Just a quick thought during the flight to Geneva! 🙂
Category: Social
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Add Ma Baddik! [As much as you want]
Presenting… my latest animation! 🙂
Here’s the original post that the animation was based on.
[Youtube blocked at your work? See it on Vimeo. Vimeo blocked at your work? Change your job!]I’d like to give a BIG thank you to Toni Yammine who offered to help with the sound, making the animation much richer and more fun!!!
Here’s a sneak peek of the making of, enjoy!
I will end today’s post with a song by an ‘underground alternative’ Lebanese band from the 80’s, the Quiminboos. This song, called Behsos, is impossibly cute, authentic and funny [mostly if you understand Arabic & Lebanese accents]. It’s from the CD compilation of Lebanese alternative music, Banadoura. Have a lovely day! 🙂
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Crest Smile – UPDATE
If you support this, you can now vote or comment HERE! Thank you Crest for approving the submission after all! 🙂
No song today, I have the flu and need to catch up on some sleeping, so have a beauuutiful day all!
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Smile like you mean it!
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I wish they had accepted my submission! Their moderator doesn’t seem to have any sense of humor at all…I hope the girls submitting their photos read the terms well!“8. By sending her photograph, a Participant assents to its free-of-charge publication at any time by the proprietor of the “mycrestsmile.com” domain.”
If you want to know what I’m talking about, you can see the campaign site here.
In other news, I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about another war happening in Lebanon soon… the thought of which brings out very ugly feelings in me. Here’s this song (&video) by Meen produced in 1 day only during the 2006 war. Hoping this is all only talk and Lebanon will keep on growing like it has been doing for the past 4 years. You can listen to the piano version of the song here.
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Parking Ticket Sticker – update
UPDATE:
The parking ticket sticker made it to the newspaper this morning! 😀 You can read it in today”s issue of Al Akhbar.
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I”ve been getting A LOT of parking tickets around Beirut. So I thought that I might as well be courteous with the policemen working hard on adding the tickets. So I created those stickers!
In English:
In Arabic: [I guess the darakeh will understand this better]
And because I love you all so much, I”ve uploaded the PDFs for you to download, print, and add to your cars!
* Download CarSticker_EN in English
• Download CarSticker_AR in Arabic
The stickers are licensed under Creative Commons, you can download them, use them, remix them. But you cannot sell them. And don”t forget to mention the source! 🙂This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
If you”re wondering how to place the sticker, here”s a HOW TO image:
Have a beautiful week my darlings! Here”s a song for you 🙂 Nick Drake”s “One of these things first”.
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Lebanese Laïque Pride
I am NOT telling you my religion because it”s about time we learned in a country like Lebanon that you cannot judge and stereotype a person based on something that, in 99.9% of the cases, (s)he was born with.
Tomorrow is the Lebanese Laique Pride. See you at 11:00am near Ain El Mreisseh.
As for me, if you must know, well I believe in music. It”s the only thing I truly believe in. Here are 2 beauties for you today: Ella”s fantastic Mac the Knife, and Lhasa de Sela”s fantastic Pajaro.
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Briefly in the elevator
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The guy managed to tell me his autobiography from the ground to the 14th floor. It was interesting and I felt it’s really a Lebanese superpower to be able to converse deeply with anyone you face, in any situation, at any time!
Today’s song is Tarzan Boy’s Baltimore. This tune is full of positivity! Have a great day/weekend my darlings! 🙂
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CC Beirut highlights
To those who don’t know, Friday April 16th was the 1st Creative Commons Salon in Beirut. Creative Commons in a type of ‘flexible copyright’ that allows you to share your work with less restrictions than the classical coypright. All the content of this blog is under a CC license [see bottom of right sidebar], which means you can take the comics, use them and abuse them, as long as you mention the source without making money out of them.
You can check photos of the event here and here. You can check a video here [thanks to Hyperstage.net]. For more details about the presentations lineup, check the Facebook page ‘description’.
A big thank you to Donatella, Mohamad, Naeema & Habib with whom I worked closely to make this event possible. Here’s Donatella’s announcement of the Salon.
In short, it was a fantabulous event. Thank you to all who helped and attended! Hopefully this will be the first of many! Let’s spread the spirit of sharing our work 🙂
In the spirit of Creative Commons and sharing, Slutterhouse just released their first single EP “Inside the Station – remix EP” in all digital stores worldwide, AND for download. For more about this Lebanese ‘electro-rock with a twist’ band [whose music I love!!], check their website www.slutterhouse.com, or start your Monday with their song 🙂
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It’s not about the traffic…
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Thank you so much for the wonderful comments you guys sent me yesterday! You made my day with your support, as usual! I guess I underestimated the power of making a change in your life routine. It’s beautiful. Just like this cover by Brad Mehldau of Nick Drake’s Things Behind the Sun. Enjoy, and have a lovely day! 🙂
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The Twibbon
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Special gathering
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In comparison to last year, it was a much easier experience & I spent the occasion observing others – something I very much enjoy doing [in case you haven’t noticed yet] 😉
It’s Monday, and I have a beautiful tune for you. This is another Joe Hisaishi, from the soundtrack of Howl’s Moving Castle. Enjoy and have an amazing week! 🙂
Ending_ The Promise Of The World_ The Merry-Go-Round Of Life-cut
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Heads up for tomorrow!
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I am completely excited about all this, and extremely late as usual, so I’ll leave you to your beautiful days and go back to panicking about TOMORROW!!!!!!!! SEE YOU ALL THERE 😀
