November 28, 2011

Coffee


August 2011, Chios

Edge


August 2011, Chios

Further proof why idiots shouldn't be allowed to carry a camera:
When the aspect ratio slips (by mistake, naturally, not by conscious choice or anything) to 4:3 instead of the standard 3:2, it takes us days to notice it. DAYS.

Storytelling time II


August 2011, Chios

Storytelling time I


August 2011, Chios

November 27, 2011

Full moon


August 2011, Chios

Walk on coals


August 2011, Chios

Spices and socks and stuff


August 2011, Chios Town, Chios

Mastic tree


August 2011, Chios

Friggin' in the riggin'


August 2011

And when my money was all gone
'twas then I wanted more
But a man must be blind
to make up his mind
to go to sea once more

~ The Dubliners, "Go to sea no more"

Dance II


2011

Dance I


2011

thermoses full of chocolate sauce
men who live on only remorse

~ Mikelangelo, "A formidable marinade"

A flurry of cats


August 2011, Litochoro

Before surgery


August 2011, Litochoro

Chariclea


August 2011, Platamon

Big. Clumsy. Deaf as a doornail. Adorable.

Roxy


August 2011, Patissia, Athens

Solinette + Retinette


August 2011, Exarcheia, Athens

Agfa Solinette


August 2011, Exarcheia, Athens

Talbot Errtee


August 2011, Exarcheia, Athens

Snip


2011

Rest


July 2011, Epidaurus

Now


July 2011, Epidaurus

Earrings


July 2011, Epidaurus

Creativity: mouspads


July 2011

On a sunny afternoon


July 2011, Messini

The taxman's taken all my dole
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon

And I can't sail my yacht
He's taken everything I got
All I've got's this sunny afternoon

~ The Kinks, "Sunny afternoon"

Dogs were barking


July 2011, Gogol Bordello @ Terra Vibe, Malakasa

But if you give me the invitation
To hear the bells of freedom chime
To hell with your double standard
We comin' rougher every time


~ Gogol Bordello, "Immigraniada"

Bears were dancing


July 2011, Gogol Bordello @ Terra Vibe, Malakasa

But goddammit, this round's on me
Nobody learns nothing from no history

~ Gogol Bordello, "Avenue B"

I hear roar


July 2011, Flogging Molly @ Terra Vibe, Malakasa

From this sandy edge
The rolling sea breaks my revenge
With each whisper a thousand waves
I hear roar, I'm coming home

~ Flogging Molly, "Tobacco Island"

Copper blood


July 2011, Rockwave, Malakasa

where the living meet the dead
and together dance as one

~ Flogging Molly, "Tobacco Island"

Posse


July 2011, Rockwave, Malakasa

Texting


July 2011, Rockwave, Malakasa

I will deny you


July 2011, Monster Magnet @ Terra Vibe, Malakasa

Shut me off
cause I'll go crazy
with this planet
in my hands

~ Monster Magnet, "Negasonic teenage warhead"

In the same old mess


July 2011, Rockwave, Malakasa

I sit and dwell on faces past
Like memories seem to fade
No colour left but black and white
And soon will all turn gray

~ Flogging Molly, "Drunken Lullabies"

Denim and leather


July 2011, Rockwave, Malakasa

Well swing a little more, little more o'er the merry-o
Swing a little more, a little more next to me

~ Flogging Molly, "Devil's Dance Floor"

Bike


June 2011, Exarcheia, Athens

Mystery


June 2011, Exarcheia, Athens

In a nutshell


June 2011, downtown Athens

Merry month of June


June 2011, Tositsa, Athens

Never again
will I smell your sweet dream
But a pissed stained ol' gutter
where your lips used to be

~ Flogging Molly, "Far away boys"

November 26, 2011

One, two, three, four, five


2011

Hunt the hare
and turn her down the rocky road
all the way to Dublin
whack follol de rah

~ "The rocky road to Dublin"

No man's land


June 2011, Panepistimiou, Athens

And I can't help but wonder, young Willie McBride,
do all those who lie here know why they died?

~ Eric Bogle, "No man's land (The Green Fields of France)"

The younger generation remains unimpressed


June 2011, Syntagma, Athens

Up the ladder I did grope
And the hangman pulled the rope

And ne'er a word I spoke
Tumbling down


~ "Sam Hall"

Skulk


June 2011, Patissia, Athens

I think I ought to tell her that the English left in failure
and they don't go back to France except on hols
But I saw her vivisect a man who wanted to correct her
and the playground soon resembled Grand Guignol

~ 8in8, "The problem with the saints (Joan of Arc)"

There and back again


May 2011

I am a traveler, third class
My name is hello, how are you
Is this seat taken, you may ask,
of the traveler in third class

~ Golem, "Train across Ukraine"

Fog, rain, unnerving police vehicles


May 2011, Taksim, Istanbul

When the wars are finally over and the damage has been done
And the mushroom cloud has darkened out the lifeblood of the sun
There will be no fucking countries, there will be no fucking one
When the wars are finally over and the damage has been done

~ Meisce, "When the guns have all been fired"

Obligatory III


May 2011, Istanbul

When the guns have all been fired and the ammunition's gone
And the corpses lie in bloody pools to wait the break of dawn
There will be no mound of earth left which to raise your flag upon
When the guns have all been fired and the ammunition's gone

~ Meisce, "When the guns have all been fired"


Frozen


May 2011, Antigoni

Did you keep a watch for the dead man's wind
Did you see the woman with the comb in her hand
Wailing away on the wall on the strand
As you danced to the Turkish song of the damned

~ The Pogues, "Turkish song of the damned"

The munchies


May 2011, Antigoni

Succumbing to nostalgia II


May 2011, Antigoni

You'll miss the feeling you'll get when reminiscing of your first love, thirty years after the fact
~ Bobby Gaylor, "Suicide"

P.S. Less than thirty, more than twenty five...

Succumbing to nostalgia I


May 2011, Antigoni

And as I sit and talk to you I see your face go white
This shadow hanging over me is no trick of the light
The spectre on my back will soon be free
The dead have come to claim a debt from thee

~ The Pogues, "Turkish song of the damned"

Welcome committee


May 2011, Antigoni

One giant leap


May 2011, Istanbul