About

I am Oğuz Karaesmen — most people call me Ogo, a nickname my childhood gang gave me that somehow stuck with everyone since.

I live in Barcelona. This site is my personal corner of the internet: photos, links, and whatever catches my eye.

I studied industrial design, which shaped how I see things more than anything else I’ve done professionally. Over the years I’ve co-founded internet startups (LookRemix, a social fashion platform that reached 140K users), helped build a craft brewery (Zula Brewing Collective; our Hoppala! IPA, Leyla Summer Ale and Heimatlos Tropical Stout got awards and is still recognized in Barcelona), and spent years in enterprise tech, leading support teams for large-scale operations. A fairly wide arc, but it always made sense from the inside.

Outside work, I take photographs; mostly motion and sports, currently developing a project called El Hilo Cinético. I walk a lot around this city and elsewhere. I played water polo for years and still swim whenever I can.

This blog exists in three languages (Turkish, Spanish, English) and I don’t maintain parallel versions so the reading experience is intentionally patchy. That’s fine by me.

If something here resonates, leave a comment or reach out via the contact page.