For no particular reason, I’ve taken a recent interest in the interior design of homes. Not designing interiors myself, you understand— just appreciating good home design as an art form, the home as an installation piece. I love it when people make their living spaces beautiful.

The parade for the closing day of the annual Golden Orange Film Festival, the largest and most important film festival in Turkey.

There were a lot of celebrities there, but my favourite part was the silver people. So dreamy.

Sometimes I forget how nice-looking some of our bridges are.

Yes, thinking of autumn, of course.

I have always loved these fountains at the Republic Square, and especially the peacock art installation. The best part is that the peacocks are moveable, so every once in a while they get moved into a different configuration.

While wandering through the old town last week, I happened upon an art class in progress, and was invited inside to take pictures.

Gently backlit window + glass table + beaded candleholders = yes.

Last week I was invited to participate in a photo project by Wrong Studio entitled Mediterranean Quilt. The ideas is for photographers living in seaside cities and towns in the 23 countries all along the Mediterranean coast to send in four “patches” (i.e. four square photographs) to contribute to the quilt. The project is open to anyone living on the Med, and the deadline for submissions isn’t until April, so there’s plenty of time for you to get something together and submit it. I put my submission in a couple of days ago and I’m pretty excited to see how this project turns out. Link

Great photo, right? Except it’s not. It’s a painting. As in oil on canvas.

Check out the work of Gregory Thielker, it’s well worth your time.

IMAGINE PEACE
TUFIKIRIENI AMANI
平和な世界を想像してごらん
HUGSA SÉR FRIÐ
평화를 꿈꾸자
BARIŞI DÜŞLE
想像和平
رویای صلح
احلم سلام
ILARAWAN ANG MUNDONG MAPAYAPA
חלום שלום
சமாதானத்தை நினையுங்கள்
ПРЕДСТАВЬТЕ СЕБЕ МИР
KÉPZELD EL A BÉKÉT
शािन्त की कल्पना करें
KUVITTELE RAUHA
STELL DIR VOR ES IST FRIEDEN
წარძოიდგინეთ ძშკიდობა
IMMAGINA LA PACE
ཞི་བ་སྒོམས་
IMAGINEZ LA PAIX
IMAGINA A PAZ
IMAGINA LA PAZ
ᓴᐃᒪᖃᑎᒌᑦᑕ

A single message engraved in 24 languages on the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik. Yoko Ono will be re-lighting the tower on Saturday, 9 October in honour of John Lennon’s 70th birthday. The ceremony will be broadcast live on the Imagine Peace Tower web site, be there or be square.

For those who aren’t familiar with the Tower, here’s a short mini-documentary explaining how it all came about:

I know you people love free stuff, as do I, and I know you love books as well, so here you have the chance to get the best of both worlds: a free book! As you’re already aware, I’m totally into independent creative endeavours no matter what the medium, and because of where I live, getting paper books in English can often be a challenge.

Memoirs of an Antihero was brought to my attention last week, so of course I had to download it. I’m just getting started on it, but so far I’m finding it amazingly well-written. It’s not particularly reminiscent of anything (Blank seems to have quite a distinct style), but I’d say that if you like the artistry and raw power of Palahniuk, you and Memoirs of an Antihero will get along well. I’m enjoying it greatly. Link