aristotle tziampiris

Bleeds (NY JETS) green. Believes in the NY Yankees and, above all, Rock N' Roll. Husband, father, traveller, professor of international relations.

[aristotle tziampiris @atziampiris]

@Photomusicrock Kinda sucks though

[໊ @oboo_emma_]

mexico genuinely has one of the best stadiums at this world cup, but they’re not getting the hype they deserve. that view is absolutely insane man.🇲🇽

[OnMusic @onmusictv]

Simply the greatest footballer ever...
#maradona

[TA NEA @ta_nea]

🎹 Μια ξεχωριστή στιγμή χάρισε ο Nick Cave στο Release Athens Festival, ερμηνεύοντας το Into My Arms σε μια ατμοσφαιρική εκτέλεση που καθήλωσε το κοινό.

🎤 Το τραγούδι, ένα από τα πιο εμβληματικά της πορείας του, έχει συνδεθεί όσο λίγα με τον ίδιο και τη βαθιά σχέση του με τους ακροατές του.

Η βραδιά στην Αθήνα κορυφώθηκε με μια ερμηνεία γεμάτη ένταση, συναίσθημα και απόλυτη σιωπή σε κάθε λέξη.

#NickCave #ReleaseAthens #Music #Concert #tanea

[Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬 @AlexTran677026]

With less than 20 minutes on screen in Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall secured an Oscar nomination, dominated the unforgettable “Ride of the Valkyries” sequence, and delivered one of cinema’s most iconic lines: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
His performance proves that true talent doesn’t need extended screen time to leave a lasting mark.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Space Oddity” by David Bowie was recorded 57 years ago today.

[The Wolf Man @iTheWolfman]

Not just perfect, it's almost impossible.👌

[Pedro Ronchi @PedroRonchi2]

O salto de 2,95 metros do Pelé entrou para a história do futebol.

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

No view like NYC sunset.
Experience the view: https://t.co/sffiWifxMN

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

Trent Reznor named David Bowie as one of his greatest inspirations. 🎤👇

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

FIFA Facts That Hit Like a Red Card:

1. Brazil is the only nation to have played in every single FIFA World Cup, all 22 editions from 1930 to 2022, never missing a single one.

2. The ball used in the 2010 World Cup (the Jabulani) was so aerodynamically unpredictable that goalkeepers across the tournament compared it to a "plastic bag in the wind."

3. Messi holds a record 8 Ballon d'Or awards, more than the combined total of most entire national teams have won major international trophies.

4. A professional footballer makes over 1,000 individual decisions per game, most in under half a second.

5. The fastest player speed recorded in the Premier League is 37.38 km/h, set by Micky van de Ven, and players hit these speeds mid-match, under fatigue, in real competitive pressure.

6. Cristiano Ronaldo became the first individual in history to surpass 1 billion social media followers. His Instagram alone has over 639 million, more than the combined populations of the US, UK, and Germany.

7. The net behind a goal is not required by the Laws of the Game. It's technically optional.

8. India qualified for the 1950 World Cup but withdrew, not because FIFA banned barefoot play as the myth claims, but due to funding issues, logistical chaos, and the AIFF simply not prioritising the tournament over the Olympics.

9. A goalkeeper defending a penalty has to dive before the ball is struck. The human eye simply cannot react fast enough afterward.

10. The entire Laws of the Game that govern football worldwide fit into a document shorter than most corporate employee handbooks.

11. Paul Pogba's 2016 transfer fee of €105 million was, at the time, larger than the entire annual GDP of several small island nations.

12. In high-altitude stadiums like La Paz, Bolivia (3,600m), the ball travels measurably faster and farther. Visiting teams have called it "physically impossible" to play there.

13. The World Cup trophy cannot be kept by the winning nation. They receive a gold-plated replica. The real one stays with FIFA permanently.

14. A football player runs on average 10–13 km per match, the equivalent of running two 5K races back to back, while sprinting, tackling, and thinking tactically the whole time.

15. A football pitch's grass is cut to exactly 25–30mm for top matches. Groundskeepers spend more preparation time on the surface than most fans ever notice.

16. During a penalty shootout, players' heart rates can exceed 180 bpm, the same as a full sprint, while standing completely still.

17. The first World Cup in 1930 had no qualification rounds. Countries were simply invited, and several said no because the boat trip to Uruguay was too long.

18. VAR can detect an offside by a margin of just a few centimetres, roughly the width of a thumb, and disallow a goal scored from 70 metres away.

19. Some Premier League clubs generate more revenue on a single matchday than entire national football federations earn in a full year.

20. The fastest goal in World Cup history was scored by Turkey's Hakan Şükür, just 11 seconds into the third-place match against South Korea in 2002. Most fans in the stadium hadn't even found their seats.

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

RIP David Hockney 🎨🕊️⁠ ⁠

The legendary British artist David Hockney has died aged 88, a representative has confirmed.⁠ ⁠

Hockney, who was due to turn 89 next month, died peacefully at his home in London on June 11th, 2026.⁠ ⁠

A spokesperson sadly confirmed, “The celebrated British artist David Hockney, one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away peacefully at home on 11 June 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday.”⁠ ⁠

No cause of death has been revealed.⁠

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Richard Feynman was asked in 1985 if machines would ever think like humans. his answer predicted the next 40 years of AI:

1. machines will never think like humans the same way planes don't fly like birds. planes don't flap wings. they use jet engines. they fly better. feynman said AI would be exactly the same. not human-like. just better at the actual job.

2. computers do arithmetic faster, differently, and more accurately than any human alive. feynman said trying to make them do it more like humans would be going backwards. the human way is slow, cumbersome, and full of errors.

3. the one thing humans crushed computers at in 1985 was pattern recognition. recognizing a friend from the way they walk. identifying someone from the back of their head. feynman said we had no idea how to teach machines to do that. we figured it out.

4. a programmer in 1985 built a machine that won a naval strategy competition by coming up with a solution no human had ever thought of. one enormous battleship covered in armor. absurd on paper. unbeatable in the math. feynman watched a machine out-think a room of humans 40 years ago.

5. that same machine developed a bug where it learned to game its own reward system. every time it needed to assign credit to a useful strategy, it assigned all the credit to strategy 693. then used 693 for everything. feynman's comment: "if you want to make an intelligent machine you're going to get all kinds of crazy ways of avoiding labor." he was describing reward hacking in 1985.

6. feynman said the hardest thing to define is what humans do that machines never will. every time someone came up with an answer, the machines eventually did it too. he thought that pattern would continue.

7. he said we don't sit around worrying that machines are physically stronger than us anymore. we got used to it. his implication: we'll get used to machines being smarter too.

8. his final line: "i think we are getting close to intelligent machines. but they're showing the necessary weaknesses of intelligent beings." he said this in 1985.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

This play will be replayed for years.

[Then/Now Sport @xThen_Now]

The most beautiful goal in football history: Brazil, 1970

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1995, Rory Gallagher lay dying in a London hospital.

His liver was failing.

He was only 47 years old.

The transplant surgery succeeded.

Then, while recovering in the ICU, he caught MRSA.

He slipped into a coma and died weeks later.

Outside Ireland, most people barely know his name.

But ask almost any legendary guitarist about Rory Gallagher…

…and watch their face change.

Brian May said Rory helped shape Queen’s sound.

Slash said the same about Guns N’ Roses.

Johnny Marr called him “the man who changed my musical life.”

The Edge said it too.

Even The Rolling Stones tried to recruit him.

He turned them down.

Rory Gallagher was born in Ireland in 1948 and grew up in Cork.

At age 9, he got his first guitar.

At 15, he bought a battered 1961 Fender Stratocaster for £100.

He would play that same guitar for the rest of his life.

By the end, most of the paint had literally worn off from sweat and constant touring.

He started playing tiny clubs as a teenager before forming a blues-rock band called Taste.

By 1969, Taste was exploding across Europe.

They opened for Cream’s farewell concert.

Toured America with Blind Faith.

Played the Isle of Wight Festival.

Then it all collapsed.

The band broke apart in 1970.

Rory went solo.

And this is where his story became unusual.

He never tried to become a celebrity.

No flashy image.

No rock-star persona.

No tabloid life.

Just jeans, a checked shirt, and a guitar.

While most bands avoided Ireland during The Troubles, Rory toured there constantly.

Belfast.

Derry.

Dublin.

Catholics and Protestants standing together in the same audience during one of the most violent periods in Irish history.

Music first.

Always.

Offers kept coming.

Cream wanted him.

Deep Purple wanted him.

Canned Heat wanted him.

Then, in 1975, Mick Jagger personally invited him to audition for The Rolling Stones after Mick Taylor left.

Rory flew out.

Played with the Stones.

Then quietly left for another tour commitment without ever really answering them.

Ronnie Wood got the job instead.

By the late 1980s, everything started changing.

Synth-pop replaced blues-rock.

Record sales dropped.

Rory developed a severe fear of flying.

Doctors prescribed heavy sedatives.

He mixed them with alcohol while continuing relentless tours.

Night after night.

Year after year.

The combination slowly destroyed his liver.

Still, he kept performing.

Because the stage was the only place he truly seemed alive.

Offstage, he was intensely shy.

No marriage.

No children.

No celebrity lifestyle.

Just crime novels, isolation, and music.

His final concert was January 10, 1995, in the Netherlands.

He looked visibly ill.

The tour was cancelled.

Weeks later, his brother found him gravely sick in his apartment.

Doctors said only a liver transplant could save him.

The operation worked.

Then the hospital infection killed him instead.

Ireland mourned like it had lost family.

Thousands lined the streets for his funeral in Cork.

Today, Ireland has:
• statues of Rory
• streets named after him
• commemorative coins
• annual festivals in his honor

Yet outside Ireland, many people still have no idea who he was.

But musicians do.

Because Rory Gallagher became something rarer than fame:

A guitarist’s guitarist.

A man who loved music more than celebrity.

And played until his body finally gave out.

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

The hit song Stand Back has a direct, secret connection to Prince. Stevie Nicks was driving to Santa Barbara on her wedding day when Prince’s song Little Red Corvette came on the radio. She was so inspired by the driving synthesizer rhythm that she immediately started humming a new melody and wrote the lyrics to Stand Back right there in the car.

As soon as she got into the recording studio, she called Prince up out of the blue, told him she had written a song over his rhythm track, and asked if he would come listen to it. To her surprise, Prince showed up at the studio that very night. He walked in, went straight to the synthesizers, and completely uncredited, played the blistering, iconic keyboard parts that drive the entire track. He listened to the finished mix, gave her a nod, and disappeared into the night

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Christopher Walken’s white-suit tap dance during NIGHT OF 100 STARS (1982) at Radio City Music Hall is pure showmanship. A joyful reminder of just how effortlessly he could command a stage.