SEA

What if we trun the sea upside down... will we be able to see the bauty that lies binieth the sea?

There's no more rabbits in my hat...

I remember once i've written a fairytale about the most optimistic super hero in the world. He was "Mago" he was so tiny that thumbelina looked like basketball player in front of him.. Mago had this special power to turn things upside down with a really simple procedure he used to visit people enter their heads and just make see things upside down, with this way he could make ugly things look beautiful and generally fix things when fairytale has gone bad....

the day i will stop trying is the day i die.

Once upon a time in a classroom there was a Philosophy instructor that appeared in front of his students holding a big box made of paper. Without speaking pulled out of the box a vase made of glass and started filling it with pebbles. His students were looking at him really wondering what he was up to. When the instructor realized that the vase couldn't afford any other pebbles asked his students: “Do you think this vase is full?” Then the students with one voice responded: “yes it is full”

He smiled at them he then pulled out from the box a small bag containing smaller pebbles and started putting them into the vase after putting enough of these little pebbles inside the vase he asked again his students: “Is the vase full this time” the student once more replied to him: “Yes it is full”.

The Instructor smiled again without speaking and he pulled out of the box a small bag with sand, he then started filling again the vase with the sand and the sand filled all the gaps that the pebbles and the smaller pebbles have left, when the vase couldn't afford more he asked once more his students; “Is this vase full?” the student this time thought of it a bit more but after a while they again replied to him: “Yes it is full”

The Instructor pulled out of the box two bottles of Beer and started filling the vase with beer again the liquid filled all the remaining space there was left in the vase , the Instructor then asked the students: Is this vase full? The students laughed and said again “Yes this time is full”

Ok then says the Instructor; I now want you to think that this glass vase is your life. Big Pebbles are the most important things in your life, like family, friends, home, health, children… things that can make your life look full even if there are no other things in your life. The little pebbles are all those things that keep coming in our lives like studies, work, our flat, our car these are small things if you put them first in your vase there will be no room for the bigger pebbles the important things in life. The sand is everything else a nice dinner, a big travel, dancing, watching sports.. if you put the sand first in the vase there will be no room for either the pebbles nor the little pebbles. The vase is your life if you spend your time and power to the unimportant things you will never find time for the most important things in life.

Put your priorities in life separate which things are more important for your happiness. Talk with your parents, spend time with the one you love, take care of your health, and enjoy time with your friends. Eventually you will always find time to study, acquire knowledge, buy a new car pay the phone bill, but first you need to take care of the big pebbles the priorities in your lives. The Students were speechless and staring the instructor. Until one of te students asked him “Sir, what does the beer stands for in our lives” then the instructor smiled at him and said: “I'm glad you ask this question, no matter how full your life is, no matter how stressed you are in life, no matter how difficult life treat you there will always be a room for a couple of beers. Cheers.

From Sidair 2 Cyder

From this...



to this....



Experience wise i think i feel really happy... result wise however iam feeling really ugly and don't know if that can be beautiful.

The first post of this blog was on March 9th and that was the first part of this journey. The truth is that i really enjoyed the making of this blog, i had the chance to meet with new people to meet some other candidates as well and living a dream for almost 5 months.
I've tried to low the expectations to noone else but me. Then one day i saw in my inbox something that made me grin from ear to ear:

Dear Chris

Thanks again for your submission. You are on our shortlist and will be contacted in the next few weeks.

wk side Team

Although i was trying not to believe it the temptation and the "What if" were already spinning in my mind i was really excited and looking forward for the next steps :D

then after some weeks another "Smile Creator" email in my Inbox:

"Thank you for your entry to WKside3.

Congratulations you have been chosen to come to an interview at Wieden + Kennedy for a potential side position.

The interview will take place on Wednesday 4th July, 9.30 - 12.30 please confirm you can make it asap.

The placement will be from 30th July and will run for three months so you must be available for this period of time and have a valid work permit.

If you have any questions please email back.

Look forward to meeting you on Wednesday.

The WKside Team"

And then everybody started... my heart was already in W+K doing projects meeting new people and learning stuff, my logic though was trying to pull my heart out of this psychedelic state and i spend some days before the interview watching my heart fighting with my logic....


And then Wednesday was there... 9:20 W+K London. Smiling and having in my side Queen heart (the winner) with her small son Enthusiasm yelling at me GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO ... the day was really interesting lot's of nice people from all over the world.
We had Seb from Germany, we had Michael from Barcelona, we had Zac (an american that flew from Shanghai just for the interview), Dominik from Sweden, and a really cool guy from Zurich that i can remember his name & i do apologize for that. And of course we had me from Greece. In the blue corner Daz,Loose,Matt,Natt,Sam the WkSide team.

Sam was the leader of the team wearing a lovely yellow dress and breaking the ice when needed, i think she is a person that can inspire a whole team. Daz was a really interesting guy with amazing sneakers on his feet, matt was the type of person you call "this is a good guy" like a silent power, Loose was a really interesting character and frequent reader of this blog, i think Loose is a person who can make you laugh really loud.. a small creature called humor was there with her at all times :D finally Natt, she was like a small girl like the ones who pull their mothers' dresses to get more candy, really content type of person with a great smile.

After the first introductions the day started with presentations of W+K. I really liked the intro of the presentation with the movie theme on the begging. The whole experience was great so many people in such a creative environment.

After the first hour everyone was feeling more comfortable with each other. And then the meeting room welcomed the previous WKsiders Ben,Ben&Sophie minus one member Barbara i think, who is in Australia. They really seemed a good team and after a nice presentation they did regarding their experience as Siders we moved on for the team project that was assigned by the Skinny, Simon of WK-Fat what an irony. He briefed us on wk music and loose started announcing the team members of each team. I was appointed with Michael, Anna, Dominik & Zac. It was really fun and they are all great. We were the first to present so we were quite nervous; having the time running faster than a speeding bullet and working in a room in which i could smell the big ideas left-overs we managed to prepare a presentation about the idea of
Welcome to (P)optimism, which was about an interactive installation in form of a Ghetto blaster in the parking area of W+K, in which people could interact with some of the hottest upcoming music bands and eventually getting the chance to meet them and attend in one of their Gigs.. then we had the other groups presenting some really nice ideas as well and then we started speed dating with all the WkSide team really funny and interesting process you could tell that everyone wanted to learn something from you. The next step was the wrap-up stage, my heart and my enthusiasm were a bit hungry but good in general. After saying hello to everybody I went home and took a really heavy nap, mind fatigue sometimes is much more effective than body. Then the patience stage came to me really nervous, really patient, trying to put my mind into order and see what i have done good & what I’ve done bad. I didn't knew if i had to be optimistic and putting my self in, or just wait for the final whistle of the referee… and this is what I did I’ve lowered the expectations and waited for the final whistle to cry out of joy or out of disappointment.

For those of you who don’t know me I used to be a Basketball player and learned to be patient and always work hard for my teammates. I’ve learned also how to lose and how to win, I learned that sometimes the game is more important than the result, I’ve learned that team is family, friend, girlfriend, the most important I’ve learned to play fair, respect the rules and recognize the power of the opponent, I’ve learned that if the referee doesn’t blow the final whistle nothing’s over, and if it’s over it’s not over because all important games have this strange ability to camp for a long time in your mind. I’ve taught never to retreat and surrender.

However just this morning I got informed that I wasn’t successful for getting into the scheme, I’ll never know what went wrong I’l never know what would it be, but one thing I know is that I tried, I played fair, I really wanted that and finally enjoyed the whole thing. I’ve learned a lot not only from my experience on W+K but also from my experience in living in London. I gained some valuable friends and I lost some great battles but I never ever ever gonna give up… Although the result brought me from Sidair to Cider…

Magic.

Thanks to everyone who helped me with this project.
This blog will continue to exist and answering the question if anything can be beautiful.



THE END.

Follow the signs...

Ok this is it.

Can anything be beautiful?
What if we people instead of making questions started making answers.
what if we could turn back the time when we were little Kids and we could find beauty in anything.

As i told you in my previous post. The 3rd Part of my Blog is gonna be about how to make beauty. In this case i mixed up "what if we were kids"+"how we can make beauty"+"the greek alphabet" and created this... hope you enjoy.

DGU

This is it. Two months after the last post of this Blog i am back. The WkSide scheme had an extended deadline and i had another green light to continue developing my blog. We are now in part 3 which is not going to be the last part. After the announcement of the results this blog will continue answering the Question: Can anything be beautiful?.
The truth is that many beautiful things have happened since i've started this blog which i will have the chance to speak for, after the winners announcement. Most probably in the 4th part of the blog.

Si just to conclude this 3rd part will not be the same with the other 2 no more questions and research for beauty. It is time for action and satisfaction... so
keep up.

follow the signs...

Post by post...

this is the rest of this, ....

don't know what to say really.
3 hours
to the biggest battle of WKSide
all comes down to today.
Either i heal as a person
or I’m going to crumble.
Post by post
day by day
till it’s finished.
I’m in hell right now, mister,
believe me and
I can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of me
or i can fight my way
into the Side.
I can climb out of hell.
One post, at a time.

Now I can do it for you.
I'm young.
I look around and I see beauty
and I think
I mean
I included every single thing I could find.
I uh....
I pissed away all my time
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who I believed could give an answer.
And lately,
I can't even stop reading the blog I see in the screen.

You know when you are still young in life
things are still beautiful.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start seeing things differently.
You find out that beauty is just a game of experiences.
So is this Blog.
Because in either game
blog or Wk Side
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half post too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite see it.
The answer WK needs, is everywhere on this blog.
It is in every post of the blog
every link, every picture.

On this blog, i fought for that post
On this blog, i tear myself, and everyone around me
to pieces for that post.
I CLAW with my finger nails for that post.
Cause i know
when i add up all those posts and send it
that's going to make the fucking difference
between Qualifying and Failing
between WkSide and What’s next.

I'll tell you this
in WkSide
it is the guy who is willing to create
who is going to win that position.
And I know
if I am going to have any chance in WK anymore
it is because, I am still willing to create, and think different for that post
because that is what Beauty is.
The life itself.

Now I can't make you take me.
You gotta look at all the projects.
Look into these projects.
Now I think you are going to see people who want Wk side as I do.
You are going to see people
who produced stellar work for this scheme
because they know when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for them.

That's the WkSide team, gentlemen
and either I hear a phone call in a while,
or i will fail as individual.
That's WkSide guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

THANK YOY THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

I would like to thank..
Cinderela, Clio, Popo, Gema, Niki, Fri, Joao, Mira, Angie, Coche, Barbara, Pavlina, Selinko, Maria, Claude, Timothy, Tiago, Julia, Pilu, Erian, Victoria, Lily, Meme, Virginia, Ksn, Darinka, Stelios, Sarah, Milica, Stella, Peterpanic, David, Atir, Christina, Julia, Soli, Shiranui, Frankie, Gonzalo, Jay, Omar, Babak, Engin, Noor, Saisoi, Laura, Poison, Alex, Ruxy, Saubiya, Andres, Edmond, Seem, Xuanluiz, Mirac Efe, Kawthar, Mona, Anke, Cigdem, Cecilia, Patricia, Sherif, Claire , Larisa, Gic…. And everyone else who helped me in my research and took some time to respond, you are all Fantastic Thanks.:-)


It was really interesting to hear many points of view for our question!

maybe the last..

Gig from Thailand.

hey,
nice 2 hear fr u anyway
of course I think everything can b beautiful bcoz people c things and percieve things differently so something can b good or not sometimes it depends on different experiences, different culture, different ages etc. so I think everything can be beautiful it depends on how v c it ( possitive site or negative site), hope this can help u more or less:)

Cheers,
Gig

THANKSSS

we are....

the time is now!

There are two distinct views on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed.

This text above could be in way a definition of time. I believe that time can be directly related to the question “Can anything be beautiful?”

One of my favorite quotes says that:

Yesterday is a History.
Tomorrow a mystery
And today is a gift... that’s why we call it present.

So the best way to answer this question is to set the time to “now”.
Many of you might remember the amazing & innovative trilogy of the 80’s “back to the future.”
In that movie Marty McFly and Dr. Emmet Brown (doc) had traveled through time. They actually decided to move forwards to 2055 if I remember well. When they arrived In the future they realized there were a few bad characteristics in their lives needing change. Although by the end of the 2hour movie they were able to return to the present(mid-eighties) and lay the foundation for the necessary changes, they realized that the insights from this journey were a bit overwhelming and somewhat disappointing.

For an imaginative example of how important the present is, Michael J. Fox and cast give a nice depiction. The present, or living in the now as people like to say, is the only opportunity we will ever have to make something of this very moment. Now that it’s gone, rest assured that another opportunity is coming right NOW.
Since we have established our mania with the Now, in considering the question “Can anything be beautiful?” our answers will change from this.. moment to this.. one. If for example we put the word NOW after the question (Can anything be beautiful+now?) then the answer is definitely a big ugly NO! Everything has a beautiful and ugly side to it. When something’s ugly side is brightly shining through it may have potential to become beautiful, but until it does make that change it will still be ugly. At this very moment a caterpillar may have the potential to become a butterfly but until it does it is only a crawling worm.

Now is where everyone says that “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.” My response is that each beholder lives in such a different environment their eyes have been trained to see their version beauty. A fly sees a pile of manure as a treasure hunter sees a mountain of gold. If everything is beautiful now, then this world would be the most boooring place in the universe and the author of this blog would be following Frank to see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. The antithesis of what is beautiful and ugly creates the fascination we have with what is happening now; life.

If however speak about seeing the future, and as a destination we are headed to “Anything can be beautiful” then we should be aware that the most beautiful part would be the journey; the journey of making anything beautiful, the metamorphosis of a potentially beautiful vision, idea, thought, event, occurrence…. And Now is your chance to take action and make anything beautiful ;-)

the judgement day...

the end is coming.. and it can be beautiful. i guess!

Failure can be beautiful!

As times goes by and the bad deadline is approaching faster than a speeding bullet. I have to post about the failures. What i did was to send emails asking an answer to the Question "Can anything be beautiful?"
The Vast majority responded me that they can't help me (for many reasons) and some but few didn't bothered answering me at all.


So here are my failures:
Philippe Starck,
Pixar,
U2,
amnesty,
greenpeace,


Moreover i tried to tried to communicate directly with lot of famous people by inventing imaginary email adresses:
bill@whitehouse.gov, ceo@microsoft.com, stallone@yahoo.com, tonyb@yahoo.co.uk, paris@hilton.com, mickey@disney.com.. and many many more... the result was a complete failure but in the end i found it funny.. & beautiful

:-)

History time.

Some people in my hi5 research speak about analogy, synergy & symmetry They say that all these one way or another are connected with beauty. If we take a look in History and go back to the point were many things started. We can see philosophers, artists, scientists creating things that are so important and have been the basis for the human development throughout time. Maybe these people were looking for real beauty and find the way to make anything in the beautiful. Their findings, theories, creations... probably were based in synergy simplicity & symmetry... the following videos are from the opening ceremony of the Athens 2004 Olympic games and somehow show how everything was created... just enjoy the beauty...

Anything is...

As i promised here i wrote down some thoughts on what is anything... soon i noticed that anything is anything that exists in my world in your wourld and in everyworld of every universe of every every....... so Can anything be ( )? the answer is YES!

Think Beauty act Global!

Saubiya Baroda India.

i believe...god has made everything beautiful in some way or the other.
it is sad but it is we who tag things as 'ugly' or 'beautiful'.


Andres 20 from Quito , Ecuador

Yes, but remember that it is impossible to find the same water in the river. Lots of things can be beautiful but the joy of appreciating them can be gone in a second.



Xuanluiz 23 from Hermosillo , Mexico

Hi there ChristoS

Well, I think beauty has certain rules most of the time like proportion, symmetry, etc. .... But, since sometimes beauty is where those rules aren't, I guess the answer is YES everything can be beautiful, it's better when that beauty comes from nature and when it's true.
But we also need ugly to appreciate beauty.
Good luck on the project!

xuanluiz





Kawtar 19 from al kuwait , Kuwait
hi how r u.
well i guess its depend on the person its self , there is ppl can find every thing beautiful , even if its not , but there is some kind of ppl find all the things around are sad , look bad and negative , its just the way u used to live , in arabic world ppl like to make every things drama , and big problem , to me is how to accept your life ,






Mona 24 from Cairo Egypt..

Hey Chris

I think to answer your question, a definition for what is considered beautiful should be identified. Also, who decides what is beautiful,are we just following our ancestors in their definition to beauty, or shall each follows his/her sense of beauty, or a combination of both needs to be made?
Even we need to clarify what sense identify the meaning of beauty, is it the eye, especially when people say " you have an eye for beauty", is it the brain, or what....
In my opinion, one can see the beauty in anything only if he wants and trains himself too, apart from that,you will find most replies as no, not anything is beautiful.
If you like, try reading the "sense of beauty", and tell me what you think

Did i helped a bit?




Cecilia 32 from Lima Peru

hola, a tu pregunta diria que....... hay belleza en todo, desde que abres tus ojos y miras al mundo, tan simple como la hoja que cae en otoño, hasta la lagrima que brota el dia de tu muerte...

Hello, to your question i would say that. ...... there is beauty in anything, since you open your eyes and see all the world, as simple as the leaf that falls in autumn, to the cries that sprouts we gave of death...


Patricia 24 from lisbon , Portugal

Hi!
this question its a little bit relative and confuse... i think beuty its a little confused, i think the answer change person for person, but the most beutifull thing for me its the thought, think a little: if we don t think we cant do anything, and anything its ugly... now sincerely , the most thing that i like its art... everything what it has in its context , i love... i can be hours look for a painting and talk about him, i love go to a nice bar, drink a cup of wine and have a interesting dialogue with an interesting person, when i say interesting i mention a person who knows what he saying... i thing life is beautiful don t you...
grasps it
kiss

I said that it was a confused question




Sherif 25 from Egypt
everything can be beautiful, only depressed people will ask this question...sorry but it is the truth.



Claire from Australia
hi,,, my answer would be: yeah anything can be beautiful if you look at it in the righ light, a positive light




Larisa 19 from Rumania
yes, i think many things are and could be beautiful...you just have to open your eyes an look closely.
i'm sorry but i don't have the time to write more...