26 أبريل 2014

كلّ ما يمنحنا الفرح مستحبّ

Giuseppe Ungaretti

another night
in this dark
with his hands
frost
distinction
my face
I see myself
abandoned nellìinfinito


مازال يشرب من آهاتِها الغَسق‏

Saltarello

"La Follia - the Triumph of Folly"
Ensemble Oni  Wytars
On the way to Bethlehem - the first Crusade

من سيبتسمُ لي فأحوِّلُ رأسي باتجاه شمسه؟

Covers of the Russian Edition

RETRO

Car Retro part 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

The King of the Waltz

Caricature

Don’t Let Go

Do not grow weary, do not loosen the grip
This poisonous serpent may not slip away
Better that one strangles it to death
Than that our misery begin anew
March 1935 - Issue #1

Anti-Semitic Newspaper

Der-Stuermer
Images translated into English
LIE AND TRUTH
 IN THE SEA OF TEARS
 DOWN DOWN
 THE SHADE

are you really alive?

Who is the next contestant unhappy
What makes you so melancholy today?
Contestant number two: Tusenbach

True words, Tusenbach. Life is hard and death is a bummer. Still waiting 
on that sixth sense though

Game brought : Chekhov

Worker and Theatre,1926

How!

Allen Ginsberg
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on
 Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997

In birds

Previously  Part 1 , 2 , 3 
In Company Of Birds - Salim Ali

My head reels at all these nomenclatural metaphysics! I feel strongly like retiring from ornithology, if this is the stuff, and spending the rest of my days in the peace of the wilderness with birds, and away from the dust and frenzy of taxonomical warfare. I somehow feel complete detachment from all this, and am thoroughly unmoved by what name one ornithologist chooses to dub a bird that is familiar to me, and care even less in regard to one that is unfamiliar ----- The more I see of these subspecific tangles and inanities, the more I can understand the people who silently raise their eyebrows and put a finger to their temples when they contemplate the modern ornithologist in action

25 أبريل 2014

As the future ripens in the past

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet; yet we think we can have something great — thoughts, actions! They are all but grains of sand!
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

أغنية للشتاء

كان جزائى أن يقول لى الشتاء انني ذات شتاء مثله أموت وحدي ذات شتاء مثله أموتُ وحدي
Old Town project - Königsberg

3D COLOR

Japanese History
color photographs of Meiji Japan

Rose (Jintan)

RETRO ANTIQUE

Relations Japanese - Chinese

China Incident Posters
溝橋事変ポスター

Ahem, Ltd

China retro poster

before World War II

Old book Kogunhora
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere sugoroku bag with pre-war

1927

Manchukuo Posters

Picture of the Week

21 أبريل 2014

Dolls Machines - Before they were robots

The Jaquet-Droz automata ( 1768 – 1774) by Pierre Jaquet
Explore the World of Jaquet Droz – 1
machine from the Franklin Institute
The animated figures stand
Adorning every public street
And seem to breathe in stone, or
move their marble feet

18 أبريل 2014

Wobblies

"Its a new day I start work early ..."
"... A fun step back
Where tower cranes
History of the legendary union

Wobblies believed that all workers should organize as a class
"The working class and the exploiting class have nothing in common. There can be no peace as long as hunger and want are for millions of workers, while somewhat exploiting class has all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on, until until the workers of the world are not organized as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and begin to live in harmony with the Earth ... Instead of the conservative motto, "just for day's wages for a fair job everyday," we must inscribe on our banner revolutionary slogan, "The elimination of the wage system." Such is the historical mission of the working class - to do away with capitalism. "

1920-30's Japan's Showa modern

The Screen and Stage 1931
 Advertising epidemic of children Chevalier 1937

Long time passing

Where have all the flowers gone?
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh
 Soviet posters of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and other

let not religions separate…

Poster Women
The installation was a part of a series on religious fundamentalism and communalism. The performance was choreographed and then photographed. It tries to define the various layers of diversity. 2 individuals playfully interact with the same connection. It celebrates the idea of pluralism. The leaves used were real. The story unfolds with each photograph. The first depicts curiosity, then eagerness to come together, coming together and then celebration of the event. For this, real leaves were used. The photographs came first and were adapted to the theme. This was used in addition with another poster where the mother hold sthe child and is running away to depict the aftermath of Babri Masjid demolition and the Godhra riots.

60s

Donna Loren
Donna Loren-60's Promo Video African Waltz , Down The Line
i'm gonna be alright

Mood from Egypt 1914-1919

German World War I photographic - postcards