Pull up to my bumper baby!

Well its Monday and time to get down to some serious work/jobhunting. I reflection of this I have managed to spend the last hour uploading photo's on Facebook - well done James!

This weekend has been a bit of  party actually and its all taken place to a running soundtrack of Grace Jones which has been stuck in my head all weekend. In light of this I pay a teeny homage to Ms Jones amazing style.

                                           

                             

I think these images are truly incredible - so strong and fearless. Grace Jones certainly has a unique style which is pretty aggressive. I remember watching her in View to a Kill when I was younger and being genuinely scared. Well thankyou for the great weekend Ms Jones.

Now it probably sounds like I spent the whole weekend off my face, but I can assure you this is not the case. In fact I haven't had a drink all weekend - I'm going for a month. so while I was partying I was actually working, sort of.

On Saturday we went to my friend Laura's amazing house in Hackney. I don't have house envy for many people but with Laura I definately do! More than that I love her style. Its completely organic and a bit messy. But this is the bit that gets me the most- the mess looks amazing. I wish my mess could look so good! I'm working on it.

So here are some photo's of my favourite mess in the world.

I love this mural that Mark 'The Wizard' has painted on the wall above her bed. Isn't it brilliant! It only took a couple of hours aparently. It's very good for posing in front of as we discovered!

All the amazing costumes were courtesy of Laura who has hundreds and is hiring them for Festivals so get in touch if you fancy a new look.

Hope you had a fab weekend too!

Well I'm back. Its been a long time since I've written again. This definately reflects how I'm feeling at the moment, I'm in full on procrastination mode! If only there were a job that required this particular skill as I am very good at it. Since being back from Greece I have managed to busy myself with pretty much everything, except the things I know I should be doing.

Before I move on from Greece all together I wanted to share a couple of things from my trip. The first are the posters for the Athens and Epidaurus festival 2011 which I saw on the metro.

         

I love these! Wish I had been in Greece for the festivals which sound brilliant. They are a mixture of music and theatre and take place in two of the most beautiful outdoor theatres in Greece.

I also wanted to post some photo's  I took while I was in Greece.

 This is the view from our apratment in Athens - you can see the Acropolis in the background.

 This is a view of the port on the Island of Serifos.

 Dramatic rock formation on the beach at Agios Sostis, Serifos.

 Agios Sostis, Serifos

 The little graden of the Island house. I love it out there. You can see the bits of drift wood that I picked up at the beach. I love the retro furniture! The house is full of it.

These next photo's were taken in an apartment back in Athens.

Hope you like these. I'll post soon - er, promise!

Yasu from Athens!

I'm somewhere in that sprawl to the left

Hello again! its been too long hasn't it? I hope that all is good with you - person who might read this. Now, the picture may have been a bit of a give away, but for anyone not completely awake yet - I'm in Athens!

Yes, I'm currently in an apartment in Athens listening to the John Lennon anthology and typing away to you. As nice as this scenario is, I didn't fly here to listen to the music of John or to write this blog from a new exciting location -  I came to work.

Being half Greek, I have been to Athens many times. It is a city changing very quickly and not always for the best. The birth place of Democracy has become the birth place of Greek discontent and unemployment. This is not a blog about social or political opinion so I will say no more on this. I just wish to give some idea of the situation here as I think its an important backdrop for the project that I am currently here to see.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre is an amazing development that will truly enhance the face and future of 21st Century Athens.

Development sketch of the site from from Renzo Piano Building workshop

The development was born from the desire to give Athens a state of the art Cultural destination. The Centre will encompass a new National library, an Opera house and a much needed area of outside space in this very much urbanised City. The development is being built on a prime site on the sea front that has been unused since it served as a huge car park during the 2004 Olympic Games.

Plan of the site, showing the large areas of green space. The prinicple buildings are underneath this 'green roof'.

This section of the site shows the arrangement of the two main buildings, side by side. It also shows the sloping angle of the whole site.

The project is on a truly huge scale. It is being led by The Renzo Piano building workshop who are responsible for the co- design of the Pompidou Centre in Paris and The Shard currently under construction in London.

I really can't wait to see this project when it is finished. It really will be a truly fascinating structure and the park will be a wonderful place to spend time near the sea in Athens. The buildings are underneath a huge man made hill the rises to the shear 'cliff' edge by the sea. The roof of this hill will be green space accessible to all.

This image shows the huge 'sail' over the top of the building which houses thousands of photovoltaic panels to create power for the buildings.

A view up the man made hill from the new green space. At the top will be fantastic views out to the sea.

The building has been so beautifully designed and thought out. Every detail has been looked at to create an inviting, inspiring and ultimately functional space. Seeing a project like this in action is a true priveledge and you can really see why the Renzo Piano team is held in such high esteem. Their dedication and proffesionalism is something that has truly inspired me.

All images from Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Phew! writing that has taken much longer than I thought so I'm going to leave it there today. I also wanted to say hello to my new 'follower', I won't name and shame, but you know who you are because you are the only one I didn't make follow me ; ) It really made my day to see someone had read this so many thanks and Welcome!

Birds of a feather

I have just seen these most incredible wall coverings from Schumacher and wanted to share them. I think they are just so beautiful.

          
          
        

I had thought that these were printed wallpapers, which would be fab. But it turns out that they are actually hand made from real feathers! I'm not sure how I feel about this -There is not denying that they must be breathtaking, but thats a lot of feathers to get from somewhere.

I'm not sure if the mental image all those naked birds whould ever allow me to use this paper!

                                                 
I think not, but if you don't mind you can see the whole Nest range at http://www.fschumacher.com/

The Museum of Me - about bloody time!

Good morning! Today I would like to share this very exciting invitation to the grand opening of my very first exhibition. Well, not quite - but maybe one day!

Until then everybody can get their very own exhibit at the Museum Of Me courtesy of Intel. Go to museumofme.intel.com and see how great your life can look with the proper curation!



I love how refined this makes all my photos of nights out look!



I think this is my favourite.



So I guess that is my life in a nutshell! Now that part of my life has been properly documented and seen by the masses its time to get started on work for my next life exhibition.

On that note, I know there hasn't been much about my 'journey' on here, but rest assured I am busy, busy working on ideas. I really can't wait to share these, so watch this space. This is why the posts have been a little thin on the ground - sorry!