Remember when I told you about my Birthday wish of turning Amalgam into an animated series? Well…… *drum roll* ……. it was actually a sample to submit to LBC intl [Leb TV channel] to feature it at the end of their night news!!!!!!!!!! And….. it got accepted, 1st episode will show starting April! I’m SO thrilled about it!!!! See you tonight on the news 
Remember when I went to Jordan for CC Salon Amman? Well, now we’re finally organizing CC Salon Beirut with the help of Donatella, Habib, Naeema & Mohamad!
What I’d like to share with you is the design process of the poster, which is a collaborative design between the talented Naeema Zarif and myself, à la Creative Commons
Step 1: I designed this
Step2: I sent it to Naeema, who sent me this back!
Step 3: I tried to mix both designs, CC-style
And… lo and behold, the CC Beirut Salon poster… [click to enlarge]
What do you think?
Now the next step is to SPREAD THE WORD! Join our Facebook event, and if you’re a blogger, download a banner from the options below to add to your blog!
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Share away! And don’t forget to follow the updates on Twitter, follow @CCBeirut, and use the official hashtag #CCBeirut and join the Facebook event.
As for the line up of presentations at the event, here it is:
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*PRESENTING ARTISTS*
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CC for music
> Meen The Band, Lebanese Rock. Live music
> Michelle Keserwany, Jagal el USEK
CC for visual arts
> Naeema Zarif
CC for photography
> Lara Zankoul – 365 project
> Samer Nakfour – Analog photography
CC for media
> Jessica Dheere – SMEX
CC for filmmaking
> Cyril Aris & Mounia Akl – Beirut I love you (I love you not)
CC for comics
> Samandal
> Maya Zankoul
CC for geeks
> Leb Geeks
See you all at OBROS, Clemenceau on April 16 And to end it with music released under Creative Commons, here’s another song from Meen: Superhero
It’s that time of the month, time for next month’s desktop background!
Download for free [:P] at your convenience! [Hope I didn’t miss any resolutions – including iPhones!]
320 x 480, 1024 x 640, 1024 x 768, 1200 x 800, 1280 x 1024, 1440 x 900, 1620 x 1280, 1680 x 1050, 1920×1200
And before I leave you to your busy days, I’d like to share the music of a band I’ve known for a while but that I REALLY discovered when I won their CD at Twestival Beirut Amman. Meet Meen – true Lebanese rock. I just LOVED their songs!
Here’s my fav so far “Shefta Jayyi Min B3id”
Here’s how the background looks on my laptop! Feel free to email me [maya.zankoul at gmail dot com] yours, I’d like to do a collage of them all 
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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
I was very happy to give a workshop at Nasawiya about using illustration to deal with your frustrations. I had a great time, met lovely people, and we all drew and chatted about illustration. Add to that cake and juice, how better can it get?
I’d like to thank Nadine Moawad and Joelle Hatem for helping me to organize it, Jessica Dheere from SMEX for the projector, and everyone who attended for their participation and making this fun!
Here’s the outcome of the workshop, for more photos, check out the Facebook photos.
My illustration of the event:
Nadine‘s funny -true story- comic: [click to enlarge]
Joelle‘s existential cartoon 
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A 12-year old girl, Alice El Asmar, surprised us all with her AMAZING TALENT, she’s a real pro [wacom and blog and all!]
Jessica‘s cartoon who looks just like her!
Nadim’s also kind of existential cartoon
Abeer‘s drawing against photography restrictions in Leb – She’s right!
Ali’s Gemmayze demonstration:
If your drawings aren’t here, please send them to me at maya.zankoul [at] gmail [dot] com!
Have a lovely weekend all I’m off to play some piano…
All I can say is that ArabNetME conference KICKED A**! Congrats again to all who participated to making this event as successful as it was. I am proud of you all for organizing such a successful event to encourage the web in the Middle East and allow the “big” people and the “new” people to mingle. You have exceeded my expectations by far!
Presenting the Arabic Web Font during the ideathon – Photo credits UxSoup
Presenting the Arabic Web Font during the ideathon – Photo credits Ayman Itani
Today, I’m live-illustrating from ArabNet.ME conference [which is turning out AMAZING!] and I pitched my arabic web font idea at the ideathon and getting a lot of + feedback. Here are some of the illustrations I did, and you can follow them live here and here.
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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
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Believe it or not, this story is 100% true! [Well, except the drinking part, it’s not true just yet.] I wish you all a lovely Monday, with today’s song ‘Wild Horses’ & I’m not exactly sure who sings it… Enjoy!
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If you’ve been at a bank [that I won’t name] or at Liban Post lately, then you have surely noticed the new “numbering” system. I had to wait about 40 minutes for my turn to come, so I thought that I might as well observe and analyze the different interactions happening there! I wonder how long it will take for the new system to be understood by people coming for transactions!
I’ll now leave you with this beautiful song, covered by Eva Cassidy “Song Bird”. Have a beautiful day!
That this post is being added live at LAU social class!
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I know one or two who will recognized themselves in the comics I have very beautiful memories from those 2 days spent in Zahle, thanks again to all of you who showed up at the exhibition, and who gave me feedback, I really enjoyed it! To those who missed it, here are the photos of the event, tag yourselves and your friends. Tomorrow, I will be giving a presentation in Ayman Itani‘s class at LAU, and will be posting live from there! See you then!
