Kera Leda

distortion

2010-10-04T14:59:00.000-07:00

i keep touching my body to see if it's still there.
my understanding of it is so off it's almost scary.

like a snowman with stendhal syndrome in berlin.

2010-03-07T05:43:00.000-08:00

yes.
i went to berlin (finally) in january. and i do realise it is march now, i really do. i haven't blogged about this until now cause initially i was, you know, lazy, and not fully accepting of the fact that i am back to a life of responsibility, school and such.
but then, i spilled tea on my laptop and i have been computerless for the past three weeks. do not do it. it causes an extreme amount of pain.so now, having got it back yesterday (fully working, but the writings are all pixelly and for some reason windows is denying to show me thumbnails, other than that we're totally fine compared to waht could've happened) i am completely slumped with the amount of work i have to do and don't know where to begin, hence the blogging.
so yes, berlin. berlin was so cool, both in literal and metaphoical sense. the temperature when i was there varied between -18 and +2, and my stay there consisted so little of touristing and so much of getting lost in the streets with fingers frozen on the camera, trying to capture light at dark, and then leaving the camera home for the nightlife. the whole thing ended with the most unexpected outcome, a relationship re-establised with my body. i guess we really needed that all night dancing to good music.

it runs in the family.

2010-01-09T16:26:00.000-08:00

so.
finally, vacation.
it hasn't quite hit me yet. what i got out of it until now is a fairly less dysfuctional sleeping pattern; which is defined by more sleep but waking up abruptly eary in the morning no matter what, and falling asleep at times like saturday night when your gay boyfriends are calling you out.
my room is still a mess, and the stack of books i checked out from the library to form ideas on my future thesis are still piled up on my desk, i haven't gotten around to any projects, but i did start carrying my camera arounda and ended up having a little homemade photoshoot-type thing when i was staying at my cousin's, the night before she left for london. we were both so exhausted, she had a runny nose and i could barely carry the camera but it got me to remember the feeling of it, which is a step, not a big step, but nontheless.

the styling was a combination of hers, mine, and her grandmother's vintage.

some candiderie:

and yours truly.

2009-11-27T01:39:00.000-08:00

i doodled this last week in class, while the teacher was telling a folk story about a woman who witnessed her teacher eat a little boy when she was a kid And when she would give birth as an adult

her children got stolen from her right after she had them, by some unnatural presence that would leave her with a dash of blood on her mouth so she would be accused...

folk stories happen in anthropology classes, and while the whole thing hit a very sensative spot, it was still very pleasent.

2009-11-23T20:40:00.000-08:00

something i pulled together yesterday instead of listening to class & studying: trying out my crayons in spanish class.

fog.

2009-11-21T10:22:00.000-08:00

i'm still slacking off of work, but i managed to go out and buy myself a load of candy and crayons, and do that:

this is what today felt like to me. fog, and peacefulness. i fit into it like a glove that found the right hand. i was listening to zoe keating through the whole process. because legions of cello fit the fog.

2009-10-11T09:06:00.000-07:00

hi! says the internet dirty talker.
tag it, blog it, tweet it, snap it.

Kera Leda

2009-10-11T08:51:00.000-07:00

the name's Eda Çakmak. i would very much like to go by it,but then i wouldn't be the only one to come up when you google my name, and as a person who believes in te power of google, i wouldn't like that very much.

currently live in, walk around and curse at the traffic in the city of istanbul. can be pretty serious about cheesy stuff. i do photography, and try to do my anthropology readings part time. i believe in fiction. ten of my fingers are attached to my laptop, which is humming uncomfortably at the amount of information given. i obsess about something new every day. i look like this:

FEEDZ

2009-10-03T01:21:00.000-07:00

ATOM

RSS

Links

2009-09-22T02:40:00.000-07:00

this will fil up with amazing stuff. like:

Magdalena Kmiecik, my recently favorite fashion photographer, also love her personal shoots.

profiles

2009-09-21T12:38:00.000-07:00

i have one just about everywhere.

here are some:
Last.fm
HypeM
Threadless (one day, i'll get printed. one day.)
YouTube (for the faves)
Tumblr (i keep using this more and more. have a feeling it'll be getting its own button soon.)
MySpace (yes, i have one of THAT too. only i don't use it.)

flickr

2009-09-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

it is a VERY good idea to follow my flickr if you're intrested in my visuals, as almost everything goes through there before ending up in blogs or else.

here.

deviantarts

2009-09-21T12:30:00.000-07:00

i have two of these.

one for photography - lizardisland.deviantart.

one for sketches, collages, stencils, and all the other arts& crafts - kertenleda.deviantart.

LiveJournal - the visual diary

2009-09-21T12:22:00.000-07:00

green under gray

porselen kertenkele (the blog in turkish)

2009-09-21T12:21:00.000-07:00

porselenkertenkele.blogspot

Portfolio

2009-09-21T12:15:00.000-07:00

a selection of works, yet to be completed.