Category: Video
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Are Men Always Like That
ٍُThere are many scientific researches and reports that try to articulate men and their sexual behaviors including monumental studies left from Alfred Kinsey but are men always like the one we see in this funny video clip?
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You Want Ice Cream? Come on Get It
One of our magazine’s contributor Shahin Eghanian and his wife Elnaz while honeymooning in Turkey, send us a pretty video that shows an ice cream parlor in Istanbul plus a craftsmanship that comes with it. photos and video: Shahin Eghanian
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The Iron Sheik of America is an Iranian
The professional wrestler and truly an American icon “Iron Sheik” who took advantage of the conflict between Iran and America in the past few decades and made a legendary status for himself is in fact an Iranian. In 2005, the Iron Sheik was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his old rival, Sgt.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Iranian New Wave Cinema – Fat Shaker
The Fat Shaker, a movie written, produced and directed by Mohammad Shirvani, literally does what its title suggests: it shakes. Shirani’s intentional use of a digital handheld, and very shaky, camera, takes us on a roller coaster of highs and lows surrounding a morbidly obese father, Levon Haftvan, and his deaf, mute, son’s relationship. When…
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Gibberish English Rock Song
This song, Prisecolinensinenciousol, a parody by Adriano Celentano is sung entirely in gibberish designed to sound like American English. Celentano’s intention with the song was to explore communications barriers. «Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang…
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Saudi Arabia's King of YouTube
Alaa Wardi’s wiggling eyebrows and bushy hair are as recognizable as the madcap backdrops to his YouTube videos: the Technicolor Post-it wall from his cover of Lorde’s “Royals,” the floor-to-ceiling cardboard boxes from his interpretation of Rihanna’s “Stay,” and the patterned mattresses from the makeshift sound room where he has paid tribute to Arab singers…
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DJ of Your Serendipity – Jun Miyake
To introduce you to a unique and different style of musical composition, I have chosen this special piece, Lilies in the Valley, a musical score by Jun Miyake. Miyake is a successful Japanese composer, trumpeter and a UC Berkley graduate, with thirteen solo albums and lots of movie scores and soundtracks to his name. Lilies…
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The World Dances Without Iran
A man from Seattle travels the globe to dance with people around the world. And every time I watch one of his dance videos, I get emotional, with tears in my eyes. I don’t know why, although I know it will never happen, every time, I wish and hope, the next country he visits will…
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It is Sung in Yellow
Don’t listen to my voice, it is sung in yellow Don’t touch my heart, it’s sick with coldness Don’t get close to my soul, it’s been abandoned for years Don’t touch my brain, its pain is contagious And from afar, make me feel like a mystic A déjà vu of a creature that once existed…
