Sexy Cows..and not only!

I bet you've never seen sexier cows before.They are stylish,colorful, three-dimentional , trendy and funny.

I kinda hear you saying: What's a sexy cow? :) What do you mean?

No , I'm not ironizing at all:) There are such ones:) You may find them everywhere in Istanbul actually:)

CowParade Istanbul it's the largest open air art exhibition in Istanbul organised 'till now.It's an international exhibition , open for all audiences who want to share their art .Different works of different artists and people not dealing with art are present in this exhibition.This exhibition aims to mix all of these conmpositions and create so a very special , warm , cozy atmosphere for an unforgettable event.

These awesome cows are emplaced in some of the most popular Istanbul districts.I've seen some of them and are truly amazing and genuine , each of them bearing a different message .

The Cow Parade is very popular and has been organised in different areas of the world such as :1998 Zurich ,1999 Chicago ,2000 New York ,2001 Houston, Kansas ,2002 Las Vegas,London, Sydney ,2003 Atlanta, Auckland, Dublin, Tokyo ,2004 Cape Town, Johannesburg, Manchester, Prague, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, Harrisburg ,2005 Barcelona, Bratislava, Bucharest, Geneva, Florence, Monaco, Moscow, Sao Paolo, Warsaw, 2006 Paris, Edinburgh, Athens, Lisbon, Budapest, Norway, Boston, Denver, Curitiba , 2007 İstanbul , 2008 Pekin .

A sum of 10.000.000 $ , earned until know in the held exhibitions and auctions has been deposited to different charity organisations.The profits from the auction that'll be held in Istanbul Cow Parade will be deposited to Rehabilitation Centre for Homeless Children , AÇEV (Foundation for Children with Leukamia) and TEMA (enviromental foundation)...

For more infos on this cool project have a look here: http://cowparade-istanbul.com

Open air theatre

Remember once I told you, I had a park very close my house? But I don't know either why I don't go there often.Maybe it's because I don't have time or I'm not well organised.Anyway...
3 days ago , after feeling devastated from a tiring work day , I decided to have a stroll in the park.Yay!I did the best thing! Hanged I saw an open air theatre's posters: It was Sophocle's "Antigone" .This one ,would be organised in the park on Sunday , 21.00 hour by the drama students of Yeditepe University.
Some notes on Antigone : Antigone is the best-known daughter of Oedipus and Jocastra. However, due to the incestuous nature of their relationship, Antigone is also Oedipus's half-sister and Jocasta's granddaughter.According to the history the city of King Laos (the first husband of Jocastra) was cursed by the temple gods and Jocastra's son would kill his father and marry his mother.Terrifyed by this idea, the king and queen give away their son to be killed and one peasant hangs the baby from his foot.But , the baby is saved by other peasants who give this baby to another king who calls him Oedipus (that means swelling foot in Greek) because of his swelling foot.But when Oedipus growns up , he learns the truth and goes to find his family.On a trip he quarrels with 2 people and kills one of them.When he reaches his family's city , he founds a mourning city because of the killed king.There's also another tragedy in the city ; the Sphynx that kills everybody who's not giving the right answer to his 2 questions.Oedipus comes out as a winner, so Sphynx forgives the city and commits suicide by jumping from a rock.As the city's rescuer , Oedipus is announced as the new king and marries Jocastra (his own mother ) from where they have 4 children (one of them is Antigone).When they learn about the truth , Jocastra commits suicide and Oedipus sticks needles to his eyes.Antigone's sad story (her life and tragic death) is used by many tragic Greek poets.
For more infos have a look here : http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%ADgona
The theatre was cool.It so special to watch it in nature..The play's music was great too , performed by some rhythm musicians.
Here you may find 2 photos from this event...

Shqip: Teatri "Antigona" i luajtur ne parkun afer shtepise time.Qe nje eksperience e veçante te shihje teater ne natyre.