We have a new monthly Dazed Digital column

Our dear friends in Dazed invited us to be a guest contributors to their blog. From November on, we’ll have a monthly post about digital folk. As our first, we present you Turkey’s anti-evolutionist showgirls. An Islamist fringes wraps its hard anti-Darwin message in skin-tight Versace, drag-queen make-up and po-mo posing.

For November, we briefly present a female creationist ensemble from Turkey. These girls have proven that Islam, sexual objectification, passion, belief, tabloidization, manipulation, anti-Darwin and Versace can come together. Five Turkish bombshells, they are often referred as the girls, angels or kitten of Adnan Oktar, a self-taught Islamic preacher who gained respect for his fervent Creationist teachings. He presents his beliefs as a reformed and urbanized versions of Islam, where he clearly states Muslims, Christians and Jews should unite against the corrupting influence of Darwinism. He is also the author of the books Atlas of Creation Quadriology, an anti-evolution, Islamic-saga bouillabaisse. It displays a stunning ignorance of basic biology, and 6 legged humans skeleton visualizations are among the arguments that are employed to contradict Darwin.

This fabulous five consists of Gülşah Güçyetmez, Ceylan Özbudak, Ebru Altan, Damla Pamir and Aylin Kocaman. They are the bewildering accessories of the TV Show Adnan Oktar Chat Time at the religious channel A9. Every night these blazing women come together with the Islamic Creation packmaster Mr. Oktar. They hold discussions about Islam, pseudo-insta-fossils discrediting evolution and their favorite topic: Mr. Oktar.

This surreal set-up might be hard to grasp for a non-Turkish person. (One half of Pinar&Viola is Turkish). These woman contradict the terrorized image of Muslims used in the global press, while going completely against all the hardwork feminist activists have been battling over the years. While the restrictive state of Turkish journalism grows into a national shame, scandal and sensation still makes up a huge part of the Turkish media. Five voluptuous ladies with a combination of Zentai-tight, now-in-style Versace garments and make-up capable of making drag queens jealous, rubbing shoulders with religious sisterhood, and many references to history’s matriarchs.

These five women state they behave following the ethics of Kur’an, where it’s written the ones Allah guides look alike, as a reaction to questions regarding their similar looks. All of these girls have their own individual social media stardoms where they make loud manifestations adding to their media attention.

It’s not the first time that sensationalism, lies and cheap entertainment have been used to boost the ratings of a TV program, especially not in Turkey. That’s why the educated, intellectual, secular part of the Turkish population became completely immune to this first-degree propaganda. Their solution is simple, and troublesome – make fun of it.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:05 am, filed under Decadence, Dematerialization, Fashion, Folk, Friends, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Other ecstatics, P&V for Dazed Digital, Persona, Pinar&Viola, Published, Various, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Bōsōzoku

Bōsōzoku (暴走族?, literally “violent running tribe”) is a Japanese youth subculture associated with customized cars, motorcycles or trucks. Bōsōzoku is popular since the 1990s.
Bōsōzoku are known to modify their car, motorcycles or truck in peculiar and often showy ways.
These cars are often modified with large exhaust pipes, bright paint, and large aero kits, he latter modelled on Group 5 “Special Production Cars” of the 1970s. Also popular are oil coolers or less commonly large turbo or supercharger intercoolers with highly polished tubing, usually mounted in a prominent position in the front bumper.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:54 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Dematerialization, Folk, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Other ecstatics, Subculture, Uncategorized, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Halloween costume inspiration 2: Art Lover

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:11 pm, filed under Art, Craftsmanship, Dematerialization, Fashion, Folk. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Halloween costume inspiration

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 26, 2012 at 8:48 am, filed under Fashion, Folk, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Hip hop album covers

This post is made possible by Jonathan Puckey. (ps: Special thanks to Selby for the Crazy Fetus tip.)

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 23, 2012 at 4:35 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Graphic design, Music, Various, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

creative jeans

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on at 2:51 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Dazed n Confused office animals

For their November issue, Dazed & Confused prepared a long article about our latest Collection Scandal Aqua. We’re now in London for the Frieze Art Fair. While visiting their office, our new friends at the Dazed suggested that we make special edition Dazed digital blogpost about Frieze through Pinar&Viola scanner.

As a result, we prepared a collection of iGadgets displayed in the stand tables. It was quite striking to us to see the level of iConnectivity in each gallery module. We could feel the the reassuring pleasant feeling of being part of the VIP technologic community. From French Oceanic Art dealers in Frieze Masters to cutting-edge contemporary talent hunters from NY, all tables were ornate with the technologic wonder children of this century. It seems that the Mac slick look helps them to deepen the mystery, while making an allegorical reference to it’s context, Art.

You can see our post here, also we show you the little animal kingdom living in the Dazed & Another Magazine office.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 12, 2012 at 2:09 pm, filed under Fashion, Folk, Friends, Things 'n Flings, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Hans Brinker Campaign for KesselsKramer

Over long years of tireless campaigning, The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Amsterdam has striven to become the worst hotel in the world. Its stance of proud incompetence has led to great success, especially among those with an appreciation of brutal honesty. Six hundred guests daily can’t be wrong.
In fact: they’re right.

Because of the guests’ decades-long devotion, we can add a new superlative when describing the Brinker: it’s Amsterdam’s No.1 attraction.
The truth is that the Brinker collects the best of Amsterdam’s popular attractions in one place. The beds are as cruel as any rack in the Torture Museum. The staff stare as vacantly as any dummy in the Wax Museum. And you just nip to the Brinker’s overflowing bathrooms to experience your own personal canal tour.

All these attractions under one hotel roof are especially attractive to the average Brinker guest, who rarely regains consciousness early enough to make it outside in daylight hours.
You’re invited to experience Amsterdam’s No.1 attraction, the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.

Agency: KesselsKramer
Art-director: Gijs van den Berg
Copywriter: Niek Eijsbouts
Creative director: Erik Kessels
Graphic design: Pinar&Viola
Producer: Daphne Linthorst

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:25 pm, filed under Amsterdam, Craftsmanship, Ecstatic Surface Design, Folk, Friends, Glam Chaos, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Poster, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Adididas

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 4, 2012 at 11:00 am, filed under Chinese sugar, Dematerialization, Fashion, Folk, Ghetto gold, Research, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Apaçi car pimping

Apaçi is quite a cool Turkish word. Its commonly used among men, and its meaning comes close to something (especially cars, hair, outfit and manners) that is pimped-up with an admiration to the West, yet customized with a Turkish, folk, traditional and sometimes Islamic touch. Apaçi car pimping can be considered as a small subculture in Turkey.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:25 am, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Ghetto gold, Subculture. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Facekini, not Pussy Riot

For two weeks only, we’re giving a workshop at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague about the contemporary meaning, usage of the mask and new strategies where masking is applied today. We’re guest teachers at PlayLab, the class of Roosje Klap and Job Wouters. Last week, students came up with quite some good examples. Face-kini being one.

What we learned in the West is that the skin tan is basically a business model and one of the main reasons for going to the beach. While in China, some are going to extraordinary lengths to avoid getting a bit of sun with a new item of beachwear – dubbed the Facekini – causing something of a stir in the coastal tourist city of Qingdao, Shandong Province.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:58 pm, filed under Chinese sugar, Fashion, Folk, Research, Utterly China, Workshop. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.