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My Top 10 wishes for 2006

1. Be healthy
2. Be productive
3. Be positive
4. Be sexy
5. Be considerate
6. Be emotional
7. Be curious
8. Be nonconformist
9. Be spirited
10. Be flexible

Few thousand visits

This blog has reached a few thousand visits, since a month that it started.
Photo: still from Pleasetouchme.com

An artist I like: Amie Dicke

TIME: The best photos of 2005

Time magazine has a poll for the best photo of 2005. All these photos are shots from natural disasters throughout the year 2005. I like most of them but the one next to here is the one I voted for. http://www.time.com/time/yip/2005/

This is not a Magazine

A fantastic publication of the italian This is (not) a Magazine is out. This book is an accompanying publication of "This is (not) A Magazine.com" which is mainly an online art magazine. The printed publication features the same artworks in a new edition. The creators are Andy Simionato and Karen ann Donnachie

Sky on stripes

When I woke up this morning I saw this from my bedroom window.

Girls Like US

A quarterly new lesbian magazine is out from the creators of Kutt (the lesbian version of Butt). Something lesbian and chic arrives finally! (photo: Peaches)

New Textfield is out

Textfield is an experimental magazine about art, neen, architecture and music. It's 4th issue is out and is a collaboration with Bless (http://www.bless-service.de/home.html)

The most visited websites

I am always curious about websites statistics. Today I came across this article of the 500 most popular sites on the web. Not so many surprises there. There are lists of the most popular sorted by country, genre etc and more important we can check the rankings of our sites and compare them with other sites too. http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500

My Neen thoughts on Wikipedia

This summer I decided to write something about Neen. I firstly wrote this text on my cell-phone on the beach and today I decided to publish it on Wikipedia too. Have a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neen_art

Harold Pinter Nobel speech

Harold Pinter condemned the invasion of Iraq:

"a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading--as a last resort--all other justifications having failed to justify themselves--as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people."

photo: T-shirts from Irak straight from NYC

Stairway to Heaven

Brokeback Mountain takes over

Brokeback Mountain is heading for the Oscars. The gay-cowboy drama started collecting awards. It has been awarded Best Film by The New York Film Critics and nominated for 7 Golden Globe awards. Read here more

A nice advertisement

Being surrounded by ugly signs and bad graphic design in this city, I was surprised to see this while walking yesterday.

Poetry is not over: an online exhibtion

Poetry is not over reunites young international artists who find or suggest poetry or a kind of oneiric expression in the algorithms, the codes, the complexities of the networks, or more generally the aesthetics of what could be called the computing.

Curated by Vincent Vella. http://www.poetryisnotover.com/

Spike Jonze for GAP

Spike Jonze seems to like chaos, so do I. His new video for GAP is the only reason to talk about this brand again. Video here

A RAINBOW FOR LONDON

People in London have a reason to celebrate these days. Same sex marriages are legal. It is a victory for all of us who believe that sexuality should not be an obstacle for people having the same rights and benefits. It is a defeat for all those remaining governments who still insist on not passing similar laws and amendments. Mr Karamanlis don't mess with us!

T-shirts Today

London's Dover Street Market has launched a t-shirt line with New Yorker's cartoons. These t-shirts are a must for holiday shopping but it is annoying that you cannot buy them online.

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

This is a seventies LP cover by Traffic. Both it's cover and tittle are amazing. It is designed by Tony Wright.

Away for the weekend

Manetas in Thessaloniki

Miltos has a show in Thessaloniki. The show is about his favourite subject: his girlfriend Priscilla (btw, we all love Priscilla) The paintings look great. Clik here for more info

Random Run: Nikola's new theory

Random Run is a new idea of Nikola Tosic. " DEFINITION Whatever you are doing (meeting, date, sex, sleep...), just stop it and run as much as you feel like it (for one second or a whole day) for more http://www.randomrun.org/

Athens is full of Paris

Paris Hilton's sex video is deja-vu. I was driving throughout Athens this weekend and all I could see was these big billboards advertising a sex magazine with Paris Hilton on the cover. The magazine has a DVD supplement with the uncut version of her homemade sex video, shot in LA few years ago. It is surprising to see a sex magazine with so much advertising. Is it sponsored from somewhere?! ;-)

On Cloud 9

Clouds are always giving a feeling of happiness. A house with the shape of a cloud sounds like a fairy tale. It is designed by Andreas Angelidakis.
angelidakis.com

The next media consumption

Vito Campanelli is writing a book about the perception of digital culture. I was asked to answer some questions that Lev Manovich thought for the book. Here is one of them:

While the tools to produce one own media have been more accessible and more powerful, people never consumed more commercial media than now. Thus the essential division between 'media amateurs' and 'media professionals' which got established in the beginning seems to be as strong as ever. Will this situation ever change? What will be the next stage in media consumption after MP3 players, DVD recorders, CD burners, etc, etc, etc.?

Things are more complicated now. The division of the amateurs and professionals is ambivalent. Who can be defined as a pro or amateur finally? A guy that produces music on a single laptop and makes it a Top 10 hit... is he an amateur?
Portable video is the next "product" and has more potential than music because of numbers. A top-selling cd can sell 500.000 in week but a cool sitcom can have 40 million in a week. At the same time Hollywood is going bad. It is time for do-it-yourself video producers to contribute to the entairtainment business. Porno too. Video podcasting will be on the spotlight. People already have started heading back to videogames. The death of an online player in a role-playing game like World of Warcraft is bigger headline on Google News than if Tom Cruise is gay or not.
more on http://www.vitocampanelli.it/

Matthias Herrmann

I first read about Mathias Herrmann almost 3 years ago in Butt magazine. I loved his interview and since then I occassionaly visit his website. In his photos he uses his nude body in a provocative and witty way and comments on going public with his HIV positive status. Besides being an artist and sexy, Matthias is the president of Secession, a prestigious institution for contemporary art in Vienna check here

Bernstrup at the Paloma

I was in Barcelona 10 days ago and I enjoyed Tobias Bernstrup's perfomance at the super crowded "Paloma" club. Tobias sang his new songs from the brand new "Killing Spree" cd. For more about Tobias http://www.bernstrup.com

New Neen website

Does anybody like the new version? www.neen.org