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An interesting article from the nymag.com about London being the new world capital!

I don’t know if it is the world capital (I still haven’t visited NYC), but for sure many things are happening here and I enjoy more and more the fact that I am living here.

EXIF info for original photo taken at Canary Wharf, London, UK

Model: Canon PowerShot S70
Shutter Speed: 1/80 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
Date Picture Taken: April 22, 2007, 8:02:05 PM

Promotional Image on “deviantART” for kvainas.com

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EXIF info of original photo taken at Brighton, UK

Model: Canon PowerShot S70
Shutter Speed: 1/636 second
F Number: F/3.2
Focal Length: 9 mm
Date Picture Taken: May 26, 2007, 7:48:31 PM

Among the thousands of crap “pieces of art” that you can find on dA or deviantART, you can discover amazing deviations from really talented people. One of them is Julia (aka night-fate) from the US. The series of photo manipulations that are shown here present a “flooded” version of world famous monuments and places of interest. It’s how Julia sees the future, or simpler how she expresses her creativity. Anyway, enjoy…

While searching old (2005) photos on my laptop I found an interesting video from Georgia’s birthday party. I think it was one of the most succesfull parties while being at Patras (I was studying at Patras, Greece for the last 6 years of my life!). We even gave it a special name: Spoon Moon Party!

The video is not something special but maybe it’s the last video from the period that all of my friends were still in Patras and we were able to arrange gatherings like this one. So its value is more emotional than artistic (of course). If you recognise your face please leave a comment!!! Hehe

Anyway, I wanted to upload the video to YouTube (my first video) but I wanted to edit it first. Since I haven’t yet installed Adobe Premiere in my laptop, I thought: let’s give Windows Movie Maker a try. Although its interface is not as intuitive as Premiere’s for example, I was amazed by the capabilities a free program already installed by windows has. Obviously, it’s a completely amateur video editing software, but it offers enough functionality for fast and simple video editing with no extra need for further installations.

But enough with the words… here’s the video… TADA

Listening to “Alone” from the amazing Moby on last.fm, I started reading the “Artist Description”.
My attention was caught by this: “Moby has recently scored the soundtrack for Richard Kelly’s upcoming movie ‘The Southland Tales’. Whilst he is generally against composing music for films, he was a huge fan of Kelly’s previous film ‘Donnie Darko’ and could not resist the offer the director gave him.”

“Donnie Darko” is one of my favourite movies and Moby is one of my favourite composers/producers. So I was excited by learning about this cooperation! I guess ‘Donnie Darko’s great OST featuring songs from Joy Division (which is Moby’s favourite band) must have motivated him to compose the music for Richard Kelly’s 4th movie. According to wikipedia, “Southland Tales is a 2008 science fiction film… Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial newstainment complex.”

The “Southland Tales” website is up and running and you can here some music from the movie’s OST. The music is characteristic of Moby’s music with an ambient character and heavy use of atmospheric pads. I am looking forward to watch the Movie and listen to the OST. The release date is on March 2008.

It seems that May and June are appropriate for small excursions. Today, along with my friends George P., George D., Maria Xsipsitixips and two of her friends Konstantinos and Anestis, I visited Greenwich. Although it’s really close to the centre of London (just half an hour with the tube and DLR) I had never been there. The weather was great, 25°C degrees, and we were all in the mood for visiting something different in London. Unfortunately(?) we didn’t have the chance to admire the “Cutty Shark” after the recent fire damages. However, the Royal Observatory and its museum were interesting in many ways.

As usually, I spent most of the time doing what I like most; taking photographs. You can see the (best of the) photos by following this link or by clicking on the image on the top of this text. Comments as always are more than appreciated

I just discovered this song through the myspace page of a friend of mine.

It’s a song from a pop group called Kore. Ydro. and I’ve already listen to it for several times! The lyrics are in greek (sorry for all the non-greek speakers) but I really wanted to post this song.

Kore. Ydro. is a musical/artistic collective from Corfu, Greece and I think they deserve some attention.

According to the group’s official site, the second “proper” Kore. Ydro. album contains 12 songs written in their majority between the years 2003 and 2005 and recorded in the group’s “home” studio in Corfu, long before the EMI contract. The LP constitutes one of the few cases in the history of world discography that an entirely DIY production of substandard budget sees a first time mass distribution and promotion by a major label.

Enjoy and please tell me what you think of the song

Photo taken on Brighton Pier at Brighton, UK.
Editing was done in Photoshop.
Model: my dear friend Sarah

for commentary visit “Sarah” @ Flickr

Make: Canon
Model: Canon PowerShot S70
Shutter Speed: 1/125 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
Date Picture Taken: May 26, 2007, 17:59:09