Showing posts with label Identity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Identity. Show all posts

The music that we lost...

May 06, 2020
Which is also the America that we lost... Because regardless of whether we ourselves were Americans or not, the music was ours. We lost the music. They bid their silent adieus and gracefully vanished into the night. So gently, s…
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Isn't it my job to fret?

April 26, 2020
My nearest and dearest appear to be worried about me. "What difference does it make if you fret like this?" "You cannot change anything, so why not try to be 'more normal' about all of this?" These ar…
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Üsküdar

August 16, 2019
I have been working on the Istanbul Facebook page quite diligently. However, so far I have not really ventured much outside of my own hood, BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, where God knows there is enough material to fill not only one but many Faceboo…
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BeÅŸiktaÅŸ

July 23, 2019
I am not terribly patriotic when I think about Turkey as a whole. Sure I want the country to be OK. Sure, I want it to get out from under this yoke of oppression and tyranny - which I am fairly confident that it will, sooner or …
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My city is Istanbul

July 19, 2019
I may have found a way to put my street photos to some use. Not in terms of creativity, or design. I still have no ambitions or confidence in that regard. But there is something else that has been bugging me for ages, and there …
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The Selfie

July 04, 2019
Whenever I see a photo of myself taken by someone else I have a massive shock. This isn't something new, or something that is age related. Obviously I no longer look as good as I used to, and I wouldn't expect to come ac…
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Reasons for staying around

September 10, 2012
Animals are a good reason to stick around. And then I like walking in the streets and sitting in cafes, I guess. Watching the animal-loving population of my city, I really like to do that. Crossing the Bosporus is nice. Buying n…
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Is the Internet making us crazy?

August 07, 2012
I came across this on facebook (of all addictive places!) thanks to an old friend of mine, Nazif TopçuoÄŸlu, who posted it there. And yes - I too think that online social networks and domains are wreaking havoc on our psyches. An…
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Smoking...

February 12, 2012
During my last trip I bought very little, which is not really usual behavior for me, normally I go crazy shopping whenever I travel (or when I am at home, for that matter...). A lighter is one of the few things which I brought b…
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No Trust

May 08, 2010
I am sitting here and thinking: How many people do I know that I can trust? In the true sense of the word? Who, in their turn, trust me and would therefore stick up for me and stand by me, no matter what? Answer: One. The Boss .
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continued...

December 12, 2009
I do not know how many people read this blog. To judge by what the wordpress stats give me, not too many at all. 12 today. 5 yesterday, none the few days before that, then 4 and so on. But recently I found out that I do not see …
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Something

November 27, 2009
I have been taking photos of the Annex and posting them on Flickr . Venk's photos have finally shamed me into doing it, which meant spending some time there, of course.
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Was it the t-shirt?!?

October 26, 2009
Grapho is the one who created all the avatars for Burning Life. They really do fall into his domain of expertise: They are dark, textured, evocative of unconscious things. So, he has been spending a lot of time in-world lately. …
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My Pantheon

September 15, 2009
I have been thinking about The Beatles . Small wonder, since I have been listening to them pretty much on a loop during my entire trip last week.
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My many designer person(a)s

January 15, 2009
Once the alts start interacting within a parameter, such as a joint design venture, it really all starts to happen. No longer are they lost and disjointed entities wandering the grid but suddenly they are, in fact, the diverse p…
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