Month: April 2014

  • Queen Soraya Sees Spring Fashions (1955)

    Queen Soraya Sees Spring Fashions (1955)

    It was a well known fact that the Shah of Iran’s second wife was his true love. Due to lack of an heir, fate of their love changed and Princess Soraya took refuge in Paris when the royal marriage collapsed. Princess Soraya was famous for the sad eyes. She also was famous for being one of the most…

  • Pat Perry's Dreamlike Memories

    “For a while, it scared me to not have just one distinctive style, but I want to stay honest and boundary-less with what direction I can go. Drawing is meditative in the sense that it’s part of my routine and I need it to stay sane.”, says Pat Perry, a Michigan based artist and illustrator,…

  • Women in Tehran's Streets

    Mohammad Roodgoli has all the essential tools for capturing street photos. Choice of the right lens,  shutter speeds, angels, ability to recognize the natural Mise en Scene would create a superb picture when you are ready and expose yourself to chance.

  • Inside an American Brothel

    Marc McAndrews, a photographer from New York, in his project called “Nevada Rose: Inside the American BrothelL” tries to portray the ordinary life in Nevada brothels. During the five years he spent on this project, McAndrews tried to give a fair portrayal of such places. “Everybody knows what goes on in the brothels.” McAndrews explains:”…

  • Is Capitalism Failed the World

    Is Capitalism Failed the World

    Thomas Piketty’s  Capital in the Twenty-first Century is a balanced approach to the major theme of the global economical inequality.  He believes that not only does capitalist growth not reduce inequality; it increases it. Here are some of the outline summery of Jeff Faux’s critical review  in The Nation magazine: Thomas Piketty just tossed an…

  • Iranian Man

  • Sormeh, a Persian Folk Music Band

    Sormeh, a Persian Folk Music Band

    Golnar Shahyar’s voice, the lead vocalist for the Sormeh Band, is the remedy for a rainy Sunday afternoon, when a cup of coffee and a cigarette is not enough to take you away from it all… Here I am. Powerless, left without my love’s caressing gaze… Left in longing of my lover’s embrace… No fire…

  • Charlie Chaplin, monster

    By 1915, says Ackroyd, Chaplin was ‘the most famous man in the world’. Lenin said that ‘Chaplin is the only man in the world I want to meet.’ He stayed with Churchill at Chartwell. At Nancy Astor’s house he met Shaw and Keynes. Barrie and H.G. Wells were fans. Debussy told him, ‘You are instinctively…

  • the Craziness of Being a Woman

    Laila Kordbacheh is a woman whose poetry unlocks the innermost fragile layers of being a woman. It is soft, yet stubborn. It is bold, yet beautiful. It is frank yet tactful. She takes her audience through a journey of discovery, of self doubt, at times, the most unattainable feelings filling the heart of a woman.…

  • The New Yorker's Cartoonist

    Every week more than 1000 cartoons and caricatures are sent to The New Yorker, out of which, only 17 are chosen to be featured In each issue. Tom Cheney is a staff cartoonist with The New Yorker, and his works have appeared in over 500 publications in the US and around the world.

  • When Dance Prohibited in Iran

    One of our readers told us about this amature video from Iran. The owner of a small corner store watches a band of street performers passing by while playing a folk tune. The store owner knows that dancing in Iran is prohibited. It is pretty obvious that he is not able to control the beautiful…

  • Iranian Men

  • Deconstructing Woody

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/10196567/Woody-Allens-30-best-one-liners.html

  • Me and My Four Husbands

    Me and My Four Husbands

    The Islamis Polygamy law, allowing men to acquire four wives at the same time as long as each is treated equally as others, has been the topic of many debates around the women’s rights movements in Islamic countries. And throughout Islamic women’s rights movement history, its opponents have taken drastic measures to shed light on…

  • Tehran – Men in the Subway

  • The Conflict Between Competition and Leisure

    In 1930 the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that increases in productivity due to technological progress would lead within a century to most people enjoying much more leisure. He believed that by 2030 the average working week would be around fifteen hours. Eighty-four years later, it doesn’t look like this prediction will come true. Most…

  • Iranian Couples

  • Unfit Iranian Men and a Movie Called NOTHING

    Unfit Iranian Men and a Movie Called NOTHING

    In his film “Nothing,” Abdolreza Kahani expresses his disappointment in Iranian men in an angry tone. That is why he gives the final choice and decision to one of the film’s female characters. In the film’s last scene, we see that Efat, the family’s mother, is wearing her running shoes, an act that underscores her…

  • Peddler in the Rain

  • The Ugly Truth

    Our own culture appears to be no less afraid of ugliness than Greek culture, even if surgical rather than divine intervention is now the order of the day. Parents still want their children to avoid ugliness, and many are willing to lend a helping hand: rare is the gift of rhinoplasty, implants or liposuction, but…

  • Waiting to Be Charged _ Daily Iran's Photo

       

  • َAmerican Girl in Iran

    25 years old Silvia is from Worcester, MA USA, but she likes to tell people I’m from Norway. After spending the past three and a half years in Asia, she is used to being referred to as “blonde girl.” “I’m not even sure what it was about Tehran, but looking around at the people, the…

  • Nick Cave, Foreplay in a Song

    «Henry Lee» is a song from the album “Murder Ballads”, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The song is about a crime of passion and tells the story of a woman who kills a man because he did not sleep with her or love her. It is a duet with PJ Harvey, a British…

  • Cooking for Oneself

    Its a Friday night, and I am on my way home after a along day’s work. What’s for dinner? I decide to stop at my favorite restaurant and treat mmyself to my most favorite, smoked salmon and rice dish. Some nights I stop at the nearest fast food drive in and order the greasy hamburger!…

  • New York’s Underground

    New York’s Underground

    Originally from Cleveland, Tod Seelie, the American Photographer, at times elevates mere weirdness to a more striking realm of visual intrigue, through his photographic genius. Strange, vivid, baffling and relentlessly unexplained, his images leave their viewers transfixed. His work has appeared in publications such as The NY Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vice,…

  • Portrait of the Underdog

    They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and each photo captured by  the photographer from Israel, Ziv Ish, speaks volumes of pain, sorrow, and the raw feeling of lonely hopefulness. Each photo captures not only the fringes of society, but also the footprints of survival, of strong emotional chaos, and the true meaning…

  • Bob Dylan and Iranian lovers

    There is speculation that Dylan’s recent album ‘Tempest’ could be his last mainly because the title of his work is almost resonates Shakespeare’s last play ‘ The Tempest’. It is not my cup of tea to  contemplate on those kinds of rumor. One of the first songs in that album ‘Duquesne Whistle’ is a big…