Holy cocks, can this really be real? This is the most fabulous thing in the history of things.
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.Officers admit they are at a loss to know who built or used one of Paris's most intriguing recent discoveries.
Who would build a secret cinema...underground?
(Via Amygdala.)
UPDATE: The cinema was the work of a secret society of French persons, and not of talking comic-strip animals. Their spokesperson claims there may be as many as 10 similar societies tooling around underneath Paris in the name of art, which just goes to show that the French are extremely fucking cool.
(Via Boing Boing.)
This is probably a good time to mention that you can find lots of similarly-cool stuff over at Infiltration, the site of an urban-exploration zine based in Canada.
ANOTHER UPDATE (9/13): Today the Independent has a nice little article on the Parisian catacombs and their history. Here is the Seattle Urban Exploration Meetup Group. Seattle has its own underground; this outfit runs tours, but the site doesn't contain much of interest. I hear the tour itself is quite interesting, though. Here we find a brief account of the history, but it's all a bit glib. I should investigate.
Posted by aloysius at September 12, 2004 11:17 AM | TrackBack |