Miniature Paris replica made from trash

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 21, 2008 10:39 PM | permalink

Gerard Brion's garden in the south France town of Vaissac contains a replica of Paris built from junk, trash, glue and paint.

The Frenchman, 29, has spent 15 years crafting landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Sacré Coeur out of old concrete blocks, baby food jars and soup tins.

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#1 posted by Antinous , June 21, 2008 10:57 PM

Hmmmm. I wonder if Sandford has made this a sister city.

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#2 posted by Kayembee , June 22, 2008 12:39 AM

Here is a track through related posts and pics for Gerard Brion's work.

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By the way a track is a great way for leading the way form page to page with comments. At the end of the jog the reader lands back on the initial post...

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#3 posted by Evil Jim , June 22, 2008 3:39 AM

Please excuse the crudity of the design as I did not have time to build it to scale.

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#4 posted by leonjacobs , June 22, 2008 5:47 AM

I aint never seen a soup tin shaped like the Tour d'Eiffel!

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#5 posted by avar1ce , June 22, 2008 6:44 AM

Typcl Frnchy.

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#6 posted by eustace , June 22, 2008 10:15 AM

Next, on a somewhat larger lot, he builds it to a larger scale. Repeat. Eventually, Parisians don't know which city they live in, and don't care.

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#7 posted by ployntabs , June 22, 2008 12:18 PM

Amazing. The photos in the link are worth the click.

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#8 posted by tlang , June 22, 2008 5:08 PM

He's 29? So he started when he was 14? Is it his parents' backyard? He looks more like around 43 to me. Very WACKY, either way.

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#9 posted by Antinous , June 22, 2008 5:12 PM

He is a rather grown-up 29. But the French are more sophisticated than the Americans, non?

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#10 posted by psychicrabbit , June 23, 2008 2:02 AM

Maybe a little crazy, but funny anyway. Spider-Man hanging from the Eiffel tower shows he's got a nice sense of humor.

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#11 posted by Enochrewt , June 23, 2008 6:44 AM

I'm very impressed, and he looks so happy. Well, maybe he should be if he charges for all those people to see it.

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#12 posted by Jupiter12 , June 23, 2008 10:21 AM

He is a rather grown-up 29. But the French are more sophisticated than the Americans, non?
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Building scale models makes a person more sophisticated? That's great news for model railroad builders!

The gentleman's work is very impressive. The photos are incredible.