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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No please direct me to more information about this I’m unfamiliar with it….but interested!

Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But I’d also like to think that every individual’s impact is far greater than that - call it the butterfly effect - but I do always visit Pere Lachaise and visit Apollonaires grave: he invented a term I use every day: surreal!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When I first visited France it was Poitiers (figure that out! 😹) and in the cathedral there were all these panels reading “merci” from WW1. Even in Pere Lachaise so many monuments are so weathered by nature (not human memory) that this must just be the way things are.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In a tiny universe for the enormity of such experiences.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I mean this is true of all of us: someday someone will take down all of the photographs on my bulletin board and toss them in a dumpster erasing decades of memories. But perhaps that erasure is necessary for new generations to have spaces for their own memories. There is only so much space

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A minor actress in the 1930s and a theater director in the 1950s in Paris, she died in relative obscurity. But last night, after figuring out who she was, I realized I probably was the only person on earth today remembering Germaine. She must have lived such an extraordinary life!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Three years ago I found these pictures in a pile of trash on a corner in the 19th eme of Paris. Turns out this is actress Germaine Rodger (1910-1975). I had forgotten I placed them in a book and they fell out last night. Made me think about memory and remembrance.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The friends I met (gave a cat face to a friend’s kid due to privacy issues but how incredibly lucky I am to have friends like this around the world?)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Montmartre at dusk is the most beautiful thing you can experience on earth.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It was amazing to be able to experience this.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I found a spot in Venice where I was just so lucky to be there.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was so lucky to have had the chance to get to know Paris.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yes the canicules were terrible this year. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Paris and it just will get worse. I did my best by going to pools (Pallieron the 19th, the great pool at Butte aux Callies-and even the Seine, Canal Saint Martin, and other places!)

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah getting banned for at least 5 years from Schengen is not something I want to do. But it was great to spend this time in France with friends and colleagues.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No I had to get out of the Schengen and am back in Philadelphia but I miss Paris so much!!! Hope you are doing well!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My mother with Gloria Steinem…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes and in 2005. He must have applied distortions and other techniques but it was amazing. When I met him he did an installation at a cathedral at Chicago where there werev3 panels: left a woman giving birth, middle a man floating in water, and the right, a woman (his mom) dying. Was incredible.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It was amazing. One of the top ten art experiences of my life. Close behind on the third floor of the bourse was Bill Viola (who I once had dinner with at the university of Chicago but who passed last year) piece Fire woman. Breathtaking.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

View from the Ligne 6 line from Dupleix to Bir Hakeim in Paris. Feels very cinematic with this Max Richter music.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Climbed a mountain or at least a very big hill in the Puy du Dôme region in France near Clermont Ferrand with my colleague Cederic Bouquet.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I was on a train from Clermont Ferrand to Paris during the eclipse.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne France

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sunrise in Montmartre in Paris. I will always for the rest of my life be amazed and astounded that a friend offered me this opportunity to experience all of this.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Morning in Montmartre in Paris.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Note that these are raw image files. No editing, adjusting, etc - this was exactly what it was like.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah folks sometimes make that mistake but I am far more pro transit than the jerk I share a name with. Go birds.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Here are some still images from the Fujiko Nakaya piece at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Went yesterday to the Bourse de Commerce in Paris to see Fujiko Nakaya’s piece “Cloud 07156” in which the rotunda filled with clouds. It was amazing. Here is a timelapse…it was probably the best work of modern art I’ve experienced.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The pool at Butte Aux Cailles in Paris. They should be winning Olympic records going at these speeds!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I didn’t add sound to this video: there was a busker playing the violin on the car that I was on! Still has to be the best view from any train on earth.

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ChrisInParis @chrisinparis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sad update, my beautiful Blini passed in her sleep. She had a number of health issues and a recent surgical procedure (that was necessary) plus the heatwaves were all too much. She passed quietly at night at home. Mimo is so far doing ok. Blini got me through many difficult times, I miss her dearly

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There is always Barbes market I love the prices but prefer Anvers market! Next time we hang out I have to tell you all about the counterfeit museum there is so much to discuss about this.

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I know! But I got my hair cut from the guy last summer and it was one of the best cuts I’ve ever had. I looked - I’m not going to say good because at my age no one looks good - but respectable - for months!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I should have taken pictures of them!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is mundane but Got my hair cut by a guy @chrisinparis.bsky.social suggested who is Arabic, doesn’t speak a word of English but has a cool shop with Budgerigar birds inside. Really nice guy who gives a great haircut in case you’re in need of one in Paris 9th / 18th…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I love it but I love even more remote parts of Paris: the coulee vert, the Rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles, these places are amazing!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Walked like 40k steps today because showing a lot of Montmartre is up and down hills! So my feet are killing but it was worth it!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Truly is the best station on earth. You have the 2 and the 4…where else do you need to go? 😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Was here after having pho in Belleville. What a beautiful view of Paris! But is there any not beautiful view of Paris? 😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Spent the afternoon with a former student Debrille who was in Paris for a day and is now a professor at the University of Washington! Gave a tour of Montmartre. Was great to reminisce and talk. She is working on amazing things. We also happened to have been born in the same hospital years apart!

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Up the street some Spanish fans were celebrating in Paris…

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Or they stay sufficiently below the waterline so that we never know it. I mean it’s the pool problem: if you know there was a corpse in a pool you’d never swim there, but you know there are many corpses in the ocean and folks do, so there is a ratio of corpses to water volume that is acceptable….

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One of the new ones. Very nice but I may also try the one by the Eiffel Tower! (Once I know I don’t have an ear infection but I think I am okay. No corpses at least today that I know of…)😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Work like a charm! This one was by Paris Plages and is such a nice location. I think it may take some convincing but you’ll be glad you did it! 😹

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Sean Duffy @profduff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I was thinking of going there today to a pool I very much like by Juares station but instead headed south to the Seine pool for a change! Let me know if you ever want to hang out I’m here for another month and am always looking for people to talk with!

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