Since the city is small

This man, the one you don't know
Yet often see, since the city is small

Who stays a while, who drinks his wine
Often by himself,
yet sometimes babbles with your friends,
or friends of friends,
Since the city is small, and the bar is smaller.

This man, the one you don't know,
yet to whom you smile,
Has got an appealing face, a mystery grace
Got you intrigued but you don't know why

This man has always left
A bit too soon,
this man has always moved a bit to fast
Out of your sight,

Sitting with your friends, laughing all aloud
You did not see the intruding smile

Hello

The actor walked out

Saturday night, some actors were acting how they acted 

during that night time of year; 

Shouting into the dark void, out in the cold, calling onto the Lord

to take his son in, and maybe them later on, on board. 

 

Heaven. 

 

Our main actor, however, that same night, decided 

to walk out on that part.

Tonight, he said, I will be part of another 

gathering crowd, 

play, act

 

Dance.

 

The observer was observing all the dancers in the act.

Our main actor have been acting, dancing 

for a while

drinking dancing listening moving, 

that was the other act.

 

No one saw the observer standing

in the shadow of the concrete pole

Yet, the watcher was observed by one acting dancer on the floor,

the observer seeing plenty, did not see the seeing dancer:

our main actor.

 

Launching of SCENE | س

 My scarce posting lately on this blog and on SnapShotScenes is mostly due to my endeavoring around Beirut busy streets making actual products of my illustrations and prototypes.

Scene |س is the place, the object, the product, the brand,... where I put my entrepreneurial adventure together with my design and illustration and love for Beirut.

Scene | س , a new Lebanese Brand focusing on beiruty scenery and Arabic typography.

to be continued...

حرّية و حياة - Posters : Freedom and Life

Spread the revolution from the walls of your home.

(Order your prints with the sizes you want)
These posters and more will be available during our "Follow the Red Balloon" Fair from 16 Dec. to 20 Dec. at Hazmieh centre Mallat, Centre Libanais de L'image. Come! 
Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/268707483182190/

Update:
These posters got featured in Kalimat magazine, who define themselves as challenging the status quo,  See it in issue 04, page 75, yet be sure to check the whole magazine online here. Recommended.

Return of the Kite

ManCityBoom

Experiment with Fish - Damask Fish Pattern

Take a fish, turn it around, duplicate, play some more, get a shape. Now repeat. and again. and again...

Experiment with Face and Space

Sunday afternoon (while watching a romantic comedy)

Sketchbook - at the mall

The Bald Listening Crowd

Virtual man decides to go visit the virtual city

Snapshot of a Virtual man in a real village (Rejmeh, Lebanon) wearing the same pants but different shirts, let's say, on 2 consecutive days.






Virtual man wearing a white shirt goes to a virtual city were the trees are aligned but not the buildings. In the virtual city, people have big TV screens with bad or scrambled signal;

Snapshot of the virtual man turning his back to the TV screen.








Virtual man dreams, but dreams are virtual.

WATER IS LIFE IS WATER - BLOG ACTION DAY

Print this WATER IS LIFE IS WATER Sticker for your kitchen or bathroom
as a reminder to close the running tap water when you do not need it.

(Today is blog action day)

Virtual Happy Couple in their 50s

Snapshot of Virtual Happy Couple in their 50s in a virtual setting.





















Snapshot of Virtual Happy Couple in their 50s during virtual holidays to Moscow in front of St Basil Church (Real setting)

Seasons and a 5th for no reason

The great thing about scribbling is that I scribble and afterwards I see what I actually did. Sometimes, I would just keep it as it is, here, I put some color on using photoshop, emphasizing things more.
So, among many other things, ... it's obviously a landscape of somewhere where pigs are happier then birds and where if you happened to look up you actually see the reassuring smiling face (even if he's raining)

Virtual Family Portrait

Virtual Family Snapshot all members looking OK

Virtual Family Portrait during a trip to the Cedars

Virtual Family Portrait in the Virtual Living Room

Zeina's Key Chain

...And I do have a useless key too in my already heavy key chain

Auto-portrait (without a Mirror)

I draw myself drawing myself while waiting at the dentist's for my turn. Sorry, nothing was more inspiring then my feet in this room!

Snap Shot Scenes

I started a new photo blog, with some thoughts on the city, space and people that come across my path, you can check that out here

"Kteb Zghir",a Musical Play : Poster- Website- Invitation- Tickets

Finally, "Kteb Zghir" is playing this Sunday and Monday at the forum de Beirut, got your invitations? if not, hurry for the last tickets (available at virgin ticketing).
Such a inspiring project done with the contribution of a lot of people (really more then 100!)
fingers crossed for the first show on Sunday! :)

Cityscape and a Balloon Kite

Let's picnic by the cliff and fly a Kite this afternoon

Imagine time passing and the sun standing still...

Three Kites

Three kites, Three people, Three mountains and an infinity of sky and ocean.

Heart pulling machine pushing hand to action.

sometimes, rarely, you feel that everything is possible, it is then that you should act, fast, before that feeling fades.

Absolut Greece

Today winter started for real in Lebanon.
Weather forecast: one week heavy rain... so I stayed home (with my laptop), going thru past photos,
summer photos (I do not seem to be missing winter at all, sorry earth!) and holidays in Greece.
For Athenians, their islands are the best place to spend summer; and I do agree.
... Thus, winter time exercise is Absolut Greece. YEY!

You Can't Face Willem, You can't quit.

Christmas comes with a lot of gifts and wrappings,
this cardboard came wrapping a wine glass coming with the bottle in a box.
Laid on the table it reminded me of a "W" thus came the following:

Then, I started experimenting and looking for shapes and letters,

 trying to make sense of it all. so,...

do not let Willem (De Kooning or Dafoe) get to you,

you have got to do what you have got to do.

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Stitch

Stitch, sew, knit, weave, fix, block.

Kites again

Woman 1 - Woman 2 - Woman 3

for a better view i am re-posting the illustrations of the triptych one after the other, thou I like them more side by side.

(quite a change in emotions after the cute calendar girl, Lola.)