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The Czech secret police went to great lengths to keep track of people “who were perfectly innocuous,” The images, grainy and haunting, capture the dreary period known as “dumpling socialism,” a term of ironic nostalgia for Czech Communists. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

We thought that a magazine clearly dedicated to artists without consideration of their background was something that was missing. We wanted to create something where the artist’s curriculum vitae, reputation, or previous recognition was not an issue. Looking at magazines left us a bit bored – always seeing the same names in print when there are so many interesting artists around. - nazli cakiroglu

'ironically' was a good and surprising way to connect the two intertwined arguments. thanks. - nazli cakiroglu

This confusing schema comes from the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Just as a reminder: the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acts as the chief military advisor to the President and the Secretary of Defense. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

Mr. Powhida’s growing reputation as something between a comedian and a vigilante holds a special challenge: How does an artist who skewers the art market as feudal and celebrity-obsessed deal with his own emerging fame, and the increasing likelihood of rubbing shoulders with the subjects he targets? - nazli cakiroglu

What bothers Mr. Powhida and several others in the art world who declined to be named for fear of offending wealthy collectors is the pre-eminence of money at the expense of work that challenges the artistic and economic status quo. Mr. Powhida described the convention center as a mall for “condo art” — polished works by recognizable names that are the equivalent of a BMW or a Bentley in the driveway. - nazli cakiroglu

by our man karl with love - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

karl who? - isil kilkis

Death to all Juice!!! hahah - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

On 3 December 1984, the citizens of Bhopal in India were poisoned by 40 tonnes of toxic gas from a pesticide plant owned by the American multinational Union Carbide. The gas was methyl isocyanate, which when inhaled stops oxygen entering the blood, causing the thousands who died that night to drown in their own body fluids. Over the following weeks, 15,000 more died and hundreds of thousands still suffer from the effects of exposure and contamination of land and water. Twenty-five years on, campaigners say chemicals continue to leach out from the disused factory, poisoning a new generation of victims - nazli cakiroglu

"Uniqlo’s widespread success means it’s a socially-acceptable brand (a huge concern for Japanese consumers), but other than that, the clothes say almost nothing: no logos, no design flourishes, no distinguishing marks. Uniqlo’s advertising rarely tries to inject a particular statement or identity into the brand, unlike the hipster sex of American Apparel or the “classic” preppie vibe of The Gap. Uniqlo is basically a Pantone-hued commodity, making it a perfect fit for both highly sophisticated and completely disengaged fashion consumers." - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

"Equal Exchange feels that Fair Trade certifiers and importers of Fair Trade products should be focusing more on working with small farmer co-ops, and staying away from plantation systems, which are increasingly being brought into the Fair Trade system so long as certain labor practices are followed. For example, almost all the Fair Trade Certified tea on the market comes from plantations, whereas all Fair Trade coffee and cocoa comes from small farmers. It's important to Equal Exchange that Fair Trade work to reform the nature of power in these rural communities, and not merely raise incomes of the poor." - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

I would like to rollerblade on top of this police station, in a city known for its high petty crime rate. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

Every December, Artforum invites a broad spectrum of artists, critics, and curators to revisit the year in art. In the current issue, thirteen contributors choose their top ten higlights, while five others zoom in for close-ups of exhibitions or projects that, for them, stood out in 2009. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

Guerrilla art is innocent and criminal, ancient and dystopian, intimate and political. I chose the veil because it does what art should do: It challenges, it frightens, and it re-imagines. I’ve also found that my media, guerrilla art, presents a mystery and an impishness consistently missing from serious discourses on the hijab. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

'guttural response' da bir durmustum zaten - nazli cakiroglu

Barrington’s Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician is among the highlights of Trailblazing, a new online resource introduced today by the Royal Society at the start of a year of celebrations to mark the national academy of science’s 350th anniversary. The collection tells the story of many of the seminal moments in the history of science through the archives of the Royal Society’s journal. It includes Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of the structure of DNA, Benjamin Franklin’s investigations of lightning, Isaac Newton’s discovery of the spectrum of light, and Stephen Hawking’s early work on black holes. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

he Enviro-Pranksters The Yes Men were at it again with a recent trip to Boston, where, posing as Coca Cola representatives, they unveiled a new name and label for Dasani water, called "Deception." The Yes Men, working with the Think Outside The Bottle Campaign of Corporate Accountability International are drawing attention to how bottled water is marketed as healthier, but its actually less regulated than city water and comes with serious environmental costs. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

"punk collecting, in particular, is an oxymoron. What could be further from the spirit of rebellion than shopping obsessively for the artifacts it left behind? Through the collector's market most conspicuously, the revitalised ideals of participation and make-do are commodified and ‘turned reactionary' (Kugelberg cites Guy Debord as his epigraph). In this light, the collector's identification with punk appears hypocritical, an antithetical and alienated form of luxury consumption." - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

In the month after Obama became president, Americans bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition. Ammunition is the currency of the new millenium, and we are fools in love with kalashnikov rifles. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

Harbi tabir edilen temizleme cubuklariyla cok guzel sucuk kizartilir. Sadece bir avuc pamuk ve az biraz limon kolonyasi yeter ziyafete. - Gokhan INCE from iPhone

Current nominees include Amos Oz, Nick Cave, and John Banville, while past candidates include such literary giants as Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, and Tom Wolfe. Now in its 17th year, fiction’s most notorious honor was dreamed up by Auberon Waugh (Evelyn’s son) “with the aim of gently dissuading authors and publishers from including unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing, or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels.” - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

Flavorwire's top 10 is in the article. Their top 1 in bad sex in fiction: . Brazil — John Updike: '“Standing with her [Isabel] in the warming waterfall, soaping her skin so its yielding silk was overlaid with a white grease, and then letting her soap him [Tristão] in turn, he felt his cashew become a banana, and then a rippled yam, bursting with weight.” - nazli cakiroglu

kapak çok iyi - isil kilkis

"Such channels owe their popularity to nostalgia for peoples' younger days, rather than a desire to restore the Soviet empire, said Arina Borodina, a television critic for the Kommersant daily newspaper. However she questioned whether CCCP-TV.ru would find a large audience, noting that the majority of Nostalgia and Retro viewers were middle-aged and not likely to subscribe to high-speed Internet services. "This isn't exactly the internet generation," Borodina said. Some clips on the website provide a glimpse into the Soviet state propaganda machine and its attempts to portray the capitalist West as an immoral and decadent empire in decline. One video, a 1974 documentary on gambling in Britain, shows men chomping on cigars and wearing bowler hats as the filmmakers expose the evils of casinos, which were illegal in the Soviet Union. "Gamblers bet twice as much money as England spends on education, four times what it spends on scientific research, 10 times what it spends on building new roads," it says as dogs are shown running around a racetrack." - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

i'm not middle aged, i'm not russian, however i'm completely into this project. I can't wait to find the video showing 'the evils of capitalist casinos'. yay! - nazli cakiroglu

Thank you Rolling Stone for reminding us of his pitiful existence. - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet

oh silvio - isil kilkis

at Ancient & Modern, London - nazli cakiroglu from Bookmarklet