Thursday, December 31, 2009

Bahman Ghobadi “No one knows about Persian Cats”

Rana Farhan – Masteh eshgh


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Sunday, December 27, 2009

مهدی اخوان ثالث -- “کاوه یا اسکندر؟

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موجها خوابيده اند آرام و رام

طبل توفان از نو افتاده است

چشمه هاي شعله ور خشكيده اند

آبها از آسيا افتاده است




در مزار آباد شهر بي تپش

واي جغدي هم نمي آيد به گوش

دردمندان بي خروش و بي فغان

خشمناكان بي فغان و بي خروش




آهها در سينه ها گم كرده راه

مرغكان سرشان به زير بالها

در سكوت جاودان مدفون شده ست

هر چه غوغا بود و قيل و قال ها




آبها از آسيا افتاد هاست

دارها برچيده خونها شسته اند

جاي رنج و خشم و عصيان بوته ها

پشكبنهاي پليدي رسته اند




مشتهاي آسمانكوب قوي

وا شده ست و گونه گون رسوا شده ست

يا نهان سيلي زنان يا آشكار

كاسه ي پست گداييها شده ست




خانه خالي بود و خوان بي آب و نان

و آنچه بود ، آش دهن سوزي نبود

اين شب است ، آري ، شبي بس هولناك

ليك پشت تپه هم روزي نبود




باز ما مانديم و شهر بي تپش

و آنچه كفتار است و گرگ و روبه ست

گاه مي گويم فغاني بر كشم

باز مي بيتم صدايم كوته ست




باز مي بينم كه پشت ميله ها

مادرم استاده ، با چشمان تر

ناله اش گم گشته در فريادها

گويدم گويي كه : من لالم ، تو كر




آخر انگشتي كند چون خامه اي

دست ديگر را بسان نامه اي

گويدم بنويس و راحت شو به رمز

تو عجب ديوانه و خودكامه اي




مكن سري بالا زنم ، چون ماكيان

ازپس نوشيدن هر جرعه آب

مادرم جنباند از افسوس سر

هر چه از آن گويد ، اين بيند جواب




گويد آخر . . . پيرهاتان نيز . . . هم

گويمش اما جوانان مانده اند

گويدم اينها دروغند و فريب

گويم آنها بس به گوشم خوانده اند




گويد اما خواهرت ، طفلت ، زنت. . . ؟

من نهم دندان غفلت بر جگر

چشم هم اينجا دم از كوري زند

گوش كز حرف نخستين بود كر




گاه رفتن گويدم نوميدوار

و آخرين حرفش كه : اين جهل است و لج

قلعه ها شد فتح ، سقف آمد فرود

و آخرين حرفم ستون است و فرج




مي شود چشمش پر از اشك و به خويش

مي دهد اميد ديدار مرا

من به اشكش خيره از اين سوي و باز

دزد مسكين برده سيگار مرا




آبها از آسيا افتاده ، ليك

باز ما مانديم و خوان اين و آن

ميهمان باده و افيون و بنگ

از عطاي دشمنان و دوستان




آبها از آسيا افتاده ، ليك

باز ما مانديم و عدل ايزدي

و آنچه گويي گويدم هر شب زنم

باز هم مست و تهي دست آمدي ؟




آن كه در خونش طلا بود و شرف

شانه اي بالا تكاند و جام زد

چتر پولادين ناپيدا به دست

رو به ساحلهاي ديگر گام زد




در شگفت از اين غبار بي سوار

خشمگين ، ما ناشريفان مانده ايم

آبها از آسيا افتاده ، ليك

باز ما با موج و توفان مانده ايم




هر كه آمد بار خود را بست و رفت

ما همان بدبخت و خوار و بي نصيب

زآن چه حاصل ، جز با دروغ و جز دروغ ؟

زين چه حاصل ، جز فريب و جز فريب ؟




باز مي گويند : فرداي دگر

صبر كن تا ديگري پيدا شود

كاوه اي پيدا نخواهد شد ، اميد

كاشكي اسكندري پيدا شود

Friday, December 25, 2009

Ogden Nash’s “A Carol for the Children”

God rest you merry, Innocents,
Let nothing you dismay,
Let nothing wound an eager heart
Upon this Christmas day.

Yours be the genial holly wreaths,
The stockings and the tree;
An aged world to you bequeaths
Its own forgotten glee.

Soon, soon enough come crueler gifts,
The anger and the tears;
Between you now there sparsely drifts
A handful yet of years.

Oh, dimly, dimly glows the star
Through the electric throng;
The bidding in temple and bazaar
Drowns out the silver song.

The ancient altars smoke afresh,
The ancient idols stir;
Faint in the reek of burning flesh
Sink frankincense and myrrh.

Gaspar, Balthazar, Melchior!
Where are your offerings now?
What greetings to the Prince of War,
His darkly branded brow?

Two ultimate laws alone we know,
The ledger and the sword --
So far away, so long ago,
We lost the infant Lord.

Only the children clasp His hand;
His voice speaks low to them,
And still for them the shining band
Wings over Bethlehem.

God rest you merry, Innocents,
While innocence endures,
A sweeter Christmas than we to ours
May you bequeath to yours.


by Ogden Nash

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Agnès Varda

The Beaches of Agnes (2008)


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Vagabond ( 1985 )


Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)


Monday, December 21, 2009

to Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri ( 1922 – 2009)

From Adonais

Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart?
Thy hopes are gone before: from all things here
They have departed; thou shouldst now depart!

……

That Light whose smile kindles the Universe,
That Beauty in which all things work and move,
That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love
Which through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea,
Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me,
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- (1803-1822)

Monday, December 14, 2009

F.C. Gundlach - Photographic Work at Martin-Gropius-Bau

F.C. Gundlach. Das fotografische Werk
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20. November 2009 bis 14. März 2010
 

From November 2009 the MartinGropiusBau presents the definitive retrospective of F.C. Gundlach’s extensive photo graphic work with the exhibition »F.C. Gundlach – Photographic Work«. F.C Gundlach is one of the most famous German fashion photographers worked for the most important magazines and publications from the middle of the 1950’s to 1990.
 
The intention of the exhibition is to present the unique aesthetics of F.C. Gundlach’s photography, his roots in photojournalism, his focus on series and sequences, his narrative approach. Furthermore, the exhibition alludes to social and cultural issues over several decades. It includes the experimental photography of his early years, especially those from Paris during the 1950’s, his remarkable portraits of German and international movie stars and filmdirectors as well as F.C. Gundlach’s early photo reportages and photographs of children.
F.C. Gundlach - "The Last Labyrinth" - Kowloon/Hongkong 1961 in: Film und Frau. Issue 14/1961. © F.C. Gundlach
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Slow 1966 F.C. Gundlach

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“365 Tage und 1 Kostüm”, Ruth Leuwerik

Gitta Schilling, Mantel von Nina Ricci
 

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Cover Illustrations by John Paul Thurlow |

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fantastic cover illustrations by artist John Paul Thurlow.

 

 

 

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Friday, December 11, 2009

David Lynch – Dark Splendor





David Lynch poses with his work "Untitled" at the Max Ernst Museum. /  Photo: EFE/Oliver Berg

David Lynch Selbstporträt
© David Lynch

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Foto: Patrick Gries, © David Lynch
Raum Bilder Klang
22.11.2009 - 21.03.2010

David Lynch presnting his art works for the first time in Max Ernst Museum in Germany should be a treat.  Lynch’s movies have always emotionally involved me --  willingly or hesitantly. What actually is very interesting is that the show runs through march 21st (shabe eid), and so not completely out of reach for people who do not live near Brühl. 
The show includes a large variety of Lynch’s non-cinematic works including his collaborations, such as Extreme Fetish Footwear with Christian Loubotin.
 
Bild zeigt Gemälde: Well.. I can dream, can't I?
Foto: Patrick Gries, © David Lynch
David Lynch and Christian Louboutin have collaborated on extreme fetish footwear. It was natural that David Lynch would be the man to traslate his fashion vision.
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