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Ramadan Ritual

WOHOOO! Ramadan is here, let's start listing the daily schedule, first wake up grouchy, don't brush your teeth and don't wash your face ! it is haram to touch water. You are fasting to feel the misery of poor people. of course getting into the car with eyes half open, trying hard not to fight with the car drivers next to you but what the hell it is Ramadan am allowed to be mad and angry I haven't had coffee and I haven't had my breakfast cigarette. getting to the office still grouchy- lack of nicotine and lack of caffeine. Two thumbs up for Brazil! I dunno what we have done without the major coffee bean exporter. After 8 hours of constant snoring you go to the car again to continue the sleeping session in your warm bed, tiered and sick deprived from water and food.

I bet people never paid attention to the prayer times and never even witnessed the sunset except in this month! This second represents the starting of the eating race. READY –STEADY-GO! The race begins, lets reserve seats and fill the plate with food and wait till the prayer time.. wohoo finally all the Jordanian population eat at the same time. Is not that wonderful! They can never agree on he color of their logo or chosen their ministers! But ofcourse regarding something that important everyone will !

So after iftar(literally breakfast, everyone spends time in looking for open cafes to play cards, watch BAB ALHARRA and have argeleh and hubble bubble! horaaaa ( screaming out my lungs , jumping and holding my feet in the air and my hands up high) Ramadan is here lets have fun and socialize! A and have an excuse to be mean to people!

ART

WAW! it is that simple!

Impressionism – painting outside of a studio with quick, loose brushstrokes to capture an evocative impression of their subject. Van Gogh was an Impressionist but wanted to express how he felt about what he saw so he distorted the subject. This helped to lead to Expressionism practised by artists from Edvard Munch through to Francis Bacon. The Fauves (wild beasts) expressed themselves by painting with bright colours. Jackson Pollock did it by throwing or dripping paint on a canvas. His paintings were abstract — Abstract Expressionism.

Cezanne was very important. He began as an Impressionist but then started to look at a subject from two different perspectives to represent how we see. Picasso and his friend Georges Braque were very impressed and started to paint subjects from lots of different views. This is Cubism. Marcel Duchamp was a Cubist but then changed art for ever. He said the idea is more important than the medium and refused to stick with the limited choice of canvas or stone. So he chose everyday objects and called them art because he had altered their context. This led to Conceptual Art where the idea becomes the medium.

The Dadaists were very cross. They blamed the horrors of the First World War on the Establishment’s reliance on rational and reasoned thought. They radically opposed rational thought and became nihilistic — the punk rock of modern art movements. Dada plus Sigmund Freud equals Surrealism. The Surrealists were fascinated by the unconscious mind, as that’s where they thought truth resided. Piet Mondrian thought he could paint everything he knew, felt and saw by using two lines placed at rectangles and three primary colours. This was called Neo-Plasticism and was inspired by Cubism. So was Futurism, which is Cubism with motion added. Vorticism is the same as Futurism, but British. The Minimalists might represent the real truth because they weren’t trying to represent anything. Performance Art is Dada live.

That’s from Will Gompertz in the Times. (via sippey) (via Kottke)

Review -The Lives of the Others

2006-German drama, 19 international Award, Golden Globe and an Academy Award for the best foreign movie! reviews from the guardian stated that this is the best movie ever made and it was listed number 2 on the best movies in 2006! the remarkable reviews states that is a very good movie and should be watched by everyone, that is one way of looking at it but talking about it artistically:the movie is fragmented, pictures and images lack the beauty of a picture and the slow pace of the events keeps you wondering and waiting for the message that will be revealed at the end. due to the low budget the soundtracks of the movie is originally made for a different movie and even the poem written by Dreyman is originally written by Brecht!

the story dosent depict the evolution of the charachetres and dosent convey a clar image of their background or gives a sense of attachment hence it is not convincing enough and leaves a huge gap between the viewer and the actor.

THE POSTER! i dont actually realise the sexual images! i guess they were important to convenes and play with the emotions of the viewers!

Ideologically speaking, PROPAGANDA! a broad day light propaganda. allow me to stress a scene here,Wiesler enters to the detectives office, yet the officer mentions the closure f the church and the death of the priest! and he stresses on this again in the next scene! is actually Communism associated with the church! or it is just a way to bring up false images and weak argument to a generation that has been brought up on consumer ship! the deprivation of artists in Germany! that is really weired but did not best artist in the world have evolute in the Communism era!

do they have the right to write anything they want ! maybe we can ask nawal sadawi! she would be able to answer about writers freedom or we can ask Haddadin about his blog! ok lets go to the factual faults! were artists are deprived their right! were they able to twist someone ideology and ps: did not watchmen had other watchmen to watch them! well playing with the facts gave this movie an academy and a golden globe! after of course being called a true story is cold war really over! capitalism is eating itself and had nothing but Hollywood to save it.

am not writing as a Communist or as a marxist , i was raised in a communist house and i know how to distinguish propaganda but what the rest of the world are they free to censor the brain wash!

thanx Hollywood!

Catatonia exhibition

An exhibition at Makan
26th of August 26, 2009

Here we witnessed the work of two weeks, the long nights of brainstorming and the all the nights spent till 3 am in Makan. The white drastic walls were changed into a form of architectural, urban design artistic platform. For the past week, 2 artist, 2 graphic designers 2 industrial designers and 4 architects have gathered to design a CAT-city, yes a city for cats, by researching the new clients needs and its charterers they have founded the first urban planned CAT-city. The drawings on the wall showed the clear manifesto for this development, and when walking further in the rooms of Makan , the new development constitution is revealed on the echoes of cat’s mewas musical essence and RED LIGHTS! ( guys what were you thinking! Sorry daraghmeh house! ) well, Paris circle became the hub downtown for this city, pipes were beautifully drawn, embedded as fixtures of stacked to the walls as a medium of cat circulation.Daraghmeh house was regenerated as a red light district for Cats, as one of the artists has said, ( cats are not afraid of their sexuality , they are much more advanced than humans ought to understand) . The type of deep analysis for the needs offered a mature thinking methodology for the overall design.
In the main room, drawn pillars showed the four needs of cats: food, security, shelter and Sex,viewing a clear statement for the fundamentality of those needs as a PILLAR for the new generated plan, well as they have called the ( مخطط كاتاتونيا الشمولي I hope Gerry wont be mad!

While entering the inner room a surprise of the multidisciplinary acts reveal itself, while looking at the walls, the perspective sketches by dina and rula explained the intended pipe network and the so called Pip-ology, The Cats-eyes and the cat-mobile are good products and examples of what can be done once the process of the inviting is reinvented.

It sad that this exhibition will last for two days only as it is an amazing example of theory intertwined with art, though the group has promised to keep working and publish the research as a INT-publication.

pictures courtesy of HAdi -Interruptions.ning