun seems to center on “gratuits” — which could also mean “free” or “wanton.” Any further interpretations?
About the [...]
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