A good reason to leave your car at home

Today's Car free day in Tripoli.
http://carfreetripoli.org/
It's a great initiative and hopefully we can see it organized in Beirut as well.

One (out of many!!) of the good reasons to leave your cars at home ?
We're starting to run out of spaces to park in the city! So choose to leave the stress at home for a day or two..

No two ways about it !

This minute-long video resumes a 15mn long scene I was lucky to witness: a one way street, two stubborn drivers, only one of them for a good cause.

Refusing to let the car go the wrong way down this street, the driver didn't move until everything was back in order !

He/or she even got a round of applause when the goal was accomplished !

Lebanese Laique Pride

She might be little aware of the importance of the message she's holding at the moment, but she will grow into it and learn how to embrace it and fight for it.

At the Laique Pride march on sunday April 25th 2010, this little girl represented hope !

One day in type

What would my day be without type ? I documented every encounter with a typographic element in the course of one day.
Music by Marc Ernest (Duende)- extract from Tal Omr Al Layl Aan'di

Link to Video: http://www.vimeo.com/5630224

Support at all ages

Being that old (left) or that young (right) and attending the gay pride is very cool and refreshing !!

Home

After "six billion others"
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x794ar_6-milliards-dautres-teaser_creation ,
a project that showed filmed interviews of hundreds of people from all around the world, and which was presented at Le Grand Palais in Paris offering the viewer the choice to make the same filmed interview in a studio there http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x84wv1_entrevues-realisees-au-grand-palais_creation, Yann Arthus Bertrand teamed up with Luc Besson to make: Home.


Home is an ode to the world, seen through Yann's lense, with beautiful landscapes from more than 54 countries in the world, delivering a more direct way to understand the planet on which we live.

Home is out in movie theaters at a symbolic price, the dvd is much cheaper than any others, and you can watch it online for free too.
http://www.home-2009.com/

Digital Temple Magazine: Offf article

Digital Temple Magazine, a free online magazine with themes such as art, photography, design, motion, film, fashion... very interesting discoveries in there ! http://www.digital-temple.com/

Go through it and flip to page 13 and page 92 to read the article i wrote about the festival i recently attended in Lisboa, Offf !!!!

http://www.digital-temple.com/issues/6_issue/intro.htm

"Things I have learned in life so far"

Welcome to my blog !
Yes, inspiration is everywhere. That's the reason behind this blog.
I like to observe the world around me, and some thoughts are worth sharing.
So .. here goes !
You can find this post on Stefan Sagmeister's "Things i have learned in life so far" project

http://www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com/sentence/photography/you-can-find-inspiration-everything