Life ain't no crystal stairs my son
Sometimes it seems unfair making you want to scream
It's best to hold it in and keep your head held high
Because those stairs are so steep and high to the sky
Keep climbing boy, dont fall down when you miss one
Rebound and start climbing again until you are done...
(...adapted from the ghetto-intellectual re-mix of the Langston Hughes' poem...)
...taken at the Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tor Museum in Galatasaray...
Istanbul, Turkey...
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"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1894 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.
One of Doyles's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. (Nevertheless, the truth still comes out.) According to Dr. Watson:
"...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered."
...taken amongst the scaffoldings in Piazza Duomo, on a rainy wednesday night...
Milan, Italy...
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a solid step in the right direction
is all it takes to become the person
you have always wanted to be...
so go ahead without any hesitation...
...taken in Kungsträdgården metro station...
Stockholm, Sweden...
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Chess is a game that very few people truly enjoy, and even fewer master. The same goes for the game of life. In fact, the game of chess has so many parallels in our world it is probably the most analagous board game ever invented.
In life, you also face a single opponent. That opponent is by it's very nature better at the game than you.
Your opponent in life's game of chess is yourself. You are the singlemost effective barrier to your own success and without acknowledging and accepting that fact, your chances of a positive outcome are greatly diminished. Acknowledgement and acceptance is only the first step. To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy. You must be able to predict your opponents movements and counter those movements before they can affect you.
Life is both an offensive and defensive battle. You must defend your King (or your spirit) while at the same time attacking, cornering, and ineffectualizing your opponents King (your self doubt). You have weapons at your disposal in many forms, but innefective use of those weapons can permanently disable them. Your arsenal of weapons is less directly analagous, but you certainly have ways of defending yourself and breaking through the barriers of self limitation.
...taken on a ferry going from Kadikoy to Karakoy...
Istanbul, Turkey...
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We all know the saying; "whoever owns the media rules the world". The media is powerful. A dead person can become a living person. A black cat can become a white cat. If you own the media, you control what you want people to think.
But perhaps someone forgotten that the media can no longer belongs to one person.
And that if you say the person is alive, there will be tons of people out there trying to prove that the person is dead. And if you said the cat is white, there will be millions of pictures showing that the cat is indeed black.
Welcome to the new media. Censorship doesn't apply here anymore. If it does, then you surely won't make it pass your scissors.
...taken at the "Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts" exhibition at SantralIstanbul... the artwork was the "Floating Identities" by Frank den Oudsten...
Istanbul, Turkey...
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