October 2008
15 posts
Ramadan
Last day of Ramadan today - gardening in Lit class (I know) Terry Fox Run = mega thirst. Good to have a test right at the end I guess, ~4/5 hours remain… (via TheTumbler)
September 2008
56 posts
I just realized it’s pretty sad that I’m 17 and have read less than two full Qur’an’s in Arabic, and NEVER all the way through in English :|
Tsk tsk, US gov’t! What did you expect to happen when you went to war? Looks like the other side might be winning through just costing a lot
Hey, I can type way better on the iPod now! Turns out you can hit the general area you expect a word to be in, and it’ll take care of it
US Election Comedy
Me: Wanna hear a joke?
Other: Sure!
Me: Sarah Palin.
Way to go twitterific; displaying @ambermac ‘s pic in place of @5tu . Kinda awkward :/
Using twitterific for the 1st time - upgraded from 1gb shuffle to 2nd gen iPod touch today!
Last day of the Surrey Urban Youth Project for a while today! Yay for fasting during a wrap party…
“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on...”
– Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1796
“By sometime this week, the first draft of the [feature] script should be...”
– Baba Ali
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Mos Def on Islam
In thinking about that Mos Def track post from yesterday, I realized that he often crosses Islam with Hip Hop both fiiguratively and literally. He says some pretty profound stuff in that track outright, but it gets even better when you think about his links between Hip Hop and Islam, and then re-listen to the track like this:
A lot of things have changed A lot of things have not, mainly us We...
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did a mini-photoshoot with my Minas Tirith model today - just wanted to use my camera http://tinyurl.com/tirith
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Playing WAL-TOWN - The Film (clip 1) |... →
As one of the stops on their cross Canada journey, the Wal-Town crew visit Stratford Ontario, a town where there is currently no Wal-Mart. The traveling activists point out the glaring differences between towns that have a Wal-Mart and those that are Wal-Mart free. They meet with local shopkeepers and discuss Wal-Mart’s practice of selling below cost. This policy creates ‘the doughnut...
"To Know One Another"
The PSA just got took by CityTv in Vancouver - apparently it will be/has been on TV - I wouldn’t know, I cancelled my cable :)
show tomorrow - first PSA screening today - I have NEVER had a better initial response to a video.
WatchMy project for SUYP, a community-based initiative designed to empower youth trough the arts. The show was on September 17, 2008, and featured youth from around the city expressing themselves through graffiti, dance, spoken word, DJing, MCing, hip hop, Painting, and, my project, film. This video centres around the question of how discrimination can exist in so called “multicultural”...
Just shot a PSA outside out of necessity, got magic hour by coincidence ;)
Oooooo Ben Affleck’s writing/directing another film, and it looks great: http://tinyurl.com/AffleckYo . LOVED Gone Baby Gone.
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http://tinyurl.com/58wqag - New James Bond Trailer - Fan.Tas.Tic.
الله أكبر
An Apple iPod announcement 2 days before my b’day? I wish I needed an iPod…
Doing a screenplay supa-unconvventionally and in Google Docs - works with my mind better than reg. screenplay format!
That Pete Docter is one awesome/crazy dude - http://tinyurl.com/63ztrb
OH - SFU is removing their Provincial req’t Starting NEXT Fall. Guess I have no choice then…
one day, ubiquity will include voice, and that old mac ad from the 80’s will be real…
wow ubiquity for firefox is amazing!
Testing my Twitter RSS -> Tumblr setup.
dangnabbit - I usually have tons of ideas + no motivation - I’m totally motivated right now but not sure what to do!!! Time to GTD this ting
I am totally fascinated with Twitter now - instant communication with professionals that I look up to!
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The Muslim Unity Restaurant, as imagined by Omair...
Omair Ali: Someone needs to open up a Muslim Restaurant promoting unity. Here is a sample from the menu: Chicken Sufi Salad Salafi Sandwich The Wahabi Wild Deobandi Dip Tableeghi Cream Cheese & Honey Sweet & Sour Ikhwaani burger BL(H)T Shia Melt Drinks: OJ (with 5 Percenters real juice) All types of Shakes.
Amir Memon:
How about a: Tangy Tablighi Tangerine Traditional Trout Shanafi...
Synchro Arts Store →
Times audio files based on their waveforms - just what I needed, for about $330 more than I can afford…
How Star Wars Changed the World →
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SUYP 4th Draft
“O mankind! We have created you from a single male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another.” -Surah Al-Hujurât, Verse 13 -Al Qur’an (http://www.submission.org/efarsi/arabic/Surat49_files/49_13.gif) In a free and multicultural society such as ours, where freedom is meant as a means for equal treatment where the government can not mandate our...