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Diaries of a young woman, lived in 1930s, died in her 25
11st November 2006
How it feels to die when you're only 25?
I imagine myself dying when I'm 25. To be buried with passions to be fulfilled, things to be done.
Melek Kobra lived in 1930s' Istanbul. In a country transforming itself and integrating to modern world. She was also an important figure of this transformation.
She died of tuberculosis, and in her last three years, she began to write diaries. She was aware of her fate, but she kept writing it, to her very last days.
Her diaries were found in 2006, nearly seventy years after her death.
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Melek Kobra
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| Exotic Adventure Films No More?
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from the movie 'King Solomon's Mines', 1937
| I've seen Peter Jackson on a TV interview. He was telling how he came to the idea of shooting yet another King Kong movie. When he was a boy living in New Zealand, after he watched the original King Kong on the single TV channel, he decided to make a new King Kong film of his own.
This reminded me my childhood. In Turkey, we had only one TV channel till 1987. On Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons, generally there were Hollywood adventure films. In 80's, we were watching the movies of 70's - 60's and even older. And those films were based on the classic novels written at the begining of the 20th century. In those years, the world was still an amazing place, that had lots of places waiting to be discovered.
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| In those exotic adventure films the story passed mostly in Central Africa, South America rain forests or in the wild islands of Pacific Ocean.
As there was no such thing as 'animal rights' then, so lots of animals were slaughtered during the films. Nearly the same thing applied to the black native people. They were also killed in masses, eaten bu the lions, falling from high cliffs.
When Peter Jackson reshot King Kong, I tried to remember how many exotic adventure films were shot in 90's and in 21st century. After the Indiana Jones trilogy of 80's, there were no remarkable movies of this genre. But it's not a surprise.
The earth is not an interesting place anymore. There's nowhere waiting to be discovered on ground, furthermore there's nearly no place untouched by the elements of civilization.
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Bilgin Esme, Apr 2006
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| All those school years in 90s
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termites1 - One of the drawings I've made during Circuit Design classes
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I've spent most of the 90's at university. Either Istanbul Technical University or Bogazici University.
I studied Electrics & Electronics though I've never practiced as a profession. The classes were useful for improving my artistic talents.
90s are generally referred as "Information Age", or maybe "Internet Age". It's true in most ways. Personally, I split 90s into two before 95 and after because the year 1995 is when I first started using the internet.
Before 1995, 90s were a mere continuation of the legendary 80s for me. In 1991 I remember I was in the market for a new Walkman. No need to say that it was still Japan's imperial age for electronics, cars. Everything was still Made in Japan. We did not have any doubt that it will last forever. In the film, Black Rain - Micheal Douglas, you can observe this trend.
In other words, until 1995, for me, 90s were still an electronics age.
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