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filamentzine · 4 years

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Vagelis - The Model Spy

Α piece of music that needs to be played loud

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The Cure - This Twilight Garden

Hi. My name is Vagelis and as far as I can remember my self I always felt irresistibly attracted to pop culture. Collecting glossy stickers in the 80s as a child, watching MTV and sometime later feeling enchanted by the emerging indie/alternative scene it was something like a natural evolution to buy my first electric guitar at 14 years old, a time when (for good, for bad or for worse) the brit pop scene was dominating the indie universe. I tried to teach my own self by trying to play impromptu chords, by badly perform riffs, by getting hold of some books on first level guitar playing and that’s how I kind of learned to strum the guitar. The truth is that I never considered myself as a guitarist, rather than someone who plays a bit of guitar. And I think that this was the main reason I started writing my own songs. It was way easier to perform the things I had written based on my own guitar skills rather than playing other people’s compositions.

The first band that I was involved in should be around 1998 and it was called “Snowing Summer” (a wordy variation of “Snow In Summer” which was a b-side by the Cure). We never played live, we just recorded a live demo of our own songs, but to be honest I do not even know where that tape is.

Moving forward to 2000, some friends and I started playing for fun as a band called “Mad! Panic! Yes!” which was a line a read in a comic book hanging at the studio lobby table during a rehearsal break. We played mostly punk staff, or poppier staff in a punkish way. When we saw that this could go somewhere further, a couple of members of the band and I decided to pull out of “Mad! Panic! Yes!” and create the core of “Paraffin” (the band was named after the single Paraffin by Ruby). By adding a new bassist, a new guitarist and a keyboardist to the band we recorded a demo EP including three songs, “Watch Me Falling”, “No Love Lost” and “Paraffin”. Around that time I also started spinning music as a “two days a week resident DJ” in the beloved POP bar downtown Athens. I deejayed and spent most of my personal time in POP from its (almost) day one in summer of 2001 up to its last day in summer of 2012. 11 sweet years in a row that this bar was way more than just a place with drinks and music. A meeting place for people who loved all kinds of art, a place where special human bonding, deep love and true friendship was founded. So, looking back to 2001-2004 life was music, listening to music, playing cds and records for people, playing the guitar, writing songs, throwing live gigs with Paraffin and somewhere in between a bit of studying economics.

So, it was the spring of 2004 when we substantially broke Paraffin apart. Almost instantly a couple of members, once again, and I created “the Model Spy” (we actually got the name from the track “Model Spy” by Cinerama). Konstantinos joined the group as our bassist and that was it. We were rehearsing and writing songs like crazy, however the band was essentially introduced to the outside small-town world around 2006-2007, with a couple of DIY self-released EPs and singles that were available at selected record stores (like the legendary Vinyl Microstore and the, now, 50 years old Record House) and our live performances in Athens.

Moving amongst the underground indie environment that Athens and My Space explosion were creating at that moment, we were putting together new material, hence the idea of leaving the DIY process for an official recording was more than a goal. It was still back in summer of 2008 when, during a rehearsal break at Sonic Playground studios, Nikos Triantafyllou (long time promoter, producer and sound engineer) stated that he was willing to take over the production and release Model Spy's full-length album. From that time onwards and for months to follow, we would take meetings after rehearsing at the studio on almost every weekend and on as many weekday afternoons and evenings as possible, recording, erasing, recording again. A year or so later, we had recorded fourteen (instrumental) tracks. Even though, the production team was always by our side, however (and unhappily) some of the band members failed at fulfilling their commitment. Sadly enough, long-term friendships were violently terminated and left a half-broken up band and an unfinished record.

Within a couple of years down the road, there was a feeling of unfulfillment for Konstantinos Vavousis (bass) and me. By that time we were leading the project as sole members of the Model Spy while we already had this “morning ‘real’ job” thing going on in our lives, Konstantinos was musically active with various Athenian indie acts (such as My Wet Calvin, Zebra Tracks, Monika, Leon of Athens, etc.) and I was still a part-time local indie DJ (still am). So, essentially the band was led to a hiatus.

Entering 2015 reunion era: There was still a feeling of unfulfillment. By that time, it was as if the band was a “has been” while the few people that had a connection to the band felt like we were another local indie pop act of the Greek My Space generation whose traces were lost. Nonetheless and weirdly enough time was not an issue. We had already waited for too long and it was 2017 by the time we revisited already recorded sessions, and finally decided to follow contemporary indie pop standards. We went back to Nikos Triantafyllou as the man behind the desk, kept the spirit of the album alive, but also started the whole thing from scratch. Adding, the genius of Chris Bekiris (Bhukurah, Devamp Javu, Chickn, the Callas etc. etc.) in coproduction, sound design, additional arrangements and soon were some kind of a new band back together.

Bekiris and Triantafyllou performed their productive magic while Leonidas Oikonomou & Aris Nikolopoulos from My Wet Calvin, Kat (Tango with Lions), Evangelia a.k.a. Miss Trichromi, Leon Veremis a.k.a. Leon of Athens and Jef Maarawi accepted their guest features and gave new life to the songs by endowing their voices. And there you go. Our never-ending debut was finally ready to go, with a little help from our friends. “Serenest (A Long Play On Truth, Deceit And Souvenirs)” was finally released on November 8, 2019. Needless to say that the whole covid 19 thing did not allow our summer 2020 plans to evolve. However we have already been preparing new material within the Model Spy, a solo project (called “Ntentenis” -?-) involving dance music is in the works, my weekly live broadcast through Avopolis Radio is still on for the fourth season, while I keep (part-timely) deejaying non stop since summer of 2000 and the love for music keeps growing like the sea.

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daydec · 7 years

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Administración del Sistema Municipal de Abastecimiento de Agua / VTria Architects

centro de ideas daydec (design) © Dimitris Triantafyllou Arquitectos: VTria Architects Ubicación: Andrea Papandreou, Lamia 351 00, Grecia Arquitecto A Cargo: Vasilis Triantafyllou Área: 3525.0 m2 Año Proyecto: 2017 Fotografías: Dimitris Triantafyllou Asociados: Ifigeneia Triantafyllou, Dimitris Triantafyllou Ingeniería Civil: Nikos Papadopoulos Ingeniería Eléctrica: Giannis Apostolou Construcción: Tzortzis A.T.E.B.E. and Lantern Construction © Dimitris Triantafyllou Descripción […] from Administración del Sistema Municipal de Abastecimiento de Agua / VTria Architects

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juliandmouton30 · 8 years

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Angled walls and fissures break up mass of concrete office building by Vtria Architects

The concrete walls and roof of this headquarters for the Greek city of Lamia's Municipal Water Supply are interrupted by voids and fissures that carve out different routes through the building.

The building is set on the eastern edge of the city at a junction of two main roads so local studio Vtria Architects aimed to create "an iconic, interactive and extroverted building that is open, accessible and welcoming to all of its users."

The desire to promote the building's connection with the surrounding city informed a design with an east-west axis that follows the adjacent road.

The main facade is broken up into a series of volumes sheltered beneath a huge concrete roof supported by tall cylindrical pillars.

Gaps between the concrete and glass boxes lend the facility a permeable feel that promotes its public character. The voids accommodate different entrances that lead towards a central courtyard.

"By adding or subtracting pieces of the outer structure, the building's shape is changed and transformed to create a vivid and dramatic effect," explained Vtria Architects.

"This stereotomic process moulds the project's clear geometric shapes into producing a notional structure that expands the spatial experience."

A sloping plot led to the building's division into a two-storey northern wing and a three-storey wing to the south, with the main administrative areas distributed throughout an L-shaped block that flanks the courtyard on two sides.

The reception area is housed in the western portion of the facility, which has the most direct connection to the rest of the city. This space is entered via a long ramp that extends above a lawn towards a glazed section of the facade.

Alternative entrances interrupt the other elevations, and a series of vertical, horizontal and diagonal axes split the building into a cluster of angular volumes with a variety of circulation options.

"The existence of a large number of entrances, staircases and ramps gives movement to the synthesis and allows the visitor to enjoy a vast choice of architectural promenades and alternating views of the exterior and the interior of the building and its surroundings," said the architects.

The courtyard at the centre of the headquarters provides outdoor seating, planting and water features that create an environment suited to relaxation or social activities.

Shade and the cooling effect of the water surfaces also helps to create a micro-climate that reduces temperatures inside the surrounding blocks during the hot summer months.

On the southern side of the courtyard, a concrete volume containing an amphitheatre for hosting cultural events incorporates a large window that provides a visual connection with the outdoor space.

The double-height reception area is largely lined with glass to create a bright and welcoming environment for visitors.

A boardroom is accommodated in an oval pod suspended above this space, which is accessed via a bridge on the first floor.

Renzo Piano completes Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on a huge artificial hill

Photography is by Dimitris Triantafyllou.

Project credits:

Architect: Vtria Architects/Vasilis Triantafyllou Associated architects: Ifigeneia Trintafyllou and Dimitris Triantafyllou Civil engineer: Nikos Papadopoulos Electrical engineer: Giannis Apostolou Construction: Tzortzis A.T.E.B.E. and Lantern Construction

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jeniferdlanceau · 8 years