So Long My Super Hero

The Super Hero, The Super Here and The Little Boxes

Rise and Shine my Super Hero

Wine Festival - Limassol

The ugly Snow-white that I have bought yesterday at the wine festival and put in font of the sad panda. (They will never look into each other’s eyes)

Pass on this - The Knife

Earthquake in Cyprus as testified by the gay crowd of MIRC some hours ago… Ridiculous metaphors, outrageous analysis and hilarious reactions

ati8asos: seismos
ati8asos: ton niosate?
Bassnik: nai
bidude: ne
ati8asos: 8a tak anw pano mou
Bassnik: ypervoles
Bassnik: enas mikros itan
_giwrgos_: ahahahahahaha
bidude: oi j mikros ego pu ime psila etaraktika olokliros
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ati8asos: m2
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Bassnik: einai pou de noiwsate alithines doniseis
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bidude: elate se mena na tis niosete
g00d_m: eginike sismos? i ezalistika pou tin polli ora sto pc??
SuperHero: no itan polla cool
SuperHero: arese mou
SuperHero: :)
Gyulian27: nai
Odric: seismos pedia
Gyulian27: alla kapou prepi na itane pio dinatos
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ati8asos: an klisw mati apopse na mou ftisete
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bidude: u kala intalos kamnis etsi gia lio susma
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ati8asos: mou emine fovos apo tous seismous
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ati8asos: eimouan a8ina otan eginan oi megaloi seismi ekei
_giwrgos_: je\
_giwrgos_: en se katapian oi sismoi ekei?
_giwrgos_: krima pu egirises
ati8asos: san na me exei axti toutos o giorgos?
bidude: san na mu ne
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ati8asos: i katzia 8a tou minei:)
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thiliprepisl: kanis apo limassol
thiliprepisl: oh yeah fuck
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gtogto: kapios apo ( lar -paralimni?)
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Busby Berkeley

The Polka Dot Polka

The Lady In The Tutti-Frutti Hat

Footlight Parade

Happy Birthday Hollywood

Buchenwald, Germany: Concentration Camps; "Man stands next to pile of dead bodies, Christmas wreaths in background"

From the "Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum" website

Pile up my body (from the flicr)

Leaving Prague

A Carpet waiting to be exposed at Manes Arts Center and a Carpet at the side of a street waiting to be taken away

The party is over

(and the new work is to be edited)

night walk

Back to Prague for five days

Karagiozis at Agios Mamas vilage (With Eleni, Christos, Vasilis and Maria)

There was nothing and in the end there will be nothing again…

...I feel like a hotel which rooms are almost empty nowadays. Some of the guests have left something behind but they've taken more…

With Leena and Alexis at Lofou

Je t'aime (Elvina Makarian and the golden salsa dancers)

A theory of the 80s form the 80s… (Night of 100 Stars - Diamond Fashion Show - 1985)

Joan Collins is analysing the connections between fashion and the entertainment industry




“Most of us who enjoy beautiful clothes, are attracted by a color or a silhouette or a lashes fabric, we don’t spend a lot of time wandering what influenced the designer who created the outfit that we are covered, but influences that certainly are and through the years arguably one of the biggest has come from music and the entertainment industries Even if we perhaps didn’t realized it is having an effect. Take the wals for example, which became very popular here in the mid 19th century. In 1800 women wearing long constricting ungulate skirts but by the time of the civil war, thank goodness, Miss Scarlet had a hoop skirt to dance in. Then in 1910 along came the turkey trot with those tiny mincing steps and fashion provided the perfect skirt for it. The 20’s brought the Charleston that little dance brought shorter skirts fast and this fashion influences on and on… the tangos of the 30s and those marvelous slim satins the jitter box of the 40s and the swing skirts and bobby socks and the gogo girl of the 60s with the tinny mini skirt. But now, here we are in the 80s and the spectrum of the available entertainment is so wild is so varied that one might wonder what the influence will be this time… Wonder no more… Let the glittering diamond fashion show begin”

Brenda Dickson "Welcome To My Home"

Brenda Dickson is "welcoming" us in her house…. An aggressive épopée of the 80’s… “well hello”…

Back to Cyprus - Christos, my dear friend

Letna Hill

There are two tourist guides that I use in all my tourist activities here in Prague, as I hope this will enable a more essential–vertical in time- understanding of the evident scenery of the city. The 1st guide is a rather recent publication and was given to me by Honza (as he went to the countryside for a few days and was feeling rather guilty for having deprived me of his services as my local guide). I found the second guide in Ms Vladimira's house; it was published in 1973 and it includes a welcome to the guests to the "most beautiful part of Czechoslovakia, the city of Prague"…
As both of them address international tourists, it is rather difficult for a person to accept that they do actually refer to the same city.

Today my two guides took me up to Letna Hill, one of the mounds of Prague that offer an impressive view to the river Vltava and to the old city. The topography and organization of the hill (which nowadays functions as a park where locals engage in several activities, and which hosts many restaurants that are often visited by tourists) grants you some sort of awkward self-consciousness from the very first moment. One's body is found penned in an extraordinarily structured landscape whose "structure" is not derived from clearly urban planning intentions but is rather manifested as the effect of a series of reorganizations (and of the decision made to carry them out in a chain….in this single landscape)! So, as soon as you turn your back to the old town and decide to enter into the survey of the complex century from which you have just stepped out, you need to first clarify you odd relation to the scale. That is not to say with the scale that is evidently manifested before your eyes, but with the scale that has evidently been removed. It becomes clear from the very first moment that what is important about this landscape is that which is not visible (not any more).

The largest group statue in Europe, measuring 15.5 metere in height and 22 meters in length and weighing 17000 tons, was once revealed on this hill – on the huge marble pedestal, which is rescued up to this day. The monument honoring Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin depicts the Soviet leader amidst a crowd of workers. It took Sculptor Otakar Svec and 600 workers 6years of all-day work to complete this work, which is accompanied by series of dark details/coincidences (as for example that Otakar Svec committed suicide the day before the statue reveal and that suicides of others who were also related to the history of the monument followed). The monument was never welcomed by the city. Its completion coincided with the period of de-Stalinization and amounted to shame for the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia until 1962 when after the suggestion of the Soviet Union 800kg of dynamite were used to destroy it.

From 1991 onwards, there exists a meager metronome on the same spot, verifying thus the increasing function of time, which cannot however hamper a series of natural regressions in this intense, in terms of rethinking,piece of earth.


A signboard on the foundation of the metronome says: "The Metronome, the work
of sculptor Vratislav Novák was erected in 1991 atop the
massive stone plinth that originally served as the base for the
monument to Soviet leader Josef Vissarionovich Stalin. Work began on
Prague's Stalin monument towards the end of 1949, and in May 1955, it
was finally unveiled. The largest group sculpture in Europe during its
existence, the monument had a reinforced-concrete structure faced with
235 granite blocks, weighing 17,000 tonnes and costing 140 million
crowns to complete. The gigantic composition, by sculptor Otakar Švec
and the architects Jiří and Vlasta (his wife) Štursa, did not tower
for long over the medieval center of Prague: in connection with Soviet
criticism of Stalin's "cult of personality," the work was dynamited
and removed towards the end of 1962."

After the removal of the Stalin monument the empty space of the pedestal was used for a series of historically contradictory functions, the most extreme being the erection of the 35meter long statue of Michael Jackson during his "History" European tour, an act in response to the importance of the historicity, but also in confirmation of its end. Moments of analogous manifestation may also be documented in the filming of the epic Michael Jackson concert in Bucharest. 

Nowadays the empty space has found a natural functionality which seems to be an even greater orchestrated underlining of the obvious than the Michael Jackson marketing center intention. The pedestal now functions as the point where local skateboarders practice on a daily basis in an endless –identical rhythm and an impressive space organization that reminds of a choreography. With the basic motives being fall and recovery, virtuosity, failure but also accomplishment, the whole activity could be understood as a metaphor on history and as the resolution of a different (his)story in this so 'heavy' square piece of earth.

Surprise

Today, I met by accident my friends Elina Evelyn and Giorgos in Prague. We went to Café Slavia and drank Absinthe shots under the Absinthe Lady and the miserable poet.