2006 Solar Eclipse

Since I was very young, I always wanted to watch a total eclipse of the sun, unfortunately it never worked… BUT only few minutes ago it was the perfect time… Amman, March 29th 2006. I was so excited, for my safety I put on my very special Safe Solar Eclipse Glasses… I was so happy standing in my room's balcony. The sky was very clear, no clouds at all… and yessssss! I saw the eclipse very clearly and took some wonderful photos, lucky me :D

khobbeizeh's editor: mohammad alQaq محرر خبّيزة: محمد القاق

محمد القاق هو فنّان بصري من مواليد 1976، حصل على بكالوريوس في الفنون الجميلة والتصميم الجرافيكي، وعمل في شركة روبيكون للملتيميديا لمدة 6 سنوات تخللها سنة من التصميم والإدارة الفنية لمجلة المفتاح، حتى قرّر الإنفصال عن القطاع الرأسمالي  في نهاية عام 2005، ليمارس مشاريعه الخاصة، وهو نفس العام الذي إختاره فيه ملحق السفارة الفرنسية الثقافي ليمثًل الأردن في ملتقى الإعلام الرقمي بفرنسا. أشرف عام 2008 على مشاريع التخرج في كلية الفنون بالجامعة الأردنية


محمد هو ناشط إجتماعي، ويستعمل عدة منصّات فنيّة، فعدا عن كونه فنان بصري وجرافيكي، فهو مغني شرقي بديل وله إصدارات في هذا المجال، وأيضاً مخرج أفلام فنيّة قصيرة، ممثل تجريبي، مصور فوتوغرافي، إعلامي في مجال صحافة المواطن، فهو صاحب هذه المدونة "خبّيزة" التي تعتبر من أكثر المدونات شيوعا في الأردن والمنطقة، وكانت السبب القوي لدخوله إلى عالم الإعلام وقيامه بعدة مبادارت مثل "شعشبونة" لقاء التدوين، الكتابة في مجلة بلب، إنضمامه إلى مشروع شبكة رسل الحرية، وإلى موقع حبر، وتحوله إلى مدرب مختص في مجال أدوات الإعلام الحديث وغيرها

mohammad alQaq a visual artist, with an academic background in fine arts & visual communication, and a 6 year work experience at Rubicon. By the end of 2005, he decided to embark on various social projects. He represented Jordan in France’s International Digital Media Meeting, and supervised the graduation projects of University of Jordan’s design students.

mohammad utilities various mediums in expressing his ideas through different visual art platforms. From graphic design, to short & video-art film making, to acting, photography, and even alternative singing. His popular blog “khobbeizeh”, allowed him to venture into the world of media and different initiatives such as “sha3shaboneh”, the blogging meeting, also allowed him to join Freedom Messengers Network, and 7iber.com where he became thier visual specialist, and one of their Digital Media trainers.

Reason!

It was a brief gem that combined simple but elegant camerawork with a hilariously offbeat premise! "Nicholas Seeley, JO magazine, May '05"



Experts' description: Psychotic graphic designer goes off the edge. A childish person looking, but psycho from within in the middle of weird incident!

Almost 3 years ago, in June 2003 ,I had that amazing experience in practicing my acting talents :-) "Give me one reason not to…" a short movie, was the outcome of Amr Toukhy, the terrific director and friend.
Amr and myself got very excited when we wrote that funny script, the next day was in Abu-Lughod Studios where the voice-over got recorded. The main shooting was in the 3rd day at my wonderful friend's place, Ahmad Saqfalhait, who wanted to take the leading role of the movie but couldn’t :-). It was a quit tiring day for all of us :-). Honestly the starring role was for Amr and his creative eye. "Reason" was selected and nominated as follows:

• Amman Filmmakers Cooperative. check it here
• Emirates Film Competition '04, UAE, Arabic Panorama films screening. check it here
• Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal '05, Canada. check it here
• Jordanian Short Film Festival '05, Jordan. check it here

I would like to thank Amman Filmmakers Cooperative and Royal Film Commission for their support all the time.

Watch Reason:
Language: Arabic, Subtitles: English, Running time: 1 min 11 sec

Zait o Za3tar

Close your eyes… Go there and smell the Orange groves, eat the wonderful grapes … take a nap under an olive green tree, then thank her for tasty Oil and a yummy zaitoon. have some natural honey, fresh fig, green apple or sweet Kunafa. Or maybe you're now walking next to the brilliant architecture… chatting with the warm people … very educated and dedicated…honest and believers … graceful decent women and noble men with sparkling eyes!

You're there … in the heart of the world, the heart of Arab countries ... miracles are around you… Archangel Gabriel visited Merriam… Jesus born, lived and preached his people… Mohammad led all the prophets in Prayer then went for "Esra & Me'raj journey… Abraham…Moses … [peace be on them all]. Well, miracles are still happening there, because now …it's the land of the Struggle and strugglers! … Welcome to Palestine. Welcome to my Blog, mohammad alQaq.

(Check out the slide photos from Palestine. Those selected photos were taken from the multimedia CD " this is Palestine ©" by the Palestinian photojournalist George Azar)