TRANSMISSION

Türkiye’de vegan olmak yalnızlıktır

2011-11-14T11:18:00.001+02:00

(Geçen ay Yeşilist için yazdığım yazıyı aşağıda paylaşıyorum.)

http://blog.yesilist.com/turkiyede-vegan-olmak-yalnizliktir/

Yaşam tarzı olarak vegan olmayı seçtiyseniz, üç farklı tepkiyle karşılaşırsınız. Birinci gruptakiler, bu kelimeyi daha önce hiç duymamış olanlardır. “O ne demek?” diye hayretle bakarlar yüzünüze. Gencinden yaşlısına hemen her ülkeden insanın gösterebileceği tepkilerden birisi bu.

Daha çok “vejetaryen” kavramına alışkın olduklarından, ikisini aynı sanan da olur. Vejetaryenlerin sadece et yemediğini; veganların ise, hayvansal hiçbir ürünü yemediğini ve bununla kalmayıp hayvanlardan elde edilen veya üzerlerinde denenen hiçbir ürünü de giymeyip kullanmadıklarını söylersiniz.

Hemen ardından “Neden?! Hadi eti anlıyorum ama mesela neden süt içmiyorsun?” şeklindeki ikinci soru gelir. “Bu bir düşünsel/felsefi eğilimin gereği olarak oluşan yaşam tarzıdır. Hayvanları insanların ihtiyaçları için yaratılan birer meta olarak değerlendiren görüşü reddediyorum. Sonuçta hayvanın kendi yavrusuna vermesi gereken süte el koyuluyor. Fabrikasyon üretimde mutlaka hayvana zulüm söz konusu” dersiniz. Kimisi sessiz kalır, kimisi “Çok garipmiş” der.

Bununla kalsa iyi. İkinci gruptakiler, daha sert tepki verenlerdir. Veganizm hakkında bir şeyler duymuşlardır ama tam bilgileri olmasa da şiddetle karşı gelirler. “Bu yanlış! Et yemek doğaldır. B12 vitaminini nereden karşılayacaksınız? Böyle gereksiz şeyler de moda oluyor!” deyip çıkarlar. Araştırmalarla ortaya konan gerçeklerden, ilk insanların vejetaryen olduğundan, bilinçli bir beslenmeyle B12 konusunda önlem alınabileceğinden söz edersiniz ama boşunadır; o sizi “garip bir yaratık, bir uzaylı” olarak değerlendirmiştir kafasında...

Sayıları az olsa da, “Çok zor olsa gerek. Saygı duyuyorum” diyen bir üçüncü grup da var. Türkiye de her üç insan tipiyle de karşılaşmak olanaklı. Bana göre vegan olmanın en zor yanı, bir topluma girdiğinizde bu tercihinizin nedenini açıklamak zorunda kalmanız. Ben bundan kaçınmak amacıyla, “Neden vegansın?” dendiğinde, konuşmanın uzamaması için kısaca “Etik nedenlerle” diyorum. Çünkü ben kendi argümanlarımı açıklamaya başlarsam, ister istemez karşımdakini tercihinden dolayı yargılıyormuşum duygusuna kapılıyorum ve bunu yapmak istemiyorum.

Elbette bana göre ideal bir dünyada herkes vegan olurdu. Ama içinde yaşadığımız dünya birçok açıdan berbat durumda; ideal olmaktan çok uzak. O nedenle her fırsatta hayvan haklarını savunsam da, benim kendi yaşam tarzımı başkalarına dayatma gibi bir tavrım olamaz. Herkesin yaşayacağı tek bir hayatı var ve onu kendi düşünceleri, duyguları, vicdanı doğrultusunda kurgulayacaktır.

Sık sık “Yabancı bir ülkede vegan olmakla Türkiye’de vegan olmak arasında ne fark var?” sorusuyla da karşılaşırım. Ben hayatımın bir dönemini New York’ta yaşadım. “Vegan Cenneti” derim ben oraya. Çünkü çok sayıda vegan restoranı, doğal ürünler satan mağazaları ve bu konuda bilinçli bir halkı olduğu için, orada kendimi daha iyi hissederim.

Ama Türkiye’de yaşayan bir vegansanız, azınlık olmanın ne demek olduğunu iyi tecrübe edebilirsiniz. İstanbul gibi dünyanın en büyük metropol kentlerinden birinde vegan restoranı yok. Geçenlerde bir dergi, anket tarzı bir röportaj yaptı benimle. “Bu yıl en çok hangi restoranda yediniz?” diye sordular. En çok evde yemek yedim ben. Sokaktayken karnım acıktığında yemek yiyebileceğim restoran sayısı çok az. Yemeklerin içine mutlaka hayvansal bir ürün katılıyor ya da garsonlar bu konuda çok bilgisiz olduğu için sağlıklı bilgi veremiyor.

Kısa bir süre önce başıma şöyle bir olay geldi. Sağlıklı ve hafif yemekler sunduğunu söyleyen bir restorana gittim. Menüde benim yiyebileceğim bir şey olmadığı için, garsona, salatayı keçi peyniri olmadan yapabilirler mi diye sordum. “O şekliyle tavsiye ederim!” dedi. “Hayvansal ürün yemiyorum” diye yanıtlayınca, “Ama o peynir üç ay bekletiliyor” dedi. İnsanların bu konudaki bilgisizliğine iyi bir örnekti. Bir keresinde de restoran sahibi kadın, “Sen buraya sık gel; ben seni iyileştiririm” dedi üzüntüyle. Benim hasta olduğuma karar vermişti...

Bir veganın yaşayabileceği en büyük sorun, aslında yemek değil; üzerinde deri olmayan ayakkabı bulmak. Bir ayakkabı beğenir, umutsuzca tezgahtara yaklaşırsınız ve aranızda şu konuşma geçer:

Vegan: Bu deriden mi yapılmış?

Tezgahtar: Evet, elbette! Hem de kanguru derisi!

Vegan: Ben deri olmayan ayakkabı arıyorum. Var mı sizde?

Tezgahtar: Bizde her şey hakiki deri. Neden deri istemiyorsunuz ki?

Vegan: Ben veganım, hayvansal ürün kullanmıyorum.

Tezgahtar: O ne? Bir hastalık mı, alerji filan mı var?

Vegan: İyi günler...

Bu örneklerin de ortaya koyduğu gibi, Türkiye’de veganlık dolayısıyla değil, daha çok insanların bu konudaki bilgisizliğinden sıkıntı çekiyorum. Bir şekilde yiyecek buluyorsunuz ama bu tercihim nedeniyle yargılanmak üzücü oluyor. Ben yanımdaki insanların tercihine karışmazken, onlar sürekli benim neden onlar gibi olmadığımı sorguluyor. Bu yüzden yemeklere davet edilmiyor, dışlanıyorsunuz. Hep yalnız geziyor, hep yalnız yiyorsunuz.

Yalnızlıktan sıkılan bir insan olmadığımdan benim için sorun yok. Ama “Türkiye’de vegan olmak” üzerine bir yazı yazıyorsam, bunu belirtmek durumundayım. Şiddeti ve zulmü tümüyle hayatından çıkarmak isteyen; hayvanların yaşam hakkına saygı duyan ve bu nedenle de uçan, koşan, yürüyen, yüzen, gözleri ve bir annesi olan hiçbir canlıyı yemem diyen barışçıl bir insan olsanız da, genel tercihin dışındaysanız, yalnız kalırsınız.

“Acaba Türkiye’deki tek vegan ben miyim?” diye düşündüğüm çok olmuştur. Bu gibi durumlarda çok önemli bir soruyu kendinize sorup tercihinizi tekrar net şekilde ortaya koyarsanız, yalnızlığı da aşarsınız: “Yalnızlık mı, vicdan huzursuzluğu mu?”

Zülal Kalkandelen

The best thing I've seen on the Internet today.

2011-10-17T15:27:00.002+03:00

I do love sea horses very much and New Scientist is the best magazine in the world!
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/sea-portraits

Spotted seahorse

The common seahorse (Hippocampus kuda) is a strange hodgepodge of characters, from the top of its equine head to the tip of its prehensile tail. But its unusual appearance is as nothing compared with its unique approach to breeding: famously, in seahorses, pipefishes and sea dragons it is the male of the species that carries the pregnancy.

The female uses her ovipositor to inject eggs into a pouch on the male's belly, where they are fertilised and grow into tiny replicas of adults over the course of three to four weeks. (Source: New Scientist)

weightless cats

2011-08-02T21:00:00.000+03:00

Human spaceflight rests on the shoulders of kitties. Before shooting humans into space, NASA and the U.S. Air Force tested the low-gravity waters with smaller mammals, birds and insects. The propaganda videos of the time claimed the animal astronauts were ushering in "a new era -- not a Buck Rogers era in a science fiction world, but an age having its foundations in research." That may be true. But the resulting videos of these hapless creatures, which range from hilarious to disturbing, seem to best answer the question, "How does a creature that doesn't understand gravity respond to its absence?"

Cat Can Has Gravity?
Cats only land on their feet when they know which way is down. Researchers at the Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio sent cats flying in a C-131 jet on a trajectory that gave them 15 seconds of weightlessness. This footage is from an Air Force film called Bioastronautics Research.

(via Wired)

How animals made us human

2011-05-31T20:17:00.003+03:00

Very interesting article from New Scientist's new issue (Issue Number 2814)
Written by Pat Shipman who is adjunct professor of biological anthropology at Penn State University.
Her book The Animal Connection: A new perspective on what makes us human is published by W. W. Norton & Company on 13 June
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Our bond with animals goes far deeper than food and companionship: it drove our ancestors to develop tools and language

TRAVEL almost anywhere in the world and you will see something so common that it may not even catch your attention. Wherever there are people, there are animals: animals being walked, herded, fed, watered, bathed, brushed or cuddled. Many, such as dogs, cats and sheep, are domesticated but you will also find people living alongside wild and exotic creatures such as monkeys, wolves and binturongs. Close contact with animals is not confined to one particular culture, geographic region or ethnic group. It is a universal human trait, which suggests that our desire to be with animals is deeply embedded and very ancient.

On the face of it this makes little sense. In the wild, no other mammal adopts individuals from another species; badgers do not tend hares, deer do not nurture baby squirrels, lions do not care for giraffes. And there is a good reason why. Since the ultimate prize in evolution is perpetuating your genes in your offspring and their offspring, caring for an individual from another species is counterproductive and detrimental to your success. Every mouthful of food you give it, every bit of energy you expend keeping it warm (or cool) and safe, is food and energy that does not go to your own kin. Even if pets offer unconditional love, friendship, physical affection and joy, that cannot explain why or how our bond with other species arose in the first place. Who would bring a ferocious predator such a wolf into their home in the hope that thousands of years later it would become a loving family pet?

I am fascinated by this puzzle and as a palaeoanthropologist have tried to understand it by looking to the deep past for the origins of our intimate link with animals. What I found was a long trail, an evolutionary trajectory that I call the animal connection. What's more, this trail links to three of the most important developments in human evolution: tool-making, language and domestication. If I am correct, our affinity with other species is no mere curiosity. Instead, the animal connection is a hugely significant force that has shaped us and been instrumental in our global spread and success in the world.

The trail begins at least 2.6 million years ago. That is when the first flaked stone tools appear in the archaeological record, at Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia (Nature, vol 385, p 333). Inventing stone tools is no trivial task. It requires the major intellectual breakthrough of understanding that the apparent properties of an object can be altered. But the prize was great. Those earliest flakes are found in conjunction with fossilised animal bones, some of which bear cut marks. It would appear that from the start our ancestors were using tools to gain access to animal carcasses. Up until then, they had been largely vegetarian, upright apes. Now, instead of evolving the features that make carnivores effective hunters - such as swift locomotion, grasping claws, sharp teeth, great bodily strength and improved senses for hunting - our ancestors created their own adaptation by learning how to turn heavy, blunt stones into small, sharp items equivalent to razor blades and knives. In other words, early humans devised an evolutionary shortcut to becoming a predator.

That had many consequences. On the plus side, eating more highly nutritious meat and fat was a prerequisite to the increase in relative brain size that marks the human lineage. Since meat tends to come in larger packages than leaves, fruits or roots, meat-eaters can spend less time finding and eating food and more on activities such as learning, social interaction, observation of others and inventing more tools. On the minus side, though, preying on animals put our ancestors into direct competition with the other predators that shared their ecosystem. To get the upper hand, they needed more than just tools and that, I believe, is where the animal connection comes in.

Two and a half million years ago, there were 11 true carnivores in Africa. These were the ancestors of today's lions, cheetahs, leopards and three types of hyena, together with five now extinct species: a long-legged hyena, a wolf-like canid, two sabretooth cats and a "false" sabretooth cat. All but three of these outweighed early humans, so hanging around dead animals would have been a very risky business. The new predator on the savannah would have encountered ferocious competition for prizes such as freshly killed antelope. Still, by 1.7 million years ago, two carnivore species were extinct - perhaps because of the intense competition - and our ancestor had increased enough in size that it outweighed all but four of the remaining carnivores.

Why did our lineage survive when true carnivores were going extinct? Working in social groups certainly helped, but hyenas and lions do the same. Having tools enabled early humans to remove a piece of a dead carcass quickly and take it to safety, too. But I suspect that, above all, the behavioural adaptation that made it possible for our ancestors to compete successfully with true carnivores was the ability to pay very close attention to the habits of both potential prey and potential competitors. Knowledge was power, so we acquired a deep understanding of the minds of other animals.

Out of Africa

Another significant consequence of becoming more predatory was a pressing need to live at lower densities. Prey species are common and often live in large herds. Predators are not, and do not, because they require large territories in which to hunt or they soon exhaust their food supply. The record of the geographic distribution of our ancestors provides more support for my idea that the animal connection has shaped our evolution. From the first appearance of our lineage 6 or 7 million years ago until perhaps 2 million years ago, all hominins were in Africa and nowhere else. Then early humans underwent a dramatic territorial expansion, forced by the demands of their new way of living. They spread out of Africa into Eurasia with remarkable speed, arriving as far east as Indonesia and probably China by about 1.8 million years ago. This was no intentional migration but simply a gradual expansion into new hunting grounds. First, an insight into the minds of other species had secured our success as predators, now that success had driven our expansion across Eurasia.

Throughout the period of these enormous changes in the lifestyle and ecology of our ancestors, gathering, recording and sharing knowledge became more and more advantageous. And the most crucial topic about which our ancestors amassed and exchanged information was animals.

How do I know this? No words or language remain from that time, so I cannot look for them. I can, however, look for symbols - since words are essentially symbolic - and that takes me to the wealth of prehistoric art that appears in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, starting about 50,000 years ago. Prehistoric art allows us to eavesdrop on the conversations of our ancestors and see the topic of discussion: animals, their colours, shapes, habits, postures, locomotion and social habits. This focus is even more striking when you consider what else might have been depicted. Pictures of people, social interactions and ceremonies are rare. Plants, water sources and geographic features are even scarcer, though they must have been key to survival. There are no images showing how to build shelters, make fires or create tools. Animal information mattered more than all of these.

The overwhelming predominance of animals in prehistoric art suggests that the animal connection - the evolutionary advantages of observing animals and collecting, compiling and sharing information about them - was a strong impetus to a second important development in human evolution: the development of language and enhanced communication. Of course, more was involved than simply coining words. Famously, vervet monkeys have different cries for eagles, leopards and snakes, but they cannot discuss dangerous-things-that-were-here-yesterday or ask "what ate my sibling?" or wonder if that danger might appear again tomorrow. They communicate with each other and share information, but they do not have language. The magical property of full language is that it is comprised of vocabulary and grammatical rules that can be combined and recombined in an infinite number of ways to convey fine shades of meaning.

Nobody doubts that language proved a major adaptive advantage to our ancestors in developing complex behaviours and sharing information. How it arose, however, remains a mystery. I believe I am the first to propose a continuity between the strong human-animal link that appeared 2.6 million years ago and the origin of language. The complexity and importance of animal-related information spurred early humans to move beyond what their primate cousins could achieve.

As our ancestors became ever more intimately involved with animals, the third and final product of the animal connection appeared. Domestication has long been linked with farming and the keeping of stock animals, an economic and social change from hunting and gathering that is often called the Neolithic revolution. Domestic animals are usually considered as commodities, "walking larders", reflecting the idea that the basis of the Neolithic revolution was a drive for greater food security.

When I looked at the origins of domestication for clues to its underlying reasons, I found some fundamental flaws in this idea. Instead, my analysis suggests that domestication emerged as a natural progression of our close association with, and understanding of, other species. In other words, it was a product of the animal connection.

Man's best friend

First, if domestication was about knowing where your next meal was coming from, then the first domesticate ought to have been a food source. It was not. According to a detailed analysis of fossil skulls carried out by Mietje Germonpré of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels and her colleagues, the earliest known dog skull is 32,000 years old (Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 36, p 473). The results have been greeted with some surprise, since other analyses have suggested dogs were domesticated around 17,000 years ago, but even that means they pre-date any other domesticated animal or plant by about 5000 years (see diagram). Yet dogs are not a good choice if you want a food animal: they are dangerous while being domesticated, being derived from wolves, and worst of all, they eat meat. If the objective of domestication was to have meat to eat, you would never select an animal that eats 2 kilograms of the stuff a day.

A sustainable relationship

My second objection to the idea that animals were domesticated simply for food turns on a paradox. Farming requires hungry people to set aside edible animals or seeds so as to have some to reproduce the following year. My Penn State colleague David Webster explores the idea in a paper due to appear in Current Anthropology. He concludes that it only becomes logical not to eat all you have if the species in question is already well on the way to being domesticated, because only then are you sufficiently familiar with it to know how to benefit from taking the long view. This means for an animal species to become a walking larder, our ancestors must have already spent generations living intimately with it, exerting some degree of control over breeding. Who plans that far in advance for dinner?

Then there's the clincher. A domestic animal that is slaughtered for food yields little more meat than a wild one that has been hunted, yet requires more management and care. Such a system is not an improvement in food security. Instead, I believe domestication arose for a different reason, one that offsets the costs of husbandry. All domestic animals, and even semi-domesticated ones, offer a wealth of renewable resources that provide ongoing benefits as long as they are alive. They can provide power for hauling, transport and ploughing, wool or fur for warmth and weaving, milk for food, manure for fertiliser, fuel and building material, hunting assistance, protection for the family or home, and a disposal service for refuse and ordure. Domestic animals are also a mobile source of wealth, which can literally propagate itself.

Domestication, more than ever, drew upon our understanding of animals to keep them alive and well. It must have started accidentally and been a protracted reciprocal process of increasing communication that allowed us not just to tame other species but also to permanently change their genomes by selective breeding to enhance or diminish certain traits.

The great benefit for people of this caring relationship was a continuous supply of resources that enabled them to move into previously uninhabitable parts of the world. This next milestone in human evolution would have been impossible without the sort of close observation, accumulated knowledge and improved communication skills that the animal connection started selecting for when our ancestors began hunting at least 2.6 million years ago.

What does it matter if the animal connection is a fundamental and ancient influence on our species? I think it matters a great deal. The human-animal link offers a causal connection that makes sense of three of the most important leaps in our development: the invention of stone tools, the origin of language and the domestication of animals. That makes it a sort of grand unifying theory of human evolution.

And the link is as crucial today as it ever was. The fundamental importance of our relationship with animals explains why interacting with them offers various physical and mental health benefits - and why the annual expenditure on items related to pets and wild animals is so enormous.

Finally, if being with animals has been so instrumental in making humans human, we had best pay attention to this point as we plan for the future. If our species was born of a world rich with animals, can we continue to flourish in one where we have decimated biodiversity?

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musicians busking on a sunny may day in manchester and no one stops to listen to them...

2011-05-04T00:09:00.001+03:00

i took this video on a sunny may day in manchester.

busking musicians from zülal on Vimeo.

Into the heart of Hurricane Katrina

2011-03-22T13:15:00.000+02:00

ever wondered what it would look like to follow a monster hurricane as it develops? watch this amazing visualisation?

Hawaiian volcano sweps and spatters!

2011-03-09T13:25:00.000+02:00

Mount Kilauea in Hawaii has been living up to its fiery reputation this year. Its name means "spewing" or "spreading" in the Hawaiian language and it's one of the most active volcanoes in the world.

Throughout January and February, it's been grumbling loudly and crater walls have been collapsing. Cascading lava was captured on February 17 at the Puu Oo crater and on 3 March, a dramatic collapse at Halema'uma'u shows part of the vent wall falling into the lava lake. Erupting fissures were filmed in early March, sending lava up to 10 metres into the air.

According to US Geological Survey (USGS), a lake of lava about 200 metres deep has formed inside one of the craters, while seismic activity in the area remains high. New reports estimate that 150 detectable earthquakes have been caused by the eruption, although so far it poses no threat to locals.

The time-lapse is a compilation of videos shot by the (USGS) from a variety of cameras between 15 February and 6 March 2011.

(source: New Scientist)

Solar Flare Eruption Recorded By NASA

2011-03-01T21:57:00.000+02:00

A large and stunning solar flare was captured on camera by NASA this past week. According to the BBC, the eruption lasted about 90 minutes, and was the latest in a series of sunstorms.

NASA caught the flare in extreme ultraviolet light, using high definition and a cadence of a frame taken every 24 seconds, making the sense of motion appear seamless. The eruptions created a "tendril of plasma" (a solar prominence), which can be seen in the video.

Earlier this month, massive solar flares threatened to disrupt power grids and communication systems on Earth. But this most recent flare was not aimed at earth, and thus was not considered a threat to satellites or other systems. Fortunately for Earthlings, this week the solar flare just made for an awesome video. (via HuffingtonPost)

Please watch.

2011-02-28T19:21:00.000+02:00

After watching this movie, you will never be the same.

Make the Connection. EARTHLINGS.com

Whole sun imagined for the first time

2011-02-07T16:14:00.001+02:00

The sun is one of the objects most familiar to humanity, but until yesterday, we'd never seen all of it at once.

On February 6, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on polar opposite sides of the sun and started beaming back the first images to capture the star's entire surface (see video above).

"For the first time ever, we can watch solar activity in its full 3-dimensional glory," says Angelos Vourlidas, a member of the STEREO science team at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.

(Image: NASA)

This new ability should improve forecasts of solar eruptions. These violent magnetic events can wreak havoc with satellites and even power lines and railway signals on Earth. But without a view of the sun's entire surface, charged solar emissions can end up hurtling through space, even towards Earth, without warning.

The twin probes left Earth in 2006, heading for the positions they have now reached. They are expected to beam back images of the entire sun for the next 8 years.

(Source: New Scientist)

Ólafur Arnalds - Hægt, kemur ljósið (Official Music Video)

2011-01-07T18:34:00.000+02:00

Ólafur Arnalds - Hægt, kemur ljósið (Official Music Video)

Ólafur Arnalds | Myspace Music Videos

PETA "Everyday Dogs" Ad Portrays Pets in Body Bags to Promote Adoption

2010-12-11T00:26:00.000+02:00

'abdominal crisis' is here:

2010-12-03T13:52:00.004+02:00

http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/55829/date/2010-11-29/article/exclusif-brian-eno-en-session-intime/

This is for Science Nerds

2010-11-15T14:07:00.002+02:00

The Toughest Life Forms on Earth (click the link to view the article)

David Bowie/NIN live footage from 1995

2010-10-29T12:08:00.002+03:00

http://vimeo.com/16239198

NPR: Jonsi's concert tour is more like a live movie

2010-10-19T13:45:00.002+03:00

Watch this amazing concert that Jonsi gave in Los Angeles on October 17.
(This video will be on NPR's website until October 21.)

jónsi tour trailer from Jónsi on Vimeo.

jónsi - sinking friendships (live) from Jónsi on Vimeo.

"slow" by twin shadow

2010-10-17T20:00:00.000+03:00

Twin Shadow 'Slow' (NSFW) from Twin Shadow on Vimeo.

my new york pictures

2010-10-17T19:57:00.003+03:00

i've uploaded pictures from my last trip to new york city.
you can view them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/zulalk/NEWYORK#

listen to röyksopp's new songs from the upcoming album "senior"

2010-09-02T23:22:00.002+03:00

here's 'the fear':
The Fear (taken from Senior out Sept 13th) by Röyksopp

and this is 'the drug':
The Drug (taken from Senior out Sept 13th) by Röyksopp

"Little Drummer Boy"-David Bowie & Bing Crosby duet

2010-08-10T18:23:00.001+03:00

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Duet
Yükleyen beautifulcynic. - Video klipler, sanatçÄ± röportajlarÄ±, konserler ve çok daha fazlasÄ±.

watch this anti-smoking ad

2010-07-25T21:18:00.000+03:00

"Vireo's Eye" by Future Islands

2010-07-21T21:59:00.001+03:00

One of the best songs of 2010.

Future Islands - Vireo's Eye from vision quest on Vimeo.

"Fram" by Blawan.

2010-07-18T22:57:00.001+03:00

Blawan - Fram (Video Edit) from voconut on Vimeo.

Circulus: The Bike Track Inside a Library

2010-07-12T10:31:00.000+03:00

Samuel Starr at Pomona College built a bike track/velodrome inside of his school’s library.

Circulus from machine project on Vimeo.

Grace Jones comes to town!

2010-07-09T21:01:00.003+03:00

Before Grace Jones takes the stage at the International Istanbul Jazz Festival on July 16th, see these amazing videos and don't miss the concert:

Grace Jones @ Roundhouse from Patrick Tichy on Vimeo.

Grace Jones "Corporate Cannibal" from Jordy on Vimeo.

And here's a video that shows her singing "Williams' Blood" off her latest album "Hurricane".

Williams' Blood

The evolution of life, on a wall

2010-07-07T21:39:00.000+03:00

Michael Marshall, environment reporter (Source: New Scientist)

The rather excellent video below is a wall-painted animation: essentially a stop-motion animation created by painting a sequence of still images on a wall and photographing them, then running the photos together into a film.

It was created by the street artist Blu, who describes it as the result of "months of work and hundreds [of] buckets of paint". That's hardly surprising, given that it tries to illustrate the history of the universe since the big bang, with a particular focus on the evolution of life on Earth.

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

this is for bird lovers!

2010-06-14T14:06:00.002+03:00

Birds as you've never seen them before

Top Shots from the Bird Catwalk (photo gallery)

Source: News Scientist

theories in dust

2010-06-05T23:33:00.001+03:00

dust breedings from goaj on Vimeo.

sound: sascha-neudeck.com/
from seroton ep con-v.org/cnv38.html

A bright flash of light on Jupiter observed on June 3rd

2010-06-05T23:20:00.003+03:00

Amateur astronomers Anthony Wesley of Australia and Christopher Go of the Philippines have independently observed an impact event on Jupiter.

"I still can't believe that I caught a live impact on Jupiter," says Go, who has made a must-see video of the event.

"There were no visible remains at the impact point for the next half hour or so, until sunrise put an end to the imaging," says Wesley.

The nature of the impactor is presently unknown. It might have been an asteroid or a comet. In either case, a dark and cindery debris field is expected to develop around the impact point; that's what has happened in the aftermath of previous Jupiter impacts.

click here to see the video (source: spaceweather.com)

happy world environment day... shame on homo sapiens!

2010-06-05T23:07:00.003+03:00

picture of a bird taken on the beach at east grand terre island, la on thursday.
this is where the addiction to oil has taken the world... it's so heartbreaking.

great idea: the DBA pen made from potato-based plastic.

2010-06-05T23:06:00.001+03:00

DBA 98 Biodegradable Pen from DBA on Vimeo.

CocoRosie-New video: Lemonade

2010-05-20T12:39:00.002+03:00

RIP Hank Jones...

2010-05-18T01:04:00.005+03:00

legendary jazz pianist hank jones, 91, passed away on sunday night. i saw this truly exceptional jazz musician playing live in istanbul last year. it was an amazing night...
according to him, when you listen to a pianist, each note should have an identity, each note should have a soul of its own.
watch this video to see what he meant...

watch The National's new video: Bloodbuzz Ohio

2010-05-11T21:13:00.001+03:00

The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio" (official video) from The National on Vimeo.

here's a mind-blowing video of the sun!

2010-04-22T00:40:00.006+03:00

Source: Wired

pictures of the bosphorus taken by me at dusk

2010-04-19T16:19:00.009+03:00

CocoRosie-Grey Oceans

2010-04-18T23:25:00.002+03:00

see the teaser videos for cocorosie's forthcoming album "grey oceans", out may 3rd.

CocoRosie - Grey Oceans Album Trailer 2/3 from Souterrain Transmissions on Vimeo.

CocoRosie - Grey Oceans Album Trailer 1/3 from Souterrain Transmissions on Vimeo.

Listen to Holly Miranda's debut album

2010-04-06T21:54:00.000+03:00

Holly Miranda's debut full-length album, The Magician's Private Library was released via XL Recordings on February 23, 2010. The 10-track album was produced by Dave Sitek at Staygold Studio in Brooklyn, NY, and includes contributions from Sitek, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton (TV On The Radio), Eric Biondo and Stuart Bogie (Antibalas), and Holly's long-time violinist, Marques Toliver.Holly Miranda officially made her XL Recordings debut with her "Forest Green Oh Forest Green" single

Watch Lali Puna's awesome new video: "That Day"

2010-04-05T21:16:00.000+03:00

tonight's song: 'your hand in mine' by explosions in the sky

2010-04-03T22:46:00.007+03:00

Your Hand In Mine

Listen to Jonsi's new album "Go" in its entirety

2010-03-31T16:23:00.001+03:00

Unreleased tracks from Glen Johnson (of Piano Magic)

2010-03-27T21:19:00.003+02:00

Click here to listen to the tracks

'Rainbirds' [Single] - Free Download : Hidden Shoal Recordings Store

2010-03-26T22:20:00.000+02:00

'Rainbirds' [Single] - Free Download : Hidden Shoal Recordings Store

Music matters

2010-03-24T20:45:00.004+02:00

Music Matters, The Story (18-3-10) from Dave Pollard on Vimeo.

Music Matters is a collective of people across the music industry, including artists, retailers, songwriters, labels and managers, formed to remind listeners of the significance and value of music. www.musicmatters.org

1. We all know that music matters: why is this initiative important?

We all know that music is important. But with music more available than ever before, it’s worth reminding ourselves of that fact. It’s easy to forget about the extraordinary lengths that performers, songwriters and musicians can go to record their songs, and the powerful effect music has on each and every one of us.

We believe it is important to support the artists and all those involved in making incredible music by choosing to consume music in an ethical way, and that’s why we’ve set up Music Matters.

2. What is the Music Matters Trustmark?

The Music Matters trust mark will act as a guide for music fans and help differentiate legal music services from illegal ones. Click here for a list of all supporting sites and look for the Music Matters trust mark when choosing new music.

When you choose sites carrying the trustmark you can be sure the site is legal and the copyright holders are paid for their creative work.

3. Why do we need a trustmark?

Globally, 19 out of every 20 tracks downloaded are done so illegally. In an evolving digital landscape, there can be confusion over which sites are legal. We think music fans would like to know that when the site that they are using is legitimate they are supporting the artists, musicians, songwriters and everyone involved in creating the music.

4. My favourite band is unsigned – does this mean I can download their material without paying for it?

It is exactly the same for unknown, unsigned bands as it is for bands with record deals. Unless the unsigned band chooses to offer their music to fans for free, downloading or sharing that music for free is illegal.

5. What is the difference between a streaming and downloading music service?

With a downloading service, tracks are stored on an individual’s iPod, iPhone or preferred device and can be listened to when and where the consumer chooses.

Online streaming services make the music available to listen to online without purchasing and downloading the files.

Both of these are legitimate ways to consume music. Look for the Music Matters trustmark to find legal sites.

6. Pop stars and record companies are rich. Does it really matter if I download one or two tracks without paying?

Every creator has a right to be paid for the time, effort and money invested in producing quality music for us to enjoy. The money received can be reinvested in music and the people that make it. When music is downloaded for free, the investment cycle is broken, and that has an adverse impact on investment in emerging talent.

7. How can I tell if I am using a legal or illegal site to obtain music?

The Music Matters Certification Scheme is working with legal digital music services to ensure they carry the Music Matters trustmark. This will help audiences differentiate legal music sites from illegal sites. There are currently dozens of legitimate digital music services in the UK. Check out the list of legal sites here.

8. If I have an iPhone, is iTunes the only download service I can use?

No – this is a common myth which can be very confusing. Most online stores now offer music files which can be played on different devices. These are known as DRM-free files.

Hear the new National song

2010-03-24T17:28:00.004+02:00

Bloodbuzz Ohio

new songs from broken social scene

2010-03-23T20:04:00.001+02:00

Free downloads from Moby

2010-03-23T12:46:00.003+02:00

click here to to listen to the "Wait for Me remixes"

this is my favorite. the apparat remix of moby's "pale horses".
Pale Horses (Apparat Remix ) by thelittleidiot

The most beautiful waves ever

2010-03-22T15:00:00.004+02:00

click here to see the most beautiful waves ever

photo by clark little

happy world water day- 22.03.2010

2010-03-22T14:59:00.002+02:00

photo by zülal kalkandelen

Goldfrapp's new single: Rocket

2010-03-14T23:00:00.003+02:00

Listen to Goldfrapp's first single "Rocket" from their upcoming album "Head First".

Vezi mai multe video din Muzica

Gonjasufi's new video: "Made"

2010-03-11T18:00:00.001+02:00

"Go quiet" by Jonsi (of the band Sigur Ros)

2010-02-26T10:33:00.001+02:00

"the concept behind ‘go quiet’ was simple: it’s new year’s day in reykjavík, and jónsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party. he avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by" – director dean deblois.

jónsi - "go quiet" from Jónsi on Vimeo.

song of the day:

2010-02-21T20:14:00.002+02:00

Gil Scott-Heron'un yeni albümü "I'm New Here" hakkındaki yazımı okumak isterseniz, buraya tıklayın.

Gil Scott on MUZU

This ant can lift 100 times its body weight

2010-02-18T23:24:00.004+02:00

Oecophylla smaragdina can carry more than 100 times its own body weight while upside down on a smooth surface, thanks to its sticky feet.

Weaver ants build nests from leaves sewn together with silk and are very territorial. Their tendency to defend against intruders makes them a useful tool in controlling insect pests, a tradition in Chinese and south-east Asian citrus orchards for at least 1500 years. (Image: Thomas Endlein, University of Cambridge)

Source: New Scientist

video of the day:

2010-02-16T18:00:00.000+02:00

I Had a Dream I was a Jellyfish Floating Through Space from mike ambs ☂ on Vimeo.

"meat is murder" turns 25!

2010-02-13T01:23:00.003+02:00

i will always be thankful to morrissey and the smiths for this song and the whole album.

Heifer whines could be human cries
Closer comes the screaming knife
This beautiful creature must die
This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER

And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
It's death for no reason
And death for no reason is MURDER

And the calf that you carve with a smile
It is MURDER
And the turkey you festively slice
It is MURDER
Do you know how animals die?

Kitchen aromas aren't very homely
It's not "comforting", cheery or kind
It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench
Of MURDER

It's not "natural", "normal" or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of MURDER

NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
Oh ... and who cares about an animals life?

Watch Bowie speaking about "Low".

2010-02-12T14:43:00.000+02:00

David Bowie Feature from Caspar-Jan Hogerzeil on Vimeo.

track of the day: "the letter" by the veils

2010-02-12T13:46:00.000+02:00

The Veils 'The Letter' from Iain & Jane on Vimeo.

Preview Pantha du Prince's new album "Black Noise"

2010-02-08T15:22:00.002+02:00

Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise album trailer from Rough Trade Records on Vimeo.

Gorillaz New Album Trailer Teaser: Plastic Beach

2010-02-03T20:01:00.001+02:00

The album is coming out on March 8th. Here's the video teaser for it.

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Orchestral Trailer

Gorillaz | MySpace Music Videos

Kudos to Gil Scott-Heron! "Me and the Devil"

2010-02-03T14:29:00.001+02:00

"Me and the Devil"

frightened rabbit's new video: nothing like you

2010-02-02T18:28:00.001+02:00

Frightened Rabbit on MUZU

Listen to the Massive Attack's new album "Heligoland" in its entirety

2010-02-01T10:51:00.001+02:00

video of the day:

2010-01-28T10:57:00.001+02:00

VINTERBARN from fredrik on Vimeo.

video of the day:

2010-01-27T12:56:00.002+02:00

Modern Drift by Efterklang from Rumraket on Vimeo.

This is Rox

2010-01-25T15:32:00.001+02:00

ROX - My Baby Left Me

ROX | MySpace Müzik Videoları

watch these new puritans' new stunning video: we want war.

2010-01-24T22:52:00.002+02:00

pictures of/from berlin.

2010-01-18T17:55:00.005+02:00

click here if you want to see my berlin pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/zulalk/BERLIN#

Where's your Book of Life? Are you a ghost?

2009-12-24T23:49:00.003+02:00

excerpt from Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams

"A world without memory is a world of the present. The past exists only in books, in documents. In order to know himself, each person carries his own Book Of Life, which is filled with the history of his life. By reading its pages daily, he can relearn the identity of his parents, whether he was born high or born low, whether he did well or did poorly in school, whether he has accomplished anything in his life. Without his Book Of Life, a person is a snapshot, a two-dimensional image, a ghost. In the leafy cafes on the Brunngasshalde, one hears anguished shrieking from a man who just read that he once killed another man, sighs from a woman who just discovered she was courted by a prince, sudden boasting from a woman who has learned that she received top honors from her university ten years prior. Some pass the twilight hours at their tables reading from their Books Of Life; others frantically fill its extra pages with the day's events.

With time, each person's Book Of Life thickens until it cannot be read in its entirety. Then comes a choice. Elderly men and women may read the early pages, to know themselves as youths; or they may read the end, to know themselves in later years.

Some have stopped reading altogether. They have abandoned the past. They have decided that it matters not if yesterday they were rich or poor, educated or ignorant, proud or humble, in love or empty hearted - no more than it matters how a soft wind gets into their hair. Such people look at you directly in the eye and grip your hand firmly. Such people walk with the limber stride of their youth. Such people have learned how to live in a world without memory. "

- Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams

A F W

Elephant seals breathing (i.e., snoring)

2009-12-24T23:45:00.004+02:00

i urge you to listen to the sound of elephant seals breathing (i.e., snoring).
click here:

2010- A compilation of new Warp music

2009-12-23T00:13:00.003+02:00

Warp Records has released a compilation of new music from their artists next year. Here's a rundown of the tracks and artists involved follows below the player.

The best of New Scientist's video coverage.

2009-12-22T20:38:00.001+02:00

Watch London's indie-folk band Fanfarlo:

2009-12-18T18:17:00.002+02:00

do you consider this art?

2009-12-15T20:24:00.002+02:00

i enjoy watching it and like the sounds, but do you consider this art?
The Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers was put into motion during the opening of the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, last Friday. It will keep rotating slowly till February 28th 2010.

rotating kitchen from Zeger Reyers on Vimeo.

Today's song: "Jim Cain" by Bill Callahan.

2009-12-14T19:59:00.003+02:00

don't underestimate animals' ability to grasp numbers.

2009-12-09T14:40:00.002+02:00

view winners from national geographic's international photography contest:

2009-12-07T23:40:00.003+02:00

click here to see the pictures:

"symbiosis" by demdike stare

2009-12-04T14:35:00.001+02:00

i have a strong affinity for all kinds of strange sounds and this record satisfies me pretty much.
check the tracks on "symbiosis" here:

for those who want to see my italy pictures.

2009-12-03T18:42:00.002+02:00

just got back from my italy trip to italy. here are my pictures.

İTALYA

Robbie Williams' new single: You Know Me

2009-11-16T15:35:00.003+02:00

Great song, brilliant lyrics!
If a man can be his own fantasy, then to only breed in captivity is pointless/I’ve been doing what I like, when I like, how I like, it's joyless...

You Know Me - Robbie Williams (Official full-length video)

Robbie Williams | MySpace Video

Today's song: "This Is Our Lot" by Wild Beasts.

2009-11-16T15:04:00.004+02:00

Click here here for an exclusive free download of a live version of "This Is Our Lot".

good stuff!

2009-11-14T00:45:00.001+02:00

Vladislav Delay - Toive from Leaf Label on Vimeo.

Do you like spiders?

2009-11-11T23:53:00.004+02:00

click here to see some great spider pictures:

Moby's new animated video: One Time We Lived

2009-11-11T23:38:00.003+02:00

Here's the Flaming Lips' new crazy video.

2009-11-11T20:43:00.006+02:00

Warning: lots of nude people and one of them is Wayne Coyne! Fantastic!
"Watching the Planets"- The Flaming Lips

Jonas Bendiksen's wonderful photo essay

2009-11-10T00:20:00.006+02:00

Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen's wonderful photo essay on life and home in the world's slums.
Click here to see the images.

Günün şarkısı:

2009-11-09T01:56:00.002+02:00

I love Wesley Eisold's voice and this song reminds me of New Order.

Cold Cave – "Love Comes Close" from Peter Jacobson on Vimeo.

Let Them Sing It For You!

2009-11-05T23:48:00.003+02:00

Here's a text-to-speech converter that takes your words, finds those words as sung in pop songs, and then plays them back for you.
Write your own lyrics, and let some of the world's greatest stars give voice to it. Try it, it's fun.

Atları seviyorsanız bu videoyu izleyin ve...

2009-11-01T23:15:00.004+02:00

...at arabasına binerken bir kez daha düşünün...

waiting for this impatiently: modeselektor + apparat!

2009-11-01T22:02:00.005+02:00

here's moderat! when are they coming to my city?

Moderat "Rusty Nails" from Pfadfinderei on Vimeo.

wanna hear the sounds of the cities now?

2009-11-01T20:41:00.003+02:00

click here and listen

perfect song to accompany this time of the year:

2009-10-30T17:16:00.001+02:00

"over the rainbow" by jane monheit

Quietmusic Oct 25-Hr2 by Nick Francis on Mixcloud

Watch this wonderful tiny desk concert:

2009-10-27T16:56:00.001+02:00

Günün şarkısı: "The Great Escape" by Patrick Watson

2009-10-27T16:27:00.002+02:00

"The Great Escape" by Patrick Watson

I love the Black Cab Sessions!

2009-10-25T20:15:00.006+02:00

watch the one with William Orbit.
www.blackcabsessions.com

Ben de orada kahvaltı yapmak istiyorum...

2009-10-25T11:58:00.005+02:00

Sidney'deki ünlü Harbour Köprüsü'nün üzerinde kahvaltı düzenlenmiş.
İnsan düşününce neden bizde böyle ilginç projeler yapılmıyor diye düşünüyor...
Bir yemek ve sanat festivalinin bir parçasıymış bu organizasyon.
Bilet almak için 45 bin kişi başvurmuş ama sadece 6 bin kişi bu zevki yaşayabilmiş.
Organizatörler, bu köprü kahvaltısını her yıl tekrarlamayı umuyormuş.
Ben de o köprünün üzerinde kahvaltı yapmak istiyorum!
Fotoğraflara bakmak için buraya tıklayın.

Human Wheel

2009-10-23T18:54:00.003+03:00

Adını bilmiyorum ama bir tasarımcı, kentlerde beton yığınları arasında yaşayanlar için düşünmüş bunu.
Adı "Human Wheel".

Awesome collection of brain visualizations over the last 100 years

2009-10-22T18:45:00.004+03:00

Click here: Time Travel Through the Brain

Interesting analysis of the numbers animals killed to produce food:

2009-10-18T20:08:00.004+03:00

I know that posting this analysis will not make me popular, but who cares?
Here we go:

For further details click here

I love this new Thom Yorke song!

2009-10-13T00:42:00.002+03:00

Your speakers are blowing, your ears are wrecking, your hearing damaged...
Hearing Damage 1 by nmemagazine