Reflected Ruin

Last week I passed by this cute modernist housing block (by Nikos Valsamakis), and its funny to see how it lies in ruins while mediocre neoclassical crap are being treated as the holy grail.
Anyway, the patternt treatment has always fascinated me, in a Miami way, though its really not close to the sea.
But the blind facade is even cuter because it catches the reflection of the stupid mirror building right next to it.
later on at the nearby mall, all I could see was shadow reflection patterns
and then more random patterns

Teenage Fanclub

For some reason I started googling all my favorite records from high school. I've thrown away the vinyl long ago, because I always throw everything away

This was the most exotic record ever:
Dead or Alive's "Sophisticated Boom Boom"
Homo, punk, goth and horny angry dance music,
just everything a gay boy needed while growing up
Hand in Glove was my favorite track off this,
but I was always disappointed at how "not gay enough" it was
total fabulous underground,
I learned about Nomi when he was the first artist
to die of Aids
this was a leftover from pre-teen years,
when people spoke about Classical Music
I always thought they meant Summer-Moroder
another classic obviously, and this was a great hit too,
so it was strange to listen to such a gloomy record in summer discos

New Order "Blue Monday"

and I still get chills when I listen to this

Last night in Exarcheia

Last night we went to the launch of WE NEED, presented by BETTINA,
at a semi abandoned club that I seen a million times from the outside
but never went in.

there were dark ponds on empty floors

grotto lamps with upside-down forest couches

manequinns

musical chairs + clothes

Dimitris was red

Selana was chatting

Aurora We Need

Meletis and the Bettina Boys

and later on Voltnoi played some great 90's techno,
perfect Faz revival

Dolmabahçe Revisited

Dolmabahçe is the palace on the eastern side of the Bosphorous.
The garden is amazing, I could go again and again

I walked down from Taksim square

Cute guard with podium
Dolmabahçe is basically the Dubai of 18th century, the Sultans were all hiring foreign architects to make it all fabulous and non-Ottoman, in a Ottoman way of course

Minaret under repair
the palm tree is friends with elegance
A clock thinks about becoming a building,
maybe sometime
trees behind a wall
a wall that looks like its not there

a door leading to the sea,
and one more
(I've blogged this before but I cant get enough)

New PIN-UP

PIN-UP issue 3 is out, and it's as good as you expected, and even better
Thierry Mugler
Czech Scenography
Hong Kong cultural center
boys on chairs,
Ruins,
Robert Wilson,
Terry Riley & John Keenen,
David Whitney & Phillip Johnson
and lots more, so run to the newsstands

Day to Night in Istanbul

behind the billboard building is a holea mirror column
money makes the world go roundand Sylvia upsidedown
she's dreaming of dolphins and seagulls
as the sun goes down


Rodeo Republic
great Huseyin Alptekin (R.I.P.)
great Tobias Bernstrup on the YAMA screen

lime green and fuschia, who would have thought