Had a lot of fun with textures on this one ✨

i never really liked the formulation that puppies and young dogs 'push boundaries' because i feel like it suggests a kind of intent i haven't seen in our dogs, and it kinda feeds into that adversarial relationship that some trainers have been shilling for decades where you're always expecting your dog to challenge your authority or whatever.

my nephew has a puppy rn, and they described it as 'throwing out behaviours and seeing what happens' which i liked a lot better?

because at least it doesn't suggest that this semi-sentient bag of bones and slop has a crystal clear picture of the laws of conduct and is hell-bent on testing them, and it doesn't suggest they already know exactly how their behaviour affects the world. they're just behaving. and learning.

Fanny Bourdette-Donon

Street scene in Bizerte, Tunisia

French vintage postcard

Napoleon in Amsterdam by Charles Rochussen

Rue Juste Métiver , Montmartre XIV - Jean-Claude Götting, 2019.

French , b. 1963 - Acrylic inks and black pencil on paper , 21 x 27 cm.

Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

New York, Sabine Weiss, 1955

Bleecker Street, Saturday Night, John French Sloan, 1918

An interview in Gannan, Gansu province

English added by me :)

all is well in france! they didn't just lie about the teenager trying to run over a cop who was supposedly standing in front of the car to stop him (when in reality he was on the side at the car window pointing his gun directly in the car), most of the first media reports presented the kid as a recidivist delinquent to twist the narrative in their favor even though he had no record! also in the video that debunked their claims of legitimate defense, the policeman can be heard saying "open or I'll shoot you in the head". also it's not said here but most of the poc killed by the police in france are men and the numbers of killings by the police are steadily on the rise over the last few years (because of one law that was put in place in 2017 or around that time and gives policemen more situations in which they can use their weapons for legitimate defense or public security) if you still think France is the country of human rights and freedom bla bla bla, think again

"Le Nuage" is departing, Montpellier by sir20

Louis Anquetin (1861–1932, French) ~ L'Avenue de Clichy, 1887

[Source: Christie's]

Saint-Malo. Bretagne. France

Février 2024