Warm Up

NOTES: Fire as:

• recombinant force (in color theory, of primary colors red and yellow) – number 3
• an alchemical emblem because in its destructiveness, it also encapsulates the potential for re-generation and the resolution of conflict [see post about liquid/ Greek fire]
• mythical connotations: Prometheus as both the bearer and thief of fire
• The shape of fire as a triangle? the triad – religious connotations [Holy Trinity, conservatism, traditional & backward values and belief system].
• Triangle as a “metaphor for transforming destiny into choice, or repression into freedom” (Macnab, 95). This aspect of the fire could be compared with the energy movement of anarchy and/ or younger generations (at least the specific kind covered in this blog).
• But also: the fire’s energy movement as sprawling out of control, also manifest in the branching out of the distorted hexagonal heptagonal polygonal (?) shape of the crack in the wall.

Take One:

Integrating smaller concepts to a larger whole.

Take Two:

Adding value by cutting out distraction (e.g. easier to remember and reproduce)

Using paradox to discover unexpected connections –> Macnab asserts that the paradox allows for the possibility of resolution (in this case, also visually) between opposites.

Take Three:

Cinematic Mis-mnemonics

I would like to bring myself back in touch with my culture. But I have restricted means to do so. I thought America was the land where anything can happen. I thought  cyberspace could produce a surrogate culture for me. I guess I will have to make do with whatever I can find – even if it is reductive and offensive to me. And kind of funny at the same time.  Cinematically manufactured mythologies.

Locating the feeling visually, through cinematic and televisual detours:

Taradise

Notorious US party girl Tara Reid fits into the type of star that Richard Dyer classifies as “appearing to be meaningful but [is] in fact empty of meaning. Thus [this] star is well-known for her/his well-knownness, and not for any specific quality.”

How did the Greek riots impact the Greek economy? For the time being, we can only assess the impact of the disaster on a short-term basis. A fuller impact will be more calculable once the peak season for tourism arrives. Have security concerns abated in Greece and in those visiting Greece, or have they displaced the meaning of Greece within the experience economy?

Perhaps they should consider inviting Tara Reid (and Paris Hilton) back to Greece, as that seemed to do the trick. Even if it means that Reid will get more exposure than the actual travel destination.

Case in point: how the major part of the blogsphere covered Taradise’s visit to Cyprus:

Last night Tara traveled to the Baths of Aphrodite, where she imparted her first bit of true knowledge on viewers.

You see, Hugh Hefner modeled his Playboy mansion grotto after the baths of Aphrodite according to Mz. Reid, and she would know about these things.

We were then treated to the following scenes:

·   Tara searching her brain for the term “Guinea pig” as she riffs about her love for Greek Mythology.

·   Tara figuring out that “eternal beauty” is not located on the corner of Nip and Tuck in LA, but instead achieved only when one swims three laps around an ancient rock off the coast of Cyprus.

The rest of the show was Tara being Tara. Drinking, eating, and clubbing in Ayia Napa.

Man she is a monster when she gets in the zone.

Marina = Speech&Wordless, but not imageless:

Resting on Laurels

STATEMENT

On Saturday night, the Greek police assassinated a 15 year old student.

His assassination was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

It was the continuation of a coordinated action, by state terrorism and the Golden Dawn, which aimed at university and high school students (with the private universities first), at migrants that continue to be persecuted for being born with the wrong colour, at the employees that must work to death without compensation.

The government of cover-ups with its praetors, having burnt the forests last summer, is responsible for all major cities burning now, too. It protected financial criminals, all those involved in the mobile phone interceptions scandal, those looting the employees’ insurance funds, those kidnapping migrants, those who protected the banks and the monasteries that steal from the ordinary people.

We are in Civil War: With the fascists, the bankers, the state, the media wishing to see an obedient society.

There are no excuses, yet they once again try to use conspiracy theories to calm spirits down.

The rage that had accumulated had to be expressed and should not, by any means, end.

Throughout the world we are making headlines, it was about time that people uprise everywhere.

The generation of the poor, the unemployed, the partially employed, the homeless, the migrants, the youth, is the generation that will smash every display window and will wake up the obedient citizens from their sleep of the ephemeral American dream.

Don’t watch the news, consciousness is born in the streets

When the youth is murdered, the old people should not sleep

Goodbye Alexandros, may your blood be the last of an innocent to run

a memory, an image, a trigger

The Berlin Wall.

What was there before ME. I was not there. It never happened to me.

Childhood memory / Child’s fiction

One of my happiest and most idealized childhood memories: a family trip to Germany.

Up to this moment, I never thought of my first visit to Germany as anything else but a blissful childhood memory.

The last vacation we took as a family.

My first time on a plane.

First time in another country.

First time to meet my new aunt.

First time to practice the few German words I learned.  First time to have my accent made fun of.

Exploring the unknown  for the first time …

… and that is where it was located all this time…  buried under happy, ignorant moments.