#Zeta Makripoulia

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2006 - Number 31 - Anna Vissi - "Welcome To The Party"

There had been rumours that Anna Vissi was going to be Greece's Eurovision representative again for quite a long time. Her name was in the frame for 2005, but it took until 2006 for her to finally return. She'd been Greece's representative as far back as 1980 and again in 1982. She's credited as one of the singers to begin bringing Western pop into traditional Greek laiko. She's acted and sung in a wide variety of stage musicals and productions including the first ever Greek rock opera Daimones (Demons). She performed in the 2004 Olympics closing ceremony and off the back of that had a hit single in the US Billboard charts.

Anna Vissi was possibly Greece's number one music star in 2006 and as they were hosting Eurovision, ETV cannot have looked in many other places to find someone to represent them. There was however the choice of song. For that, as in 2005, a song selection national final was organised, again with four songs. It was called Feel the Party and for some reason involved Anna miming to the studio versions of all four tracks. I've added the actual studio version at the bottom of this blog.

One of them was Welcome to the Party by someone who is going to play a huge role in Eurovision in years to come. It's a song by Dimitris Kontopoulos and Zeta Makripoulia. Dimitris is one of songwriters with the most songs ever at Eurovision - he's now part of the 'Dream Team' and most recently wrote Cyprus's 2024 entry Liar

In 2006, he's not yet had a single song on the big stage, but he has written a few national final songs including this one. It's full-involvement EDM, a pounding baseline designed to fill a club and make the floor shake. It absolutely lives up to its title. The instrumental is overwhelming, perhaps too much so as Anna isn't really given much to do apart from hang on and sing her bits at the right points.

It's a sweaty song for sweaty places, and ultimately that wasn't what either the judges or the Greek public were looking for. It came second overall, and Dimitris would have to wait another year and look to other countries for his Eurovision breakthrough. Anna went to Eurovision with a different song.

This song did have a short, second-life above and beyond pretty much ever other losing national final song. It was used at Eurovision in 2006. The very first chorus heard on stage in the semi-final, at the beginning of that starry, mythological run-through of Eurovisions past, is Welcome to the Party. Then the sequence segues neatly into Zeus belting out Nel Blu dipinto di Blu. Anna (quietly) had two song at Eurovision this year!

[axaxaxaaintouvli]

zeta makripoulia

[davidluongart]

May I ask about your inspiration for the Greek gods? Your designs and aesthetic feel very uh not sure how to say this, I guess homey and familiar? Like traditional Greek art (but modern obvs)

Before delving deeply into Greek mythology as I am currently right now, I based most of my ancient depictions of the Greek gods on Ancient Greco-Roman fashion that archeology-majored and history-majored students often seen in the museums, and the modern version of them on “the Mediterranean summer aesthetic” blogs that you often see very popular on both Tumblr here and Instagram.

But the more I started to study more about Greek mythology, especially about the myths in their own Homeric hymns of worship and such, the more that I realized that “they are normal human beings, with all have their flaws and respectable personalities” and they need to express their individuality differently, perhaps through fashion styles ?!! (I’m not so sure whether any Greeks of Tumblr have any feelings about it or not, since this is their cultural background and country’s history, and there might be a line of separation between them.)

For Ares, I based him on mostly the fashion looks of singer, Kostantinos Agiros and Australian-Greek fitness trainer/model Andrew Papadopoulos. From what I have seen so far of them, they seemed to be wearing very monotonous clothing, just ordinary black, and white clothes. I choose him to wore mostly fitness training/ athleisure related clothing, since I would imagine him to have a very strict workout schedule before finally preparing to going to war.

For Hermes, I imagined would imagine him as a bratty young adult who is always addicted to the fast speed of Greek metropolitan life and its cycles of fashion. His fashion style was inspired by fashion designer/ musician Orestis Lazouras below, and he would love to wear and vibe with tons of golden chains and metallic jewelry. However, he still always keeping his cowboy fashion style and charm within him.

For Aphrodite, I mostly based her looks on the Greek TV news reporter/ actress and model, Zeta Makripoulia. Recently, in my previously-posted painting, I had been adding some of the K-POP-inspired elements into her, with dyed ombre colored hair and being decked out in jewels made out of gold, pearl, and other precious stones. Anyway, here are some of my favorite looks of Zeta that I think would fit the goddess Aphrodite herself.

For Dionysus, he was the hardest one out of the bunch and I had to make his style from scratch. Particularly there weren’t a lot of options for non-binary fashion out there in Greece + my version of Dionysus is half Greek and half Indian so he might wear tons of jewels? That amount of a wealthy Indian groom would wear? And he might a lot of them pairing with his everyday clothing? I still have a lot of unused concept arts about his fashion, to be honest.

For Apollo, I would imagine him wearing the boldest colored but also the most comfortable clothing out of these gods that I just mentioned above. The man just loves wearing tons of comfortable fitness training clothes like Ares but also loves wearing tons of handmade jewelry (that may be made out of gold and silver) like Dionysus. Here are some of the casual clothes that I think Apollo would wear, by the professional Greek dancer and dancemaker, Aimilios Arapoglou.

TL/DR: I based a lot of the gods’ modern designs on Greek celebrities looks, and I have been unashamedly put some of our Asian KPOP elements into them. And they have been looking good so far !

[alatismeni-theitsa]

To @alatismeni- theitsa, I have been using Zeta Makripoulia as a reference model for Aphrodite. But then I just accidentally came across some of her photos being taken from the TV Show was in a foot fetish blog. I-

Okay WHAAAAAAT THE FUUUUUU-

[jamieroxx]

Happy Birthday. Today, July 31, 1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek model, actress, and fashion designer was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Makripoulia) #ZetaMarkripoulia

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 059: GREECE]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 160+ Greek faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Ladies:

Betty White (95) 50% English, and some Welsh 25% Danish 25% Greek - actress and comedian.

Olympia Dukakis (86) Greek - actress.

Rika Dialina (86) Greek - actress and beauty queen.

Mary Chronopoulou (84) Greek - actress.

Xenia Kalogeropoulou (81) Greek - actress.

Marinella (79) Greek - singer.

Patricia Field (75) Armenian / Greek - designer, stylist and fashion designer.

Martha Karagianni (77) Greek - actress.

Agnes Baltsa (72) Greek - singer.

Anna Panayiotopoulou (70) Greek - actress.

Katiana Balanika (68) Greek - actress and singer.

Arianna Huffington (67) Greek - author and actress.

Marina Sirtis (62) Greek - actress.

Marilu Henner (62) Greek / Polish - actress, writer, and producer.

Rita Wilson (60) Pomak Bulgarian / Greek - actress, singer, voice actress, activist, and producer.

Aphrodite Jones (58) Greek, English, Scottish - author, reporter, and television producer.

Lisa Zane (56) Greek -  actress and singer.

Elizabeth Perkins (56) Greek / English - actress.

Amy Sedaris (56) Greek / English, Scottish - actress, voice actress, author, screenwriter, singer, and comedian.

Gabrielle Carteris (56) Greek / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.

Nia Vardalos (55) Greek - actress, screenwriter, director, and producer.

Emmanuelle Béart (54) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / Belgian [Walloon], Greek - actress.

Eleni Rantou (53) Greek - actress.

Gia Carides (53) Greek / English - actress.

Sophia Aliberti (51) Greek - tv personality.

Valeria Golino (51) Italian, Greek, Egyptian - actress and director.

Melina Kanakaredes (50) Greek - actress.

Ana Gasteyer (50) English, German, Greek, Romanian - actress.

Katerina Lehou (50) Greek - actress.

Melina Kanacaredes (50) Greek - actress.

Marianna Toumasatou (49) Greek - actress.

Smaragda Karydi (48) Greek - actress.

Jennifer Aniston (48) Greek /  Scottish, Italian or Arbëreshë/Albanian, English, possibly Irish - actress.

Maria Nafpliotou (48) Greek - actress.

Eleni Menegaki (47) Greek - actress and tv personality.

Tina Fey (47) German, Northern Irish, English / Greek - actress .

Sofia Milos (47) Swiss-born Greek/Italian - actress.

Patricia Kara (45) Greek - actress, model, and tv personality.

Victoria Haralabidou (45) Greek - actress.

Andrea Savage (44) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Greek - actress, writer, and producer.

Rebekah Elmaloglou (43) Greek, possibly Turkish / English - actress.

Angie Harmon (42) English, with small amounts of German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, remote Dutch / Greek - actress .

Trish Stratus (41) Greek, Polish - WWE wrestler.

Tina Kandelaki (41) Georgian, Greek/Pontic/Pontian Greek / Armenian, Turkish - journalist, public figure, television presenter, and producer.

Zeta Makripoulia (39) Greek - model, actress, television presenter and fashion designer.

Katia Zygouli (39) Greek - actress and model.

Karina Smirnoff (39) Greek, Russian, Jewish-  dancer.

Maria Menounos (39) Greek - actress, television hostess, journalist, and wrestling personality.

Lindsay Hartley (39) Ashkenazi Jewish / Greek, Italian - actress and singer.

Lindsay Armaou (38) Greek / Irish - actress and singer.

Aggeliki Daliani (38) Greek - actress.

Gloria Votsis (38) Greek - actress.

Mena Suvari (38) Estonian, English, German, Greek - actress, fashion designer, and model.

D’Arcy Carden (37) Turkish, Greek / German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.

Kora Karvouni (37) Greek - actress.

Hannah Simone (37) Indian/ Italian, Greek Cypriot, German - host, actress and model.

Vaso Laskaraki (37) Greek - actress.

Clio-Danae Othoneou (37) Greek - actress and musician.

Elena Paparizou (35) Greek - singer, songwriter and tv personality.

Kelly Clarkson (35) Greek, English, German, Irish, Scottish - singer.

Maria Kanellis (35) Greek - pro wrestler, singer and model.

Mina Orfanou (35) Greek - actress.

Zoe Kazan (34) Greek (paternal grandfather), English, German - actress and screenwriter.

Denise Vasi (34) 50% Dominican 25% Greek 25% Puerto Rican - actress and model.

Katerine Avgoustakis (33) Greek, Belgian - singer.

Karima Adebibe (32) Moroccan Berber, Irish, Greek Cypriot - actress and model.

Kalomira (32) Greek - singer.

Georgia Salpa (32) Greek / Irish - model.

Orianthi (32) half Greek - singer.

Lauren Lapkus (32) Lithuanian / Greek, Serbian - comedian and actress.

Marie Avgeropoulos (31) Greek, possibly other - actress and model.

Marina and the Diamonds (31) Greek / Welsh - singer.

Alice Greczyn (31) French, Japanese, and Polish, with smaller amounts of Chinese, Korean, German, Irish, Native American, Scottish, English, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Swedish, and Czech - actress and model.

Tonia Sotiropoulou (30) Greek - actress.

Sammi Giancola (30) Italian, Greek - tv personality.

Tracy Spiridakos (29) Greek - actress.

Tulisa (29) Greek Cypriot / Irish - singer and actress .

Sasha Grey (29) English, Greek, Polish, Irish, Scottish - actress.

Lianne La Havas (28) Greek / Afro-Jamaican - singer and songwriter.

Chelsea Tyler (28) English, German, Italian, Polish, Greek, Welsh, Scottish, African-American, unconfirmed Cherokee Native American, French - singer.

Natasha Negovanlis (27) Macedonian, Irish, Métis- actress, singer, writer and YouTuber.

Dimitra Papadea (26) Greek - singer.

Melia Kreiling (26) American / Greek - actress.

Christina Klein (26) German and Greek - singer.

Cleo Wattenström (25) Ethiopian, Greek - tattoo artist and model.

Hannah Stocking (25) Greek, Polish, possibly English - internet personality.

Alexa Nikolas (25) Greek - actress.

Olympia Valance (24) Greek / Serbian - model and actress.

Cristine Prosperi (24) Greek, Italian - actress.

Adèle Exarchopoulos (23) Greek / French - actress.

Ivi Adamou (23) Greek Cypriot, Bulgarian - singer.

Betty Cantrell (22) Greek / German, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch - beauty pageant titleholder.

Ariel Winter (19) Greek / English, German - actress and singer.

Elena Kampouris (19) Greek / English, French - actress.

Olivia Kate Iatridis (?) Greek, Inuit - actress.

Chrisoula Christou (born in 1962) Greek - actress, director, radio producer and photographer.

Dimitra Papadopoulou (born in 1962) Greek - actress, writer and director.

Angeliki Papoulia (born in 1975) Greek - actress and director.

Angela Ismailos (?) Greek - director.

Elda Panopoulou (?) Greek - comedian.

Eva Simatou (?) Greek - actress.

Male:

Jack Angel (86) Greek - voice actor.

John Aniston (84) Greek - actor.

George Chakiris (82) Greek - actor and singer.

Chris Sarandon (75) Greek - actor.

Paul Cavonis (75) Greek - actor.

Tony Orlando (73) Greek, Puerto Rican - singer.

Thaao Penghlis (71) Greek - actor.

Bob Costas (65) Greek / Irish, German - sportscaster.

Dennis Boutsikaris (64)  Greek / Jewish - actor.

Tchéky Karyo (63) Turkish Jewish / Greek- actor and musician.

David Sedaris (60) Greek / English, Scottish - humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.

Alexander Payne (56) 75% Greek 25% German - director, screenwriter, and producer.

Elias Koteas (56) Greek - actor.

Art Alexakis (55) Greek / English, German, Irish, remote Scottish, remote Welsh - musician.

Ralph Macchio (55) 75% Italian 25% Greek - actor.

John Stamos (54) Greek / Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Irish - actor, producer, and musician.

Michael Chiklis (54) 75% Greek 12.5% English 12.5% Irish - actor and producer.

Hank Azaria (53) Greek Jewish - actor, voice actor, comedian and producer.

Greg Dulli (52) Irish, Greek, French - musician.

Costas Mandylor (52) Greek - actor.

Dino Stamatopoulos (52) Greek - writer, producer, and actor.

Billy Zane (51) Greek - actor and producer.

Ant (50) Greek - comedian.

George Eads (50) Greek / English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actor.

Criss Angel (49) Greek - magician and illusionist.

Hugh Jackman (49) 62.5% English, 25% Scottish, 12.5% Greek - actor and singer.

Ben Mendelsohn (48) Ashkenazi Jewish, Greek, Scottish, English, Irish, German - actor.

Dave Bautista (48) Greek / Filipino - professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor.

Hugh Jackman (48) 62.5% English 25% Scottish 12.5% Greek - actor, singer, and producer.

Zach Galifianakis (47) Greek / Scottish, English, Welsh, French Huguenot, Irish - actor, writer and comedian.

Pete Sampras (46) 75% Greek 25% Ashkenazi Jewish - tennis player.

Alex Kapranos (45) Greek / English - musician.

Jason Mantzoukas (45) Greek - actor.

George Stroumboulopo (45) Greek / Ukrainian - tv and radio personality..

Greg Vaughan (44) Greek, English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish - actor and model.

Peter Andre (44) Greek Cypriot - singer, songwriter, television personality, businessperson, and presenter.

Demetri Martin (44) Greek - comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist.

Jason Mantzoukas (44) Greek - actor.

Alex Dimitriades (43) Greek - actor.

Chris Diamantopoulos (42) Greek - actor and comedian.

Alexis Georgoulis (42) Greek - actor and producer.

Steve Zissis (41) Greek - screenwriter and producer.

Gilles Marini (41) Italian, Greek - actor.

Andy Milonakis (41) Greek - actor, writer, rapper, streamer, and comedian.

Sebastian Arcelus (40) Uruguayan / Italian, Greek, European Royal, Serbian/Montenegrin, Russian - actor and singer.

Vitor Belfort (40) French and Greek - MMA fighter.

Mark Philippoussis (40) Greek / Italian - tennis player.

Rami Malek (36) 87.5% Egyptian 12.5% Greek - actor.

Danny O’Donoghue (37) 75% Irish 25% Greek - singer.

Steve Angello (34) Greek / English, French - disc jockey, producer, and record label owner.

Theo James (32) Greek (paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, 1/16th German - actor.

Chris Trousdale (32) Greek / Irish - actor.

Julian Edelman (31) German,Ashkenazi Jewish, Greek, Irish, English, Scottish, Polish, Belgian - football player.

Mark Ballas (31) Greek, Mexican [including Spanish] / English, Irish - dancer, choreographer, musician, and actor.

Matt Di Angelo (30) Greek, Irish - actor and singer.

Dimitri Leonidas (29) Greek Cypriot / Welsh, English - actor.

Ryan Pinkston (29) Greek, English - actor and model.

Jordan Gavaris (28) Greek, other - actor.

Kim Cesarion (27) Afro-Guadeloupean, Greek - singer.

Nick Kyrgios (22) Greek, Malaysian - tennis player.

Charlie Rowe (21) English, Scottish, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8th Greek, 1/16th French, some Manx - actor.

Thanasi Kokkinakis (21) Greek - tennis player.

Dylan Lee (19) Greek, Finnish, English, Russian, Irish, French, 1/2048 Powhatan Native American - model.

NB:

N/A

ICK:

Sam Pepper

Milo Yiannopoulos

Andrea Tantaros

Jessica Chastain

[legsworldfan]

Crossed legs: Zeta Makripoulia legs - https://ift.tt/2ncFUbt

[famousstarslove]

[coolartisan]

Trying the new Nespresso "U" Machine

                           Thanks to a very clever and modular design, "U" can change its configuration to fit in any kitchen (or office) while its advanced technology delivers a perfect coffee time after time.  "U" is the machine for those who seek ultimate simplicity, the highest quality coffee and minimalist design.

Zeta Makripoulia and George Kapoutzidis were there to present all the new aspects of the machine in their very funny way! 

Zeta Makripoulia (You may check my interview with her, right here)

My dear friends Vicky Paschali (Shape Magazine, MissBloom.gr) along with Nelly Kalamara (food editor of Madame Figaro magazine)

Zeta Makripoulia and George Kapoutzidis on stage

"The Coffee Room" chandelier at the Kifisia Nespresso Boutique

My cup of Nespresso right from the "U" machine

[jamieroxx]

Happy Birthday. Today, July 31, 1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek model, actress, and fashion designer was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Makripoulia)

[cat-boheme]

[jamieroxx]

Happy Birthday. Today, July 31, 1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek model, actress, and fashion designer was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_Makripoulia)

[famousstarslove]

[famousstarslove]