“Caught up in the dynamics of the contemporary city, graffiti and street art unfold as a series of dialectical tensions, crisscrossing between legality and illegality, visibility and invisibility, art and action,* ephemerality and elongation.” (Avramidis & Tsilimpounidi, 2016). * ephemerality: the quality of being short-lived or temporary. The first thing I noticed when visiting Athens […]
Entries Tagged as 'History & World Cultures'
Urban Echoes: Graffiti Culture of Athens
July 30th, 2025 · No Comments
Tags: History & World Cultures · Psychology · Tourism · Travel
The Evolution of Social Media, from the Telegraph to Facebook
July 28th, 2025 · No Comments
Using Morsc code over the telegraph If you dig into the past, social media has been around way before Facebook and X, in a simpler form but still allowing remote communication between people. It may have started with the 18th century telegraph invented by Henry, which at first just rang a bell at the other […]
Tags: Computers · History & World Cultures · Internet · Social Media
Passing It On: Lessons from the Kula Ring
July 22nd, 2025 · No Comments
The other day, one of my friends posted this message in a motorcycle-related WhatsApp group: “We’re a community that’s very generous with knowledge and we often help out with a “come and take it” [spare parts] attitude, and it’s amazing to see and experience that. A lot of this stems from a crappy importer and […]
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