Jul 30
From a forwarded email from Moneeza A. regarding Dreamfly:
Akri is my home-village. It’s where my father was born. It’s where I first learned how to ride a tractor and install mosquito nets around hand-woven hammock-beds. It’s where I raced my pony with my brother on the dirt roads and rode on motor-bikes and tongas to nearby (barren) fields and villages. As I grew older, the differences between me and Akri started to become stark. Acutely painfully stark. After being home-schooled in Badin, I made my way to Cornell University. Then Microsoft. And now Harvard Business School. While Akri stayed the same. With barren fields and dirt-roads that lead to nowhere. People who don’t want to go anywhere. Or become anyone. Or even do anything. All people of Akri - men women alike - other than the little children. When I visited my home-village this year, I found children, only the little ones, somehow out of nowhere, talking to me about their crazy, imaginative dreams. Dreams of becoming someone. Dreams of flying to places unknown, of curing people, of ending wars, of saving the world! Children for whom the reality of Akri had not yet set in… I want to take each child of Akri and dare her to make her dream a reality. With the help of friends, people who care, people with beautiful hearts and some crazy journeys and dreams of their own, people like my good friend and partner Mona, my husband and best friend Adil, my life-time friends at Microsoft and new acquaintances at Harvard, we can take the children of Akri on a flight of dreams and a fight to make every purposeful desire and positive ambition a reality.
Jul 09
The Sysadmin Song [Dave G.]
A Mighty Shame by Asra Q. Nomani
Advertisements:
VW Polo: It takes awhile to get them but then they seem incredibly funny.
Sauber
What I don’t want:
Diamond shoelace decorations: How crazy does one have to be to come up with this idea? Thereafter how crazy does one have to be to fund it and then consequently buy it
Toro Tissue Ring
Jul 04
This time around I decided to do a set featuring work from a friend, Iffa Nasir who as we can see has really moved up a notch. : )
Ocean’s Thirteen, the Interview: I actually like this people which is odd considering they are celebrities. Also there are so right about Children of Men.
Photoshop Tutorial: Airbrush a Person
A photograph of Habib, Lies dog. Just because I think its beyond cute.
Where on Earth was Middle-Earth?
Torontoist’s Recommendations for Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival. Wish I had the time to attend a play or two.
Photo from Design Assisstant
I absolutely loved the colour matching done in this picture.
Light Graffiti: Funky
Bick’s Pickles Advertisments: The picnic one is the best. Very seldom does an advertisment make you laugh so much. Or make me laugh so much. He he.
Isn’t this pretty. Really innovative way to hide the metal railings.
Crisis in Darfur project: Google Earth based information on the Genocide.
Suzanne Kasler: I would love to own this place.
The G.I.s’ Guide to Iraq (1943) versus the Soldier’s Guide to the Republic of Iraq 2003. [Cynical-C]
The Art of Dose: It was quite depressing when this magazine went out of print. I quite liked it.
Shadow Sculptures [Cynical-C]
SkyFarm Project
Khewra Salt Mines of Pakistan
Interesting writeup.
Final Flight by Kathryn Hollinrake is on display at the Pikto Gallery in the Distillery District (55 Mill St. Building 59) till July 22nd.
In other news Peterborough Man Sentenced To No Girlfriend
YouTube Links
Japanese TV Tetris Game [Ronald C.]: Hilarious
I want:
Fairyesque: Beautiful Clothes
Maurice Lacroix Pontos Decentrique watch
Stone Light by Oluce
Nantaka Joy Sweet Journals
Sun Jar
TOOTH brush holder [Another Shade of Grey]