 As you may or may not know, I'm currently visiting france. As I can't turn my brain off, I noticed a few things yesterday, which is the only day I've been here so far. Let's discuss!! First, I got on the train, accompanied by the lovely iggy, and noticed, as always, the incredible amount of graffiti in the train tunnels. But this time, I saw something extra, that I managed to snap a shot of - perhaps a Sega enthusiast making his/her mark, perhaps from the set of the next silent hill. Click for bigger on all images that follow. And yes I'm being a show-off and using the wide angle lens on my new digital camera even when it's not necessary.
 Next, I went to a couple of game stores looking for things like this. The first store we went to was in a small mall of sorts, and their selection was completely limited to newer releases, and a rather paltry selection, at that. Of course 505 Gamestreet's games were impossible to find, but I saw some other interesting things when walking with fabien. The first was the image you see to the left. Dragon Quest 8 is actually the first DQ to come to europe, so it's simply marked Dragon Quest - no number, but sports the subtitle "the odyssee of cursed king". Curious.
 At another (and even worse) game store, after which I learned that the entire nation of france has been using the internet or mail order for its game purchase since the 90s, where I also couldn't find what I wanted, I saw this Dog Trainer thing. It's a pro action replay of sorts for DS, specifically for Nintendogs (and Super Mario 64 DS for some reason). It unlocks all 20 dogs, and gives you some SM64DS codes of some sort. Less interesting, but I'll mention it, they also had the Nintendogs edition which starts you off with Dalmation as a selectable breed...europe exclusive, but unlockable in the others anyway, so not that exciting.
 Last, but most certainly not least, I went to the Centre George Pompidou museum, which had some decent exhibits, and a pink room occupied by flowing silk (billowing with air from accompanying wall-mounted fans), and a giant red high-heeled shoe. But that's not the point. The point is, I saw the series of paintings you see to your left, by françois morellet, born 1926. Check out the identifying card here. The card says that this is a series of six (I didn't capture them all) variations of repeating black and white squares based on the even multiplications of the number pi. But really it's just the only combinations you can make with those squares. And really, it's freaking Lumines. Awesome (and frankly, maybe where he got the idea?). More things as I find them, which might never happen, but also might!
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