Back to Athens (staying at the glam-kinky guest room of Angelo and Andrea)

November's Kiss

Donald Duck is praying

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Words by Jimmy Kennedy
Music by Nat Simon

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Balıklar

Ahmet and Pilvi

My friend Ahmet got married to his love Pivli and they gave yesterday a super Kurdish-Finish party at Platform. We danced to Kurdish traditional music and then to “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo”. Everybody had fun. I wrote my name under the bride’s shoe and touched the wedding bouquet… Inshallah…

...too

Ikki

I have taken this picture of Hüseyin last year, same period, before leaving Istanbul and after spending about six months there. Hüseyin has shorter hair now, a new job (so not a journalist any more) and he moved into a new house. He is negotiating his future and thinking of moving to Austria for a while. He is still calm and shy. He checked if I remember the Turkish alphabet and numbers that he teaches me: Bir Ayran, Ikki Kitap, üch defter…

Tova Mozart and Christodoulos Panayiotou at Big Family Business today (by Antonis Bogadakis)

Away

No way

On the way

Show me the way - Büyükada (The Prince's Island)

Follow the white – lucky – rabbit(s)

There is a spectacular Turkish adaptation of the Chinese fortune cookies, which I came across yesterday… You pay a rabbit to choose a piece of paper (which exist translated in English as well) and which gives you (as always) the most accurate résumé of your projections…



“36. You love so much someone and you are going to crazy when you don’t see him. You are suddenly wake up at midnight and you waste your sleeps. but don’t worry he-she love you too. you will be happy soon…”

Rodeo Openning

Rob and Michelle climbing up the hill

In Istanbul

If you are in Athens or Istanbul, I have two oppenings tomorrow

at the new Rodeo gallery in Istanbul


at the Megaron OLP, Pireaus (with Locus Athens)

"... and you'll never walk alone"

My new performance for the exhibition Disco Coppertone / Locus Athens - Tomorrow

"Is there a place for us?"
The performance will be followed by screenings of American utopian
musicals (produced during the Cold War) on ships traveling through the Aegean
September 5-12

Today - Grand Hotel Omonia in my room - Rehearsing with Kristian

Dialogues Méditerranéens - Beaux Arts

A special edition of Beaux Arts magazine / catalogue of the exhibition Dialogues Méditerranéens (in which I am participating) is out.