textile

I found this blog about textile patterns.
thetextileblog

i had to remove, for the too many spam comments.

3d Tshirts

Tshirts made of 3d meshes.
Looks like we can wear/ carry our environment with us.
http://the-t-shirt-issue.com

TEXTURES

I found a good site as image source for materials.
http://www.highresolutiontextures.com.

only stairs

a blog about only stairs.
http://www.stairporn.org

TURKISH GOVERNMENT FORBID ALL BLOG SITES

Sınce 24th october, all the blog sites has been censored in Turkey. As they did to youtube, youporn whatever youX.
how they do that and why they didnt announce this censorship to public(or i just missed that!)
i found my blog non accessible with a caution note from government.

Aino Kannisto

agustin is surfing

Since a long time agustin is surfing in my mind. with his hitting sentences: remember always who you are!
and he was pointing out that guy who, agustin thinks, wanted to be a rock star and couldnt! and ended up being a regular guy who is dj and having that fabulous david bowie hairs.
why i cant stop thinking of what he said???

bill viola

Video art called: the raft.
artist: Bill Viola

arne quinze/burning man

This is a huge structure by Arne Quinze. They call it "Uchronia". I prefer spaceship or even monster is better. It is a fantastic show project.
They built this monster in Nevada, middle of the desert and than make couple of exclusive party nights and at the end burned it.

The size of the structure is 30x60 by 15m height. For construction 1.2x3m wooden sticks used, totally amount is 150 km long. The installation completed in 3 weeks with 25 people. After construction they made 7days&nights party. Final is burning it. Fantastic end of a such a structure. How many designers or architects would burn a monumental structure after realizing it?

You can see more pics of the project on Quinze and Milan website. (Under the studio-2006.)

photos by Thierry van Dort

ps: !Dont worry they plant trees for the woods they used in the project!

Prague Biennale 3

www.praguebiennale.org

NON-teachables

Skateboarding, street dance, graffiti...
Urban creates the non-teachable stuff. You can start it with trying it, learning and practice is synchronized, as it was before. Before the professions and schools appears on earth.


taşrada kaykaya binilmez!
English translation is -no skateboard in countryside-. But it doesnt give the same sense as i type in turkish.

Açık Kütüphane/Open Library

I wrote before that Superpool was designing Acik Kutuphane project for Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Space.

Now the project completed and it is < online > in real.

Modernism: Designing a new world

Exhibition at Corcoran Museum in Washington.

Peeping digital

Why we have digital peeping tools?
on msn or on skype,invisible moods for peeping our private public medium.

When we dont want to be seen around or dont want to talk with people, we are invisible or offline. But we still keep one eye on whats up there, who are there. I m most of time appear "away" or "offline" and actually i m online. This doesnt come to me weird or ashamed.

What kind of space is that? We can be visible, invisible, invisible and talking etc. All kind of cross possibilities available, sometimes better than real life. We have gaps that we can escape from any unwanted situation. Any annoying social traditions or manners. Specially moral manners.

Are we freed from boring social kindless rules?

Respect to Architects:Nike Air Max Story

The designer of the Air Max shoes Tinker Hatfield which is an architect originally, tells the story of air max.

He was inspired by Centre Pompidou in Paris that all the technical components and infrastructural elements of the building was visible from outside. He designed the Air Max cushion visible from outside and colored like the colorful pipes in Pompidou.
He thought making the airbags visible would help people to understand the air technology better. Also they were increasing the volume of airbags and the space it needs was getting larger, so they let it free.

Tinker Hatfield starts at Nike in 1981 as an architect and first years he designs new stores for Nike. Then company asks him to design shoes. Some of the Air Jordan series (3,4,15,20) and world's first cross training shoes "air trainer" belongs to him.

Czech Republic official website logo

I like the new Czech Republic logo which is result of a competition. This colorful callouts(talking balloons) reflect the fresh vision of the country. I've been in Prague since last august, i see here that people has many things to tell others. They want to talk and express themselves. For a long time communist regime was here and it took the freedom of the people, cut the connections with out world. Now they want to connect to rest of the world again. They want to collaborate with foreign countries they want to make exchanges. The new logo is a result of this feelings, talking balloons in different colors. The design and content of the site is informative,friendly. Easy to approach and open to world. Like Czech people, they are relax and easy to communicate.
Design belongs to Side2 studio. Here an interview with designers about the logo.


note: You can figure out what u have in common with Czechs here:
what we share with...

Prague National Library/ holly Bilbao Effect

These days Prague is talking the result of the National Library Competition. The winner project is by Jan Kaplicky as we know Future Systems. It is kind of alien like building looking like a cartoon creature from the model. Although most people things it is like a joke and non-sense i like it. Here people(mostly from architecture field) are waiting for an explanation from the Kaplicky about the logic behind the design. Another thing around is that this could be result of the competition but it doesnt have to be realized. Commision can be given to another architect and project.

Somedays ago in Contemporary Architecture lesson we were discussing about this competition and the result. Jan Kaplicky is is the most famous Czech architect around the world. I think he is the only international famous Czech architect. He is 70 years old and doesnt have a project yet in the Czech Rebuplic. He wants to do stg for the Czech people and for his own country. Probably thats why he got the first prize/which means almost commision for this "national" library. Lecturer told us thatKaplicky's project was not matching the competition rules and supposed to be eliminated at first step. Because Kaplicky put the archive underground, instead of above ground as demanded. Another fact the lecturer told is Czech Republic wants to increase the tourism income and they think having an interesting library building will be a solution, like Bilbao Effect.

I m pretty suspicious about this solution, yes it worked out for Bilbao: a small city+ a star architect+ a haute couter building. This was in 1997, 10 years ago. Today we criticize about star architects and globalized star projects. In the last years many fantastic buildings produced by "star" architect that were interesting as a form and as production methods. About Bilboa Museum fantastic thing was how it was possible to build such a building/the usage of computer programs in realizing architecture.

This is not a formul that will be a solution for similiar problems. Bilboa was a unique example for that period of the world, architecture and for that spot.

Here another link about project, and comments on it
http://www.archiweb.cz/news.php?action=show&type=1&id=3030&

Açık Kütüphane/Open Library

Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi için hazırlanmış bir proje. Uzun zamandır galerinin aşağılara Bankalar Caddesi'ne yerleşeceği söyleniyordu. Sanırım bu proje Platform'un taşınmasından sonra gerçekleştirilecek.
Açık Kütüphane projenin mottosu. Mekana sadece kütüphane eklenmiyor, aynı zamanda halka açık bir eventspace halini alıyor.

Platform İstanbul'un en aktif paylaşım merkezi. Bu mekanda takınılacak tavır kentteki kültürel üretimi de etkileyecek. Şehir efsanesi haline gelen özellikle de Vasıf Kortun'un övündüğü Platform'un arşivi bu projeyle daha erişilebilir olacak.

Projeyi yapan ofis Superpool, çok yeni bir ofis. Kurucuları Rem Koolhas ile birlikte çalışmış genç insanlar. Bu projeyi yapacak olmaları beni içten içe sevindiriyor. Projenin nasıl onlara verildiğini bilmiyorum ama Vasıf Kortun'un tercihidir sanırım.

İstanbul'daki mimarlık ortamı o kadar kapalı ve çaresiz ki iyi ya da ses getirecek ya da kent için önemli projeler her zaman belirli mimarlar tarafından gerçekleştiriliyor. Platform'un projesini genç bir ekibin hazırlaması umarım diğer işverenlere örnek olur. Platform blog'ta projenin geçici olduğu yazıyor, yani Açık Kütüphane ara bir proje. Kalıcı olarak düşünülen başka bir proje var mı acaba? (kalıcı ne demekse)

Christopher Herwing

Christopher Herwing is a Canadian photographer, lives and travels around central Asia. He doesnt narrow down subjects that he photographs. I like this bus stops serie.

again Hayko

I want to write again about Hayko Cepkin. I listen his music times to times, not as often as last weeks. I slowly feel the lyrics that are magic, intimate and deep. I believe once he had the feelings he is singing now.
The album is a road album, in a car or bus for long journey. I can see how the roads passes and frame flows back.
I hope his upcoming album will be as good as this first one: sakin olmam lazim/
i have to be calm.

LEAVING HOME

Yesterday i watch the movie HOURS*, film about Virginia Woolf and her book Mrs.Dalloway. 3 different story takes place in different periods and at the end of movie stories are connected together.

Leaving your given life, leaving your home: You are at the point 0 and can create everything from zero. How magic it is!

In the film Julianne Moore was trying to leave her home/life.
While so many things connected to you or you're connected to so many thing how we can disappear? and how we can appear into a new life/network?

This brings me to the research i did about street sellers in istanbul/tesvikiye: How the street sellers can appear on a spot one day and stays there for 10 or 15 years.
***

*Film musics are by Philip Glass.

Future of the Cities

new serie of Birkhauser

It is surprising to see that Birkhauser is publishing such a serie. Although book titles sounds very technical how they approach to content is contemporary and simple. The content is updated and arranged according to changing representation tools and visual language. Thats the main point that differentiate this serie from others.
But it is disappointing how publishers promote the serie. They announce as it is only practicle books that you should have to realize your project: "the key to your architecture degree"!

Hayko Cepkin

Since the last summer i was hearing his name and saw many concert posters around the city in Istanbul. First time i listened hayko cepkin 2 days ago, on the way to airport my friend played it in the car. He has a very strong impression, you can feel the power in his voice. His appearence also very powerful, kind of bowie&jay jay mixture. Thanks to Soner, he gave me the album when i was leaving istanbul. I like also his comment on Hayko, arabesq rock. Exactly, this is one of the hybrid sounds from our culture.

Interchange Tiles

One artist(Jess Giffin) and one industrial designer(Jim Termeer) from Kansas City designed ceramic tiles inspired from the highway interchanges of the big cities, design date is 2004. They have Istanbul, Vienna, Barcelona, Tokyo, Las Vegas, Prague, Birmingham highways on the tiles.
giffintermeer

Teach The Machine: The Machine is Us/ing Us

It is a video about the digital text. How the new medias change our perception of text and how we transform it. Sebastian told me about it, video is from this site: www.feldnotizen.twoday.net

EDIT:17.03.2007 I have to add here more information about this video. It is made by Michael Welsch, he is an assistant professor at Kansas State University in Cultural Anthropology department. He put this video on YoUtube January 31st 2007, on february 7th it became most popular video . He established Digital Ethnography group in KSU and make researches on impacts of the digital technology on human interactions.

communication 3

this is the work i did for visual design lesson. A destroyed communication, destroying the vibrations, waves, air.

pink

Toilets in Friendly Allien (Kuntshaus Graz) building. The colors are so poetic.

Villa Tugenhat Laundry

Villa Tugenhat by Mies van der Rohe, in Brno.


The villa will close and go under a restoration for 5 years long. We visited it with proffesor Slapeta. They showed us technical rooms of the villa which is not open to public. This room was used for laundry, and it seems still being used for it.

communication 2

achitecture model by BIG.dk

life in booth

poliklinik at CTU kampus, Praha 2006

80's celebrity

image from: artshole.co.uk

80's now history:
lets celebrate it!


80's everywhere and we just celebrate that it is now history.
Than we will celebrate having 90's in the history.
We already talk about 2000's days.
Folding the time, we fold so fast.

i.d

diving

diving:into:dense culture

* S * T * A * R*

who are the stars of today common people?

where is my heros?

micro macro

who owns streets

streets-life goes on streets-space-users of space

and architecture?

multiplicity:

how to catch?!

i cant find my way,
i become blind.

Connected

connected to network: online

present-REpresent

IF :digital media is a virtual reallty. Things are real there aswell, than:
question: gregg lynn and bernard cache, does really present stg in digital media
without REpresent-ing?
answer : yes.
Is it?



http://www.glform.com/

perceptual & conceptual

architecture is a belly dancer between this too?

toy man

the haircut

the fish on my plate

i realized the fish lying on my plate, since then it is an animal.

1. realizing(being aware of it)
2. trying to forget
3. the world has changed since then.



now,
tell me how you wash your hands with soap?

Sabitçiler*/ fixed ones

*Kentte mekanını sabitleyen seyyarlar.

The fixed mobile sellers in the city.
This will be my homework.

My sunday

my sunday sanks...

Everthing Moves: Even banana*

Nothing has a fixed place and nothing is upto the its place.
Relations is the main, when the necessarry relations are created
everything is possible.



*in the lesson, contemporary world architecture, bulent was telling us...

crazy: do i have to live my dreams in photoshop?

now we are separeted: me you and anybody we know is apart from the dreams...

I want my photoshop...
I need my photoshop...