The Bibibot Photoblog

2010-08-02T20:19:00.000+03:00

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Delayed pulse

2009-06-19T12:23:00.001+03:00

Delayed pulse

2009-06-19T12:22:00.001+03:00

Jean d'Arc on a monday night

2009-06-02T11:27:00.002+03:00

Moons of Bardo

2009-06-02T11:27:00.001+03:00

2009-05-31T01:25:00.001+03:00

Glastonbury, CT

2009-05-15T20:17:00.000+03:00

Old rags for new rags

2009-05-10T18:58:00.000+03:00

Band rockin from the street, art space.

2009-05-10T05:10:00.000+03:00

Rudy's, new haven.

2009-05-03T20:12:00.000+03:00

2009-05-01T16:19:00.001+03:00

Noi oka folk

NERD and Girl Talk live in New Haven

2009-04-30T07:00:00.000+03:00

Falun Gong protesters

2009-04-27T22:08:00.001+03:00

practicing Falun Gong across the street from the Chinese Embassy, and
in front of a bowling alley.

Hudson River from Washington Height (NYC)

2009-04-27T22:06:00.000+03:00

Cylinder Seals

2009-04-24T00:07:00.001+03:00

I spent an afternoon in the Yale Babylonian Collection rolling out
4000-year-old cylinder seals.

Williamsburg, NY

2009-04-17T20:43:00.000+03:00

Regent's park mosque

2009-04-14T21:33:00.001+03:00

Tips from the english from the french

2009-04-14T19:25:00.001+03:00

Raspberry beret.

Words to live by.

2009-04-14T19:17:00.001+03:00

Pliosaur, baby!

2009-04-14T18:40:00.001+03:00

Big terror from tha deep.

Nothing makes sense here.

2009-04-13T18:01:00.001+03:00

London.

Black Chickens (Sawdet Djej)

2009-04-08T20:31:00.000+03:00

Strawberry Delight by Dima Mabsout

2009-04-05T15:46:00.001+03:00

Letters from the old hamra Wimpy sign

2009-03-31T10:44:00.001+03:00

Jisr el Wati near the Beirut Art Center

2009-03-29T18:13:00.001+03:00

View east from Karm al Zeytoun

2009-03-29T01:33:00.001+03:00

Classy streets of Ashrafieh

2009-03-29T01:31:00.001+03:00

From an exhibit of caricature art.

2009-03-26T00:06:00.001+02:00

My scooter and the movie star

2009-03-26T00:03:00.001+02:00

Menu FAIL

2009-03-25T23:54:00.001+02:00

Falafel Sahyoun (zion)

2009-03-24T23:34:00.001+02:00

Phoenician wall at Batroun

2009-03-22T16:14:00.001+02:00

The 549th and Final Page of my PhD Thesis Draft

2009-03-16T15:38:00.000+02:00

View from downtown beirut looking west

2009-02-13T19:23:00.001+02:00

Concert for gaza

2009-01-28T16:50:00.000+02:00

Madina theater beirut

The Art of War

2009-01-28T16:36:00.001+02:00

A fairly accurate depiction of the events of July 2006 on display at a childrens' art exhibit at Madina Theater, Beirut.

Fish Fish Fish

2008-12-10T18:27:00.001+02:00

Sultan Brahim for lunch at Feluka, Sporting Club.

Giant Shawarma

2008-12-10T18:26:00.001+02:00

A lot of chickens went to make that one.
Barbar Hamra, Beirut.

St Barbara's Day

2008-12-05T10:58:00.000+02:00

It's sort of like halloween, but based on some story about St Barbara
would had to dress up in costume to do some religious thing or other.
No one knew really, we just wanted to dress up and walk around town
giving out candy.
Only one of the men in the top picture is in costume.

Book signing of a book signing

2008-11-29T12:53:00.001+02:00

Zena el Khalil signs copies of her book "Beirut I Love You" in the
background, while in the foreground Sara signs the page she's
mentioned on! At the Book Fair in Biel, Beirut.

Beirut Street View

2008-11-29T12:50:00.000+02:00

View towards Hamra from Clemenceau, from my friend's office.

Live and Dance

2008-11-29T12:47:00.000+02:00

Performance piece on the corniche (boardwalk by the sea) in Beirut.
Those 2 are friends of mine.

Welcome to Cambridge

2008-11-14T22:29:00.001+02:00

Bike lot outside Cambridge train station. Yes, a lot of people ride bikes in this town. This wasn't the whole lot either.

Welcome! Fancy a cup o' tea? Oh, and please keep the fuck off the bloody grass, eh?

Oh those wild Cambridge kids and their anarchistic, obscenely intellectual graffiti.

Notice how the "Duke of Edinburgh", who contributed nothing to this discovery, gets just as many lines on this plaque as do the discoverers of DNA.

Credit Crunch Sale

2008-11-13T22:15:00.000+02:00

High St Kensington, London.

They really like to call it the "Credit Crunch" here a lot. As someone
said, it starts to sound more like a chocolate bar the more you say
it. Even with 70% off I still wouldn't shop here.

The John Snow Pub

2008-11-08T20:58:00.001+02:00

In Soho, London.

It's President Obama

2008-11-08T20:57:00.001+02:00

The Wed 5 Nov issue of The Guardian records the occasion (yes I'm in
London now).

Now that Obama's going to be president...

2008-11-08T20:56:00.001+02:00

...it occured to me that all this anti-bush paraphernalia and
memorabilia that has so colored the american urban landscape over the
past 8 years may soon all fade away with the times. So I thought I'd
immortalize this one, shot from a car in a New Haven parking lot.

Waiting to Vote for Obama

2008-11-04T09:42:00.000+02:00

New Haven. The whole thing took an hour and a half but eventually I
got my "I Voted Today" sticker and that's what it's all about.
Check out some similar scenes from around the US: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/04/us/politics/20081104-readers-slideshow_index.html

One Day to Go

2008-11-03T16:19:00.000+02:00

All my friends are dead

2008-11-02T23:44:00.001+02:00

Floor graffiti. Those smart Yale kids.

Vote! Or else...

2008-11-02T23:38:00.000+02:00

Postered all around new haven.

Halloween in NYC

2008-10-31T22:06:00.000+02:00

Halloween is awesome in this city. The streets are teeming with all
sorts of dead things.

Graffiti in toilet at The Library, Lower East Side, New York

2008-10-25T23:52:00.000+03:00

Monotonix in NYC

2008-10-25T21:59:00.000+03:00

These guys were amazing to watch. Pure performance art, forget the music. The drummer looks like Borat. The singer bares his ass. The guitarist rocks. In the movie above, the singer is pounding the drummer with a garbage can. This band plays on the audience floor and moves the drum kit around through the audience as they play. They also spill massive quantities of beer on each other. The picture where they're up on the bar was just before the sound engineers cut their sound off and cut their set short, probably for fear they were going to trash the bar.

This band believes in a one-state (or two-state) solution and full rights of return for all refugees to their pre-1948 homes.

Halloween Ad on Truck in New Haven

2008-10-24T00:12:00.000+03:00

South Station, Boston

2008-10-23T16:45:00.000+03:00

Mr John Harvard

2008-10-23T14:44:00.000+03:00

Decorated stature at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

Ambien side-effects include having sex.

2008-10-21T21:47:00.001+03:00

This is from an ad in National Geographic magazine. Please take Ambien
responsibly.

The Paleontology Conference

2008-10-17T17:36:00.000+03:00

Lights, and.... action.

Cleveland - 'Tis a Silly Place

2008-10-16T17:34:00.000+03:00

"Great" T-shirt designs at a Gas Station in BF, Pennsylvania

2008-10-14T15:33:00.000+03:00

There was another one that said ROCK ON in big letters, but upon
closer examination revealed "Jesus is the ROCK ON which I stand". Lame
perversion of an anti-conformist slogan.

Pennsylvania Drive Movie

2008-10-14T14:31:00.000+03:00

Surreal clouds.

Autumnal Foliage Transformations (AFT)

2008-10-13T03:03:00.000+03:00

Signs in commuter tunnel, NY subway

2008-10-12T22:23:00.000+03:00

Breakers in Union Square, NY

2008-10-12T22:22:00.001+03:00

American Parties

2008-10-11T07:32:00.001+03:00

I forgot and was reminded tonight that in America, parties are all
about drinking. Drinking A LOT. And here to demonstrate one way of
drinking are these dudes, helping one dude do a keg stand. That means
you get flipped upside down and have to drink in that position from
the pressurized tap of a beer keg. Wonder Drain Bamage ensues.

Maysoon Zayid at Yale

2008-10-11T07:30:00.001+03:00

This palestinian-american girl is a great comedian, although she
starred in that shitty film You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Good stuff.

Daniel Munkus live at Karma Lounge

2008-10-10T18:19:00.001+03:00

Gwar Show, New Haven

2008-10-10T18:13:00.002+03:00

Rothko Exhibit, Tate Modern, London

2008-10-05T14:31:00.001+03:00

No photography allowed, took this on the fly. This painting makes me
think of doors, doors of perception perhaps.

Fossil from orchards in 3ayn al Rummaneh

2008-10-05T14:27:00.001+03:00

Fossil shell, probably 100 million years old, give or take 10 million.

Recording studio, beirut

2008-10-05T14:25:00.000+03:00

Recording music for a children's book.

Read it yourself

2008-09-05T16:28:00.000+03:00

The Levant's Gypsies

2008-09-05T16:27:00.000+03:00

Nasir Shamma at Babel Theater

2008-09-05T16:26:00.000+03:00

Dhour el-Chouer

2008-08-25T18:27:00.000+03:00

25 Aug 6:27pm.

Concert in Gemmayze

2008-08-24T20:10:00.000+03:00

Not sure what for. Seemed a bit stuffy, I didn't stay.

Sharam (Deep Dish) show at Forum

2008-08-24T02:01:00.000+03:00

24 Aug 2am.

Forestronika electronica fest, in ze Chouf Mountains

2008-08-23T08:12:00.000+03:00

Samer

Something semi-professional and musical

2008-08-20T18:13:00.000+03:00

Not sure exactly what.

20 Aug 6:13pm

Poetry Reading for Mahmoud Darwish on Ramlet alBayda

2008-08-19T19:10:00.000+03:00

plus sunset volleyball.

19 Aug 7:10

Beirut Corniche

2008-08-17T13:53:00.000+03:00

17 Aug 1:53pm

Katibeh5 at T-Marbouta

2008-08-16T22:15:00.000+03:00

16 Aug 10:15pm

Mmmm midnight snack

2008-08-13T02:20:00.000+03:00

13 Aug 2:20am.

Film Crew outside Costa Cafe, Hamra

2008-07-05T21:20:00.000+03:00

You can make out the center of attention, the 'hot model' being filmed
is standing in front of the bright light. I think it was a movie or
sitcom because there were other people involved in this gripping, and
most dramatic scene.

Poster for my electro gig in Hamra

2008-07-02T19:15:00.000+03:00

At Bread Republic in Hamra. And below is a poster for my friend's jazz
band weekly Friday night jam, also in Hamra.

View from Centrale

2008-06-29T01:02:00.000+03:00

This Gemayze bar is perched up a couple of floors and its rounded
ceiling opens up, revealing a view of downtown Beirut.

Children's Paintings

2008-06-28T17:35:00.000+03:00

at Kanafani Foundation Center, Mar Elias Palestinian camp. There's an
exhibit going on in most of the camps featuring young children's art.
This large piece was one of my favorites.

Highway view at Dora

2008-06-25T19:08:00.000+03:00

View from a pedestrian bridge over the highway at Dora, just northeast
of Beirut, in the sunset.

Archaeological site near Kfar 3abida

2008-06-24T16:59:00.001+03:00

Spent a couple of days there helping out, excavations of a 5,000 year old town, fantastic site. In the fore is a staircase they revelead that seemed to lead up to a fortification wall that surrounded the city. In the background you can see walls of the now-buried settlement houses jutting out of the tel (hill).

Nazareth 2000

2008-06-23T22:09:00.000+03:00

Palestinian film director Hani Abu Asad in discussion after a
screening of his wonderful and very very funny quasi-documentary on
Nazareth.

Stupid

2008-06-23T19:18:00.000+03:00

In a classic example of the misappropriate adaptation in the East of
standards developed in the West, the American University of Beirut has
just enacted an outdoor smoking ban. OUTDOOR!!!! WTF? Today they had
these stupid posters all over the campus. STUPID!!!! Does AUB not have
anything better to do than enact and enforce smoking bans now? Oh, and
hey, how's that security guard gonna catch me running with that
cigarette in his mouth? I said an Eastern misappropriation, but in
fact the typed statement (what the lady's reading) is signed by John
Waterbury, the university's gringo president. The statement says
something about making AUB a healthier campus for everyone. How the
hell is it going to be healthier if there's no smoking outdoors? Uh,
people, second hand smoke is really not a problem unless you're
indoors. AUB may be one of the top research institutes in the Arab
World, but leave it to them to continue on with the high-schoolization
of their treatment of students. I empathize. AUB, quit dicking around
with your students and get your act together on the million academic
items that need improvement.

Downtown Beirut

2008-06-21T23:41:00.000+03:00

The old Roman baths, or what remains of them, exposed in downtown Beirut. It's interesting to note that the floor level of these baths is well below street level today, typical of old cities built on top of each other (or else the Romans liked their baths in the basement).

Stage set up near the Roman baths, free live music from a range of local musicians. This was Arabic hiphop, Katibe Khamse I believe.

The street cafes and restaurants are packed, and it's Holland vs Russia on the big screen. Ultimately a crushing defeat for the dutch on the big screen. What happened? Holland tore France and Italy each a new one, and then they lose 3-1 to Russia???

Fishermen on the Corniche

2008-06-16T18:27:00.001+03:00

Plus sewer gutter.

Scooter Bike!

2008-06-14T18:11:00.000+03:00

I bought one!

Lumi, live in Beirut

2008-06-14T00:54:00.000+03:00

At the Ajram Beach thingy, electropop meets indierock. Cool.

Bunnies and Pop Stars

2008-06-13T18:21:00.000+03:00

In Hamra.

The Bibibot Photoblog

Delayed pulse

Delayed pulse

Jean d'Arc on a monday night

Moons of Bardo

Glastonbury, CT

Old rags for new rags

Band rockin from the street, art space.

Rudy's, new haven.

N*E*R*D* and Girl Talk live in New Haven

Falun Gong protesters

Hudson River from Washington Height (NYC)

Cylinder Seals

Williamsburg, NY

Regent's park mosque

Tips from the english from the french

Words to live by.

Pliosaur, baby!

Nothing makes sense here.

Black Chickens (Sawdet Djej)

Strawberry Delight by Dima Mabsout

Letters from the old hamra Wimpy sign

Jisr el Wati near the Beirut Art Center

View east from Karm al Zeytoun

Classy streets of Ashrafieh

From an exhibit of caricature art.

My scooter and the movie star

Menu FAIL

Falafel Sahyoun (zion)

Phoenician wall at Batroun

The 549th and Final Page of my PhD Thesis Draft

View from downtown beirut looking west

Concert for gaza

The Art of War

Fish Fish Fish

Giant Shawarma

St Barbara's Day

Book signing of a book signing

Beirut Street View

Live and Dance

Welcome to Cambridge

Credit Crunch Sale

The John Snow Pub

It's President Obama

Now that Obama's going to be president...

Waiting to Vote for Obama

One Day to Go

All my friends are dead

Vote! Or else...

Halloween in NYC

Graffiti in toilet at The Library, Lower East Side, New York

Monotonix in NYC

Halloween Ad on Truck in New Haven

South Station, Boston

Mr John Harvard

Ambien side-effects include having sex.

The Paleontology Conference

Cleveland - 'Tis a Silly Place

"Great" T-shirt designs at a Gas Station in BF, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Drive Movie

Autumnal Foliage Transformations (AFT)

Signs in commuter tunnel, NY subway

Breakers in Union Square, NY

American Parties

Maysoon Zayid at Yale

Daniel Munkus live at Karma Lounge

Gwar Show, New Haven

Rothko Exhibit, Tate Modern, London

Fossil from orchards in 3ayn al Rummaneh

Recording studio, beirut

Read it yourself

The Levant's Gypsies

Nasir Shamma at Babel Theater

Dhour el-Chouer

Concert in Gemmayze

Sharam (Deep Dish) show at Forum

Forestronika electronica fest, in ze Chouf Mountains

Something semi-professional and musical

Poetry Reading for Mahmoud Darwish on Ramlet alBayda

Beirut Corniche

NERD and Girl Talk live in New Haven