The extravagant athletic dances of Miriam Lavelle

From "Meet the People" (1944)


From "Seven Days Ashore" (1944)


From "Vodvil Series 3, No. 6" (short film, 1946)

Miriam Lavelle on IMDB

Rainbow in the sky over Vitabergsparken

The happy little lassie with the classy chassis - Joy Damon (1948)

Strawberries from Djurgården

"The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find."

Είμαστε χαμένοι από χέρι - Ελένη Βιτάλη (Eleni Vitali)

Να αποφυλακιστεί άμεσα ο Θοδωρής Ηλιόπουλος - Release Thodoris Iliopoulos

English text following

To: Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης / Ministry of justice
ΑΠΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΘΟΔΩΡΗ ΗΛΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ

Ο Θοδωρής Ηλιόπουλος συνελλήφθη στις 18 Δεκέμβρη 2008 στην οδό Ακαδημίας στην Αθήνα μετά από τυφλή επιχείρηση των ΜΑΤ , οπως επιβεβαιώνουν με τις καταθέσεις μάρτυρες και δημοσιογράφοι.

Από τις 22 Δεκεμβρίου βρίσκεται προφυλακισμένος στις Δικαστικές Φυλακές Κορυδαλλού κατηγορούμενος για 3 κακουργήματα και 2 πλημμελήματα.

Οι κατηγορίες στηρίζονται αποκλειστικά στις μαρτυρίες δύο αστυνομικών των ΜΑΤ. Ο Θοδωρής από την πρώτη στιγμή έχει αρνηθεί τις κατηγορίες και φωνάζει για την αθωότητά του μέσω επιστολών και συνεντεύξεων του στα ΜΜΕ.

Οι αιτήσεις του για άρση της προσωρινής του κράτησης απορρίπτονται σκανδαλωδώς με αποκορύφωμα την 8η Ιουλίου όπου το Συμβούλιο Πλημμελειοδικών αποφάσισε με βούλευμα τη συνέχιση της κράτησης του ακόμη 6 μήνες στην φυλακή προσθέτοντας αυθαιρέτως στο κατηγορητήριο κι άλλα επιβαριντικά στοιχεία. Είναι το μόνο βούλευμα που αποφάσισε εξακολούθηση της κράτησης για μια τέτοια υπόθεση, όταν όλοι οι υπόλοιποι προφυλακισμένοι από τα γεγονότα του Δεκέμβρη, με ίδιες ή και άλλες κατηγορίες , έχουν όλοι αποφυλακιστεί.

Έπειτα από την απόρριψη κάθε νομικής διαδικασίας για τη άρση της προφυλάκισης του ξεκίνησε απεργία πείνας την Παρασκευή 10 Ιουλίου στην φυλακή ,

«Κατεβαίνω σε απεργία πείνας. Είναι το μόνο μέσο που μου έμεινε σαν κρατούμενος για να φωνάξω την αλήθεια και να καταγγείλω την τεράστια αδικία. Να καταγγείλω το μίσος και την εμπάθεια των μηχανισμών του «ποινικού νόμου». Να καταγγείλω την αυθαιρεσία και τη βία μιας τυφλής «δικαιοσύνης» και των ακόμη περισσότερο «τυφλών» υπαλλήλων της.».

Θοδωρής Ηλιόπουλος
Γι' αυτό, εμείς που υπογράφουμε αυτό το κείμενο, απαιτούμε την άμεση αποφυλάκιση του Θοδωρή Ηλιόπουλου για να σταματήσει επιτέλους(!) η κατάφωρη αδικία εναντίον του.

Ο ΘΟΔΩΡΗΣ ΗΛΙΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΠΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΤΕΙ ΤΩΡΑ!

http://www.petitiononline.com/tokeli41/

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For the release of Thodoris Iliopoulos

Thodoris Iliopoulos was arrested on the 18th of December 2008 in Academia Street in Athens after a blind hit of the police special-forces, according to witnesses and journalists who were on the spot.

He has been held in custody since the 22nd of December in Korydallos remand prisons being charged for 3 crimes and 2 misdemeanors. The charges are based exclusively on the testimonies of two special-forces policemen. Thodoris has been denying all charges from the very beginning and he has been protesting for his innocence by writing letters and giving interviews to the media. All his requests for being released are rejected so far. On the 8th of July the Magistrates' Council ordered the continuation of his custody for 6 months by adding arbitrarily more incriminating evidence in the original indictment, while all the other people who have been in custody, charged with similar or other accusations for the December events, have been released. After all legal procedures for his release have been rejected he started a hunger strike in prison on Friday, the 10th of July.

"I am going on a hunger strike. This is the only means I was left with as a prisoner in order to protest for the truth and denounce the enormous injustice, the hate and the empathy of the mechanisms of the 'criminal law', the arbitrariness and the violence of a blind 'justice' and of its servants who are even more 'blind'".

Thodoris Iliopoulos

For this reason, we, the people who sign this text, demand the direct release of Thodoris Iliopoulos so that there will be an end to this outrageous injustice against him.

Thodoris Iliopoulos must be released now!

http://www.petitiononline.com/tokeli41/

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We can't resolve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

Lady

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

Pride

Rocky Roberts - Sono Tremendo (1968)

Interview with Fransesca Boenzi in Mousse Magazine

Today in Zurick: A last flare-up of heroism before the final decadence - The John Institute

The John Institute presents

A Last Flare-Up of Heroism Before Decadence
An Evening in the Park

Elisabeth Bronfen & Beat Wyss
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Gregory Markoupolos
Silvie Zürcher

Pavillon at Platzspitz-Park, Zurich
15 August 2009, 5-12PM

Within the discussion on male role models in art, our emphasis in the third edition of an exhibition by The John Institute will be theatrical and social roles of dandyism. Does the character of the Dandy still exist today? Swiss art historian Beat Wyss has doubted so for a while. In a society, in which consumption seems to be the only convention, the Dandy, as we know him from the Fin de Siecle period, has lost his grounds: the coquettish game with High Society’s strict codes and the appropriation of those without financial means. While the Dandy, in novels as Joris-Karl Huysmans "A rebours" or Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly "On Dandyism" advanced to become a known role model of an elite male stile mainly in literature of that age, a contemporary interpretation could be found in art. The artist of today often performs an acrobatic walk on the tight rope between under-payed "creative work" and the noble chic of a global art boom. In such a perspective, the figure of the Dandy is a cultural habitus repeatedly created, that re-appears in a new disguise.

After a century of pop-history and emancipation, the relation of the once bourgeois Dandy to the figure of the Diva cannot be disregarded. Is the role of the Diva possibly a successful, extroverted and not least femininely connoted version of the Dandy or vice-versa, or are the sex-specific characteristics constitutive for this type?
The pavilion- a historic venue of the 19. century, is thought to be the ideal place for a interlinking of the Dandy -debate with the confrontation of contemporary artists on
today's role models of a culturally defined figure of style.


Saturday 15 August, 2009

5 PM Public picknick, Music: Johann von Preussen

7 PM Talk with Elisabeth Bronfen and Beat Wyss

9:15 PM Christodoulos Panayiotou: Judy Garland, A Biography

9:30 PM Filmscreening Gregory Markopoulos
Through a Lens Brightly: Mark Turbyfill, 1967, 16mm, colour, sound, 15min.
Political Portraits, 1969, 16mm,colour, excerpt with Ulrich Herzog, Rudolph Nureyev, Marcia Haydée und Giorgio de Chirico, 15min.
Courtesy Temenos Archive

10:00 PM Silvie Zürcher, Performance

Thank you: Kultur Stadt Zürich/Präsidialdepartement, migros kulturprozent, Stiftung Erna und Curt Burgauer Zürich
cover by flag

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The John Institute

an initiative by Burkhard Meltzer, Pascal Häusermann and Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth

www.thejohninstitute.org

At Cecilia's country house in Lisö...

which is a beautiful island in the southern archipelago


from where you can contemplate the Baltic Sea


and swim if you are brave enough (everybody followed Ana Paula)


where you should keep your socks in your troussers to avoid tick bites


where you can eat raspberries


and wild strawberries


and run around red sticks


and follow black slugs


the view outside the house


and a painting inside the house

Karlheinz Stockhausen on "sounds"

John Cage on "silence"

Stockholm

Goodbye Berlin