Comments on: Return of the Flaneur: Galerie Vivienne http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3 curating an archaeology of attention & culture Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:14:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mark Willis http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-1361 Mark Willis Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:59:55 +0000 http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3#comment-1361 Sounds to me like you are a flaneur, for sure. It isn’t about the pace of walking or typologies of landscape where you walk. It’s about the mapping in memory, a mindfulness of inhabiting landscapes as you walk. Sounds to me like you are a flaneur, for sure. It isn’t about the pace of walking or typologies of landscape where you walk. It’s about the mapping in memory, a mindfulness of inhabiting landscapes as you walk.

]]> By: mia http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-1360 mia Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:23:18 +0000 http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3#comment-1360 Wow... I think that I am a flaneur and I just never knew it until now! Only instead of the streets of Paris, it's the seawall of Vancouver where I walk. Maybe I walk too quickly to be considered a flaneur, and I'm likely to disappear into a forest - when I find one - to escape the concrete. But the bit about walking in order to experience the city... that is it! Sometimes I feel like I am building a version of the city in my head, one walk at a time, thirteen years of meandering lines overlapping to slowly fill in the blanks. We have a lot of fog out here too... my favourite is when I'm standing on a balcony and the fog is so thick I can't see the ground - I imagine that the ground doesn't exist, that I am simply floating in the clouds. :) Wow… I think that I am a flaneur and I just never knew it until now! Only instead of the streets of Paris, it’s the seawall of Vancouver where I walk. Maybe I walk too quickly to be considered a flaneur, and I’m likely to disappear into a forest – when I find one – to escape the concrete. But the bit about walking in order to experience the city… that is it! Sometimes I feel like I am building a version of the city in my head, one walk at a time, thirteen years of meandering lines overlapping to slowly fill in the blanks.

We have a lot of fog out here too… my favourite is when I’m standing on a balcony and the fog is so thick I can’t see the ground – I imagine that the ground doesn’t exist, that I am simply floating in the clouds. :)

]]> By: kristine byrne http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-1268 kristine byrne Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:07:24 +0000 http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3#comment-1268 The 'primal' image of a dwelling. There is NO such thing...and as for the rest...words words words...to me at least. And I love words...being an ardent Proust fan ...but they should mean something. Not just pretend to in a fake way......I actually was just looking up Picasso's portrait of Lee Miller... The ‘primal’ image of a dwelling. There is NO such thing…and as for the rest…words words words…to me at least. And I love words…being an ardent Proust fan …but they should mean something. Not just pretend to in a fake way……I actually was just looking up Picasso’s portrait of Lee Miller…

]]> By: Looking Back (Demurely) Over A Quarter Million Page Views – a blind flaneur http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-919 Looking Back (Demurely) Over A Quarter Million Page Views – a blind flaneur Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:29:55 +0000 http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3#comment-919 [...] with me. Just don’t try to take my arm unless I ask. What’s a flaneur? Read the first post, Return of the Flaneur to Galerie Vivienne. After that, try Foot Rage and the Blind Flaneur. If you don’t find me on the street, take a look [...] [...] with me. Just don’t try to take my arm unless I ask. What’s a flaneur? Read the first post, Return of the Flaneur to Galerie Vivienne. After that, try Foot Rage and the Blind Flaneur. If you don’t find me on the street, take a look [...]

]]> By: Mark Willis http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-660 Mark Willis Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:33:07 +0000 http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3#comment-660 Thanks for reading, Sara. Thanks for reading, Sara.

]]> By: Sara H http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-659 Sara H Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:23:01 +0000 http://blindflaneur.com/?p=3#comment-659 I am thrilled to discover your blog - it is a treasure! You write beautifully and I am looking forward to experiencing Paris "through your eyes" and learning from you. Thanks. I am thrilled to discover your blog – it is a treasure! You write beautifully and I am looking forward to experiencing Paris “through your eyes” and learning from you. Thanks.

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