He died in Chile last December, yet last week his family was brought under a legal cloud, accused of living off money he had secreted abroad while in office.
In Uzak, Toprak plays one of their number who is thrown on to the grudging hospitality of his photographer cousin (whose cack-handed attempts at film-making are witnessed in Clouds of May) living the isolated life of a successful artist in the city.
In any given durational meditation I am likely to experience concussive visions of dynamic inner storm systems, cataclysms of radiance, vortices, gyrating fibers of electricity, clouds of short- lived photons, cascading firebolts, and embryonic stars -- to name a few.
One union leader accused him of "living in cloud cuckoo land", while others have also voiced concerns.
Then there's the lack of public transportation, unfamiliarity with the concept of organization, bribes required to obtain basic necessities, intense humidity, constant clouds of mosquitoes, and high cost of living.
The amateur in me is thrilled by the prospect of living in the Cloud, editing on the go.
"We're tired of living under this cloud, these stereotypes and misconceptions about Philadelphia," said Leroy Clemons, 42, the N.A.A.C.P. leader who, with James Prince, 40, editor and publisher of The Neshoba Democrat, heads a committee working to establish a memorial in town and commemorative events for June.
The product is essentially Hadoop- or Spark-as-a Service, but instead of living in the cloud, it resides on-premises on customer hardware.
Say what you will about the perils of "living in the cloud", but apps like Evernote, Dropbox, PogoPlug, and TripIt have made the bulk of my transition relatively painless.
Perhaps, the most frustrating and liberating aspect of living under a cloud of smoke is that, you can escape.
