{"id":10131,"date":"2016-10-14T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antondee.com\/archive\/?p=10131"},"modified":"2017-07-03T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:22:19","slug":"midnight-paris-photography-journal-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antondee.com\/archive\/midnight-paris-photography-journal-72","title":{"rendered":"Midnight in Paris \/\/ Journal 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I travel I try to stray off the beaten path. You still get to experience the touristy side of the city but also find the little intricacies that only the locals really know about. During my time in Paris I of course visited the Eiffel Tower and\u00a0Arc de Triomphe but the walks to those landmarks\u00a0were much more interesting than the landmarks themselves. I met two French girls who told me about their lives in Paris, a group of tourists who planned their days around sunsets (see below) and some older gentlemen by the Seine who treated me to some wine and stories of their youth. You cannot really put a price on those experiences and you also won’t find them in any holiday brochure and yet this is what stuck with me. The landmarks are just the backdrop, the story you have to make for yourself.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the 18th century, the technical advances of the Industrial Revolution facilitated the use of metal, which was used to reinforce stone in buildings as well as in civil engineering structures and frameworks. In the first half of the 19th century, metal was also used in the construction of specific buildings, glasshouses in particular, but the combination of stone and metal always seemed more appropriate for ensuring the monumentality of a building.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the century, the success of the Crystal Palace in London (1851), and then of the Central Market Hall (Les Halles) in Paris (1854), both with a design based mainly on metal structures, revealed the aesthetic qualities of this material. From then on, the increasingly widespread use of cast iron and iron became a symbol of French industrial and technical success, as demonstrated at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, by the Gallery of Machines and above all the Eiffel Tower<\/strong>. The Eiffel Tower would achieve iconic status, a symbol of the capital but also a symbol of the aspirations of a society making great technological advances.<\/p>\n

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Eiffel Tower<\/a><\/p>\n

Eiffel Tower Materials<\/a><\/p>\n

Industrial Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n

History of the Eiffel Tower<\/a><\/p>\n

History of Construction<\/a><\/p>\n

Gustave Eiffel<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’m a big fan of\u00a0Woody Allen and on first viewing\u00a0‘Midnight in Paris’ left me a little bit confused. It strayed from his classic ‘guy meets\u00a0girl in New York’ formula and yet I find myself returning to it more often than ‘Annie Hall’ or ‘Manhattan’. As classic as those movies are ‘Midnight in Paris’ touches on a fundamental aspect of nostalgia. In\u00a0Greek, \u2018nostalgia\u2019 literally means \u2018the pain from an old wound.\u2019 It\u2019s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. (SOURCE<\/a>) This\u00a0is why I believe it’s important not to forget your past but to learn from it. Past experiences allow you to grow as a person but they do not define you. We also tend to view\u00a0the past with rose tinted glasses, whether it’s partners or experiences, the ones in the past sometimes feel ‘better’ than what we have now. Ironically that’s just a story that we tell ourselves because we have the power of time and context to analyse the situation in full. I bet whatever hardships you’re going through at the moment will seem less significant if you look back on them in a years time.<\/p>\n

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The characters in ‘Midnight in Paris’ long for the past because they cannot accept the present and that’s a very dangerous mindset because you have no idea what the future may bring. If you knew what the future held in store for you then this game of life would be anything but interesting.\u00a0Get Levitra free trial on http:\/\/www.trendingdownward.com\/generic-levitra-cheap\/<\/a> and try for ED or pulmonary hypertension treatment. Chess players abandon a game when it’s obvious who’s going to win even if there are plenty of pieces left on the board because it’s no longer interesting to continue playing.\u00a0In life it’s exactly the same, you want to know about the future but you also wish to be surprised.<\/p>\n