Popo Story

Any situation in life has two sided, difficult part and the fun part. Being a Momchitect taught me to really close my eyes on the difficult part of the life and try to enjoy the fun part. 

Here is a little example. On Friday I had a house visiting meeting with my realtor and a client in front of the house that we will go to buy for remodeling. I took Lili with me for the house visit and we started to play in front of the house to kill minutes since the realtor and client were little late. Out of the sudden I looked at Lili’s face and recognize that she is trying to pop. Oh no, man , please wait. I do not have a key to get inside and use the bathroom and I do not want to deal with the stinky smell when people arrive. I called realtor, she did not answered the phone, well , she was already late and knew that I am not calling her to offer a cake or candy. Client arrived and I was so uncomfortable since Lili was walking with a big pop inside of her diaper.  I asked the client to wait in front of the house and I got back to the car to clean her little smelly bottom. I could not find my wipes boxes now. Nice mama, I found a bottle of water and cleaned her (god know how) when my phone was ringing nonstop. I put a big smile in my face and got back to my client. Well, that part was a fun part and I tried to just remember this instead of the frustration from it.

Momchitect

Well, being a mom and an architect at the same time was a big challenge for me so far. My little girl would not let me do whatever I had a dream to do as an architect. When I was a student I have had so much creative projects in my mind and I opened my own company to have more freedom to work on them but now I feel like someone knotted me to the chair. Whatever comes to my mind, I need to consider my little boss first. Let’s just move on, I am not here to nag about it, I just decided to write about my challenges more as a momchitect J

گاهی وقتها گم میشی، یک جائی که نمیدونی کجاست. فکر میکنی دیگران گم شدن :( 

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گاهی آدمها این قدر بهت نزدیک میشن که میرند توی جونت، یک قسمت از بدنت میشن. بعد شروع به آزارت میکنن. نمیدونی چته؟ دردت از کجاست؟ فقط میسوزه.... اون وقت فاصله میگیری، دور میشی، نمیفهمی چرا. میدونی درد از کجا میاد، ولی نمیتونی کاری کنی. حس میکنی که دلت شکسته، حس تنهاییه؟ غم داری؟ نمیدونم، حس خوبی نیست. زخم از یک جا شروع شده، کی خوب میشه? نمیدونم، نمیدونی.

دلم شکسته، احساس میکنم هسته هلو قورت دادم که پایین نمیره. هیچ وقت این قدر تمام نشده بودم. سالها بود به اینجا نرسیده بودم فکر میکنم تمامم. ته دلم یک چیزی شکسته، مثل شیشه ،مثل کاسه چینی، مثل یک تکه بلور خردشدنی. برای من تمام شده است.

ای کسانیکه ایمان آوردید، شما را به مقدساتتون عکس چاقاله بادوم را شرنکنید، این شهر را ما از سر تا ته گشته یم و پیدا نکرده یم. بترسید از روزی که به حال ما دچار شوید. :(

چگونه تمرین کنیم دست از نگرانی برداریم و فیزیک و متافیزیک را کم‌محل کنیم
درس اول: لباس منجوق دوزی شده بپوشید
:)..... این لیست به مرور کامل میشود
آیین های فردی

اخیرا دیده ام توی بعضی از این سایت ها به نقل از بنده گفته اند که آقای میکائیل کار خاصی نمی کند. اصلا این طور نیست. اتفاقا ایشان فرشته ی بسیار زحمت کشی هستند. بنده از آنها که در سایت ها اخبار دروغ می نویسند می پرسم، سیصد سال مداوم عمه ی شما بود که هر هشت ساعت یک بار قرص خواب آور می داد به اصحاب کهف؟"
مصاحبه ی مطبوعاتی جبرئیل، پشت پرده...ی ملکوت

میره واسه کرگدن و میمون کشتی میسازه، اون وقت میگم یک دوچرخه واسه من بخر نمیخره :(
از دفترچه خاطرات پسر نوح

ببخشید داشتم امتحان می کردم، بخوابید!!!
(اسرافیل خطاب به مرده ها که در اثر صدای ساکسیفون بیدار شده اند)

خدا وکیلی، شماها واقعا فکر میکنید فرشته بودن کار آسونیه؟؟؟ من سر این پروژه یونس پیر شدم به پیغمبر. ۶ ماه کلاس غواصی رفتم باز هم میگفتن چرا سر وقت کار نمیکنی :(
(درد ودل های جبرئیل)

... دل تنگم

The Situationist concept of the “détournement”

The détournement is a way to show the disagreement with some concepts in the society and its goal is to bring up a new message to the audience sight. On the détournement practice, artists are making a transformation on a previous work and create a new work which has an aggressive or opposite meaning compare to the original work. The original media work that is détourned must be somehow familiar to the aim of the audience so that it can value the opposition of the new message from the artist.

It started by the International Situationist movement in post-war France and northern Europe and it developed truly fast into a powerful and subversive critique of modern commodity society in the 60s. Since there is no limit to creativity in the artwork and no boundary for correcting or transforming the piece of art the détournement practice developed fast. It basically started to be a main core in the contemporary capitalism. The détourned fundamentals are categorized into two types. First, it is a minor détournements which are about elements that are not truly important by themselves and they gain their meaning from being placed in a new context. for example: everyday objects. Second, it is a deceptive détournement which already are major essentials in the contexts like famous painting or philosophical text that obtain the new sense by being placed in the new context.

In 60s the concept of détournement has had a popular influence amongst contemporary radicals, and the technique can be seen in action in the present day when looking at the work of Culture Jammers including the Cacophony Society, Billboard Liberation Front, and Adbusters. Some of the good examples are Nike, Pepsi and Diesel.

Détournement position in the urban realm today is truly involved with all different issues of the modern civilization but since media pay a special attention to conflicts and politics consequently détournement started to track that path. Based on the numerous wars and harshness in the modern world artists started to focus on these particular subjects and put the light on the failure of the modern humanity and the influence of the modernism in the world. The Neue Slowenische Kunst work is an example of détournement with extremely political vision. It is a controversial political art collectives that publicizes itself in 1984 and it has a long history of aggressive détournement of intense political ideologies. Also in music world they are several industrial music groups who recognize as a political détournement such as Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, and Front 242.

In the modern urbanism the détournement picks the original work faithfully, apply the acrimonious fact or idea, mimic the role of the original work and come up with the result which is much stronger and identifiable than the original work. I personally think one of the goals of the détournement is capture the public attention and show the dreadful side of the society and alarm them by their work. Below are some example of the détournement work that they can identify as a good illustration of political and conflict détournement. Also, during our trip to Portugal I was looking around the town to discover détournement work and amazingly I found some good examples in the suburb area.

Works Cited
1.Debord, Guy and Wolman. Gil. J. Methods of Détournement
2.A User’s Guide to Détournement, http://www.bopsecrets.org
3.Politics of Play: Situationism, Détournement, and Anti-Art, http://forum.llc.ed.ac.uk
4.Vaneigem, Raoul. "The Revolution in Everyday Life". The Situationist, International Text Library at Nothingness.org. (9 March 2008)
5.Wikipedia, Détournement
6.ww.generation-online.org/detournement.htm

The Situationist concept of the “dérive”

To understanding the position of the dérive in capitalism and its effect on the city the best approach is to get more familiar with the meaning of the theory of derive and its position in the city. Essentially one of the basic Situationist practices is Dérive(drifting).

It is a creative experiment and constructive behavior. It is a quick way to go through mix atmosphere and find the inspiring result at the end. Derive is engaging people in the certain time in particular places with the new point of view of the experiment. Dérive shows an innovative psychogeographical achievement during and after the experience. The practice of derive is truly different from the traditional philosophy of walking or collecting information.

Dérive is about the city which gets discover by one or a group of people during the certain time. They essentially leave their regular activities, work and all other responsibilities and start fallowing the attraction of the city. They basically let the city to guide them and show them the hidden spaces and secrets. In the dérive the main point to get to the successful result is, one not count on the chance and second follow the buried path and get lost in the city.

In fact from the derive sight cities have psychogeographical outlines and undisclosed spot which never can notice from certain zone. To obtain that moment and observe the information people need to follow the pure form of the city and dérive.
Now the question is how dérive and dérivers can relate to the capitalism and the society. Capitalism is a social system based on the respect of individual rights and also property rights. Under capitalism the state is separated from economics (production and trade) and the state is separated from religion. Also capitalism is the system of laissez fairs and the political freedom.

Some critics of the capitalism is related to unfair distribution of wealth and power, a tendency toward market monopoly or oligopoly, imperialism, counter-revolutionary wars and various forms of economic and cultural exploitation, repression of workers and trade unionists, social alienation, economic inequality, unemployment, and economic instability. Since the dérive doesn’t follow the pure boundaries of the city and the duration of the experiment and also doesn’t have any relation to the solar time it will be an insurgent way to discover. In addition, dérivers can see the other side of the urban area which is not usually clear on the regular trip.

Based on Debord argument in 1967 some special features like mass media and advertising play a main character in a capitalist society. In fact they show a fake reality in order to mask the real capitalist degradation of human life. One of the approaches of Situationists to the life experiences in capitalism is critical thinking and since the dérivers doesn’t have a limit to follow certain scheme they would have a chance to get closer to the reality and see the problems or complexity in the city under capitalism and criticize the system.

dérives allows people to draw up the surveys of the psychogeographical articulations of a modern city. City can transform physically and structured around relations, freedom, knowledge and experience. If people be free emotionally they would develop their experience of their surrounding and can simply fight to change the city view in certain way. They can point out the failure of the system in the city and let others recognize them as well. Moreover, they can help the system to correct itself and get rid of the marked off point. Dérive is not just a behavior or trial; it is an imaginative way to collect information and it can unveil all hidden layers of the city.

Works Cited
1.Ernest Debord, Guy, Theory of the Dérive, Essay 1958
2.Friedman, Milton. Friedman, Rose D, Capitalism and freedom (Theory of the Derive)
3.Hill, Enid, First World Capitalism. Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), summer, 1999
4.Urban Dictionary, Capitalism
5.Wikipedia, Capitalism and Situationist International

شخصیت های داستانم

غمگینم، خیلی زیاد. شخصیت های داستانم هم غمگینند. ملیحه با اون چشمهای درشتش زل زده به در و منتظر شوهرشه. دلش شور میزنه که چرا این بارون لعنتی قطع نمیشه. سارا هم زانوی غم بغل گرفته که چرا بچه اش را پارسال از دست داده و حالا هر کار میکنه دوباره بچه دار نمیشه. من هم اینجا نشستم و فقط غصه میخورم که چطوری به ملیحه بگم که شوهرش تصادف کرده زیر بارون. اصلا انصاف است که تصادف کرده باشه؟

اخلاقم ان دماغی است. لطفآ نزدیک نشوید :(

من باور دارم که برای این نمی نویسم که خوانده بشم، واقعا برای دلم می نویسم، ولی خدایی یعنی هیچ کسی اینجا را نمی خونه که من کامنت نمی گیرم . ؟؟؟

کودک درونم نشسته ته دلم با کف صابون حباب درست کرده. حالا اون قسمتش که بازی میکنه و از ته دل قهقهه میزنه خیلی بد نیست چون باعٽ میشه من هم لبخند بزنم، ولی هر بار که با کف دستش حبابها را ترق ترق میترکونه من نیم متر از جام میپرم :(

درد من تنهايي نيست ؛ بلكه مرگ ملتي است كه گدايي را قناعت ، بي عرضگي را صبر می دانند ، و با تبسمي بر لب اين حماقت را حكمت خداوند مي نامند

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