konstantinos’ blog

Date: 28 October 2007

Time: evening

Destination: Tate Modern

Place: river Thames, London

Participants: Marios, Vasilis, Konstantinos

A new photo for my photographic portfolio! This time is a portrait… a foreign territory for me, but I think the result is pretty good. Of course, the place of the shoot - the Holocaust Memorial at Berlin, Germany - helps a lot in that! Anyway, hope you like it. The comments I’ve received up to now from the deviantArt community are ehmm  …let’s say few… lol

Model: Canon PowerShot S70
Shutter Speed: 1/30 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 6 mm
Date Picture Taken: Oct 7, 2007, 6:27:23 PM

[paraphrasing the ads that have flooded the streets of London lately]

Yes, Berlin was great! I would definetely want to visit this city in the future. It differs a lot compared to London and in my opinion it has a lot of similarities with Athens. Before you argue on that; it’s just my personal opinion! Of course the superior architecture cannot be compared to what Athenians are used to see, and dare to say what Londoners are used to see. Potsdamer Platz is great, like Canary Wharf but what really amazed me are all these buildings made in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s with their minimal architectural design (see Bauhaus).

Anyway, before letting you enjoy (?) the photographs let’s summarize the Berlin experience in a few words: clubbing with great music, clubbing on the 15th floor, clubbing at 10am in a “club” under a tube station, cheap food, relatively cheap cabs, average shopping malls and shopping atmosphere, friendly young people, inexpressive older people, futuristic buildings, wide wide wide streets, huge monuments, greeks in random positions (cab driver, dunkin donuts cashier), euros, no english… did I mention clubbing?

Voila…

Two songs, one new and one a remake of an older one (Golden Brown by The Stranglers)… but both addictive! Two songs from my two latest addictions: “Justice” and “Frankmusik“.

Justice is a band from France and they are considered (obviously in my opinion) the new Daft Punk, although their stylistic approach is a bit different. Forget about robots, men with masks and full anonymity. Justice feel more free to party with their exponentially growing audience (already 2.240.000!!! plays on last.fm with Madonna having reached 9.600.000 for example) while having a rock/metal style layout at their lives (huge, huge, HUGE amplifiers).

Frankmusik is an almost teenager Londoner (east London in particular) and there is already a lot of hype around his name. His music is described as pop…but it’s not the pop you are used to listening to. It’s fast, with maaaany electronic elements and it will remind you of soundtracks of old arcade games! Who knows…maybe he can be Madonna’s next producer or “advisor”.

Both Justice and Frankmusik have released their first albums although I think the former have presented already many other things in the music industry. Who can forget about the amazing “We are you friends” from “Justice vs. Simian”? Nobody after having listened to it on the dancefloor (…preferably an original 80s dance floor with the lighted floor :D)

… I don’t think that you are still sitting in front of your screen!

New photo/deviation/artwork after 1,5 month! This whole dissertation situation not only dominated most of my time the last two months but also changed my priorities in the things that I would like to enjoy now that I have (some) free time. Anyway, the good thing is that I am in the mood of showing something new and moreover of participating again in my beloved dA community which I had been neglecting for a long time now… (more looooong comments are coming!)

So here it is: “Autumn Walk”, simultaneously launched on deviantArt, Flickr and dpgr.gr!

Hope you like it. Photo was taken during a walk at Hyde Park in London, but not on an autumn day! Nevertheless, it usually feels like autumn in London … and I like that

Model: Canon PowerShot S70
Shutter Speed: 1/318 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 6 mm
Date Picture Taken: Feb 4, 2007, 6:25:22 PM