konstantinos’ blog

Which is the best way to update your blog? A blog that you care for but you didn’t have the time, the mood or the inspiration for more than ten days to update? … the answer is with a video compiled from photos and videos shot by the author! lol

Ok. The truth is that lately I haven’t been feeling very well, and I don’t mean psychologically (luckily I am always a positive and happy person). London’s cold weather is always willing to affect sensitive bodies like mine… haha (I am a virgo… and virgoans tend to worry about their health & sometimes tend to be hypochondriacs). Anyway, enough with all these nonsense.

Now that I’ve finally found the mood to post something new I created this small video to jewel my blog (lol²)! Seriously… I liked this track: Take back the future from (the greek group) High Level Static and so I decided to make a clip where I can use it in the background. All photos and videos of the compiled video are shot at Berlin 1+ month ago. Watch it but believe it or not I can be more creative and imaginative in video editing :p …but with Windows Movie Maker and a laptop with 512MB RAM choices are limited…

I think that many times lately I find myself considering of music not as bad or good, touching or indifferent but as stylish or not! I don’t know if there is a point in that, and moreover if music critique can be based on this criterion (and actually what makes a musical piece, track, song stylish?) but I like to use this term when I listen to music that could be heard in an ultra fashionable bar, a stylish restaurant or the lobby of a design hotel. That doesn’t mean that this music can be enjoyable only there but I think it would fit perfectly there…

So two of the tracks that come instantly to my mind this period when I think for something stylish are from Walter Ego and Simian Mobile Disco. Walter Meego is a musical duo from Chicago, Illinois whereas Simian Mobile Disco (even the name is cool!) come from a closest to mine neighbourhood as being an English production and remix team. Actually there is a story on how I discovered these groups and their music and the connecting link is “Diesel Liquid Space” (right, the latest ultra-chic and super-ultra- hightech fashion show from Diesel where holographic projection was used for the first time in that kind of live show … Alexander McQueen’s fashion show in Paris followed with a hovering ethereal Kate Moss! … but enough with this enormous parenthesis!). As you can imagine tracks from both Walter Ego and Simian Mobile Disco were used to dress musically the show, along with tracks from other producers of course.

Anyway, below you can listen to “Romantic” from Walter Ego (which is heard during the catwalk… search for the Flosstradamus remix) and to “I Believe” from the English duo (though the track used for the show is the “I Got This Down”… but no clip for that).