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Project 300 is an artistic collaboration aimed at showing the forgotten face of ancient Persia and modern day Iran. Click here to find out more.

Jul 25

Artist Spotlight: Ali Khalkhali

15 comments posted by legofish at 02:13 PM

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32-year-old Ali Khalkhali seems to have a nack for working with clay. I really wish there were more pieces in his portfolio, especially the wonderfully funny Rostam and Esfandiar comic done completely in clay (there are only two pages of that in his gallery). Also don't miss his clay depiction of the Irano-Russian wars.

Rostam is an epic heroic character in Persian literature and mythology. He is basically a 10th century super-hero and there's no wonder that Persian illustrators and cartoonists often draw upong his stories when they approach comics. (incidentally, the only real comic book available worldwide that has Persian characters is the Rostam comic book, which you can check out here.)

Comments

wow, really great,nicely done, wish there were more :(

by A. Daneshgar at July 26, 2007 05:19 PM

Alas, it seems we have lost this battle in pop culture unless and in some ordain way that we can regain this with the video game turned movie, prince of pesia. I know having faith on such a movie is ridiculous but what do we have to lose but hope... This movie did provide one beneficial outcome, it may unite us and I hope it does. I do hope there are more animes, cartoons and etc about us, it is best to provide an early effect to the youth about persian history and to appreciate it.

Defeat is what makes us invincible.

by Kai Khosru at July 26, 2007 05:52 PM

iran is the best country.
persian is the best culture.
so fuck the movie 300 , fuck bush .

by parsa at July 30, 2007 02:58 AM

Hi there!

I wish to have the logo of :
I support project 300.

I have tried it over & over again on my weblog.

but it doesn't come on my first page.
So, What can I do?

thanks

by Raman at July 30, 2007 07:16 PM

Hi there!

I wish to have the logo of :
I support project 300.

I have tried it over & over again on my weblog.

but it doesn't come on my first page.
So, What can I do?

thanks

by Raman at July 30, 2007 07:17 PM

I LOVE THIS MOVIE IT IS SO GREAT I AM SO BUYING THE DVD IT IS ASWSOME.

by NANCY SALAZAR at July 31, 2007 08:15 AM

To counter act this, we must, create our own graphic novel. the story of Nadir Shah is interesting enough that a story about it would make a great comic book and movie, a slave turned thief turned soldier turned general turned king. amazing.

by Key Khosru at August 1, 2007 10:05 PM

Persians Rule forEVER...!!

by Ata at August 4, 2007 12:51 PM

Dorud

Take a look :

http://www.project-persia.org/talk/showthread.php?tid=9

by Project: Persia at August 6, 2007 06:08 AM

hi there, i am that old visitor of this great website
here is a website which contains more than 500 pictures from 10 different provinces of Iran, make sure you will check it out
www.Aryo.ir

by A. Daneshgar at August 12, 2007 05:47 PM

Hi , It's a long time i putted your logo on my blog (http://www.navidg.persianblog.com) . i've a rap band (Protesters) . I wanna support me for our first album . it's a long time i workin' on it . Nice to contact me ;)

by Navid at August 15, 2007 04:48 AM

sorry , my blog address is this : http://www.navidg.persianblog.ir

by Navid at August 15, 2007 04:48 AM

Hi there!!

I am die+ing !!!

by Raman at August 25, 2007 08:29 AM

In the name of god

the movie 300 is SUPERSTITIOUS and UNREAL

by sahra at August 28, 2007 04:40 AM

Nice site! Just wanted to update the 1st comment about the Rostam Comic Book. Hyperwerks has released a second book and is working on their third. Go to http://www.theshahnameh.com for more information.

Cheers!

by cameron at September 28, 2007 03:15 AM