The Espresso Room

I saw this great coffee shop in Monocle Issue 27.

It is in London and owned by Ben Townsend. It is only 10 square meters and perfectly decorated.

You can visit the shops webpage here.

Photo is courtesy of: everydaylifestyle.wordpress.com

Football Manager 2010 Trailer

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This is the trailer for Football Manager 2010. Demo is coming next week and i believe millions are looking forward to it.

It will 6 months playable and will be released first on Daily Mirror's website.

Nike Icons - Arda Turan

That's a very nice photoset and it can be found on Arda Turan's facebook fan page. This is my favourite photo.

Namba Parks - Osaka

Here you can see some pictures of Namba Parks.

The architecture looks great and amazingly the main colour you see is green. Terrace gardens which are very popular in Japan evolved into forests with that project.

It is situated near a train station and consists residential and commercial estates in one big project. Looks like Kanyon in İstanbul however seems to have more to offer.

It was built by Jerde Partnership and won the award for Urban Land Institute Award of Excellence.

Football Manager 2010 First Impressions

1- Simply fantastic. An excellent game getting better every year.

2- Superb user interface, easy to learn, really hard to master.

3- Assistant advices are really helpful. The advices of the assistant, scouts or any other staff member can be backed up or dismissed. There is a second and third opinion option.

4- More realistic media interface. However press conferences are still boring.

5- 3D Graphic Engine is working much much better. It is a joy to watch the game.

6- Pitchside instructions are working OK. They are hard to master. Shortcuts are not really shortcuts. Again takes time to learn.

7- Galatasaray season expectation is title challenger and in the beginning of the season odds are 6-1. Whereas Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe are only 2-1.

8- Harry Kewell, Hakan Balta, Mehmet Güven are the wanted players when the game starts. Harry Kewell is willing to leave. When i loaned Mehmet Güven Arda Turan became furious claiming M. Güven was a great asset. Not the most realistic feature.

9- In the first day the assistant offers you to see the team by organising a match with U20 team. I was pretty unlucky in that as i lost 3 players in a training match.

10- In the team talk you can say some new things to players such as "Impress Me".

11- Transfer budget of Galatasaray is 2,6 million pounds. 

12- This game deserves Turkish language option and official Turkish league updates.