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Inspiration as a collective power - Warmth for Jii
Fate writes weird stories on certain people’s path, like Jii, a self - taught musician on analogue, ambient/dark, drone, experimental noise & Idm tunes. Jii, who’s also a mother of a girl, was diagnosed with stage 3 Non Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2008. It’s a form of cancer, currently into remission, but might return once the cancer cells are active again.
Jii is now able to work and fund a small health insurance by the state of Minnesota. She had to fight with bureaucracy to get one, because during her illness and recovery she was uninsured. From April 1st she is declared homeless.
The formal aspect of society might have failed to help artists like Jii, but the rest - along with peoples’ hearts - can spontaneously create helping groups, with great results.
Artists, in honour of Jii’s work contributed their beautiful tracks to a digital album, as a fundraiser to help Jii with all her difficulties.
Inspiration is something we share, it brings people together and together we have more power.
You can download the album and help Jii, buying it at 7$ or more if you wish.
Released 22 March 2013
Mastering by Tokee: doperec.com/tokee
Artwork by Peter Nejedly: www.flickr.com/photos/peternejedly/
Source: jii-music.bandcamp.com
the y-f hearts project
A month ago or more, I had this idea of the heart shape of body parts in a friends house. There was obviously an ambiguous meaning; some people saw some pervert heart shapes some others (significantly less) saw romance shaped in sexually weighted body parts.
Soon, the very first days of 2013, the images were pasted up on walls in popular streets downtown Athens, Greece.
Then I browsed Wikipedia about the heart shape symbol and guess what! “The heart symbol could also be considered to depict features of the human female body, such as the female’s buttocks, pubic mound, or spread vulva.[6] The tantric symbol of the “Yoni” is another example of a heart-shaped abstraction of a woman’s vulva.”
The true inspiration was an insight I got from a tiny romantic affair I had those days, of how we people consider as romance; a. a possible solution to our complexes b. an effort to gain back a feedback of romance to fulfill our “some other” needs. Of course there are more to add on the list, beside these two, but that’s what I came up with.
Today, Valentine’s day, the day most people see the romance getting capitalized in flower shops, candy shops etc, I wanted to present this little street art project.
Few moments ago I was listening to an old song (’30s) saying (my translation)
“Why you sigh? Didn’t we have the chance to see some beauty in this life? Weren’t we given by nature, a heart to love? Ah, the hearts are not all made the same and all the beauties of the world are not fairly spread.”
Hearts maybe have a variety of “fabrics” and are not all the same, but every one of them has the ability to perceive beauty and love. Go on and let it perceive. Cheers!
“I never denied those rumors because I was offended and didn’t want to offend my friends who were gay,” Damon said, “as if being gay were some kind of f—king disease. It put me in a weird position in that sense.”
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Mustaches with super powers - My mustache has a super power: it preserves the smell of cappuccino cream during the day.
“Superstaches” by Locustyears: Web, Tumblr, Twitter
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The yfrontier music video of the day
Aritst: “Citizens!” Five boys from London, on their debut album produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand under the label of Kitsuné.
Track: “True Romance” an indietronica aspect of contemplating about romance crisis, I’d say the lyric “What kind of minds are these that the gods and the television gave us” describes best the purpose of the song.
Video directed by: We Are From La
photo © John Mitropoulos
“In which country would you like to live now? With naked habitants of course.
In Switzerland being surrounded by nude Neapolitans.”
photos © John Mitropoulos
“What turns you on sexually?
Renaissance paintings. As a boy, I was browsing pictures with nudes in the encyclopedia and I was fantasizing with classical statues. But when it comes to reality I get turned on by signs of imperfection.”
photo © John Mitropoulos
“Why your career is not international yet?
Probably because I have no manager. I’m not good at PR. Promoting myself is a job I’m not good at.”
photo © John Mitropoulos
“Are you considered to be sexually old-fashioned and conservative?
It depends. I’m not sure if I’m old-fashioned but I like some stereotypes. I like to have a clear perception of the sexes - a man to look like a man and a woman to look like a woman no mater of their sexuality. To me the term “unisex” sounds like a nightmare and I think -thankfully- it’s not modern any more.”
model: John Mitropoulos, photo: © John Mitropoulos
“Some famous photographers, fuck with their models, do you?
No, I never had a sexual contact with a model I have worked with. I’m referring to professional ones. I have and had such relations with people that took part in pictures I’ve taken, but these were my partners or lovers, not professional models. I’m saying this because one might consider anyone who poses for a picture a model . They are too perfect to stimulate me sexually. Knowing that someone is a model makes me lose my sexual interest.”
