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Aspects of Reality's Interests
General
Having been involved in the early days of the multi-media experiment on the web in my days with London's pioneering Global Cafe (internet cafe 1996-2002) - which for me was an extension of previous activities at
Theatro Technis' "Cafe Theatre" which provided a platform for creative people across all the fields of artistic endeavour to showcase their work -- the very process of creativity is what is of interest to me.
Environmental Activism
(that I can not be involved in but which I support)
Available from video clips located at the EarthCircusTv At Sunrise 2007 playlist at the earthcircustv YouTube account, and from the earthcircustv at Google Video. Videos shown in the player immediately below are from that YouTube playlist (video clips are still in process of being uploaded).
The Opening Ceremony of
Sunrise Festival 2007 -
30 min
available at Google
Video
here
Below, video from the Sunrise Festival 2006 from a variety of sources, including ourselves in the Campaign field located just outside the main festival entrance
Neil Oram leads in a discussion on the use of psychedelics at Sunrise Festival 2006
Neil Oram is one of many persons in this general discussion about the use of psychedelics in youth culture and festival culture, as a means of transformation in human consciousness. The workshop was organised by Craig, and was held within the context of the First ever Sunrise Festival in Somerset England in June 2006.
Boorman's "Emerald Forest"; "
Koyaanisqatsi", "
Powaqqatsi" & "
Baraka"; everything from the Merchant Ivory studios; Costas Gravas' "
Z"; Cacoyiannis' "Zorba the Greek" and "Attila 74" (Also see the embedded playlist in the section on the right)
Television
www.zeitgeistmovie.com - Full Production (including the 'Overture') What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve have in common?
David Attenborough and his environmental programs, particularly now that he has taken a lead in the "climate change" debate - (see
climatechange series at Veoh).
The Raindance Film Festival and all the activities in the independent film-making industry, sparked off by the ever-industrious Elliot Grove, whom I am honoured to have on my friends list.
Claudio Von Planta, film/documentary maker whose work I admire tremendously, hopefully to join the friends list when he next logs in.
George Eugeniou, founder of London's
Theatro Technis which is a Cypriot drama and community centre, and a leading venue in London's fringe theatre circuit with whom I had worked in the late 80's (generating a significant video archive which is in process of being prepared for the web) and current material from Cyprus Week 2007 during TT's 50th Anniversary).
Gaye and Laser, Orla and Michel of the
Studio of The Sea whose "The Canary is Dead" is embedded below.
My Dad - who spent nearly 10 years in the Amazonian Rainforest in the days before "Global Warming" became the burning issue it is accepted to be nowadays, and who spent quite a few years traveling widely with a slideshow/presentation highlighting the plight of the rainforest -
Spirits of the Rainforest - Aspects of the Hyperreal
Demetri Dimas Efthyvoulos (my dad) in conversation about his book and photographs (2 parts x 7 min each)
Firebird Phoenix, indefatigable campaigner for Agenda21 environmental issues and host, together with many other people, to many amazing events in the group's various squatted properties over the years (see earthcircustv @ MySpace).
Christopher Hitchens for his "The Trial of Henry Kissinger", as well as for having been one of the few journalists of international stature that has proved a good friend of Cyprus.
Aspects of Reality 34 years after Turkey's invasioon and occupation of Cyprus the US still provides it with armaments and EU has started accession talks with it
Cyprus joined the Euro on 1st January 2008, with 3 of the newly released coins featuring an image of the "Kyrenia Ship". To commemorate this event I have uploaded a 47 video clip playlist to my youtube account, featuring the voyage of the "Kyrenia Liberty" (a replica of the Kyrenia ship) which was commissioned to sail with gifts for host city, Athens, of the Olympic Games in 2004, collecting gifts from each of the many Greek islands it visited en route from Cyprus to Piraeus. Glad to see that President Christofias, elected President of the Republic of Cyprus in February 2008 has chosen representations of the "Kyrenia Ship" as his chosen gift to dignitaries who visit him. View the descriptions, and click on links at the YouTube playlist or click helow:
A link to my personal website (below) which holds very large video archives. It is hosted on a 'home server' connected to the web through a home-broadband connection and so the site itself and at time the video content may not be available, in which case users are urged to try browsing it at another moment when its content becomes available again: (current status of the home server video-cast availability is OFF)
Being a Cypriot whose family was among the 200,000 refugees created following Turkey's invasion of the island in 1974, the subject of how the world continues to acquiesce in Turkey's continuing occupation of almost half our island is a continuing major concern.
Rally for Cyprus 2008
Sunday 20th July - RALLY FOR CYPRUS at Trafalgar Square, organised by the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK, now features my video footage at their new website which is visible here.
Cyprus and EU Flag raised at Theatro Technis (2007) 75 mins
Raising the flags of the Republic of Cyprus & of the European Union at Theatro Technis
..
New Hope for Unity of Cyprus
Lobby at the Palace of Westminister by the Federation of Cypriot Organisations, with British MPs who are supportive of the Cyprus cause.
Lobby for Cyprus seminar: "Property Rights in Occupied Cyprus - 2007" - 43 mins
Update from the European Court of Human Rights by Achilleas Demetriades, who handled the highly suucessfull Titina Loizidou case in the ECHR. The Lobby for Cyprus website is visible here.
Who I'd like to meet: Those working to provide what I regard as "interesting content", made available to the world through the increasing multimedia power of the web, and particularly self-production rather than mainstream media material.
Muchas Gracias. A big hug for you. We have had an beautiful New Year eve here @ Las Casas de la Selva. See you soon either here in the rainforest or there in the city. Feliz Año Nuevo .
