Super Flemish by Sacha Goldberger

Star Wars characters and superheroes' pictures would look a little bit different if they lived in the Renaissance era, photographer Sacha Goldberger (Facebook) illustrates in an exhibit. Photographer Sacha Goldberger put cosplayers on display at an exhibit in the Grand Palais in Paris from Nov. 13 to 16. Characters have a Renaissance spin in both the clothing and the ambiance in the photos.

Many of the cosplayers wear ruffs, a ruffled neckpiece men, women, and children wore separately during the latter half of the Renaissance. Dresses are floor-length, and each piece of clothing has detail work in embroidery and patterns, along with puffier sleeves, and many layers of fabric.

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Café Saint-Régis on Île Saint-Louis, Paris in Carin Olsson Photography

Few years ago I spotted an awesome photo (Carin Olsson) of Parisian cafe on Tumblr. This year I had a chance to visit Café Saint-Régis on Île Saint-Louis and admire its shabby chick interior designed by famous French decorator Richard Lafond. His studio completed about 50 projects of restaurant interiors in Paris, but still Saint-Regis is my favourite one hence I need to visit them all.

I want to say a little about this photo. It was made by Carin Olsson who spent 4 months in Paris studying language and apparently caught that "l'art de vivre" fever and moved back to the capital of France once she sorted her things in Stockholm on her short return. Today she is working in Paris as a photographer and occasional writer and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. You must check her portfolio online and on Flickr as well as follow her half-million fans Instagram

Added few photos of my own just to compare how Carin's ones are beautiful :)

Official photos from LAFOND-AD Studio

Sunrise Over Sea

"Sunrise Over Sea" is a project of Carole and Vincent, humble уxplorers and true lovers admiring everything that surrounds them during project assignments or just personal wandering around the world.

Lettering by Vivien Bertin

Paris-based artist shows off her awesome skills in lettering and illustration - meet Vivien Bertin on Behance

Maia Flore

Maia Flore is a French artist born in 1988 and educated at l’Ecole des Gobelins, Paris. Her photography is inspired by what she perceives as the boundaries between reality and unreality. "One way to challenge the mundane everyday is to reveal surprises within it", says Flore.

Hoxton Window by Nairone

Our friend and a resident of Hellohikimori Paris - legendary illustrator and professional master of grafitti tagging mr. Nairone (Instagram) released his nice collaboration done with London based studio UNIT9. Hoxton Square Bar&Kitchen asked them to decorate a huge street window. Watch it below

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Jean-Charles Debroize

Digital manipulator Jean-Charles Debroize plays an art direction role at Kerozen agency. I bet guys there never get tired of creating awesome digital pieces for advertising. Check their best below

http://vimeo.com/86325625

Jung-Yeon Min

Born in S.Korea and living in Paris, Jung-Yeon Min works at the edge of surrealism and abstraction.

"The main characteristic of my works is a kind of duality which finds many ways to express itself: abstract versus realism, ubiquity, diachronicity, microscopic and macroscopic, and so on. I’m always trying to engage in extreme or contrary dialogue. In abstract compositions, some hyperrealistic figures will make you try to find some kind of space, but you will keep wondering if you really have to see it that way, because something flat will try to impeach you. Somehow, you will feel like you are hanging between two worlds."

Paris / New York

"Paris & NY, like many large cities, have a lot in common ; transport, infrastructure, national monuments. I wanted to explore not only these comparisons but also the differences, in order to expose the beauty and individuality of each. What you cannot deny is the vibrancy and explosion of character each city has and I thought split-screen with timelapse would be a good way to help convey this." says director Franck Matellini.

http://vimeo.com/108552265

Cinemagraphs by Julien Douvier

Strasbourg-based photographer Julien Douvier utilizes a variety of techniques to create these beautifully meditative cinemagraphs of urban life and nature. He films and edits every image with an obsessive attention to detail, a fact not lost on several fashion clients that have commissioned Douvier to bring their brands to life recently. You can follow more of his personal and commercial work on Tumblr and on Behance.

Rooftop Dancers by JR

Famous French street artist JR has assembled a cast of forty dancers that he photographed at 56m above the ground, on the rooftop of the Opera Garnier in Paris. Dressed in black and white polka-dot leotards, dancers have played the game and made this ambitious project a reality. via

Glitched Dioramas by Mathieu Schmitt

“Glitched” is a series of 3D printed dioramas in smoked glass cubes by artist Mathieu Schmitt. The artist allows for the 3D model data to become corrupt in such a way that objects are printed slightly deformed. The late-night settings and the misshapen objects create quite an eerie atmosphere.

VuTheara Kham Photography

Paris based commercial photographer beside his awesome shooting sets has an Instagram feed to die for. With over half million of followers VuTheara dreams about the perfect city on Earth. Enjoy your Paris too

Hello World

Futuristic short film directed by Rafael Mathé and Etienne Larragueta. After a deep loading to the near future you can enjoy the moodboards of creators on skhelloworld.tumblr.com "In a close future, a private company developed a technology aimed at boosting our brain capacity. But it requires from its clients to store their memory data on one single server. In this highly controlled world, a young woman has the power to change things."

http://vimeo.com/70608937

Food in 60 seconds

You have never seen food motion video like this. The team of Food Film directors Michael Roulier and Philippe Lhomme together with food stylists Emmanuel Turiot and Gilles Poidevin created a short spot for Marks & Spenser Food. Don't forget to check their portfolio, especially if you work with food photography, pretty awesome examples over there www.foodfilm.fr

http://vimeo.com/105039041

Mural Tattoos by Alex & Marine

Talented French couple of artist Alex & Marine (Facebook) use dot-tattoo technique and gold-leaves stamping to create epic murals for different locations

Parisian rooftops photographed by Michael Wolf

"For a photographer living in a major city filled with iconic architecture, museums, and myriad tourist destinations, the struggle to capture an authentic image is great. This was the exact situation photographer Michael Wolf found himself in after moving to Paris from Hong Kong in 2008. Surrounded in a city filled with sights that could easily be interpreted as cliché, Wolf pointed his camera away from the recognizable landmarks and instead focused on the dense rooftops surrounding the city. Packed with stout chimneys, tv antennas, graffiti, and numerous geometric forms, these shots present a strange abstracted view of a usually recognizable place." text by Colossal

M.A.S.S. Electric Bikes by Philippe Starck + Moustache

French designer Philippe Starck teams up with Moustache Bikes on M.A.S.S., a collection of four four electric two-wheeler bikes presented at Eurobike 2014. The collection is an acronym for the four types of bikes designed for the expo: mud, asphalt, sand and snow. Each comes each equipped with technological specifications that offer users a unique experience in the various riding conditions from which they are named. Complementing the bike collection is a line of custom-made accessories including glasses, gloves and a backpack, alongside a range of helmets done in collaboration with Giro.

via HighSnobiety

Ora-Ïto's Nikeames

French designer Ora-Ïto has developed a conceptual trainer with curved veneer sections to reference the work of Modernist furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames. Ora-Ïto pays tribute to the late American couple with the Nikeames shoe design, which he imagines could be produced by sports brand Nike.

It's an an homage to Charles and Ray Eames' Lounge chair – the most famous one with the wooden shell. The idea was to make a Nike Eames, like the Nike Air but playing with the Eames, translating the language and the forms and the aesthetic of the Eames armchair into a trainer.

Jerome Lagarrigue

Jérôme Lagarrigue is an award-winning French painter and illustrator, living and working in New York. The Franco-American artist combines figuration and abstraction in his paintings, transparencies and dilutions, reliefs and layers, in order to capture the double dimension of existence.