He

Django unchained....
He remembered it....
He remembers

Love

Love
is a burning thing
Love
Love
Love
oh love
ah love
Love

Listening to the wind

Plus a whole lot of persian music...

And a whole lot of other things...

How are things hanging out there?

Hello-out-there.

Wordlessness

I will just keep mum, hoping that under that silence, some people grow, change, love, and think.

I am talking to...you

Ode to Berk

They say San Francisco is a 49 square mile land surrounded by reality
And this is not completely exaggerating the fact!
The city is mad and yes, inhabited by some of the most perfectly insane residents

Word Tip Toe

Have been missing in the scenes of all sorts while sorting some issues around. Life gets heavy when 
you get heavy-headed and that's where I have been standing and sometimes sitting. 
There's been a move out of the city of Berkeley, whose importance and mark in my life is yet to be 
illuminated. There has also been a lot of waiting around, and a whole lot of uninteresting tasks 
to be dealt with while inspiration was hiding in the corners and very hard to find.

To a 1929-1977 Career, cheers.

My hats and back and head and shoulder down to dear sir L. Bunuel, especially those produced 
after 1962. Hats down my very dear sir

Journey to the end of earth

I left my homeland when I was 15
I left my second homeland when I was 30
The first journey needs to be going back
A new discovery, a new eye, a new touch, a new thought, a new question

Lights are out

I am experiencing migration at a different level under new dim lights

The whales migrate too, but they migrate together, never alone

Migrating alone is detrimental to the whale, 

If there's no communication with others, 
...the whales get lost and end up in the cold waters or close to the shore 
...where the hunters live

I migrated alone, unlike the whales

Earth is a safe place for humans

I might not get killed, hunted, skinned, and eaten

But what to do without communication?

Where am I? 

It's dark

Music isn't muse anymore

There was someone who was singing all the time

During the song, 

Where did mother go?

Why doesn't dad talk?

Please stop the music

I am trying to hear them

Ser-genry

Sherlock Holmes by Igor Maslennikov,

An example of the russians beating the British!  

Anticipation

San Francisco continues to be my inspiration, I am getting close, stay put!

Firework inspiration ignition

New photography techniques due to Canada and 4th of July day. Happy!

Seven Psychopaths

7

sketches

Places...
Morocco, Algeria, Italy, Iran, Canada, USA, China, 
Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France, England, 
Turkey, Egypt, Korea, Japan, Cuba 
Cities...

Characters...
Bunuel -Dali, Andulasian Dog

Animals...Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig 

Angler fish, SnSc: Bjork, Picasso,...
Octopus, DoSc:Voltaire, Rene Magritte,...
Anaconda, RaSc: Maradona, Rodin,...
Rattlesnake, DrTa: Dali, Sigmond Freud, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alpacino,

Tarsier, DoPi: Victor Hugo, Jack Kerouac 

Gazelle, PiVi: Stephen King

Vampire bat, TiCan: Harry Dean Stanton

Wombat, PiTa: Iggy Pop, Vladimir Nabokov

Meerkat, RaAq: Galileo, Mozart

Rhinoceros: TiAr: Lady Gaga

Ant, OCap: Anthony Hopkins, Jim carrey, Carlos Castaneda, Kate Moss

Quetzal, PiLe: Carl Jung, Alfred Hitchcok, Mila Kunis

Swordfish, RoSa: Natasha Bedingfield, Britney Spears

Llama, RaAr: Quentin Tarantino, Francis Coppola, Henry James

Hummingbird, DrGe: Lenny Kravitz, Nancy Sinatra

Hammerhead shark, HoAr: Emma Watson, Samuel Beckett

Weaver Finch, RaCa: Michelle Obama, Oliver Hardy, Joan of Arc, Tiger Woods, Nicolas Cage

Gorilla, MoAr: Omar Sharif, Ravi Shankar, Leonardo Da Vinci, 

Lemming, RaPi: Luis Bunuel, George Washington

Squid, PiSc: Marie Antoinette

Tyranosaurus Rex, DrAr: Reese Whiterspoon, Steven Seagul


RP: Bunuel, 


Corci, RV: Itzhak Perlman, Nick Cave, Van Morrison, DH Lawrence, Beyonce,...
Iguana, MC: George Washington, Turkan Soray,... 


Montessori (Absorbant mind, sensitive periods, normalization education founded in 1897, casa dei bambini, education through self-preservation, exactness, 
repetition, manipulation of the environment, communication, exploration, order, 
orientation to the environment, work, purposeful activity, mathematical mind, orientation to the environment.
Play with self construction, liberty, and spontaneous activity.

• Construction in proportion to the text and its needs
• Beauty and harmony, cleanliness of environment
• Order
• An arrangement that facilitates movement and activity
• Limitation of materials, so that only material that supports the text's development is included

rediscovering Iran's avant-garde 
http://www.artnews.com/2013/02/07/the-other-modernism-rediscovering-irans-avant-garde/
http://www.artnews.com/2013/06/18/exploring-the-venice-biennale/


Brecht, Kafka, Freud, Flaubert, La Rochefoucauld, Montesquieu, Montaigne, and Machiavelli

New Beginnings

July first, apart from it being Canada day, is a new start in my life in the US of A professionally speaking.
Hoping this new start in the summer comes to a wholesome 'fruition' by next summer or perhaps sooner. All the 'positrons' in the universe, I ask for your helping 'hands', well not just for me, but for the whole 'fruit' society.

Must be summer..

Repeating routines
Sleepless dark nights
Sipping wine sessions
Catching ups and filling ins 

Uncle Boonme who can recall his past lives

Death...
Life...
From the point of view of the Thai...

Ire-land

The Guard, 2011 & The wind that shakes the Barley, 2006

Irish accounts of our human history. 

Harry Potter

Watching the whole 'saga' again...

Adobe bookstore

This amazing antique bookstore in San Francisco had a book party before it closes the current location.
I got to pick up some amazing books on photography and language!

Ojai north

This california performance was one of the most intellectual concerts I got to attend ever since I was born. 
The instruments used in carrying out the wonderful rhythms were all string instruments: violin, cello, double bass, 
and one piano.
The peculiarity of the music was in the interesting use of repetitive themes throughout the piece. 
Another very amusing point was that in the one hour time in the first interval, they only played once piece of music 
and during the second interval they played a second piece. 
The music was more than meditative nurturing sounds but also a test of patience, tolerance, suspense, hold of judgements, along 
with other thoughtful quality moments.
If one has a chance to watch and listen to them, one should...

Legends of the fall

Unnecessarily too long but great depiction of how 
"times they are a' changing" 
affected and keeps affecting American lives, 
and not JUST American lives.

Independent Lens

Anglican Church origins, gay rights, etc in the great PBS documentary!

Thanks Rialto Cinema, College Street, Berkeley.

Salome 1925

Salome, daughter of Herodias, the dangerous femme fatale of 14 A.D.
Oscar Wilde's take on her story and the parallel representations he makes with the Judeo-Christian stories (John the baptist,etc.) are unmistakably genius. Richard Strauss's great musical background on the silent film made it magical for audience. Show in Berkeley Hertz Hall, June 12, 2013.

The company

Robert Littell's novel, the company, has been known as one of the best fiction accounts on the cold war; briefly summarized as real-life figures from the Cold War era mix with a fictional story based on a group of CIA operatives and their counterparts in the KGB, MI6, and the Mossad. The mini TV series version was released in 2007. Great work!

Varieté (1925)

Have I become extinct?!

...Anybody's guess...hello out there...

Uccellacci e uccellini

The Hawks and the Sparrows by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiing
Totoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iranian election, once again

People should vote to not repeat Egypt's 2011 uprise.
Will I vote? No, I have no valid passport for reasons known and unknown.

Fereidoon Farokhzad

Great documentary of his life named 'Shab bood', thanks for producing it Raha Etemadi.

Enter the void

2009. Japan. Tokyo. Youth life.
Nightmares have I gotten following watching this movie, yes, many nightmares. 
Don't do drugs kids, it kills, sometimes.
Don't enter the void...

The apartment - 1960

Billy Wilder, enough said!

[But the cost of an apartment in New York city at the time was only eighty five dollars 
and a cab would cost seventy cents and the income monthly salary of three hundred, oh life!]

Mars

Once in a time, a poet a la carte said: 

"Can it, you barely understand it,

the little green people on the big red planet

and little for our warfare

or a ... have, rare

barely extinct, do you think

their ... spin clockwise?

Are they wise, 

do they despise each other as we do,

do they question who

they are, or why?

It's all red dust

as we humans explore,

as we must,

a big red planet

with a little gray box,

on little black wheels."

Cold war account; 1947-1991

Orwell:

"For forty or fifty years past, Mr. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable. Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications—that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbors." 

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Tango

Berkeley
Berezerkeley
Marry me
Modify me
Toss me
Throw me
Anchor me
After me
Blow me
Bright me
Friend me
Fire me
Shimmer me
Show me
The different ways we could be, 
Styles and spaces
Vaults and voices
Shines and shadows
Berkeley
Berezerkeley
Marry me

Ode to Berkeley

West to east-
Turn, one foot to the other
Beat me till I am black
everything changes
Twist, one side to another
Beat me till I am blue
Special places
Bend, front towards back
Beat me till I love you
Accomplished faces

East to west-
Step to the right, witches
Dance me till I am red
Utopian aspirations 
Step to the left, creatures
Dance me till I am great
Figured manifestations 
Step out of line, tall dolls
Dance me till I love you
Designed conceptions

West to east-
First, exit
To enter the first exit
Return.

Goodbye to a city...

...People's republic of Berkeley, Berezerkeley, Nut hill, Berkelium, My dear most abstract Berk to whom I shall sing songs, goodbyes good Berk...

Catching life

I notice in me a newly found strength 
Coming solely from my past experiences
Beautifully intertwined with intuition
To land me into the present
With a firm resolve
Like the drops of water from atop of the highest tower onto a stone
It doesn't hurt to fall on the ground anymore
There are invisible hands made of magic
Waiting to catch me when I fall
Waiting to catch the water droplets falling from the highest towers
When they fall...
I am life of that fine droplet catching life
--Achhhhoooo--

oceanic tides

As mighty as the tide is in its right

I am the ever puppet of invisible forces

Coming from irresistible gravity of the moon

New page

Nagisa Oshima

In the realm of the senses
Empire of passion

My photoblog

http://elephile.tumblr.com
(more improvements to come)

Berkeley Botanical Garden

...Green...

untitled

Kubrick exhibition at LACMA, must see

Mary and Max

2009 Cute Australian Animation

completely cultured

Korean rice wine, Sierra Nevada, red wine, lamb skewers, panini, nutella and strawberry and banana, vegetables, pasta, spaghetti, dances, birthdays, films, plants, pictures, conversations, music, love-making and kisses, life complete. 

Kubrick

The American genius filmmaker who started out his career as a photographer in New York and continued
his movie making as an expatriate in London. He used lenses from Zeiss made for NASA to
capture natural candlelight scenes in Barry Lyndon (1975), the story of an Irish Adventurer and William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.
Beautifully made...and perhaps inspired by Napolean Bonaparte, although there are accounts that Thackeray made it
as a twisted version of his own life story.
Some quotes from the movie:
“And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.”
“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

sleuth

The word sleuth, can literally mean a detective or a tracker and pursuer, but a play written by Anthony Shaffer and played by Sir Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.  Beautifully tailored, scripted, played, 

directed, and acted by a man who loves games and invites his wife's lover to the battle of death. Brilliant and thrilling 1972 mystery...I am grateful to have found it, watched it, and share it.

Trainspotting

Trainspotting, literally speaking, could be referred to the action of trying to find intact veins without 

dark marks of previous linear heroin vein tracks in order to inject heroin or other drugs. 

Made in 1996 by the same director as Slumdog Millionaire, and based on Scottish novel of Irvine Welsh,

on life of a drug addict in Edinburgh told in the language of British black comedy. 

Themes of repetition of dialogues and ideas are very pleasing and humorous and intelligent.

Trainspotting 2 will be out 2016!

Will say more...

Citizen Kane and Trial by Oscar Welles 

Biutiful

By Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Enough said.

Synecdoche, New York, 2008

A theatre director who directs a new play based on his life and the actors in an experimental warehouse in New York City. Great script and synchronicities. 

03-13-2013

Happy 13th of March
Happy chaharshanbe soori
I had a great time, did you?

Side-by-Side

This documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. I recommend! 

I hope one day, I get to have a film collection of my own...

Marching on...

Just watched Fritz Lang's 'Spies' silent film from 1928 on a 8mm reel. It's the story of a mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and an agent from the government’s secret service. Fritz is an Austrian filmmaker, nick named as master of darkness, and whom most of his film reels are lost and banished unfortunately.

Watching this gives an aura of the time where horrendous events take place and the spy, later the clown could signify the time where Hitler was raised and the circumstances leading to it. 

(December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976, also the maker of Metropolis!)

Oscars

I am happy for Tarantino and Les Miserables sound oscars. Everyone else, I can't care less.
Well, okay okay okay...

Note to self

In my grand preparation of visits, this is what's on my list: Point Reyes, Santa Cruz, Half moon bay, Venice, Laguna, and Malibu beaches, Claremont Canyon, Sinkyone wilderness state park, lost coast, elk land, Jones beach, bologna's, stanford.

Your suggestions are welcome

Must watch part four and a quarter

Jiro dreams of sushi (American Documentary). Don't hold me accountable if you don't enjoy.

The Great Gatsby (based on Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel). Heads up: 2013 has a GG in 3D production in its sleeves! The orphans of storm, 1921 (D.W. Griffith). Wuthering heights

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers-1870

Stuart Paton's silent adaptation in 1916 with first ever under-sea photography features.

...Jules Verne died a sad man but he was 50 years ahead of his time.

February Celebrations

This was a special month for me, my birthday is close to and shortly after the Valentine's day. 
This year, I realized that these two days can be more special when expectation is least. 
I have lost all my hopes or almost all of them by now and don't expect to be happy and loved anymore.
However, those very things tiptoed around the corner this Valentine's day and birthday.
Practicing death to stop the hurting has an upside, life with all its magic can show up.
Happy Birthday...
Happy Valentine's day...

Longer time = better time

Speaking of lengthy movies, here are a few long shots I've been obsessing over in the past weeks:

Les Miserables, great musical, script, acting, to say the least. 

D.W. Griffith's the birth of a nation, classic, must see.

Natural born killers, a better version of Bonnie and Clyde, the two are ecstatic.
Their connection to one another? To be discussed...

Westerners, do you agree?

Not only would I call Quentin Tarantino's Django as the best western movie of the past year
but also better a western movie than western movie director, Clint Eastwood, would take pride in. 
Eastwood, really, rest in your peace, Tarantino has got his back up, figuratively speaking!

Rants...

Several things...

Firstly, I have been reviewing the story of great rich German literature full of mystical allegory by German writer Goethe. Now you've guessed right, Faust. The story has parallels in the lives of many people I know in many different forms but same pattern. Could the theme of this work be a grand theme that plays in the lives of many people in this life and thereafter or is this a mere generalization? I think these story implications and subtle symbols among others are why one story remains strong through the test of time again and again and one doesn't, like well, the ones that didn't remain if you excuse my ignorance.

Secondly, and in a new art form representation, namely those in the texture of film: why have the movie screening times shrunken so short? The first plays of Faust was 21 hours long and now you may be able to find a version for an hour by some hollywood junkies, not to insult hollywood. Does that do justice? No, you tell me. 

Thirdly, I am becoming obsessed with D.W. Griffith, american director. I watched his orphans of storm on 8mm and super 8 reels, and will say more soon.

Fourthly, america makes its highest income after warfare from movie production. Something to ponder upon, and something I heard from an LA hollywood source so you should check the authenticity.

Fifthly, what matters?

2013

...Happy New Year Readers...

So the world didn't end and the year of Dragon is about to end, only to happen again in 12 years. February brings with it a snake, colder than a man. My resolution for this year is to read and write and watch and play and love. What is yours?