Poisoned Century
Poison is a metaphor for immortal love in Rome and Juliet and for perfidious murder and betrayal in Hamlet- Prince of Denmark.
Strolling the 14th Art Biennial Istanbul
The Video “Sad Waltz and the Dancer who couldn’t dance” by Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller is really moving. A sad melody seems to conduct the dance of a computer-directed Marionette.
Kırkpınar Yağlı Güreş Festivalı
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Yağlı güreş geleneksel bir Türk sporudur. Güreşçiler vucutlarına yağ sürerek güreştikleri için bu şekilde adlandırılır.
Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling
The 654th Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Festival in the northwestern border city of Edirne attracted a record number of visitors this year. Edirne Mayor Recep Gürkan said that this year, a total of 1,923 wrestlers were registered at the event, setting a record. The annual tournament, which began Friday, is the oldest sanctioned sporting competition in the world and has been held in the same place since 1362.
Reflections on the Future
Seeing the future as a project: The Long Now Foundation aims at developping a new way of thinking about our time and future. Opposing the current cultural mainstream that depicts our future’s environment as devastated and non-livable and the people as lonely and ruled by technology, the Foundation offers a more optimistic suggestions for seeing the time that will come. Basically it is the suggestion to start thinking about it at all – not in terms of short periods as modern democracies’ elections are structured but in really long runs.