Friday, November 30, 2007

dilbert the stress reliever (you can also squeeze "gently" the boss)

posted by nbr5 at 11/30/2007 08:28:00 AM 0 comments

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Tales u might like

posted by apunctum at 11/25/2007 02:24:00 AM 1 comments

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Blogger mirna said...

i like :)

November 28, 2007 12:00 AM  

Saturday, November 24, 2007

check these ones too

sami 7adaad (u know "akthar min ra2y")



and enjoy this one too

posted by apunctum at 11/24/2007 09:28:00 AM 0 comments

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for HAW

AND NO BODY ELSE

posted by apunctum at 11/24/2007 09:26:00 AM 3 comments

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Blogger mirna said...

these actually remind me of syrian ads,
it is weird how our culture got totally decimated in just one decade

November 28, 2007 12:04 AM  
Blogger mirna said...

oh! sorry T and Haw, didn't mean to interfere in your posting the previous comment is an observation about the following videos...

je m'excuse

November 28, 2007 12:09 AM  
Blogger hawzers said...

taha im so touched
thank u

November 30, 2007 7:09 PM  

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

why talk when you can shock

posted by apunctum at 11/21/2007 10:53:00 PM 1 comments

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Blogger mirna said...

did you know the mum was trying for 10 hours to talk to officials in the airport to help her out find her son. it is an international airport where custom officials didn't even bother to try help her connect with her son despite her repeated requests.

the worst part is that after shooting him with the taser, they jumped on him and and put a knee to his throat, then he died and they didn't even try to resuscitate him, he could have made it.

November 22, 2007 11:32 AM  

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

LOVE

she is awsome ,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7098707.stm

fuck the artist caues they didnt "understand"
This women made a good stmt about Art.,,,

cheers boys and girls

posted by apunctum at 11/20/2007 03:07:00 AM 7 comments

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Blogger mirna said...

did she have to have lipstick on while 'kissing' the painting?

November 20, 2007 12:50 PM  
Blogger nbr5 said...

I beg to differ actually.
I liked in fact what the lawyer said: "love requires the consent of both sides".
This is simply vandalism.. and from how she is posing to the media, I think it's also an act of attention seeking.

November 21, 2007 1:37 AM  
Blogger apunctum said...

walahi ya kidz ur missing the point.
This women made a statment about ART and that it is not just something to be experianced passivley.
Its the same as the french man who pissed in Duchamp's urinal and said that Duhamp wouldve wanted him to piss in it.

As for vandalism , u have to place this painting in its larger cultural and artistic context. She didnt just ruin somebodys picture of their mohter , or broke a public tranist door. What she did is left an audiance imprent (lip-print) on an art work that u are supposed to "enjoy" and experiance passivley.
Thats why the nutcases went and tried immidiatly to "restore" it back to its "original" form and erase any "additions" to it!
They want the work of art to stand still and not to change and this women changed it by the ppl who are experiancing it.
Again , u have to view this painting as a "work of art" and the status such a title claims and the function and role it has in the social sphere....
cheers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4587988.stm

November 21, 2007 9:33 PM  
Blogger nbr5 said...

what you said sadiki is true, but only theoretically, and in a utopian setting.
However, in this far-from-perfect world, imagine what would happen if everyone starts expressing himself 'actively' in art galleries. It will become a filthy street with graffiti-esque 'expressions' all over it. If she interacted this way with the painting, how about someone else who passionately hated the painting and wanted to spit on it, as a way of interaction and expression. Is it still ok? where would you draw the line? what will be left from the artwork if it's covered by 'additions' from non-passive ppl?

Plus, what about the ppl who also love the painting "as is", and want it to be "as is", without any additions... wouldnt these 'additions' be impositions and intrusions and actually mutilations?

Again I say... your point of view about art is absolutely true, but Im not sure how it may work in our real world.

November 22, 2007 6:49 AM  
Blogger mirna said...

ta

imagine you create any piece of your work, whether an article, a movie, a website, your own, intended initially to stay that way after long days of thinking and work, studying every single and minute detail, its meaning, function, aesthetic role and you send it out, you just exhibit it in one way or another, computer, journal... any medium, then someone comes in and loves what you did and changes the order, the visual one, the functional one, the mental one... he or she just intrudes themselves in your world without any permission...

would this have been an interactive piece, no problem...otherwise, uninvited

November 22, 2007 11:26 AM  
Blogger apunctum said...

kollko 3al bataaal

November 23, 2007 4:33 PM  
Blogger nbr5 said...

ma fashar! al batal la yamout!

November 27, 2007 2:26 AM  

Spaghetti Monster

u all know the flying Spaghetti Monster . Now its official and acedmic.....

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/11/16/flying.spaghettimonster.ap/index.html

posted by apunctum at 11/20/2007 03:06:00 AM 0 comments

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

bombing aljazeera game... check the comment.

posted by nbr5 at 11/13/2007 11:57:00 AM 2 comments

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Blogger apunctum said...

lol

November 14, 2007 10:17 AM  
Blogger hawzers said...

al sara7a kanzun laa yafnaa

November 16, 2007 5:29 PM  

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

nothing new I guess...

posted by nbr5 at 11/06/2007 01:22:00 PM 3 comments

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Blogger mirna said...

does this remind us of what is going on now in Lebanon (and has been going on for decades in different forms)

how many more rounds to go?

quoting a friend "i am lebanese, but i am working on it" or my own upgraded version "i am an arab, but i am working on it"

November 06, 2007 4:46 PM  
Blogger nbr5 said...

as many rounds as it takes, and as long as we are not tired of it.

Awesome quote mirna! whether copyrighted or not, Im going to abuse it from now on.

November 07, 2007 2:12 AM  
Blogger mirna said...

and it doesn't seem 'they' are going tired any time soon...

when i read that quote i thought about you right away :)

November 08, 2007 3:58 PM  

Friday, November 02, 2007

for all of u desginers out there

check it out. Na722b u will love it


http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com

posted by apunctum at 11/02/2007 09:29:00 PM 3 comments

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Blogger nbr5 said...

Genius my friend genius!
In fact I feel I should have posted this link.

November 05, 2007 9:12 AM  
Blogger nbr5 said...

I mean, Im not jealous that you did, and its not that I think that you are not worthy to have posted it, but I guess working with AUB clients should have been incentive enough for me to have produced this website/movie clip myself.

November 06, 2007 8:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003259.html

This song is a classic, it might make you jealous you didnt produce it as well.

-Suha

November 06, 2007 4:16 PM