Archive for August, 2012

Biodynamic Wine – A Step Beyond

Sunday, August 5th, 2012
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Guillaume Bodin, Filmmaker

Guillaume Bodin, Filmmaker
Photograph courtesy of Guillaume Bodin

Young French filmmaker Guillaume Bodin has produced a video on the world of biodynamic wine. Entitled La Clef des Terroirs, the film is scheduled to be released on DVD for North American audiences at the end of the year under the title Wine: The Green Revolution. Read about Bodin’s passion for this wine and about the biodynamic wine movement in France in this month’s Paris Insights.

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Frontal Nudity

Saturday, August 4th, 2012
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The Temptation of Eve

The Temptation of Eve

This striking figure of Eve once graced the north portal of the Saint-Lazare Cathedral in the town of Autun. Dating from the early 12th century, the work is attributed to an artist named Gislebertus. It has been called “the first large-scale nude in European art since antiquity.” This copy on display in the Cité d’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.

If one looks closely at the right-hand side of the sculpture, one can see three fingers of the devil’s claw holding the branch of the apple tree that he extends to Eve. She seems to be absentmindedly plucking the forbidden fruit.

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