۱۳۹۰ مهر ۱, جمعه

The Memoirs of Babur


The Memoirs of Babur

Baburnamah : a 16th c. autobiographical, illuminated, Persian / Islamic manuscript (copy), courtesy of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

The manuscript miniatures below are cropped: please click through to the full-sized, full-page images hosted in Walters' Flickr set.



Mughal manuscript miniature of battle

The Fall of Samarkand




Mughal manuscript miniature of a Persian battle
The battle of Sultan Ḥusayn Mīrzā against
Sultan Masʿūd Mīrzā at Hiṣṣār in the winter of 1495




Indian mughal miniature of castle siege
The siege and battle of Isfarah




Islamic manuscript miniature of Sultan receiving guests; falconry
Ḥamzah Sulṭān, Mahdī Sulṭan and Mamāq Sulṭān pay homage to Babur




Islamic manuscript painting; rural setting, sultan on horseback
Foray to Kuhat (Kohat)




Persian manuscript miniature of date palms, birds and dogs
Date Trees of Hindustan




MS miniature from India - people on raft on river
Babur, during his second Hindustan campaign, riding a raft from Kunar back to Atar




Islamic battle in Hindustan in manuscript painting
The battle of Panipat and the death of Sultan Ibrāhīm, the last of the Lōdī Sultans of Delhi




Islamic MS miniature of horse/rider procession into castle
Babur entering Kabul




Indian mughal MS miniature of Hindu devotees outdoors partly clothed
Babur and his warriors visit the Hindu temple Gurh Kattri (Kūr Katrī) in Bigram


MS miniature - Turkish/Islamic/Persian/Indian : hunting
Babur and his party hunting for rhinoceros in Swati


Mughal miniature painting of peacock and other animals 1500s
Animals of Hindustan: monkeys, rodents and a peacock

"Recognized as one of the world’s great autobiographical memoirs, the Baburnamah is the story of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), who conquered northern India and established the Mughal Empire (or Timurid-Mughal empire).

Born in Fergana (Central Asia), Babur was a patrilineal Timurid and matrilineal Chingizid. Babur wrote his memoir in Chaghatay Turkish, which he referred to as Turkic, and it was later translated into Persian and repeatedly copied and illustrated under his Mughal successors.

The present copy in Persian, written in Nasta'liq script, is a fragment of a dispersed manuscript that was executed in the 16th century." {very slightly edited: PK}


Walters manuscript W.596 (Memoirs of Babur or Baburnamah) is available from theWalters Art Museum website or from their Flickr set.

Follow along on Twitter: Walters Art Museum and Will Noel (Manuscript Curator). Thanks Will! [Also see Will's great blog, Parchment and Pixel, where he features items of interest from the Museum].

The Walters Art Museum's online collection of manuscripts and rare books includes one hundred and forty Islamic works; or see the list: The Digital Walters.


۱۳۹۰ شهریور ۳۱, پنجشنبه

«میکرو تئاتر» پروژه ی جدید گروه تئاتر«لیو»

<div style="direction:rtl;text-align:right">«میکرو تئاتر» پروژه ی جدید گروه تئاتر«لیو»</div>:


گروه تئاتر «لیو» پروژه ی جدیدی در دست اجرا دارد با نام «میکرو تئاتر» که پروژه ای پژوهشی – اجرایی است مبتنی بر تولید نمایش نامه از داستان کوتاه، نوول و رمان کوتاه ایرانی. این گونه ی اجرایی، با ساخت ماکت نمایش همراه خواهد بود به این معنا که ماکت صحنه بر اساس یکی از سالن های حرفه ای موجود، ساخته می شود و اجرای «میکرو تئاتر» در اندازه ی ماکت با استفاده از ویدیوپروجکشن همراه با نمایش نامه خوانی به عنوان نریشن روی تصویر صورت می گیرد.


اهداف این پروژه به شرح زیر است:


۱- تمرکز بر سویه ی اجرا و تاکید بر وجه بصری اجرا


۲- تولید متون نمایشی از روی ادبیات داستانی


۳- شناسایی ظرفیت های نمایشی ادبیات داستانی


۴- گذر نمایش نامه خوانی از قرائت صرف به قرائت اجرا


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علاقمندان به شرکت در این پروژه می توانند اطلاعات زیر را به همراه شماره ی تماس به آدرس microtheater@gmail.com ارسال کنند:


- نام داستان


- نام نویسنده ی داستان


- نام نویسنده ای که داستان را به صورت نمایش نامه درمی آورد


- نام کارگردان


- نام طراح ماکت


- نام بازیگرانی که نمایش نامه خوانی می کنند








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دانلود فیلم جدایی نادر از سیمین A Separation

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Antiquarian Tableware

Antiquarian Tableware

Antiquarian Tableware

table stand design: satyr atop turtle atop eagle-clawed base



bizarre jug design; man bent in half (upside down) with liquid plate between legs



dolphin-based stand with mythical Greek metal smith, Hephaestus, (and his tools) on the top



design for ornate oil lamp or jug, festooned with putti



oil lamp or vessel design, with horse and rider ornament top



cow-head vessel with head of distressed man - as jug handle - straddling cow head



engraved design of oil lamp or candleholder with birds head and a grotesque



oil vessel shaped from quadruped's body and human head



design for oil or wine jug made up of up-turned satyr's head, with horns; spout in beard



wine jug design - caped man with giant penis-esque pouring spout



ornate wine goblet or food container shaped from animals, real and mythical


'De Lucernis Antiquorum Reconditis Libb. Sex: In Quibus Earum Recens Inventarum adhuc ardentium observationes multæ primum afferuntur: Aliorum opiniones omnes de ipsarum attributis dein expenduntur: Earum causæ, proprietates, differenti, æque singulæ deinceps ex rei natura deteguntur: Pluresque dubitationes e traditiis emergentes demum eluuniur. Explicatis diligenter abditissimis Quæstionibus De Ignium causis, origine, vaietate, duratione, motu, & extinctu: De Antiperistasi, Fumo, Cinere, Lentore, Mistis incombustibilibus, Brutorum Funeribus, & aliis Naturæ Arcanis. Declaratisque plurimis Antiquitatis ritibus Lychnos supra centum effigiantibus: Cum Indicibus locupletissimis. Autore Fortunio Liceto Genuense Ex L. Com. Phil. Medico in Academia Patau. Theorico supremo' 1653, was recently uploaded by the University of Heidelberg (click anything below 'Inhalt' and then 'Vorschau' for thumbnail page images) {see}

My Latin being next to non-existent (except when I pretend it isn't), I'm only vaguely of the belief that the Liceti designs of Greek and Roman houseware items, from the antiquities, come from actual objects. They may well have been sketched after paintings or chiselled designs found in ruins. Such is the depth of my comprehension at this late hour. And pay little notice to the image titles on mouseover: it's mostly snipped text from the same page, rather than being pertinent.

None of that, of course, diminishes one's capacity to marvel at the twisted imaginations of the designers bringing delightful satyrs and grotesques to the domestic table.

The author, Fortunio Liceti (1577–1657) is best known for his works on malformed embryos, particuarly 'De Monstruorum Natura', which has never really been my thing.

Pictoplasma focus - Interview with Andy Kehoe - we make money not art

Pictoplasma focus - Interview with Andy Kehoe - we make money not art

Back to our Pictoplasma interviews. This time i'm talking with Andy Kehoe. I think it's the first time i'm interviewing a painter on the blog.

After having embarked on what he calls "a long and expensive tour of art schools", Andy ended up studying illustration at Parsons School of Design in NY. Nowadays he is successfully showing and selling his paintings in art galleries across the U.S. For more flamboyant information about his life, this is the way to go.

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Krampus in the Wild, 2011

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Forever My Fellow, 2011

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Ambassadors of the Otherworldly, 2010

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Roamer of Reverie, 2011

The world they inhabit seems to be as important as the creatures in your paintings. Can you tell us something about this universe? Is it somewhere on Earth? On another planet? A parallel universe? Do men have a place there?

I like having a world where I have the freedom to create anything and that would mean stepping far away from anything too Earthly. Too much reality and not enough magic going on here... and a serious lack of magical creatures and roaming spirits. Too human all around. I like that strange creatures, giants and spirits are known to exist and it's just a part of life. Though there is a connection to Earth, and humans have stumbled upon it and brought things like guns, whiskey, tweed jackets and crude humor. But any humans end up mutating into some sort of creature after a while. Honesty, I'm pretty horrible at drawing normal human people. Can't even remember the last time I even attempted it. Even when I was young, I preferred drawing Ninja Turtles and mafia-based comics that involved a gang of animals in suits.

Your world also seem to enjoy an eternal Autumn...

I have a deep connection with Autumn. Not exactly sure why but every year I try to absorb as much of it as I can on every sensory level. But there is a level of melancholy to it as well since as soon as all the bright colors of Autumn appear, they seem to disappear to the cold dark of winter. Maybe I'm just a sucker for the bittersweetness of it all. In any case, Autumn rules in my land and I get to live in it all year long.

Are your creatures happy living in that world?

Well, I'm not certain if everyone is happy living there but they seem to be doing fine. They certainly seem to witness more wonders than I do on a given day... and possibly more horrors. Comes with the package of living in a magical world I guess.

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A Fresh Soul in the Murderous Wake, 2009

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Be Wary of the Dark Places, 2009

How would you feel if you were told that you are not allowed to create and paint characters? Never ever again? Would you still like to be a painter?

That would certainly be tough for me. I love painting the landscapes as much as the characters but I feel like they are very connected and intertwined with each other. It would be hard to separate them. For most of my paintings, I have an idea for character when I start, but it isn't fully realized yet. I don't draw very much out before I start or make any preliminary sketches. I like to make the background and landscapes first and let that determine how the character grows into it. I never really have a complete idea how it'll truly look until it's finished and I feel like the characters and the world are evolving together along the way. Over the years, my favorite and craziest ideas have come when I broke from the plan and let things happen naturally. Now I just try to not have too much of a plan at all. This allows me to try new things, and lets life influence me the way it will through out the whole creative process. But if it came down to it, I could certainly spend my days painting empty forests and lonely mountains.

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Ideas Flourish, 2009

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Humanity Returns, 2009

Because your paintings evoke fairy tales and mysterious world, i've been wondering if you were influenced by artists working in literature but also cinema and music. Do you get to look at the work of artists working in other fields a lot and do you draw inspiration from them? Whose work do you admire?

When I was young, I read a lot of fairy tales and kids books like the Little Golden Books, Hans Christian Anderson, Frog and Toad, etc. I also had a lot of fairy tales on tape so my brother and I spent countless hours sitting around listening to these fantastic tales. Those audio books definitely had an influence on me because it really left my mind free to wander and imagine these lands and characters. I still listen to a lot of audio books now while I paint and a lot of it is still in the same vein. I'm listening to A Game of Thrones and The Bartimaeus Trilogy right now so still on the fantasy kick. I listen to a lot of non-fiction and historical fiction as well, but I always gravitate towards works of high imagination.

Cinema is one of my biggest inspirations. I don't know if it directly influences my work, but directors like Terrence Malick and Wong Kar Wai have made films that have definitely influenced the themes and mood of my work. Their movies are so beautiful and they have a way of stirring emotions that I really strive for in my work. Miyazaki's movies are also an inspiration for me in the animation realm. All his movies are so fully realized and creative.

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Revel in the Wild Joy, 2011

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Walking with Wisdom, 2010

Any advice you could give to young artists who would like to be as successful as you are?

I guess one of the big things I can say is to not worry so much about succeeding. It takes time and a lot of trial and error to develop work so focus on ideas that interest you and be patient with it. The last thing you want to do is pander to what's popular and become a flash in the pan. If your work is genuine and sincere, people will notice. Once people start noticing and opportunities arise, make sure you take full advantage of those opportunities and continue to push yourself.
And internet really helps.

What are you going to show at Pictoplasma?

I'm submitting various works from some recent gallery shows. Of course, they'll be pieces that are more on the character-centric side.

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Parting the Darkness, 2010

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Onward Again My Friend, 2010

Any upcoming project you would like to share with us?

I have a show opening at Roq La Rue Gallery next month called, "Arise Feral Night." It'll be in Autumn which is perfect and also around Halloween. So the show will be about the coming of night and all strangeness that entails. My sister said the new paintings are kind of scary but I think they're more on the beautifully spooky end of things. The show opens October 14th.

Thanks Andy!

Previously: Pictoplasma focus - Interview with Joshua Ben Longo and Interview with Geneviève Gauckler.

Don't miss Pictoplasma NYC. The conference takes place on 4 + 5 November 2011 at Parsons The New School for Design, the exhibition will be open on 3 - 6 November 2011.

living in: manhattan | Design*Sponge

living in: manhattan | Design*Sponge

LIVING IN: MANHATTAN

Nothing in the whole world of art, music, literature, film, tv or whatever else you can think of to add to this list will make your heart swell for New York City like the first 3 minutes of Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Okay so maybe the Jay Z song did it for the first listen, then fell flat. There is no falling flat for Manhattan. No matter what you think of the man himself, it is undeniable that is you have the smallest burning candle for the city, Woody’s films will make you burst into flames with devotion. -Amy M.

SEMT 06 Chair by Dosuno Design

SEMT 06 Chair by Dosuno Design


SEMT 06 CHAIR BY DOSUNO DESIGN
by Harry / September 19, 2011


Bogota based Dosuno Design Studio has created a furniture collection using galvanized piping for the base structure.



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The SEMT 06 is made using the "Open Tap", a system based on an open source platform for the creation of 100% recyclable furniture using galvanized piping as the main building unit.


(Click the images below for full sized images)


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Says designer Pablo Fog, "The SEMT 06 chair model is based on a very popular weaving technique which is widely used in most regions of Columbia."


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+ dosunodesign.com