{"id":396,"date":"2017-03-22T06:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2017-03-22T07:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:47:39","slug":"interesting-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/interesting-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Weekend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been quite an active time these past few days &#8211; everything started with the concert of <strong>Marta Ren &amp; the Groovelets<\/strong> at the Cri&rsquo;Art in Auch. She&rsquo;s Portuguese, as are the rest of her group, and sings in English. A BIG voice, loads of talent, and the concert was very good &#8211; but I think the thing that surprised me the most was to find her behind the wheel of the van they had rented to drive to Auch from Barcelona!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Marta-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Marta-1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Marta-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Marta-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Marta-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met another photographer at the concert &#8211; he had made the trip from Bayonne on the West coast, and judging by his Facebook page after the concert, wasn&rsquo;t too impressed with our smoke machine&#8230;can&rsquo;t please everybody &#8211; interestingly for me, he&rsquo;s only published one photo of the concert&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was a beautiful sunny day, and a good excuse to visit Toulouse where the latest photo exhibition is now showing at the Chateau d&rsquo;Eau. The only interesting part was in Gallery Two where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romainlaurendeau.com\">Romain Laurendeau\u00a0<\/a>was showing \u00ab\u00a0<strong>Bab El Oued<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb a very powerful series of B&amp;W images photographed in Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>We also visited the Augustins Museum &#8211; something neither of us had ever done! Beautiful building and very interesting\/photogenic exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-6-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-6-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Sunday-6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday I had a rendezvous with <strong>La Mondiale G\u00e9n\u00e9rale<\/strong> &#8211; a circus company in residence here in Auch. Nice people and interesting elements which will all go towards\u00a0the spectacle \u00ab\u00a0Le Gros Sabordage\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0in the not too distant future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mondiale-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mondiale-3-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mondiale-3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mondiale-3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mondiale-3-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, a full weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been quite an active time these past few days &#8211; everything started with the concert of Marta Ren &amp; the Groovelets at the Cri&rsquo;Art in Auch. She&rsquo;s Portuguese, as are the rest of her group, and sings in English. A BIG voice, loads of talent, and the concert was very good &#8211; but I think &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/interesting-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Interesting Weekend&#8230;&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}