A New Yorker article

Reading about the Middle East on New Yorker magazine is always educational and the least superficial you can get. This time the NewYorker had an extensive article by Lawrence Wright on what are the plans of Al Qaeda for the next 15 years. A scary extract:"By 2020, “definitive victory” will have been achieved....The Islamic state will lead the human race once again to the shore of safety and the oasis of happiness.” Read whole article on the New Yorker website

More on Outfits

Bas Kosters

Wanna Be A Star

Wanna Be a Star is a DJ from Holland. I met her through MySpace because she is wearing a fantastic outfit. Her outfit is done by her friend Bas Kosters

Mr T in a crazy outfit

An outfit like this in People magazine cannot pass unnoticed. Mamma mia!

Art during the architecture Biennial

Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Palazzo Grassi

Magritte at the Peggy Guggenheim

Piotr Uklanski at Palazzo Grassi

During the architecture Biennial in Venice I saw 2 art shows. One was the "Where Are We Going?": Selections from the François Pinault Collection at the newly rennovated but uptight Palazzo Grassi. The show was good as expected with no surprises. Another show was the Lucio Fontana at the Peggy Guggenheim. I did not like these Fontana pieces which were made and inspired after one of his visits in New York. I moved to the permanent collection building to enjoy the Max Ernst, Magritte and Yves Tanguy paintings once again.

Venice:What I liked

The Long Blondes perfoming at the British pavillion

Rem Koolhaas and Jacques Herzog at the debate of the Piccolo Teatro

A view from the French pavillion

The project of the Air-carrier city of the Austrian Pavillion

The 10th edition of the Architecture Biennial has just opened at the Giardini and the Arsenale. This year's theme is about Cities, Architecture and Society. It is curated by Richard Burdett. I almost visited every pavillion and the Arsenale. One of the main aspects of this biennial is a sparse ideas of proposals and a vast presentation of information (overpopulated cities, migration etc). Ideas that I have seen 3 years ago when Rem Koolhaas was the guest editor of Wired. Of course there are some highlights. The French pavillion was one of them. The project was called Metavilla in which a team of people did a sort of a squat in the pavillion building a temporary block of rooms. The Austrian pavillion which one of it's projects was the Aircraft Carrier City by Hans Hollein made in 1964. An aircrfat dugged in a rural area creating a new city. More about the architecture Biennial on Andreas' blog.

Today at the Venice Architecture Biennial

a crazy message on a wall.

I was just browsing some photos in my archive and I remember seeing this crazy message on a street on Santorini. It says "God save the King" "God save America". How weird and hilarious is this emblem next to it?

Digiki sounds good!

Digiki makes sounds. He is from Paris but lives in Tokyo. His first album is 'Kitchen', released in Japan on Hattrick records in 2004. One of his latest project is a remix with Neenstar Mai Ueda called PolyPunk Mai. Listen one of his songs on MySpace

5 years in heaven

Source here

Parra illustrator

Parra is a Dutch illustrator that lives and works in Amsterdam. Apart from been an interesting illustrator Parra has founded his own clothing company called Rockwell and he is doing advertising campaigns such as Heineneken's. If you happen to be in Paris on the 14th of September, check his show at the Lazydog bookstore and gallery.

sexy Joe Dallessandro

This is (not) a Magazine and Egg

Egg Magazine

My submission for This is (not) a magazine

This is (not) a Magazine it is an online magazine that presents usually artists working in and around the internet. Their last issue is dedicated to Animated Gif art and it is entitled "Who do you think you are?". My submission is called "Moving Both". Another Magazine from Taiwan has an article about me on their August issue. Egg Magazine is a monthly magazine about architecture, art and design.

The Science of Sleep

When "Eternal Sunchine of the Spotless Mind" came out, I watched it 3 times in theatre and 1 on DVD. This time the upcoming "Science of Sleep" by Michel Gondry seems quite promising too (at least from these posters above). The plot a step beyond:A man held captive by the people in his dreams tries to wake himself up and take control of his own imaginings.... More on the trailer here. Apart from directing his first movie, Michel Gondry is showing at Deitch Projects gallery in NYC too. In this exhibition, he will show movie sets which are presented as sculptures and "pathological creepy little gifts" as stated in the gallery's press release.

Time for JacksonPollock.org by Miltos Manetas

When Miltos showed me JacksonPollock.org few years ago I was stunned. Since then I find myself jacksonpollocking from time to time :) ..... This time: Time magazine listed this website on the Top 50 coolest websites. Click here to read article

My holiday books

I am back to Athens and my holidays FINITO! During my aegean journey I had the chance to read more books than I usually do. Four books in 3 weeks. These books are: " Complete Tales & Poems" by Edgar Allan Poe, a great classic. The soap-operish, post- Sep11th "The Brooklyn Follies" by my favourite Paul Auster. The mysterious " Secret History" by Donna Tart and finally the poetic and lyrical "Asleep" by the japanese Banana Yoshimoto. Books are us! Related links: Paul Auster Banana Yoshimoto

Shoboshobo fashion

Fashion from the french collective Shoboshobo.

more info here

Island Hopping

Mykonos

Mykonos

Paros-Antiparos

Paros

Mykonos

Anafi

A room with a view

Real isolation on Mykonos

A circle in the Cyclades

I am leaving on vacation tomorrow for 3 weeks, circling around Cyclades and hanging out in beautiful beaches etc. I will try to update this blog soon (photo from Google Earth)

Mass public masturbation

If you are in London these days have a look on this. Hundreds of people are expected to in a hall (Drop studios) in London on August 5 to jerk one off in the name of charity. San Francisco-based Centre for Sex and Culture is the organizer of the event and has run mass masturbation events here in the US for the past five years to raise money for the safe sex groups. Prizes will be on offer for those who make the most orgasms and those who can masturbate the longest. More info: Masturbate a Thon source: Jocko Homo