The Missing Culture

I normally do not do this but Philip Scott Johnson's video of "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art" surely deserves credit. I have just seen and fell in love with it. Nominated also for the Most Creative Youtube Video of 2007, it traverses the history of art accompanied by Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. I'm sure you will all agree with me and accept my apologies for deviating from my usual topics. Women In Art from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo

I have never thought I would add a journal to this blog, my intention was to keep it lean and mean: interesting items that caught my attention, information about them and articles about not so popular things about Turkish culture. However, our geography is rarely stable and you sometimes live by the day, planning for the future simply becomes impossible. I had one of those weekends. A Turkish court decided to block access to a blog on a blogspot.com domain (which one I do not know) and the result was not so pleasant: ISPS restricted access to all blogger.com and blogspot.com domains, ALL of them. Do not get me wrong, I neither blame nor dispute the court's decision. The Judge probably had no idea about what was going on and just acted upon the applicable law. But I will have a few things to say about this mockery of a governtment which passed the law as it was, knowing -they had been told- very well this would be the result. You see, this government of clowns, with their faces pain...