hapşuu: Terunobu Fujimori

http://evrimkavcar.blogspot.com/2009/03/vernacular-architecture-takasugi-by.html

sewt, tears, or the salt sea / ter, gözyaşı ya da tuz denizi

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Turkey/Central_Anatolia/Aksaray/photo849822.htm

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Do you know a cure for me?

"Why yes", he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water? "I asked him.

"Yes", he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea."

karen blixen: seven gothic tales

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this one was for Sibel Diker, lovely artist living in istanbul at the moment. we were exchanging emails about this exhibit we will put up soon...

and she shared some ideas that got me inspired! she is onto a very strong thing. and so again a series of connections and i come across the quote above.

sweat, tears or the salt sea.

i swim in my dreams. i do not remember. still i have a feeling that i swim in my dreams.

star gazer, daydrifter... shapeshifterNightGAzer... nightDrifter... yes coming up with new self-expressions

re-born in vienna.

i believe so.

Courage is indispensible / russian dance revisited

Hannah Arendt at the University of Chicago, undated.

Courtesy of the Hannah Arendt Trust.

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"Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake."
between past and future; arendt

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documentary / the filmmakler's view / how it comes through the unseen, the invisible

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"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."
-hannah arendt

TITLE: The Specialist (Un Spécialiste) Portrait of a Modern Criminal

YEAR: 1999
DIR/PROD: Eyal Sivan
COUNTRY: France/Israel
LANGUAGE: Hebrew and German with English ST
TIME: 128 minutes

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Tom Waits' "Russian Dance" is played over the closing credits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypH_fNDdKio

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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

hannah arendt

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"Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."
from the HUMAN CONDITION