l'atelier de shimony

Jonathan Shimony is the professor of my art class- "materials and techniques of the masters"
His studio is in the suburb right outside, south, of the city. the location is considered very "FAR" if you ask any true parisians, afterall, its in zone 2 (AHHHH!!!). but in reality? its really only 10mins rer ride from st-michel notre-dame, which is bascially the heart of paris (and where i live, HA).
anyway, he's invited us to have classes in his studio instead of our regular "classroom", which is a room in the back of a church thats leased to aup. we are contracted to keep it pristine and clean so that makes it hard for us to really go crazy with the paint.
today was our last class at the studio and i went prepared. i brought my camera and asked to photograph the place. he agreed and said if i manage to sell any of his works, i can even get commission. so there, peeps- show some love.

student: is your wife french?
shimony: no, worse
(questioning stares from everyone)
shimony: she's parisian

SCENE

secret du jour

so i've been kind of selfish- holding back a itty bitty secret from everyone. when i talked about how my great my week was, i skipped the bit where i went to a really cool photography show that made my day. but now that i've been to colette and saw the show+got my own copy of the limited edition book, time to spill. afterall, sharing is caring right?

drumroll please......THE SELBY
how cool is this guy? if you already knew this, GOOD FOR YOU. if not, please go check it out. i stumbled onto this website when there were only a couple of entries and now its huge.
go on there regularly to check his updates
or even better? add yourself to his mailing list and let the goodies come to you.

alright, now that i've told you, run, not walk to colette if you are in paree. if not, no worries, the selby got his show on camera, its all online.

photo credit: the selby