Category: Filmmaking
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A week with the Nokia N95: There’s a little monster in my pocket and it’s SMART!
Almost exactly two years and 5 months ago, on November 27, 2004 I posted the photo below to say farewell to my Nokia 6210 which I carried for four years and say hello to my first ‘smart’ phone the Nokia 6600. Now it’s time for the 6600 to fade into the background, as I welcome…
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Nokia ties up with Ikbis for unmatched multimedia imaging experience
Ikbis is in Photoworld Dubai 2007 and here is the news promised in the last post.. Upload your photos and videos directly from Nokia’s Nseries devices Ikbis is the first member of Nokia’s global Forum Nokia PRO Imaging Zone Ikbis service to be built into selected models of the Nseries family Here is Nokia’s press…
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Ikbis at Photo World Dubai: stay tuned for some cool news
The Ikbis team is Dubai. We’ll be making a really cool announcement from Photo World Dubai 2007 on Sunday morning. Can’t say more right now All I can say that we are there and would love to meet any Ikbis users from Dubai. And before I forget, we also launched a new homepage yesterday. Check…
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Don’t Tell the Boss: Episode 1: Shooting mobile shooters
I am the boss. And no one told me. I just found it on ikbis! Episode 1 of Don’t tell the boss, deals with issues of privacy in the digital age and provides an excellent solution: shoot the shooters! Read these related posts on 360east: Where is the boss? It’s ‘The Office’ with a Jordanian…
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Karawan: the ‘Rebells’ arrive in Tehran
From the pictures being posted on rebell.tv one can be sure that the Karawan team has safely arrived in Tehran. After an exciting time in Istanbul, the Karawaners Stefan and Bashar took a train eastwards across Turkey to reach Tatvan on the shores of Lake Van in the mountainous Kurdish populated far east of the…
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Karawan: Take a train, from Berlin to Tehran and blog, vlog and podcast
What happens when you put a Swiss/Italian social activist and German/Jordanian political scientist/journalist on a train from Berlin to Tehran, have them carry a video camera, microphone and laptops and have them blog/vlog/podcast like there’s no tomorrow. Sounds like a radical media experiment that I would be interested in. That’s why 360east and my company…
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Frayed Ends: Amazing animation short, made in Jordan
Every now and then, someone in Jordan comes out with a creative breakthrough that takes us all by surprise. Frayed Ends is such a moment. It’s a five minute animated short movie (I would rate it R by the way) that represents a voyeuristic view into the life of an extremely depressed young man. Frayed…
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Hello: Apple’s iPhone Oscar night commercial
A very appropriate and effective TV commercial for the iPhone. This was screened during yesterday’s Oscar night. You can see it in a higher resolution on Apple’s homepage too. Read these related posts on 360east: Apples and Oranges: what Jordanian iPhone rumors did YOU hear? Apple’s Europe/Middle East pricing policy STINKS iPhone Jordan launch REALLY…
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Good stuff starts appearing on Ikbis..
A great video, which was made around two years ago by Amr Toukhy, as part of an exercise with the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative. It stars Mohammad Al Qaq (who posted it on Ikbis today) and ex-SYNTAXer and good friend Ahmad Saqfalhait.. It’s short and great.. We need more! Read these related posts on 360east: Check…
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Lebanese?
Read these related posts on 360east: Found in a bathroom of a Lebanese restaurant in Dubai A Lebanese man walks in Amman.. Arab Heaven and Arab Hell Branding the Cedar Revolution Vigil for Qana and Gaza | Thursday, 3 August 2006 | 8-10 pm
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See how fast babies grow..
This video took the world by storm recently. I was busy with out own new baby so I didn’t notice Check out the “Enjoy Your Digital Life” blog here. Turns out this video was produced by a friend of a friend. Small world. Read these related posts on 360east: I want my kids to grow…
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OK GO: four men and six treadmills!
Talk about creative choreography! This is a video making the rounds on YouTube by the band OK GO. These guys from Chicago have apparently built their fame partly on their low budget videos. According to Wikipedia, their second album, Oh No, which was released in 2005, gained popularity as their video for the single A…