The only pure capturing of last night’s Eiffel Tower eruptions….no commentary, no title cards. And I don’t think it’s fake. It looks and sounds “real.” Things have almost gotten to a point in which you can’t trust anything you find on YouTube. Everything, it seems, has been AI-tweaked or AI-enhanced. It’s all AI cartoons.
I post this every year, but no New Year’s Eve celebration of any kind will ever match what the kids and I saw in front of the Eiffel Tower when 1999 gave way to 2000. A bit dippy from champagne and standing about two city blocks in front of the Eiffel Tower and watching the greatest fireworks display in history. And then walking all the way back to Montmartre with thousands on the streets after the civil servants shut the Metro down at 1 a.m. No cabs anywhere. We didn’t arrive home at our rue Durantin pad until 2:30 am.