• Fanart #2

    And this week’s fanart was sent to me by the lovely Mireille (@migheille) author of the blog LifeGeeked.com. Thank you so much Mireille for this beautiful ASCII art! Click on the image to view it in large size.

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    ch33r5 ! – m!r fr0m l1f3g33k3d.c0m

    Here is Mireille’s message along with the art:ย “ASCII FAN ART !!!!!ย  ๐Ÿ˜›ย well ok… it is bit nerdy ! i admit ! but hope it still counts as fan art !ย I can do something in colors , and another image if u want”

    Thank you SO much Mireille! It totally counts as fanart.. never crossed my mind to do those illustrations in ASCII! Brilliant & creative ๐Ÿ™‚

     

  • Fanart #1

    It all started on Twitter when @ghassanb decided to try to draw the main character of this blog. @Beirutspring suggested to take this idea further, by sharing different personal interpretations of the character. @Hatemdex also sent his hand drawn sketch. Thank you guys for sending me my very first fanart! ๐Ÿ™‚ What do you guys think?

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    By Ghassan (@ghassanb)
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    By Mustafa (@beirutspring, beirutspring.com)
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    By Hatem (@hatemdex)

    If you’d like to try your take on this, feel free to send it to me (my email is in the “About me” page of the blog), and I’ll add a fanart post every once in a while… Until then, have a great day!

  • Group photo!

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    Hate ‘group’ photos! There’s no such thing as a ‘group’ photo because whenever you’re shown a photo with other people, you will judge it according to how YOU look in it. And Facebook doesn’t help in all this.
    Anyway enough nagging, I’m really truly sorry my darlings for not posting as regularly as I used to, I have too much work ๐Ÿ™ Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go practice how to mess up my Pecha Kucha presentation tomorrow (OH MY GOD IT’S TOMORROW!). Click here for more info: http://pecha-kucha.org/cities/beirut/6.ย See you guys there ๐Ÿ˜‰





  • Let's talk about the weather (Blog Action Day'09)

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    That was my humble participation to Blog Action Day ’09 whose topic for this year is Climate Change. Whenever I try bringing the issue up, I am faced with rejection/sarcasm/misunderstanding etc. I hope that today’s event will help raise awareness about the importance of such issues, especially in a country like Lebanon where it tends to be forgotten due to more pressing issues of political nature. Have a green day! ๐Ÿ™‚
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  • Illustrations + feature in ArabAd

    I was fortunate to meet Ghada Azzi, managing editor of ArabAd magazine at the book signing. We have since worked on illustrations for the ‘Advertising in Lebanon’ special report of October issue, along an extremely kind feature that Ghada wrote. Thank you so much Ghada for your invaluable support! I won’t keep you waiting too long, you’ll find below the illustrations for the special report along with the article and illustrated Q&A’s (you should get the magazine now for the extremely interesting content and report about Leb ad industry!). Have a wonderful day! ๐Ÿ™‚

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    And finally, the article! ๐Ÿ™‚ (Click to enlarge)

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  • Comics on Ceramics!

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    Et voilร , that’s the big secret behind my more-than-usual absence! I missed you so much, glad to be back posting and updating you! So the idea is that a book signing is planned on October 28th, 2009 at Ceramic Lounge, Saรฏfi Village, starting 6 PM. You will also be able to paint your stress away with the special edition comics I’ve illustrated exclusively for Ceramic Lounge, that you can trace on ceramic items. You can also get mugs that I painted for you… Click here for the Facebook event page.

    Here is the flier promoting the event. Hope to see you all there!! ๐Ÿ™‚ Have a beautiful day

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  • Ain't no smoking 2nite!

    First, I am so sorry for posting so slowly lately ๐Ÿ™ (Too much work and I’m late in all of it and doing my best to finish asap to tell you about it).

    That said, today I will show you the poster I illustrated for ‘Ain’t No Smoking 2nite‘ event that will take place in Gemmayze on October 28th in 35 pubs. The reason I was approached for the design of the poster is this anti-smoking in closed areas post. I hope this will become a regular thing and not just a one night event. Have a lovely week end ๐Ÿ™‚

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  • My daily bread…

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    Just when I thought I had enough problems for one day! Sometimes I’m glad I’m not armed, because I would’ve had an appropriate answer to the “ma twekhzina danzelle” when Lello got to his car. I can’t stand it when visitors of the building block the way out for other cars, I’ve been through this countless times! Anyway, I wish you all a beautiful autumnal day! ๐Ÿ™‚