Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2008

Another blogger game! Books this time.

One cannot say not to these. Again dear DustRoad (how can one not love this name?) invited me and five other fellow bloggers to play an utterly useless but funny game:

1. Grab the book closer to you.
2. Open the book at page 123 (if there is no page 123, grab the next book that has that many pages)
3. Find the fifth period (that is from one full stop to another if you have forgotten) of this page.
4. Post the next three periods, that is the 6th, 7th and 8th periods of the page.
5. Ask five more people to do the same.

The book nearest to me at any given time for the last months is this:



It is a collection of essays by exhibition professionals (curators etc) edited by Paula Marincola and published by Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.

So on to the game:

Of course, the agendas of assimilation versus difference become transparent with hindsight. Yet as Steyn also points out, this strategy was accepted by a people whose very survival depended on acceptance within a host community. She continues, " The Jews of Whitechapel, with all their diverse cultural identities, were invited to become spectators of a culture already complete, presented and represented to them and for them by their trustees."


This particular essay, titled Temple/White Cube/Laboratory was written by Iwona Blazwick and is about the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

So on for the invitations: I call for the esteemed collaboration of my friends: Indiktos, Natassaki, Ritsa, Meniek and Tzotza (who still has not finished her previous assingment!).

Monday, February 04, 2008

Muzine Party 01.02.08

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Muzine party, open for all readers and friends last Friday night at Ianos Cafe. It was a delicous affair, with the weather helping a lot, and people arriving in great mood, to meet up close and personal with the people who makethis particular magazine so special. Some of the editors played their music selections for us, which was one of the best gifts they could give us (although some of them were too lazy to do it themselves ;-)...). There were lots of interesting and beautiful people attending, not only friends but also readers who came to show their gratitude and support to this special endeavour, although some of the Ianos personnel made their very best to ruin the experience (but didn't). My personal thanks to Nektarios Lambropoulos (the publisher) for inviting me and organizing this along with Ianos, and of course to my friends in Muzine: Eleni, Markos, Makis, Aggelos, Maria, Manolis and the rest of the gang: you're the best, keep going! Next stop, Thessaloniki!

Yours truly with Eleni Mitsiaki (who writes beautifully for Muzine) and Cartoon Dandy-Yiannis Tsioulis (who writes beautifully for other magazines).

Natascha, Emanuela & Margarita looking lovely!

Mr. Fotis Vallatos


Cartoon Dandy with gorgeous Anna

Yours truly taking photos!

One of the editors, Ion, heats things up with his immaculate playlist!

Amazing hair from Dafni and Mariza

A mysterious lady looking for something...
Fotis playing with the camera...

Is Aris Karampeazis conspiring with Eleni and me? Who knows? Stay tuned (not)!

Photos courtesy of Stratos Bacalis and Cartoon Dandy