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It all started with a Blue Fronted Amazon

By mahmood on Saturday, October 10, 2020

I surprised my wife with an unusual birthday gift; a blue-fronted Amazon parrot. She loved it. But the Amazon seems to have other ideas. It decided that it will tolerate my wife, but be afraid of me. Fear that approximates hate in some cases! We decided that it must have had an ordeal with its …

Politics

King Faisal on Palestine

By mahmood on Sunday, August 16, 2020

I thought I’d just keep this here as a reminder… The late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia said, and I quote: Teach your children that Palestine is occupiedand that the Aqsa Mosque is imprisonedand the Zionist entity is an enemyand resistance is an honourand there is no country called Israel King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al …

Politics

Exposing America

By mahmood on Saturday, August 15, 2020

The Atlantic has a leading story for its upcoming September 2020 edition in which an article about the failures of the United States that culminated in its current disastrous response to the Coronavirus. The article entitled “How the Pandemic Defeated America” by Ed Yong exposes the deep failure a lot of which emanate from a …

Video Production

Vertical Cinema – via Apple

By mahmood on Sunday, August 9, 2020

For some time I maintained that it doesn’t matter whether your video’s orientation is horizontal or vertical and I’ve had some heated discussions with some of my filmmaking friends that vertical films are sacrilegious. Films, in their book must be maintained at the horizontal aspect as that’s how we humans tend to view things with …

Thoughts

New Nike Ad is a lesson in seamless and gorgeous editing

By mahmood on Friday, July 31, 2020

Did you get goosebumps? Watch it again. Even more goosebumps, right? This is what a real piece of art does. I love the seamless integration of these shots. What’s even more brilliant about them is the fact that they are all archive footage. Nike’s team didn’t go out and shoot them specifically, though their team …

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It all started with a Blue Fronted Amazon

King Faisal on Palestine

Exposing America

Vertical Cinema – via Apple

New Nike Ad is a lesson in seamless and gorgeous editing