Blumbomen Have a New Song!

Does any of you remember Blumbomen? Blobby, cute and multi colored? It has almost been a year since their first album came out.

Now, Blumbomen have a new song that is SO MEGA that it will simultaneously melt and detonate your brenos. (Brains.)

Its name? Horni in Ezmirna. That alone should prompt you to immediately to go listen to it here on Myspace!

Updates and Good News

After being quiet for over a month, here I am back with the latest developments:

Me and my friend John Conway have just had our very first presentation in a scientific conference, at the Dinosaurs- a Historical Perspective meeting at the Geological Society in London. Our "gig" constituted a small talk and a huge poster about the different ways pterosaurs (ancient flying reptiles,) were visualized and portrayed over the last century-and-half of palaeo studies. Keep watching this space, I will post it online soon!

In the other news, justice prevailed (a rare instance) in Turkey as the notorious Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya, was jailed under charges of forming a criminal organization. Besides publishing bad copies of 30's American creationist tracts and opening dodgy "creation exhibits" left and right, Harun Yahya and co. were threatening people with blackmail, operating a shady, religiously-tinted prostitution ring and trying to subvert the courts that persecuted them. Good riddance!

Tree of Life Exhibition Opens on the 4th!

I'm preparing for one of the largest art shows I've done up to date.



The "Tree of Life" will feature a 10 meter-square illustrated cladogram of all life on Earth, plus 139 individual digital paintings that each explain a single branch of this tangled bank.

The opening will take place at 15.00 on April the 4th, in Sabanci University's FASSART gallery. Sabanci University is in Tuzla. That's a long way off from Istanbul. But you can still get there with shuttles that take off regularly from Taksim and Kadikoy.

Even if you can't make it to the opening, you should still visit the Tree of Life in the 8 days it remains open until the 12th of April.

Czech it Out!

An article by Vladimír Socha in the Czech magazine Svĕt features my Dinosauroid in an article devoted to intelligent dinosaurs.

Darren Naish blogs more about it, quickly - visit his weblog too!

Arthur C Clarke

He conceived the communications satellite, moved the genre of science fiction from pulp amusement to serious reading territory, and inspired millions of others. At least he had a long and fulfilling life. This was one of the few deaths of people I did not directly know, that upset me so much...

Parasites: A Documentary

Parasites! Parasites! Parasites!
At long last, my new documentary about this most misunderstood group of creatures is complete.

The world's longest tapeworm!
A worm that modifies the behavior of its host!
Crustacean relatives that replace the tongue, or hitch a ride on the eyes of fish!
Fish that burrow into people's genitals!
People who eat tapeworms as an additional source of protein!

It's all here. And all you've got to do is to watch it on the Parasites Website.
Enjoy!

My Memetic Fauna on Mercan Dede.com

Glow-in-the-dark creatures from my Memetic Fauna are now gracing the updated website of Mercan Dede, aka Arkin Allen - the world-famous musician who blends Turkish Sufi music with DJing. Wow!