THINK DUSUN
07 February – 31 March 2008

05  21.03.2008 Fazil Say visits Think!
04  01.03.2008 Thinking continues
03  07.02.2008 4 o' clock tea opening
02  05.02.2008 Things to think about
01  The Paintings

We invite you to visit English artist Ned Pamphilon for a final exhibition at the Art & Life Gallery in Cihangir before he returns to the UK. Ned has been perceived as a voluntary cultural ambassador promoting Turkiye; developing a relationship with the Turkish public via live painting sessions and social projects.

Watch him work and contribute yourself with paint and materials supplied by Rowney Daler. Ned will paint live at the gallery and a film camera will be present as we continue to film footage with working the title Turkce Ogrenmek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgKJCkXE03Q

After maintaining a studio in Turkiye for 10 years, Ned has plenty to consider as we host a think tank opportunity to openly discuss anything from art to football; Billy Meier to SpongeBob SquarePants; zero point energy to Building 7.

If you have something to say about Istanbul, Turkiye or life in general we invite you to come, come whoever you are, however you are, just come and contribute whether Turkish or yabanci; male or female; adult or child; come share your thoughts whether Turkish or English or Plejaren.

What do you know about shifting time meridians? Come share your knowledge at…
The 4 O' Clock Tea Time Think Tank with Ned Pamphilon
Ned is waiting for the question bugging you; to hear the instrument you play; to share your home made cake!

Closed minds stay fixed in the past. Share your imagination.
Come to the NPP Think Tank! Gel gel, ne olursan o gel!
THINK DUSUN

…… will higher petrol prices save the world from global warming? Can Turkiye do well in the up coming European Championships? Why do fizzy coloured sugar water drinks make so much money? Why is there water shortage when most of the world is covered in it? Do Turks want to join the EU? Why eat so much lesser quality foreign food when Turkish home cooking is so good? What alternative energy sources are there? Do you ponder time and space? Are 100% tax cuts possible? Have UFO's been identified? Are you satisfied with the banking system? Do you believe your politicians? Have you heard of Ron Paul? Did JP Morgan really say to Tesla "...great technology, but I can't put a meter on it" ? Are cartoons worth legal action? What's the most controversial conversation we can have? Have you heard about the car that runs on air? The air car? Yeah!

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21.03.2008 Fazil Say visits Think!

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Fazil Say came to visit Think! with his girlfriend Inan. We discussed many subjects including the Rainbow Bridge project. Fazil is an EU Ambassador and suggests he mentions the project at one of his EU meetings. Sure, anything is worth a try. Poor chap; this brilliant international pianist was even subjected to my singing the Istanbul song as my enthusiasm took the better of me...



















Serin who arranged the visit with Fazil's manager Kadir and Nilay who organised film camera production with the rather hairy Emre.

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Saturday 01 March 2008 - Nihat Sandikcioglu visited Gallery Art & Life. Nihat has left Tepe Nautilus to embark upon a new venture later this month. Good luck Nihat and thanks for all support of NPP over recent years.

Monday 03 March 2008 - Arts reporter Rumeysa Ozel from Zaman newspaper and her photographer Orhan (or was it Onur? Let me know!) visited the gallery this morning.
I visited Daghan at Erez Foto Studio in preparation for an up-coming Fenerbahce painting. I am a one team man - Arsenal - and this is just a bit of fun, though no doubt Galatasaray and Besiktas fans plus others will take it all too seriously. Think what ever you wish. Here's an out-take shot...
Ugur visited with his friend Tuba. Ugur has set up a Ned Pamphilon Facebook group. He showed me today and it has 223 members. I do not belong to Facebook, but if you do, you can access here...
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22244960153
This link was sent through to NPP...
www.tuvalim.com
Also, this was sent to me by different contacts, a blind Turkish artist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AgO6H0H98&eurl=http://widget-58.slide.com/widgets/sf.swf

Wednesday 05 March 2008 - Musicians Ugur and Mehmet popped into the gallery. I found them last week practising in Cihangir Park. Another link to another website referencing the current exhibition...
http://www.anneyiz.biz/haber/haberdtl.php?hid=10820
Last year my friend 'Buddha' O'Connor showed me a photo of Einstein which appears to be Marilyn in an edition of the New Scientist 31 March 2007. I am producing an experimental painting to see if I can replicate the effect and this is the latest stage.
The effect is referenced here...
http://skirmisher.org/weird-shit/the-disturbing-einsteinization-of-marilyn-monroe/

Friday 07 March 2008 - My Fenerbahce painting. No doubt I'll get comments for and against. For me it is merely an exercise of creation as an Arsenal fan....Fena Degil? Fener Yeah!Idil Gur and Zeynep Naz visited the gallery and added to paint the communal canvas. They were members of Ugur's Ned Pamphilon Facebook group...

We took the Maryilynstein-Albert Munroe painting into the street to see if indeed Albert becomes Marilyn at distance. This is Ugur below holding the painting in Gunesli Sokak...
And next below I have cropped the shot and you may be able to just make out what looks like Marilyn. It is more apparent in real life time...
And this is the painting. Walk away from it or squint your eyes and you should should Marilyn Munroe...Today we had a TV shoot in Cihangir Park. They ran a line into the gallery for an electric power supply. Cheeky! A young man on a scooter delivered water to the building and stuck his thumb up at me because he obviously liked the Fenerbahce painting displayed in the window.

Another chap had come into the gallery to shake my hand regarding the Fener painting. "Arsenal Fenerbahce Euro Champion final!" he predicted. I wondered if he knew I was an Arsenal fan. This link was sent to me...
http://www.sailingseraphim.com/

Saturday 08 March 2008 - met Yuksel Oktay. He introduced me BÜTÜN DÜNYA Magazine and websites www.turkla.com and www.nationofturks.com/index.php
Here's Yuksel in the NPP studio...
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07.02.2008 4 o' clock tea opening

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We had 4 o'clock tea to officially open THINK! DÜŞÜN! at Gallery Art & Life. Below is Birsen who makes me lunch and supplies teas and coffees on a daily basis, with a smaller visitor...
The artist with SpongeBob SquarePants..

911 WTC7? and a rare NPP abstract...

My film director Kerem sneaks into frame left...

Having a bang and strum...

Haktan Akdogan arrives to ponder my UFO paintings...

Wit Haktan and Beste...

Saturday 09 February 2008 - Huge rise in British UFO sightings

Monday 11 February 2008 - an example of online exhibition information at Arkitercom:
http://www.arkitera.com/sa24875-ned-pamphilon---think---tank.html

Sunday 17 February 2008 - The Dallas Morning News
Philip Giraldi: What FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds found in translation

Monday 18 February 2008 - Christian Heinrici and Erdogan Karakus, activists in a German based humanist movement, visited the THINK! DÜŞÜN! exhibition to be interviewed on camera about who they were, what they were doing and so forth. In Turkish the relevant organisation is called ''Kuresel Barış ve Adalet Koalisyonu'' (Kuresel BAK) , in English called ''Global Peace and Justice Coalition''.
The relevant websites are there...http://www.kureselbarisveadalet.org/
http://www.europeforpeace.eu/
uk@europeforpeace.eu
www.neuer-humanismus.de
www.humanisten.ch

A meeting is due to take place 01 March 2-5pm at Taksim Hill Hotel featuring ex-soldier Chris Capps http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/388/86/


It is interesting to consider the symbols used to promote peace, so here are a couple of links...
http://www.nonukesnorth.net/peacesymbol.shtml
http://www.radioliberty.com/Symbolsandtheirmeaning.html

The PEACE SYMBOL or NERO'S CROSS: A broken, upside-down cross. To Roman emperor Nero, who hated and persecuted the early Christians, it meant destruction of Christianity. Revived in the sixties by hippies and others who protested nuclear weapons, Western culture, and Christian values, it now symbolizes a utopian hope for a new age of global peace and earth-centered unity. But many of heavy metal rock fans would agree with Nero and use it to mock Christ and His followers.

Tuesday 19 February 2008 - About 35-40 students from Turkiye, Portugal, Spain and Sweden visited the exhibition. I gave a spontaneous talk about who I was, what I had been doing, Turkiye, free energy etc...it seemed to go well. Some of them even painted and I await the photos.
Friday 22 February 2008 - NPP reproduced Ataturk's Eyes III for Sabanci Holding company Gimsa Gimento Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. as below.
Saturday 23 February 2008 - 15 year old Pinar Akarsu from TED Koleji visited me with her mother. Pinar interviewed me for a school project...


Monday 25 February 2008 - the latest painting:
Sibel St. Edmonds: Peace of Mind...

Thursday 27 February 2008 - I've just had a call from Erkut in Novia Scotia, Canada wanting to use NPP images for his restaurant. He said he was looking at my exhibition in Sabah and indeed, here is is...
http://www.sabah.com.tr/
Then to here...
http://kultur.sabah.com.tr/index.html
Eventually you can find this - with Sabah logo written in the corner of our teaser film...cheeky buggers!! But, it's cool:
http://kultur.sabah.com.tr/dosya/dosya-4371.html
There's also this in Divitt Haber...
http://www.elelebizbize.com/divitt/new/index.php?route=view_det&id=952
Big Istanbul...
http://www.bigglook.com/biggistanbul/kultur/aktv_detay.asp?aa_id=6&aktv_id=22391&subof=
Istanbul Kolay...
http://istanbulkolay.com/kultur-sanat/sergiler/ned-pamphilon-think-tank.html

Friday 29 February 2008 - Zehra and Şukru from Kanal A visited the gallery. We added a Kanal A logo to the communal painting.

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