Aufwiedersehen, adios and goodbye

This is an emotional post, as it is the last one of this blog.

I have decided to suspend my, already infrequent, writing in kleidarotrypa. Contrary to what I hoped, I didn't manage to create a clear identity of this blog. Perhaps that particularly period of my life (trying to finish a PhD) has affected it in a rather negative way.

However, kleidarotrypa has been my first blog and I will always remember it nostalgically. Deep down I haven't lost hope about it, therefore I am not deleting it from the blogosphere. I just stop writing; as in a mode of suspension. Perhaps one day it will resume its life, or not; but it would't be any time soon.

My last piece of (very exciting) news: From September onwards I will be in Manchester, lecturing and researching at the Centre for Museology. My dreams are coming true...

So, that's it then. Many kisses and warm hugs to my very few readers.

Stay cool; stay brave.

Aufwiedersehen, adios and goodbye,

Kostas.

Writing Up

I am only a few weeks away from falling from the sky...that is from submitting my thesis. I still have bits to write, other to edit, some to drop, some others to add. Surprisingly, I am not too stressed about it; in fact, I could even say I am now enjoying writing more than before...yes, I know I should go to see a doctor...But, it's so refreshing to see words finally formulating your abstract ideas, paragraphs getting together to build up an argument and pages making sections of your thesis...

What I need though to keep in my mind is that this is a 'thesis': that is, in the end of the day, I need to make my standpoint or my big or small idea clear to the reader...not to mention also to me...

The final countdown then...

Monument To Now

Monument to Now, an exhibition of current trends in contemporary art will showcase the works of the most influential international artists of the past decade and will attempt to articulate the most important recent artistic innovations. The works in the exhibition will be drawn from the Dakis Joannou Collection, one of the leading collections of new international art...Art is now strongly engaged with contemporary life after many years of withdrawal into self-referential Conceptualism.

Perfect example to put in my thesis...By the way, the exhibition is from 2004.

Pasta Bellissima

Get the pasta...


Boil it...


Add the red sauce...


e quarda, pasta bellissima!

Simple food, happy life. Highly recommended...

Yawning picture

Now, how in earth did I manage to take this photo of myself?! I really can't remember...but it probably has to do with me playing with my new mobile phone, a Nokia 6630, a free upgrade from Orange.

It's half an hour after midnight and I have yawned 5 times just by seeing this picture...6 now...

So, here is a test. Try to look at this photo for a minute without yawning. Do you think you can make it? I can't...7 and counting...

Here is some stuff on why we yawn; not that you care, but since you are still yawning watching me here, you may want to go to another page...8.....

9, a long one...

How can the use of mobile phones increase our understanding of our surrounding environment? This is one of the questions I ask in my research. An instant photo capture of a yawning man raises a dull action into an extraordinary moment: this is how some theorists of everyday life would perceive it. For me and my companion, Michel de Certeau, the acknowledgment of an everyday action brings me closer to understanding the everyday itself. By confronting an everyday reality, I grasp its value and alter, to an extent, the way I perceive it...

I am consciously going through my 16th yawning in the last 10 minutes, both thinking about it and doing it, and this process brings me closer in making meaning of this repetitive action...the same way, the more we confront constructively our everyday environment, the more we understand its logic and inherent qualities.

Thank God, Michel de Certeau is not any more around to see how people use his ideas...but I bet he would have yawned as well...