konstantinos’ blog

I started writing this post in order to discuss the changes that take place in my life this period. So I thought, lets make the post look nicer by adding a nice photo from London. Then I searched my archive of unpublished photos (sic) and found the photo you see above (click on the photo for an exuberant view). It’s taken from the balcony of the house where my friends Panos & Alkistis live. And it’s a photo that reminds me of how beautiful London’s skyline is! So I decided not to write about the new things in my life but about the skylines of the three cities of my life…

Actually nothing special is happening in my life apart from the fact that I am not longer a student. Who would expect that after 21 years (when I first started going to primary school, lol) a day would come when I would not be a student any more. Seriously speaking, after almost ten years of studying at a graduate/postgraduate level, my status has changed and I don’t think that I have really realized that. No more student discounts, no more lazy daily schedules, no more late night outs… The thing that worries me more is that I still have the feeling that a coursework or a project should be finished or that I should study from now in order to go well at the exams on January (or May or September or …). Of course, the latter has always been a thought and nothing more! The good thing is that I already keep myself occupied with what I really enjoy and if this something happens to be the field of my future job I will be even more excited. For the curious (and I don’t think there are any… only 2-3 of my close friends read this blog …) I am talking about Web and interactive design. Anyway, enough with this info… I have reasons that make me happy lately and they don’t fit in the “I finished my masters degree” reason, but let’s leave that for future posts.

Back to the skylines, I believe that I had always been impressed by skylines. In the thought of what makes an amazing skyline the classical answer would obviously be: skyscrapers, historical buildings, interesting ground morphology etc. Cities like London, NYC, Tokio, Hong Kong are undoubtedly the most famous regarding their skyline. However, in my opinion a skyline can be very interesting if its view reminds us of the city/place in which it belongs and further more of all the beautiful moments that someone can recall after having lived there for a reasonable amount of time. Ok, compared to Athens, Patras and London - the cities where I have spent 99% of my lifetime (born/raised in Athens, studied in Patras for 7 years and living the last 13 months in London) - London’s skyline has undoubtedly the wow factor but I still consider Athens’ and Patras’ skylines magnetic. And that’s mainly because I love these cities and I am always looking forward to experiencing things regarding them… even a static photo skyline!

To avoid misunderstandings, I love London too and I am very happy to have lived and still living here. Life here is a powerful experience and varies a lot from what I have been used to until now. I just hope that after a while, when my experiences from being a Londoner will be equally compared in quantity and quality with my experiences as an Athenian and a Patrinian (lol… who knows what the resident of Patras are called???), London will not have dominated in my mind as the place with the best and only good memories! …because it sure has the potential for that.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 2:21 am and is filed under General, Personal Artwork, Photography.