tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55453365236492038622024-02-06T23:49:05.936-08:00AbsentAbsenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.comBlogger297125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-51336005876071356042019-01-06T12:14:00.000-08:002019-01-06T12:18:21.880-08:00my abstract to the 2019 Lund University call for papers and Graffiti artists.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The route from our indebted homes to our unfulfilling jobs and back, is the ideal place</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for Absent to set his urban trap and catch you in his message…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Between cartoon and street-art, with humour and irony, laughter becomes the weapon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">against authority as well as the link connecting diverse people in a common goal, freedom,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">justice and democracy (a working one it is). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">"With - at a first sight - rude, explicit and highly personal visual attacks, restoration of balance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">between the people and authority (real or wannabe) is sought, empowering the reader through</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">his own laughter". </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A universal reference point for the Greek Crisis, Absent's political satire posters are a part of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the permanent collection of the Greek National Museum of History.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Absent doesn’t come empty handed, licence for “The Wake Up Call” short documentary </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of Kostas Kallergis has already been obtained, featuring the “first response” Greek political artist, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and distinguishing them from the second “tourist-aimed-political-graffiti” wave.</span></div>
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Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-44225309322635684422013-12-01T14:07:00.004-08:002013-12-01T14:08:22.185-08:00Massive (f), Second Layer PrintedSecond color, re-developed & printed... mesh was again underdeveloped and seems impossible to be reclaimed, however i have a few aces up on my sleeve...<br />
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I wanted to print tomorrow the black layer... another delay...<br />
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<br />Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-15612494803555467342013-11-24T01:50:00.002-08:002013-11-24T01:59:30.475-08:00Massive (e), Second Layer, Fail!Yup FAIL!!! epic FAIL!!!.. plus it just started to rain...<br />
2 reasons... mesh blocked for being underdeveloped, ink very liquid.<br />
2 solutions a denser color and a water wash to unblock the mesh.<br />
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If they don't work, i'll have to re-develop which will result to a delay...<br />
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The Devil however Hides in the Details... so while I prefere little detail differences from one printing to another (as a matter of fact from one print to another too, and in fact this is exactly the difference between handmade and digital), Zofos must take one of three decisions...<br />
A) leave it as it is.<br />
B) correct it by hand (the star, not the little lines in the triangles)...<br />
C) clean it all over, re-mesh and redevelop...<br />
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Once the mesh gets reclaimed, residual color will be visible (trace) and will be cleaned once again.<br />
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GOTCHA!!!...reclamed... well allmost.. need a last one cleaning hand... but reclamed...<br />
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75% White, 25% Red.<br />
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<br />Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-20615701173430303422013-11-11T07:59:00.000-08:002013-11-15T09:03:07.114-08:00MassiveFor those of you who are accustomed to my work, "make-shift" is my core concept, both in art and applied arts.<br />
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After printing for a few other fellow artists, Sonke (etching), and a few <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Mapet</b></span></a> (sticker <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/85th-post/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>A</b></span></a>, sticker <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/65th-post/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>B</b></span></a>) projects (between them the <a href="http://absentcomics.blogspot.gr/2013/04/collaboration.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>share stickers</b></span></a> joint project with Lotek) and following my make-shift printhouse tradition, I accepted a bigger challenge... a 50cX70cm 3 color challenge that is... for <a href="http://be.net/zofos" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>ZOFOS</b></span></a>.<br />
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Mind you this is a make-shift printhouse... and from 12cm stickers... to 35cm t-shirts... a 50X70cm 3 color posters without prior printhouse specifications can be quite a challenge.<br />
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Meet "Godzilla" my handmade screen frame made for the occasion... 64,5cm X 91cm (outside), inside 58,5cm X 85cm... Double Bolted!!<br />
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<b>Cost so far:</b><br />
• 3m semi-planed wood = 5 euro<br />
• 95X70cm Mesh = 25 euro<br />
• Bolts & screws ≈ 5 euro<br />
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<b>What i woulde have done differently:</b> <br />
Maybe i should have choosen a well planed wood insead of a semi-planed one, it would make tape easier to stick on later when i'll need to stop corners from color bleeding... or i should have varnished it before putting it together.<br />
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<b>Separations and Transparencies:</b><br />
Colors separated, transparencies ready to print... in each transparency <b>1pt of stroke </b>added for color trapping. Also 8 point stars added to serve as registration marks.<b> </b><br />
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Cost + 3.20 Euro, maybe i'll print a new transparency for the Black color since this one seems chocked in the wave lines.<br />
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<b>Screen:</b><br />
Ready to print the first colour. <b></b><br />
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My big, fat, hairy, NON-GREEK, Greek crisis street art.</h4>
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The Athens School of Fine Arts (ASKT), organizes a GREEK-CRISIS Street art... thing... from which Greek artivists are <b>of course</b> excluded.<br />
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No one invited us, and I wouldn't even bother to comment, however i feel compelled to do so after reading a School of Fine Arts comment to newspaper TO BHMA, which stated that Greeks were excluded due to the <a href="http://www.tovima.gr/culture/article/?aid=519903&wordsinarticle=athens%3Bstreet%3Bart" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">"dubious artistic value"</b></a> of Greek street art.<br />
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ASKT's need to control and dictate "imported culture" to its "inferior greek citizens", once again shows why it never leads and always follows... and it doesn't come as a surprise.<br />
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A sorrofull salute to fellow foreign street artist that are being used as a free speech and polyphony alibi.<br />
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<b>TRANSLATION:</b> <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><i><span class="hps">"The</span> <span class="hps">initiative</span> <span class="hps">also aims</span> <span class="hps">to highlight the</span> <span class="hps">difference</span><span class="hps">between </span><span class="hps">street artists</span> <span class="hps">who perform</span> <span class="hps">social criticism</span> <span class="hps">on walls and</span> <span class="hps">buildings with</span> <span class="hps">works that</span> <span class="hps">are branded</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">are</span> <span class="hps">instantly recognizable</span> <span class="hps">for their personal</span> character<span class="hps"></span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">as opposed to</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">anarchy</span><span class="hps"> of anonymous</span> <span class="hps">complaints</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">graffiti</span>, which <span class="hps">most often</span> <b><span class="hps">pollute</span> <span class="hps">public spaces</span></b> <span class="hps">with </span><span class="hps">personal desires</span> <span class="hps">with <b>dubious</b></span><b> <span class="hps">to</span> none<span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">artistic value</span></b></i><span class="hps"><i>"</i>.</span></span>Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-25045606529051187342013-07-01T08:44:00.000-07:002013-07-01T08:49:40.807-07:00Mapet, anti-nazi seagullMapet's <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/86th-post/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">anti-nazi seagull</b></a>, that featured on <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/85th-post/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">stickers</b></a> and the <a href="http://thewakeupcall.gr/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">"Wake Up Call"</b></a> greek politic street art documentary by Kostas Kallergis, on the <a href="http://antinazizone.blogspot.gr/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">YRE</b></a> anti-nazi camping poster.<br />
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Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-77201554151041939252013-06-23T12:26:00.000-07:002013-06-25T09:34:51.740-07:0023 Ιουνίου 2013Ανήμερα της μεγαλύτερης σελήνης της χρονιάς -σώμα ουράνιο συνυφασμένο και με την μητρότητα-
αποφάσισα να γράψω για τη μάνα μου.<br />
Την άλλη, την πολιτιστική.<br />
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Εκείνης που για να νοιώσουμε την έ(κ)λειψη της, έπρεπε να πεθάνει.<br />
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Μετά το "μαύρο", παραπέτασμα της απώλειας, οι μπάρες οι πολύχρωμες, σκόπιμη απόσπαση από το πένθος.<br />
"Αρoν-άρoν", στο σπίτι μας, μιά άλλη... μιά μητριά.<br />
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"Συνετή" αυτή... Α!.. και νοικοκοιρά!<br />
Αποδεκτή και απ'αυτούς που χαρήκαν τον θάνατο της "αμαρτωλής".<br />
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Για το αύριο φοβάμαι, μέσα από το Ιστορικό Αρχείο της ΕΡΤ το κοινό μας παρελθόν είναι δεδομένο.<br />
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Για εκείνο το "αύριο" που ξεκίνησε την Τρίτη (11 Ιουνίου 2013) και ξανοίγεται μπροστά μας...<br />
Ποιός θα μας σταθεί σε αυτό;<br />
Ποιος θα μας καταλάβει;<br />
Ποιός θα μας πονέσει;<br />
Ποιός θα μας μαλώσει πριν μας αγκαλιάσει και πάλι;<br />
...τέλος, ποιός θα το καταγράψει; Πως;<br />
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Γράφω απόψε για τη μάνα μου,<br />
και γράφω με τη βαθιά πεποίθηση πως ακόμα και η χειρότερη γυναίκα,<br />
δεν μπορεί παρά να είναι η καλύτερη μάνα για τα παιδιά της.Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-34620683828693786462013-06-14T05:16:00.001-07:002013-06-25T09:36:04.911-07:00ΑΝΑΜΕΤΑΔΟΣΗ ΕΡΤ<iframe allowtransparency="yes" frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.thepressproject.gr/tvplayer/newplayer.php?w=596&h=400" width="596"></iframe>Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-86106617973982501002013-05-17T04:52:00.001-07:002013-05-17T04:52:19.411-07:00The electricity bill terrorismNew sticker, Terrorism is the Electricity bill...<br />
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A bill much larger than our monthly pay... not by consuption but by taxing, illegal taxing since do not take in consideration people's ability to pay them... hence a sure method to baptise people "indebted" and blakmail them.<br />
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<br />Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-50993788252030734642013-05-10T10:42:00.002-07:002013-05-10T10:42:27.045-07:00Behind these fences...New Stickers!<br />
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Greek Parliament fences stickers.<br />
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Goverments that (like the greek one) that rule behind fences,<br />
make the role they play against the will of their society and people, more than obvious.<br />
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A SOS (inverted flag) signal from a country kept captive by its rulers.<br />
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Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-46397270364281980512013-04-18T12:16:00.002-07:002013-04-18T12:19:44.474-07:00CollaborationThe screen of the MOIRASOU "share" sticker, originally a joint <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/99th-post/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Lotek & Mapet</b></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>stencil project. Refurbished and printed after they called me on board.Still you can note on my screen, shades of an <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/65th-post/" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank"><b>older refurbished Mapet stencil idea</b></a> screen printed sticker.<br />
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I found your work on the internet and read some articles about you and liked it quite a lot. My name is Ann-Sophie and I am from Germany. I am doing research on Urban Art as a means of protest at the moment.
I am currently participating in a project called Studienkolleg zu Berlin. Within the framework of this project we work in small teams composed of six students from across Europe on societal questions in Europe. The research topic of my group is Street Art as a form of political protest - the creative conquest of public space?</div>
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We want to examine the urban art scene in several countries and find out what strives street artists to chose the street as the scenery to express themselves. We are also interested in whether street art permits conclusions about political developments or perhaps even reveals trends and similarities or differences between the different countries. At the end of our investigation we will present our results in form of an exhibition and in a written way as a publication.</div>
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We will be in Athens from March 21 till 26 and would very much like to meet you to get to know more about your work.</div>
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It would be great to hear from you...</div>
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Best regards,
Ann-Sophie</div>
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Hi, Ann-Sophie</div>
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Thank you for your kind words,<br />
unfortunately I will disappoint you by refusing your call.<br />
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Please understand that maintaining a graffiti police-force while<br />
subsidize students to learn about it in foreign countries is so<br />
oxymoron that embarks to stupidity. I really wonder how this could<br />
possibly be missed by your organizers...<br />
Further more... we're expected to act as their "Petri dish"? For what? Safe in-vitro observation?<br />
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If Germany needs or wants to understand something, it might as well<br />
let it develop and flourish instead of oppressing and haunt it. You<br />
lose some you win some... that's life... win/win attitudes/policies<br />
shouldn't neither be tolerated nor encouraged. Plus any "trend"<br />
develops differently from space to space, and expresses different<br />
needs.<br />
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Characters in comedy and drama in ancient Rome, dear Ann-Sophie, had always been "foreigners"... slaves... teachers... merchants... always foreigners, degrading the "self correction mechanism" of these genres to "self-accommodation"... and it's only by means of narcissism and self accommodation that a society chooses to leave it's "parent/child", "citizen to citizen", "public/private" and "freedom of speech/unsettling concepts" relations and matters to be regulated by the armed hand of police.<br />
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I deeply wish you a life of freedom of speech rather than a life of seeking it in foreign lands.<br />
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Truly yours<br />
Absent.<span style="color: #550055;"> </span><br />
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Dear you, Absent,</div>
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thank you for your answer, it shows at least that you spent some time on thinking about my request.</div>
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dont know if I can still convince you to meet us, I guess not, but I
feel the need to answer, since your view on our group seems to me a
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1.) We are doing this project mainly out of
curiosity. We are six young people from Romania, Macedonia, Ukraine,
Austria and Germany so actually Germany is the country least
represented. But that doesnt matter so much since we are not traveling
as ambassdors of our countries or as representatives of government
policies, but as individual beings that want to know something about how
people deal with dissatisfaction and crisis (and I am not speaking of
the euro crisis,but of crisis in the very basic meaning of the word) in
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2.) Doesnt every country maintain something like a
graffiti police force or at least a unit which tries to eliminate it?
And isnt that also a reason why street artists of however you wanna call
people expressing themselves on the streets actually choose the streets
to display their thoughts and ideas? Isnt the official chasing of
street art what makes the art subversive? Isnt that why you do not go to
galeries to exhibit your work? Because that way you simpathize with the
people showing their discontent on the streets as well by
demonstrating?</div>
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3.) We are not subsidized to "learn" about street
art or graffiti or sent by any organizers. We chose the topic ourselves
out of interest and curiosity. No one controls our "output" or if there
is an output at all. All the efforts to organize our trip, places to
sleep at (no, we cannot afford a hotel, we couchsurf), bus or
hitchhiking opportunities, research about the history and current
situations in the countries we travel to and so on are not paid for by
anyone, they are only paid in impressions that we can take home and
learn from.</div>
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4.) We are not seeking anything else in foreign
lands than better understanding. We are not going there with pre-maid
ideas or schemes, but with an interest in being taught.</div>
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really hope that your answer was only inspired by how I formulated my
request and not by the simple fact that my nationality on paper is
German. Because how much does a nationality actually tell about a
person, his/her liffe, ideals, hopes, desires, interest etc.?</div>
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I am still up for meeting you not to do an "interview", but to get to know you and your opinions. </div>
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<span style="color: black;">Thank you, again, for your e-mail.</span><br style="color: black;" /><br style="color: black;" /><span style="color: black;">I'm sorry that my response didn't meet your expectations.</span><br style="color: black;" /><span style="color: black;">I assure you however that the rejection of your request is far from personal.</span><br style="color: black;" /><br style="color: black;" /><span style="color: black;">Absent</span> </div>
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<br />Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-9758181387396442202013-01-10T12:01:00.000-08:002013-01-10T13:02:38.644-08:00The Wake up call, Cinema Mag relayThe Wake Up Call feature in <b><a href="http://www.e-go.gr/cinemag/article.asp?catid=28049&subid=2&pubid=129259685" style="color: blue;">CINEMA mag</a></b>.<br />
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Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-4866939171249565002012-12-30T16:37:00.000-08:002012-12-30T16:46:14.334-08:00New Year's EveNew Year's Eve...<br />
For many, if you've been out lately, the mayan eschatology has been painfully fulfilled...<br />
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Volos (Iolcus), Greece. <br />
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For the "It's all Greek to me" amongst you, the trash can text "KAI TOU XRONOY" is a typical Greek wish to repeat this year's good times, while being in the same time a word play between... "Next year what?" and "Are you gonna take it one more year"?<br />
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The Wake Up Call, Documentario, <a href="http://www.valigiablu.it/un-muro-pulito-nasconde-una-coscienza-sporca-street-art-e-crisi-in-grecia/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Versione Italina</b></a>. And Valigia Blu Kallergis interview translated.<br />
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<b><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="I graffiti politici in Grecia: tradizione di lungo corso o conseguenza della crisi?"></span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="I graffiti politici in Grecia: tradizione di lungo corso o conseguenza della crisi?">The political graffiti in Greece: a </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="I graffiti politici in Grecia: tradizione di lungo corso o conseguenza della crisi?"> long course </span></span></b><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="I graffiti politici in Grecia: tradizione di lungo corso o conseguenza della crisi?"><b>tradition or a result of the crisis?</b><br /></span><span title="È una tradizione di lungo corso.">It is a long-standing tradition. </span><span title="Atene è una delle capitali europee più dinamiche e attive sul piano della street art.">Athens is one of the capitals of Europe's most dynamic and active in terms of street art. </span><span title="Persino le autorità statali l'hanno supportata – principalmente grazie alla loro inadeguatezza ad affrontare il “problema”.">Even the state authorities have supported - mainly due to their inadequacy to deal with the "problem." </span><span title="Gli artisti vengono invitati a dipingere le grandi superfici pubbliche per coprire il degrado.">Artists are invited to paint large surfaces to cover public degradation. </span><span title="L'aspetto politico, dunque, è storico, ma il numero dei graffiti è aumentato esponenzialmente dall'inizio della crisi.">The political aspect, then, is historical, but the number of graffiti has increased exponentially since the crisis.<br /></span><b><span title="Una delle cose mi ha più colpito dei graffiti è la loro cupezza di fondo (ad esempio maschere antigas, cappucci, scene di scontri, fiamme, ecc.).">One thing struck me most graffiti is their grimness of the background (for example, gas masks, hoods, scene of riots, fire, etc..). </span></b><span title="Questi graffiti riflettono la sensazione generale della società greca?"><b>These graffiti reflect the general feeling of the Greek society?</b><br /></span><span title="Non direi, almeno non nel senso che la maggioranza è pronta a comprare una maschera, preparare una molotov e distruggere tutto.">Not really, at least not in the sense that the majority is ready to buy a mask, make a Molotov cocktail and destroy everything. </span><span title="C'è sicuramente rabbia ma non sete di violenza – per ora.">There is certainly anger but not thirst for violence - for now. </span><span title="L’umore è più pessimista e fatalista.">The mood is more pessimistic and fatalistic. </span><span title="I graffiti riflettono questo stato d'animo in una maniera quasi post-apocalittica, dipingendo uno scenario in cui la gente cammina in una città grigia e gli unici colori che la circondano sono quelli che provengono dalla guerriglia urbana.">The
graffiti reflects this mood in an almost post-apocalyptic, painting a
scenario where people walk in a gray city and the only colors that
surround it are those that come from the urban guerrilla.<br /></span><b><span title="Nel tuo documentario si nota come gli artisti non sia degli estremisti o dei pericolosi anarco-insurrezionalisti.">In your documentary we see artists are not extremists or dangerous anarcho-insurrectionists. </span><span title="Sono persone normali, appartenenti alla classe media.">They are ordinary people, belonging to the middle class. </span></b><span title="Ora, la domanda sorge spontanea: la classe media greca sta diventando sempre più radicale?"><b>Now, the question arises: the Greek middle class is becoming more radical?</b><br /></span><span title="Certamente, ma non in maniera razionale.">Certainly, but not in a rational manner. </span><span title="C'è sicuramente una polarizzazione: le persone diventano radicali e si dirigono o verso l'estrema sinistra o l'estrema destra.">There's definitely a bias: people become radical and head or to the far left or the far right. </span><span title="La mia opinione è che non si tratti di una scelta ponderata fatta per salvare il Paese, ma che le persone si debbano confrontare con l'assenza della politica tradizionale (centrista).">My
opinion is that it is not a conscious decision made to save the
country, but people are also faced with the absence of traditional
politics (centrist).<br /></span><b><span title="Come si comporta la polizia greca nei confronti della street art?">Whats Greek police stance over street art? </span></b><span title="E i media?"><b>And the media?</b><br /></span><span title="Non ne sono particolarmente preoccupati: ci sono talmente tanti problemi – e decisamente più importanti – che non si mettono ad inseguire gli street artist.">I'm not particularly worried: there are so many problems - and far more important - that you do not put a chase street artist. </span><span title="A meno che, ovviamente, quest'ultimi non si spingano troppo in là con le provocazioni (come cercare di dipingere il Parlamento, ad esempio).">Unless, of course, the latter does not go too far with the provocations (like trying to paint the Parliament, for example). </span><span title="Tuttavia, la polizia ei media sono tra i 5 soggetti preferiti dei graffiti politici, a causa del ruolo ricoperto dai media nella crisi e delle storiche tendenze oppressive della polizia.">However,
the police and the media are among the five favorite subject of
political graffiti, because of the role played by the media in crisis
and historical trends oppressive police.<br /></span><b><span title="Paul Mason, giornalista della BBC, ha recentemente scritto che “in questo momento la Grecia è un Paese pieno di rassegnazione”, e di come questa rassegnazione possa essere “stranamente liberatoria”.">Paul
Mason, a BBC journalist, recently wrote that "at this time, Greece is a
country full of resignation," and how this resignation may be
"strangely liberating." </span></b><span title="Tu sei d’accordo con questa visione?"><b>Do you agree with this view?</b><br /></span><span title="C’è una parte di verità.">There is some truth. </span><span title="Le persone sono rassegnate sotto diversi aspetti, ma soprattutto non nutrono alcuna speranza nei confronti dello Stato.">People are resigned in many ways, but most do not harbor any hope against the State. </span><span title="Due anni senza speranze sono abbastanza per far sì che la gente ne abbia abbastanza di regole e moderazione politica.">Two years hopeless enough to ensure that people will have enough rules and political moderation. </span><span title="La street art è un modo attraverso il quale gli artisti trovano uno spazio di libertà – senza farsi troppe illusioni, però.">Street art is a way through which artists are an area of freedom - without getting your hopes up, though.<br /></span><span title="Ad un livello più generale, penso che la sensazione di liberazione derivi dal fatto che le persone non hanno più nulla da perdere.">At a more general level, I think the feeling of liberation comes from the fact that people no longer have anything to lose. </span><span title="La perdita dei beni materiali in un certo senso le libera, facendole vivere con meno paura.">The loss of material goods in a sense, free, making them live with less fear. </span><span title="La gente è meno spaventata di cambiare, di parlare, e – si spera – di votare per qualcosa di diverso dal solito.">People are less afraid to change, to speak, and - hopefully - to vote for something different from the usual.</span></span>Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-33370370324548938792012-12-12T10:54:00.001-08:002012-12-12T10:54:09.451-08:00The Wake Up Call - The documentary<a href="http://thewakeupcall.gr/" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank"><b>The Wake Up Call</b></a>, short greek politic graffiti documentary by <a href="http://whenthecrisishitthefan.com/" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank"><b>Kostas Kallergis</b></a> finally on air!<br />
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Featuring <a href="http://bleeps.gr/main/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Bleeps</b></a>, <a href="http://mapetstencils.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Mapet</b></a>, Pavlo and yours truly "me".<br />
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New relay from <a href="http://tvxs.gr/" style="color: blue;"><b>TVXS.gr</b></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span>of Samaras Alegria-Anergia on occasion of new climb of Greek unemployement to 26%.<br />
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<br />Absenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06723280300778197725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545336523649203862.post-2377946648118026262012-11-29T12:34:00.000-08:002012-11-29T12:35:31.422-08:00Silence is Violence - BrusselsGroup exhibition opening in Brussels tomorrow Friday 30 November 2012 at <a href="http://eadr2d2.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/prochaine-exposition-silence-is-violence-vendredi-30-novembre-18h/" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank"><b>R2D2 Creative Space</b></a>.Together with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sonke-street-artist/114783035240145?fref=ts%20/http://www.sonke.gr/%20" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Sonke</b></a>, <a href="http://dmsntok.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Dimitris Ntokos</b></a>, <a href="http://blaqk2.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Blaqk</span></b></a>, <b><a href="http://blemobill.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">blemobil</span></a>, <a href="http://donforty.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Don 40</span></a></b>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greg_papagrigoriou/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Greg Papagrigoriou</b></a>, <a href="http://marysdfghjkl.deviantart.com/" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Maria Siorba</b></a>,<b> <a href="http://fotizontas.deviantart.com/gallery/" style="background-color: white; color: blue;" target="_blank">Fotizontas</a></b>, <b>Pol</b>, <a href="http://www.behance.net/simek%20" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><b style="color: blue;">Simek</b></a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>and last but not least <b><a href="http://www.sox.gr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sox</span></a>.</b><br />
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