Canadair CL-415

Canadair CL-415

 

A Hellenic Air Force Canadair CL-415 over Athens, Greece.

The Bombardier 415 (Canadair CL-415) is a Canadian amphibious aircraft purpose-built as a water bomber. It is the only aircraft designed and built specifically for aerial firefighting and is based on the company’s CL-215 flying boat.

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© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

Eternal Olive

Eternal Olive by Kevrekidis

Athens – Greece.

Olea Europaea or Olive tree (from Greek word elaion).

It was purely a matter of local pride that the Athenians claimed that the olive first grew in Athens. In an archaic Athenian foundation myth, Goddess Athena won the patronship of Athens from Poseidon with the gift of the olive. The olive was sacred to Athena and appeared on the Athenian coinage.
An olive tree in west Athens, named “Plato’s Olive Tree”, was rumored to be a remnant of the grove within which Plato’s Academy was situated, which would date it to approximately 2,400 years ago.

In ancient Greece, athletes ritually rubbed olive oil all over their bodies. At the original Olympic Games, more than 2,500 years ago, an olive wreath was the sole tangible reward offered to champion athletes. In the case of the chariot races, the wreath went to the owner of the winning team of horses. Olive branches were chosen because of the tree’s association with the Greek god, Zeus. A sacred olive tree was said to have grown near his spectacular temple in ancient Olympia.

Olive oil has been more than mere food to the peoples of the Mediterranean. It has been medicinal and magical, an endless source of fascination and wonder and the fountain of great wealth and power.

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© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος

Dimitris Mitropanos

Αθήνα, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2009.

Ο Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος στο Ωδείο Ηρώδου Αττικού.

© 2009 Ιορδάνης Κεβρεκίδης

Athens, Greece – September 10, 2009.

Popular Greek singer, Dimitris Mitropanos at Odeon of Herodes Atticus.

© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

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Minotaur

The theatrical play “The Minotaur”

August 2009. Ano Setta – Evia, Greece.

Setta Amphitheater. The theatrical play “The Minotaur” by Matina Papageorgiou, directed by Dimitris Papakonstantinou.

Photo: Actors, Giorgos Mpasiakos as Theseus and Matina Papageorgiou as Ariadne.

The scenario of this play is based on the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Dionysus falls in love with Ariadne. He offers her immortality and makes her his wife. Three days after their marriage and while Dionysus is absent in Naxos, Ariadne, without the fear of death, is hurrying to meet her brother; the monstrous Minotaur. There, in the front of the gate of the Labyrinth, Ariadne will meet with Theseus who has just arrived in Crete from Athens, in order to fight and kill the beast.  There will be love at first sight… The writer, Matina Papageorgiou is setting up a complicated structure of relations and conflicts, around the central erotic triangle; and all together a colourful and enchanting fairy tale.  

Αύγουστος 2009, Σέττα – Εύβοια.

Θέατρο Άνω Σέττας – Θίασος Κασταλία. Θεατρικό έργο της Ματίνας Παπαγεωργίου «Μινώταυρος», σε σκηνοθεσία Δημήτρη Παπακωνσταντίνου.

Στη μινωική Κρήτη μας μεταφέρει το τελευταίο έργο της Ματίνας Παπαγεωργίου. Ο Διόνυσος ερωτεύεται παράφορα  την Αριάδνη, την κάνει γυναίκα του και της προσφέρει αθανασία. Τρεις μέρες μετά το γάμο τους και ενώ εκείνος λείπει στη Νάξο, η Αριάδνη, απαλλαγμένη πια από το φόβο του θανάτου, σπεύδει να πραγματοποιήσει μια παλιά επιθυμία της: να γνωρίσει τον αδελφό της το Μινώταυρο. Εκεί μπροστά στην πύλη του Λαβύρινθου, η εκλεκτή του Διονύσου, άτρωτη από το θάνατο, όχι όμως από τον έρωτα, θα γνωρίσει το Θησέα, που έχει μόλις καταπλεύσει από την Αθήνα για να παλέψει με το θηρίο και να ελευθερώσει  την πόλη του από τον αιμάτινο φόρο.

Photo: Οι ηθοποιοί, Γιώργος Μπασιάκος ως Θησέας και Ματίνα Παπαγεωργίου ως Αριάδνη.

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© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

Les Paul 1915 – 2009

Les Paul and Paul McCartney

In memory of Les Paul (June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009).

Les Paul died last Thursday at the age of 94 (RIP). He was a guitar and electronics mastermind. The Gibson Les Paul guitar bears his name. I was lucky to meet him back in 1992 in New Jersey. He was a very pleasant and polite person. I remember that he laughed when I told him that I was from Greece. He said, “Did you travel all the way here just to see me?”

More about his life and legacy here: Les Paul

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© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis