Our wild school of girls & newer pics ☺
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 23 Μαΐου, 2021 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, Personal, photography, Sea, sport | Tags: Aegean Sea, all-in-all, for nature in nature, free expression, freedom, fundamental, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ελευθερία, μονοπάτια, life, nature, photography, safe space, Save Atheras, skin, What matters, why-ikaria, womanhood, women pride 1 σχόλιοfundamental (/fʌndəˈmɛnt(ə)l/): serious and very important; affecting the most central and important parts of something.
[Oxford Dictionary]
Aye! That was a challenge! They said that my posts based upon and inspired from Instagram shots taken in Ikaria are ok, but they’d rather see instead my own old or newer photos time and again, because, as they said, they are dowed with a quality different from I/G. And that quality is, as they said again, that they are fundamental. I am not really sure of the meaning and I will certainly not bother anybody with guesses. Whatever they meant, I straightforwardly took it as a compliment, and as a gesture of thanks, I am assembling this post with the idea of fundamentality flashing in my head, and as I am doing so, I realize that I know no other with this attribute (i.g. fundamental) than freedom, nature and womanhood.
Therefore, behold my friends and supporters, under a title borrowed from one of my albums on Flickr a total of eighty-eight (including the header) photos about freedom, nature and womanhood, the last two interrelating, interchanging, interacting. There is also some sport and a bit of farming and other stuff too, ok? Being fundamental doesn’t mean being always coherent, I think. 😉
NOTE 1: The first rows are thumbnails from my Flickr, while the rest come from our blogs, Eleni’s and mine.
NOTE 2: Comments under this post are disabled. You may visit the photos in the source instead. They contain so many additions, links and comments, that each one makes an article of its own. Check them out and feel free to add your comments there.
NOTE 3: I have marked in color the thumbnails opening to the most significant pictures, according to my opinion.
Big thanks.
Nana
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Drop the top and free the nipples ⭕ ⭕
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 29 Νοεμβρίου, 2020 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: Aegean, democracy, free expression, free the nipple, freedom, fun, girls, Greece, Ikaria, Instagram, χαρά, Ικαρία, joyful, photography, playful, politics, safe space, summer, swimming, topfree, topless, why-ikaria, womanhood, women pride 1 σχόλιο«Over the past year, the Free the Nipple Movement has gained tons of momentum and support from millions of men and women.»
«While media portrays women’s bodies as objects intended for sexual pleasure, many are speaking out against this injustice by standing with Free the Nipple to create equality between men and women and to fight against oversexualizing women.»
«This movement promotes freedom for women to be able to make their own decisions about their body based upon their own level of comfort. It is important that women conceal their breasts because they want to and not because of the pressure of societal acceptance and shame.»
«While this movement has been increasing momentum, it is now gaining popularity within other countries and now college campuses, both of which are crusading against the oversexulization of women and even rape culture.»
«While many want to assume that the importance of normalizing women’s nipples are just a cry for sexual attention, it’s more than that for many reasons.»
«In essence, this movement has everything to do with gender equality, and social equality, but for whatever reason, people still aren’t taking women rights seriously enough.»
«It is time for women and men to speak out against the injustices made against women, not just within social settings but online as well in order to end the oversexualization of the female body.»
«What inspires women to submit their naked photos online? The short answer is – Control. The ability to show yourself on your terms, how you’d like to be seen, free from the distortion of someone else’s viewpoint and the sanitizing of Photoshop. For some contributors this is an exposition of pure art. For others it’s a rebellious gesture, erotic expression, a desire to be desired, or a cathartic process. And for everyone, as we’re told every day, it’s just hugely fun…»
WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN for womenhood
and against femicide. I love you all, be strong, be real. ♥️
Nana
Sunday, November 29, 2020 Next post : «Εικόνες μιας σύγχρονης λαογραφίας» Previous post : «Στις υγρές σχισμές της γης»
OPERE IN NATURA
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 20 Ιουνίου, 2020 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, photography, Sea, Uncategorized | Tags: Aegean, artful, cairns, ephemeral art, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, Νας, Σεϋχέλλες Ικαρίας, αγριότοποι, ικαρία, land art, my world, nakedness, photography, profile, stone work, stony softness, thorns, why-ikaria 12 Σχόλια~
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Celebrating the beginning of summer and the end of the covid-19 lockdown in Greece, while our friends are back and our days and nights are busy, I am hastily writing up this post made out of three short topics.
The first is that, on this occasion, I travelled into outer cyberspace and picked up one of my old profile pictures. I think it’s the oldest and, like everything, it’s also connected to a story, but never mind for now; you can just read the short version hidden behind the image.
The second and most important is, of course, about art; land art in particular – so suitable for Ikaria and it’s wild solitary landscapes. So, I am presenting here a few amazing stone works by the renowned visual artist Manfred Flucke, also known as Deva Manfredo, that I fished out from his facebook page.
Four out of ten were made in Ikaria, as I am sure I can recognize the site where the photos were taken, and that’s most likely Nas. Judging from the color and the kind of the stone, I also suspect that two others were made in Seychelles beach. The remaining four were probably made elsewhere in the world. Yet, they might as well have been in Ikaria because of the light, the shadows and the landscapes in the background which all seem so familiar. They are almost identical to ours!
On facebook, Manfred entitles this collection «OPERE IN NATURA» («Works in Nature»). I liked this wonderfully simple title so I chose to borrow it for my article.
And now see the photos!
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I am closing this article with just another German artist, photographer Charleen Dahms. Last year probably, she took a photo in Nas, that I like very much.
The foundations of the ancient temple, hardly discernible among spiky spurges and broken pieces.of white marble, and two female figures standing naked on the top bathed in the dim yellow light of the setting sun with the little cave just below their feet…
I find there is something strongly primal and elemental in the scene. I think Charleen has captured the essence of this magical wild place.
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Two trees
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 7 Νοεμβρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, Personal, photography, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, artistic nude, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, Ikaria, ικαρία, nakedness, natural movements, nude on rocks, outdoors, performance, photography, why-ikaria, wilderness 5 Σχόλια.
Instagram: Elements 1/3, Ikaria, October 31, 2019
Facebook: Elements 1/3, Ikaria, October 31, 2019
See a few more photos of my choice taken in Ikaria
also by Thomas Huisman © all rights reserved
Through that experience, also, I saw that countless sites and sceneries of this island, wild and free by nature and culture, are very suitable for the genre. Beyond that, as it happens with art, the results, when exhibited, get back to the locations as an appraisal to their quality. I have pointed that out in 2014. It feels like my message has reached the proper recipients.
I am glad
Moments of Summer 2019 @ Ikaria
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 18 Σεπτεμβρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, ικαρία, lifestyle, Tourism, Travel, Uncategorized | Tags: adventure, art, august, dance, direct approach, for nature in nature, Gen Z, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, ikaria-in-august, Instagram, Ικαρία μου όλα, ικαρία, μονοπάτια, love in Ikaria, nature, no technical problem, summer 2019, why-ikaria, young, Zillennials 5 Σχόλια..Εκτός ότι πήγα στο Φαράγγι του Ρυάκα κοντά στον Μαγγανίτη και έμεινα στην περιοχή αρκετές μέρες γλυτώνοντας από τη φασαρία του Αυγούστου, δεν έχω άλλο ενδιαφέρον να σας πω δικό μου από το φετινό καλοκαίρι στο νησί. Πάντως, ήταν καλά, απ’ ό,τι έμαθα: ο κόσμος πέρασε καλά, κι οι ντόπιοι και οι ξένοι, όλα εντάξει, «ούτως ειπείν», που έλεγε ένας χαζός καθηγητής μου στο σχολείο
Δεν θα πω τίποτα, αλλά δεν μπορώ και να μείνω και βουβή. Ας γράψω και ας σας δείξω κάτι. Τι θα κάνω; Να, θα βάλω στην άκρη το hype για το οποίο όπως ξέρετε αδιαφορώ και θα διαλέξω να σας δείξω μερικές εξαιρετικές μικροστιγμές. Είναι μόνο πέντε. Όμως για μένα είναι αντιπροσωπευτικές. Αισθηματικές ή καλλιτεχνικές, αστείες ή πικρές, έχουν θάρρος κι αγάπη μέσα τους.Η πρώτη έχει τίτλο:
«Waiting for green light» 😊
.Η δεύτερη είναι βιντεάκι με τίτλο:
«Poseidon’s blessings» 😌
.Η τρίτη είναι ένα βιντεάκι του cha.vla από μια αυτοσχέδια διάσχιση του Φαραγγιού της Χάλαρης με τίτλο:
«Για το στρώμα των χιλίων ευρώ, και για τις απερίσκεπτες αποφάσεις που φτιάχνουν τις καλύτερες ιστορίες.» 😇
.Η τέταρτη είναι μια εικόνα με τίτλο:
«The cure, Ikaria, free camp, summer 2019» 😟
.Και κλείνω με τον αυτοσχέδιο σόλο χορό της Vera Zubatova στο Φαράγγι της Χάλαρης. Τέλειο!
Ο τίτλος είναι:«Improvs this summer 3» 😘
.Όχι! Λάθος! Δεν κλείνω! Είναι ακόμα και αυτό! Τώρα κλείνω. Τώρα είμαι οκ.
..Άντε, και μερικά σχετικά με τα παραπάνω 😛
..Αυτά 👩
.υ.γ. στο κάτω μέρος του ποστ φαίνεται ένα παλιό reblog που κι εγώ δεν ξέρω πως κόλησε εδώ και βαριέμαι να το σβήσω. Αγνοήστε το. Δεν ισχύει.
- Kanga : a group of friends sticking together, like one body·
- (ancient Ikarian word from a story in Nana’s «Ήμεσσαν τρεις ψυχεροί ελόου μας»)
Hello readers! 😀
I haven’t blogged for long because I waited. I waited because it seems something good always comes up at this time of the year. In 2014 it was «The Day we took over the mountains». This year it was… KANGA! My friends Angelos, Xenia, Lefteris, Lina and Giorgos, all of them well-educated and experienced local guides, joined their forces and formed a collective. They are opening an agency of mountain tour guiding in Ikaria very soon. Hurray! 😀
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Longer jumps 🏃 ↔
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 16 Φεβρουαρίου, 2019 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, Personal, Sea, sport, Tourism, Travel, trekking, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, adventure, Aegean, Atheras, constructive vice, direct approach, for nature in nature, for-me, freedom, girl power, good sport, Google Image Search, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, χαρά, ικαρία, μονοπάτια, ξεθέωμα, jumping, outdoors, summer, Trail of Atheras, why-ikaria, work out 8 ΣχόλιαNana big on Google
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summer in Ikaria will be beautiful.
I also wish for it to be active
and alive and free and
absolutely elastic!
Thank you for looking me up!
Thank you for reading me!
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Soul Powered Works Co
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 21 Οκτωβρίου, 2018 Filed under: aegean, Greece, hiking, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, music, Personal, scouting, Sea, sport, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, art, artful, athina-sk., communities, direct approach, downshifting, environment, Flickr, for nature in nature, freedom, Greece, human resources, Ikaria, Ikarians, indigenous movement, intervention, χαρά, Κίνηση Πολιτών Ραχών Ικαρίας, Μουσικές Αυλές, Ορειβατικός Πεζοπορικός Σύλλογος Ικαρίας, ικαρία, movement, my world, photography, politics, self-sustained, why-ikaria 8 Σχόλια~
Hello
Few weeks ago, I shared this photo, the “Sturmvogel”, on Flickr. I wanted to share it first of all as a gift to my island, and more particularly, if not more significantly, as a gift to a few special people, regardless if they will ever be able to see it.
I felt like I should share my Sturmvogel to show my gratitude.
My gratitude for all the moments, the actions, the initiatives, the performances, the interventions; for the dancing, the hiking, the photo-shooting, the exploring, the discovering; for the awkward moments, the embarrassments, the failures, the betrayals; for the endless debating, the jokes, the partying and the dancing; for the fight to make this small rock in the sea a better place to live.
Certainly, it’s not much. Certainly, most of it is erratic. But for me, just to know that these things happen, these people exist, makes my life on this island richer, happier and more liberating.
It makes the Sturmvogel put on her dream feathers and wings.
It makes the Sturmvogel run, take off and fly.
Making small changes, giving small examples, adding small touches of ingenuity, ephemeral flares of potential. Understanding the environment, communicating with the landscape. Studying history, culture and local lore. Being creative, sophisti-cated but un-technocratic. Enjoying the views, swimming naked, getting dehydrated, blazing lost trails across nowhere lands. Being small and big. Most of all, being un-materialistic, not funded, not subsided, not sponsored, non-profit.
Powered not by the odious “love for one’s home country” but by that primitive, shapeless yet powerful spirit, hidden in forests and rocks, known by poets and artists as genius loci.
Powered by soul power
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The Sturmvogel is grateful
For the first time in her life she feels she belongs somewhere.
Even harder than that, for the first time in her life she feels attached and committed.
The image above is a preview of an album (set on slideshow) on Flickr containing nearly 800 Soul Powered works co photos!!!
Taken in the course of 11 years, between 2007 and 2018, SPWC in Ikaria is a big baby today!
Finding myself by chance as a witness of the first expression of this gutsy active spirit in 2007, and being the first to blog about it, I felt I should do it again, more loudly. Because this time we have the whole thing. And because this time I am not a tourist anymore. I am a permanent resident, and as a Sturmvogel in this spirit I fly; as a Sturmvogel in this spirit I nest.
Soul Powered Works forever!
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related pages / soul power generators ~
Νύχτα παπί τρικάβαλο
Δημοσιεύθηκε: 27 Αυγούστου, 2018 Filed under: aegean, Greece, Ikaria, Ικαρία, ικαρία, lifestyle, Sea, Tourism, Travel, Uncategorized | Tags: action shots, Aegean, artful, august, bikini, camping, dance, drunk, freedom, Greece, hip, hippies, holidays, Ikaria, ikaria-in-august, Ikarians, Instagram, γκρούβαλοι, ιδρώτας, ικαρία, ξεθέωμα, lifestyle, nakedness, nomads, panigiri, photography, portraits, seasonal hippies, summer, swimming, togetherness, why-ikaria, young 10 Σχόλια
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Γεια σας
Ακόμα ένας Αύγουστος κι ακόμα ένα hype και γενικό τσεκ-ιν στην Ικαρία αυτόν το μήνα. Πως το διασκεδάζω! Αυτό σου λέω μόνο, και ούτε κουβέντα δεν θα πω περί «κοινωνικού φαινομένου» ή περί «προβλημάτων». Συμβαίνει ό,τι συμβαίνει, τελεία και παύλα.
Όσο για μένα, δεν είναι μαθόν και λίγο πράγμα ο μικρός κόσμος μου να γίνεται μεγάλος – θαρρώ το έχω ξαναπεί κάπου αυτό – έστω και για 30 μέρες.
Να κοίτα τι έγινε προχτές.
Περίμενε όμως πρώτα να τσοντάρω δύο φωτογραφίες.
Η πρώτη είναι από τη σκόνη που σηκώναμε κάμποσα χρόνια πριν καθώς χορεύαμε στο Πανηγύρι της Λαγκάδας. Γίππιιι!
Η δεύτερη είναι φρέσκια, δική μου, ένα στιγμιότυπο βουτιάς σε ερημικό βραχοκολπίσκο που πήγαμε μαζί με παλιό φίλο, να μου τον δείξει είπε που έκανε εκεί μικρός τον Ροβινσώνα. Ας είναι καλά αυτές οι καβάτζες, τέτοιες έχει πολλές η Ικαρία. Ακόμα κι αν γίνεται κακός χαμός λίγο πιο πέρα, σε τέτοια μέρη βρίσκεις την ησυχία σου, ακούς μόνο τα κύματα και τα τζιτζίκια.
Λοιπόν προχτές τη νύχτα που γινόταν ένα πανηγύρι σε κάποιο χωριό όχι πολύ μακριά από εκεί που μένω, μπουκάρει στην αυλή ένα παπί κινέζικο, χωρίς φώτα, με χαλασμένη εξάτμιση και λάστιχα καμένα.
«Βρε καλώς τους», λέω, κι ανάβω τη μεγάλη λάμπα της αυλής.
Τρεις οι καβαλάρηδες, δυο κορίτσια κι ένα αγόρι, 22-24 χρονών τους έκοψα.
Κοκκίνησαν, άρχισαν τα ‘εεε’ και τα ‘αααα’ και ‘μας συχωρείτε’.
«Αφήστε τα αυτά κι ελάτε μέσα. Δεν είναι και τόσο καλό το πανηγύρι που πηγαίνετε».
Και ήρθαν στην αυλή και κάτσαμε και τα είπαμε και στάθηκα φιλόξενη, όχι μόνο σαν Καριωτίνα, αλλά σαν Κρητικιά – που είναι η καταγωγή μου – δηλαδή φιλόξενη σε βαθμό υστερίας. Ήταν τρεις κι εγώ έστρωσα τραπέζι – φαγητά, πιοτά – και κρεβάτια με στρωσίδια για δέκα.
Κοντολογίς στο πανηγύρι δεν πήγαν. Καθίσαμε μέχρι το πρωί – την ώρα που πήγα να ποτίσω – και τα ΄παμε. Δηλαδή εγώ έλεγα κι αυτοί άκουγαν. Πως μου ‘ρθε μάγκες σε κείνα τα κοπέλια ν’ ανοίξω τη ψυχή μου; Στους ξένους, στους κατάξενους, στους άγουρους, στους άπραγους, εμένα τη μπαρουτοκαπνισμένη πως μου ‘ρθε και τους είπα τη ζωή μου, τα πέντε χρόνια στο νησί, χειμώνα-καλοκαίρι, τη μοναξιά μου, τις τρέλες μου, τα γλέντια, τα βάσανά μου;
Πως μου ‘ρθε;
Αργότερα, ενώ κοιμούνταν, τους βόλεψα λίγο και το παπί (τα καταφέρνω με τα μηχανάκια), καλώδιο για τα φώτα, συρματάκι στην εξάτμιση, έφτιαξα πρωινό – φιλοξενία, μιλάμε. Και όταν ξύπνησαν, ντρεπόμουν σαν γκομενίτσα για τις εξομολογήσεις μου, έκατσα στον υπολογιστή, καμώθηκα πως δούλευα, σοβαρή-σοβαρή, λίγα τα λόγια μέχρι να φύγουν.
Αγαπώ τον Αύγουστο στην Ικαρία. Βλέπεις κι ακούς πολλά. Δείχνεις κι εσύ και λες πολλά. Ο Αύγουστος είναι μια γιορτή. Για κριτική κι ανάλυση θα έχουμε μπόλικο χρόνο το χειμώνα.
Άστο να κυλάει, λοιπόν, νύχτα παπί τρικάβαλο (πολλές φορές μισόγυμνο και κατακαυλωμένο) κι όπου σε πάει
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Οι παραπάνω 120+ φωτογραφίες που ενσωμάτωσα εδώ όπως έκανα και σε περσινό άρθρο προέρχονται από το Instagram. Ανέβηκαν οι περισσότερες στη διάρκεια του τρέχοντος Αύγουστου και είναι τοποθετημένες λίγο-πολύ με χρονολογική σειρά, εκτός από μερικά flashback που ξεφύτρωσαν αιφνιδίως μέσα στο χάος αυτού του μέσου. Πατώντας πάνω τους, ανοίγουν κατευθείαν στην πηγή. Τα κριτήρια που τις διάλεξα ανάμεσα σε τόσες και τόσες, ελπίζω να τα καταλάβετε μόνοι σας.
Enjoy! Να ‘μαστε όλοι καλά κι εμείς και όλα τα παιδιά!
Ραντεβού του χρόνου!
Νανά
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Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - rupi kaur https://www.instagram.com/p/C0RdZ-PNet_/?taken-by=schwickertt/