What If A Designer Went To Military Service ...

What If A Designer Went To Military Service With A Pocket-Size Notebook And A Ballpoint Pen

In my obligatory military service, I had been making this visual diary in my pocket-size notebook by ballpoint-pen for 6 months. My purpose is to show people my military experience as an industrial designer.

by Mehmet Mert Sezer

More info: mertadam.com

1) The huge man who was captured forcefully by police officers, calmed down when he saw gendarmes
2) The soldiers who try to learn how to read on coke bottle: Ar-ka-daş-la-rım

1) 12th September 1980 alternative story “Soldiers never let the wall free.”
2) You can see such of these numbers while traveling through Matrix or lying on the bed in military ward.

How many different ways 3 soldiers use to pass the door which is forbidden
-C101- Commando style
-C102- Open sesame!
-C103- Inception
-C104- Hulk?!

1) The man, in pitiful state, is smoking the last cigarette on the way to prison
2) – “I extend your military service” themed commander scolding and Mert who is reflected on glasses

An ordinary day as a prison gendarme
1) How do prisoners are shipped to Court House
2) A man who can open handcuffs by his rosary in a second.

The most pathetic scene of my military service,
1) The young lady, attending search for her father for hours, demolished when he was found…
2) And embed pain inside her

1) Some potraits on newspaper clippings
2) What I feel like…

I have just started to draw a visual diary. These were some weird moments on my first week.
1) Commander is coming to Gendarme Station
2)  The little boy who can’t share with parents
3) Guilty confrontation

1) Village headman candidates who are discussing about cutting trees
2)  Lost girls
3)  The funeral and ceremony steps

1) Sleepless night watchman in custody
2) Fast and Furious (SBS) – a protection patrol for examination of documents

İmpressions of the real story
1) Soldiers and division of labor
2) Mission: Pavilion raid

1)
-‘Are you afraid of me?’
-‘Yes’
-‘What if I don’t have any gun?’
-‘I wouldn’t be’
2) Soldiers and division of labor 2: How do 5 soldiers carry 5 boxes?

1) 3000m running and some technical problems
2) Division of labour 3, how do 5 soldiers clean 5 floors?

Which one is the best carrying method of linens for 5 soldiers?
-A101- Santa Claus method
-A102- Robin Hood method
-A103- Rapunzel method
-A104- Gendarme method

What is ‘şafak almak’?
– ‘Şafak almak’ , 4-stages action, is asking ‘how many days remain’ by old soldiers to humaliate new ones Here is the first ‘şafak’ of the new year

How do 5 soldiers stop movement of water in corridor?
-B101- Defensive stance, passive resistance
-B102- Crescent tactic, tactical resistance
-B103- Chaos, agressive resistance
-B104- Gandalf, is this you? “You shall not pass!”​

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CONTROVERSIAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY SPANISH ARTIST

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Controversial Illustrations By Spanish Artist Mirror 

The Ugly Side Of Society

While these images are safe for work, they’ll still make you feel dirty – and that’s because they reflect some of the dirtiest things about our society. Spanish artist Luis Quiles’ images are so powerful because they evoke deep visceral responses – be they arousal, terror or disgust.

Quiles gets down and dirty with topics like sexism, homophobia, exploitation and violence. He’s got more powerful works spread across his various profiles, but not all of it is safe for work (NSFW) or suitable for minors, so be warned!

by Dovas

More info: Facebook | Instagram | DeviantArt (h/t: sobadsogood)

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Satirical Illustrations Of Today’s Problems

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Satirical Illustrations Of Today’s Problems Drawn In The 

Style Of The 50s

John Holcroft is a well-known British illustrator who has worked for BBC, Reader’s Digest, The Guardian and the Financial Times, among others. However, what makes him famous are not his employers, but the brilliant satire reflected in his illustrations and the retro style he uses to create them. Everytime Holcroft publishes a new drawing, they inevitably go viral and spread all over the Internet. His style is based on advertisements from the 50’s, and he reproduces everything from their  design style down to their aged vintage feel .  The content of this illustrations, however, is anything but old fashioned -social issues and modern behavior drawn in satirical way.  The issues he focuses on include our dependence on technology, society's greed and devaluation of workers to name a few. 

More info: johnholcroft.com | Behance | Facebook (via: BoredPanda.es)

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Talk of Shell BP tie-up to create....

Talk of Shell BP tie-up to create £200bn world leader

Dec 13th, 2014

by John Donovan. 

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After a solid 10 hours locked in secret briefings at the Langham Hotel in London this week, 100 of BP’s top investors emerged into the crisp winter evening air to the grim news that oil prices had sunk to a new five-year low.

From an article in The Sunday Telegraph 14 December 2014 by Andrew Critchlow

UK oil giants fight for control in a current of falling prices

Investors in BP and Royal Dutch Shell – Britain’s biggest international oil companies – now find themselves caught in the crossfire of a much bigger game

After a solid 10 hours locked in secret briefings at the Langham Hotel in London this week, 100 of BP’s top investors emerged into the crisp winter evening air to the grim news that oil prices had sunk to a new five-year low.

Given the challenges facing big oil producers, the mood at the briefing, led by BP’s upstream chief executive Lamar McKay, was described as being “serious” by those present. However, the thought of US crude crashing below $60 (£38) per barrel, a baseline level that most oil majors use to stress test the profitability of their future projects, will have pushed sentiment to a new low.

Investors in BP and Royal Dutch Shell – Britain’s biggest international oil companies – now find themselves caught in the crossfire of a much bigger game that is being played out by the world’s most powerful petroleum producing countries for control of the market.

Shares in these giants may have lagged behind a 44pc decline in Brent crude since June but now, along with most of their peers,they are in a frantic rush to cut capital expenditure and costs in line with the new constrained realities of the global oil market.The gap must start to narrow quickly.

“Every oil producer is hurting a lot,” Qatar’s former energy minister and Opec president Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah told The Telegraph. He has argued that the entire industry, including producers outside the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) where international oil companies are prevalent, must prepare to make big cuts.

Given the significant challenge that falling oil prices will continue to present for the likes of BP, the company may have been expected to have revealed even deeper restructuring cuts than the $1bn (£637m) it unveiled for next year. This will mean significant job losses are inevitable. More pessimistic investors would have expected even deeper cutbacks were possible to protect the bottom line.

Part of the challenge for BP’s upstream management team will be working out which projects it must fight to hold on to in the face of investor pressure.

“We expect to see growth from our conventional and deepwater assets and an increasing contribution from gas. And we also have a quality pipeline of opportunities that we believe are capable of extending underlying growth well beyond 2020,” said Mr McKay.

These schemes combined could produce an additional 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil equivalent by the end of the decade, boosting the company’s all important cash flow, which Deutsche Bank expects to grow by 5.3pc through to the end of 2017.

“The falling oil price is clearly a drag on sector cash flow and BP is no exception but we see the underlying operational momentum, flexibility on the capex base, commitment to simplify the business and low gearing levels that will support dividend payouts as enough for the next 12 months to outweigh our concerns over both the Macondo overhang and Rosneft,” said Barclays after the investor gathering.

BP and Shell are not the only global oil majors making hard choices over whether to invest into developing fields and exploring for new resources. Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the US, has delayed its drilling budget for next year and ConocoPhillips has said it would cut capital spending by 20pc to $13.5bn next year.

From the perspective of investors the current fall in oil price will see more emphasis placed on holding shares in the so-called “super majors” instead of higher risk smaller operators such as Cairn Energy and Premier Oil.

“Despite the large falls in oil prices we retain exposure to the highest quality exploration and production companies around the world,” said Neil Gregson, fund manager at JP Morgan Natural Resources Fund.

This flight to quality could trigger a surge in merger and acquisitions in the sector, which hasn’t seen a major deal since the big deals that followed BP’s takeover of Amoco in 1998, when oil prices were also in the doldrums.

Talk of a Shell tie-up with BP to create a £200bn world leader has excited the imagination of the City recently, but insiders in both companies see the deal as unlikely while the financial fallout from the Gulf of Mexico disaster remains unresolved.

“We expect the whole industry to be cutting costs aggressively in the present environment,” said Mr Gregson, who doesn’t hold BP in his portfolio. “There is potential also for M&A activity in the sector.”

Other analysts also expect that the downturn in oil prices will encourage majors to shun expensive and risky acquisitions to instead focus more ruthlessly on pruning their upstream project portfolios, to help reduce demand in the industry, which has pushed up the cost of drilling and constructing large engineering schemes. According to research by IHS the average cost for companies to produce oil and gas after drilling was completed had quadrupled to more than $21 per barrel in 2013.

“Downturns can be used to build and strengthen businesses; falling prices and activity levels allow companies to lock in lower costs from contractors and to access resources in the right postcodes on more favourable terms,” said analysts at Credit Suisse in a note to investors last week.

Next year companies are expected to make the final decision on around 800 oil and gas projects worth about $500bn, which will unlock an estimated 60bn barrels of oil equivalent to meet world demand. However, analysts at Rystad Energy say $150bn worth of these schemes may not happen with prices firmly rooted below $70 per barrel.
This cut in project spending by the oil majors has started to weigh heavily on Britain’s oil and gas engineering sector. Shares in companies such as Weir Group, Petrofac and Wood Group have all come under pressure since the current slide in oil prices started to take hold.

“Operator focus on efficiency and the recent reduction in the price of oil is leading operators to reconsider their spending plans for 2015 with a consequential impact on service company activity,” said Wood Group in an update to investors last week.

The North Sea, which has high production costs, could be especially hard hit by oil majors making significant cuts to their operating costs. Industry body Oil & Gas UK has forecasted that 35,000 jobs could be lost in Britain’s offshore oil and gas industry in the current environment.

“The recent fall in oil prices has brought home the challenges ahead, but now more than ever the industry needs to stay the course and continue to invest in developing its own – not repeating the mistakes from the 1980s and 1990s,” said the group in a recent report.

The industry employs about 400,000 people across the complete supply chain in the UK and cutbacks by the big oil majors will hit areas such as Aberdeen hard.

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