Constantinople

The Basilica Cistern, also called the Yerebatan Sarayı or Yerebatan Sarnıcı, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that still lie beneath the city of Istanbul, former Constantinople. This is the only place that let me feel that era in istanbul. It was built in the 6th century, the age of glory of Eastern Rome, also called the Byzantine Empire.

Istanbul

My getting to here has a long story. Anyway I just post this letter from a guest house in Istanbul near Hagia sofya to remember this moment.

Cuttlas

I read a column about this remembering animation in one of our city dailies and translated some parts as below.

This animation which is made based on comic strips with the same name is an art phenomena; it uses primitive lined characters of our childhood and by all means is a magic of line.

Story of each episode is Cuttlas fighting with bad men, especially his main foe, Bad Jack. Jack is known by his cylinder hat and pistol. Cuttlas was slim with a cowboy hat. Their fight concluded with a thousand dead lined men spreading their blood all over the frame.

This 1992 animation is made by a Spanish animator named Calpurnio (b. 1959, Spain). There is a saying: "there is always a big name behind a simple but effective art work.

A quote of Albert Einstein

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”