December 17, 2006

Size Matters

It’s is one of the biggest billboards I have seen. In Lebanon, size matters. It’s next to the Airport Rd, and can be seen from both sides. Actually, if you look carefully, you can see the left hand going up, and on the other side it goes up as well, so when you see it from a specific angle, the two hands meet, and he looks like a ballerina doing a pirouette. Not very respectful that is, I bet. I was always told that in (the observant part of) Islam, it was not allowed to use the images of humans. That is why Islamic art is so specialized in these beautiful geometrical patterns that you often see in mosques. Especially in Iran they have some amazing art work in that area. But then again, you do have Khomeiny on the paper money, so I guess that there are exceptions. Anyway, you see Nasrallah pretty much anywhere.
It is nice red, all in the Christmas spirit. All that’s missing is snowflakes falling.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

:):) good observation.

There is some misinformation about the images of human though..