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."