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The Blind Barber of New York
Jeff Laub has been exposed everywhere. From vanity fair magazine to GQ to Ask men, from photo report to videos that made by different sites for his famous “Blind Barber” shop. He likes his job and has a style and really engages with his cool costumers, a successful combination for trendy Brooklyn shop. Here he…
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Palestinians Are Living the Life of Hell
Palestinians are living the life of hell that all the 3 religions of Nile river imagined. I wonder why there is no power in the hands of wonderful, successful, high achiever, scientists, intellectuals, well educated Jewish people around the world to stop the atrocity and suffering of the Palestinians once for all.
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The Forgotten History Of Human Zoos
Recently while surfing internet I saw a report on London’s Human Zoo That took a place almost 9 years age. Caged and barely clothed, eight men and women monkeyed around for the crowds in an exhibit labeled “Humans” at the London Zoo. In the meantime through searching human zoo, accidentally I have been introduced to…
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Khayyam’s Quatrains and Electrnic Music
Baroot, a new Iranian band (formed by Nooshin Abedi and Javad Safari in 2011) intention is to mix electronic music with folk music. In their first album “From Void To Void”, I have chosen a song that in a whispering tone resembles one of Khayyam’s quatrains. This song clearly reveals a pleasing depth and freshness…
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How to Make Fun of Football
Even though all the world likes football but still hundreds of millions of people see football as a show of all the fake falls, crying in pain, complaining and and even biting:
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The End of Cold War With Iran
MADRID – Rapprochement between Iran and the West has long been a “white whale” of global politics. But it increasingly appears that the world may be on the verge of a new era, characterized by a wary yet crucial collaboration between countries – particularly Iran and the United States – that had been irreconcilable since…
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Feeling Good beeing Old
The oldest Americans feel the most comfortable with their physical appearance, according to a Gallup poll. Some 66% of those aged at least 65 said they are satisfied with the way they looked, while only 61% of people aged between 18 and 34 said they feel good about their physical appearance. Middle aged people are…
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Tax on Childlessness in Soviet era
It seems the ideological governments no matter left or right have tendency to decide what is best for their people be it with the force. Tax on childlessness in Russia originally passed and enforced from 1941-1990, the tax affected most childless men from 25 to 50 years of age, and most childless married women from…
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Suicide Epidemic in the Middle Age
There’s an even bigger reason to fear the burden of suicide in the new millennium: it’s a charge being led by people in middle age. In America in the last decade, the suicide rate has declined among teens and people in their early 20s, and it’s also down or stable for the elderly. Almost the…
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A Tokyo Travel Agency Takes Your Stuffed Animals on Vacation
In Tokyo, a travel agency takes stuffed toys on package tours and even provides the holiday photo shot for them too. There are many different tours inside and outside japan including mystery tour that will never know where you’ll be going till the last minute. It will be a day tour. The expense ranging from 35…
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Iranian – Afghan people
The typical pictures of Afghan-immigrants in Iran are usually associated with single men in construction sites but after a few decades the demographic has changed. Our favorite photo journalist Mohammad Roodgoli has some candid camera style photos of our Afghan-Iranian people and they are as ordinary as other citizens of Iran.
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The Oldest Song in the World
In 1972, after 15 years of research Prof. Anne Kilmer (professor of Assyriology, University of California) transcribed one of the oldest known pieces of music notation in the world. The tablets date back to approximately 1400 B.C. and contain a hymn to the moon god’s wife, Nikal. Remarkably, the tablets also contain detailed performance instructions…
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How I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer has always fascinated me. The ability to plant, cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the emergence of self-awareness, control of fire, the wheel, and the development of mathematics and written language as one of humanity’s transformational events. We became something different once we began to farm. I have found…
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Life of Japan's Modern Sumo Wrestler
Paolo Patrizi’s take on the life of Sumo in Japan http://www.paolopatrizi.com
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The Best World Cup Goals ● 1970-2010
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The Female Writers of Love Stories
I guess we all, at some point in our lives, have come across an erotic fiction. Books with sizzling sex scenes and sexy gorgeous characters, making our blood, run faster through our veins. At times so realistic, we might have felt as if we were the actual characters being obsessed with the sexual acts. We…
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Being Singular Plural in Canada’s 147th Birthday
In his book, Being Singular Plural, the acclaimed French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about how the individual identity won’t exist without the community identity as a whole. According to him, there is no meaning to existence, if we don’t co-exist with others. The reason lies not in the meaning of reality of existence itself, but…
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Men Without Father
When our plane landed, no one from the family had come to the airport to greet us. I thought maybe because I hadn’t told them the exact time of our arrival, they weren’t able to make it. Early in the morning we hit the road, going north. Our daughter was sleeping in the car, when…
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The Rumors of How Handsome Italian Men Are
Each picture is worth a thousand words in making the rumors of how handsome Italian men are, very true. And here is a little on my part-tourist, part-journalist, view of men of Rome, Italy: The professional attire for men is a blazer, dress shirt and a tie, paired with jeans and casual shoes. The percentage…
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Scenes of World War II, Then and Now
Here are some picture taken 70 years ago on the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in World War II and photos of the same spot spot after 70 years. Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/scenes-from-d-day-then-and-now/100752 (Galerie Bilderwelt, 1944/Peter Macdiarmid, 2014/Getty Images)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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: …. …
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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…
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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…
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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:
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Iranian Granparents – Candid Camera
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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…
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Portraits – Iranian Men in last 10 Decades
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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,…
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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…
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Punishment for Cheater
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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"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…
