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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Situated on the grounds of the Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen is the Red Dot Design Museum, a parade example of industrial heritage and the transformation the Ruhr Area is going through. The Red Dot Design Museum, with more than 1,500 exhibits, is believed to be the largest exhibition of contemporary design in the world. A particularly impressive characteristic is the interplay between the design exhibit and the historical building in the Zeche Zollverein. Over an exhibition space of over 4,000 square metres, only current products are now displayed, commodities the visitors may recognise many of, and of which they may even have one or the other at home. What makes this exhibit different from other everyday articles, however, is a very special characteristic: good design...
...taken at the Red Dot Design Museum in Zeche Zollverein...
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It was around 1200 BC when Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty, emerged from the gentle jade-colored sea foam at Petra tou Romiou, a boulder that juts up from the south coast of Cyprus as majestically today as it did then. The name Aphrodite, in fact, means "foam born." She was the most ancient goddess in the Olympian pantheon.
As you travel around Cyprus you will see how it is touched by the spirit of Aphrodite - a spirit of gentleness, beauty and love. The lissome wings of a dove, a silky poppy, pungent myrtle and fragrant rose: these are all sacred to the goddess...
...taken through the reflections on the window of an old and deserted shop...
Limassol, Cyprus...
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Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!
Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?...
(Matthew Arnold)
...taken through the reflections on the window of a tattoo and piercing studio on Wiedner Haubtstrasse...
Vienna, Austria...
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I stand surrounded by the walls that once confined me.
Knowing I'll be underneath them when they crumble, when they fall.
With clarity my scars remind me,
Ash still simmers just under my skin
Indifference smiles again
So much I hide
How is stepping back a move forward?
Now I'm forced to look behind
I'm forced to look at you
You wear a thousand faces
Tell me, tell me which is you...
(Creed)
...taken at the "Reflecting Fashion" exhibiton in MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig ien... "Flow My Tears 1" by Mai-Thu Perret...
Vienna, Austria...
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