Black heart

 

spring is frozen now I'm stuck in low

wrapped with wire, tapped to the heart

can't find no poison, now I've got no cure

(the) fangs are stuck inside my skin

Payne county line

watching unjust claims

one man's righteousness is another man's

long haul, sentence carried out

long haul, counting the miles

to the four corners of the world

 

spring is rusted shut, (faith's) coiled and cracked

apparitions worth their weight in gold

scratched in metal, name erodes away

hands are scarred, heart is charred

burnt though, and ashen

 

trip on fence post line

sifting through the remains

one man's close pursuit is another man's

last chance, make it through the divide

last chance, suffer the weight or get buried by this

black heart, sweeping over the land

black heart, crawling its way

to the four corners of the world

Calexico

Post No:900

 

900 posts - 4 years (my) space diary

It feels like the tower of Babel 

Every post

Every Month

Is like a new floor

And the tower is heading to one_thousand_posts

The Newspaper Show

 

The Newspaper Show

Artists:

Dimitrios Antonitsis, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, b., Tjorg Douglas Beer, Apostolos Georgiou, Konstantin Kakanias, Elias Kafouros, Paris Koutsikos, Lucas Lenglet, Dafni Barbageorgopoulou,

Margarita Myrogianni, Socrates Socratous, Sofia Touboura,

Gabriel Vormstein, Tao Xue

The Breeder presented the group exhibition “The Newspaper Show” with works by young international artists whose central core was the newspaper.

Contrary to the digital revolution and the economic recession that threatens the printed media with extinction, the artists with their own extraordinary ways assisted for the perpetuation of the medium.

 

Appropriations of printed matter, most commonly newspapers first appeared in the Synthetic Cubism of Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris, in 1912. A century ago it was a radical concept: ephemera intended for disposal incorporated into fine artwork that was expected to have timeless value.

Fifty years later Pop and Arte Povera artists took up the enterprise, with different objectives but undiminished impact. And although the conceptual premises behind the use of found printed matter may have changed over the decades, its appeal to artists perseveres.

 

The artists that participated in the show used the newspaper either as a raw material or as a conceptual canvas for the work that they presented.

 

Socrates Socratous coated the gallery walls with pages of Cypriot newspaper “New Times” from 1960-1974 that he collected from a military outpost in the green line of Nicosia.

The Junta and the coup in Cyprus, Vietnam war, the man on the moon, Middle East and Cuba make headlines along with other news that aren’t far from today’s reality.

more about the exhibition here

He, Is Praying For Us

 

 

This huge new 600m² mural by Pavlos Tsakonas, Manolis Anastasakos and the Kretsis crew inspired by Albrecht Dürer - 1508 (praying hands) is called "He, is praying for us,"

 

Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. His woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavor than the rest of his work. His well-known works include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melancholia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolors mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.  [ source ]

American Buffalo

 

American Buffalo / Αμερικάνικος βούβαλος

American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions, it opened on Broadway on February 16, 1977. Critic Frank Rich called it "one of the best American plays of the last decade.

As is emblematic of Mamet's writing style, the play's dialogue is sometimes terse and often vulgar.  Mamet's profanity is not employed for shock value, but is rather an integral component of his characters' "profane poetry", which, according to frequent collaborator Gregory Mosher, "worked the iambic pentameter out of the vernacular of the underclass."

The characters' sometimes vulgar lexicon, moreover, may be seen as psychologically necessary armor against their brutal environment. The parenthetical stage directions are straightforward and do not provide line readings.

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Photos are from the Greek adaptation of the play

Αμερικάνικος βούβαλος

Δράμα του Ντέιβιντ Μάμετ

Σκηνοθεσία: Δ. Τάρλοου

Ερμηνεύουν: Αλ. Μυλωνάς, Γ. Γάλλος, Π. Καλαντζής.

Σκην.-κοστ.: Ελ. Μανωλοπούλου.

American Buffalo Theme by Blaine L. Reininger

Heart of glass

Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out had a heart of glass

Seemed like the real thing, only to find

Much of mistrust, love's gone behind

Once I had a love and it was divine

Soon found out I was losing my mind

It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind

Much of mistrust, love's gone behind

In between

What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine

Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind

If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good

You teasing like you do

 

Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out had a heart of glass

Seemed like the real thing, only to find

Much of mistrust, love's gone behind

Once I had a love and it was divine

Soon found out I was losing my mind

It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind

Much of mistrust, love's gone behind

Lost inside

Adorable illusion and I cannot hide

I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside

We could've made it cruising, yeah

Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light

Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out I had a heart of glass

Seemed like the real thing only to find

Much of mistrust, love's gone behind

 

Blondie

I Talk to the Wind

I Talk to the Wind

Said the straight man to the late man

Where have you been

I've been here and I've been there

And I've been in between.

I talk to the wind

My words are all carried away

I talk to the wind

The wind does not hear

The wind cannot hear.

 

I'm on the outside looking inside

What do I see

Much confusion, disillusion

All around me.

You don't possess me

Don't impress me

Just upset my mind

Can't instruct me or conduct me

Just use up my time

 

I talk to the wind

My words are all carried away

I talk to the wind

The wind does not hear

The wind cannot hear.

King Crimson

Opening Day Today

 

photography exhibition \ Argyris Drolapas

The Charity Organization ‘Give Hope’ is inaugurating its new offices in the center of Athens (66 Vas. Sofias Avenue) with a series of cultural events. Apart from the organization’s aid to the vulnerable groups of society and its support to cancer research, now comes a new programme of presenting the work of creative young people and upcoming artists. First on our agenda is the solo photography exhibition of Argyris Drolapas.

‘Give Hope’ is proud to present the first solo show of Drolapas showing images of Athens that he captures as he roams the city, observing daily life as a spectator. Statues of the city take on an astral dimension, but at the same time try to keep hold of their earthly shadow… His subject matter includes animate and inanimate objects, those that appear to be coming from a parallel universe. His photographs are taken out of a “different reality”, an imaginary world that only sometimes becomes alive around us.

Opening: 16 March 2012 - 2000 Hours

Exhibition Duration: 17 March – 4 April 2012

For more information please contact us here: ‘Give Hope’ Charity Organization,

66 Vas. Sofias Avenue, Athens 115 28, Tel.: 210 7244580, info@givehope.gr

Macbeth

Macbeth / Μακμπέθ

The Tragedy of Macbeth (commonly called Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a man who commits regicide so as to become king and then commits further murders to maintain his power.

The play clearly demonstrates the corrupting effect of ambition, but also deals with the relationship between cruelty and masculinity, tyranny and kingship, treachery, violence, guilt, prophecy, and disruption of the natural order.

The play is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. His reign is racked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion.  The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

Shakespeare's source for the tragedy are the accounts of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. However, the story of Macbeth as told by Shakespeare bears little relation to real events in Scottish history, as Macbeth was an admired and able monarch.

In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as "the Scottish play". Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the greatest actors in the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comic books, and other media.

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These photos are from the following adaptation of the play

Μακμπέθ

Τραγωδία του Ουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ

Σκηνοθεσία: Θ. Μοσχόπουλος

Ερμηνεύουν: Αργ. Ξάφης, Άν. Μάσχα, Ξ. Καλογεροπούλου, Κ. Μπερικόπουλος, Γ. Χρυσοστόμου. Μετάφρ.: Δ. Δημητριάδης.

Σκην.-κοστ.: Έλ. Παπαγεωργακοπούλου.

Φωτ.: Λ. Παυλόπουλος.

 

The Blue Hour

 

The clouds, they go their way

With indifference to us

A melancholy light

The ghost of Summer past

The moon relieves the sun

Across the evening sky

And here we come undone

And here we say goodbye

 

Take the last kiss from my lips

Take the last look at my face

And then surrender all we have

Or I will never walk away

 

The whispers in the bough

Are but rumours on the wind

This love was never ours

And yet we took it in

The headstones mark the lost

Erased by time and tide

Ashes cast to sea

Blow back as memories..

Piano Magic