A Personal note from Ardeshir Zahedi

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Serge Rezvani aka Cyrus Bassiak

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Boos Bedeh

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Alice va Bella — Navareh Koodak


To the melody of the communist folk song Sar Omad Zemestoon: a song about a pet kitten.


To the melody of the wedding song Shah Damad: a song about a doll.

Download Alice va Bella — Navareh Koodak

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Morris — Salam & Hirsa — Begoo Chi Mikhay
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Mohammad Khordadian — Workout and Dance Lessons #3

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

Photograph by Tiffany Malakooti

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Khomeini Laughs!

Tiffany Malakooti Tiffany Malakooti

— … and then the Rabbi looks up at the Priest and says, “Looking back on it, circumcision may not have been the best way to start!”
— Ho ho ho Yasser baba you are so funneee!! Mashallah! Hezar Mashallah ho ho ho!

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It’s hard not to hate her ’cause she’s beautiful

Sophia Al-Maria on Roxana Saberi in Doha

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Hassan Shamaizadeh: Alive and well, thanks to the God!

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Vintage Alborzian

       

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More Irangeles

            

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Did you know Ramesh is a Lesbian?

Imagined sexual narrative for this clip: Pretty girls frolicking about. The unmistakable glimmer in her eyes at 2:02. The curious need to bring Nozar Arandi back on stage to tend to the boisterous babes.

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From the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Database

            

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Collection Shades of L.A.: Iranian American Community

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POP

 

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Aghasi

Andre Agassi Aghassi

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Banan

Tiffany Malakooti Illustration

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Are You a Transhuman?

FM-2030 (b. Fereidoun M. Esfandiary) pioneered the concept of the Transhuman (transitory human) while teaching at The New School in the mid 1960s. Born in Belgium as the son of a diplomat, FM-2030 lived in 17 countries in the first 11 years of his life–an experience that led him to see himself as a global citizen in a world plagued with irrelevant borders. FM argued that signs of transhumans included physical and mental augmentations including prostheses, reconstructive surgery, intensive use of telecommunications, a cosmopolitan outlook and a globetrotting lifestyle, androgyny (FM predicted gender to be a non-issue by the year 2000), mediated reproduction (such as in vitro fertilisation), absence of religious beliefs, and a rejection of traditional family values. FM emphasized that transhumans are not a movement. Esfandiary legally changed his name in the mid 70s to reinforce his posthuman philosophy:

FM-2030 (Fereidoun M. Esfandiary)

“conventional names define a person’s past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years. The name 2030 reflects my conviction that the years around 2030 will be a magical time…In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.”

FM competed for Iran in the 1948 Olympics in basketball and wrestling. He authored three novels and three futurist books including ”Optimism One,” ”Telespheres” and ”Are You Transhuman?”.

FMs ideas about “nostalgia for the future” are said to have been the inspiration for the stop-motion music video for Ryuichi Sakamoto and Iggy Pop’s song Risky in which director Meiert Avis imagines a love affair between a robot and one of Man Ray’s models in Paris in the late 1930s…

FM-2030 passed away from cancer in 2000, his body was placed in cryonic suspension at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, where it remains today.

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