Been a while that I'm photographing the FOOLS25 for KIT which is an international theatre festival in Copenhagen. The photo below shows Tess de Quincey from Australia performing at Copenhagen within the Site Specific program.  

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Making of an unmade movie (1)

I am angry with myself. I feel that I am the most dilettante person I know who do not concentrate on what he want to do. Or even worse, do not concentrate to find out what he really wants to do.
However I am now faced to a deadline to amke a movie on August 20th. I have signed up for Video Marathon and have been selected for the contest. I am to make a max-five-minute move within 24 hours with a given theme. I have less than a month to prepare the things that I might randomly need on the day of making the movie with its unpredictable theme.
I will hopefully write in here about the process of making this movie. So far I am thinking to build a kind of structure that although strong enough for a good movie yet be felexible for whatever upcomimg theme I will be given at nine o'clock in the morning on August 20th. So let's see what will happen.

I remember that when we were young, my friends and I would smoke lots of opium and when everyone was so high then we would suddenly began to sing some religious song that we had heard on the Islamic government-lead TV of Iran. So now I can understand why the bishop and the students of the St. Poelten have been chanting the Nazi slogans while having drunken sex orgies! It's so lovely!

There is this article on BBCPersian bringing forth this question whether Iranians would rather die than living. Majority of the visitors have written that they WANT to die in the situation they live in or they have thought of it in one way or another. They sound mostly educated people. At least visiting BBC and leaving comments on the website somehow shows that they belong to the middle class urban people mostly from Tehran and some other big towns. The paradox is that these people have not killed themselves yet.

So it made me think to myself that if I once happen to really want to kill myself-because I don't think I have ever think of it-what may prevent me doing it? The first immediate answer came to my mind was, I can't deal with "the life" after living it and knowing it for 28 years. How can I deal with something I know dick-all about it.

What now? This is the first strike against the civilians in Iraq after the hand-over of the power to Iraqis. The important thing is ho is going to take the responsibility for the death of these "women and children?" What is the reaction of the Iraqi government? Will they take side of Americans or their own people?

"JR: Some teenagers want to be footballers, others want to be singers. You wanted to be a suicide bomber. Why?

Hussam: It's not suicide - it's martyrdom. I would become a martyr and go to my God. It's better than being a singer or a footballer. It's better than everything."

I do believe that the BBC interviewer, James Reynolds misused the unique oportunity he has been given with his stupid questions of cliche. He could dig into the matter much deeper. But he seems to have set up his mind to go and reproach Hussam Abdo anyways instead of really find it out what is behind the story of a "15-yaer-old suicide-bomber."

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Jesper and I often SMS each other. There sometimes are cool stuff going from my mobile to his and the other way around. I though to put some of the here. I put them here the way we spell them in the text messages. Here is the conversation:

Me: Hi man, do u know if've any statues in dk been removed 4 political reason? like Saddam's in Iraq I mean.
Jesper: Dunno-sounds unlikely
Me: I hate tolerance, I hate establishment, I hate democracy where no1 drags down the statues!
Jesper: Well, people react when pet-animals r bein mistreated, foreigners receive subsidies & politicians cheat: then they say fuck democracy.
Me: Im gonna gather our smses & publish some of'em
Jesper: Go ahead punk
Me: Shall I use ur full real name? or u wanna call urself mostafa ebnel rasmus?
Jesper: Up 2 u

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ANAGRAMS (36)

My eyes are getting divorce
And I see my self twice less than myself.

I wish I could write. I wish I did not do all the things that I do to avoid writing. I wish I had something to write. I wish the ignorable thoughts would leave room for concrete words. I wish words were mines and not god's. I wish word was not god.

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I could never imagine that the Danish sky could combine so well with the Japanese music. I just played Tajima Tadashi's Shakuhachi and it's raining cats and gods outside. It seems as if the thunder response to the Shakuhachi and the raindrops are dragged by the gravity of the music. And why do the birds keep singing in such a rain?

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