Monday, January 21, 2013
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Dressed for the job
Tonight, a Twitter friend from the UK argued I should market my urban/austerity/Spartan/walker survival "fashion" style.
So here are some first samples:
Photos: January 8, 2013. All rights reserved.
More to follow!
So here are some first samples:
(Jan 17, 2013)
The vest is a crucial element. So is the use of sweat pants (not jeans). Blue or grey (I prefer the blue but photos on Jan 8 taken with the grey one).
The neckbrace and the cane are specific elements of my fashion statement.
Dark colour jacket, not to light not too heavy.
Wear 1 or 2 (when cold) T-shirts.
Dark colour jacket, not to light not too heavy.
Wear 1 or 2 (when cold) T-shirts.
I use two types of shoes, pure athletic one and a combo shoe one. More details on shoes in the near future.
Cap or wool hat also key elements. Sometimes, when cold, worn together!
Glasses using a string also an element. More details in the near future.
No-Nos: Avoid: jeans, chinos, jewelry of any kind,
Note: This is the Athens version, versions for colder climates will be proposed soon. Also: summer wear (shorts, etc).
Photos: January 8, 2013. All rights reserved.
More to follow!
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Transportwise
Today I used the bus system again. Knowledge of a city's bus system is a key asset in life management.
walked from Syntagma Square at the center of Athens, all the way to Kato Patissia, near the Northern edge of the City of Athens ! Part of being a Spartan and a walker!
During this walk, I walked on Fylis St, from Ipirou St. to Kodringtonos St. very near the Athens center. Took pictures of ruined houses and taped 3 vlogs capturing the atmosphere in this part of Athens, which is among other things full of red light places. I should note that there are real people living real lives in the buildings next to the red light doors at this part of Fylis St (200+ numbers to the South of where I grew up, on Fylis St in Patissia). They are people who cannot afford to move in more posh parts of the city or "the burbs". Because the prices of their flats are so depressed, that they could not buy anything anywhere else. Even my former flat, at a building built by my father in the 1960s, had trouble being sold, even back in the 1990s, way before the crisis, because other Greeks did not want to live at a great place but with a "Fylis St" address, even far away from the red lights area of Fylis, the area I visited today.
I am somewhat tempted to rent or even buy a studio flat right at the Fylis St red light area, to be at the epicenter of 2013 Athens 2013, amid ruined houses but real life. Recording the hard core of austerity reality in Athens, in a Greece with crisis stats as bad as 1929 Great Depression USA, seems the thing for any economist, policy analyst, thinker in 2013 to do.
And I have been doing this for the past 55 days. At the same time I have myself become a Spartan and a walker. Eating Spartan, spending Spartan (food, rent etc now, except for social security fees, below 650 per mo), "living" the austerity reality in Athens, Greece, not just an "observer" of it.
walked from Syntagma Square at the center of Athens, all the way to Kato Patissia, near the Northern edge of the City of Athens ! Part of being a Spartan and a walker!
During this walk, I walked on Fylis St, from Ipirou St. to Kodringtonos St. very near the Athens center. Took pictures of ruined houses and taped 3 vlogs capturing the atmosphere in this part of Athens, which is among other things full of red light places. I should note that there are real people living real lives in the buildings next to the red light doors at this part of Fylis St (200+ numbers to the South of where I grew up, on Fylis St in Patissia). They are people who cannot afford to move in more posh parts of the city or "the burbs". Because the prices of their flats are so depressed, that they could not buy anything anywhere else. Even my former flat, at a building built by my father in the 1960s, had trouble being sold, even back in the 1990s, way before the crisis, because other Greeks did not want to live at a great place but with a "Fylis St" address, even far away from the red lights area of Fylis, the area I visited today.
I am somewhat tempted to rent or even buy a studio flat right at the Fylis St red light area, to be at the epicenter of 2013 Athens 2013, amid ruined houses but real life. Recording the hard core of austerity reality in Athens, in a Greece with crisis stats as bad as 1929 Great Depression USA, seems the thing for any economist, policy analyst, thinker in 2013 to do.
And I have been doing this for the past 55 days. At the same time I have myself become a Spartan and a walker. Eating Spartan, spending Spartan (food, rent etc now, except for social security fees, below 650 per mo), "living" the austerity reality in Athens, Greece, not just an "observer" of it.
Friday, January 4, 2013
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