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  • Power of the tire in Lebanon

    Awesome work!

    Power of the tire is a satirical piece depicting the current political and economical situation in Lebanon. It is meant to be satirical and does not reflect a real situation, but a personal interpretation.

    Regarding this piece, it all started after watching Buck’s Take part / waiting for superman trailer, which seemed to have the exact tone for what we wanted. Some of the copy was so good and served our message that we had to use it.
    Regarding the visuals, buck’s piece (Jr Canest’s style) is a huge inspiration for experimenting and learning motion graphics. So the intro which is almost identical started as an exercise/study in smooth keyframing, and as the piece took shape, we decided to keep it and give a credit to Jr Canest’s inspiring work. You can also find below a list for our inspiration for this piece. Hope you enjoy it.

    Inspiration:

    Buck / Jr Canest : Take Part :: vimeo.com/12677264
    Marcus Eckert : vimeo.com/rpgamer2003
    Ron Gervais : Japan PSA Help :: vimeo.com/23179249
    Water Changed Everything :: vimeo.com/22566556

    / Credits
    // Production / Caustik
    /// Art Direction / Amine Alameddine
    /// Animation / Amine Alameddine
    /// Character Animation / Rachel Mouawad
    /// Additional Character Animation / Omar Labbad

    Power of the tire also has a page on Facebook to share what else we can do with tires!

    via Samer Nakfour

  • Mount Lebanon time lapse video

    I spent some time searching for time lapse videos shot in Lebanon but only found this one worth sharing, even though we have some really cool scenes around the country to experiment with. I actually thought I would find more with the number of photographers I have on my twitter and facebook timelines…

    If you’re interested to make your own time lapse video, you can download one of the available applications to your mobile device and start experimenting with it. An application I’m currently toying with on my iPad is this one called Time Lapse Camera HD.

  • Updated list of group buying websites in Lebanon

    I already published a list of group buying websites a year ago, but I thought of compiling a new list now since several new websites have been launching lately, and you can find some pretty nice deals on them sometimes. So here you go:

    1. Living Social Out of business.
    2. Makhsoom
    3. goSawa
    4. ScoopCity
    5. Grofferon
    6. Living Lebanese
    7. Awfar
    8. Deal
    9. Deal Booking
    10. MarkaVIP
    11. Sukar
    12. Cobone (They’re currently posting travel deals only)
    13. Waffeer
    14. Go For Low

    Did I miss any other website?

  • Bil Alb Ya Watan

  • Lebanon to witness total blackout tonight?

    The EDL Board of Directors declared n Monday that the company will be forcibly closed until contract workers and collectors end their sit-in.

    In a statement, the Board said that due to this step, power cuts are expected all across Lebanon in the next few hours.

    Later in the afternoon, the EDL administration announced that it will be moving to the Zouk power plant and called on President Michel Sleiman to task concerned authorities with ridding the company’s main building of protestors. Source

    Now that the EDL building in Mar Mkhayel is officially closed, when is the security forces willing to intrvene and send the clowns occupying EDL back home? If not now then when?

    While many online campaigns are showing support to the contract workers, I personally support Minister Gibran Bassil in this matter. Those people were almost all hired through politicians like Berri and the alikes, and of course there’s an excess number of them now who are becaming a burden on EDL.

    To me, these workers represent corruption at its best in our government, and Bassil SHOULD win his battle against them. Otherwise, workers in other sectors will follow the same path to stay in their positions and keep earning their undeserved salaries!

    Photo via Marwan Tahtah from Al-Akhbar

  • Yet another cool plate number!

    WTF?!

  • Lebanese Olympic team were not provided with a formal attire!

    I’m not quite surprised with our government not providing the appropriate support to our Olympic team this year, but to disregard providing them with a formal attire is too much. Swimmer Katya Bachrouche wrote that the team had to make their entrance in warm-ups with duct-tape to cover the excess logos!

    Still, we were of course laughing at the Egyptian team because they were provided with fake suits ignoring that our team had nothing to wear.

  • How do people get away with this?

    On the occasion of the security month (Al Shaher Al Amni), one of the blog readers sent me these two photos taken at the same time for two cars, a BMW and a Porsche, having the same plate number!

  • London 2012 Olympics


    All the luck to the Lebanese athletes competing in the 2012 Olympics!

    • Ahmad Hazer (Athletics)
    • Greta Taslakian (Athletics)
    • Zain Shaito (Fencing)
    • Mona Shaito (Fencing)
    • Caren Shammas (Judo)
    • Ray Bassil (Shooting)
    • Wael Kobrosly (Swimming)
    • Katya Bachrouche (Swimming)
    • Tvin Carole Moumjoghlian (Table Tennis)
    • Andrea Paoli (Taekwondo)

  • IKEA is not coming to Beirut City Centre

    After hearing many rumors that IKEA will be soon opening in Beirut City Centre, I was just informed yesterday that they are not.

    According to my sources, it seems that IKEA originally asked for a very large space to rent, but due to the high demand for shop space rental by a lot of other business owners, the people behind Beirut City Centre were unable to accommodate IKEA’s needs.

    This I guess doesn’t mean that IKEA will not be coming to Lebanon at all, since they’re already showing interest in the country, but it will probably take time until they decide where exactly will they choose to open.