Culture Buzz Are you feeling depressed? Need a little more Vitamin D in your life? Then Bora Bora has the (conceptual) pill for you! The design was created for the Festival of Lights exhibition at Gallery Tator in Lyon, France where it was actually revealed in a pharmacy. (via designboom.com)
Culture Buzz French artist Gentil Garçon worked with paleontologist François Escuilié to form an IRL skull of the pellet-gobbling video game icon. Where the pellets go afterward, we're still unsure.
Style Buzz Excuse me…I mean “The 53 Most Ridiculous Outfits From Paris Couture Week.” Pardonnez-moi.
Celebrity Buzz Because sexualized photos of a prepubescent girl are completely normal, concern over the exploitation of 10-year-old Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau has been dismissed as American puritanism. She's from the Ivory Coast, has been featured in Vogue and has a slightly disturbing online fan base (although Tumblr seems to have taken down at least one of the blogs that was set up as an ick-inducing shrine to her). Go ahead and slap a buckle on my hat and call me Calvin, because this is creepy as hell. (via thegloss.com)
Culture Buzz Quirky, clever, with a great sense of humor. Let me introduce you to OaKoAk, a “French artist who likes to play with urban elements,” according to his site.
Like eating warm what now? Although, honestly, you had me at “crispy skin off fried chicken.”
French is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on French.
Amazing video of something called “Jeux Olympiques des Pompiers” (“Olympic Games of the Firefighters”), in which Frenchmen in tights do incredible feats of skill with ladders, hoses and fire. How do you say 'badass” in French? Oh. Babel Fish is telling me “mauvais âne.” Sorry to bother you with that easily answered question.
Celebrity Buzz While photos of Christina Aguilera making out with Matthew Rutler have been grabbing all the headlines, the unsung hero in all of this is the poor chauffeur who had front row tickets to the sticky bout of tonsil hockey. As the horror slowly dawns upon him, the contortions of his face are amazing.
Celebrity Buzz Photos of Alexa Nikolas making out with young women have emerged online. In one of them she's of course making out with Vanessa Hudgens. Nikolas is apparently a star of the Nickelodeon show Zoey 101. There are a few more shots of her making out with people who are probably not Vanessa Hudgens. Some even raunchier pictures of Hudgens have surfaced, but you can find those over at Egotastic.
Culture Buzz This is how mixed media is done! Pacaud describes his life and goals as follows: “Before becoming an illustrator, I was, by turns : an astrophysician, an international snooker player, a hypnotist and an esperanto teacher. I hope I can someday have enough free time to devote myself to my real passion : time travel.”
A man proudly displays his yeasty offering. Baker's dozen? More like baker's eighteen! Heyo!
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A British tourist spends a night trapped in a French town hall after mistakenly thinking she could book a room at the “hotel de ville”.
Music Buzz Unless you were introduced to this baby popstar in your middle school French class like I was, you might not know of Jordy Lemoine — the world's youngest singer ever to have a #1 single. At four, his song 'Dur Dur D'etre un Bébé' ('It's Hard Being a Baby') hit the charts, leading not only to charges child exploitation, but some of the most incredible live performances of all time.
Movie Buzz The nice people at Videogum asked a high-school freshman to translate this French trailer. If you took French in high school and/or have overlapping interests in Coco Chanel and LOLCats, this is the language-humor video for you! If not, sorry, I couldn't not post this.
Culture Buzz After being beaten by the EU and Europium, a small French town called “Eu” is changing its name to improve its Google ranking. There will be a vote where residents will be allowed to choose from new names such as Ville d’Eu (Town of EU), Eu-le-Château and Eu-en-Normandie. “Ville de Boobs” also has a nice ring to it.
This starts out like a whimsical little French cartoon about the joys of having coffee in the morning. Then it kind of takes a turn for the crazy.
A French prankster took to the streets in his own real life Mario Kart race, and he even brought his own bananas! Good first place finish, too. That'll bring home the trophy.