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The reform movement

If the reform movement wants reform they should carry 3 flags:

1.   The Israeli Flag

2.  The American Flag

3.  The Iranian Lion and Sun flag

 Anything else would be barbaric

Still ghormeh sabzi! sorry ;-) what is "cool" detachment?

Everything is sacred.

One of the things that must have been confusing to you ...

... and that I should have been clearer in expalining was "There is a cool detachment from the subject matter which is neither
positive or negative by itself (that would be determined by the context
in which it is contained)."

I was referring to the cool detachment being neither
positive or negative - not the subject matter. I see how that sentence can be read the wrong way.

I prefer "cheap shots"?! They seem 'simple'?

Everything is sacred.

To Anonymouse

Intellectual Ghorme Sabzi! Very tasty indeed!

Do you want to talk about these posters or take cheap shots at me?

For someone who is looking for simplicity I smells Ghorme Sabzi.

Your reply is laced with pure intellectualism or as we call it smelling Ghorme Sabzi so whatever I say you're going to say that is not what you meant :-) So I suggest you simplify your comment in simple terms we can all understand and then I'll respond.

Meanwhile, the issue or "subject matter" at hand is very simple. It is the Iranian election and the rigging of the election.  So within this boundary one does not need to look elsewhere other than regime's handling of the situation.

The audience of these artists are not Khamenei, Ahmadi and their supporters. The audience is general Iranian and international public opinions at large.  Experience has shown regime is suseptible to international public pressure, as evidenced in Haleh Esfandiari or Roxana Saberi's cases.

So from my perspective these posters convey a simple message, corruption and repression.   Iranian people did the right thing by voting in an election and now they deserve support in their fight for justice and democracy.

On a side note, for all the rheroric about Israel, Ahmadi was Israel's first choice.  So Israeli lobby has already won and all the talk about leaving green movement behind in favor of Iran's interests at large is just support for more corruption. 

Everything is sacred.

Let me rephrase that then Anonymouse;

The form(s) fall short of and do not convey the gravity of the content here. There is a cool detachment from the subject matter which is neither positive or negative by itself (that would be determined by the context in which it is contained).

In the end, for something to work (i.e., be effective) the form/content fusion will have to create something that goes beyound the sum of those two elements. That is what I mean by it working or not working.

These don't work? How? and who should they work for?

Everything is sacred.

There is simplicity and then there is simple

In the end they have to work - most of these don't.

Come on JJ these are soul FULL. Let's keep it simple ;-)

Iran's election is not the only election in the world that has been accused of fraud.  Iran's regime says they didn't kill Neda and the scenes we see on youtube and other news outlets are fake.

Of course there are other countries who crush democracy movements but they are military juntas or dictatorship regimes like Iran, Burma for example.  The one where their own nobel peace prize winner is under house arrest.

So from the simple perspective of killing and torturing Iranian voters in response to an Iranian election all you need is simple gestures of asking why.  Why do this, instead of an auditable recount, if you won fair and square?

Let's keep it simple ;-)

Everything is sacred.

No soul

When I saw these posters I thought they were interesting. Many of them are clever and artful, especially the first 20. But for some reason they seem uninspiring, functional and soul-less. I am comparing them with protest art produced by those who are in the heart of the struggle in Iran. It's not a fair comparison, that's true. These images were produced by artists who cannot be expected to have the same degree of feelings and emotions towards events in Iran as Iranians themselves.

Most

Most artists are non-Iranians. Is this an art class project? My favorite are #5, #8, #9, and #57.

Thanks for sharing!

yolanda