Poitiers

This is a view of Poitiers from leaning out Jess's third story window. Such a pretty city.

Flower

Flowers are pretty awesome. Hope you enjoy this one.

Vingt-trois

One of my last days in France Jess took me to an art collective in Poitiers called Vingt-Trois (or twenty-three). When you hear the word "art collective" you usually think of pot-luck dinners, unwashed hair, and communist literature. This commune definitely contained the usually suspects. An eardrum-splitting reggae band performed in the basement and the girl in the picture below had a silk-screen printing operation strapped to herself so that she could walk around and "sell" prints. I say sell, because they would give these away to anyone for the price of a hug. She had a train of helpers following her around with a clothesline of drying prints for passerbys to peruse. One of my favorite things was the wall grenouille (frog) that Jess posed in front of for me.

Seeing double: Gazpacho time!

Melon gazpacho is a dish best served cold – like revenge. Or so I am told. These pictures have nothing at all to do with revenge and have everything to do with me playing around with different filters on Photoshop. The posterizing filter used here lends a choppy quality that helps tone down the blurriness of the original photo. Plus that gazpacho was really tasty! I like the effect even more on the picture below. It almost looks like a comic book.