Quirky Street Art

I love the quirky street art in Paris and the other day I came across two that put a smile on my face.

The one above is a series of giant photos that were posted on a wall behind the Niki Saint Phalle sculpture pond across from the Pompidou Center. I love this average French Joe’s expressive face.

The second are funny cartoon images with holiday messages etched on the windows of the La Perle bar on rue Vieille du Temple. This hipster hangout is tres popular with the 20-something-red wine drinking-too much smoking crowd.

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Comments

[zedwards]

La Perle is one of those places that makes me wonder what the smoking hipsters are going to do without smoking inside?

[Haut Marais]

I posted on a video those window graphics - they are just great (never got around to asking the owner who's the artist !)

Mind if I use the photos and post back to you ?

[maitresse]

haven't been to le perle for ages (not only a function of getting too old but of being out of town, sigh) but I do love that cheeky penguin!

[joanna goddard]

your blog makes me want to hop on a plane immediately:)

[hagar]

Actually, those large photos you saw were part of the Face2Face project, an arts project to feature extreme close-ups of average Israels and Palestinians shown to each other. You see read more about it at:

http://face2faceproject.com/