Ariane Still in Paris.

Drawn tonight Friday, February 22, 2013 after this week.

February 22, 2013

I wouldn’t say I am hung over this morning just totally exhausted from this week of packing in dinners, drinks with work last night and working on the lingerie art commission (to be revealed) and working in general.  

Here is a drawing from 2008 never seen before.  Corner of Rue Vieille  du Temple…I used to have such a problem with Rue Vieille du Temple and Rue du Temple.  I had an issue with Montmartre and Montparnasse too. I remember drawing this but not what I was doing in the Marais.  I had no idea where I was.  

Dans Une double famille d’Honoré de Balzac, c’est dans la Vieille rue du Temple que s’installe monsieur de Granville avec son épouse.« Après quelques jours accordés aux retours de noce si fameux en province, Granville et sa femme revinrent à Paris où le jeune avocat fut appelé par sa nomination aux fonctions d’avocat général près la cour impériale de la Seine. Quand les deux époux y cherchèrent un appartement, Angélique employa l’influence que la lune de miel prête à toutes les femmes pour déterminer Granville à prendre un grand appartement situé au rez-de-chaussée d’un hôtel qui faisait le coin de la Vieille-Rue-du-Temple et de la rue Neuve-Saint-François. La principale raison de son choix fut que cette maison se trouvait à deux pas de la rue d’Orléans où il y avait une église, et voisine d’une petite chapelle, sise rue Saint-Louis ¹ ».

Night of February 18th 2013

This was an intense day but good overall.  Maybe I forgot what real learning and application of lessons feel like.  I just wanted to share my experience this evening of buying groceries, that now that I have a job I buy groceries very differently.  I don’t go crazy mind you, but I just wanted to share that tonight I bought myself Maille mustard instead of Amora.  1,56 vs 0,88 euros… also with the strategic intention of keeping the mustard jar as a glass afterward.

February 18, 2013

I am starting chronologically.  Woman sunbathing in bleu in Nice. September 2008

February 18 2013

More old stuff. I found this sketchpad from September-October 2008 and I’ve scanned the drawings that I have not ripped out.  I will post them in the next few days.

February 13, 2013

Purple Durer horse done at Christmas next to a 6 year old in the Berry. 

Last night I met Diana at the colorfully gritty Le Sully just near my on rue du faubourg saint denis.  The characters there, there old men, the young men, are seedy but the beer is cheap and the bartenders are cute.  Marina and Mark came after and then Antoine.  We moved to the Xeme another hipper bar that entered the neighborhood in the past year. Mark is a regular.  We moved to mine to eat pizza, pasta, surimi salad, pumpkin seeds arosés par du vin turque because nothing else was open.  good clean fun but it was a later night than A and I expected.

The Sluggard at the Tate Britain in London.  I went for the first time this weekend.  It was wonderful to see the Turners and Sargents in real-life that I have always wanted to see.  It is February 11 2013.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMERE.

It was a good weekend in a way I did not expect.  Room service.  Terrible weather. Flower market.  Electro party, again. Public humiliation because I look young.  Old friends. Chinese New Year thai food with Kate. Brawn. Frenchies, again.  Erin the Canadian the Rhodes scholar doing her PhD on private security in Afghanistan and Iraq (so cool). 5h40 train monday morning to Paris. Rugby game, sorry France. 

here is my TWEETDREAM february 8 2013

Josh Bloom ‏@Itsbloooooooom

I had a dream that the Allstate guy hooked up with flo from progressive commercials and she gave birth to the geico gecko. Wtf

checki it out on the blog: http://tweetdreaming.tumblr.com/

http://tweetdreaming.tumblr.com/image/42586965143

https://twitter.com/Itsbloooooooom?protected_redirect=true

oy vey I am tired and excited from this week. I am going to london this weekend and I think I may end up having to be social even though tonight I know I will lack the stamina to deal with a big group.; or it could be great. En tout cas je vais etre claquee lundi matin, 5:40 am train to Paris

Le 6 fevrier 2013

This is the horse I drew during a presentation on creative services.  It quick start and then a slow day and now it is picking up again.  I had my first cup of coffee today after my detox and starvation when I was sick.  I also had 2 glasses of red wine last night, one as a drink and one with dinner and it was just wonderful to feel so affected after so little. 

Le 6 fevrier 2013

as you can see this drawing is from my early days in Paris.  I think it was my second time at Saint Sulpice.  It was so very cold that winter of 2008. I went to the one cafe on the place and ordered a croque monsieur.  I really had no idea what I was doing back then.  The man with the back turned is a common scene at the Parisian cafes and a motif I have tended to use often.  

Last night I ended up having drinks with old colleagues which was a pleasure.  Well it was one drink and then everyone was there for some celebration about an advancement in mobile phones.  Getting back to work is fine but a little challenging considering the week I missed.  I am learning.

This weekend I go to London to join Antoine who is there for a totally awesome training on the earth and its innards.  I am excited to get out of Paris for just a little bit.  Just a little bit.