Aspen

The beautiful Aspen multimedia mag, discovered in ubu a month ago. But can't get my eyes off of it. Published by Phyllis Johnson between 1965 and 1971. Each issue was a different team and each box a new experience. Thinking of contemporary magazines that are valid and inspirational... One is for sure Cabinet with different themes every month and the other is BIDOUN done by a great team Negar, Antonia and Lisa (between others) on art (cinema, music, food, jewelery et all) from the middle east. Keep up the good work guys!

The beautiful world of Yüksel Arslan

Last year at Santral Istanbul I saw for the first time the marvelous drawings of Turkish surrealist Yüksel Arslan, *1933, that lives and works in Paris. This month The Drawing Center in New York (one of the best institutions in the world) presents his work in depth. A classification of animal penis A portrait of George Bataille An index of human penis A city.. maybe Istanbul? Some more...

Before..During...After the opening

Merve Elveren is finishing Rodeo's logo.. Ali Cindoruk and Selva Gurdogan from Superpool architects Krist Gruijthuijsen and Ahmet Senkart are partying at Scotch

A PRINCIPLE OF ASSUMPTIONS

Rodeo finally re-opened its doors on Wednesday, April 16 with a group show I co-curated with Krist Gruijthuijsen. Artists were Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Kramer, Tamar Guimaraes, Adam Leech and Christodoulos Panayiotou. It looked a bit like this... The Infinite Library's propositions by Haris and Daniel on the right wall.. Christodoulos Panayiotou's first act: The Departure.. The tables hosting the first three books of the infinite library.. Tamar Guimaraes' Listed Entried poster accompanied by a sound piece.. And the breathtaking Money, Lot's of Money video of Adam Leech.

It's been a long long time... But first thing's first

Last week seemed like the first day of spring and after some rainy days we all went up to the terrace of Hotel Büyük Londra to watch Emre Hüner's latest piece "Total Realm" on yama, curated by Mark Aerial Waller. We all went and came to high spirits... still image from Total Realm Ömer Ali Kazma and his laughing friend... Mark Aerial Waller in front of yama, posing to look good.. Emre Hüner and Zeynep Demircan later in Imroz restaurant, tipsy and relaxed..

on my way back...

...the cloudy sky was victorious... ...flying carpets were falling from the sky... ...the wild dogs were asleep... ...and everything started making sense again.

Another good night out...

Finally after a long time we all went out together. And it was nice... miss Selvi May in a ridiculous owl hat at Bilsar Mark Aerial Waller and Mihda Koray posing some night rays.. and Kim Kio's petit stereo Nakit man strikes back

"...and the ban goes on..."

Life without you tube... At the same time Turkish i-phoners can browse youtube.com.. And at the same time I find out that youtube has an agreement with Digiturk (obviously the digital Turkish channel) to remove soccer momenta and goal phases if there is an upload. Isn't that a bit weird...?

Youtubeless life

Life is easy without a T.V. But rough without you tube..

Ad

When agencies had no computers and designers more inspiration. A car ad, Mexico City, 1972

Free Tibet

This striking image just brought in my mind various historical works: paintings of fighting bodies, renaissance compositions and visual tricks, 19th century revolution mechanisms, far east ultra-violent films. The most breathtaking though is what's happening in Tibet these days.

Friendship

...digging in the collection of Yilmaz Aysan... Hopefully, there's more to follow.

Kathara Deftera

Let's go fly a kite...

In case you want to leave your own patch on the skies...

Carnival days in arab countries

Palestine/ Jaffa 1924 Iraq 1930 - 1939 Syria/ Damascus 1954 Lebanon/ Beirut 1948 Lebanon/ Beirut 1940 : One of the things I miss in Istanbul is the carnival. Turkey is not masquerading. My first thought was that it's related to Islam and its unrepresentational aspect. But after doing a small research at the Arab Image Foundation, I found these photos from different dates and places from Muslim countries... Why is that the case then?

Loxandra

Online Videos by Veoh.com From another era... at the same place

Theft report...

...on Christmas eve in this loud bar downtown Athens someone opened my handbag and stole my camera. My mom had bought it and was very proud that her present satisfied me so much after years of failure with sweaters, blouses and other stuff. I realized the day after when I opened it to -normally- shoot something in the street. But camera wasn't there.. That's a main reason why there haven't been any newer pictures on the blog. I am refusing to get a new one although I can't live without. I may spend the next months by posting old pictures. Good to be back.. But where... (from the collection of the arab image foundation)

Back... and Forth

...after a month and a half of silence and hard work i think i found the best image to start with again: A chart of how gay or straight men are and its variations by the famous Dr.Kinsey (1894-1956). That was found in the amazing blog by Dimitris Liberopoulos, writer and journalist of the lives of Greek personas of the 20th century. Unfortunately it's only in greek..

This Monkey's Gone to Heaven

We suddenly lost our friend today. Hüseyin you will stay in our hearts forever...

Les passions du tabac

The Smoking Museum www.museedufumeur.net