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...

New beginning

A new beginning needs a new outfit. Hence the new template...not exactly what I was looking for, but the best I could find.

I understand I've left a question unanswered; that is, where I have been all this time. Locationwise, I've been in the same place...in front of my laptop. Mindwise, I've been repeating Sisypfus' task. And Sisyphus' rock in my case has been my writing...

The fact that I am now writing here does not mean that I have managed to reach the hill with my rock. It means that I have decided that I should be doing other things as well in the meantime...

But enough with the fake psychoanalysis.

I am close to submit my thesis. I am also close to other things, but I won't say anything yet; I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise...New things and people have entered my life and I will be writing more about them in the next posts.

Until then, a question: is there a secret plan of all women called 'Anna' to take over the galaxy any soon? It seems to me that suddenly the world is flooded by Annas...

I am back (sort of)

Hi everyone,

yes, I am alive and well, many thanks for the thousands e-mails and letters that you all have sent me...

Steady now, this doesn't mean that I will resume writing...but it was very kind of you to ask Tony (you know, our prime minister) to try to convince me to do so...Tony knows that I am upset with him and his friend (George Jr. I mean) for the global mess and also for making me paying so high city council fees...so, there is no way that I will start writing in my blog just because he wants to gain a couple of thousand more votes from my dedicated readers...

However, I have so many things to tell you...you can't imagine what I have been watching from my kleidarotrypa!!! But, I need to get some things sorted out first, so bare with me as I will pop in and out...

And 'NO', I haven't submitted yet my thesis...and please let's change the subject...

Here is a poem by Ian McMillan that I have read today; a poem related to the Tale of Three Cities, a project that comes close to things that I am looking in my research.

Going out for a quick drink with Ann, Anna and Katerina...

Catch with you later...