Friday, July 21, 2006

raed yassin is nabil fawzi and bechir remains bechir

i finished finally setting up two new blogs tonight, my mother's one (see last post) and fellow musician/actor/dance raed yassin who is starting a blog to document the war via words + old comics pages and polaroids. here's his address: www.raedyassin.blogspot.com

more and more resistants!

another fellow musician from beirut, bechir saadeh, is pursuing his blog started a while ago with more political content. check at: www.remarkze.blogspot.com/

no drawings tonight. didn;t have time and it's already 5am.
the birds are waking up and everything is strangely calm. this awful calm i always try to describe. the one that you know won't last. and you ask yourself indefinitely: what and when is next?

13 comments:

  1. on the other side of the world, anything i express about your 'current situation' seems trite, glib and empty, but i'm so grateful that you have continued to document, express and process all of this for the world. resistance like this has become powerful and possible through technology and i'm grateful that the simple act of me forwarding a link to your blog to other artists and like-minded people means that perhaps somehow i am joining you in your resistance. your drawings remind me that art still has a purpose, rather than the navel-gasing theory which influences my work. good luck

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  2. when i tried to go to the page www.raedyassin.blogger.com, it didn't work. but when i changed the address to http://www.raedyassin.blogspot.com/ i found the page...

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  3. Hello Mazen, heard you on JJJ Aust.This is the "Butterfly Effect"Showing our world how it can work together and turn a negative wave into a positive.A peace movement and a new beginning, by people who have had enough detruction. People who want a future for this ancient land.Sometimes things happen in the most bizarre and mysterious of ways.You keep hope alive. Thankyou."We are one world... One race...The human race and beyond... May love Grow... "Protection around you " Stay Safe.

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  4. mazen, stay strong.
    you are a true inspiration.

    i'm glad that someone is doing this duty.
    and you are the perfect man to do it.

    hope you are safe in lebanon.

    min al manfa

    areej

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  5. Hello Mazen,

    Yesterday an article in Dutch newspaper about
    Libanezen and Israëliërs seek dialogue on the web (page 14)

    Dutch: about you
    De Libanese kunstenaar Mazen Kerbaj maakt tekeningen en audiofragmenten over de bombardementen die hij op zijn weblog plaats. Op zijn website staat bijvoorbeeld een geluidscompositie, Starry Night getiteld, die het geluid van borbardementen op Beiroet mengt met trompetspel. Het geluid van sirenes en inslaande bommen nam hij op vanaf zijn balkon. Ook maakt hij zwart-wit tekeningen over de grimmige werkelijkheid van dreigende voedseltekorten en families die uit elkaar vallen.

    Translation: about you
    The Libanese artist Mazen Kerbaj makes drawings and audio fragments over the bombardments that he on its weblog place. On its website stands titled for instance a sounds composition, Starry Night, that the sound of bombardments on Beirut mixed with trumpet. The sound of sirens and smashing bombs took he on from its balcony. Also makes he black and white drawings over the furious reality of imminent food deficiency and families that from each other fall.


    You can find complete article here:

    http://www.nrc.nl/digitaleeditie/20060721/public/index.html


    greetings
    dolfpauw The Netherlands

    http://dolfpauw.blogspot.com/

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  6. I think the link is this:
    http://raedyassin.blogspot.com/

    I hope this violence will end very soon. I am so sorry you all are going through this. I don't believe that violence will result in peace. Israel is very very wrong in what they are doing.

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  7. Hey Mazen-

    Sorry to be so long writing to say hey, but I've been keeping track of your posts, and spreading the work to some friends. Thanks for keeping us all posted on what's up. I hope the crazy music is helping you stay sane, and I hope we can make some more crazy music together one of these days soon, somewhere. And let me know if there's anything I can do to help out in some way. Best,

    Taylor

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  8. Hello,I think this blog is A...Mazen,For all the people who have contributed and supported I think this is apt.By: Stanton Warriors session vol 2...Lost Files disc no 2... song no 3... HOPE TIME...
    Here are the words

    Remember we must learn to live togrther as brothers and sisters.
    And not die apart as fools
    And so.. What is to be done
    What should we do next(LINK)

    Keep working, keep struggling and keep marching
    And dont you surrender

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE and you are the light of the world...

    Keep marching
    Keep marching

    And dont you surrender

    We"ll do something brand new here today, try and stop a war before it starts.
    Try to slow down the stones that
    'protect innocent children '

    Dont give up and dont you surrender

    Your spirit and faith will be tested
    The war machine will give us fierce opposition.
    But faith can move Mountains... Mountains... Mountains...
    And you are the light of the world .

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  9. Hello,I think this blog is A...Mazen,For all the people who have contributed and supported I think this is apt.By: Stanton Warriors session vol 2...Lost Files disc no 2... song no 3... HOPE TIME...
    Here are the words

    Remember we must learn to live togrther as brothers and sisters.
    And not die apart as fools
    And so.. What is to be done
    What should we do next(LINK)

    Keep working, keep struggling and keep marching
    And dont you surrender

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE and you are the light of the world...

    Keep marching
    Keep marching

    And dont you surrender

    We"ll do something brand new here today, try and stop a war before it starts.
    Try to slow down the stones that
    'protect innocent children '

    Dont give up and dont you surrender

    Your spirit and faith will be tested
    The war machine will give us fierce opposition.
    But faith can move Mountains... Mountains... Mountains...
    And you are the light of the world .

    ReplyDelete
  10. Hello,I think this blog is A...Mazen,For all the people who have contributed and supported I think this is apt.By: Stanton Warriors session vol 2...Lost Files disc no 2... song no 3... HOPE TIME...
    Here are the words

    Remember we must learn to live togrther as brothers and sisters.
    And not die apart as fools
    And so.. What is to be done
    What should we do next(LINK)

    Keep working, keep struggling and keep marching
    And dont you surrender

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE and you are the light of the world...

    Keep marching
    Keep marching

    And dont you surrender

    We"ll do something brand new here today, try and stop a war before it starts.
    Try to slow down the stones that
    'protect innocent children '

    Dont give up and dont you surrender

    Your spirit and faith will be tested
    The war machine will give us fierce opposition.
    But faith can move Mountains... Mountains... Mountains...
    And you are the light of the world .

    ReplyDelete
  11. Hello,I think this blog is A...Mazen,For all the people who have contributed and supported I think this is apt.By: Stanton Warriors session vol 2...Lost Files disc no 2... song no 3... HOPE TIME...
    Here are the words

    Remember we must learn to live togrther as brothers and sisters.
    And not die apart as fools
    And so.. What is to be done
    What should we do next(LINK)

    Keep working, keep struggling and keep marching
    And dont you surrender

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE and you are the light of the world...

    Keep marching
    Keep marching

    And dont you surrender

    We"ll do something brand new here today, try and stop a war before it starts.
    Try to slow down the stones that
    'protect innocent children '

    Dont give up and dont you surrender

    Your spirit and faith will be tested
    The war machine will give us fierce opposition.
    But faith can move Mountains... Mountains... Mountains...
    And you are the light of the world .

    ReplyDelete
  12. Hello,I think this blog is A...Mazen,For all the people who have contributed and supported I think this is apt.By: Stanton Warriors session vol 2...Lost Files disc no 2... song no 3... HOPE TIME...
    Here are the words

    Remember we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters.
    And not die apart as fools
    And so.. What is to be done
    What should we do next(LINK)

    Keep working, keep struggling and keep marching
    And dont you surrender

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE and you are the light of the world...

    Keep marching
    Keep marching

    And dont you surrender

    We"ll do something brand new here today, try and stop a war before it starts.
    Try to slow down the stones that
    'protect innocent children '

    Dont give up and dont you surrender

    Your spirit and faith will be tested
    The war machine will give us fierce opposition.
    But faith can move Mountains... Mountains... Mountains...
    And you are the light of the world .

    ReplyDelete
  13. Hello,I think this blog is A...Mazen,For all the people who have contributed and supported I think this is apt.By: Stanton Warriors session vol 2...Lost Files disc no 2... song no 3... HOPE TIME...
    Here are the words

    Remember we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters.
    And not die apart as fools
    And so.. What is to be done
    What should we do next(LINK)

    Keep working, keep struggling and keep marching
    And dont you surrender

    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE ALIVE
    KEEP HOPE and you are the light of the world...

    Keep marching
    Keep marching

    And dont you surrender

    We"ll do something brand new here today, try and stop a war before it starts.
    Try to slow down the stones that
    'protect innocent children '

    Dont give up and dont you surrender

    Your spirit and faith will be tested
    The war machine will give us fierce opposition.
    But faith can move Mountains... Mountains... Mountains...
    And you are the light of the world .

    ReplyDelete