A UAE daily newspaper recently ran the below image of an artwork.
The artwork is part of a collection by artist Atelier Van Lieshout that Tim Van Laere Gallery recently exhibited in Spain. A quick look at the the artist’s works can show that the he has some sort of an obsession for, ummm, symbolism.
Of course the reporter did not realize that the artwork is in fact a phallic symbol, and that’s why it was published, but a friend told me the reporter is now in deep kaka.
I’m not sure if he’s being punished for running the image in the first place, or for not knowing that it resembles a massive male member, or maybe for the fact that it’s pointing directly at an article on celebrations of Al Mawlid Al Nabawi (Prophet Mohammad’s birthday) around the world!
Why do we blog? What do we blog about? Who do we blog for? Where do we blog? When do we blog? What blogging platform do we choose? Is it worth it? How do we do it? How did it change our lives? What are we looking to achieve? Did it effect us or those around us? Positively? negatively? …? ….? ….?
Lots and LOTS of questions relating to blogs and blogging me and a bunch of awesome bloggers from the region will be trying to answer on Dubai Eye‘s Techno Tuesdays! Yes, that’s tomorrow morning, from 10 am to 12 pm Dubai time (+4 GMT).
Ubiquitous social media celebrity, blogger, tweep, GeekFest Dubai “unorganizer” and Dubai Eye’s Tech Tuesdays’ co-host, Alexander McNabb, thankfully, invited me to take part in the conversation and give my two cents worth.
So if you’re in Dubai, tune in to 103.8 FM, and if you’re not, listen to Dubai Eye’s radio stream on http://dubaieye1038.com and you can be part of the conversation by calling in or tweeting the #DubaiEye hashtag. Alternatively, you can listen live from your iPhone by downloading Dubai Eye’s app.
"So now that you've read that full page article on our recent #fail, we're going to magically erase your memory with this full page ad!"
A full page ad for d’pr, “PR agency of the year” in Communicate Magazine latest edition, inconveniently placed a couple of pages after a full page editorial, with a very fitting headline, on their recent award controversy!
For those unfamiliar with the story, d’pr, a Dubai-based PR agency, recently won the MEPRA (Middle East Public Relations Association) PR agency of the year award. A day later, the agency sent a self back-patting press release with a doctored image of their team receiving the award, with the logos of the sponsors replaced with their own, as shown above. As a result, the agency has been fined a good deal of money, and have been banned from entering next year’s agency of the year category.
Verdict: Double-facepalm for the doctored image and the ad placement fail.
Arabs Got Talent will be airing this Friday (14th of January, 2011) on MBC4. The show, a franchise of Simon Cowell’s America’s Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent, hopes to replicate that same success in the Arab world.
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Arabs Got Talent will be hosted by Scoop‘s presenter, Raya Abirached, and the awesome Saudi rapper, Qusai.
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The three talent judges are (from left to right): media and communications heavyweight champion Ali Jaber, Lebanese singer Najwa Karam and the famous, controversial, Egyptian TV host Amr Adeeb.
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We’ve seen a lot of people in our region with amazing talents. Here are some talents and people I think are very strong candidates to bag the show’s big prize (500,000 Riyals):
Jordanian romance might sound like an oxymoron, but let me assure you that it is alive and well. And here’s a recent video to prove that (may provoke suicidal thoughts, or like in my case, hysterical laughter):
(I liked the echoing “Titjawwazeeni?” LOL!)
Although now I’m really wondering, did Hala stand him up or are they now living tacky ever after?
Or, hmmmmm, could it be a PR stunt from Grand Hyatt Amman?
