http://disqus.com/by/hjames/enSun, 29 Mar 2009 11:07:07 -0000http://brianconley.tumblr.com/post/90729434#comment-7597925<p>I went to the Paris DrupalCon site to check if dates had been announced yet. I adore Paris, and I've been thinking of brushing up on my French, renting a little apartment with some friends and making a proper holiday of it. It will be my 6th time in Paris, and of all the cities I have been to- it is my favourite.</p><p>Of all the associations I have with Paris, this illustration did not resonate. For that reason I found the illustration jarring enough to look at it before comprehending the text on the page. I didn't know about the controversy before I went to the site.</p><p>Looking at the picture, I wondered who this funny old guy was. Was it a reference to some philosopher I was unfamiliar with?? Looked more like Freud... Did Sartre have a moustache?</p><p>Maybe I have seen moustaches on stereotypical images of men in Paris. Not thick bushy ones. Maybe pencil thin &amp; curling... but... this was a thick thing.</p><p>I don't associate Paris with bespectacled/moustached men. For this reason, I think I spent more time looking at him and wondering what he was looking at, and then I saw the lady in the window, and wondered if he was supposed to be looking at her. These are the only two 'subjects' in the illustration. Is she looking out at poster on a building at him, or is he spying at her from his vantage point?</p><p>I think you'll have to drag some French philosphers into this discussion about "The Gaze", if you want to get anywhere with it. The French are the experts in this area!</p><p>Whatever is insinuated in the image may have been "subconscious" on the part of the illustrator. But just because an artist is not aware of the meaning of their work, does it mean the "meaning" is not there? Again, refer to the French philosophers on this one.</p><p>I just want to point out, he has "eyes" and she doesn't. ;)</p>hjamesSun, 29 Mar 2009 11:07:07 -0000http://blog.peelmeagrape.net/2008/10/17/twits-near-me-what-people-nearby-are-saying#comment-7283901<p>how does it know where i am? i am not actually IN south dublin and i also don't see my own face on the <a href="http://twitsnear.me" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="twitsnear.me">twitsnear.me</a>.</p><p>is it possible to dip into a remote location, or force it?</p><p>i'm in sligo, btw :) <a href="http://twitter.com/hjames" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/hjames">http://twitter.com/hjames</a></p>hjamesTue, 17 Mar 2009 08:26:41 -0000