a response to "within me within you"

786,

got this in an e-mail, feedback for the last Some1:

may all difficulties go away and we stay attached to hope and to  life .. satisfied with our small little things that keep  us rich in the heart and mind

Untitled by Rania Fouad

Some1: "Within me within you" a video experience

786,

After checking out Gabrielle Bell's video adaptation of her comics, I decided to try it out with "Some1"

Special thanks to Nebula for doing a very appropriate version of "stop crying your heart out" by Oasis for the video

Check it out and tell us what you think!
NB: go full screen!!

Updates

786,

It's been more than a month.
Lots of things have happened
an unexpected lovely trip where my heart is still is
a new job and a new project
lovely people I've never thought I'd meet
oh and Big Dipper out my window (for the first time I can spot it out in the sky, I've been waiting to do this for a whole year)

give thanks, give thanks
thank God

Some1 #3: Interlude

786,

Some1 is out sooner than expected!! Click HERE to download it!

Deepest apologies for the very low quality. The original file was too large to upload.
If you have any technical suggestions, please be my guest!

thank you for reading :)

on the way...

786,
on the way, God willing
slowly but surely, hopefully...

Man and the Modern World illustrations

786,
Below are the pieces presented at the gallery.
This work was inspired by an introduction written by Roger du Pasquier.

here's what I wrote to a friend to explain the whole concept behind it:

the idea that really got stuck in my head was the humanist concept that changed how we view the world. How humanism made man the center of the universe, and earth leaving no room for any Divinity as they thought that the Church was dictating too much their lives and limited them in their research scientifically, literally, etc. From the side that it is limiting to seek knowledge, I agree but the negative side of it was the absence of the Absolute which led to individualism, loss of spirituality, hyper materialism, etc. So this is what I tried to discuss through the tryptic.
I took the vitruvian man which is the symbol of humanism and just showed the downside of the movement. that's why it's black, like the shadow of the vitruvian man.
in the first part, i meant to put the text like that so it won't seem like a page from a book and plus I didn't want to distract the viewer too much from the figure in the middle. I wanted the text to serve like key words if you like. I took the square to observe the materialistic, quantitative aspect, how the effects have led to waste, hyper consumerism, lots of gadgets, etc. this "i, me , mine" concept. where there is no room for the other.
in the second part, i took the circle and proposed the psychological aspect, how it affected the psychology of man in general. it turned him into a "perfect monkey" by evolutionism, the perfect machine with fordism, like a hamster in a wheel, constantly working, bound by time, non-stop.
something tasteless, and maybe suffocating.
the third part is just a proposal to take the best from the humanist concept and apply it differently: that thirst for knowledge, love for work, that people unite with a common principal, to seek "light"... 

Man and the Modern World exhibit

786,
This is where the tryptic "Man and the Modern World" will be shown, God willing