Quite the ‘Spectre’ as James Bond cars parade through Paris [Video]

In a spectacular display to promote the latest 007 movie Spectre, a veritable cavalcade of James Bond cars paraded down the Champs Elysée and past the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday.

 

There were almost 20 cars in the parade from the Sunbeam Alpine that starred in the 1962 Dr No film, to the Aston Martin DB10 (pictured above) driven by 007 in the James Bond movie Goldfinger right through to the newer edition to be driven by James Bond in Spectre.

After standing on display at the Arc de Triomphe in the heart of the French capital, they slowly and elegantly made their way down the Champs Elysée, passing the Eiffel Tower on Sunday.

One car that was missing from the parade was the famous submarine car from the 1977 James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

The wonderfully iconic James Bond cars made a spectacular sight in Paris, as can be seen from the video at the end of  this article.

The newest addition to the 007 movies, Spectre, will be released in the UK on October 26 and in the US on November 6, with Daniel Craig in his last starring role as the iconic "Bond... James Bond."



Source: The Local
Photo: 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon courtesy Michael Schäfer CC by SA 3.0

Italian artist looking for needle in a haystack ... literally

We've probably all heard the term "like looking for a needle in a haystack," particularly in the case of something that is impossible to find.  Well, an artist in Italy has decided that he is going to do just that, find a needle in haystack as part of a performance art installation.

27-year-old Sven Sachsalber will be doing this during a performance at Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art gallery in Paris, France, on Thursday and Friday this week.  Whether he will find the needle in those two days remains to be seen.

The museum head, Jean de Loisy, will be placing the needle in the haystack, and then Sachsalber will do his best to find it.

Sachsalber is apparently an adept of extreme performances.  In the past he has spent 24 hours in his room in the company of a cow.  On another occasion, he ate a poisonous mushroom, and yet another he cut all the branches from a tree on which he was perched at the time.

Photo: Courtesy Palais de Tokyo

Frenchman offers himself on 'Amazon' with a creative CV

These days it can be hard to find a job, so a Parisian decided to come up with a brand new idea for offering his services. A mock Amazon.com web page offering himself for bids, which is now going viral online. 

Philippe Dubost is looking for a job, based on his skills as a web product manager. Its a difficult market these days, with so much unemployment. However, what better way for a web product manager to find a position than to offer himself as a, well, web product? 

Potential employers are urged to visit his "Amazon-like" web page and bid for his services. He originally put a price of $999,999, but has now struck it out, urging potential employers to make their own offers, and also urging "buyers" to "order soon", as there is "only one left in stock".

The page is very well laid out, and includes his photo, and full details of skills and experience and even personal information about languages spoken, height etc. He even added his best marathon time, and as a fun "frequently bought together" option he added running shoes (which are sold on Amazon) and also airline tickets.

Adding Dubost to your "cart" will give you a form to contact him, and to show his willingness to travel, he mentions under "shipping" that “This item is available for shipping anywhere in the world!”

Dubost told The Independent, "I wanted to do something fun. Résumés are not fun. They're not fun to write, not fun to read."

"I thought it would be fun to build a small web product that would feel a little bit like a game you could interact with, like those baby toys where every button you push makes a different noise."

It seems his efforts were worthwhile, as after the online CV went viral, he received offers of various job opportunities from around 100 employers.

"So many awesome companies, projects, entrepreneurs, I'm starting to feel like a spoilt kid with too many toys," he added. "And yes, among those there are indeed a few opportunities that match what I'm looking for and that I'm going to pursue."

Unemployment continues to rise in France where the number of jobless has increased for the 19th consecutive month, affecting at least 3 million people in the country.

To the source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342242