You may have wondered why I've stopped adorning my posts with lovely pictures of my exploits around Paris. Honestly I haven't taken that many post-worthy pictures believe it or not. Paris has already been photographed so thoroughly and artfully that for the most part I feel it a waste to take one more picture of Notre Dâme or Place de la Concorde. Sure one could argue that my own pictures carry significance beyond their mere aesthetic merit, that fact that I can find a superior picture of Notre Dâme on Google is besides the point. Fair enough. Admittedly at times I find that carrying my camera around compels me to pause and truly observe the picteuresque or dramatic qualities of my surroundings. At other times I find my camera to be a burden because I am constantly stopping to freeze-frame fragments of my life that will never add up to the sum of their parts. In college a friend of mine complained that people spend too much time recording their life and not enough time living it. After college people always complain that they didn't take enough pictures. This seems to be yet another case of finding a happy medium.
In any case, I had begun to fear that I was erring towards too much living and not enough recording, so I forced myself to document an average day in simple snapshots. After several hours spent warring with Facebook I managed to put them up there for those of you with Facebook access. The battle wounds are still fresh; I may not endeavor to put photos up there again for some time to come... I also played around with this map site called Community Walk, which is pretty similar to Google Earth. Basically I linked my pictures to a map of Paris, so you can follow me around Paris on normal, satellite, or hybrid view. Enjoy: http://www.communitywalk.com/map/40567
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