World’s oldest animation

World’s oldest animation that was discovered in Iran would be presented during the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA) meeting that will be held in Seoul this August.

Last december a bowl with an animated picture of a goat drawn around it was discovered by a team of Iranian archeologists during some excavations realised at the 5000 year old Burnt City.
AWN Headline News

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paris deniz

buyuk deniz
kati deniz
dalgalari kursun deniz
atlasam icine
kafami kirar misin?
batar miyim dibe?
beni yuzune cikarir misin?
sen baliktan anlar misin?

koca deniz
kaskati dalgalari
�atilari deniz
paris!

montmartre adasindan
adim son kruzo.

Open air multi-layered advertisement technique (by RJCP » ¿Qué se anuncia?)

visit RJCP.ORG - Nescafe - Eveready combined multilayer wall advertisement, Istanbul RJCP while strolling around istanbul he chanced upon this curious large wall advertisement. 🙂

He asked himself questions like if this is a nescafe-eveready partnership to promote an energy drink and so on…

I am not sure that if this novel and complex idea that could be defined as open air multilayered advertisement would become very common, although it has substantial advantages like letting companies share paint costs and even the painters! Two birds in one shot !!!

You could follow this link (which is in spanish) and visit his page and see a higher-resolution version of this image and more : RJCP » ¿Qué se anuncia?

Survivor snail is back..


The snail reappeared suddenly, as it disappeared mysteriously last autumn..

It seems that it didn’t go far and it hibernated somewhere dusty and hairy in the balcony and unfortunately its comeback was more terrible than I could expect. First afternoon it attacked everything green.

Originally from a village near Castellon, it was forced by our neighbours to migrate to Barcelona last year. After a long trip inside a bag full of other snails, the snail managed to escape from the kitchen just a few minutes before they were thrown to boiling water. It became the only survivor among the others.

Our respect towards this heroic and independent spirit made us accept it as a refugee in our balcony, but this year the flower seeds that Barcelona town hall sent deserve tender loving care and the snail will need to leave the territory very soon…

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photos – St. Jordi. day of the book and the rose

You could read the article that I have written previously on St.Jordi International Day of the Book and the Rose here !

book and rose day, Barcelona
People in touch with books. St. Jordi, Day of Book and Roses, Las Ramblas, Barcelona.


St. Jordi Day of Book and Rose.. Las Ramblas, Barcelona.


A florist on Las Ramblas, Barcelona.


This lady is lucky !!! She is having hard time choosing as much books as the roses that she received ! 😉 ,La Rambla de Catalunya, Barcelona.


La Rambla de Catalunya, other once-a-year florist, Barcelona.

Barcelona Day of Book and Rose, Sant Jordi

Tomorrow, 23rd of April is the longly awaited day of Book and Rose, St. George’s Day (Dia de Sant Jordi). Although the streets of Barcelona are used to bring joy to visitors, during Sant Jordi feast all the elements that form the city come together magically. It is my favourite day. (It is not only because I like receiving a nice book as a present!)

Every single corner of Barcelona is converted into small and attractive market-places where books and roses are the only merchandise that worth considering. People converge in front of those spontaneous and colourful florists, book stores and hoping to find “that” rose or book to present to their beloveds. (Woman receive a nice red rose while they present a book ..) What a nice occasion to show love and affection : exchanging words and flowers.

It is also a good moment for publishers and writers that hope to present their recent works and promote the older ones. We should not forget the florists neither. Nearly 4 million roses and 400,000 books are in question.

Besides, lots of other activities like expositions, conferences are organised in order to feed the book worms and “serious” intellectuals who are not satisfied with what is going on and might say that this is a marketing trick.

As 2005 is celebrated as the year of reading and books in Barcelona, those activities are held all along the year and not concentrated. 400th anniversary of the first publication of Don Quijote de la Mancha of Miguel de Cervantes is one of the main leitmotifs.

When we learn a bit more on what Book and Rose day is all about, the tribute to Cervantes would make more sense:

It is named after St. George who is the patron of Barcelona. According to the legend, St.George bravely saves a young and beautiful lady who was about to be gulped by a huge and terrible dragon! Where dragon died bleeding, suddenly appears a bush of rose. St.George who is a real “caballero” picks a rose and presents it to the young and beautiful lady… This legend seem to justify half of the story and until 1920s it was celebrated as the feast of the city and the Rose day.

The second part of the story is about some other caballeros who were using words instead of swords: two genious, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes happen to die the same day: April 23, 1616. This motivated some to conmemorate their death in combination with the Sant Jordi day and it leaded until UNESCO adopted 23rd of April as World Book and Copyright Day in 1990s.

So… briefly, it is a perfect day to be in Barcelona. It is just like being in Paris any 21st of June when there is “la fête de la musique” that converts the city into a huge music box!

and here another link of interest :
Bookcrossing in Barcelona

internette söhret

internet’de söhret | AltIüstü TasarIm
AltIüstü tasarim sitesinde “internet’de söhret” baslikli, türkiye orijinli internet ünlüleri ile ilgili, internet kültürü ile ilgilenenlerin hoslanabilecegi ve benzer örnekler ekleyebilecegi ilginç iletiyi tavsiye ediyorum. Erisebilirlik, kullanilabilirlik, tasarim ve internet kültürü üzerine düzenli yenilenen yazilari ve tartismalari ile altiüstü tasarim’da internet söhretlerinden biri olmaya aday. 😉

ispanyolca dolmuş, simit ve kuru fasulye ve faydalari

Rjcp‘nin blogunda türk toplu ulasim mucizesi dolmuşlar ile ilgili ispanyolca kisa bir ileti var ! Sayfayi ziyaret edip yorum birakabilirsiniz. (Rjcp türkçe ögrenmekte oldugundan dolayi türkçe yorum birakmakta sakinca yok saniyorum.) Ben kendi adima uzunca bir yorum yazarak, “manita koltugu” gibi önemli bir kaç kavramdan bahsetmeden edemedim.

el rincón de Greta’daki ispanyolca kuru fasulye tarifi ve simit ile ilgili iletiyle beraber rjcp’nin dolmuş iletisi, ispanyolca konusan internet gezginlerine yönelik, kültürümüzün bahsi geçen olmazsa olmaz ögeleri hakkinda bloglarda yayinlanmis degerli ve de faydali içerik olarak dikkat çekiyorlar! 🙂

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