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Monday, June 28, 2010
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Khan -- Candy Girl (dOP Remix)


Monday, June 28, 2010
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Using ND Filters to Kill Depth of Field


Monday, June 28, 2010
As featured on: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-nd-filters-to-kill-depth-of-field.html

UPDATE: Just answered many Q\'s in the comments. -DH
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It\'s simple math. If you are shooting outside in the sun and limited to 1/250th of a second sync (or worse) you are are going to be shooting through a tiny hole as your aperture. Even if you crank your ISO down as low as it will go, you\'d better like that background. Because you are going to see it in pretty sharp focus.

Or maybe not. In addition to high-speed sync, there are a few ways to bleed some aperture from your exposure settings in full sun.

Three blurry choices, inside.
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Dedicated speedlights and high-speed sync is one way to get rid of your aperture problems. But because of the inefficiency of focal-plane flash (lots of energy falling on mostly closed shutter curtains) your flash power is greatly reduced.

You can add extra flashes (cue McNally\'s Tree of Woe) or you can do everything at f/16 or so and then bleed some aperture with a neutral density filter.

Couple of things: First, you put the filter on the lens, and not the flash. And second, there are a few routes to take, with some being better than others.

The upside about ND filters is that you can use them with any dumb flash. Anything you flash can do balancing with the sun at f/16 it can also do at f/2.8, or even f/1.4 with ND filters. Big flashes, small flashes - doesn\'t matter. You are simply taking aperture limitations out of play.

Example:

You could wrap three speedlights around an athlete for a very cool mid-day portrait. All hard lights -- high front key, and two back/side rims. At a 250th of a sec, you\'ll need to light your subject to ~f/16 or so (depending on the ISO) to balance the sun. More if you want to overpower it.

That takes a lot of light. But close-in, bare speedlights can absolutely do it. And any decent monobloc or pack-and-head could do it without breaking a sweat.

The problem is your backdrop -- maybe you want to blow it out. Maybe it looks like crap at f/16. Maybe your sensor dust is starting to look like a scene from Jurassic Park.

The important thing to know is that the flash/ambient relationship is not going to change. You need the power to compete with the sun. But now we want to bleed some aperture out and lose the background focus.

To take your exposure from 1/250th at f/16 to 1/250th at f/2.8, you will need to place five stops worth of neutral density filter over your lens. This will maintain the flash-to-ambient balance, while knocking the light down.

(If you put it on your flash, you would be giving yourself big problems -- unless maybe your flash has a thermonuclear setting or something. And you still would not be able to get your aperture down.)

So, what kind of ND filters to consider?

As always, there are choices. And some of those choices depend on your wallet. Here are three.


The Budget Option

You can get a typical-brand ND filter for about $50 or less, which is very tempting. This is the route you will probably try first -- I did. Unfortunately, it was a learning experience. Here\'s why.

I bought a Tiffen 77mm ND filter that cut three stops of light. Cheap, fit my lenses and solved the problem, right?

Wrong.

The sharpness was not what I had hoped it would be. But there was also a color shift -- it was a kind of weird warm that sucked the color out of the sky, which was exactly what I would typically be using as a backdrop with the NDs.

Granted, it is very difficult to make an optically pure ND filter of that strength, and maybe $50 was a pipe dream. They got the \"density\" part down. The \"neutral,\" not so much.

But on top of that, it was like my first microwave oven. It had two settings -- off, and nuclear. What I found is that I needed variability to solve different problems. Sometimes 3 stops was okay. Often I needed more -- or less.

In the end, it went into a drawer. $50 lesson learned.


The Pay-As-You-Go Plan


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Being younger and wiser, my friend JoeyL skipped the dime store version and went for a set of Lee 4\" polyester ND filters. The good news -- they are both sharp and cheap -- on an absolute basis.

The bad news, they are basically a consumable. They will scratch, and you will have to replace them.

This is the way the Hollywood folks roll when making movies. You\'ll need a 4\" gel holder (probably \"pro shade\" combo) and a filter for every ND value you use. If you always work in full sun and want to go to f/2.8, this might be a good option for you. But you will use up the filters and have to replace them.

If you need variability in your ND filters, it could get to be expensive pretty quickly and do so in an ongoing way. That said, Joey seems very happy with the 4\" gels and his photos of course look amazing.

He also uses it for wide-open movies with his Canon 7D. Above, he is shooting footage from inside a seaplane over Dubai earlier this year.

Pretty intimidating looking setup, if you ask me. Very Cecil B. DeMille.

If you want to use ND sparingly (and you are very careful by nature) the 4\" polyester filters can be a very reasonable option that will give you very good results. You\'ll probably want to buy one that will get you from your full-sun aperture to your wide-open aperture. Then maybe a second which will do the same on a cloudy day.

This will give you the option on a sunny day (with the second, less powerful ND filter) to go to only f/5.6 if you want moderate depth of field.


The Buy-It-Once Plan

\"\"If you want optical quality, durability and continuously variable densities, there is one option. And it is expensive.

The Singh-Ray Vari-ND is the ne plus ultra of ND filters. It gives you a \"dial-in\" setting of anywhere from two to eight stops of neutral density -- that is actually neutral. And it is sharp, too.

Singh-Ray filters have an outstanding reputation, for which one pays dearly. For example, the 77mm Vari-ND filter is $340. As far as I can tell, it is two high-quality polarizers that used together form somewhat of a \"dimmer switch\" for light.

But it is a thing of beauty, both in operation and performance. After paying my $50 Newb Tax above, I at least was able to experiment enough to know that I wanted to have the ability to mix flash with any level of sunlight, work at any aperture and with any piece of flash gear. That\'s what the Vari-ND let\'s me do.

I\'ll probably catch some crap in the comments for such a pricey filter, but I tried the cheap version and that was $50 for nothing. To me, that\'s more expensive.

And yeah, I have given the old Visa card a pretty good run over the last year. But I shot for 20 years with someone else\'s gear, and I wanted the next 20 to be with that of my choosing.

And frankly, it feels very good to finally be done with major purchases for the foreseeable future.
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Walk-Thru

The photo up top, of my daughter Em, was when I first started using it. Just some learning time with no pressure.

It is a straightforward shot, done mid-afternoon with a single Profoto head in a 60\" Photek Softlighter II. But the neutral density adds a third variable to your normal f-stop and shutter speed duo. Here\'s how I keep from getting too confused by that.

First, I choose my shutter speed. If I am pushing the limits of my lights (i.e., maybe when using speedlights) I would choose 1/250th. In this case, I had plenty of power so I started at 1/125th. This was simply to give me the ability to alter the ambient background levels with my shutter speed while shooting without hitting my sync limit. And in the end, I shot this frame with a darker background at a 1/250th. Nice to have the option.

Next, I close down my aperture until I get a background that is the exposure tone that I want. It will be very much more in focus than the final shot will be.

Now adjust the power on the flash to light the subject. In this case, Em was in the shade of a building (background in full sun) so I was adding light to a nice, dark starting point.

The flash and ambient relationship now are set. Placing the Vari-ND on your lens will allow you to remove as much light as you want from the photo, and you compensate by opening up the aperture. Rather than go wide open to f/1.4, I stopped at f/1.6 because I know my 85 is sharper there.

I went pretty wide open here, but I could have shot at any aperture. And I absolutely love that I can do that now.

The idea of crisp, multi-hard light wraps mixed with squishy backgrounds at high noon gets me a little tingly. Which is much needed, after the numbing effect of buying a filter that cost as much as a car payment.
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So, do you use ND filters with flash? If so, what kind? What has worked for you? What has left you wanting?

Sound off in the comments.


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Who Says You\'re A Great Lover?


Friday, February 19, 2010
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\"\"In any business, some people are better at getting their name out there than others. Artists are no exception.

Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, or Branding? Don\'t know the difference? These cartoons should help.

Are you strong where you want to be? Are people talking about your work, your creativity, your vision? This is laced with some humor, but we artists have a good bit to be learned from this, actually. The rest of the options after the jump...where do you fit in? [click the \'continue reading\' link below]
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So which bucket are you in? If nobody is talking about you being a great lover, I suggest you think about ways to change that. Errr...you know what I mean.

Happy Friday, everyone. Thanks to the zig blog for the cartoon.
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Shower time, 5:26am, Brooklyn


Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231


Wednesday, January 20, 2010
As featured on: http://ahmetogut.blogspot.com/2010/01/ahmet-ogut-exploded-city-matrix-231.html

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Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231

January 24, 2010 - April 11, 2010

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, California

With Exploded City, Ahmet Öğüt envisions an imaginary metropolis comprising buildings, monuments, and vehicles that have figured in acts of violence and terrorism over the past two decades. Structures from Turkey, Ireland, India, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, and the United States, among other countries, form a unified urban scale model, reconstructing these sites in the moments before they were destroyed. The installation, originally commissioned for the Turkish Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, is accompanied by a text situating the included locations within a Calvinoesque narrative that engages the poetics and politics of space, architecture, violence, and international relations. Paraphrasing Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Öğüt presents visible but “semi-anonymous” buildings, whose intact form may be forgotten while the aftermaths of their destruction are seared into the collective consciousness via the media and individual consciousnesses via personal experience. The collapsing of time and distance in this collection of models is echoed by the vehicles—also used in terrorism, but referencing as well Öğüt’s ongoing interest in distance, time, and speed, measures by which our relationship to reality is shaped and through which disparate lands are connected.

From this central installation, the exhibition expands to other works. The film Things We Count pans slowly across the retired fighter planes at an airplane graveyard in Arizona’s Sonoran desert, as a voice counts them one by one in Kurdish, Turkish, and English. This counting, in the languages of faraway lands, connects the planes in their U.S. resting place to their actions in the larger world.

Öğüt recently had solo exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bremen; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; and Kunsthalle Basel. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; De Appel, Amsterdam; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and the Berlin Biennale. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Born in Turkey in 1981, Öğüt lives and works in Amsterdam.

Elizabeth Thomas
Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator


The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum is supported by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and the continued support of the BAM/PFA Trustees. The presentation of Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231 was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.

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printing


Monday, December 28, 2009
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printing-industry


Monday, December 28, 2009
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Best of the blog


Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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“To Notice Everything Is To Care For It.” Orhan Pamuk


Saturday, November 14, 2009
As featured on: http://www.kamilpasha.com/2009/11/14/to-notice-everything-is-to-care-for-it-orhan-pamuk/

Read this wonderful interview with Orhan Pamuk by Nathan Gardels about Pamuk’s new book The Museum of Innocence. It’s very thought-provoking. (click here) Here’s an excerpt:

Orhan Pamuk: The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king’s power, or, later, people’s power.

This has generally not been present in the non-Western world. There, the collector has been an individual who is doing something peculiar. He cannot be proud about what he is doing since his collection is not something that categorizes the larger human experience. On the contrary, it only signifies points of his own personal reality.

However, in the last 50 years, the non-Western world is catching up with museums because it wants to represent its power. Most of the time such museums are about the power of the state. They are crude exercises, like waving a flag. This new museum mania avoids representing reality in an artistic or personal way. Power is more important than art or the person. That is the trend.

So, in my novel, where Kemal collects the teacup, cigarette butts, bedroom door handle, and other items of Fusun’s, he is building a museum not to power, but to the intimate experience of love, to an individual life. My point is that, whatever a life is made of, its dreams and disappointments, is worth taking pride in…

Pamuk: The fashionable Istanbul bourgeoisie is clashing with the upcoming Anatolian bourgeoisie – this is the cliche by which Turkish intellectuals try to understand what is happening. There is some truth in this, but I look at it more ethically than sociologically.

For me, the old Istanbul money and the new Anatolian money are the same class.

What is happening is that a freer, more open, more fully democratic and egalitarian society is clashing with old-fashioned conservative modernism. To solve its problems, the old, conservative Westernized elite must yield to more free speech and more democracy for the aspirations of the whole country, not just the elites.

My problem in Turkey is the intolerant political culture, whether old guard or new. This is not only true of the secularists at the center but also in rural Anatolia, Islamists as well. On crucial issues they embrace each other’s intolerance…

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BİANET'TEN


Tuesday, July 14, 2009
As featured on: http://theflamingoandtheboy.blogspot.com/2009/07/bianetten.html

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\"Cumhurbaşkanı Gül Terörle Yargılanan Çocuklar İçin Devreye Girsin\"

Sanatçılar Alabora ve Saban milletvekillerinin verdikleri sözleri tutumalarını ve TMK\'nin çocuklarla ilgili maddelerinde düzenleme yapılması için Meclisin adım atmasını istediler. Gazeteci Tamer devletin uluslararası anlaşmaları hiçe saymasını eleştirirken, dansçı Tanbay da Gül\'ün affetme yetkisini çocuklar için de kullanmasını istedi.

Elif GENÇKAL-Bawer ÇAKIR
İstanbul - BİA Haber Merkezi
14 Temmuz 2009, Salı

Terörle Mücadele Kanunu (TMK) kapsamında tutuklu bulunan çocuklardan bahsetmeyen medyayı ve çocuk hakları sözleşmelerini ihlal eden devleti eleştiren Çocuklar İçin Adalet Çağrıcıları TMK\'nin konuyla ilgili maddelerinde düzenleme yapılmasını istediler.

Grup adına basın açıklamasını okuyan sanatçılar Derya Alabora ve Nedim Saban, \"Bu sorunun ikinci yılını doldurduğu şu anda, verdikleri sözü tutmalarını, meclis açıldığında \'çocuk bir önceliktir\' ilkesinden hareketle, kanundaki değişiklik önergesini Meclis gündemine almalarını ve gereken kanun değişikliklerini gerçekleştirmelerini bekliyoruz\" dediler.

Tamer: \"Bu çocukların farklı muamele görmesi kabul edilemez\"

Basın toplantısına katılan gazeteci Meral Tamer bianet\'e şunları söyledi:

\"Devletin neden uluslararası anlaşmalara uymadığını anlamak mümkün değil. Bu çocukların batılı çocuklardan farklı muamele görmeleri kabul edilemez. Ben de bu çocukların yerinde olsam dağa çıkardım.\"

Türkiye\'de korkunç bir adalet sistemi olduğunu ifade eden dansçı Zeynep Tanbay da \"Cumhurbaşkanı Abdullah Gül\'ün yetkisini kullanarak tutuklu bütün çocukları serbest bırakmasını\" istedi.

\"Eğer herkesin cumhurbaşkanıysa bu çocukları affetmeli. Ben 18 yaşın altındaki bir çocuğun sırf polise taş attı diye hapiste tutulmasını ve yetişkinlerle aynı şartlarda yargılanmasını kabul edemiyorum. Bu sorunu görmeyen medyayı da anlamıyorum.\"

\"\'Terör suçlusu\' değil, \'suça itilen çocuklar\'\"

Bugün Taksim Hill Otel\'de düzenlenen toplantıda Alabora ve Saban tarafından okunan metinde şu bilgiler yer alıyor:

1991\'de çıkan ve 2006\'da yenilenen TMK yüzünden yaşları 12 ile 18 arasında değişen çocuklar terör suçlamasıyla ve yetişkinlerle aynı koşullarda tutuklanıyor, sorgulanıyor, yargılanıyor ve mahkum ediliyorlar.

Hapishanelere konulan bu çocuklar pedagojik destek alamıyor ve öğrenimlerini bırakmak zorunda kalıyorlar. Bazıları yetişkinlerle aynı koğuşlarda kalırken, çoğunun aileleriyle görüşmeleri engelleniyor, iki haftada bir verilen spor/oyun izinleri iptal ediliyor.

\"Sorunun Kürt çocuklar sorunu değil, çocuk sorunu olduğunu\" kaydeden Alabora ve Saban \"bugün Kürt çocuklarının başına gelen bu sorun, Türkiye toplumu olanların farkına varmadıkça ve devlet de gereken yasla düzenlemelere gitmedikçe, yarın her inançtan, etnik kökenden, sınıftan, ideolojiden \'ötekileştirilecek\' ana-babanın çocuklarının da başına gelebilir\" diye konuştular.

Sanatçılar tutuklu çocukların \'terör suçlusu\' değil, \'suça itilen çocuklar\' muamelesi görmesini ve milletvekillerinden verdikleri sözleri tutmalarını istediler.

Basın açıklamasının sonunda Alabora Ece Ayhan\'ın \"Meçhul Öğrenci Anıtı\" şiirini okudu, ardından \"Çocuk gibi yaşamak ve çocuk gibi muamele görmek yeryüzündeki tüm çocukların hakkıdır, hakkı olmalıdır\" dedi.

Basın toplantısına Necmiye Alpay, Sevin Okyay, Filiz Kerestecioğlu, Sennur Sezer, Kürşad Kahramanoğlu ve Hakan Tahmaz da katıldı.(BÇ)

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Parting Shot: Global Overlords


Friday, July 10, 2009
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These are the people that rule your lives. Enjoy your weekend. (Photo of world leaders from the last day of the G8?-G14?-G39? or whatever you call it summit.) Click here for the super-sized version.

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MUHTELIF 5 / COMING SOON


Friday, July 10, 2009
As featured on: http://theflamingoandtheboy.blogspot.com/2009/07/muhtelif-5-coming-soon.html

Agustos da çıkıyor / out by August

MUHTELIF
güncel sanat yayını contemporary art publication İstanbul

Yaz 2009 Summer 2009 Sayı 5 Number 5 Ücretsizdir Free

Retroakt / Retroact
Susanne von Falkenhausen
Totaliteralizm ve Avangard?
Totalitarianism and the Avant-Gardes?

Diyalog / Dialogue
a conversation with Wael Shawky
“ıslak kültür – kuru kültür”
“wet culture - dry culture”

Praksis / Praxis
Markus Miessen in conversation with Rodney LaTourelle
İddialı, romantik, fakat tamamen anlayışlı.
Pretentious, romantic, but totally insightful.

Gramer / Grammer
a conversation with Lucien Kroll by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
“ertelenmiş katılımcılık”
“postponed participations”

Şimdi / Now
Ulus Atayurt
Sakın ola küçümseme… Anlatılan senin hikayen..
Don\'t you belittle it - It\'s your own story

Günlük / Daily
F.Zahir Mibineh
Tahran Günlüğü
Tehran Report

Havuz / Pool
Metahaven
“We Lived In Financial Times”



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Friday, July 10, 2009
As featured on: http://abesleistigal.blogspot.com/2009/06/bir-kucuk-deneme-yaptm-acaba-hayati-bir.html

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keske gelen bir cevap da \"biz uzerimize duseni yapiyoruz ama hukumet hicbirsey yapmiyor\" tarzinda olmasaymis. Ona da sukur.
Bir küçük deneme yaptım, acaba hayati bir mesele karşısında İstanbul Milletvekilleri\'ne ulaşabilecek miyim, diye. Hani, neresinden baksanız ben bir vatandaşım, bu milletin bir ferdiyim ve Meclis\'te 67 sandalye ile temsil edilen bir şehirde yaşıyorum. Dolayısıyla açtım Meclis\'in sitesini, Milletvekilleri sayfasını çağırdım ve üşenmedim, teker teker her bir İstanbul Milletvekili\'ni tık\'ladım.

Aslında oldukça enformatif buldum, siteyi. Her bir milletvekilinin adından, soyadından öte, eğitimi, iştigal konuları ve aile hayatı dahil, söz konusu vekilin makul bir portresinin yanı sıra, Meclis\'de verdiği kanun tekliflerinden soru önergelerine tüm performansı kayıtlı. Her bir kanun ya da soru önergesinin dökümüne, şu andaki duruma kadar bir hayli bilgiye de bu sayfalardan ulaşılabiliyor. Ayrıca aynı sayfa üzerinden vekillerin e-posta adreslerine de ulaşmak mümkün. Hepsinin değil, ama olsun.

Ben de tuttum, her birine kısa bir mesaj yolladım:

\"Sayın milletvekilim,
GDO\'lu tohumların topraklarımızda kullanımına ilişkin görüşlerinizi öğrenmek isterim.

Hürmetlerimle,\"

diye.

Elbette adımı, sanımı ve bana ulaşabilecekleri telefon numaralarımı da ekleyerek.

İstanbul adına Meclis\'te sandalye işgal eden 67 vekilden bu postayı yolladığım ve milletvekili@tbmm.gov.tr adresi taşıyan 45\'inin 14\'üne sorum ulaşmadı bile! Server tarafından, ki bu durumda Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi\'nin server\'ı olsa gerek bu, anında reddedildi! 31\'inin adresine ulaştığını hayal ettiğim sorumun kaç vekil tarafından onurlandırılanacağı ise... ayrı bir endişe konusu olsa da benim için, şaşırmayı ve hatta vekillerim tarafından şımartılmayı inanın heyecanla beklemekteyim.

Günün sorusu, dolayısıyla: \"Hayati bir konuya ilişkin soracak bir sorunuz, takip edecek bir davanız olduğunda sizi Meclis\'te temsil eden vekile nasıl ulaşırsınız?\"
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\_pencil_/ (2009) - Brandon Jan Blommaert


Tuesday, July 7, 2009
As featured on: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2751

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stadyumda hapislik


Tuesday, July 7, 2009
As featured on: http://benbugunbunuogrendim.blogspot.com/2009/07/stadyumda-hapislik.html

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Bugün müzmin bronşit ilaçlarını yazdırmaya gelen 50 yaşlarındaki bir hasta
\"Biliyor musunuz Doktor Bey ben bu hastalığı Alsancak Stadyumunda kaptım\" dedi
\"Kötü havada maça mı gittiniz?\"diye sordum


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\"Hayır 3 hafta stadyumda hapsedildim. 1980 öncesi Tariş olayları sırasında ben de fabrikada üniversite öğrencilerini temsilen gözlemci olarak bulunuyordum. Jandarma olayları bastırdıktan sonra herkesi topladı, Alsancak stadyumuna doldurdu, çevresini de kordon altına aldı\" dedi


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\"Kaç kişiydiniz ki?\" diye sordum
\"İlk başta 1100 kişiydik, peyderpey azaldı, 3 hafta sonunda ben çıkarken 300 kişi kadar kalmıştı\" dedi
\"Ne yaptınız stadyumda? Nasıl vakit geçirdiniz?\" dedim
\"Kıllı battaniyeler verdiler, kimisi sahada, kimisi koridorlarda yattık. Maltepe, çay yaptık, ne yapacağız\" dedi


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\"Çay paralı mıydı?\" diye sordum
\"Evet kantinde paralıydı\" dedi

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\"Maç yaptınız mı?\" diye sordum
Şaşırdı; \"Tam hatırlayamıyorum, ama yaptık galiba\" dedi







Fotograflar 1983-84 yıllarında Türkiye\'ye gelen Anton Hazewinkel\'e ait

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HIDE YOUR HAIRY BUBBLEGUM


Sunday, June 28, 2009
As featured on: http://suckapants.com/2009/06/hide-your-hairy-bubblegum.html



















(photos from the first leg of our junk raft adventure)

Selections from traveling on the Adriatic toward Venice:

- Constant problems with the Coast Guard every step of the way. Apparently it\'s standard operating procedure here to halt any vessel you don\'t recognize, boldface lie to them about what papers/clearance they need, drag your feet making copies of all their paperwork, including passports (even though your buddies 10 km away just did the same thing the day before), and then finally (hours later) smile and say everything is fine, have a nice day.
- Being stopped by a closed drawbridge right after leaving Marano. The next day being grounded just past the bridge by high winds.
- Patience and negotiation skills are the key to anything in Italy, it seems.
- Exploring an abandoned farm with tons of air-born cotton-fluff.
- Paying a visit to Gulliverlandia.
- Doubling Franny on the handlebars with a giant stuffed caterpillar on the back, riding down pitch-black country roads with no brakes.
- Bone fish stew = equal parts bone to stew.
- Scary mutant ice cream man.
- Ben Wolf joining us, and Callie being so excited she ran and jumped on him - splitting her chin open on his face. . . requiring stitches.
- Little kids bringing us a six-pack of beer in Caorle.
- Sleeping on the roof of an abandoned school on the beach.
- A lot more abandoned buildings.
- Little old ladies fixing our sewing machine.
- Having a bike break down while on a grocery run. When they return to fix it, they find someone had gone through the groceries and stolen just some of them.
- Dark Dark Dark comes for a visit and performs for us on the rafts at night.
- Having a moment that is actually TOO utopian.
- Traveling on the sea in large swells = a few crew get seasick.
- The Coast Guard stopping us out on the sea and ordering us to stay there while they took out Italian-speaking crew member back to headquarters to explain everything. They take so long that the sea goes from calm to large swells, so much so that when we do say screw it and head in, we have a very hard time navigating in the waves. Thanks for looking out for boater\'s safety, Coast Guard.
- The Bora lands while we are in the small canal town of Torre di Fine (\"The Final Tower\"). It is dramatic and powerful, with sweeping clouds and rain clusters. I was out in a field hiking to an abandoned farm house, and was having trouble keeping my tripod and camera from getting blown over.
- More abandoned buildings.
- Children in Torre di Fine bringing us rum, making it the third time kids have brought us booze.
- Someone brought us a kite as a gift. While flying it next to the rafts it gets hit by a car, and then a bus. All while about twenty school kids are watching while singing to us with their teachers. The kite flyer promptly jumped into a tent to hide when the car stopped.
- The restaurant Luigi in Torre di Fine randomly bringing us a giant pan of \"Frutta di Mar\" (fruit of the sea) pasta, with mini-lobsters, calamari and mussels. All they asked was that we return the pan.
- A night of music by Harrison is followed by kidnapping a bartender to go on a late-night cruise on Old Hickory to an abandoned farm house, which ends with two crew members heading to the hospital.
- Cereal with no milk = not so bad if it\'s good cereal.
- Some minor issues develop when a language barrier results in mixing up antibiotic cream with psoriasis cream.
- Heading out into the sea at dawn one morning, only to be warned frantically by some fishermen to go back because a Bora was coming. Sure enough, before we could even retrace our short path the seas had doubled in size and the rafts were taking a lot of water across their decks. Maria was even towed in to help her get out of it faster.
- The next time we tried to head out, our rafts had collected a massive amount of flotsam underneath them. While dragging it all out, one of the gems we found under there was a dead hedgehog (which was promptly gutted and salted for future transformation into a nail pouch).
- The Cabinet of Curiosities had officially become the cabinet of dead things.



MP3:

• Luminescent Orchestrii - Amaritsi

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Barry Schwartz - PopTech 2004 - video


Monday, June 1, 2009
As featured on: http://poptech.org/popcasts/PopCasts.aspx?viewcastid=258

What makes us happy? Societies flourish and people are most contentwhen they are faced with fewer choices and more constraints arguespsychologist Barry Schwartz. We are tortured by the idea of having itall - \"Impossible!\", he says. ... read more...

S-bahn


Wednesday, April 8, 2009
As featured on: http://yorgunblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/s-bahn.html

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ya ben çok yoruldum, eğer yorgun uyanıyosam yorulmuşum demektir, yanılıyo muyum? 
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The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future - Aaron Schuster


Thursday, January 1, 2009
As featured on: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/32/schuster.php

What happens to levitation, one of the great imaginative figures of art and literature, in the transition from a religious culture to the disenchanted universe of modern science? What becomes of ecstasy, rapture, ascension, transcendence, grace wh­e­n these give way to \"space oddity\": man enclosed in a tin can floating far above the world? Is the cosmonaut a prophet of the erotic future, avatar of man’­s stellar renaissance, as Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke once imagined? Or is he like Nietzsche’s madman, proclaiming as Gagarin himself was rumored to have said: \"I don’t see any God up here\"?
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LEVITATION: WHAT IS IT?
­The word levitation has several senses and connotations: miraculous, magical, oneiric, but also scientific and technological. ­Levitation is equally an affair of mystics and engineers, charlatans and poets. One thinks of the feats of the Scottish medium Daniel Dunglas Home, who on December 13, 1868 (one of the most auspicious days in the history of levitation) floated out of a third- story window and returned through the window of an adjoining room; or the ascension of Christ, archetype of all saintly air travel; or the magnetic levitation train zipping commuters between Shanghai and the Pudong International Airport at a maximum speed of 431 km/h. ... read more...

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