June 29, 2012

Untranslatable


February 2012, downtown, Athens

Με τη Μαριώ φουμάρουμε,
το σύμπαν κογιονάρουμε.

~ Δημήτρης Αραπάκης, "Μεμέτης χασικλής"

Folklore



"Folklore" is the maximum deviation from the norm that the dominant culture can approve. (Therefore, harmless.)

February 2012, downtown, Athens

Uncropped for breadth and for subject: folklore.
Cropped for geometry and for subject: the kid. (The kid's for real, he isn't acting.)

Counterweight


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

Rage against the machine


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

Turntable


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

Platter


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

Tonearm


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

Static Off


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

A Technics SL-1200 MK2 + the reflection of a curtain + a polarizing filter = infinite joy

June 26, 2012

San Quentin


June 2012, Exarcheia, Athens

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell
May your walls fall and may I live to tell
May all the world forget you ever stood
And the whole world regret you did no good

~ Johnny Cash, "San Quentin"

Fan II


June 2012

I gotta breathe to stay alive
like I'm gonna suffocate
this skin that turns to blister blue
shoulders toes and knees
I'm 36 degrees


~ Placebo, "36 degrees"

Fan I


June 2012

Snifter


June 2012

My Zippo is my tripod, I shall not want.

June 25, 2012

ARCAM Asylum


June 2012, Patissia, Athens

And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends
And you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling
And the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling
And the ashtrays have retired
Cause the piano has been drinking
Not me

~ Tom Waits, "The piano has been drinking"

June 23, 2012

Bottle II


June 2012

Bottle I


June 2012

June 21, 2012

Janus II


January 2011, downtown, Athens

It was a dream, a warning dream
That heaven sent to me
To snatch me from my drunkard's doom
Grim, want and misery

~ The Dead Brothers, "Drunkard's dream"

June 6, 2012

KRAN


June 2012, Neapoli, Athens

Vent


June 2012, Neapoli, Athens