Nuit Blance

Okay, i am WAY behind on posts. So I'm committing to my blog to upload a post a day this week and hopefully get caught up. Way back on October 3rd was Nuit Blanche. It is a night where large parts of the city stay open late and showcase art. Galleries and the like were open, but there were also art projects set up around the city, like a weird art movie about roses that was projected onto a Mosque (no pictures of that, sorry). Nuit Blanche was from 7pm-7am. It was much cooler that I've just described. Anyways, Jessie was on a class trip so I joined Madison and Melanie for the night (I know you're probably wondering who these people are and as it turns out I've made some friends in Paris, although they're not Parisian. They're from North Carolina.) I'll describe the rest of the night through the pictures below:

The Official Logo of Nuit Blanche. Kinda lame for an art's thing, but what do I know about art.


Madison, me, and Melanie before going out into the night and a local bar.

After we left we headed towards the Luxembourg Gardens because that is where everyone told us to start. On the way we found this tree stump on one of the busiest streets in Paris and for some reason thought it was interesting.


See how amazing we thought this stump was. Anyways, right after this we ran into some other North Carolinians who Madison and Melanie knew. At this point it was like 11pm and Melanie and Madison decided to head in the direction of their house and I joined the other NC folk.

This is what we found in the Luxembourg Gardens. A huge gigantic disco fall that was lifted into the air and poured light all across the neighborhood. And it was a little rainy, which is why those spots are on my camera, however it only lasted until the next picture. Go figure. Paris has crazy rain bursts.

This is a closer look. Music was playing from a band at first then just random music from speakers:

Here is a picture that includes the building to the left, which is the huge chateau-like building that dominates the Garden usually:

And this is the light dancing around the building. The light washed everything out with its random spotlight.

The glorious ball.

The last time you'll have to see the ball of light. I'm just showing a billion pictures of it because it had some seriously, impressive rays shooting out of it.

This was some church that was open and had an art project in it. It also had tons of people just sitting.


See them sit. On the church floor. Some are actually laying down. Why you ask?

To have a moment of zen. the speakers placed all around were individually equipped with their own hymn and every ten minutes they would all (well most would) start humming or singing a hymn until all of them collaborated to perform a Gothic hymn. It was pretty cool, but startling at first.

Oh yeah, these were the new North Carolinians that I met. Jessica, in the pink cap, is in my French class, but the day before was her first day.

This was the street along the Seine at about 5am. Usually the streets are empty because nothing except bars (so i've been told) stay open past 10pm



A very long escalator that we took from the metro to go to a park. The park was mostly dull with random signs around it or lamps. Right. I know what most of you should be thinking, and it was too artsy for me too. Check out the "art" below:



AND my favorite art piece is this field. I actually trekked here all by myself, because everybody else wanted to go home at 6am and sleep, but i decided that if i was going to stay up this long i could easily manage a little longer, especially to see this. It was the one piece i had read about that I thought sounded amazing. So i showed up by myself, with my phone and pepper spray in alternate hands, and watched people play for like an hour. it was hilarious and my favorite part of the night, and anybody could play. So your truly was out there on that grass. Not to worry anyone about me trapezing around the city by myself. I did call Jared and had him "walk" with me to the metro station and home. And for that little buddy, I'm still sorry for. I truly forgot about the new time zone. Anyways, my field:

Hope that little tour of Nuit Blanche was entertaining. If not check back tomorrow for the next post, i think it involves more biking. And still to come are Monet's Casa and another Chateaux, which i dub as better than Versailles. Honestly.
Love you all!