Month: June 2014

  • Divorce After an Online Affair

    There are as many stories of divorce as marriage. It is true that people find it easier to show their real feeling and are able to find out sooner or later that they are living with the wrong person. But there are also many childish and senseless reasons that break couples’life long commitment to each…

  • Being Amoung lions

    “If I had the opportunity to come back to life after dying, I would do it all the same”, says Kevin Richardson, an animal behaviorist and wildlife conservation advocate, from the deep heart of Africa.” He’s been called the lion whisperer, and Kevin Richardson, uses love, understanding and trust, instead of chains and sticks, to…

  • Restaurant That Booked for the Next 10 Years

    Restaurant That Booked for the Next 10 Years

    It is magnificent to see one’s dreams being realized even by others. All through my adult life, I’ve had the dream of owning a home-based restaurant serving healthy food, made from scratch with all organic, natural and unprocessed ingredients, to those with an appreciation for delicate gourmet taste. So imagine my delight, when I heard…

  • In Khorasan – Iran,Taxi Drivers Are Poets Too

    In Khorasan – Iran,Taxi Drivers Are Poets Too

    Due to my work in beverage industry, I travel to the city of Mashhad, Khorasan Province, quite often, once a week at times. Mashhad is the center of Iran’s beverage industry and the city’s airport is also a point of origin and destination between several cities in Iran. As part of my stay in Mashhad,…

  • Italians Watching Their Team Get Eliminated

    Italians Watching Their Team Get Eliminated

    Here are some pictures of a neighborhood in Venice watching their national Football team getting eliminated by Uruguay in World Cup 2014: …. …

  • Wedding in Venice

    Wedding in Venice

    I got lucky on my first day of staying in Venice when I witnessed part of an Italian Wedding Ceremony. The groom and the bride suddenly started to run in St Marco’s square and when they got to the middle they stated to dance. dancing. They were accompanied by a handful of wedding guests with…

  • A Japanese Soda Company's Ad on the Moon

    A Japanese Soda Company's Ad on the Moon

    Well, it’s finally happening. Forty-five years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed at the Sea of Tranquility, the Moon is about to become an ad space. The Japanese drink company Otsuka is planning to send a 2.2-pound titanium can filled with “powdered sports drink and children’s dreams” to the Moon, where it will sit…

  • 5 Worst Referee Mistakes in History of Football

    5 Worst Referee Mistakes in History of Football

    Football is the most popular sport to play and watch only because it is unpredictable. Every player, coach and fan knows that their team will get a free bees from referee’s mistake sooner or later. Football is round too. Be a good loser… Here are 5 worst referee mistakes in history of football:

  • Iranian Granparents – Candid Camera

  • Portrait  of My Creature "Theo"

    Portrait of My Creature "Theo"

    Theo Jansen is part-artist, part-mad scientist. From PVC piping, he builds fantastical creatures that feed only on the wind: propelled by the movement of the air around them, his many-legged Strandbeest are free to roam the countryside and beaches around his house in the Netherlands. From a distance, they look like enormous grazing sheep, but…

  • Portraits – Iranian Men in last 10 Decades

  • Nite Jewel and Love in One Second

    There are infinite songs about love and love that went wrong and love that turned to hate and this viscous circle has been repeating itself since the dawn of human civilization. The only difference these days is that the ecstasy that we experience through love is getting shorter and weaker. Here it is Nite Jewel,…

  • Rich Kids of Instagram

    The main drive that got our ancestors got out of the cave and brought us into the instagram era is the drive to excess. United nations claims that the year 2010 had the biggest social mobility that our planet has experienced so far. The middle class of Asia, Africa and Latin American is the biggest…

  • Punishment for Cheater

  • Men spend a year staring at women

    Men spend a year staring at women

    The average man will spend almost 43 minutes a day staring at 10 different women. That adds up to 259 hours – almost 11 days – each year, making a total 11 months and 11 days between the ages of 18 and 50. But researchers found that the males of the species are not the…

  • The 17 Reasons a Girl is Single in Her 20’s

    Ashley Fern writes for Elite Daily and she is as free and brave as the American Anthem tells her to be… She is single and likes the way her life treats her. She is also a bit cynical of the singleness that has currently become a sort of an epidemic phenomenon … That is why…

  • 13 Things You Should Know About Young Iran

    13 Things You Should Know About Young Iran

      1. Two-thirds of Iran is under 35 years old. They are two-thirds of Iran’s population and over half the electorate. They put new President Hassan Rouhani into office. Now they’re his biggest headache, as he has to deliver on his promises and their hopes. 2. They love rap music. Ayatollah Khomeini banned all music…

  • Riccardo’s latest Book "Reflections of Persia"

      Reflections of Persia celebrates the journey of a scholar, photographer, literary translator, and above all, an Iranologist, who has gone above and beyond the political borders of Iran. Riccardo began his academic career in 1978, and at present, chairs the Department of Eurasian Studies at the University of Venice, where he teaches Persian literature…

  • FUTEBOL FUTEBOL FUTEBOL

    Dualtagh Herr: ” FUTEBOL FUTEBOL FUTEBOL is a series of photographs of football pitches in Brazil located from Google satellite view. The images were made by scanning the terrain of the towns and cities of Brazil using Google’s vast collection of satellite imagery in search of the football pitches that are a prominent feature in…

  • "Light in Babylon" and "The Women of Teheran"

    "Light in Babylon" and "The Women of Teheran"

    The trio of an Israeli singer of Iranian origin and a Turkish santoor player accompanied  by a French guitarist create a fusion that  incorporates music from different regions as well (Turkish, French and more). They are based in Turkey, Istanbul and perform in Turkey and in Europe. Here is their take on the force to…

  • When a Toddler is Modern Dance Choreographer

  • Amsterdam Pays with Beer to Clean Streets

    Amsterdam’s head of the Rainbow Foundation project Gerrie Holterman said: “This group of chronic alcoholics was causing a nuisance in Amsterdam’s Oosterpark: fights, noise, disagreeable comments to women,”.  Therefore they came up with the idea of paying those people with beer and warm meal to help keep the streets tidy. Apparently the success story might…

  • Scottish Wedding in Toronto

    Where ever you are, send us the pictures of weddings. Scottish Groom – Toronto – Spring 2014 – by Saeed

  • Wi-Fi Hotspot on the Moon

    Wi-Fi Hotspot on the Moon

      Complimentary Wi-Fi is so commonplace that a business advertising its “hotspot” in the window seems somewhat passé. But a new hotspot location should impress even the most jaded among us: For the first time, scientists have demonstrated it’s possible to beam a wireless Internet signal across the 238,900 miles separating Earth from the moon.…

  • Does Jellyfish Really Live Forever?

    While it is often joked that cats have nine lives, a certain species of jellyfish has been deemed “immortal” by scientists who have observed its ability to, when in crisis, revert its cells to their earliest form and grow anew. That means that these tiny creatures, 4 mm to 5 mm long, potentially have infinite…

  • When Ancient  Eve is In love

    When Ancient Eve is In love

    Simin Behbahani’s poems paint one of the most nuanced narratives of modern Iranian society. Her poems offer apertures into the daily life of Iranians, and reveal its subtleties and paradoxes. “From the Street,” a series of poems written between 1983-85, are realist representations of the uncomfortable economic and moral realities that plague Iran; the stories…

  • Shokoofeh Dezfuli, the Iranian Visual Artist

    Shokoofeh Dezfuli, the Iranian Visual Artist

    The background, depicting the feel of the moment, of melancholic nostalgia, of a winter day with evergreens, adorned by the snow, is brought to life by a female figurine. She stands on the snow with no footprints left of the road taken, and a nostalgic look. Fixed on the distance, as if remembering the past…