Efes Pilsen One Love Festival Day 2

And we're back to the festival.
As soon as we arrived the Turkish band Baba Zula started to play. It was kinfd of cool until.... I got a call from work telling me we had to do another shooting (just like yesterday), So I left Ekin and the others there and went to work only to come back 2 hours later.


















































I noticed this building, please take a closer look at the windows. They're not symmetrical, another Turkish style building, no offense ;)













When I came back Miss Platnum was playing, It was good too. First time I heard of her.











At night Shantel started Playing. Ekin is a big fan. Shantel is a German (from Romania) DJ mixing gypsy music from the Balkans. He really knows how to entertain the crowd. He has become very famous in Istanbul and comes at least once a month to perform here.

Efes Pilsen One Love Festival Day 1

This week-end, there is the Efes Pilsen One Love Festival. It's a music festival that takes place each year. It use to be at Park Orman in the Maslak Area and the bands used to be big bands (Black Eyed Peas, Morissey, Beastie Boys, Underworld,...), but this year they changed the place (Santral Istanbul or here) and the bands are somehow less known bands.

The new place is really great and this year it really felt like a real festival.

By the way, before going there I had a call from work telling me we had a shooting to do, so I dropped Ekin and the others at the festival, went to work and then came back later on.




































Róisín Murphy (former partner of the band Moloko)

Santral-Istanbul

Work day today, nice day today.







We went to the Sony RoadShow for the technology program I'm working for (Teknosohbet.tv)which took place in the museum part of SantralIstanbul (english). SantralIstanbul used to be a power plant (built during the Ottoman Empire) and supplied the city's energy for a long time. It was then abandoned but recently renovated by Istanbul Bilgi University and transformed into a cultural center. Classes take place there as well.
The Sony RoadShow was a little fair held for the press to show their last products in broadcasting (TV, Cinema) so it was very interesting for me. After shooting the reportage for the program we went around in the plant part. It was pretty nice to see that kind of place.
















































































The building on the left is the Otto Cafe, the big Grey building is the museum and the old building on the right (below) is the plant.





















Oreo seems tired today.