Month: September 2014
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Nastaliq: The Persian Calligraphy
The short video presents calligrapher Manzar Moghbeli demonstrating the nasta‘liq script. Notice the measured and deliberate pace of writing, the slow twisting and turning of the pen to modulate each stroke from right to left, and the arrangement of letters and words in relation to the baseline and to each other. Nastaliq: The Genius of…
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ّIranian Post-Surf Psychedelic Rock
The band Muckers was founded by the guitarist, Emir, in 2011, who says he’s influenced by an array of contemporaries, from punk to garage rock to indie music. https://soundcloud.com/the-muckers-1/as-if-she-cares The original sound of post-surf and psychedelic rock, verging on punk has its audience still today. As a genre its been enjoying a resurgence all over…
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Face of the New Feminist
Emma Watson is the new woman of our society. She is powerful, articulate, independent, successful and above all as she clearly elaborated is not aggressive, isolated, anti-men and unattractive: “I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is…
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Daily Dose of Iran
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Nasa: It Was the Hottest August in 130 Years
The analysis comes from the Nasa space agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), but with a sign of caution from Nasa, who have stressed that individual months are not as important as yearly trends in highlighting changes in the climate. “The key issue for climate are the long-term trends, not individual months”, said Nasa-GISS…
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Toronto TIFF 2014 and Emersonian Walk
I Had a daily pass for 20 films for Toronto International Film Festival and it cost me $10 each. This year every movie I saw was great. It realty was… Maybe the the new generation of filmmakers have more visual culture or the technology of film making has become more handy and accessible. Even the…
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Daily Dose of Iran
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Tom Waits' Animism
All you have to do is to try to picture him like one of those ancient shamans, a healer that celebrates a world that from his perspective is alive and dancing with him. A world that possesses a spiritual essence and above all a world that he is chanting to the elegy of his leaving.…
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Sidewalk lane for Phone Addicts
Chongqing city, one of the five major cities in China has a designated lane for people who prefer to talk on the phone or play or even watch their favorite video clips while walking. The drivers of the town welcome the idea because the distraction that cell phone addicts were creating was real and dangerous.…
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When Potholes Are Funny
Every city in the world has potholes. Nobody likes them and they are annoying. They create accidents and simply give ugly face to every street. The two photographers Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano tried to make fun of potholes through irony:
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Niqabitch Unveil Themselves
The two students, who are studying political science and communication in Paris with their action debating and mocking the ban on Niqab. Risking both criminal records and heavy fines from the authorities, plus a possible backlash from the any militant Muslim community in France, two anti-ban activists hit the streets of Paris as NiqaBitch with…
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I Was invited to My parent’s Wedding
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When David Fincher Makes Ads for Gap
The creative mind behind movies such as Fight Club , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Seven made a few commercials for Gap. All of them are somehow weird but fun to watch:
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Iranian Living Room
Middle East has been the center of attention for the last decade or so not only by anthropologists or sociologists or even economists but by the ordinary people of all walks of life. This time the orientalisim is not organized curiosity of gathering the information for the old ways of colonialism, this time it is…