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A Magic Show by Parmesh
Every 19 days Baha’i communities all over the globe get together for an event called the Nineteen Day Feast. The Feast generally consists of collective worship, consultation and socializing – but each of those elements can take any of a number of forms depending on the culture and style of the community.
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Some GIFs from Japan
A couple days ago I left Ottawa and I am currently in Japan for a few days on my way back to India. I’m staying with one of my home-town brothers Zach and perennial travel partner Anis Sobhani has come along for the adventure. For many of us, Japan holds the promise of being so unlike the western…
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Intimate performance of From the Dirt by Honeyman and the Brothers Farr
In response to my selections of the best of Honeyman and the Brothers Farr, a character by the name of Viamoana Heyman had this to say: “UMMM not including From the Dirt??? My friend you are crazy.” I was limited by the number of half decent performance videos I could find online, so I partnered with the band during…
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Sometimes we do funny things at work
For a long time I have thought that I work in a pretty fun office. In fact, I have come to believe that the main difference between my colleagues and the staff of College Humor is that it is their job to sit around making funny videos while our job at the Otesha Project is…
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The Middle Easy
Faced with the decision to stop over in either London or Bahrain on my way back home, I had to ask myself, as we all do from time to time, what would Samuel Benoit do? Samuel Benoit would go to Bahrain, that’s what he would do, and that’s what he did. My university friend, oil-brat…
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Songkran video + Bangkok photos posted
Posted in this new set of photos are photos from Bangkok are images of Bangkok, some of its contents and several from this year’s Songkran festival. Songkran takes place over about four days every April to celebrate Thai new year, and is the most awesome holiday in the world. Below is a short video I…
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Naw-Ruz Greeting Video and Naw-Ruz in General
My beloved Flickr has just added video functionality so I am posting here the video Naw-Ruz greeting video I was commissioned by the Ottawa holy day celebration master Sherrie Yazdani to make. She asked all Ottawa Baha’is living far and away to send in short greeting videos to be shown all together at the community’s…
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