The débo

Bro that's Wole Soyinka. You don't ban him from your country.

“Le violoncelle sous la pluie” (The cello in the rain), Paris. Photo: Robert Doisneau (1957). In an artistic collaboration between French photographer Robert Doisneau and cellist Maurice Baquet, the musician holds his umbrella, not over himself, but over his beloved instrument. This devotion to art is amplified by the soaked painter in the background, still humorously standing at his easel undeterred by the pouring rain.

Doisneau's celebrated cello in the rain is reimagined as a classical, levitating, sheet-draped ghost.

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[Enter Ghost.]

Eerily fantastic!

“Le violoncelle sous la pluie” (The cello in the rain), Paris. Photo: Robert Doisneau (1957). In an artistic collaboration between French photographer Robert Doisneau and cellist Maurice Baquet, the musician holds his umbrella, not over himself, but over his beloved instrument. This devotion to art is amplified by the soaked painter in the background, still humorously standing at his easel undeterred by the pouring rain.

Doisneau's celebrated cello in the rain is reimagined as a classical, levitating, sheet-draped ghost.

Started / Going: Halloween Edition

The dreaded 'dog-at-the-door' decoration is terrifying!

A back view of the usual Halloween suspects, from the Reaper to Dracula, facing a wall of urinals in Heineken's 2003 seasonal opus: "The Restroom".

The Lineup.

Suspense ...

... all in for Jules.

The master traceur / master thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as the Spider-Man of Paris, likens theft to an act of imagination. [Still shot, "scaling the wall", from the Netflix documentary "Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris"]

Location: The Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Date: May 20th, 2010. Time: 3:30 AM. Event: The astounding theft of five iconic 20th-century paintings by Vjeran Tomic [Still shot, "painting heist', from the Netflix documentary "Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris"]

Brings to mind ...

If my knowledge of French is anything to go by, those jewels stolen from the Louvre will be dans la piscine avec Marie-Claire.

NYPD police car in front of the Eiffel Tower with a cloudy sky.

must have been one helluva chase

Having to fetch the scissors every time a packet says “Tear Here” is my villain origin story.

YouTube video by Sit Down Zumock Michael Mcdonald SCTV

Occasionally rewatching the Rick Moranis skit where he plays Michael McDonald is my therapy. (That and actual therapy.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKw6...

Such a poignant photo, with caption even more so.

This is a masterpiece!

There’s a handy rhyme to help you remember whether the clocks are going back or forwards an hour tonight.
It goes:-
They’re going back.

What is it like inside your head?

She was insecure, like a Parisian museum situated next to a ladder store

Superbe croissant de lune derrière le temple de Poséidon en Grèce! ©Elias Chasiotis

Superbe croissant de lune derrière le temple de Poséidon en Grèce!
©Elias Chasiotis

A warehouse is just a regular house until the full moon hits

French photographer Jean-Claude Moschetti's "Magic on Earth" series: Normally hidden from outsiders, a horned, raffia-masked "spirit" figure, initiated into one of many ancient secret societies that endure in West Africa, is visible through a window. [Kataco, Guinea, West Africa]

No one else was in the room where it happened ...

Just a reminder:
America is not the world..
K?

L’entreprise allemande Böcker a publié une photo de son monte-charge déployé jusqu’au premier étage d’un coin du Louvre - prise par l’AFP le jour du vol - avec le slogan humoristique: «Quand il faut faire vite»!

Entre-temps, un changement de slogan chez Böcker aussi: «Quand il faut faire vite»!

"Le Böcker Agilo peut transporter jusqu'à 400 kilos de trésors, à une vitesse de 42 mètres par minute, grâce à un moteur aussi silencieux qu'un murmure"!

Nigerian-born master Macro Photographer, Dara Ojo.

Lol!

"French Jewel Heist" is one of those things so fitting that it's cliche yet rare enough to give you the joy of the unexpected. Like a dog actually named Fido, or someone actually cooling a pie on a windowsill. We deserve that kind of reprieve.

Back to Africa: return of the plundered Benin Bronzes, created between the 15th and 19th centuries by the remarkable Edo bronze casters of the illustrious Kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria). Here, close-up of the intricate metal workmanship of these irreplaceable West African artifacts. [Toby Melville/Reuters]

Meanwhile, back to Africa.