Mashtots: A Not-So-True True Story
Co-Creator and Writer of Mashtots: A Not-So-True True Story, which is a graphic novel about the inventor of Armenian alphabet. Story told as a Sillicon Valley startup project.
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44 DAYS: Diary from an Invisible War | Lika Zakaryan
Editor of 44 DAYS: Diary from an Invisible War, a definitive chronicle of the 2020 Artsakh War, told by writer and photographer Lika Zarkaryan.
The Art of Tragedy and Madness | Creative Armenia
We’re always seeking stories. We search for the meaning in the assassination of a president, contemplate the divine cause of an economic collapse or interpret the backstory of a terrorism case. Tragedies especially make for good stories. No sooner has one hit the world, than artists are at work finding its secret message, encrypting it into art.
Bob Dylan knows how to make an entrance with the least effort. During the heydays of the COVID-19, the old incarnation of the song-and-dance man sent...
Bob Dylan knows how to make an entrance with the least effort. During the heydays of the COVID-19, the old incarnation of the song-and-dance man sent...
Consider the Tree | Creative Armenia
Before she would embark on her journey from England to Gombe to explore the little known world of chimpanzees, an experience she transformed into the revolutionary book My Friends The Wild Chimpanzees, primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall’s childhood was already rooted in nature and her natural habitat was revolving around her favorite beech tree.
Goodall spent hours on the tree, taking with her supplies that would nourish her intellect and belly. “I had a little basket on the end of...
Goodall spent hours on the tree, taking with her supplies that would nourish her intellect and belly. “I had a little basket on the end of...
The Prayer of Djivan Gasparyan
People live their lives. But, sometimes, life lives people. And it fully lived Djivan Gasparyan, the master of duduk, whose fingers and lips would ally with the Armenian instrument made of apricot wood and play prayers of grief, strength, love, but most of all — hope.
Life lived the eight-year-old boy who had his first encounter with his instrument at the old movie theater in the village of Solak, while watching a silent movie accompanied by duduk. For him — starring duduk. When he left th...
Life lived the eight-year-old boy who had his first encounter with his instrument at the old movie theater in the village of Solak, while watching a silent movie accompanied by duduk. For him — starring duduk. When he left th...
Mapping Literature | Creative Armenia
From Cafe des Amateurs to 12 rue de l’Odeon and hence to the studio apartment on 27 rue de Fleurus—this Paris of roasted chestnuts, cheap wine, and anxiously-awaited checks for short stories belongs to Ernest Hemingway.
Working in the top floor of a hotel where Paul Verlaine had lived and died—or at the studio apartment of the writer Gertrude Stein, a mentor and fellow American expat—Hemingway wrote his “one true sentence” peripheral to a piece of conversation caught in the early morning walk...
Working in the top floor of a hotel where Paul Verlaine had lived and died—or at the studio apartment of the writer Gertrude Stein, a mentor and fellow American expat—Hemingway wrote his “one true sentence” peripheral to a piece of conversation caught in the early morning walk...
The Art of Science | Creative Armenia
In the 19th century, the English mathematician Ada Lovelace, wrote the first algorithm for computation, which eventually sparked the birth of the modern computer. She was obsessed with exploring mathematical capacities through poetry, something she called “poetic imagination.” Was that imagination the outcome of her peculiar parenting — her father being the rockstar of 19th century poetry Lord Byron and her mother a “walking calculation,” as Byron put it? Or was it the algorithm she was already...
Pimple on the Nose | Creative Armenia
Death is no obstacle for rivalry, as Mark Twain proved with his detest for the novelist Jane Austen born a century before him. Twain famously said that he has no right to criticize books, unless he hates them. Hence: “Everytime I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Twain’s downtrodden upbringing might explain this hatred — a bitter contrast with Austen’s life of success and lounging on couches. Twain remarked that he felt like “a ba...
Twain’s downtrodden upbringing might explain this hatred — a bitter contrast with Austen’s life of success and lounging on couches. Twain remarked that he felt like “a ba...
