The Sartorialist

Green Porno

Nazli New York'tayken Rudy'sde bu serinin sescisiyle tanismistik. Ben o zaman ogrendim Isabella Rossellini'nin cok pis pornocu oldugunu. :) Aslinda seri 3.sezonuna girmis, epeydir ortalikta yani. Kisa kisa oldugu icin cerez gibi gidiyor. Is yapmasi gerekip de ertelemek icin her turlu firsati degerlendirmeye hazir olanlara hic uygun degil.

Modern Art

Craig Damrauer'dan "Modern Art". Basarili bir tespit. :)
Buradan satin alinabilir. Kelimeleri matematik esitlikleri haline getirdigi New Math diye bir serisi var. Bu da o seriden bir tane ornek. Kendi sitesinde de bir suru baska esitlikleri mevcut.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Bir noktaya aşık olan düz bir çizginin hikayesi bu. Nokta ise asi görünümlü pervasız karalamaya aşık. Çizgi kendi potansiyelini fark ediyor, gelişiyor, büyüyor, en sonunda da noktayı büyülüyor. Peki doğuştan şanslı nokta, çizgiyi gerçekten hak ediyor mu? :) Chuck Jones ve Maurice Noble tarafından yönetilmiş 1965 yapımı bu çizgi film, o sene kısa animasyon film dalında Oscar almış.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics from http://www.cabezasunderground.co on Vimeo.

Materials for The Arts

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Türkiye'de de böyle bir kuruluş var mi? Keşke olsa. Bazı şeyleri geri dönüştürmeye gerek yok bile. Yeniden kullanımla da bir çok şeyin ömrü uzayabilir. Teşekkür notları da bence çok iyi düşünülmüş.

Genius of Design - Episode 1

The Genius of Design ep1 from Genius of Design 1 on Vimeo.

Core 77'de misafir muhabirlik

Impressions from Istanbul Design Weekend 2009 yazim Core77'de yayinlandi. :)


Yazi icin buraya, fotograf galerisi icin şuraya bakabilirsiniz.
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Yapilmayi Bekleyenler

Cooper Hewitt'teki Design for a Living World ve Fashioning Felt sergileri.

MoMA'daki Rona Arad, Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge ve The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection sergileri.

Queens'te PS1 ve Water Taxi Beach.

Harlem'de Apollo Theatre'da Amator Gecesi.

BAM'de Next Wave Festival (Juliette Binoche ve Akram Khan'li In-I, Lipsynch, Itutu ve Mortal Engine) ve Cate Blanchett'li A Streetcar Named Desire.

Williamsburg'de bar avi. Baslangic yerel tapci Barcade.

Park Slope'u bebek arabalari esliginde kesif.

Governors Island, Staten Island.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden ve yanindan Brooklyn Museum.

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Jude Law'li Hamlet.

Museum of Art and Design'da Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics sergisi.

Fresh Fanatic

Binamizin altinda 3-4 gun once market acilmis. bulabilirsiniz.

Impressions from Istanbul Design Weekend 2009

This year, Istanbul Design Weekend took place between 18-21 June 2009 with the theme of “Mediterranean Design between Present and Future”. The four day event aimed to offer two core groups of activities linked by the theme of Mediterranean design. The first group consisted of inedited exhibitions and cultural initiatives related to this theme, whereas the second group consisted of a showroom circuit that allowed ambitious visitors to tour all the participating showrooms, malls and design stores in Istanbul as these stores were invited to take place in a contest for the best installation interpreting the chosen theme through the set up of their spaces and shop windows.


Until this year, Istanbul Design Week used to take place in the old Galata Bridge in Balat. However this year, the city itself -especially the European side- became the exhibition venue for the event. This was especially a really good opportunity to visit the local design firms in their own environment. Seeing what they did with their own space or how they approached the visitors gave a really good impression about who they are. The main problems posed by this act of spreading into the city were the insane amount of time that was required to see all the events, and way-finding, for especially people coming from a different city like us. It is a rare thing to find two parallel streets in some parts of Istanbul due to its hills and really old city planning. Maps were provided for each event zone within the event brochures but these were very abstract, graphic representations rather than functioning as a guide. People at Lunapark told us on the first day of the event that they were seriously considering to place some additional signage on the streets to give better directions to the visitors as they had already received many complaints about this.


Our adventurous tour in Zone 1 which covered the Taksim, Beyoglu and Galata area brought us to the doorsteps of Ilio, whose showroom space was definitely one of the highlights of the event. Finding out later that their exhibition won the first place in the display and installation competition was no surprise at all. Being also the winner of several Red Dot and If awards, Ilio is the home product brand of the Istanbul-based design firm Demirden Design. Their designs in the exhibition were mostly concentrated on tabletop and furniture. You can check out the photos from the exhibition right here.


The student participation in the event was a lot less, compared to previous years. Instead of checking out the same orientalist designs that we have been seeing for years now, it would have been really exciting to see more works by design students whose works afford to be more daring and experimental compared to works coming out of the industry. Marmara University and Mimar Sinan University from Istanbul, and Anadolu University from Eskisehir were the only three universities that displayed their works in the exhibition at Addresistanbul. The architecture faculty of Istanbul Technical University hosted the exhibition of the results of the IMMIB Industrial Design Competition at the beautiful Taskisla building, giving a chance to see some more student work from other universities. The majority of the participants of the “Mediterranean Design between Present and Future” competition were also students. The results got exhibited at the Mozaik showroom. Judging from the participant profile of the competition, the results could have gotten much more interesting and richer in content had the organizers made a more wide-spread announcement within Turkey and all of the other Mediterranean countries. Although this exhibition at Mozaik was announced to be one of the major happenings during IDW 2009, the way the projects were displayed graphically had a lot of room for improvement. Check out the entries and photos from the exhibition here.


Unfortunately, this large room for improvement point was valid for many of the exhibitions part of IDW 2009. Maybe curators and organizers did not have high enough expectations in terms of visitor traffic. It was disappointing to see that even the exhibitions which were going to stay open for four days did not have their signage and information graphics up in the afternoon of the third day. These situations make one wonder whether these exhibitions were organized just for the openings with happy hours for snobbish designers. However, this ’invitation only’ approach doesn’t do much for reaching out to the public and democratizing design.

The ‘Detour Moleskine’ exhibition at Santral Istanbul was definitely one of the highlights of the IDW 2009 event. 50 international artists’ Moleskin notebooks were on display, allowing visitors to go through their sketches, drafts, drawings, and notes in person. Istanbul was the fifth stop of this traveling exhibition after London, New York, Paris and Berlin. In addition to the notebooks of the international artists, an accompanying exhibition called as ‘myDetour’ showcased selected notebooks of students from Istanbul Bilgi University, Domus Academy and the winners of myDetour Berlin. For photos of the winning and participating entries of the myDetour exhibition click here. For photos from both the Detour Moleskin and myDetour exhibitions check out here.

I was also extremely happy to visit Santral Istanbul for the first time thanks to these exhibitions. Before Istanbul Bilgi University opened Santral Istanbul in 2007 as a house for contemporary arts and cultural activities, the building served as the first city scaled power station of the Ottoman Empire. Built in Halic, which used to be the oldest industrial zone of the city, Silahtaraga Power Station was the provider of Istanbul’s electricity between 1911 and 1983. The station is well-conserved and won back to the city as a cultural entity that can revitalize its neighborhood.


Participants of the public street party which Sema Topaloglu organized on the third evening of IDW 2009 also had a good time and were impressed with how she well revitalized a very old building on one of the steepest hills of Istanbul and turned it into an office and residence for herself.

Opening of the Design Library Istanbul was definitely good news for the city too. The library, which is the third branch after Milano and Shanghai, is located in Eski Sapka Fabrikasi in Haskoy. The location which used to serve as an old hat factory on the shore of Golden Horn will now be a really useful address for design lovers in Istanbul.

Check out the album for more photos from Istanbul Design Weekend 2009.

Kum Kau

En sonuncusu Kum Kau okul yolum ustunde, benim bir ust sokak komsum. Hemen onunde de girenlere cikanlara kapiyi acan mahallemizin homeless'i durur. New York Times'in Fort Greene lokal gazetesinde cikti bu illustrasyon birkac gun once.

"No Youtube Land"

Design Ignites Change

Gecen haftalarda Pratt'teki seminer sayesinde varligindan haberdar oldum. Su anda Amerika ici gibi gorunuyor; ama sadece Amerika ici degil, tum dunyadan katilimcilari bir araya getirmeyi hedefliyorlar. Bu isin basindakiler Urban Forrest projesini de gerceklestiren World Studio. Tasarimi sosyal girisimcilikle iliskilendirme acisindan ilham verici ve gaza getirici.

Aldo Bakker | Porselen Masaustu Parcalar

Gazze'den Bir Baska Hikaye

Amer benim Italya UWCAD'de iki sene beraber okudugum Filistinli bir arkadasim. Asagida anlatilanlar ise gecen cuma ailesinin basina gelenlerdir.


AL-HAQ ALERT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

REF.: 6.2009E

17 January 2009



Impeding Medical Relief in the Gaza Strip: Israel's War Crimes against

the Injured

As a Palestinian organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is dismayed by the failure of Israeli occupying forces to allow medical assistance to thousands of stranded Palestinians who have been critically wounded in its attacks during "Operation Cast Lead" in the besieged Gaza Strip. The following is but one of hundreds of other ominous stories which describe the fate of wounded Palestinians. It highlights the callous disregard of the Israeli occupying forces for the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel's apparent contempt for its obligations under international humanitarian law. Incidents in which medical aid is denied to persons protected under international humanitarian law, such as that which follows, present prima facie cases of war crimes for which individuals should be held criminally responsible.


Summary of Facts


On Friday, 16 January 2009, between 1:00 and 1:30 pm, Mohammed Shurrab, 64 years of age, and two of his sons, Kassab and Ibrahim, aged 28 and 18, respectively, were returning by jeep from their agricultural land in al-Fukhara, approximately 500 metres away from the Israeli fence on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip. At a distance of 50 metres from their home, their jeep came under machine gun fire from Israeli occupying forces in the area. Mohammad was shot in the left arm and Ibrahim was shot in the leg. The elder son, Kassab, sustained a fatal bullet wound to the chest, dying after getting out of the car, running ten metres and falling. Mohammad and Ibrahim, continuing to bleed from their wounds, remained in their jeep for two hours and then, fearing for their safety, decided to move to another location, returning to the jeep after half an hour.

Mohammad contacted the media, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a number of NGOs via mobile phone in order to acquire medical assistance. Other agencies such as Physicians for Human Rights-Israel were also aware of the dire circumstances of the three and attempted on several occasions to negotiate their transport to a hospital. Israeli occupying forces denied medical relief agencies clearance to reach them until sometime between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday, 17 January 2009, almost 24 hours after Mohammad, Ibrahim and Kassab had been shot. Earlier that morning, Ibrahim had succumbed to his wound and died. Thus, Mohammad and the bodies of his two sons were transported by an ambulance to the Gaza European Hospital, located only 1.5 kilometres away from where they had come under attack.

The three were shot during a so-called "lull" in Israeli ground operations. A daily three-hour lull was agreed to by Israeli forces on Wednesday, 7 January 2009 and is meant to allow humanitarian relief to enter and be distributed in the Gaza Strip.


Legal Analysis


Under customary international humanitarian law, the wounded are protected persons and must receive, to the fullest extent practicable and with the least possible delay, the medical care and attention required by their conditions. Moreover, no distinction can be made among the wounded except on medical grounds. While the ICRC must seek permission from Israeli occupying forces in order to enter zones to care for and collect injured persons, such permission must not be denied arbitrarily. The problems reported by the ICRC in accessing Mohammad and Ibrahim along with other reports by the ICRC and other recognised medical relief agencies, in this and other cases, indicate a policy of arbitrarily denying medical care to protected persons.

The denial of medical treatment to protected persons is a war crime that may amount to the grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention of wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health. The disregard by Israeli occupying forces for the lives of Palestinians in instances where it denies medical access to them and death results may also amount to the grave breach of wilful killing. Grave breaches, as listed under Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, are the most serious infringements of the laws and customs of war.

The jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has confirmed that both the crime of wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health and the crime of wilful killing can be crimes of omission. In the case above, deaths were the foreseeable outcome of an omission – the non-provision of safe passage to medical personnel.

In interpreting the intent required to meet the threshold of "wilful," the Trial Chamber in the ICTY's Delalic case, held that "the necessary intent (…) is present where there is demonstrated an intention on the part of the accused to kill, or inflict serious injury in reckless disregard of human life." The intention to kill or cause great suffering or serious injury can, in the present case, be inferred from the fact that multiple agencies had informed Israeli occupying forces of the gravity of the injuries of the three and yet safe passage of medical transports was not granted.

Although not the case in this specific example, in addition to denial of access to the wounded, medical relief agencies are also widely reporting being fired upon by Israeli occupying forces, often in circumstances where time is of the essence due to the critical condition of the wounded. Under customary international humanitarian law, attacks on medical personnel, medical units and medical transports exclusively assigned to carry out medical functions are also prohibited.

In light of the clear emergence of a policy of impeding medical care to protected persons in the Gaza Strip, Al-Haq urges the following:



* The European Union (EU), as a major donor of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people, in addition to the individual member States of the EU, to pressure Israel for safe and unimpeded humanitarian access to all injured persons in the Gaza Strip; and
* The High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to take measures to ensure respect for the Fourth Geneva Convention under Article 1, and to hold perpetrators of grave breaches responsible under Article 146.


- Ends -

Al-Haq, PO Box 1413 - Ramallah, West Bank
Tel: +972 2 295 4646/9 Fax: +972 2 295 4903
media@alhaq.org - http://www.alhaq.org

Wear Sunscreen

Ben bu sarkiyi/konusmayi unutmustum. :) Facebook'ta yazilan notlar arasinda cevirisini okumaya baslayinca aa ben bunu biliyorum diyerekten tekrar dinledim. Hikayesi de aslinda ilginc. Yazmaya sanirim sabrim yetmeyecek; ama ilgilenenler olursa buradan ogrenebilirler.

Yeniden Siftah

Yazmayali kac ay oldu bilmiyorum. Aslinda bi onceki postun tarihine yazmaya baslamadan once bakabilirdim galiba ama yazmaya basladim bile o yuzden tahminen ben diyim 5 ay, yine ben diyim 6 ay. Bu kadar sure yazmadiktan sonra ilk yazdigim postun icerigi New York hakkinda olmaliydi gibi hissediyorum ama ilhamin ne zaman parmaklara vuracagi belli olmuyor - tuvalette degilim yanlis anlasilmasin. :P

Az once Richard Meier'in sunumundan ciktim. (Ohom evet, burada bayagi sansliyim, Meier gibi adamlar okuluma gelip sponsor istemeden konusmalar yapiyorlar.) Siir gibiydi. Tasarimda tek dogru, tek yaklasim, tek stil, tek anlayis yok. Iyi islerin ortak noktasi tutku. Ben hala islerimi sunarken ezilip buzuluyorum, guvensizligim bazen tavan yapiyor. Herkese kendini sevdirme zorunlulugu hissiyatindan olsa gerek, egosantrik cok bilmis tasarimcilar gibi konusamiyorum. Ama bunun alternatif tutumu bu degil. Ve aslinda isin sunum kismi da projendeki tutku katsayisinin buyuklugunun birebir gostergesi de degil. Yani aslinda verdigim yanlis bir ornek oldu bu noktada. Soylemek istedigim sey, bir isi begenmem icin o isin ayni benim yapacagim tarzda olmasi gerekmiyor. Ayni olmasina da zaten imkan yok. O ise saygi duyduran sey o isin tutarliligi, kararliligi, yapan kisinin isine bagliligi ve tutkusu. Butun bunlarin yaninda isinin ehli olmak da onemli tabi; ama kimse o noktadan baslamiyor sonucta.

Bu sunum galiba bir de kararsizligimi bana animsatti; guzel olan her seye nasil kolay vurulabildigimi. Ve sahip oldugum seyleri, bulundugum noktayi nasil sorgulamaya meyilli olusumu. Ic mimarlik guzel meslek. Benim meslegim. Ileride buyuk ihtimalle icra edecegim, hayatimi kazanacagim meslek. Ama kimi zaman arada kalmislik hissi uyandiriyor. Ne mimari gibi abidevi, ne de urun tasarimi kadar ele avuca sigar olcekte. Ne mimari kadar siirsel, ne de urun tasarimi kadar antropolojik. Ne mimari kadar gormus gecirmis ilginc hikayeleri bitmeyen bilge aile buyugu havasinda, ne de urun tasarimi kadar ergen devinimler icinde... Benzetmeler sacmalasir, liste de boyle gider galiba; ama bu benzetmelerle ic mimarinin ne olmadigini soylemis oluyorum. Ne oldugunu, olma potansiyeli oldugundan bahsetmiyorum. Ama bence meslek olarak kemiklesmek icin sagina soluna omuz atarak yer edinmeye calismak ya da baskalarinin ona ettigi zalimliklerden bahsedip durmak yerine kendini daha iyi tanimlamaya, yetenekli ic mimar ev hanimlarimizi uzmeden entellektuellesmeye, kendi teorilerini gelistirmeye ihtiyaci var.

Ne olursa olsun, iyi yapilan is takdir edilir. Kimse gormese bile en azindan yapanin icine siner. Kendim icin, ne yaparsam yapayim yapacagim islere her zaman inanmayi diliyorum. Ben inanmazsam kimse inanmaz.

Herkes icinse dunya barisi.
Peace. :)

SARS virüsü X Sanat

Eye of Science'ta dolaşırken gördüm; bunlar 2002'de Çin'de patlak veren SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virüsünün elektron mikroskopuyla 24000, 70000, ve 120000 kere büyütülmüş görüntüleri. Tamam, korkunç bir hastalık olabilir, ölümcül olabilir; ama ben bu görüntüleri sanat galerisinde sergilesek yalandan bir isimle, çağdaş resimle uğraşan birçok insanın verdiği ürünlerle yarışabileceğini, milleti kandırabileceğini düşünüyorum. Gayet duvarıma asarım ben bunları, pek güzelmiş. :)

Özlem Paker