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2013-05-23

© Angelos Tzortzinis, 2013, Societal Ills Spike in Crisis-Stricken Greece

With the country heading into the fifth year of economic depression, and unemployment near 60 percent for young people, greater numbers of women and men are offering their bodies for next to nothing to get any scrap of money. According to the National Center for Social Research, the number of people selling sex has surged 150 percent in the last two years.

Many prostitutes have been selling their services for as little as 10 to 15 euros, a price that has shrunk along with the income of clients afflicted by the crisis. Many more prostitutes are taking greater health risks by having unprotected sex, which sells for a premium. Still more are subject to violence and rape.

Now a new menace has arisen: a type of crystal methamphetamine called Sisa (also: Shisha, after the Turkish water pipe), but otherwise known as poor man’s cocaine, brewed from barbiturates and other ingredients including alcohol, chlorine and even battery acid.

A hit of Sisa, concocted in makeshift laboratories around Athens, costs 3 to 4 Euros (Editor: I’ve heard about prices ranging from 0.5 to 1 Euro in an ARTE documentary yesterday). Doses come in the form of a 0.01-gram ball, leaving many users reaching for hits throughout the day.

Sisa is most often smoked. But it is increasingly being taken intravenously; because of the caustic chemicals it contains, a rising number of users are winding up in the emergency room. Health experts say the injections are also adding to an alarming rise in H.I.V. cases around Greece, which surged more than 50 percent last year from 2011 as more people turn to narcotics.

Read the whole story and find more pictures on LENS Blog.

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Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade (Asylum, 1989)

Right now I’m listening to Tom Waits’ “On The Scene ‘73 KPFK Folk Scene Broadcast” and fell in love with an early version of San Diego Serenade, again - happens every time I hear this song…

As I couldn’t find an online version I want to present to you this wonderful video from 1979, recorded at The London TV Show / “Live in person,” taken from the “No Visitors After Midnight” DVD. Enjoy!

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© Manuel Plantin, May 2013, La main sur la tête, Strasbourg

Today I break two of my blogging “rules”:

1) Never post or reblog a picture that isn’t at least 500px wide and
2) Never reblog a picture that is on Tumblr Radar (don’t ask me why).

But in this case I just have to make an exception, because:

1) I absolutely love this photograph, and also because
2) the amazing Manuel Plantin aka yodamanu isn’t part of my ever-growing artist list yet (far more than 1000 different artists by now). That’s scandalous!! So, welcome on board Manuel!

Trivia: I recently welcomed my first Couchsurfer, Marion, who is cycling from her hometown Strasbourg to Istanbul at the moment, by bicycle! Hope you’re fine girl!

(thanks to / photograph by: yodamanu)

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2013-05-19

Photo by Georvie Manibog

2013-05-14

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2013-05-12

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Called the “spitting beast” by fellow congressmen for spitting on one after he made a comment about his war record. Matthew Lyon an Irish Immigrant stood up against Alexander Hamilton for “screwing the hard-earnings out of the poor people’s pockets”. He was the first person arrested after the Sedition Acts passed and spent four months in prison. O yeah he won re-election by a landslide while serving his term. BADASS

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All the things you do, endear you to me

2013-05-08

Brett Favre, you are my latest crush <3

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EXHIBITION: HÉCTOR MEDIAVILLA - S.A.P.E.
at Newspace - Center for Photography, Portland, USA

Héctor Mediavilla’s series, S.A.P.E. documents the Sapeurs of Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo. The term Sapeur comes from la sape, which is French slang meaning “to dress with elegance and style”. It is also the abbreviation for Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes, (Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People).

“At the beginning of the 20th century when the French arrived in Congo, the myth of the Parisian elegance was born among the youth of the Bakongo ethnic group, who were working for the colonizers. At that time, the white man was considered superior, someone showing better manners and elegance.

In 1922, Grenard André Matsoua was the first Congolese ever to come back from Paris dressed as a genuine French. His arrival caused indescribable commotion and admiration among his fellow countrymen; he became known as the first Grand Sapeur.

  Having the respect and admiration of his community, today’s Sapeurs consider themselves artists. They add a touch of glamour to their humble environment through their refined manners and impeccable dressing styles. Each of them is unique showing a particular repertoire of gestures.  They all share the same dream: To go to Paris and return to Brazzaville as an aristocrat of supreme elegance.” (Héctor Mediavilla)

(thanks to NPR)

Exhibition dates:
May 4 - June 2, 2013

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