How coincidental do you want it?In October 1927, Kemal Mustapha gave a speech that lasted six days. Yes, Fidel Castro certainly fell short of that with his six or eight hour speeches. When I was preparing my book “IS, the Kurds and the Caliphate. Turkey: from sick occupant to paranoid neighbor”. [The footer contains a… Continue reading The very little known ‘Atatürk’
Category: Art
Inspiration
Visiting Malta to get inspiration for my faction novel, this was the first photo I took of the capital, Valletta. Work was underway on the impossibly thick wall surrounding the new capital, which the Maltese started to build immediately after the Ottoman invasion of the island was repelled in 1565.So a restaurant was built IN… Continue reading Inspiration
Finding that look in his eyes
Preparing a fourteen fold portrait of the great Frank Zappa I produced the preliminary you see below. The (black and white) reference photo you see in the middle of the photo above was (too) small. So I studied the (photo) of a statutue of him and close-up photos of eyes like those on the right.… Continue reading Finding that look in his eyes
Sensible gender signs on toilets
I came across them in a former school building. The left door is for the pissoir, the other for the WC that one is supposed to sit on. But in the war over the toilets in the context of the transgenderism agenda, it is of course not about those small spaces in which that exit… Continue reading Sensible gender signs on toilets
Warhorses
Photo by Mark Raen
Millions of horses and mules died in Wordl War I.Steven Spielberg made a movie about the fate of the animals.You can find information about the real story behind this here. To make this photo must have taken lots and lots of preparation. Literally hundreds of men participated in the project. Look through your eyelashes at… Continue reading Warhorses
Aristocratic cowardice, betrayal and opportunism
Since I took the photo above and below almost 10 years ago as part of my preparations at Malta for writing my faction novel, I’ve learned a lot more about the topics mentioned in the title.At that time I had not yet heard of the horrible organized betrayal and global lust for power of the… Continue reading Aristocratic cowardice, betrayal and opportunism