How can we avoid getting STDs? It is not difficult since we only need to care for one of the most basic elements: self-hygiene. So nothing is easier than when showering, we must not only cleanse hair and skin, but also the sexual organs. Of course, women do not apply soap inside the vagina, it is harmful, we can just clean these sensitive areas with water. Men have it easier but not because of this must they neglect the hygiene.

If we neglect it, or we just get sick, women can suffer inflammation of the Bartholin’s glands, the ones responsible for secreting a watery fluid that lubricates the vulva. If this gland is blocked, retention of secretions may lead to the development of cysts (in case you are retaining water only) and abscesses if the discharge is due to the accumulation of pus. In any case, you should see a specialist, as you could have some kind of tumor, especially in older women. Therefore, we must cleanse daily vagina and penis, and thanks to the touch you’ll notice a strange formation, in case there is.

And we not only have to think about oneself, but also of the person with whom we have sex, because we can spread of gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes or the most common of all, papilloma. Surely none of us want to spend a night in the emergency room for an “oversight” of the couple.

And much less if that neglect occurs during a vacation.

mia1603

Imagine spending a romantic weekend in the City of Lights, you rent one of the wonderful apartments in Paris and when you are going to embark on the vacation you have to change it for a night in hospital.?

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

Until March 13, 2011 Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris presents . This is the largest exhibition in Paris of the magnificent work of one of the fathers of Comics, Jean Giraud, aka Moebius.

The Cartier Foundation in this exhibition contains more than half a century of his exhaustive work and its mutations, which makes clear the changes experienced by the artist, both in drawings and in the philosophical conceptions that have given a fundamental hallmark of his works.

Giraud, born in Nogent-sur-Marne on May 8, 1938 became known under the pseudonym of Gir. He studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Paris, where he was befriended by the famous cartoonists Pat Mallet and Mezieres. And in his 2nd year at the academy he gets his first cartoon published in the journal “Coeurs Vaillants”.

Giraud lived with the concerns of his era and looked for answers to existential questions by traveling to spiritual retreats in the vast and lonely Mexican desert in the fifties and sixties. There he discovered forms and textures that mutated with his work. Also, like many others, he lived the experience of eating hallucinogenic mushrooms to soak in a trance and explore the creative process, like the ancient cultures that lived in America did. This journey into the origin of dream perceptions gave way to his best known works of western character, the “Blueberry”, written by Jean-Michel Charlier and first published in the magazine “Pilot”, 1964.

In the 70s he gave a twist to his characters and started working in science-fiction comic magazine Hara-Kiri, signed with the pseudonym Moebius, who took from the German mathematician and astronomer, August Ferdinand Möbius.

Moebius definitely changed the history of comics in the art, defying traditional classification to make cartoons with abstract narrative and drawings that break the formal stereotype, sometimes close to eroticism.

His visual storytelling in comics led him to be classified in the group “new French philosophes”, for their tireless search through science fiction, to express this discomfort that makes it impossible to look to the future without evidence of the evils of today’s society.

With its clean lines and color in the more than 300 drawings of the exhibition the metamorphosis of his life is stressed. And it is projected onto the 3D numbing short “La planète encore”. In the basement of the Cartier Foundation, hallucinations appear in a huge stone of quartz, and it ends with a screening of mysterious creatures and a documentary in which outrageous Giraud laughs at himself, in his last series of comics, “Inside Moebius“.

Nancy Guzman

If you are coming to the city of light to enjoy apartments in Paris you can pass through the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art and recognize the complete works of this artist who revolutionized comic books and inspired films such as Luc Bresson’s “The Fifth Element” or “Willow”.

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

The traveller who returns to Paris following the circular route of Vermeer’s paintings scattered around the world can feel that his trip is unfolded in a fractal way in the cosmos in a plural endless adventure and where one of the main ships is the planet itself, and understand this way and finally as a mere illusion any sense of immobility when it stops at the Louvre Museum (http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp) before The Astronomer (1688-1989).

We know from the Teding Pieter van Berkhout’s diary, that the great astronomer, mathematician, physicist and expert in optics Constantijn Huygens (Member of the Royal Society of London and the French Academy of Sciences, a friend of Descartes, Pascal and Newton, teacher of Leibniz and designer, in close collaboration with his admired Spinoza, with lens offering a crystal clear picture of the stars of Orion and the rings of Saturn) was in Delft at the time of completing the picture.

Vermeer was related to the circle of Huygens and both shared the admiration for the dark room, the lens, the valuation of observation and, possibly, identification of vision and painting, understood as a way of seeing.

It is impossible to overstate how optic works done then contributed to the Copernican revolution in historical, scientific and philosophical paradigms that originated at the time, inviting a perspective approach of reality -remember that the thought of Spinoza, only the approach taken makes us identify the only infinite substance with God’s or with nature. If the history of mankind is not a linear progression but similar sensitivities in different periods, possibly few seasons resonate so closely like ours with the world where Vermeer lived.

From Astronomer wall a map is not hanging as usual but another Vermeer painting, Moses saved from the waters, whose presence has led to a series of suggestive interpretations, from the one that sees it as confirmation that the astronomer is preparing an astral letter – illustrating the thin separating line between astronomy from astrology- to the one that points to a reference to the astronomical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians, among which the prophet was raised, through the ones abounding in the cosmological base relationship between this and of Christ.

The absence of the map is, however, only apparently, because instead of watching the sky through a telescope, astronomer Vermeer collated from his room (bathed in daylight coming through a window on the left) the notes of a book with the constellations reproduced on the celestial sphere by Jodocus Hondius, perhaps as if reflecting on the nature of the act of measuring.

Paul Oilzum

Perhaps something similar to what happens when you rent apartments in Paris a city in which, as has been said once, there are few places more worthwhile to look at the sky to earth.?

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

Gilles Deleuze, undoubtedly one of the most influential philosophers of our time, was the latest in a long series of contemporary thinkers who chose suicide as a way of leaving the world. Born in Paris in 1925, Deleuze studied at the Sorbonne and taught since 1948 in several cities in the province of Paris, then served in office between Lyon and Paris and, until his retirement, he taught at the University of Paris VIII.

Within the panorama of contemporary French thought, Gilles Deleuze was an unorthodox philosopher as Sulez Philippe said: “he was not Hegelian, nor did he play for the Communist Party or psychoanalyzed.” His work was developed under the influence of Hume, Bergson, Spinoza and Nietzsche and the direction of teachers such as Georges Canguilhem and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. An interesting and suggestive conception in the philosopher’s view is that a philosophy book can become somehow a “a kind of detective novel, on the one hand, and science fiction, on the other.” This perspective, where the boundaries of disciplines blur or lose its rigidity, is evident throughout his production.

Author of “Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia “(1972), he wrote in this book one of the toughest questions of the psychoanalysis of Freud, a canon of contemporary culture. However, his book contains an apparent contradiction as it recognizes the weight of the concept of schizophrenia, and its deep relationship with philosophy. The Anti-Oedipus was written with Felix Guattari, another Parisian philosopher, close friend of Deleuze. The second volume of this pair of writers was the famous “Thousand Plateaus”, which has been associated by the critic Lars Bang Larsen to the psychedelic artistic production. Besides being a strict philosophy book, A Thousand Plateaus shows in some parts an interesting literary side, and many of the concepts conveyed have a suggestion power that totally transcends the rigidity of many academic approaches. Deleuze and Guattari introduce this way the concept of “body without organs” and “molecular evolution”, both used at different times by thinkers of Queer Theory and gender studies. Also, if you are not familiar with the language of philosophy or reading in general, on youtube there is an interesting (and very detailed) interview with French journalist Claire Parnet conducted in 1996 and which became famous with the name “Abécédaire “(The Alphabet).

It is about special documentation in teh life of this philosipher, who always rejected the mediatic intellectual image, staying away from the media and avoiding appearing on television programs, at least until his taking part in the ARTE program, few years before his death, in 1995. That year, after complications from a serious illness, Deleuze decided to end with his life, jumping through a window of his apartment in the Niel Avenue, in Paris. The real reasons of his suicide are not clear, and there can be only conjecture. However, considering his vision of the World, he may not have wanted to continue witnessing his decrepitude.

menschauser

If you want to know more about this important philosopher you can rent apartments in Paris and experience the city that inspired his brilliant ideas.?

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

At some point punk bands were in again, Blink 182, Dashboard Confessional or Good Charlotte. The last one exists since 1996 and the fantastic albums and songs they have released over the years are certainly some of the reasons why they have so many fans worldwide.

The band was founded by Joel and Benji Madden along with drummer Aarone Escolopio. Later Billy Martin and Paul Thomas Joinced. Escolopio left the band eventually and after a long push and pull Dean Butterworth was his replacement.

Good Charlotte played in different bars and clubs in Maryland for a while but not very successful. Success didn’t come until they released the album The Young and The Hopeless in 2002 which includes hits like „Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous“, „Girls & Boys“, or „The Anthem.” Many assure that they were really lucky because otherwise they would have disappeared. Their following albums (The Chronciles of Life and Death und Good Morning Revival) only improved their sound and made them to a band that is known worldwide.

Singles like “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous“ or „I Just Wanna Live“ have sold over 8 million copies worldwide and at the moment they are on tour to present their latest album Cardiology which was released on November 2. For this reason they are coming to France to perform at the Bataclan on February 1^st.

For more information: http://www.le-bataclan.com/
Bataclan: 50, boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris, París, France

MiLK

If you want to see one of the best punk bands of our times live rent apartments in Paris and don’t miss out on this chance.

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

Last January 1 the New York filmmaker Woody Allen was 75 years old. Although his latest films seem to indicate –according to most of the criticism- (often as ruthless and capricious like forgetful) a certain decrease in quality compared with his masterpieces, some still quite recent; it would perhaps be hasty to announce that he has irremissibly left behind the best of his career.

If there is anything Woody Allen has shown in over forty films as a director is a remarkable ability to reinvent itself and regain the full strength of his top creative impulse when it was taken for artistically dead.

The adverb is not accidental, since the work of Allen is one of those that allow us to defend without complex that cinema is an art form as much as entertainment and close the absurd need for conflict between the two concepts. Not only because doing comedy, understanding gender as one of the greatest forms of entertainment, is by everyone engaged in writing in any way, one of the hardest things there are – or the hardest – or because the comic element has abounded in many of the highest works of world literature (to speak of something whose respectability is not discussed so far) from the comedies of Aristophanes to Cronopios and Famas, going through the works of Plautus, The Golden Ass, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quixote, The Dream of a Summer Night, Tom Jones, Tristram Shandy, The Marriage of Figaro, The Importance of Being Earnest or trilogy golden Crucifixion among countless other examples, but because, despite the imposed media bias, there is no reason to argue convincingly that Marcel Proust, Michel de Montaigne, Emily Brontë and Jorge Luis Borges can not be terribly entertaining.

Even greater has been Allen’s contribution to remove the resulting compartmentalization of the classifications by gender. Already in his first film, Take the Money and Run (1969) usually rated in the hilarious crazy comedies that define the first stage of his career – there is an interesting technical work in the use of the form factor of the documentaries of the time. This game between reality and fiction is, (along with the desire, love, death, humor, the absence of God, the sham, the tense relationship between life and art, cinema …), one of the constants in his career, influenced by the surreal and intelligent humor of the Marx Brothers as well as Fellini, Bergman, jazz, classical music, the great Russian novelists or the poetry of Rilke and EE Cummings, for example.

?

Paul Oilzum

For the first time in his 75 years of life he has recorded a movie entirely in the French capital, “Midnight in Paris”, which will be presented at the upcoming Cannes festival. Rent apartments in Paris . It will be a joyful way to celebrate romantically as there is no Allen film that is not also imbued with romance, this double celebration.

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

Since last September lovers of good food, impressionist art and architecture can not only visit the magnificent exhibition by Claude Monet in Paris which opens January 24, 2011 but also enjoy the fact that the restaurant Mini-Palais reopened, renovated elaborately by architects Gilles & Boissier.

The Grand Palais which presents the Monet exhibition is without a doubt one of the bet places to host the oeuvre of this impressionist. Built in 1900 to host the world exhibition, this place is almost a sacred place reflecting the aesthetic tendencies of the Belle Epoque and making it to one of the best examples of the Beaux-Arts architecture.

Thanks to the renovation of the Mini-Palais you can now admire the fantastic metal structure of the ceiling built after the example of the Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton. However, it demonstrates a way of constructing where the architect can act as artist and engineer.

The Mini Palais restaurant managed by chef Eric Frechon, who has 3 Michelin Stars, is close to the roundabout Alexander III, Avenue Winston Churchill.

If you pass the Grand Palais Proust comes to mind and the golden age before World War I, because if we pay close attention, we can almost hear the Gilberte Swan’s steps along the Champs Elysees…

Paul Oilzum

If you rent apartments in Paris you should definitely visit the Mini-Palais to let the magical feeling of this place capture you.?

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

Every traveller that would like to see paintings by Vermeer has to pass by the Louvre to see The Lacemaker (1669 -70) to see how this artist from Delft is making use of camera obscura. It makes thread the lacemaker is working with to light and color because as usual you can trace Vermeer’s work back to the use of light and color.

Yet again, Vermeer draws attention to the mystery originating from the introverted lacemaker which wasn’t very usual at the time.

In this painting you can also see the influence the painter had on Spanish artists Salvador Dalí who has always been fascinated by Vermeer. The Lacemaker turned into one of the biggest influences on life and oeuvre of the artist which becomes apparent in works like „Muchacha in Figueras“ (1926). Later he explains how he pointed at a needle in this painting which wasn’t really visible. It was only hinted at which was very revolutionary.

In the common room of the dormitory where he stayed when he was a student in the 20s he found a replica of The Lacemaker which also captured Lorca und Bunuel with its mystery. The needle again is seen in „La miel es más dulce que la sangre“ (1927), a painting where you can also see Lorca’s influence on Dalí.

In the Movie “Un chien andalou” (1929) [an Andalusian dog] co-directed by Bunuel we can see a replica of the famous painting as well.

For more information: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp

Paul Oilzum

If you rent apartments in Paris you can see this masterpiece in close-up.?

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me

The sound of the new era in music is heavily influenced by synthesizers. No matter what genre we are talking about, there is hardly any music genre that hasn’t at least experimented with an electronic synthesizer. The new rave is a style that was born recently in 2006 and its pioneers are The Klaxons.

The members of the group are Jamie Reynolds, James Righton, Simon Taylor-Davis and Steffan Halperin from England. On January 29^th 2007 they released their first album “Myths of Near Future.” With their single “Golden Skans” they reached worldwide fame, won several awards and the had the opportunity to perform a Rihanna mash-up at the Brit Awards in 2008.

The Klaxons were also Headliners of the Indie Rave Tour that is organized by Britain’s most influential music magazine, NME. Thanks to this tour their fame grew and their songs are not only played on the radio but in clubs all over the world.

Recently the band released their latest album „Surfing the Void“ which received good reactions by fans and critics which ended in a world tour. The date for their gig in France to present their new album is the 20^th of January 2011 and the place is Bataclan in Paris.

For more information: http://www.le-bataclan.com/

Bataclan: 50, boulevard Voltaire, 75011 Paris, París, France

MiLK

If you don’t want to miss the show rent apartments in Paris to listen to the best of The Klaxons.?

Contact Me 

Translated by: salome antigone
Contact Me