Posted on 16 November 2009.
After years of quietly and elusively adding his mark to LA’s concrete landscape, Iranian-born artist ABCNT started to gain rising recognition in the Iranian-American community with his iconic political posters of Neda, Taraneh and Mossadeq in the wake of this summer’s stolen elections in Iran.
Shot and directed by Nima Nabavi, this short video reveals some of the mechanics that drive this hidden artist to create.
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Posted on 04 November 2009.
No One Knows About Persian Cats, By Bahman Ghobadi
I hate Iranian music.
Or so I thought. Last night, somewhere between the mandatory, polite applause that pre-empted the screening of “No One Knows About Persian Cats” and the enthusiastic, deserved standing ovation that followed it, all of that changed.
It wasn’t so much the first half of the sentence that became obsolete but the second, as director Bahman Ghobadi clawed and chiseled through the veneered surface of misconception to reveal what music from Iran really is; a cultural core that is emanating from the underground and breeding against all odds with pure will as its only sustenance.
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Posted on 05 May 2009.
Looking for a place to buy cool t-shirts?
Then check out DigitalGravel, an online store that carries so many designs… we stopped counting.
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