Cats Can't, Ducks Don't

Original Title :  Cevaplanmamis Sorular (Unanswered Questions) 

Artist :  Sercan Tekin

Painted by : Yip

True story of the photo (written by the artist himself) : In fact, I think it would suit more than if it was on the sand instead of wood. The sense of eternity that owned by sand always attracted me. There's a lot to say when speaking of eternity, but do we need any unnecessary romance? Well, you shouldn't expect more from the guy who got stuck at the office rather than being on vacation..?

My story for the photo : A long long time ago, a cat invented a new time zone and he called it 'The Fixture'. Although being known only by cats at the beginning, this new time zone grew bigger every single day. After a while, the dogs, the bugs, the giraffes and also the anteaters started to move into that new time zone. Yes, it was a different type of time zone. There were houses, streets, bars, brothels...but they weren't all together, the citizens of 'The Fixture' had to move from one block to another in order to take advantage of these facilities. In every block, there were at most 4 constructions and nobody knew the reason. Also, the blocks were pretty sufficient in themselves, because they all had their production areas underneath. But all of the citizens and visitors loved this idea of isolation. Think about it, you don't have to share your food with the members of a colony or you don't have to wait until midnight to get in your house if you're an elephant lover of a ladybug (yeah, the same neighbourhood pressure...). As the time passed, every single creature applied to move into 'The Fixture' but there wasn't enough space for all. The cat, inventor of course, started to think about another solution because the money he was earning was so sweet. After some whiskey (whiskas actually...) shots, a wonderful idea enlightened him; he decided to rent huge sized animals to form new blocks. As he worked on this deeper, he also realized it could be social responsibility project because all the huge animals were having trouble in everyday life. He hired some designers, some architects and also some commercial people. They worked really hard on the project; almost for 3 days because it was an emergency as usual. After a week, all deals were made, all blocks were ready. 'The Fixture 2' was waiting for its grand opening. But the boss cat couldn't make a decision about the block which was going to be used for the opening. He spent a lot of time around the blocks...but no, it was impossible to decide. 4 days later, he was totally hopeless. He went home and found his tiny little nephew at the bathroom. She was playing with her rubber duck that was swimming in the bubbles. Suddenly 'The Fixture' inventor made his decision...rubber duck was a sign of popular culture, and it had to be the best block for the grand opening.

You should ; 

Watch : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/

Buy : http://rubberduck.com/

See : http://www.designboom.com/art/masters-paintings-photoshopped-into-skinny-goddesses/

The Vegetable God

Original Title :  Kerete
Artist :  Belen Beyza Kurt
Painted by : Yip

True story of the photo : (written by the artist herself) On a usual rainy saturday in Berkeley, i went to farmers' market. I saw these beautiful organic carrots, bought a bunch. I went home, directly to the kitchen. When I took them out of its brown bag, once again I fell in love with the color. Saturday dinner side dish, roasted carrots. Deliciousness.

My story for the photo : Long long time ago, people were told about a very impressive legend. The hometown of this legend was a very very distant world in which nobody used to live. Because everything in this piece of land were extremely big and it was impossible for other living creatures to deal with them. One day, Yakamiskonatatiborazisu and his friend Ko heard about the legend. The legend was about a carrotic mountain on which the control room of the universe exists. Yakamiskonatatiborazisu (whose the only child of his parents, so that he had to have a long name, because his parents had a lot of spare time to use his full name) and Ko (whose the 23th son of his family, that's why he had a very short name, otherwise his parents were having trouble while calling all the children to dinner) were members of the mountain climbing club of their school. After they learned everything about the legend, they decided to travel to this utopic world and reach the carrotic mountain. But the mountain didn't have connections with the ground, it was floating! So, either they had to fly or jump to get on to it. Their dream was to enter the control room and change only a few things. There were 5 different funnels on the carrotic mountain and each of them were representing something very important for the universe. Any change made by the control room would change the production and distribution of the funnel, and of course this was equal to ruin the regular universe system. But, Yakamiskonatatiborazisu was a very ambitious young boy and he was very popular in the world he lives, which was called Stisticokor. With his tiny little stick legs, he was climbing to the highest mountains, he was able to catch the fastest animal, and also he was singing the well known songs in Alice Russell style. Because of all these and more, Yakamiskonatatiborazisu was planning to make some little touches to the universe. Ko, on the other hand, was a very scientific boy and he was building a space cloud for them to travel. As they heard, the only couple who made it up there used a space cloud but they fell down while trying to jump on the mountain. Yakamiskonatatiborazisu and Ko made a plan to jump on the closest mountain and then to the carrotic mountain. Ko was going to hold the backup rope while Yakamiskonatatiborazisu was climbing. It seems unbelievable but they did it...we won't give you the details like what were these funnels controlling or what Yakamiskonatatiborazisu and Ko changed...the only thing we can say is that you are looking at a very very important piece of art. This painting was performed by one of the MASA (Maternity Aerobic and Spinning Administration) members who was passing by...to keep this moment eternal. 

You should ; 

Watch : http://vimeo.com/43773523

See : http://www.behance.net/gallery/James-The-Giant-Peach/790821

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnR_4dXbyhs&feature=related

Little Fatal Baby Dreams

Original Title :  Pink Laundry 

Artist :  Katerina Orfanou

Painted by : Yip

True story of the photo : The photo is called the pink laudry and I just took it one afternoon on my way to go out. The building is very close to mine, the pink pallette caught my eye, I smiled, made the circle arround the block, parked and click!

My story for the photo : Once upon a time, there was a shirt living in Athens. He was dark blue with light green stripes. The territory he was  staying was not so nice, there were a lot of immigrants and they were not elegant. Each time he was driving crazy because of this lack of good taste. Pink skirts with orange belts, brown tops with black dots...They were all irresistable for him. He wanted to move somewhere else but the rents were so high, especially around his favorite area; Plaka. He had a part-time job on a tent. Clothes were working on tents these days. The job was about to make the  best combination with the laundries by staying hanged down on tents. This branch was born after an installation made by a Greek pyhsics teacher years ago. As the clothes realized it's an easier job than anything else, they created an union for that. Anyway, their office was in Ilioupoli, so that he had to take metro. One day, as he was going to work, a red dress got into the same wagon with him. Aki  (that was his name, he was a tiny little baby so his parents called him like that for one year, until he was baptised and decided to name him like that) lost himself when he saw her, his tongue locked, his eyes blushed. She was his dream cloth! He quickly daydreamed of their future life, the little blue son with red collar and green striped purple daughter...Red Dress was reading her book and she was not aware of him. When the train arrived Dafni, Red Dress put her book in her bag. She got ready to get off. Aki had to wait until his station but he couldn't let Red Dress just disappear. Of course he went after her. Like a stalker, he chased her all way long. As she arrived her workplace, which was another tent of course, Aki sat on the pavement across the street and watched her while she was working. He kept doing this for weeks, he got fired because of not even showing up, he was broke and almost going to lose his house. But love and Red Dress was much more important than all these. She was not aware of him, and unlike the shirts and shorts, she was able to work all year because she could be combined with sweaters and socks. Aki, on the other hand, was an 'only summer' worker. He was not used to cold but he was sitting on the pavement to watch her. Finally he got a very bad flu. It turned into tuberculosis, and unfortunately there was not any possible treatment for clothes back then. As the Red Dress worked, Aki died slowly while loving her...

You should ; 

Watch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gNDKlogxgw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

See : http://www.laundrylist.org/en/programs/art

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Ke2Hmkpdc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Pretty Me Pretty You

Original Title : Evcilik
Artist : İzlem Genç
Painted by : Yip

True story of the photo : Me and İzlem were in a village called Kozlu last week. There exists a cinema academy which İzlem attented for their 'creative producing' course and I went for holiday. We were having breakfast and dinner at the garden with an open kitchen, and one night we found these pair of seats at the corner. It felt like someone was punished and somebody made him/her sit like that; face towards the wall. And İzlem decided to shoot a photo of me while sitting there. But the little lamp on the wall was making a disturbing flicker, so I borrowed Nil's sweater in order to cover it. It was a bit high, and we all know that I'm short...so I was rising on my fingertips and İzlem just shot this one. Yes, it's me :)

My story for the photo : Yip was a tiny little baby when she was born. By saying tiny, we really mean tiny. And also she was really dark, but as she grew up, her color became normal (after a few days as they say). She was a very cute little girl, until her 6. After that age, she started to think that she has nothing to do with beauty but she was smart (she still is!). All through her elementary school years, she kept believing that she was ugly. Although having a boyfriend -even at pre-school!- she never stopped thinking like that. Then she went to middle school and her mind didn't change. But...as she became a high school student, everything changed. She started to look better, even though she had brackets on her teeth, she was pretty at last! And her college years were really so good, she was very very very very dressy. It was unbelievable but she really was...and she was upsetting male kind...so much. Thing she was doing never been on purpose, but somehow she was always making them sad. She was harsh ok, and not so romantic in daily basis but so what?!!!! Then she fell deeply in love..eh, she gained a little weight after the first year of her relationship, because 'the boyfriend' was making her to eat pizza kind of food everyday :) People say that she made him unhappy from time to time after their on-going relationship but he pulled her down too!!!! Then, as she moved to Istanbul and started to work, she gained a lot weight (and also some medicines that she had to use helped this) and she again stopped to liking herself. But, a few months ago, something happened. Nobody knows what is that, but she now looks better. We guess she grew up, accepted that she's not a child but woman, and her look deals out with that but no one knows the exact reason...And also, now she makes male kind happy again, she is still not that romantic in common understanding but she has her own ways to show her love yani! To summarize, Yip's journey...snail to skouliki, skouliki to butterfly....:))) 


You should ; 

See : http://www.behance.net/gallery/Our-Grand-Despair-Bizim-Buyuk-Caresizliimiz/1378783

Watch : (from artist herself)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXjk_qn3cQ


Listen : (from artist herself) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuK0xx0u6dI

The Day For The Beeceased

You should ; 

See : http://make-everything-ok.com 

Watch + Listen : http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cr5NSTou15A 

Read : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Mo_Bee 

Women Ruin Everything

Original Title : Beauty's Redemption
Artist : Anargyros Drolapas
Painted by : Yip

True story of the photo : (written by the artist himself)

Eyes Open Description:

The photo is from an exhibition called: "The gathering", where Greek and foreign artists respond with posters, portraying both their physical and metaphysical relationship with Greece. The poster is original work of Istvan Laszlo, with the title: Diadem

Eyes Closed Description:

It is like the movie: " The Shawshank Redemption". Behind that poster is the last exit. Our last exit. From a world full of violence, lies and ugliness. If you want to escape to a strange new world full of beauty. If you want to unlock that exit door, all you have to do is to kiss the boy on his paper lips with your eyes closed.

My story for the photo : Long long time ago, there was a village at the top of İda Mountain. This little village was consisted of curly haired people who were extremely beautiful. Nobody knew ehy they eere that much pretty but some was assuming that once a God arrived there and made love with the most beautiful girl of the village. But that was only an assumption, there was not anything to prove that...A boy called Diademonicus opened his eyes after the Big Storm. The storm was called the Big Storm because it ruined everything in the village including the economical standing of fishes. When he was born, midwife of his screamed in a wide range because he had a red point on his forehead. That was very unusual in the village of pretty ones. Ah, by the way, they were immortal...in their own criterias of course. Diademonicus grew up under the sad looks of the village people and his parents. He couldn't understand the reason behind it until he reached 21. The age of marriage in this village was 21 and when he turned 21 nobody got in the line for him. That was the trigger for Diademonicus...He finally examined himself in front of a mirror and decided that people without a the red mole deserve beauty. This idea made him extraordinarily angry and he started to follow and kill all the pretty mortal women. After a while, this no name murders became popular and world people started to worry. Police opened up many files, a lot of officers and detectives went after the murderer who they call 'Extreme Gentle', but nobody succeeded. One day, a young women, a very very pretty young women met Diademonicus in a dark street. He was about to kill her but she had a perfectly pretty face and look that he had never seen. He couldn't put his knife up...as he was running away, a man standing at his balcony saw him and called the police. The great operation got started and finally he got caught. A breaking news on the most popular newspaper of the world was published on that day...this is a copy of it found last week by the archeologists.


You should ;

See : http://www.behance.net/gallery/A-Not-so-ancient-Approach-On-Ancient/3694363


Watch : https://vimeo.com/37803777


Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3gz7AXIhkc

You Can Be Loved By Anyone

Original Title : Elizabeth
Artist : Bertan Dobada
Painted by : Yip

True story of the photo : Please visit this link and read the true story by me real time. 'Old lady' in the text is her.    http://a-thin-aa.blogspot.com/2010/09/day-6-episode-1-bertyip-around.html

And there exist some details of course. We first saw her on the road to Akropoli, she was walking slowly. Bert was shooting some painters on that road so I was just hanging around. Her blue dress and smiling face made me watch her for a very long time. Then Bert and me went to have sangria, to somewhere in Plaka. She came by...sat the table behind us and we both were dying to take a photo hers. We were making plans on asking her, but the time arrived by itself. Bert and her, caught an eye on each other, she smiled, Bert took the photo...everybody was happy!

My story for the photo :  Under seas, there was a kingdom. The King had 18 daughters and 9 sons. Number 15 was called 'Vie'. When she was born, The King felt something different; a butterfly flying in his belly, a honey bee wondering around...that's why he named her 'Vie' after his favorite song sang by the woman he used to love. Yes, he was in love with a woman who was living on earth. She was a well known singer and he saw her when he went on earth in his youth. He had so little time to stay on earth, but he spent every single minute of his time by listening to her. She was not aware of him, because he was so little. Sea people were shrinking after leaving the water, so that he was a little tiny man who cannot be recognized by anyone. After his trip back, he kept thinking about her but there wasn't any way for him to be with her back then. His parents made him marry to another sea girl, have children and become The King. But his love always lived in his heart, that's why he sent an army of his own to protect her and built a tiny castle which will follow her all the time. She never knew that, but he kept his eye on her with the hope that she'll find out about him one day and accept to be a sea person...

You should; 

See : http://peopletoo.ru/2010/akvalangist/index.html

Watch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZmMjMdrqs

Listen : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QE5rjJAX4A