Angels & Demons by bus tour
With all the fuss kicked up about the premiere in Rome of director Ron Howard’s film Angels & Demons, I thought it would be fun to hop on a bus tour based on the novel by Dan Brown. I must stress that I am not a fan of Brown’s writing, but it’s surely a different way to see many of the Eternal City’s sights.
In the following audio slideshow the tour guide, who can’t be named due to his company’s policy, discusses the book and how it relates to the landmarks of Rome
Mind your head!
Among my first photo assignments when I moved to London from Rome in 2006 were the most popular horse race meetings of the British summer. The Epsom Festival and Royal Ascot turned out to be High Society galas and a rendevous for betting maniacs rather than just straighforward sporting events. Still today all the funny hats amuse me and make me believe that cultural differences can be a powerful source of inspiration.
In all probability I would never wear one of those huge and colourful hats, but nevertheless I wouldn’t judge them immoral or socially corrupting. Then, yesterday, some pictures from a stringer in Tehran really shook me up and gave me goosebumps.
‘Morality Police’ detain a man with unacceptable hair and clothing styles during a crackdown on “social corruption” in north Tehran.
Now that for me is a real culture shock.
Now, which one is a real shock… the one in goat heads or the goat type hairstyle?
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Just out of curiosity Chris Helgren, were you reading Yahoo message boards before you wrote the following, “The Obama Nobel Peace Prize is seen as inappropriate by many Arabs..” in ‘Obama Nobel Peace Prize: What Arabs think.’
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-Ea st/2009/1210/p06s12-wome.html