Internet is a Desert by Can Evgin

Can Evgin, sadece iPad için çıkarılan ilk dergi olan Post için iki video hazırlamış. Videolar, Purple Dergisi'nin kurucusu Oliver Zahm ve Yunan sanatçı Miltos Manetas ile İstanbul ziyaretleri sırasında internetin sınısız imkanları üzerine yapılan röportajlardan oluşan derleme niteliğinde.


Bir sürü görüntü akıyor, bir sürü muhabbet dönüyor ama bunlara rağmen yaratılan boşluk duygusu muazzam.

"Internet is a Desert" directed by Can Evgin



"The Last Promise" directed by Can Evgin

Lessons from fashion's free culture

Is fashion industry better without copyright protection? 

Johanna Blakley will convince you that it is

"Copyright law's grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry ... and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion's free culture."

Ümit Benan's Inspiration Photos Project

With his latest Inspiration Photos Project, Ümit Benan puts a strong emphisize on his
neo-macho man style

Ümit Benan had started his career in Milan displaying a long bearded, old man as a brand image, advocating that people shouldn't be judged by their appearances, an attitude which helps him to distinguish himself from the rest in an industry mostly relevant with the images over-stylized.

Now, after several years, he still keeps his trajectory straight, staying loyal to the core of his brand attitude, with kind of images from the low and diregarded side of the society.

His clothes are defined rough by appearance, (which is arguable in case of some collections such as the latest 2011 SS) and soft by other senses.

For the recent inspiration photos project, Ümit Benan collabrated with Serdar Bilgili, a high-profile businessman known with his b&w sensational portraits, displaying disabled people in emotional conditions.

And in this inspiration project, he shot men who are so apparent that they belong to the 'have-nots' side of the society, and has nothing to do with fashion streams.

Ümit Benan's this non-traditional fashion attitude has been praised by the main stream fashion journalists as much as the bloggers all around the world who are fascinated with the odd and undiscovered things.

Yet, I wonder, does his recent description about the-new-age-macho style reveal anything about what is coming-up next in men's fashion?

It's doubtful that whether Benan's oriental influenced designs go main-stream or not, but it's so clear that his aspiration has already begun to inspire those that lead the society forward.

Coppola İftiharla Sunar: Alden Ehrenreich.

Alden Ehrenreich, ilk önemli filmi olan Tetro'da ne denli gelecek vaad ettiğini kanıtlıyor

Francis Ford Coppola'nın Tetro filmini izlediniz mi? Atmosferi fena değil ama bayılınacak bir film de değil. Bana filmi en fazla merak ettiren, -ve de izlettiren- Coppola'nın son keşfi Alden Ehrenreich oldu. 
Çocuk, daha trailer'ında görür görmez dikkatimi çekti. Hani bazı insanlar elektrik saçarlar ve daha baştan size vaadde bulunurlar ya, aynen öyle. 

Ve filmde de hayal kırıklığına uğratmadı. Henüz 21 yaşında olan Ehrenreich, bence yeni kuşak sinema oyuncuları içerisinde en dikkate değerlerden biri. 

A brand opportunity: Oil wrestling

A potential brand which would associate with oil wrestling could get an opportunity 

to be a popular lifestyle menswear brand

I wonder why there is no menswear brand for youngsters in Turkey which associates with oil wrestling, a well-known but not wide spread traditional sport being played for centuries.

    It’s weird because it’s probable that any brand which would relate with oil wrestling could get a natural opportunity to have sponsorship with annual Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling Organization, which is held in Edirne, a city several hours away from İstanbul and to get press coverage.

   Some may have doubts about being perceived kind of provincal when the brand relates with this organization -mostly attended by not-that-elite local inhabitants. But this raw image has another opportunity: Provenance.

   Oil wrestling has been played for centuries and it used to be very popular. That’s because it has a strong provenance which would help to get public attention.

   Recent years this sport has been in the focus of gay people all around the world because of its playing style. Their perception was like this: Two half naked macho men covered olive oil wrestles and they even do freely put their hands into their kısmets (the short pants players ought to wear)

   So here is another opportunity a potential brand could use: Even though the brand would have a ‘straight’ looking it may attract gay people at the same time. Like Abercrombie and Fitch it may generate a new kind of fraternity feeling.

Kırkpınar Oil Wrestlings is a natural source for Bruce Weber-like images:

Detailed shots in Boutique Closh

Atiye Sok. No:2 Nişantaşı/İSTANBUL