an apple a day

μουνί, μήτερ, πέη.

fatal weapons, fatal women

Magritte gras

Texas Longhorn with a twist for the mardi gras celebration

Texan Pride, German car

Shopping some US debt

near Wall st.

Αχτύπητα δίδυμα

Λουκάς-Νίκος

εμπόριο αλλαντικών

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Βαλέρια- Άννα

φυτικά προϊόντα

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Μήτσος-Τάκης

γούρια & φυλακτά

hearts unexpected III

destination?

Lady(bird) in red

bleu blanc rouge

Paris-Versailles 2011, 16K race

compromise

slow luxury vs. fast

see also : the polo shirt war

all my loving I will send to you

face to face

το πολύ το ΚΚ

superficial beauty

straight fom hell

depressed USB cable

before and after

Here are some photos of the Kyriakopoulos residence, (designed by T. Valentis, built in 1934) I took in the summer of 2001.


This was one of the few original samlpes of modernism in Greece.

Ten years later I return to that street and I see this instead.

The Kyriakopoulos residence had been declaired by the state as a "landmark" and the state had promissed to buy it in order to preseve it. On 16 Oct 2002 it was demolished.

Find your way

"He walks quickly. When crossing a street, he steps off
the sidewalk without changing his pace, but two out of
three times makes a little hop when he steps  on to the
sidewalk on the other side."

Albert Camus, The Plague.

the kind of detail that I love

Take your time...

Fort de Penthièvre, Western France.

The Forests of Silence

Translated from the Greek original

Many thanks to J. for the help.

Year 2345

When he wanted to reflect, Dr. Victor often visited the Forest. Passing above a glade, his flying carpet gave him clearance to land. He hopped off and started walking among the trunks. He knew that soon the continuous noise produced by the wind turbine forests would cease, thanks to a new design that his computers had suggested. Ever since oil reserves had been completely depleted, wind turbines had gradually occupied the largest part of land. The only spaces available for the less efficient solar panels were on the turbine’s blades and on some gigantic balloons, under which permafrost had been developed. The inescapable buzz of the rotors had become synonymous with human civilization. Silent energy had long been a major demand of the planet’s dwellers, who could no longer withstand the steadily escalating drone of the turbines over the last 150 years.

Victor enjoyed observing the remnants of the natural world. On this day, a fly trapped in a spider’s net caught his eye. Spiders had been doing that for thousands of years without changing their habits and needs. “Only humans can change their habits and needs”, he whispered. It was in the 22^nd century that the social engineers’ supercomputers suggested that every time a human being solves a problem, the net effect is the creation of void mental space for a new problem to emerge. A few years later, biologists had proved this theory by discovering the guilty pseudo-gene. The social engineers’ model had also predicted that humanity would eventually self-destruct around 2500. Since there had not been enough time for natural selection to change humans, biologists had been under pressure to deter the destruction by modifying the genetic predisposition of the next generations of humans.

Thousands of researchers had started pushing computers to their limit until at last, in 2344, they had discovered a stable biological setting. Biologists had only recently started genetically modifying the next generation and this made Victor feel like one of the last engineers. Technology had proven to be a byproduct of the initial genetic imperfection.

During the 22^nd century, it had become widely accepted that the driving force of the civilization was the joy derived from problem-solving (and not the facilitation of life as it was believed before, since humans could never stop developing problems). After some years, humanity would no longer refresh its problem list. It had taken some thousands of years for homo sapiens to mature enough to decide that they should discontinue themselves and replace themselves with a new species. It was not an easy call.

Dr. Victor was strolling in the forest, looking at the sunset and he was content. He believed that his generation-the last of the homo sapiens - had preformed its duty before it was too late. And so had he: by solving one of his generation’s last problems, leaving a lighter burden to the new mankind._

2003

twisted nature

maybe you can't see it, this doesn't mean it's not there.

recession

Défense d’ afficher

Risque de choc electrique!

Need to buy classical music?

Don’t forget to add CHOPIN and LISZT to your...

SHOPPING LIST!

when in Paris

Long waiting at CDG airport

Do it like Avramopoulos

Versailles, City Hall.

the still runner

Running to a shiny new year

pollock cables

a colorful swarm

"πολύχρωμο σμήνος"

anniversary post

Αγαπητοί αναγνώστες,

Σήμερα το vitrosoft κλίνει τρία χρόνια παρουσίας στο διαδίκτυο. Ξεκίνησε με τη λογική “μπορώ να το κάνω και εγώ”, στη συνέχεια αποδείχτηκε ένα εύχρηστο προσωπικό αρχείο "ευφυολογημάτων" και τελικά κατέληξε να είναι ένα εργαλείο προσωπικής έκφρασης.

Αυτός είναι και ο λόγος που το τελευταίο διάστημα έχει αρχίσει να μοιάζει περισσότερο με φώτο-blog. Ασχολούμαι με τη φωτογραφία απο το 1994, αποκλειστικά σε ερασιτεχνικό επίπεδο. Εδώ και τρία χρόνια έχω σχεδόν πάντα μαζί μου μια pocket compact φωτογραφική μηχανή. Αρχικά ο σκοπός ήταν να αποτυπώνω αστείες ή παράλογες εικόνες. Αυτό στη συνέχεια εξελίχτηκε σε ένα πιο προσωπικό στιλ φωτογράφησης. Με 2-3 εξαιρέσεις, οι εικόνες που βλέπετε στο vitrosoft έχουν τραβηχτεί με μηχανές τσέπης. Δεν το κάνω από άποψη. Απλά για κάποιο λόγο, οι ογκώδεις μηχανές μου φρενάρουν τη φαντασία. Επίσης καμιά φωτογραφία δεν έχει περάσει Photoshop. Δεν έχω Photoshop.

Αυτή η επέτειος με βρίσκει σε μια μεταβατική περίοδο. Δεν Ξέρω ποια θα είναι η μελλοντική μορφή του vitrosoft, πάντως από του χρόνου η βάση μου θα είναι στο Παρίσι για μεταπτυχιακά. Μπορείτε λοιπόν να ελπίζετε σε μια δόση γαλλικής φινέτσας.

Ξέρω οτι οι περισσότεροι από εσάς είστε διακριτικοί και δεν σχολιάζετε. Λίγο feedback θα το ήθελα να πω την αλήθεια. Παρόλα αυτά δεν αισθάνομαι ότι μιλάω στον τοίχο. Ελπίζω ότι αυτό το κείμενο θα το διαβάσουν και αρκετά άτομα που δεν γνωρίζω. Ξέρω ότι αν έγραφα αιρετικές, εθνικιστικές ή άλλες ακραίες απόψεις και αν δαπανούσα ώρες σερφάροντας και σχολιάζοντας στην μπλογκοσφαίρα θα είχα πιθανώς ένα πολύ μεγαλύτερο κοινό. Αλλά αυτό δεν είναι αυτοσκοπός. Δεν με ενδιαφέρει να σας αλλάξω τη γνώμη. Με ενδιαφέρει απλώς να σας κεντρίσω τη φαντασία. Ελπίζω να το πετυχαίνω πότε πότε.

Καλή τύχη σε ό,τι και αν κάνετε!

Edison.

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Dear readers,

Today vitrosoft completes 3 years on-line. It begun as an “I too can do that” project, it proved to be a useful archive of “witty stuff” and finally tuned into a tool for personal expression.

This is the reason why for the last months it looks more like a photo-blog. I have been interested in amateur photography since 1994. For the last 3 years I always carry a pocket compact camera. The original objective was to capture funny or strange images but it evolved to a more personal style. With a couple of exceptions, every image in vitrosoft has been shot with a pocket-size compact camera. It is not an artistic concept. It is just that, for some reason, bulky cameras hinder my imagination. Also, none of the pictures has been Photoshoped. I don’t have Photoshop.

This anniversary finds me in a transition stage. I don’t know what is vitrosoft going to look like in the future, but from the New Year on, I will be based in Paris for a master degree. You can hope for a touch of French perfume.

I know that most of you are discrete and don’t leave comments. Some feedback would be useful and welcomed though. Nevertheless, I don’t feel like I am talking to a wall. I hope that this text will also be read by people that I don’t know. Extreme opinions and some hours of networking through the blogs could possibly help me build a much larger audience. But this is not an end in itself. I am not here to change your mind. I am just tying to tickle your imagination. I hope that from time to time I have been able to do so.

Best of luck to everyone,

Edison.

wooden portrait

3 easy riders

The net

just a balcony net

universal engineering

standard metric wrench

Photo by D.Grigoriou

Salginatobel Bridge (Switzerland)

Photo by T. Graubünden

kebab

sky is the limit

together we can make it!

ants, carrying a snail

Η Ελλάδα ποτέ δεν πεθαίνει.

Homesick

Immigrants in Omonia metro station, calling home.

στη στάση περιμένει

beware!

cola flower

Sometimes, you may discover a blooming flower at the bottom

A writer's battlefield

θαλασσογραφία

yogurt seascape