“Persepolis” is the poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken
young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-yearold
Marjane when the fundamentalists first take power – forcing the veil on
women and imprisoning thousands; follow her as she cleverly outsmarts the
“social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with
the terror of government persecution and the Iran/Iraq war; then on to Austria as a teenager, where her parents send her to school in fear for her safety and, she
has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism
she fled her country to escape.
Marjane eventually gains acceptance in Europe but finds herself alone and
horribly homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, though it means
putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. After a difficult period of
adjustment, she enters art school and marries, continuing to speak out against
the hypocrisy she witnesses. At age twenty-four, she realizes that while she is
deeply Iranian, she cannot live in Iran. She then makes the heartbreaking
decision to leave her homeland for France, optimistic about her future, shaped
indelibly by her past. -sony pictures
Entries Tagged 'art' ↓
persepolis
September 2nd, 2007 — politico, film, illustration, art
yoshie watanabe for d-bros
August 22nd, 2007 — graphic design, craft, art, design books
walking on water
August 10th, 2007 — film, illustration, art
see walking on the Vltava or
check out suzanne and bruce lit sculpture walking on the Vltava in Prague by julianopie
color in motion
August 10th, 2007 — illustration, graphic design, color, art
this site by maria claudia cortes is informative, super cute and if your one year old happens to be pulling at your shirt for attention this will do very well!!
tativille
July 30th, 2007 — film, graphic design, art
scissor sister
July 30th, 2007 — how it's made, craft, art
maybe i am late to the martha stewart empire but i walked
into michael’s and was elated to see a pair of scissors where the
handles weren’t red, pink or orange, had their own blade guard
and packaging that doubles as a storage case, one that is sturdy and quite nice,
the stickers even pull off without a mess
matryoshka doll
July 19th, 2007 — baby+kids, art
Traditionally a matryoshka doll is given as a gift to new-born infants, implying fertility, eternal life and timelessness. The name matryoshka has two legendary meanings. The first is said to mean grandmother, because the largest doll in the set represents the oldest women in the family and because traditionally the grandparents have hand-crafted the dolls for their grandchildren.
and david on the mental floss blog says
The history of the matryoshka is a bit hazy, with different sources claiming different inventors. It seems nested boxes were first invented in China about 1000 A.D. Then, in the early 1800’s the Chinese created wooden nesting dolls which were later perfected by the Russians at the turn of the century. One name that comes up a lot if you research nesting dolls is Sergei Maliutin, a painter from a folk crafts workshop in Russia who is said to have built the first real matryoshka in 1890. The name, matryoshka (pronounced ma-TROYSH-ka), comes from the proper name, Matryona or Matriosha, a name associated with a rustic (usually rotund) Russian woman.
see full set
to see others
joseph cornell collage
This collage artist was one of the pioneers of this medium, an inspiration to many, one being andy warhol!
Cornell, Joseph (1903-72). American sculptor, one of the pioneers
and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.
see more of his work here
wall to wall artists
July 12th, 2007 — art
wallpaper as we all know is chic again. wallpaperlab is melding art and interior from floor to ceiling with limited edition wallpaper.
imagine the floor ceiling and walls in a fantastic Fred Tomaselli tangle of pills, flowers and black space! www.wallpaperlab.com
