Scenes from an excavation

After being happily fed at the Banana Garden,

and inspired by stories of javelin-throwing,
we made our way to the ultra fabulous site of Ancient Olympia,
where a whole new miniature life was going on.

an archaeologist was recording the days' finds

a local worker was carrying away stuff

another guy was being very picky with the dumpy level

meanwhile all this was going on

everybody seemed to be waiting for something
all the animals were alert

a two-faced messenger appeared

the siren warned

and the sexy Pan arrived

switching scales, Angelo inspected a gentle giant

Lost in Zacharo (Kaiafas)

Running through the jungle to escape from the Others
we found food in the form of a glorious taverna
hidden inside a wild banana garden.
Private dining rooms made of vines and bamboo, where you dine under Banana roofs
and it is actually a great seafood place
owned by Mr Stratos and his son Dimitris (bronze medal in javelin, useful for keeping the others away amongst other things).
Other son Sakis was away that morning

Lost in Kyllini

Wandering around the Peloponese, looking for whats next,
we happened upon the Kyllini Springs: a 1930's ruinthat used to house the thermal springsuntil the Others arrived

a crazy ugly people covered in black therapeutic mudthey took over this land we escaped to the wild impromptu jungle
vines wildly climbing up trees
everything grows fast here because of the black mud
(get your own here)

on the island for now

The Architecture of Longing

(wherever this is I want to go)

A couple of weeks ago I stayed at Marina Fokidis' Thessaloniki home, and had the chance to browse super cool old family books on architecture decoration hotels vitrines and all such frivolity. Being as it is that I cannot think of anything else but a beach recliner looking at the horizon and listening to The Clean's "In the Dreamlife you need a Rubber Soul", here's some hospitality I would definetly like to receive... (this whole paragraph doesn't make sense, but what the hellthis is somewhere in Augusta Italy (?)

and I cant get over the genius of the medieval-60's balcony dividers,

which are the real reason I'm posting all these hotel images
and the best ever trampolino per piscina, a kind of cheverismo dom-ino,
though to call it this we have to get final approval
from Mr Pablo and the Cheverismo committee

bellevue always sounds good

especially if behind it is this

never say no to a splash of color in a motel in Lainateand the double triangle of ristorante Thunderbird

Angelo Plessas' Monument to Internet HookUps

This is Angelo Plessas' Monument to Internet HookUps

the monument is the physical component of a work
that joins performance, sculpture and the internet,
mixing public event and private history.
the work was conceived as part of Cay Sophie Rabinowitz' "Splendid Isolation: Athens" exhibition for the 2nd Athens Biennial HEAVEN. The opening of HEAVEN was scheduled at the same day as the Athens Pride Festival, and Plessas' work chose to join the two events

first acting as a float on the Pride parade in downtown Athens
(Joe, Pablo)

where lots of old friends came together
(Angelo, Cay, Mark, Tobias, Rebecca)

mixing real and fictional characters
(Vilma, Roland)

at the end of the parade everybody boarded the float
(Stuart, Christian, Roy, Willem, Leo, Sotiris, Andrea, Adrian, Jane,Pablo, Oliver, Carla, Eleanna)

for a crazy truck ride down Syggrou Ave.
and the installation at a secluded location on the grounds of the biennial,
a pyramid amongst dead palm trees
a dry field by the sea
yesterday we visited the monumentto add some personal history

Appennino, he's a building

A couple of weeks ago we visited the Parco Demidoff in Pratolino,
a vexation garden just outside of Florence.
with a large brooding sculpture of the mountain god Appennino
looking kind of sexy

until you realisehe is actually a building
with party rooms and secret staircases leading to private quarters
and haunting interiors