28 not-so-ordinary things about me!

.:. I was born on Friday the 13th
.:. I cried my lungs out in Jerusalem
.:. I ate pork when I was two years old!
.:. My first imaginary friends were actually a bunch of colored dots that I'd seen when I close my eyes…
.:. I ran out of house
.:. I got kicked by a horse… the worst of it… I got caught between the horse and a brick wall
.:. I almost drowned in a half meter deep creek
.:. I fainted once and still re-collect the other world very clearly
.:. I got two scholarships one for my high school and one for my post grad study
.:. I had my face printed in a large scale and hung on a façade of a building
.:. I ran for my life and had to jump from a 2 meter height
.:. I inhaled tear gas
.:. I got stung by a bee while running an important errand with a stranger
.:. I had lived for a whole month in a house with a graveyard view from my bedroom and a cargo train rails view from my kitchen… the other 10 months I had a flat mate
.:. An angry dog trapped me in a corner once
.:. I was a penniless for a short time… and for a couple of days… I ate free food from the local mosque kitchen
.:. I worked as Radio DJ
.:. I had an alto phobia panic attack while attempting to climb up a mountain… and made quite a fool of myself…
.:. I drank Italian water with my Pakistani friend while sitting in a Scottish restaurant
.:. I was followed by paparazzi… Twice!!!
.:. A photo of my face was on BBC news website
.:. I got lost in the city
.:. I once stopped eating for 6 days… lived only on tea and water…
.:. I had racist comments thrown at me
.:. I have been semi-vegetarian for the last 5 years… one year I was more restrict than the rest…
.:. I traveled between countries by plane, ship, bus and train
.:. I saw the Ka'aba in reality
.:. I had laughed sincerely at myself with 20 strange people

Raining

On my first day on this life... my grandma told mum to cover me up from the rain... so that I won't catch a cold...
little did they know then... as little they do know now... that I and the rain... are but one..

Interior Architecture Studio | Take 1

After having a hibernation... I'm back to teaching on my own... This semester I'm teaching interior architecture students at GJU....

For this first class in studio... I gave them a quick exercise where I divided them into three groups and gave each a limited space, a drafting table and a chair.... then I asked them to design the space as they want... and that they can borrow whatever objects they can find around them...
The main objective of this exercise was to do the first act of interior design a human has made which is to arrange and re-arrange existing elements to accommodate a certain function...

The first group... made their cramped space into a small second hand clothing shop... as a set design I think they did well... but as interior designers they had a lot of mistakes in using up the space...




The second group... designed their space as a living room... they had manipulated the table quite well and made good use of their coats and jackets... The only problem they had is that they made some redundant additions...




The third group tried to go into abstraction and had two or three different ideas before landing on this one... which was designing a corner for a pianist... their design is what we call "Safe Design"... which means nothing wrong in it... but... not quite creative... however... they had again used elements effectively and they had put a lot of thinking in it...

The Narratives* | 20

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The Peacock was looking up contemptuously...
[Who does it think itself... this little gray bird... so what if it can fly higher??? I have colored feathers]

The little gray bird... was flying happily...

Wind blows...

* The Narratives: stories, events, and scenes that happen[ed] inside and around my head…

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Bad Ad Image

So I guess people at Orange overlooked the finest detail that killed their new ad...
Can you too pick it up?
Who said [God is in the details]?!

During my Vacation

So... I'm back to work... the 10 days went by so fast... but I did manage to relax... and found myself new grounds to tackle... WATERCOLOR...
It is a very hard technique... and I'm no painter... but I really enjoy it and I'm planning on making it my newest hobby...
as for recycling paper... there is a pleasure in putting my hand in gooey stuff and then see them dry to become paper...

For Every Ailment There is a Remedy | لكل داء دواء

For Every Ailment There is a Remedy | لكل داء دواء is an installation by Raed Ibrahim... It is exhibited at Makan till 18th-Feb.-09
The idea of the installation is inventing medicine for social and political problems we face in Jordan... The artist made the medicine packages and posters...
There is a touch of sarcasm behind the idea of a magical pill that will solve problems which became norms in our society...
A very successful exhibition and I highly recommend you see...

Shadows

The play and dance between the light, an entity, a shadow and a texture...

Experimental Being | كائن تجريبي

I have started my own ikbis channel titled "Experimental Being | كائن تجريبي"...


The channel is a space for experimentation of my own self expression...
The slogan I'm going by is something said by Marshall McLuhan which goes like this " I don't explain… I explore…"
The channel is very light... it is more like an uncompleted canvas... where no refinement is needed... yet no polish product is there...
The channel has some of my previous students work as well... and if you want to share anything... just let me know...

Please do check it out...

** special thanks to Ikbis team...