Month: August 2008
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Video Art: “Amman – A quietly distorted night”
Found this video experiment on ikbis.com. Quite an intriguing interpretation of Amman by night. You might want to leave a comment for the maker of this video, Rafique Nasereddin, on his ikbis.com page.
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Ikbis.com breaks new records and launches cool video player
What an amazing ride for ikbis.com over the past 8 weeks! The site’s traffic has shot up. We’re talking about a many-fold growth which necessitated the addition of new servers to the infrastructure! The Groundzero episodes have been coming out every monday. The first season of 13 episodes (the guys prefer to call them “the…
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Fixed streets, destroyed sidewalks and the sloppiness that is killing Jordan
7iber.com, the Jordanian citizen journalism web site has posted an article with pictures and an audio interview about a broken side walk in Jabal Amman. This damage was caused by the process of paving which several streets in Amman are undergoing these days. I won’t add much to 7iber’s post. The scene above might be…
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Photosynth RULES
Photosynth is the best thing to have the Microsoft name on it in history!
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Alexa’s data stuck since August 6, 2008
Has anyone else noted this? For a whole week now Alexa’s data has not been updated. It’s stuck on August 6, 2008. I;ve searched the blogosphere for posts about this issue but only found one entry on a forum. The Alexa blog has nothing to say about this issue. Has anyone else noted this? Has…
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“On This Earth” – Video
I am not someone who likes poetry a lot. But the power of meaning when he says “Grass on a stone” is just earth shattering. See my previous post for more of this poem in English. Mahmoud Darwish 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008
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Typography is architecture
Picture from 7iber.com Larger billboards on the sides of Amman’s buildings are occasionally becoming displays for dramatic typographic interventions. Here, type becomes the defining feature of facade. Letterforms are on full display. It’s the triumph of type! It’s cool to some good fonts on Amman’s walls. It’s also good for Amman’s advertising creators and buyers…
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“On This Earth”
“On This Earth” We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories. We have on…
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When underprivilged/female Jordan teaches the privileged/male Jordan a lesson
If you followed the news about Jordan’s high school exams (Tawjihi), you would have noticed that: a. Girls have done much better than boys. The top marks are totally dominated by girls. b. Public schools have outdone private schools. A radical example is the story of Noura from Aqaba who came out as the top…
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Amman celebrates its old stairs
Amman is definitely a city that has started a journey of self (re)discovery. A city that has exploded in all directions over the past decades, is finally finding time to look inwards again, to rediscover and celebrate its own urban heritage. Yesterday it was time to celebrate one of Amman’s old stairs in Jabal Al…
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Ruba Saqr: when “experimental” is just too much!
On Wednesday night I attended Ruba Saqr, Zulaikha Aburisha and Zeina Azouqa’s “3 Women Only” performance at Al Hussein Park. Within the first ten minutes of the show, I was ready to “strangle” the three of them! Ruba, one of Amman’s most talented, progressive and passionate musician, is someone I admire greatly. She is, with…