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Art Signs: April 2007
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Sunday, April 22, 2007. Took this photographs from the village of Masule in 1975. (Thanks go to Pooya. For his Flickr contact list.). Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Links to this post. Labels: Iran Village Architecture Photography. Sunday, April 08, 2007. The Largest Carpet in the World. One record for largest carpet. In the world is being outweaved by another. Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Art Signs: February 2007
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Monday, February 19, 2007. In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon. The 20th-anniversary exhibition of In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon. Ends at the Cantor Arts Center. After a national tour. If you live in the Bay Area, as I do, or if visiting here, I highly recommend that you make it to Cantor for this exhibition which will end on May 6, 2007. Cantor Art Center has sponsored a lecture on the work. Links to this post.
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Art Signs: July 2006
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Friday, July 28, 2006. Here, I'll begin posting about art- plays, paintings, sculpture, urban dwellings, performance, furniture, architecture, etc. Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Art Signs: January 2009
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Friday, January 30, 2009. Modern Rendition of a Classical Theme. Hamed Nikpay, a local Persian artist in the Bay Area, has rendered a modern poem in classical tradition on a Persian-Spanish instrumental fusion. You can watch the video below. (Links to the CD are given on YouTube.). Emad Khorasani is the poet, and his poem is well-rooted in the classic " modern Persian. Modern" as opposed to "middle" or "old" Persian of pre-8th century days).
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Art Signs: May 2008
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Thursday, May 29, 2008. Home, California (December 2006). Originally uploaded by M.Mortazavi. Nature offers some of the best works of art ever. Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Links to this post. Saturday, May 03, 2008. The ancient Greek conception of "Art" is very similar to the more continuous Persian concept of "Honar" although, unfortunately, modern post-industrial notions of "Art" have corrupted the original meaning of both conceptions. From all ...
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Art Signs: July 2008
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Friday, July 11, 2008. Self and the Other. Or Lun Yü. One sees Confucius' developing various ideas about the self vs. the other. Here is an example:. The Master said, "If one learns from others but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.". II15, trans. by D. C. Lau. Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Links to this post. Confucius Life Through His Own Words.
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Art Signs: May 2007
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Monday, May 21, 2007. The Labels, The Internet and the Artist. Internet, as a giant copy and distribution machine, may and should continue to afford artists with greater autonomy well into the future. Reports of musicians' success in using this copy-and-distribution tool continue to pour in. For example, Wall Street Journal. May 17, 2007, WSJ. B1) The report focuses on the case of singer and musician Ingrid Michaelson. Away from DRM which indicate...
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Art Signs: March 2009
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Thursday, March 26, 2009. To each sex its own door hammer! I originally wrote this entry on August 25, 2004, and published it on blogs.sun.com. Proper greetings require prior identification of the person one greets before. One opens the door for the purpose of greeting that person. Matters stood differently when people lived quieter, more meditative lives. To the left, you can see a picture of the Boroujerdis' Mansion. One of the surviving side do...
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Art Signs: The Butchart Gardens (Summer 2007)
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Friday, April 30, 2010. The Butchart Gardens (Summer 2007). The Butchart Gardens (Summer 2007). Originally uploaded by M.Mortazavi. Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Art Signs: March 2007
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My other blogs: On The Margins. View my complete profile. Thursday, March 29, 2007. Slide Show of Local Persian New Year. Photographer, Marjan Sadoughi, has put together a slide show of local Persian New Year (Norouz) celebrations. Posted by Masood Mortazavi. Links to this post. Labels: Photographs Local Palo Alto. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).