Waiting for the bus.

We got the mother and the kids
We got the guy and his date
We all get mad
We all get late
Looks like somebody forgot about us
Standin on the corner
Waitin' for a bus
Say hey mister driver man
Don't be slow
Cause I got somewhere I gotta go
Say hey mister driver man
Drive that thing fast
My precious time keep slippin' past
Lets call the mayor lets complain
Looks like the city's done to us again
Tied up in traffic what'ya know
The damn city bus moves so slow
I said hey mister driver now man
Don't be slow
Cause I got somewhere I gotta go
Said hey mister driver man
Drive that thing fast
My precious time keep slippin' past 

Lyrics for Waiting for the Bus by Violent Femmes

"The Bus Will Come" image taken in Paris by Eric Miyeni

Available from the Cow Artworks

Boulevard Diderot, Paris - 1969

"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again.

We cannot develop and print a memory. "

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Boulevard Diderot, Paris - 1969

A Letter from Paris

"A Letter from Paris" is Eric Miyeni's first foray into the world of photography as a professional.  He is a self-taught photographer who picked up the camera more than 20 years ago and went on about learning the craft, photographing friends, family and anything he found interesting until 2008, when he went to Paris and got inspired to produce "A Letter from Paris", a book that Miyeni calls "a stillsfilm-word documentary on the city of Paris".

Miyeni was born in Soweto in South Africa in 1966.  He attained a Bachelor of Arts (Law) degree from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal in 1987.  Choosing not to enter the legal profession, Miyeni entered the creative world of communications by working as a copywriter for the then award-winning advertising agency D'arcy Massius Benton and Bowles.

His professional passion, communications, has seen his career  span the world of radio as a talk show host on SAfm, television - Molo Fish - actor and film (Cry The beloved Country).  He wrote O'Mandingo! The only Black at a Dinner Party and the stage play - Twisted and Vile in which he acted and directed.

Eric's images from Paris are exclusively available from The Cow Artworks in Parkhurst.

Les Deux Magots

Movement by Eric Miyeni, Paris 2007.

Les Deux Magots is a famous cafe in the Saint Germain des Pres area of Paris.
It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual elite of the city. Its historical reputation is derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus and Pablo Picasso.

The Longchamp Racecourse

 is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Built on the banks of the Seine River, the first ever race run at Longchamp was on Sunday, April 27, 1857. The emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugenie were present, having sailed down the Seine River on their private yacht to watch the race.

A number of prominent artists have painted horse racing scenes at Longchamp. The photograph was below was taken in 1958 and the model is dressed in Givenchy.

Moments in time

Waiters lined up at the windows of the dining room of the Grand Hotel in Paris to watch Norwegian ice skating champion Sonja Henie