![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")
![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 
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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Rue Mouffetard'
Imaging Paris: From Mouffe to the Marais
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September 7, 2008 at 9:52pm
by Mark Willis
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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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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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Down and Out in Paris: Postcards on Boule Mich
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February 1, 2008 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
In Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell describes my Paris neighborhood as “a ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse.” Orwell changed the street name to Rue du Coq d’Or. Take another look. It’s Rue [...]
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Imaging Paris: Street Art on Rue Calvin
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January 31, 2008 at 12:10am
by Mark Willis
Photo by [auro]
The photo is titled “la musique adoucit les murs” (“music softens walls”). Thanks to [auro] for sharing it on the Creative Commons.
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Down and Out in Paris: Battling the Bugs
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January 31, 2008 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
In Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell describes my Paris neighborhood as “a ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse.” Orwell changed the street name to Rue du Coq d’Or. Take another look. It’s Rue [...]
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Imaging Paris: Rue Mouffetard
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January 30, 2008 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
[Photo by mmatting]
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Down and Out in Paris: Rue du Coq d’Or
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January 29, 2008 at 12:15am
by Mark Willis
In Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell describes my Paris neighborhood as “a ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse.” Orwell changed the street name to Rue du Coq d’Or. Take another look. It’s Rue [...]
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Imaging Paris: Rue Mouffetard
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January 5, 2008 at 9:36am
by Mark Willis
]Photo by jsolal75005]
I’ve wondered what my Paris ‘hood looks like this winter. Here’s a shot of Rue Mouffetard taken last Sunday, Dec. 30. Thanks to jsolal75005 for sharing this image in the Creative Commons.
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Foot Rage and the Blind Flaneur
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December 18, 2007 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
As I have lost eyesight over the past thirty years, walking has been the simplest and most dependable solution to the functional limitations of my disability. When I stopped driving cars at age eighteen, walking was the mode of transportation most accessible to me. This sounds reasonable enough – a problem to be solved , [...]
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