Tag: salon

  • 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 🙂

    Slutterhouse – Inside the Station (Pushtronic mix)

  • Announcing… CC Salon Beirut

    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!

    160 x 800

    150 x 417

    160 x 200

    150 x 90

    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

    01 Super Hero

  • AIDS… in Lebanon?

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    Translation of Arabic sentences:

    “B3id el sharr: God forbid!

    Sayer bi zahi2 hal TV: TV is so boring lately

    Sketo Naji tole3 ma3o sida. la2to mnel philipiniyye: Rumour has it that Naji is HIV positive! He caught it from the domestic worker at his house.

    Lah ya 7aram ya Rosanne. Shou hal ossa!: Oh no! Poor Rosanne.. What a disaster!”

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    So, today is World Aids Day 2009. In Lebanon, sex and all its derivatives are still rather taboo subjects. Besides, the not-so-alarming numbers of HIV-positive people makes the issue not-so-alarming comparing to other political or social problems. However, why wait until it is spread like in some other countries? The increasing sex-tourism approach to Lebanon, combined with the very high lack of STD awareness in Lebanon (mainly due to non-secular school systems) AIDS is very vulnerable to spread, and to spread fast. Let us not forget to raise awareness about it everytime we get the chance.

    Other Lebanese bloggers on World Aids Day:

    • Café Thawra

    • Chantal

  • Photos of Jordan (+fanart #5)

    I was glad to meet wonderful artist Ali Maher, who was so kind to draw me the image below on the placemat paper at the restaurant while we had dinner. Thank you Ali! You’re such a special person 🙂

    For the photos, there’s more on Flickr & Facebook but here’s a selection for the blog:

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  • Jordan trip #1

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