Saturday 18 July 2009

Tick Tick ...Boom!

Here's my submission to VISUAL POLITICS VOLUME 2, an archive of socio-political graphics produced around issues in Lebanon.

Antoine Ghanem, Lebanese Politician, was assassinated on the 19th September 2007, part of the erratic car bombs series. The explosion happened in Horch Tabet - Sin El Fil, right under my building. My parents got injured and hospitalized, and the house in ruins. People kept bringing sweets and flowers to my parents' hospital room, when what we really needed is to refurbish the house from practically scratch.

Liste de 'Hamdillah 'Aal Salemeh' is a morbid spoof on a wedding card invitation, re-appropriating the latter's lingo with a photographical centerpiece of a picture of my bloodied parents that made the front page of a local newspaper.

Friday 10 July 2009

I don't care about you anymore / I've got to figure out love


Last Thursday, MATTHEW DEAR played at B018 [Google Earth link]. Last Thursday, i was in love.
He was spinning/composing live what they call 'minimal electropop' which is basically, erm well... minimal electropop.

Check him out he's very fucking cool. (official site, myspace, wiki)

And here's a couple of tracks for your auditory pleasure only (haunting choruses included):

Matthew Dear - Tide {link to uploaded file} from Backstroke, 2004
Matthew Dear - Pom Pom {right-click to download} from Asa Breed Black Edition, 2008

They've been playing on my ipod on & off for almost a year now so yes, i was a little star-struck when he got behind the deck.
A little start-struck that i might have gotten close, shouted his name, and maybe made the heart shape thingy with my hands. Here's his face when he saw it.


I think Matthew Dear me back.


Snapshots by Ayla Hibri. Click on her name and get amazed.
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EXTRA TRACKS:
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Matthew Dear - Good to Be Alive {right-click to download} from Asa Breed Black Edition, 2008
New Young Pony Club - F.A.N. {link to uploaded file} from Fantastic Playroom, 2007