We’ve watched enough, it’s time to act and stop the silence. It is not about being a Muslim or Jew… it’s about being a human. We all suffer, we all bleed and we all deserve to live in peace.
So act now, show us what you are going to do!
لا فرق بين مسلم ويهودي بالإنسانية، فجميعنا بشر من لحم ودم وكلنا نحس ونغضب ونتألم، فالأم أم مهما كانت ديانتها والطفل طفل مهما كان عرقه، وجميعنا كبشر لنا الحق بأن نعيش بسلام.
والآن… أما آن لنا أن نكسر جدار الصمت ونفعل شيئا يرضي الله!
This -I think- is the first real Flash animation I have ever done!
I did it -I think- in 1999 using Flash 3 (or 4).
I got the idea of the animation long before Titanic (the movie). Actually, this animation is some how converted from an older animation I did on my old Amiga computer using a software called Fantavision sometime between 1992-1995.. I think. In the old animation I used the same song and the same composition.. except there was no iceberg, the ship just sank by itself! Nobody cared at that time :razz:.
The song is Damee Tahaddar by Awadh Dookhi.
Before becoming the blog/website you see here moayad.com passed several stages, some of them were good, some were bad and others were plain ugly. Today I was looking at some old files on my hard disk and found a folder called web, inside it was most of the old sites I created throughout the years, one of them of course was moayad.com.
So here it is, the moayad.com timeline:
1- In the beginning the domain moayad.com was owned by a UAE company called Al Moayad General Trading Est. which is a company specializing in importing industrial products. One happy day the domain was dropped and I grabbed it ;). I still have the main page of their site stored on my computer but I can’t post it for you.. you know.. copyright issues :razz:.
Sorry Al Moayad guys 🙂
2- When I first registered the domain I didn’t know what to use it for, so there was the coming soon page:
3- At that time I had the moayad.8m.com site but I wasn’t sure I wanted to copy the same stuff to the new domain. After a while I wanted to make changes to the site, so I changed the colors.
4- Ramadan came; and I got better at flash, so it was only natural to flash-up the site with a nice animation.
5- After a while I got involved in the Starz Station project, and got even better at flash, so I spiced the flash animation a little more. The site was still showing the coming soon sign because I didn’t have time to work on it. I also, for testing reasons, installed a community forum and opened it to the public. Of course it was a dull sleepy forum but I didn’t expect much of it, I was deeply involved in Starz Station and its real forum.
6- When the broadband revolution started one of the ideas I had for the site was to make it a video portal, something like iflim.com and heavy.com which were new things at the time. I did post a strange video featuring Mr. Mohammed Al Awadhi :). But that was it, no more videos, nothing else was posted at least. Maybe I will post the videos I prepared here in the blog soon.
7- Lots of things changed; Starz Station ended, Muslim Starz came, I got married and I needed a serious professional personal website. So I cracked my fingers, pulled up my sleeves and started working on the site you see here today.The slow update fever stroked me again because the original site was made using static HTML and Flash, so it was a nightmare to update. So after a while I just changed the home page to a blog and subscripted to flicker, it is the magical solution.. for now at least :).
There is one thing missing in this time line which is the.. time. Actually I am only sure of one thing, I registered the domain in 2000 and the latest major updates happened in 2005-2006, you fill in what’s between :razz:.
In this series I will display some websites which I think are Art Works by themselves. Some of these sites are really cool and trendy, others are just plain weird.. just like all contemporary art.
So what make a web site an art work?
Well, it’s a complicated subject which we will discuss as we go along.
I will start with a site called:
Web Art still hasn’t got a clear academic definition, but this site has the interactivity and the “Neen” bits, so it could be counted as Web Art. What could be questioned is the fact that each one of the experiments is somehow separated from the others. Each experiment could be thought of as a different work connected only by the navigation interface.
So could unControl be thought of as an Art Gallery instead of an Art Work?
Few days ago Mark posted about a problem he was having with using WOL, and from the replies on this topic and other topics that followed I found out that the problem is much worst than I expected. It looks like Internet Explorer, which Microsoft stopped supporting long time ago, is no longer available for download! What that means is that all new Mac users have no way to use WOL and check their accounts online!!
Mark and other Mac users emailed the NBK people, but they were faced with a standardized reply telling them to simply.. use a PC!! I emailed them myself and got an almost identical reply as they did.
This is a monopoly (and not the good fun one :)) which we all should stand against.. both Mac and PC users!
Go ahead.. email them and tell them that you demand equality.
