Industrial Light and Magic

Last night in Geneva we visited the ViMi Neon, in the industrial zone close to the airport.

What is Denise Richards doing here?

We spent some time mixing the colors of glass tubes with the colors of different gasses to get the right shade of orange.

I got rather carried away because everything looked interesting there,
then I had to make a run for the airport.

Tonight on the boat to Krete,

the pool is super spooky the lights seem to be mixing themselves.Boats are always minimal in a neo-retro-cute-industrial way,
everything is painted over many times in flat colors, everything looks like set design for televisionor not.

Homo Cruising amongst the dead.

If you're in London tonight, and if you like gay boys, run to the Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington High Street N16, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for the Second Annual Cruising Tour organized by the lovely Pablo Internacional Magazine.

no meeting point, find each other inside the cemetery!
how to get there:
take bus 243 from kingsland road to stoke newington (30
minutes) or train from Liverpool street station to stoke
Newington station (15 minutes), walk through the central
path, arrive to the old abandoned church and turn right, you
will find it.

***bring your own lube and condoms
***do not bring any valuables

Cruising tours, promoting the homo-sexual use of public space

If lost please contact:
Pablo 07759022545

Afterwards meet for after drinks and male bonding at
George and Dragon, 2 Hackney Road, London E2

The Grey Glaciers

Seems like I'm a regular on the Sunday afternoon flight from Athens to Geneva, and today I fell asleep even before takeoff. Later on I realized that I had left one of my phones on during the flight, and there was a "Welcome to Vodafone Albania please dial blah blah for blah blah whatever" message on it. Thankfully this did not affect the flight, as far as I know. Anyway, I woke up just in time for the Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in Europe, and probably the most popular with water bottle companies (Evian, Glaceau, Etcetera), but I noticed that the famous glaciers are looking pretty grey, and somehow totally fascinating.

Some Odd Chairs

The exhibition "Siege Poeme", organized by Dominique Gauron and Gerard Ifert, took place in February 1975, somewhere in Paris. The show was furniture by non-furniture people, so poets and painters and sculptors and students and architects. Enjoy the weirdness:
Gillette chair by Luc Dailledouze
Matches chair by Nicolas Le Pellettier
Climbing up the wall chair, by students from Ecole CamondoCant pay attention chair by Jean Claude Biraben (o.k. I am making up the titles)

Notes on Antiparos

Walking around the beach in Antiparos, I spaced out on the German Techno vibe of Boys Noize and The Gossip remixes and started photographing things close to the ground
some of them looked like landscapes
others like corpsesand sunbursts
a stone wall close to the waterbrokeback mountaina dom-ino frame trying to pretend it is a vernacular structureand in the end this bastartized typology has become the norm on the islands
broken pieces of wood that helped cast the domes,
the domes that signifyan architecture caught in a dead end.

Summer Reading

Just back from a weekend in Antiparos, where apart from great beaches and great parties, they also had really cool vintage bookshop, and I rediscovered my obsession with ancient sci-fi comics, amongst other things.

Swiss Cables

Its construction time again, this time what seemed interesting was the cables sticking out of the walls, I have no idea why, or if I could ever find something more oblique to blog. Still they seem to have a life of their own

hi

Las Promesas

This is a project for a Center for Applied Computer Research and Programming by the great Emilio Ambasz, in Las Promesas, just outside Mexico City. I have no idea if this was ever built, as I found it in a vintage issue of Domus that I payed hard earned yen in the super snob specialist bookshops where Angelo dragged me to in Harajuku. (very long sentence). Anyway the issue is from May 1975, and it describes the building as the ultra fabulous original idea that it is. The offices are floating in a little Emilio-made lagoon and are reconfigurable work areas. When you decide how and where you want them, you unfloat them and they sit still in the water. Later you can fill their floatation tanks with air again, and your office space will be free to move around in the lagoon, and also it somehow makes ecological sense though I didnt really read the whole text.The two surrounding walls are a solar energy panel and a computer message display wall. A machine condenses water and makes little fluffy clouds and a rainbow. Little metallic windmills make pretty, and I think energy too. But what totally sold me was the maquette out of tin foil and cotton clouds and thats why I had to pay so much for such an old magazine and I'm so happy to spread the love.

Recent press

Its been ages since I updated the press section, and this was blog was originally supposed to be the "news" page on my site, and then of course it turned into something entirely different, or maybe not, it really depends what you consider news. Anyway, here's some press that I havent posted.

FRAME, which is the interior version of MARKThe School Project in Yli & Ktirio

Salon Magazine from Ukraine, interview by Katerina Oshemkova


interview in Arte & Mercato, MilanoCollateral again, in Les Temps, Geneva
Rodeo Magazine, interview by Luca Martinazzoli, who also runs the Gelati Motel blog
Experimenta (Madrid)

and some from the Loop festival, Barcelona

Diseñart (Portugal, I think)

Greek Culture Yearbook 06-07